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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: duderino on July 29, 2005, 12:08:00 pm
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i'm making a second volume of a covers mix i put together a few months ago. any recommendations would be welcomed. i need to be able to find the original, as i couple the mix with a copy of the original songs in the same order. here's the tracklist of the first mix i made:
1. of montreal - know your onion (2:26)
2. Sleater-Kinney & Fred Schneider - Angry Inch (2:44)
3. The Flaming Lips - Seven Nation Army (2:48)
4. Shena Ringo - yer blues (4:12)
5. Devo - Secret Agent Man (3:31)
6. The Siddeleys - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) (2:51)
7. Aimee Mann - One (2:53)
8. Jon Brion - Voices (7:32)
9. Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit (3:54)
10. John Mayer - Kid A Cover (2:49)
11. The White Stripes - Jolene (3:13)
12. weird chinese lady - Love Potion #9 (1:56)
13. The Feelies - Paint It, Black (2:54)
14. The New Pornographers - When I Was A Baby (2:26)
15. Emilie Simon - I Wanna Be Your Dog (2:42)
16. Presidents of the United States of America - Kick Out the Jams (1:26)
17. Ted Leo - Since U Been Gone (3:38)
18. Weezer - Velouria (3:54)
19. aquabats- Love Without Anger (2:49)
20. The New Pornographers - Your Daddy Don't Know (3:08)
21. Iron And Wine - Waitin For A Superman (4:29)
22. Anne Sofie Von Otter & Elvis Costello - Don't Talk (put your head on my shoulder) (3:12)
23. beck- True Love Will Find You In The End (3:23)
24. Pixies - In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (1:49)
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*waits for someone to mention a certain song from the Garden State OST so we can mock them*
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Replacements - "Black Diamond"
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i felt uneasy enough about that aimee mann cover from the magnolia OST
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Dandy Warhols - Stars (BJM)
Morrissey - That's Entertainment (The Jam)
The Clash - Police & Thieves (Junior Murvin)
Superdrag - Wave of Mutilation (Pixies)
Husker Du - Eight Miles High (The Byrds)
Pete Yorn - Splendid Isolation (Warren Zevon)
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Not sure how readily available the orginial is, but "Hanging On A Telephone" done by The Nerves and later covered by Blondie. This would be an interesting choice because I'll bet most people didn't know that Blondie was doing a cover.
The orginial is on one of the DIY Power Pop comps which I had out the other day...
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I was hanging out with some Canadians yesterday and we were arguing the merits of a Clash cover "Guns of Brixton" by a band who's name escapes me at the moment - Novoue Vague or something like that. Worth a listen because some people seem to like it (I'm not one of them).
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Originally posted by vansmack:
I was hanging out with some Canadians yesterday and we were arguing the merits of a Clash cover "Guns of Brixton" by a band who's name escapes me at the moment - Novoue Vague or something like that. Worth a listen because some people seem to like it (I'm not one of them).
Nouvelle Vague -- They do bossa nova covers of punk and post-punk songs.
Personally, I don't care much for it either, but yeah, a lot of people do seem to like them.
http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/english/music.html (http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/english/music.html)
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i like some of the songs on that one... "too drunk to fuck" and "teenage kicks" are the ones off the top of my head which work best.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?˘:
Nouvelle Vague
That's it. Thanks. They're all the rage with Canadian chicks apparently.
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galaxie 500- cheese and onions.
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Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (Ramones)
Bangles - "Going Down To Liverpool" (Katrina & The Waves)
Power Station - "Get It On(Bang A Gong) T. Rex
Marti Jones has done several excellent covers
Billy Bragg "7+7 Is", The Damned "Alone Again Or" both Love Covers
Devo - "Ohio" (Neil Young)
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The Pixies - Winterlong (Neil Young)
Ted Leo - Suspect Device (SLF - but Ted may only do it live)
Fatima Mansions - Shiny Happy People (REM)
Nick Cave/Shane MacGowan - What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong + many others)
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These Twilight Singers (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002KTKHW/qid=1122659116/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-7884402-3153664) and Paul Weller (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002SPQ3Q/qid=1122659027/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7884402-3153664?v=glance&s=music&n=507846) albums are all cover albums
some excellent songs on both
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John Mayer's cover of Kid A is so good.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (Ramones)
Is that technically a cover?
