Don't like punk thing. Never have. Always thought it was a phoney load of shoite As for EoD - no real strong feelings about it, tbh.
On reflection...the original was better....Wasnt the Beatles Hamburg stuff all covers?...thus shooting them to fame?
Totally agree on that. I'll chuck a couple of other covers. The Damned -'White Rabbit and Devo - Satisfaction. I think it was once said that the best covers are distinctly different from the originals and those two certainly are.
God knows what my favourite cover is or what’s ‘the best of all time’ – how can such a thing be declared anyway? This is great though: [video=youtube;cDsrIPKeY-w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDsrIPKeY-w[/video]
Actually now I've got thinking here"s an alternative 10 :- Blondie - Denis orig. Randy & The Rainbows Nico - The End Lemonheads - Different Drum wrote by Mike Nesmith earlier version Some Poneys Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding orig. E.Costello Manic Street Preachers - Suicide is Painless (Theme from M.A.S.H.) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - In the Ghetto Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night orig trad 1870s 'In the Pines' USA & Leadbelly Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally orig. Mack Rice Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet orig. Tony Bennet Magazine - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) orig. Sly &The Family Stone
Hendrix doing Johnny B Goode is still the ultimate for me. [video=youtube;G6OedBFkxWU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6OedBFkxWU[/video]
There's no point in covers that are just copies of the original. My top 3 are all in this top 10, which makes them unnervingly populist: 1 - Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2U 2 - Johnny Cash Hurt 3 - Soft Cell Tainted Love.
Totally agree. That's why I love Hendrix. He could turn a folky soft acoustic song into a psychodelic rock song without losing the feel of the song.
This one (from Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory) will have a few of you screaming "Sacrilege!" But I like it... [video=youtube;kvSmyb5XLu8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvSmyb5XLu8[/video]
absolutley, Scissor sisters Uncomfortably numb by the great PINK FLOYD. hated it at first, been avid floyd fan......but it grew on me.
Not as good as Siouxsie... [video=youtube;szPQCvJ8MPg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPQCvJ8MPg[/video]
This list of the top 100 cover versions bizarrely has this at number one... http://www.retrocrush.com/covers/1-25.html [video=youtube;HD0eb0tDjIk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD0eb0tDjIk[/video]