the best cover versions EVER! (not yet available at woolies)

my list:

manic street preachers--suicide is painless (theme from MASH)

primal scream--slip inside this house (13th floor elevators)

husker du--love is all around (theme from the mary tyler moore show)

emmylou harris--the boxer (simon & garfunkel)

the beat--tears of a clown (smokey robinson & the miracles)

faith no more--easy (the commodores)

fishbone--freddy's dead (curtis mayfield)

REM--superman (the clique)

foo fighters--baker street (gerry rafferty)

indigo girls--romeo and juliet (dire straits)

the stranglers--walk on by (dionne warwick/burt bacharach)

jeff buckley--hallelujah (leonard cohen)

the byrds--turn, turn, turn (pete seeger)

jimi hendrix--all along the watchtower (bob dylan)

joan jett & the blackhearts--crimson and clover (tommy james and the shondells)

johnny cash--hurt (nine inch nails)

the lemonheads--mrs. robinson (simon & garfunkel)

mighty lemon drops--another girl, another planet (the only ones)

tricky--black steel (public enemy)

red hot chili peppers--higher ground (stevie wonder)

smashing pumpkins--landslide (fleetwood mac)

sonic youth--superstar (the carpenters)

the sundays--wild horses (rolling stones)

urge overkill--girl, you'll be a woman soon (neil diamond)

AgentWood wrote: my list:

manic street preachers--suicide is painless (theme from MASH)

primal scream--slip inside this house (13th floor elevators)

husker du--love is all around (theme from the mary tyler moore show)

emmylou harris--the boxer (simon & garfunkel)

the beat--tears of a clown (smokey robinson & the miracles)

faith no more--easy (the commodores)

fishbone--freddy's dead (curtis mayfield)

REM--superman (the clique)

foo fighters--baker street (gerry rafferty)

indigo girls--romeo and juliet (dire straits)

the stranglers--walk on by (dionne warwick/burt bacharach)

jeff buckley--hallelujah (leonard cohen)

the byrds--turn, turn, turn (pete seeger)

jimi hendrix--all along the watchtower (bob dylan)

joan jett & the blackhearts--crimson and clover (tommy james and the shondells)

johnny cash--hurt (nine inch nails)

the lemonheads--mrs. robinson (simon & garfunkel)

mighty lemon drops--another girl, another planet (the only ones)

tricky--black steel (public enemy)

red hot chili peppers--higher ground (stevie wonder)

smashing pumpkins--landslide (fleetwood mac)

sonic youth--superstar (the carpenters)

the sundays--wild horses (rolling stones)

urge overkill--girl, you'll be a woman soon (neil diamond)

My Back Pages by the Byrds is one of the best Dylan covers out there

Oh, and don't forget Paul Young's cover of LWTUA.....actually, do forget that

I still like Soft Cell's Tainted Love. which should not be at your local woollies, unless there's an 80s compilation. BTW we have Woolies in Oz as well, but its a totally seperate company from the ones in the us, uk and yes even the one in germany. woolies here is the largest Supermarket chain in Oz.

rent (PSB) by Carter USM

Butthole Surfer--Sweat loaf (Black Sabbath) Butthole Surfers--American Woman (The Guess Who)

Ronald Kirsch wrote: I still like Soft Cell's Tainted Love. which should not be at your local woollies, unless there's an 80s compilation. BTW we have Woolies in Oz as well, but its a totally seperate company from the ones in the us, uk and yes even the one in germany. woolies here is the largest Supermarket chain in Oz.

woolworth's was an american institution (founded in the early 1900s) and the woolworth building in new york city was the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1913. i remember woolworth's as the 'five-and-dime' stores, but less so than my parents or grandparents, as there wasn't much you could buy for a nickel or dime in the 1970s ot 1980s.

woolworth's is now gone here, and the last one closed in the states in the late 1990s. i was happy to see they still exist in the UK as there can't be a world without woolworth's!

think they all come from the same beginnings--the woolworth five-and-dime stores in the eastern US in the early 1900s. even the ones in oz, i think.

AgentWood wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: I still like Soft Cell's Tainted Love. which should not be at your local woollies, unless there's an 80s compilation. BTW we have Woolies in Oz as well, but its a totally seperate company from the ones in the us, uk and yes even the one in germany. woolies here is the largest Supermarket chain in Oz.

woolworth's was an american institution (founded in the early 1900s) and the woolworth building in new york city was the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1913. i remember woolworth's as the 'five-and-dime' stores, but less so than my parents or grandparents, as there wasn't much you could buy for a nickel or dime in the 1970s ot 1980s.

woolworth's is now gone here, and the last one closed in the states in the late 1990s. i was happy to see they still exist in the UK as there can't be a world without woolworth's!

think they all come from the same beginnings--the woolworth five-and-dime stores in the eastern US in the early 1900s. even the ones in oz, i think.

I remember the Woolworth's in my neighborhood, but it didn't sell CD's. I remember they did have a large selection of kung fu movies and a lot of school supplies. It disappeared in the late 1990's, but the building where it was has yet to be occupied.

I am quite fond of Muse's version of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want...

The Leathernun - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (ABBA)

The Chamelons - Moonage daydream (David Bowie)

Goldfinger - 99 red balloons Disturbed - Shout

Bere wrote: Goldfinger - 99 red balloons Disturbed - Shout

ihrem weg zum horizont??

it's been years now since i did Year 10 German

AgentWood wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: I still like Soft Cell's Tainted Love. which should not be at your local woollies, unless there's an 80s compilation. BTW we have Woolies in Oz as well, but its a totally seperate company from the ones in the us, uk and yes even the one in germany. woolies here is the largest Supermarket chain in Oz.

woolworth's was an american institution (founded in the early 1900s) and the woolworth building in new york city was the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1913. i remember woolworth's as the 'five-and-dime' stores, but less so than my parents or grandparents, as there wasn't much you could buy for a nickel or dime in the 1970s ot 1980s.

woolworth's is now gone here, and the last one closed in the states in the late 1990s. i was happy to see they still exist in the UK as there can't be a world without woolworth's!

think they all come from the same beginnings--the woolworth five-and-dime stores in the eastern US in the early 1900s. even the ones in oz, i think.

