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Originally Posted by miroslav Just a small correction here: Laibach are from Slovenia, not Serbia. "Laibach" is a German word for Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The band did a handful of covers in their 17 albums; Let It Be, The Final Countdown, Life Is Life being their most famous. I wouldn`t call them metal either, but that`s another story.

Respect, Moroslav. Mea Culpa. Cheers!

 

[bong]

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Originally Posted by Guitarmarama Oh, I forgot all the Manic Street Preachers covers!!! Their live cover of It's So Easy (GnR) is great, as is their cover of Camper Van Beethoven's Take The Skinheads Bowling and Andy Williams's Can't Take My Eyes Off You, but their weirdest cover has to be their cover of Nirvana's Been A Son... The slide guitar is eeeeeerie

oh yeah... i love Manic Street Preachers' version of "It's so Easy," it's really rockin. they also did a great cover of BJ Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." their cover of Happy Monday's "Wrote For Luck" is also quite good, they wanted original Mondays' singer Shaun Ryder to sing it, but he declined, so James Dean Bradfield did the honors. however, their cover of Primal Scream's "Velocity Girl" is quite bad... JBD didn't even bother to get the lyrics right. MSP are also known to do a cover of The Clash's "Train in Vain" live. they did it when i saw them in 1999... JBD was angry Annie Lennox botched the song so he said he would steal it back and do the song some honor.

 

[bjjp2]

"I Will Survive"--Cake
"Werewolves of London"--Grateful Dead
"Dr. Wu"--Minutemen
"Money"--Flying Lizards
"Bonny and Clyde"--Luna (never heard the original, but love this version).
"Pink Moon"--Walt Mink
"On Broadway"--Neil Young
"Breathless"--X

 

[chronoso]

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Originally Posted by Guitarmarama Also, Electric Six's cover of Radio Ga Ga was a bit disappointing... I spent ages looking forward to that!!!

actually, i rather like electric6's cover. it's a lot more rock and less synth...dunno, guess just a difference in preference.

weird? well, there's OLP's cover of Dear Prudence that's pretty shway, and..Rush's instumental cover of Paint it Black from the Toronto SARs concert...i think it's the only cover they've ever played, which i guess makes it weird.

-james

 

[Guitarmarama]

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Originally Posted by bong oh yeah... i love Manic Street Preachers' version of "It's so Easy," it's really rockin. they also did a great cover of BJ Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." their cover of Happy Monday's "Wrote For Luck" is also quite good, they wanted original Mondays' singer Shaun Ryder to sing it, but he declined, so James Dean Bradfield did the honors. however, their cover of Primal Scream's "Velocity Girl" is quite bad... JBD didn't even bother to get the lyrics right. MSP are also known to do a cover of The Clash's "Train in Vain" live. they did it when i saw them in 1999... JBD was angry Annie Lennox botched the song so he said he would steal it back and do the song some honor.

Yeah, they're all on the Lipstick Traces CD Set. I didn't know that about Train In Vain though. Never liked Annie Lennox though... Or Eurythmics...

I'm surprised you've heard of them over in NYC - I thought they were famous everywhere in europe/asia/australasia/south america... but not North America...

 

[bjjp2]

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Originally Posted by erix The Chinese lanquage translation of the Zepplin tune "Dazed and Confused" by Bongwater called "Dazed and Chinese"... Christina's early-80's Diva-spin on Van Morrison's "Blue Money" makes me feel dirty... Zappa's cover of "Stairway to Heaven" from the '88 tour = 5-piece horn section playing the guitar solo note-for-note...

Amazing. I read this today, and thought "Wow, I never heard that." Then I just heard it about an hour ago on the radio (satellite of course)! The horn section doing the solo is awesome.

 

[Aman]

Wierdest cover?

DEFINITELY:

"Never Never Land" - Todd Rundgren

This is the Peter Pan song... and it's just incredible

Off of the album "A Wizard/A True Star"

It's a REALLY good cover, though!

And check out the ALBUM COVER for it (hah, pun, if you can call it that, certainly intended)

 

[bong]

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Originally Posted by Guitarmarama Yeah, they're all on the Lipstick Traces CD Set. I didn't know that about Train In Vain though. Never liked Annie Lennox though... Or Eurythmics... I'm surprised you've heard of them over in NYC - I thought they were famous everywhere in europe/asia/australasia/south america... but not North America...

yeah... i guess i'm one of the very few exeptions in North America. MSP get shafted by Sony Columbia so many times it seems like they don't even care about releasing stuff in North America anymore. IIRC the first three albums (Generation Terrorists, Gold Against the Soul, The Holy Bible) have long been deleted after the first pressing, all three subsequent albums (Everything Must Go, This is My Truth..., Know Your Enemy) took months to release here after the UK release date, and the last release was Forever Delayed (at least the limited double disc remained intact). Lipstick Traces was never released in the US, and by this time a US release of Lifeblood is highly unlikely. even if Sony Columbia did finally release it here, most MSP fans already picked up the import. /rant

*sigh* same thing happened to Suede with A New Morning and the Singles compilation. friggin Sony Columbia.

 

[pframe]

Devo, "Satisfaction" -- still a hoot to listen to

 

[sno1man]

Marianne Faithfuls version of John Lennons "working class hero"

Even angrier and harder than Johns. possibly superior

Ryan Adams' version of Oasis' "wonderwall"

 

[ProleArtThreat]

Luna covering GNR's Sweet Child O' Mine
Ramones covering Tom Waits' I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Morrissey covering the Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer classic Moon River
Morrissey and Siouxsie duet covering Timi Yuro's Interlude

 

[EdipisReks]

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Originally Posted by pframe Devo, "Satisfaction" -- still a hoot to listen to

that cover isn't "weird", it's "fantastic"

 

[EdipisReks]

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Originally Posted by ProleArtThreat Morrissey and Siouxsie duet covering the Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer classic Moon River

 

[ProleArtThreat]

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Originally Posted by EdipisReks

My bad... It has been corrected in the original post. That's what happens you try to get in a Head-Fi fix two minutes before drifting off to sleep.

 

[Canman]

The Gourds bluegrass version of Gin and Juice is about as unexpected as they come.