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  1. Alfie Conn

    Alfie Conn Well-Known Member

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    Shirley Bassey v Public Enemy. Jezahel v Harder than than you think, not really a cover more a sample ,score draw for me love them both but heard the PE version before Dame Shirley



     
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    Superb
     
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    Almost a second Shirley,but very good.
     
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    I love that 12 year old that comes on and blows the audience away. Makes you want to weep sometimes,in the nicest way!
     
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    Much better than Bassey's version who just shouts her way through songs - to my ear anyway.
     
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    Maybe she does,but her version of "Diamonds" is a class act.Certainly warms you up for the movie.
     
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  8. Alfie Conn

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    I was brung up with the sound of Simon and Garfunkel in our house but hats off to Disturbed



     
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    Should be the song that Arsenal come out to at The Emirates.

    They also covered Land of Confusion by Genesis:



    The video doesn't compare, obviously.
    I think that I prefer both the originals. Not awful, but not an improvement, either.
     
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    Too similar musically to be anything special, but the female vocals and harmonies are quite interesting.
     
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  11. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    Ahem......



    ...now that's a cover version!

    Famously, when our boys did something similar to Help! (the B side to New Rose), they offered to pay half the royalties, as their version was half the length of The Beatles one. I reckon The Dickies could, at a pinch, get that down to close to a 1/3 on this belter of a cover...
     
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    Now, a bit of a strange one...

    Bizarrely, both these versions are the originals and completely different lyrically...





    ...one's very obviously and graphically (for the time) about a teenage, same sex relationship and the other's unintelligible Gallic nonsense about a cat swallowing its tongue after drinking a bottle of whisky.

    ...and then there's the daddy...

     
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    I knew I was forgetting something...

     
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    please log in to view this image
     
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    Respectfully disagree there. I think the only reason the cover kind of works is because of the strength of the original song. I like the idea they've done something different with it (so many boy band covers etc are simply remakes), but not to my taste.

    Could we do something on worst covers, like Knocking of Heaven's Door by Guns n Roses (or Live and Let die come to think of it), or Madonna's horrible American Pie?
     
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  16. The RDBD

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    The "tradition" pre-dates Reggae by anything up to 8 yrs.


    "and reversed it. In both of these cases you can hear the original...but it's become something else completely.

    Done well, it's a wonderful thing. I'm not sure which is 'better' but it shows that you can radically reinterpret something to great success...


    The original punk reinterpretation from The Clash"

    As bad as the cover of Armagideon time" , but nowhere near the sacrilege committed by
    the cover of "Pressure drop" .
     
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    I win. <ok>
     
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    The list of worst covers is pretty straightforward...
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_(Duran_Duran_album)
     
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    Wow. So bad.
     
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    Covers are an extension of the tenets of the remix.
    As the remix usually takes the musical arrangement in directions
    not comprehended by the creators, so the cover should try to take the
    vocals in similar directions.
     
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