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (Ramones)
Is that technically a cover? [/b]
i guess no... on the copy of "L.A.M.F Revisited" I just got the song is credited to (Ramone/Ramone/Ramone) so whoever put the liner notes together must have been sniffin glue at the time. on allmusic it's credited to hell/dolan/thunders/ramone...
so how about
The D4 - "Pirate Love" (see above)
Addendum - Dee Dee Ramone is credited as first writing the song, but the Ramones rejected it.
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I cannot remember the story that well, I thought the ramones were alleged to have written it, but didnt record it until after Thunders had played and recorded it. They didnt wnat to be singing about H. But then they changed their mind and took the song back..... And the songwriting credits with it.
I have seen on websites where it claims Hell and Dee Dee wrote it for Thunders.
I am sure the details were in Please Kill Me or was it the clash biography?
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Is it a cover if someone writes it for someone else?
I say no.
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from allmusic
Chinese Rocks
Few other rock musicians have ever danced on the edge of drug oblivion for as long and hard as Johnny Thunders did. The theme of hard drugs (namely heroin) cropped up time and time again in Thunders' music, perhaps never more evident than in one of Thunders' best-known songs, "Chinese Rocks." While the song is pure Johnny Thunders -- ragged guitar riffs, an almost drunken vocal delivery, lots of attitude, etc. -- Thunders did not pen it. The song's main author was the Ramones' bassist Dee Dee Ramone. He set out to write a song that would out-do the Velvet Underground's "Heroin," as the song shed light on the grim and desperate life of a junkie (strangely, it was more comparable to another VU song, "I'm Waiting for the Man," rather than "Heroin"). Dee Dee supposedly wrote the song in Debbie Harry's apartment, but when he showed it to his Ramones bandmates, they rejected it since they didn't want any drug-based songs. Dee Dee then showed it to friend Richard Hell, who was in Johnny Thunders' band the Heartbreakers at the time. The Heartbreakers recorded it for their classic L.A.M.F. release (later reissued as L.A.M.F. Revisited), but, over the years, Thunders was erroneously assumed to be the song's author -- even though he had nothing to do with the song's creation.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Billy Bragg "7+7 Is", The Damned "Alone Again Or" both Love Covers
I like Calexico's cover of "Alone Again Or"
Evan Johns does a cover of "Too Drunk to Fuck"
Los Super Seven "Heard it on the X"
The Dickies "Nights In White Satin"
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
Is it a cover if someone writes it for someone else?
I say no.
I would agree, so is the Ramones version of Chinese Rocks then a cover ;)
Even though many artists in the 50s and 60s didn't write their own material, instead getting them from Brill Building songwriters, the first recorded version is also not a cover either.
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Jesse Dayton's cover of The Cars "Just What I needed" is good, but the live version is much better.
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Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy" (The Strangeloves)
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What allmusic fails to note is that Thunders added more verses to the song and is a genuine co-author.
Its a cool story.
dont have to go back as far as the 60's....
How many of their own songs did Madonna or Kylie pen?
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I believe Ted Leo's "Suspect Device" is on the Sharkbite Sessions iTunes thing. If you can find it, he does "Spirit of the Radio" (Rush) as well...
Pixies - Head On (J+MC Cover)
Ben Lee - Float On (Modest Mouse)
Modest Mouse - Sleepwalkin (Santo + Johnny interpretation)
Travis Morrison - What's your Fantasy (Ludacris)
Superwolf - Ignition (R. Kelly)
Decemberists - Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
Green Day - Knowledge (Operation Ivy)
You Ain't No Picasso (blog) (http://www.youaintnopicasso.blogspot.com/) has some interesting covers up, they mostly sound like crap.
