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Covers that ARE worth a shit..

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Vitamin-C

11:28 / 13.10.01

oh...i monster's 'daydream'. i forget who did it originally.

bliss

01:47 / 14.10.01

bauhaus' "telegram sam" is definitly worth a shit, eh? and *ahem* afi's version of "the hanging garden"...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:15 / 14.10.01

Bauhuas/Bowie. YES.
The entire Spell album (Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade/Psychic TV/Current 93 etc almost-fame) and famous Satanist and nazi fool (with, unfortunately, the singing voice of an angel) doing '60s songs. Best track- "Seasons In The Sun".

Strawberry Switchblade- "Sunday Morning"- just utterly wonderful.

Laibach- "Jesus Christ Superstar". Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Clint Ruin (Foetus) & Lydia Lunch- "Don't Fear The Reaper".

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:17 / 14.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Ganesh:
I have a strange attraction to These Animal Men's 'Wichita Lineman'...

No... that can't be... that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!

autopilot disengaged

11:12 / 14.10.01

The Make Up's version of "Hey Joe" is fucking jaw dropping.(CopKiller)

i'd completely forgotten about that. it completely is.

sisters of mercy's version of dylans 'knocking on heavens door'.(Vitamin-C)

the sisters turned out some incredible covers: their version of the stooges' '1969'. suicide's 'ghost rider' and a very good fusion of pink floyd's 'comforatbly numb' with their own 'some kind of stranger'. plus, eldritch used to do a live acapella version of stevie nicks' 'stop draggin' my heart around' that sounded like a Prisoner of War being dragged across a minefield.

if we're talking tricky, you can't ignore 'bad dream' or 'tattoo' (from the 'NearlyGod' side-project.

...not to mention the Breeders' achingly minimalist take on 'happiness is a warm gun' and even Bowie's massively massively unapologetically OTT versione of Morrissey's 'i know it's gonna happen someday'.

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autopilot disengaged

15:44 / 14.10.01

...though the best cover i've heard in the last year or so is the Avalanches superlative-inducing 'do you know the way to san jose'. as far as i know it's not available outside of australia, but trust me - this piece of pop perfection is worth hunting down.

grant

19:37 / 18.10.01

quote:Originally posted by autopilot disengaged:
sisters of mercy's version of dylans 'knocking on heavens door'.(Vitamin-C)

the sisters turned out some incredible covers: their version of the stooges' '1969'. suicide's 'ghost rider' and a very good fusion of pink floyd's 'comforatbly numb' with their own 'some kind of stranger'. plus, eldritch used to do a live acapella version of stevie nicks' 'stop draggin' my heart around' that sounded like a Prisoner of War being dragged across a minefield.
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I reaalllly want to hear that one.

I loved their cover of "Gimme Shelter".

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:18 / 21.10.01

I kind of liked the Sisters' take on Hot Chocolate's "Emma"... that was cool. (In my embarrassing goth past, obviously. Not now. No. that was someone else who looked like me and had the same name.)

And (this is bordering on the obsessive)- Current 93 on the live "Cats Drunk On Copper" album doing Strawberry Switchbalde's "Since Yesterday" with Rose McDowall on vocals... possibly technically that doesn't count as a cover, so I'd say the album version (on "Swastikas for Noddy") which is very different.

Anything Cave's covered, anything Diamanda's covered- you can guarantee either of those fuckers will make ANY song sound better...

Laibach's "Jesus Christ Superstar".

Foetus & Lydia Lunch doing "Don't Fear the reaper" by the Blue Oyster Cult...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:21 / 21.10.01

quote:Originally posted by stoatie:
Bauhuas/Bowie. YES.
The entire Spell album (Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade/Psychic TV/Current 93 etc almost-fame, and famous Satanist and nazi fool-with, unfortunately, the singing voice of an angel-Boyd Rice, doing '60s songs. Best track- "Seasons In The Sun".

Strawberry Switchblade- "Sunday Morning"- just utterly wonderful.
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