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The original version of Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine was recorded by George Formby.
The original version of Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine was recorded by George Formby.
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[quote=hobbes post=731920]You're 'aving a larf arntcha? Great rendition of a great song....The Ryans' version is pedestrian and plodding. The Damned's version is a soaring eagle of bombast and melodrama. No comparison, Vanian wins.Comment
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[quote]willie1foot wrote:Wow - the film is far wilder than the recorded song. Kaleidoscope & fish-eye lens, white horses, very trippy stuff. I'll still take Vanian and The Damned.Originally posted by hobbesComment
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Tainted Love by Soft Cell wins this for me.Comment
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Heh - 'Tainted Love' was the first song named on the me-started thread G-Man mentions upthread (although I hasten to add it was in the context of me saying my friends didn't know; I've been fully aware of the original for a good decade or so now).
Possibly the most amusing thing about reading that thread back now is being reminded of that glorious OTF period during which jv's space key wasn't working.Comment
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By the way G-Man, another thing in that thread I'd forgotten about was the 'you've never heard of Celia Cruz?!' amazement from myself and Jon. It's possible that this has been rectified since, but just in case...
The cover of 'Fever' I was thinking about was in fact by salsa singer La Lupe, not by Queen Celia. Here it is, if you didn't already manage to track it down.Comment
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It has indeed been rectified, Sam.Comment
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Nah, not having that. The Ryans' original was how the song was intended, all kitchen-sinky and brooding, then melodramatic. The Damned's versh was far too obvious.Womblian wrongness there. The Ryans' version is pedestrian and plodding. The Damned's version is a soaring eagle of bombast and melodrama. No comparison, Vanian wins.
Whoever it was upthread that said their cover of 'Alone Again Or' was better calls it right. And even that wasn't amazing. The Damned were way better doing their own thing than rehashing.
It was from his Hang On in There Baby album (1974), the title track of which concurrently sat in the UK Top Five while The Osmonds were at number one with 'LMFAR'.The Osmonds' "Love Me For A Reason"? Written and first recorded by Johnny Bristol.Comment
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I think Almond (at least) was a Northern Soul regular, when he heard the Gloria Jones version of Tainted Love. Soft Cell also covered What by Judy Street, which was another NS favourite.Greenlander wrote: Tainted Love by Soft Cell wins this for me.Comment
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A slight tangent is hearing famous songs for the first time in ways that you probably shouldn't.
Childhood examples would include "Wild Thing" (Goodies), "Yellow Submarine" (Pinky and Perky), and - a bit later - "Strange Fruit" (on UB40's first album).
[edit - just realized that I mean not just hearing, but owning, which is even worse]Comment
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Them old Top of the Pops albums are surely fertile ground here tr - my dad had a few of them so that would be how I first heard many seventies songs.
I had a Pinky & Perky album when I was younger as well, can't remember what was on it though. The Wombles were certainly a pretty bizarre entry route into Chris Spedding's work.Comment
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I still haven't heard Dylan's version of A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall - rightly or wrongly I still associate this with Bryan Ferry.Comment
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I spent years thinking it was written and recorded by XTC.Sits With Remote wrote: An obvious nominee for this thread would be All Along the Watchtower.Comment
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up until a few days ago i thought Freak Me by Another Level was the original. Due to some early 90's music searching on youtube i found the original by a group called Silk. Never heard of them before and to be honest i think i enjoy the cover version more.
Whenever i know a song is a cover version though i can never rate it higher than the original. I may like the cover version more but no matter how much of an improvement you think it is, the cover requires the original to exist for it to exist so i cannot take it as better.
I love Sinead O'Connor singing Nothing Compares 2 U but once i found out it was a Prince tune my admiration dwindled somewhat. O'Connor's is still the best version to listen to but could she ever have come up with something so brilliant?Comment
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Wrongly. the only thing that should be associated with Brian Ferry is the phrase 'fucking cunt'.Tramp The Dirt Down wrote: I still haven't heard Dylan's version of A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall - rightly or wrongly I still associate this with Bryan Ferry.Comment
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I hadn't heard the original "Tainted Love" until very recently. I like it a lot, more than the Soft Cell version I think, though I love that one, too.
The Magnetic Fields' "Babies Falling" is apparently a cover of a song by The Wild Stares, but I've never heard the original.Comment
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Can people really not separate the art from the artist here? Ferry himself may be politically objectionable, but Roxy Music remain one of the all time great British pop groups and I think his version of 'A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall' is possibly the best ever Dylan cover.RobM wrote:Wrongly. the only thing that should be associated with Brian Ferry is the phrase 'fucking cunt'.Originally posted by Tramp The Dirt DownComment
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Best ever cover? It's a goofy cover in my opinion.Disco Child Ballads wrote:Can people really not separate the art from the artist here? Ferry himself may be politically objectionable, but Roxy Music remain one of the all time great British pop groups and I think his version of 'A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall' is possibly the best ever Dylan cover.Originally posted by RobM
Just off the top of my head, Hendrix shreds All Along the Watchtower and Like A Rolling Stone via live at Monterrey.Comment
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Emmylou Harris doing Every Grain of Sand would be my pick.
I never got Roxy Music, not a fan. That just leaves the fact that Ferry is a walloper of the highest order.Comment
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He is indeed an absolute ballbag and it really is a pity Roxy Music are so fucking superb in every way because I'd like to detest him more.
He was fond of throwing covers in, Midnight Hour and Eight Miles High on Flesh and Blood, a decent attempt at Jealous Guy and even in solo mode It's My Party.
I think he even did an entire album of Dylan covers too.
Complete twatter, though, there's no escaping that.Comment
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I always liked Rod's version of Tomorrow is a Long Time off Every Picture Tells a Story.Comment
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Emmylou also outdoes The Beatles in her take on 'Here, There and Everywhere'. Perhaps the only artist who can claim this.Emmylou Harris doing Every Grain of Sand would be my pick.Comment
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It hasn't been covered that much, in fairness.
Talking of Rod Stewart and Jimi Hendrix, I really like what the former did with the latter's "Angel".Comment
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He does it well.
Should be another thread, but I am lazy this Saturday morning - can anyone think of a Hendrix cover that is superior to the original?Comment
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