Suckapants (http://www.suckapants.com/) does too, but you'll have to figure 'em out for yourself.
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Originally posted by dfmcpete:
Travis Morrison - What's your Fantasy (Ludacris)
Are you sure you like his covers?
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What's wrong with his covers?
<img src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg400/g446/g44611k65ma.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by dfmcpete:
What's wrong with his covers?
I am not a fan of the artwork, either.
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
What allmusic fails to note is that Thunders added more verses to the song and is a genuine co-author.
Its a cool story.
dont have to go back as far as the 60's....
How many of their own songs did Madonna or Kylie pen?
well what threw me off the trail, plus the bogus songwriting credits, was that even the heartbreakers version of the song still reeks of it being a ramones song.
Doesn't Madonna "share" a hand in her songs? Kyle probably not so much... Of course Celine Dion writes her song the same way Alan Freed did. But, whats poor Corey Hart going to do, stave or have a song on a hit record.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Doesn't Madonna "share" a hand in her songs?
The same way Elvis got a songwriting credit?
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if you're into Folds's "Bitches Aint Shit", i'd also highly reccommend his cover's of "Get Your Hands Off Of My Woman," and "In Between Days."
i can also suggest...
"We Will Become Sillhouettes" - The Shins (...surprisingly, NOT on the garden state st!)
"BK Baby" - Ben Kweller (his version of Ice Ice Baby...)
"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" - Rooney (...this is one of my favorite covers ever.)
"I Found A Reason" - Cat Power
"Road Runner" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
"Where Is My Mind?" and "If You Leave" - Nada Surf
"Helter Skelter" - Oasis (there are actually about nine different versions of Helter Skelter on my iTunes. i also really dig Siouxsie's cover...)
"Spit On A Stranger" - Nickel Creek
"Wave Of Mutilation" - Rhett Miller + Ben Kweller (that one's live...)
"Accross The Universe" - Rufus Wainwright
"I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" - The White Stripes
everything else has been mentioned already pretty much...
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Originally posted by duderino:
5. Devo - Secret Agent Man (3:31)
Polysics (http://www.polysics.com/en/disc.html) do a live version of this.
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Some of my favorite covers:
Afghan Whigs
"Come See About Me" by the Supremes
Pearl Jam
"Sonic Reducer" by Dead Boys
Jeff Buckley
"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen
Black Keys
"Leavin Trunk" listed as Traditional
Richard Buckner
"Here" by Pavement
Dandy Warhols
"Hells Bells" by AC/DC
Drive By Truckers
"People Who Died" by Jim Carroll
Mike Ness
take your pick:
<img src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d766/d76658j6932.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Social D
"Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash
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Tom Jones "Kiss" --Prince
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Sweat Loaf - Butthole Surfers (Black Sabbath)
Mushroom Head - Jesus and Mary Chain (Can)
Third Uncle - Bauhaus (Eno)
No Escape - Cabaret Voltaire (The Seeds)
Asbestos Lead Asbestos - Meat Beat Manifesto (Wire)
Kiss - Age of Chance (Prince)
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Astral Weeks-Secret Machines
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And a good place to look:
http://www.coversproject.com/ (http://www.coversproject.com/)
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"Mother Sky" - Can/Calla
"Some Velvet Morning" - Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra/Primal Scream/Slowdive
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
"Some Velvet Morning" - Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra/Primal Scream/Slowdive
Thin White Rope did a great version of this!
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"Across The Universe" - Laibach
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Rollercoaster--Spacemen 3 (13th Floor Elevators)
Big City--Spacemen 3 (The Electric Prunes/E-Types)
If I Were A Carpenter--Engineers (Tim Hardin)
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
"Mother Sky" - Can/Calla
And they often throw in bits of Mushroom Head.
