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SING NOW..What the world....needs now.....is..another fcuking TOP 5 poll!!! So I'm gonna say for my five..the following:-
In no order:
Napalm Death - Nazi Punks Fuck Off Red Hot Chili Peppers - Subterranian Homesick Blues NIN - Dead Souls The Pixies - Head On The Fall - I Can Hear The Grass Grow
Echo & the bunnymen : Soul Kitchen New Order : Sister Ray. ACR : Heart and Soul. Me In The Bath : Shack Up. Me In The Bath : Your Silent Face.
Jimi Hendrix--All Along the Watchtower Butthole Surfers--American Woman REM--Superman Bauhaus--Ziggy Stardust Sex Pistols--No Fun
1/Wedding Present - Come up and see me(make me smile) 2/Oasis-My Generation 3/Nouvelle vague-Friday night,Saturday morning 4/Placebo-Running up the hill 5/Tatu-How soon is now.
Sorry no room for Paul Youngs-LWTUA
frente - bizarre love trianlge this mortal coil - kangaroo oysterband - love vigilantes :) alien ant farm - smooth criminal william shatner - common people
Morrissey- No One Can Hold A Candle To You Morrissey- Redondo Beach Oasis- Cum On Feel The Noize Madness- It Must Be Love
erm... Cant think of any more that i can even tolerate.
Boogie Box High - Jive Talkin' Pet Shop Boys - It's Alright The Associates - Heart of Glass Times Two - Cecilia New Order - Ceremony
Geri Halliwell - It's Raining MenThe Pet Shop Boys - Always On My MindThe Beatles - Rock'n'Roll MusicThe Fall - Lost In MusicThe Sex Pistols - No Fun
In no order:
Madonna - Ray of light Soft Cell - Tainted Love Primal Scream - Slip inside this house Mylo - Drop the pressure Happy Mondays - Step on
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Marc wrote: All I can think of right now:
Johnny Cash - Hurt
He did New Order?
That's the Nine Inch Nails track, Ian.
Digital Mike wrote:
- Green Green Grass of Home - John Otway
Excellent choice there.
five covers that are better than the originals, or come damn close...
Aztec Camera, of Van Halen's Jump
Johnny Cash, of Will Oldham's I See A Darkness
Einsturzende Neubauten, of Nancy & Lee's Sand
Susanna Hoffs (Bangles), of Bob Dylan's I'll Keep It With Mine
Neko Case, of Catherine Irwin's Hex.
In no order (ones that I don't think have been mentioned yet):
The Byrds, "My Back Pages" Talking Heads, "Take Me To The River" 10,000 Maniacs, "Because the Night" The Beatles, "Twist and Shout" Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, "Love Hurts"
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[orange]|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3[/orange] wrote:
Marc wrote: All I can think of right now:
Johnny Cash - Hurt
He did New Order?
That's the Nine Inch Nails track, Ian.
Yeah, I heard of their collaboration, but didn't know what they worked on.
Taboo # 7 wrote: The Beatles, "Twist and Shout"
I knew you would bring The Beatles! :)
We are the Four but not the Beatles On every show we break the needles.
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:
- Pet Shop Boys - Always on my mind
- The Cure - Purple Haze (radio version)
- Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
- The Cure - World in My Eyes
- Smashing Pumpkins - Never Let Me Down Again
and anything outside of the world of the Cure and DM? 
in no particular order
roxy music - jeolous guy rolf harris - starway to heavan elvis - wooden heart the german version soft cell - tainted love always on my mind - pet shop boys
actually i think most cover versions are pointless as they rarely differ or improve on the original version.
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
always on my mind - pet shop boys
actually i think most cover versions are pointless as they rarely differ or improve on the original version.
Yeah Always On Mind by PSB is a rather great brave rendition.
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Ronald Kirsch wrote:
always on my mind - pet shop boys
actually i think most cover versions are pointless as they rarely differ or improve on the original version.
Yeah Always On Mind by PSB is a rather great brave rendition.
as i said i like cover versions to be different.
primal scream--slip inside this house the sundays--wild horses REM--superman jimi hendrix--all along the watchtower sonic youth--superstar
Five off the top of my head:
"Satisfaction" - Rolling Stones via Devo "Prairie Rose" - Roxy Music via Big Country "Map Ref. 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W" - Wire via MBV "Walkin' After Midnight" - Patsy Cline via Ultra Vivid Scene "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division via Bis
Christopher Owens wrote: The Pixies - Head On
get paid!! its on the jukebox in my local alehouse.
i like Mrs Robinson by the Lemonheads.
class.
Can I go over 5 if I add covers that hit you out of left field during a live set?
"Physical (You're So)" - Adam and the Ants via NIN "Surrender" - Cheap Trick via Bob Mould "A Day in the Life" - Beatles via Howard Jones (no, really) "Oops I Did it Again" - Britney Spears via Richard Thompson
Shame on me, I forgot:
"Kick Out the Jams" - MC5 via Bad Brains with Henry Rollins
The Futureheads - Hounds of Love New Order - Ceremony St Etienne - Only love can break your heart Ryan Adams - Wonderwall PSB - Always on my mind
st.etienne - only love can break your heart(neil young) suede - rent(psb) carter usm - rent(psb) ian brown - billie jean(michael schumacher) travis - baby one more time(britney spears)
Burt Reynolds wrote: In no order:
Madonna - Ray of light Mylo - Drop the pressure Happy Mondays - Step on
Who made the originals? 
BTW Deliverance was the only good movie you were in, Burt 