I think its probably just like hoovering (at least for a while) or coke has become the word for vacuming. A brand becomes so popular its name gets used universally.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: I still like Soft Cell's Tainted Love. which should not be at your local woollies, unless there's an 80s compilation. BTW we have Woolies in Oz as well, but its a totally seperate company from the ones in the us, uk and yes even the one in germany. woolies here is the largest Supermarket chain in Oz.

woolworth's was an american institution (founded in the early 1900s) and the woolworth building in new york city was the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1913. i remember woolworth's as the 'five-and-dime' stores, but less so than my parents or grandparents, as there wasn't much you could buy for a nickel or dime in the 1970s ot 1980s.

woolworth's is now gone here, and the last one closed in the states in the late 1990s. i was happy to see they still exist in the UK as there can't be a world without woolworth's!

think they all come from the same beginnings--the woolworth five-and-dime stores in the eastern US in the early 1900s. even the ones in oz, i think.

I think its probably just like hoovering (at least for a while) or coke has become the word for vacuming. A brand becomes so popular its name gets used universally.

We never had a Woolworth's as far as I know, but there was a Sears store nearby and we always got the Sears Catalog just in time for Christmas every year. God knows why, but I always hoped someone in my family would pay attention whenever I'd mention whatever I wanted out of the catalog...

Oh, I'm sorry, a little childhood trauma there :p

Anyway, there's a cover of "To Love Somebody" on the Gram Parsons anthology that's pretty damn good (also check out the FBB's take on "Wild Horses" if it hasn't been mentioned yet)

I remember the tremendous selections of fried chicken at woolworth's. Delicious!!!

I hate Woolworths. Full of Saurday girls who don't have a clue. Plus any time I've bought a faulty cd or DVD, it's been from Woolworths.

Jolene - Sisters of Mercy (Dolly Parton) Nice Boys - Guns N Roses (Rose Tattoo) Baby Please Don't Go - Aerosmith (erm...) Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana (Leadbelly) Helter Skelter - U2 (Beatles) Sexual Healing - Kate Bush (Marvin Gaye)

BIS - LWTUA ELECTRIK MUSIC - Baby Come Back CURVE - I Feel Love BIS (again!) - Shack Up NATALIE MERCHANT - Everyday Is Like Sunday ERASURE - S.O.S.

For starters,can't think of anymore from the top of my head!

AgentWood wrote: my list:

jeff buckley--hallelujah (leonard cohen)

IMHO, John Cale's trumps that one.

Speaking of Mr. Cale, I'll go with Sally Timms dreamy version of his classic song from the Paris 1919 album, Half Past France.

Straitjacket Fits--So Long Marianne, by Mr. Cohen (the James version on I'm Your Fan is rather dull in comparison

Aztec Camera--Jump, by Van Halen, with the lovely wall of feedback at the end.

Einsturzende Neubauten's Sand, by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, their first English language tune, and Blixa handling both the female and male verses well.

The Colourbox single of King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown was brilliant, just not quite as great as the original though.

Love will tear us apart by the Swans

Never heard Tim Buckley's original,but I'd have to add This Mortal Coil's Song To The Siren.

"Wild Horses" The Sundays (Rolling Stones) "Gloria" Jimi Hendrix (Them feat. Van Morrison) "Bring It On Home to Me" Van Morrison (sam Cooke) "Redemption Song Joe Strummer (Bob Marley) "Nothing Compares 2 U" Sinead O'Connor (Prince) "Little Wing" Stevie Ray vaughan (Jimi Hendrix) "Refugee" Melissa Etheridge (Tom Petty)

Tainted Love--Coil (whatever forgotten Motown girl group)

john kershaw wrote:

Bere wrote: Goldfinger - 99 red balloons

ihrem weg zum horizont??

it's been years now since i did Year 10 German

Yepp... It's a nice punk-cover. They even do the last verse in german...

JFA cover 99 Luft Balloons as well as the Charlie Brown theme.

Smashing Pumpkins - "Never let me down again." The Cure - "Purple Haze"

However, Trevor, Woolworth's isn't like Sears. At least up here, they didn't sell toys or clothes. It was more of cheap variety store. The one I remember had movies, arts and crafts supplies, school supplies, very basic clothes (I still have a sweatshirt from there), and a lunch counter.

Woollies here is a big supermarket. For a department store type shop they have the Big W chain, which is like K-Mart, which we also have here. K-Mart here also has nothing to do with the American chain of the same name. Origianly the company which owns it did buy the concept from America though.

AgentWood wrote:

think they all come from the same beginnings--the woolworth five-and-dime stores in the eastern US in the early 1900s. even the ones in oz, i think.

The deal with Woolworths here (and NZ) is that it's connected only by name to the US or UK versions.

It was established in the early 1920s and named Woolworths to cash in on the branding cache of successful Woolies stores overseas. These days they'd be sued, of course. But it's a hugely successful chain here now.

Along similar lines, hamburger chain Burger King is called Hungry Jacks here. When they first opened, there was a local store in Perth already called Burger King so the massive international fast food machine had to change all of their marketing, at great cost. Big ups for the little guy.

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