STEPS TO COVER NO'S "BLUE MONDAY"!!!
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Originally posted by Martin Gray Apparently there may be hope yet..... news just in through the grapevine - well actually a week old - is that there is talk of two members of Steps quitting the band to - erm - get more intimate with each other -, so the likelihood is, if two of them decide to walk, it just wouldn't be Spoons anymore, would it?..... excuse me a mo......(pause for a moment to gather my composure: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!HURRY HURRY HURRY!!!! GET IT OVER AND DONE WITH!!!!! BYE BYE!!! SEE YA!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!).......phew, that's better!......so that possibly means that they will be releasing a Greatest Hits album for Christmas, and....best of all.... if they do split after this...we may be spared the horrible prospect of FACkin horrible 73.....But then again....what's the bet that YOU lot are simply gaggin' to cop an earful of it , huh? Go on admit it, you're just dying to hear it aren't you?
Their Greatest Hits is already out, unfortunately! 
Originally posted by Muffy Their Greatest Hits is already out, unfortunately!
Blimey Muffster, you are the ultimate mine of information when it comes to Disposable Teeny Pap, aren't you?!!!
Originally posted by john Southwell > Originally posted by hugh sludden> STEPS! FUCK OFF> WHAT NEXT? MICHAEL FUCKING BOLTON DOING LWTUA!!
Paul Young has already been there !
Just for the record - albeit belatedly - has anyone properly heard a version of JD's Love Will Tear Us Apart as performed by The Swans? Sometime in the mid-late eighties....? Anyone at all? Was it any good? I ask because I got into some late-period (early 1990's) Swans LPs after they developed from their earlier sheer-noise terror incarnation to the more melodic Goth sounding stuff of albums like "Love Of Life" and "White Light In The Heat Of Infifnty" (both classics) .
Whilst also on NO covers: does anybody recall The Oyster Band's cover of "Love Vigilantes" in 1989?? Andy Kershaw rated this bunch immensely: they were on Cooking Vinyl Records. I only heard a live version of this on a session they did for Mr. K. but that was it. I wasn't too keen on it however....any other people's thoughts on this one??
Don't Steps or any other band for that matter need permission from NO to cover one of their songs or is it up to the record label?
If they do need permission from NO why did they allow Steps to do it?
Originally posted by Martin Gray > Originally posted by john Southwell> > > > Originally posted by hugh sludden> > STEPS! FUCK OFF> > WHAT NEXT? MICHAEL FUCKING BOLTON DOING LWTUA!!>
Paul Young has already been there !
Just for the record - albeit belatedly - has anyone properly heard a version of JD's Love Will Tear Us Apart as performed by The Swans? Sometime in the mid-late eighties....? Anyone at all? Was it any good? I ask because I got into some late-period (early 1990's) Swans LPs after they developed from their earlier sheer-noise terror incarnation to the more melodic Goth sounding stuff of albums like "Love Of Life" and "White Light In The Heat Of Infifnty" (both classics) .
Whilst also on NO covers: does anybody recall The Oyster Band's cover of "Love Vigilantes" in 1989?? Andy Kershaw rated this bunch immensely: they were on Cooking Vinyl Records. I only heard a live version of this on a session they did for Mr. K. but that was it. I wasn't too keen on it however....any other people's thoughts on this one??
Yes, the Swans version of LWTUA is good, though it was hated by some of their fans who wanted them to repeat the blustery sounds of their first records. It came out in `88. Mid-tempo compared to the original, it fits in quite nicely with the body of work that the Swans did back then.
Originally posted by Maria Steps convering Blue Monday will surely be this year's most surreal event.
Not if Brittney Spears´ cover of Atmosphere is released first.
Originally posted by Martin Gray > > Whilst also on NO covers: does anybody recall The Oyster Band's cover of "Love Vigilantes" in 1989??> Andy Kershaw rated this bunch immensely: they were on Cooking Vinyl Records. I only heard a live version of this on a session they did for Mr. K. but that was it. I wasn't too keen on it however....any other people's thoughts on this one??
I think it was quite good, actually. The Oysters were panned by certain critics and many fans because a proper "celtic" band should not be covering New Order, though.
