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« Reply #250 on: 10 Apr 2005, 17:48 »

My 'indie schmindie overloaded to the power of indie squared' just went off too, it's a bad, bad sign...
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« Reply #251 on: 11 Apr 2005, 16:29 »

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HBG: You are correct, but damned if I remember what happened to those recordings.


I remember hearing something about maybe a box set or inclusion with the last stuff he was recording with Rick Rubin.  Needless to say I want to hear oh so badly.
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« Reply #252 on: 11 Apr 2005, 16:37 »

Has anyone mentioned the Cowbody Junkies' cover of "Sweet Jane" yet?  If not, why not?
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« Reply #253 on: 12 Apr 2005, 09:02 »

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Actually, Skrewdriver were not always racist.  After the original lineup disbanded and Ian Stuart re-formed Skrewdriver as a RAC band, the other original members were furious and spoke out against him through the British music press.  And if you're going to pick a Skrewdriver cover, I'd go with "Won't Get Fooled Again" or "19th Nervous Breakdown", both recorded in the late 70's before Ian Stuart lost his fucking mind.

As for the merits of their later albums, lyrically there are none, although one or two were musically quite good.  After that they completely went to hell.


Sorry, I associate Skrewdriver with Ian Stuart.  If there are non-Stuart albums, then I am not aware of them.
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« Reply #254 on: 12 Apr 2005, 09:43 »

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this is interesting.
it costs just as much, if not more, to buy a pepsi yet people do it because they want "free" songs. no wonder we're so fucking fat.


Pepsi's cost the same as a track over there?
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« Reply #255 on: 12 Apr 2005, 13:38 »

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Sorry, I associate Skrewdriver with Ian Stuart.  If there are non-Stuart albums, then I am not aware of them.

Well, there are no non-Ian Stuart albums, but at least at the beginning of their career Stuart did not let his politics influence his writing.
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« Reply #256 on: 12 Apr 2005, 18:02 »

I've just remembered

Moonspell - Mr. Crowley

Ozzy could pen some tunes, but his vocal abilities have only deteriorated since peaking on about Black Sabbath - Master of Reality.
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« Reply #257 on: 12 Apr 2005, 21:55 »

Life of Agony - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Life of Agony - March of the S.O.D./Sargeant D of the S.O.D.
Life of Agony - Redemption Song

Besides Sheer Terror and Johnny Cash, LOA do the best overall job of covering songs, in my opinion.
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« Reply #258 on: 25 Jun 2005, 22:16 »

Hate to drag up an old thread, but the repeated question about good Floyd covers needs a response:

Dave Grohl and Brian May doing "Have a Cigar" from the Godzilla soundtrack...it's really damn awesome...
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« Reply #259 on: 06 Aug 2005, 00:52 »

I dunno if it's been said before (by me or otherwise) but I think one of the best cover songs of all time is I Touch Myself by Jack Off Jill, originally done by the Divinyls.
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« Reply #260 on: 06 Aug 2005, 01:09 »

I mentioned Love Song I think.

Didn't know that one was a cover.
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« Reply #261 on: 06 Aug 2005, 06:49 »

Who played Wonderwall first? Because it's really good when Ryan Adams plays it, but it's utterly horrific when Oasis tries.
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« Reply #262 on: 06 Aug 2005, 07:19 »

the wonderful Gallagher brothers made it, and the world has been crying on the inside ever since.
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« Reply #263 on: 06 Aug 2005, 07:34 »

Just listened to

Eleanor Rigby by Thrice *sigh* oh its pure bliss

much <3 for thrice
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« Reply #264 on: 06 Aug 2005, 08:56 »

Do cover medleys count? Cause no one's mentioned Tenacious D's Beatles Medley. Totally stripped of the 30+ year emotional baggage most bands add to their Beatles covers.

They also do a kick ass Tommy Medley now.
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« Reply #265 on: 06 Aug 2005, 12:02 »

There is only one Medley. And that is Star One's Hawkwind Medley. Listening to it is like floating through space, only suddenly blasting into some sort of interstellar warp, and whipping through galaxies and black holes and so forth in a blast of psychedelic laser-fire, whilst playing a burning electric guitar, before slowing down, soaring past gas giants and nebulae, then speeding up again as you rocket around a sun with hordes of star-fighters on your tail, blasting you with lasers and plasma, which you then proceed to blast the crap out of with beams of pure energy shot off by playing power chords on your burning guitar, then, exhausted, floating down onto the surface of a giant alien mothership and having some sort of serious religious experience, which inspires you to play rocking solos on your guitar as the alien ship powers up and blasts off back through the cosmos with it's guns blazing randomly, only to kind of explode for no real reason, leaving you drifting off through incomparably beaitiful clouds of interstellar space debris.

And that's without any drugs.
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« Reply #266 on: 06 Aug 2005, 13:08 »

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Herbie Hancock did an instrumental Jazz Cover of Nirvana's "All Apologies" that is pretty freakin' awesome.


Oh man - I highly recommend you listen to The Bad Plus's version of Smells Like Teen Spirit. So, so good!
I've just heard a live cover of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"  by David Byrne......odd, but very good indeed!
And just for shits and giggles, I must include the one & only mr. Richard Cheese's version of "Insane In The Brain" by Cypress Hill.
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« Reply #267 on: 06 Aug 2005, 13:27 »

Sarah Mclachlan - Dear God. totally beautiful cover.

Evergreen Terrace do some really good HXC covers

Ten Masked Men do hilarious deathmetalesque covers/sendups of Pop records.

Natalie Imburglia and Sinead O Connor got their music careers of the ground with really good covers...

Don't know if Iron & Wine or Postal Service did Such Great Heights first... but they're both amazing versions and so diverse from one another.

Counting Crows do some awesome covers live. Come Pick Me Up and Thunder Road being my favourites probably.
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« Reply #268 on: 06 Aug 2005, 20:51 »

yeah yeah necromantic topic, but I have to say it.

Phish did not do the bluegrass cover of Gin and Juice.  It was just a mislabeled mp3 that floated around on napster back in the day.

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« Reply #269 on: 06 Aug 2005, 21:03 »

I miss Napster. It was the first place I heard Puff the Magic Dragon...I loved that little kitty logo.
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« Reply #270 on: 06 Aug 2005, 22:57 »

Okay to boost this topic, I've heard the best cover ever. Find Zebrahead's cover of the Spice Girls' "Wannabe." Don't argue, just do it.

It makes you want to jump around the room, hi-fiving EVERYTHING.
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« Reply #271 on: 06 Aug 2005, 23:30 »

Sort of like Favorite Son by Green Day? It makes me want to
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« Reply #272 on: 07 Aug 2005, 14:07 »

Bob Nanna of The City on Film performed an acoustic cover of Come On Eileen (Dexy's) one time when he was here in DeKalb that was just fantastic.
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« Reply #273 on: 07 Aug 2005, 14:22 »

Skyclad actually covered 'Come on Eileen'.

Mostly acoustic, but with lots of fiddles.

Possibly their oddest cover. Except of course for their incredibly awesome cover of Venom's 'Prime Evil' with all the jingly keyboards.

The best cover by them is definitely their version of Thin Lizzy's 'Emerald'. Other good ones are 'Master Race' by New Model Army and 'Swords of a Thousand Men' by Tenpole Tudor. Their Judas Priest cover (Dreamer Deciever) is rather natty too.
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