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Post by masterplan200 on Aug 19, 2010 1:58:02 GMT -5
Have you come across a song on an album (or whatever) and thought wow this is a great song of (band/artist) and find out later that it was a cover song by someone else, then find the original recording? What did you like better the cover or the original?
Quite a few I have seen:
John Farnham-Help! (I thought John was the one who wrote it up until 1998, original I'm 50/50 on )
Blind Guardian-Surfin' USA (I know, Brian Wilson must be laughing.)
Dungeon-Wasted Years (Thought this was a Dungeon tune before i knew Maiden, pretty good as the original)
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Post by mimmihopps on Aug 19, 2010 8:07:30 GMT -5
No Fun by Sex Pistols - Original by The Stooges
I like both.
Just remembered...one more by the Pistols and I much prefer the covered one than the original one.
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - The Monkees
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Post by Liffonmelsmork on Aug 19, 2010 8:45:00 GMT -5
David Watts! Until I was about 15 I thought it was The Jam's, then The Kinks' version came on the radio.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2010 9:00:07 GMT -5
Lot's of tunes by Bob Dillan have been much better as covers. . . All Along The Watchtower by Hendrix is so good, even Dillan says that it is by Hendrix.
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Post by NYR on Aug 19, 2010 10:06:07 GMT -5
funny story... about nine or ten years ago, one of the popular girls in my school was singing "satisfaction." i was in shock. i asked her what she was singing. she said, and i quote... "the new britney spears song." can't make this shit up, people. Lot's of tunes by Bob Dillan have been much better as covers. . . All Along The Watchtower by Hendrix is so good, even Dillan says that it is by Hendrix. just clarifying... dylan said that hendrix's version was so good it may as well have been his... but it wasn't. before i really got into soul music, i didn't know at the time that otis redding wrote "respect" (and recorded it before aretha). i also didn't know that "hound dog" wasn't originally elvis until about 7-8 years ago. |
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Post by Liffonmelsmork on Aug 19, 2010 17:15:29 GMT -5
funny story... about nine or ten years ago, one of the popular girls in my school was singing "satisfaction." i was in shock. i asked her what she was singing. she said, and i quote... "the new britney spears song." can't make this shit up, people. Britney Spears covered Satisfaction?! Did she change the lyric "but he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me"? |
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Post by NYR on Aug 19, 2010 19:55:55 GMT -5
funny story... about nine or ten years ago, one of the popular girls in my school was singing "satisfaction." i was in shock. i asked her what she was singing. she said, and i quote... "the new britney spears song." can't make this shit up, people. Britney Spears covered Satisfaction?! Did she change the lyric "but he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me"? no idea, but i do remember her "singing" it on the mtv vma's one year, if that's any help. |
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Post by masterplan200 on Aug 20, 2010 4:19:18 GMT -5
another;
John farnham-That's freedom (Tom Kimmel, Farnham did it beter)
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Post by Soldier Ron on Aug 20, 2010 4:51:16 GMT -5
I purchased the second Death in Vegas studio album 'The Contino Sessions' shortly after it came out in early 2000, and loved it. When the deluxe expanded Exile on Main Street reissue came out recently the bonus disc had a unissued song 'So Divine (Aladdin Story' which has a uncharacteristic for the Stones 'eastern' motif running through it, I knew I had heard it before...
One day, months later it occurred to me to check the DIV album... turned out they pinched the song for Contino Sessions - track no.7 is called 'Aladdins Story'!! and is the same song covered by the DIV band even down to the eastern motif/riffs, but with no vocals!!, Heheh, looks like the cheeky sods found it on a 70s Stones bootleg and counted on nobody noticing. ;D
I remember a thread here a couple months back where some Harry Potter lookalike blogger wrote an article slagging off Oasis when they split up quoting "Janet Jackson's" Big Yellow Taxi, this dimwit fuck was apparently unaware that it was originally written - and that the best version was recorded - by Joni Mitchell
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Post by His Royal Noelness on Aug 21, 2010 7:04:13 GMT -5
Romeo and Juliet. Thought the Killers had wasted a brilliant song as a B-Side until I found the original by Dire Straits. Love both versions.
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Post by putthisin ® on Aug 21, 2010 9:39:49 GMT -5
I thought Love Reign Over Me was a Pearl Jam song, until I heard Quadrophenia :s
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Post by mimmihopps on Aug 22, 2010 5:15:51 GMT -5
"In The Midnight Hour" by Roxy Music
I heard this song for the very first time on a radio when I was a teenager and I loved it. Later I found the one by Martha & The Vandellas and I always thought it was their original, but it wasn't. It was Wilson Pickett who performed this song first.
The Jam covered this song on "This Is The Modern World" too.
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Post by R Kid from Denmark on Aug 22, 2010 10:32:42 GMT -5
"Leaving Here" by The Who. Their version is superior.
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