For Spacemen 3, who can forget "When Tomorrow Hits" originally by Mudhoney.
And Bowery Electric's cover of Spacemen 3's "Things will never be the same"
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"Wonderwall" - Ryan Adams (Oasis)
"Never Say Never" - QOTSA (Romeo Void)
"Who'll Be Next in Line" - ' ' (The Kinks)
"Ocean" - Ambulance LTD (Bob Dylan)
"Panic" - Pete Yorn (Smiths)
"Red Right Hand" - ' ' (Nick Cave)
"Don't Fear the Reaper" - The Ceasars (Blue Oyster Cult)
"Landslide" - Smashing Pumpkins (Fleetwood Mac)
"Wild Horses" - The Sundays (Rolling Stones)
"Purple Haze" - The Cure (Jimi Hendrix)
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-nine inch nails' cover of johnny cash's hurt
-bono, scott weiland, brian wilson, norah jones, stevie wonder, etc.'s cover of across the universe
-the doors of the 21st century's entire repetoire
-joan baez's cover of the band's night they drove old dixie down
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How could I forget one of my favorite covers ever!?
Vapour Trail - Ride/Trespassers William
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
"Ocean" - Ambulance LTD (Bob Dylan)
I think that's actually a cover of a Velvet Underground song
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Red House Painters - "All Mixed Up" (The Cars)
Pete Yorn - "Dancing in the Dark" (Bruce Springsteen)
Jawbox - "Cornflake Girl" (Tori Amos)
Crooked Fingers also has an EP of all covers
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Built to Spill - "Cortez the Killer" (Neil Young)
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Powderfinger, by The Beat Farmers
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"hit me baby one more time"- travis (or fountains of wayne)
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
"hit me baby one more time"- travis (or fountains of wayne)
Travis does a few:
- "All the Young Dudes" (Bowie)
- "Killer Queen" (Queen)
- "You're a Big Girl Now" (Dylan)
- "Weight" (The Band)
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Originally posted by amnesiac:
Travis does a few:
- "All the Young Dudes" (Bowie)
- "Killer Queen" (Queen)
- "You're a Big Girl Now" (Dylan)
- "Weight" (The Band)
Don't forget "Be My Baby" and (now) "Stayin' Alive".
Oasis also does quite a few good covers:
"Cum On Feel The Noize" - Slade
"I Am The Walrus" - Beatles
"To Be Someone" - The Jam
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Travis also did a great cover of "Hit me baby one more time".
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(Note to self: try scrolling up before posting another inane comment!)
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two live ones:
"Summer of 69" Gwar
"Big Bottoms" Soundgarden
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Pavement - "The Killing Moon" (Echo & the Bunnymen)
Radiohead - "Nobody Does it Better" (Carly Simon)
Operation Ivy - "These Boots Are Made for Walking" (Nancy Sinatra)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Rudie Can't Fail" (The Clash)
The Specials - "A Message to You Rudy" (Dandy Livingstone) - actually they have alot more covers...
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Pavement - "The Killing Moon" (Echo & the Bunnymen)
Is this on record?
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Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
Pavement - "The Killing Moon" (Echo & the Bunnymen)
Is this on record? [/b]
It's on the Major Leagues EP (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001IVLP/qid=1122932351/sr=8-15/ref=pd_bbs_15/104-5079008-0059168?v=glance&s=music&n=507846)
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Another classic:
Afghan Whigs
Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe
Originally by Barry White
(On Beautiful Girls soundtrack)
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Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
Pavement - "The Killing Moon" (Echo & the Bunnymen)
Is this on record? [/b]
it's also on the "What's Up Matador" compilation.
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Futureheads - "Hounds of Love" (Kate Bush)
Flaming Lips w/ Cat Power (Live) - "War Pigs" (Black Sabbath)
Death Cab - "World Shut Your Mouth" (Julian Cope)
Postal Service - "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" (The Flaming Lips)