muse - feelin' good (nina simone)

that man has such a fúckable voice.

I love Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt' too, and some of my favourite cover versions at the moment:

Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
Rock and Roll Suicide - Black Box Recorder
Superstar - Sonic Youth
Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente
Letter From Memphis - Kenickie

My friend Het played me a great folk cover of '**** the Pain Away' by Peaches last night, and Adam Green does an interesting version of 'What A Waster' by The Libertines. Also, I won't start on cover versions of Hallelujah, or I'll be here all day.

What about worst cover versions? Busted's version of 'Teenage Kicks' surely has to be up there. And Louise's appalling version of 'Stuck in the Middle With You'.

some other cool covers:

marilyn manson - sweet dreams (the eurythmics)
nine inch nails - dead souls (joy division)
tori amos - smells like teen spirit (nirvana)
placebo - 20th century boy (t-rex)
snake river conspiracy - lovesong (the cure)
gary jules - mad world (tears for fears)
jeff buckley - hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

scissor sisters - take me out (Franz Ferdinand) - has anyone heard that? it's awesome

i dunno, there's loads isn't there! jimmy eat world do a gr8 cover of the prodigy's firestarter too hehe.

humm bad covers, perhaps mr manson should have left depeche mode's personal jesus alone.

what does everyone make of the announced leeds fest line-up? (www.efestivals.co.uk)

anywho hopefully ill be at glasto, lauryn hill is even rumoured, that'd be k-crazy!

If it is cover versions you want, and you fancy chilling out, look no further than KD Lang's Hymns of the 49th Parallel.

Apart from containing the superior version of Hallelujah, it has a version of 'Case of You' which I think is better than Joni Mitchell's.

Other good cover versions are:

The Muffs - Kids in America (Kim Wilde)
Le Tigre - I'm So Excited (I really can't remember who this one is by....)
Pansy Division - Smells like Queer Spirit (Nivarna)
Patti Smith - Gloria (Van Morrison)

Alice is of course right to mention 'The Futureheads'

And only whisper about the WIlliam Shatner version of Common People, else Bob and Alice will start throwing things......

yea i'm going to truck fest, it's gonna be cool

nah i havent actually, my housemate swears by it tho, so ima goin this year. we supported dive dive last year so im hoping they play...

'Crazy in Love' is fine, until bloody Zane Lowe comes in and does his idiotic rap.

I will give a lock of my hair to anyone that can get me a version of that cover without his crappy rapping.

Where can I find out about th elineup for Truck Fest?

I forgot to mention, contender for Most Pointless Cover Version has to go to No Doubt, for Garbage's Stupid Girl. They basically did a carbon copy of the original, I had to listen to one after the other & listen very carefully to notice any difference at all.

...Which reminds me, I quite liked their verion of It's My Life (Talk Talk).

okay, so now for the non-credible covers:

steps / diana ross - chain reaction
steps / bee gees / tragedy
a*teens / abba - gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight)
destiny's child / bee gees - emotions
atomic kitten / bangles - eternal flame
atomic kitten / kool and the gang - ladies night
bellefire / u2 - all i want is you
beyonce / 50 cent - in da club
bonnie tyler / frou frou / jennifer saunders - holding out for a hero
britney spears / rolling stones - i cant get no satisfaction
the corrs / rem - everybody hurts
kate bush / hayley westenra - wuthering heights
joss stone / white stripes - fell in love with a boy/girl
samantha mumba / david bowie - ashes to ashes / body to body

xx

Burn Hayley Westernaarara!

You a David Lynch fan, Sam?

I hope your raging hangover is... less raging.

(Ah, the joy of going off-topic on the forum.(

But watching David Lynch films (or Twin Peaks) while drunk and/or drugged at a stupidly early hour in the morning is the best way to understand them, in my opinion!

I certainly am a David Lynch fan, Alice. I wait, and wait, and wait, with baited breath, for the much-anticipated DVD release of Twin Peaks season 2. And I'm an Angelo Badalamenti fan, as well. The soundtrack to The Straight Story is the background music for my study sessions.

Hangover gone! Replaced by a peculiar feeling of impending ill-fortune.


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Death Cab For Cutie do a really good cover of Bjork's 'All Is Full Of Love'.

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Ooh, agreed. In fact, I think I shall listen to that now.

And adding to the themes of cover versions I dislike is Ryan Adams' version of 'Wonderwall'.

Mike Flowers? *shudders*

I killed him, and left his broken body as a warning to others.

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Noooooo

Burn Vanessa Carlton as well!

i dint know her name, jus the sonmg. ahhhh i dunno screw it. watchin Old Skool dance on 1 of tv channels, YAY!

While he is a talented man, listening to anything by Leonard Cohen makes me want to slit my wrists.

Britney can **** off and die. Didn't she have an identikit cover of 'The Beat Goes On' tacked on to the end of one of her albums, unfortunately produced by the same wonderful All Seeing I that did it (well, did the sampling) first?

Leonard Cohen does make me miserable, but he's worth it just for stuff like Hallelujah and Chelsea Hotel. Agreed that Buckley's version of Hallelujah is my favourite, haven't heard kd lang's version (you know, for a long time I thought 'constant craving' was, bizarrely, 'can't stand gravy'?) and much as I like Rufus Wainwright (ducks to avoid barrage of spit) his cover involved basically just hammering away at a piano and screeching like a castrated llama.

Does anyone remember when the Beautiful South did that cover of 'Bird On A Wire'? It was fookin terrible.

So Rufus actually covered Hallelujah! Dave and I were discussing this a few weeks ago. I like Jeff Buckley, but his cover of the song is, I think, too understated. He had such a beautiful voice and yet refused to share its whole power with us.

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Death Cab For Cutie do a really good cover of Bjork's 'All Is Full Of Love'."

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good idea, tis a gr8 cover.

also if anyone wants to hear bad covers of jeff buckley go to the baraka open mic night ~shudder~

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Sheryl Crow did a nice cover of Halelujahj, but this season I arr been mostly listening to her cover of the Rollig Stones' Wild Horses.

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I really really love that cover :D