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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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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 
This is off the top of my head so I am sure I missed some!
The Stranglers - Walk On By The Doors - Back Door Man Neil Young - Horse With No Name (Everyone thinks its his) Jeff Buckley - Hellelujah Them fellas who did the Tears For Fears "Mad World" a few years back.
"atmosphere"by The Pink Mountains tops ( the velvet playing JD material) absolutely hilarious
"fearless"(pink Floyd) by Low
"come up and see me/Make me smile" by The Weddies
"All u need is love" by THe Bunnymen ( with a psychedelic meddley to end the song)
"wish u were here" by ??? i don't remember !but Radiohead leadsinger is making backing vocals on this number...Merde, c'est quoi le nom déjà ?
JEAN NOEL BOUET wrote: "atmosphere"by The Pink Mountains tops ( the velvet playing JD material) absolutely hilarious "fearless"(pink Floyd) by Low "come up and see me/Make me smile" by The Weddies "All u need is love" by THe Bunnymen ( with a psychedelic meddley to end the song)
I have Towering Above The Rest by Radiohead and it said they performed Wish You Were Here with a band called Sparklehorse.
Um Ray of Light was by a couple of folky hippies from London in the early Seventies. They tried to sue Madonna, but settled for a cash settlement.
Mylo is basically Dr Beat by Miami Sound Machine, which he later re-released featuring Miami Sound Machine.
Step on was a cover of a song called 'He's Gonna Step on you Again', which was a minor hit in the mid-seventies for a South African chap called John Kongas (I think!).
Just to add a couple more:
Dinosaur Junior's cover of 'Just Like Heaven'
the Jose Gonzalez tune currently in the charts, which is a cover of an obscure Scandinavian band from a couple of years back.
World of Twist - 'She's Like a Rainbow'
and last but definitely not least: Joey Ramones cover of 'What a Wonderful World'.
Didnt you like my performance in Boogie Nights?
It's not all squeal, piggy, squeal you know
Mylo's "Drop the Pressure" reminds me ... I forgot to add:
"Pressure Drop" - Toots and the Maytals via The Clash
"Let's Stick Together" - Wilbert Harrison via Bryan Ferry "Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks via David Bowie "Days" - The Kinks via Elvis Costello "Eight Miles High" - The Byrds via Husker Du "Tower of Song" - Leonard Cohen via Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "As Tears Go By" - Rolling Stones via Marianne Faithful ('87 version)
Damn I love me some covers.
Gnu Odor wrote: Mylo's "Drop the Pressure" reminds me ... I forgot to add:
"Tower of Song" - Leonard Cohen via Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ever hear the 30-minute version? Had it when I had Audiogalaxy, but I deleted the wrong files, so I don't have it no more............
JonnyMac wrote: The Stranglers - Walk On By Jeff Buckley - Hellelujah Them fellas who did the Tears For Fears "Mad World" a few years back.
i forgot about these three. great tunes. the latter was done for the film donnie darko, i believe.
also: phil collins' against all odds as done by the postal service.
Red House Painters: All Mixed Up (the cars) Ben Folds & Jarvis Cocker: Bitches Ain't Shit (Dr. Dre) Sun Kil Moon: Ocean Breathes Salty (Modest Mouse) Shinehead: Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) Lali Puna: 40 Days (Slowdive)
thrashingtiger wrote:
Ben Folds & Jarvis Cocker: Bitches Ain't Shit (Dr. Dre)
Oh yeah,
"Boyz n the Hood" - NWA via Dynamite Hack
The Cure's "Love Cats" by Tricky. Depeche Mode's "Shake the Disease" by Hooverphonic Troup's "Route 66" by Depeche Mode The Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" by Arno
Burt Reynolds wrote: Um Ray of Light was by a couple of folky hippies from London in the early Seventies. They tried to sue Madonna, but settled for a cash settlement.
Mylo is basically Dr Beat by Miami Sound Machine, which he later re-released featuring Miami Sound Machine.
Step on was a cover of a song called 'He's Gonna Step on you Again', which was a minor hit in the mid-seventies for a South African chap called John Kongas (I think!).
Just to add a couple more:
Dinosaur Junior's cover of 'Just Like Heaven'
the Jose Gonzalez tune currently in the charts, which is a cover of an obscure Scandinavian band from a couple of years back.
World of Twist - 'She's Like a Rainbow'
and last but definitely not least: Joey Ramones cover of 'What a Wonderful World'.
Didnt you like my performance in Boogie Nights?
It's not all squeal, piggy, squeal you know
I'm aware of Mylo being heavily inspired by Miami Sound Machine, but I'd say he sampled them rather than covered them on Drop The Pressure. Dr Pressure, however, is close to being a cover - I'd call it a mash-up though.
Never heard of John Kongas or those folky hippies from London. Thanks for the info.
As for that José Gonzales, I'd say that at least in Sweden he's much more obscure than his fellow countrymen The Knife whose song Heartbeats he is ripping off on that Sony ad. I think I much prefer the electro sound of the original. Looking forward to The Knife's new album.
Sorry to say I wasn't that impressed with Boogie Nights. Nothing beats the duelling banjos and squeal piggy squeal.
Christopher Owens wrote:
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Ozzy and Type O Negative
i like camper van beethoven's version, myself.
If you have to have one Marilyn Manson track in your playlist, make it the cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell On You."
If.
Gnu Odor wrote: If you have to have one Marilyn Manson track in your playlist, make it the cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell On You."
If.
I'd go for Tainted Love.
Buffalo Tom's cover of the Jam's 'Going Underground'.
Agree with Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah and Johnny Cash's Hurt.
Since I've had a few whiskeys I'll chuck in Suede's version of The Pretenders' Brass in Pocket also...
JonnyMac wrote: The Stranglers - Walk On By The Doors - Back Door Man Neil Young - Horse With No Name (Everyone thinks its his) Jeff Buckley - Hellelujah Them fellas who did the Tears For Fears "Mad World" a few years back.
cant believe it took til you for someone to mention hallelujah! anyone listed the clash i fought the law yet?
it was gary jules that did mad world by the way
I'd happily list "Hallelujah," but it'd be John Cale's cover version. (He also did a kooky cover of "Heartbreak Hotel.")
the Chiefs of Relief used to play Cameos ' Word up ' when they were Big Audio Dynamites support on an early tour , I swear that's where Gun got the idea from , the Chiefs version was clean , Matt Ashman put some fookin charge into it .
