sk Posted February 8, 2003 Share Posted February 8, 2003 love the cowboy junkies version I have to listen to that now I have the best of double cd that has misguided angle on it (sigh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Gotta say that Bjork's "Sweet Jane" is probably the best cover I've heard ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 the cowboy junkies seem to have that effect on women. that trinity sessions disc would have to go on the list of top five makeout albums ever... Â oh, here's one I forgot - say what you will about Nirvana, but their cover of the Meat Puppets' "Lake of Fire" was amazing. Cobain at his tortured best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 UGH! Don't mention Nirvana! My son has just discovered them and I have to listen to it ad nauseum! Much prefer Pearl Jam (and Eddie Vedder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoboy Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Hey, I like Nirvana. Â How about Tori Amos singing "Teen Spirit?" The first time I heard that I was like WTF??? Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crack Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 covers rock! Â nirvana -molly's lips (the vibrators) 7 seconds -99 red balloons (nena) nofx -champ elysees (traditional french song) ramones -do you wanna dance/rockaway beach (50's stuff?) vindictives -covered the entire album "leave home" (ramones) pouges -south australia (???) clash -i fought the law (???) screeching weasel -danny is a wimp (the queers) the queers -like a parasite (screeching weasel) face to face -just like heaven (the cure) Â most pathetic remake -ben weasel singing "linger", by the fuckin' cranberries... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Hey, I like Nirvana  It just doesn't hold up to repeated listenings like some others... it gets old fast - for me anyway.  400! Woo Hoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Stevie Ray -- Texas Flood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Hey, I like Nirvana. How about Tori Amos singing "Teen Spirit?" The first time I heard that I was like WTF???   i lost all respect for Tori when i heard her album of covers  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 "ya got me luv struck baby, and i know jus what to do" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisT Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 nice avatar trask...are you in love? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 only with you baby  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 The Musak version of Lowrider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 The Anthrax cover of Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin Heart." Motley Crue covering "Love Potion Number 9" by The Searchers. Boston Philharmonics's 1986 cover of the Ramones "Talk Dirty To Me" Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-rock Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Omigod, ChrisT Pearl Jam over Nirvana???!!!! What are you thinking? Nirvana will go down in history as the Beatles of the Northwest (just played "About a Girl" on the jukebox last night). Â Roger, right on with the Dino Jr. cover. Â Here's one I still really love: Â The Breeders doing "Happiness is a warm gun" also Death Cab for Cutie covered Bjork's "All is Full of Love" Cat Power "I can't get no Satisfaction" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBob Posted February 9, 2003 Author Share Posted February 9, 2003 Okay, trask, I know that you're an SRV fan, so here's a story for you:  The year is 1983. My buds and I leave Austin TX bound for ski country CO in a Datsun B210 that we conned a classmate to rent (we did not have a credit card of our own). The bong is passed 'round as we break the city limits. Commander Rob is at the helm, so all is well. The first miles slip by, and for what seems an eternity, we race past the exits for Wacko Waco. Suddenly on the radio, we hear fresh guitar licks that are unmistakably Stevie Ray's;...but what's this? It's David Bowie, singing "Let's Dance," while SRV wails on his old Telecaster in the background. We make a solemn oath to buy the album as soon as we return to Austin... Finally, famished, I announce that I've gotta eat, and we exit the interstate for a munch break. We queue up at McDougal's for burgers, and I say to my buddies Goddamn that Waco lasted forever and who the fuck would ever want to live there...and one of them says kinda sheepishly to me "Well, Rob, maybe one of these fine people would..." I look up and see this old guy glaring at me with his Stetson and cateye glasses on, and it dawns on me that we are still in Waco... Rob  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 nice avatar trask...are you in love? Â Yeah, he and Minx got it going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 What is a "trask" anyways? Or, for that matter, a "Col. Von Spanker"? Where do people come up with these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off_White Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 English Beat: tears of a clown Pleasure Barons: take a letter maria hellacopters: gimme shelter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schlangeschmecker Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Jane's Addiction cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" beats the original on any plane. Â Fuck you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolanr Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Even though I can't stand Marilyn Manson, I would say the remake of "Tainted Love" was fairly good and it's definitely totally different than the original. Okay, gonna get way obscure on y'all here. The Cox Family, a bluegrass/old timey country outfit from Louisiana did a beautiful version of "Blue Bayou," which Linda Ronstadt did a nice version of in the 70's, and I believe it was originally done by Roy Orbison who knows when. All 3 versions are distinctive. Â Seriously whether or not you like a remake has everything to do w/ your personal taste and whether you like the style of the original or the cover better. When I was a head-bangin' teenager I liked Judas Priest's cover of Johnny B. Good, now that I'm older I think the world could've done w/out that just fine. And the problem w/ remakes is there's so many of them half the time you don't even know you're listening to a cover because you're not familiar w/ the original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 "Easy", Faith No More (Lionel Ritchie) "Hey Jude", Wilson Pickett, who has about a billion times more soul than Paul McCartney "Take Me Home, Country Roads", some punk/ska band (John Denver) "Hallelujah", Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen) the song from Cool Hand Luke ("Plastic Jesus"?) covered by The Flaming Lips numerous surf rock classics covered by the early incarnation of Man or Astro-man? Â I've heard Tori Amos' covers are quite good, and that she played only covers during her entire residency at a club in NYC. Â I liked Jane's Addiction's "Sympathy for the Devil", but the original is still badass, especially the bassline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 "Take Me Home, Country Roads", some punk/ska band (John Denver) Â That band is Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothrop Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 The Doctor comes through again. I hear that song in Stone Gardens a lot, it gets me all psyched to send some V0s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Lucky bastard. The PRG only plays one of perhaps three techno/electro/drum 'n' bass/ambienttrancetriphopDJremixjunglehardhouse CDs overandoverandoverandover to get us psyched to send V0s. Crying shame, it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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