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Post by pacinoyes on May 17, 2019 14:54:46 GMT
For their bandmate in heartbreaking fashion......
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Post by pacinoyes on May 30, 2019 20:52:30 GMT
Lee Mavers, lead singer, guitarist, resident genius of The La's was the Noel Gallagher of his day - a genuine Rock star with a songwriting knack that evoked Lennon/McCartney/Townshend/Davies and did it seamlessly. Almost everything he ever wrote - 1 album, some B-sides and outtakes is great. Plagued by crazed "perfectionist" syndrome (somewhat similar to Jonathan Richman and Brian Wilson) - if he had his way he'd still be working on their classic debut album - Mavers refused to ever record again since he felt he was bullied and pushed around - no one would ever push him around again. Here he is in 1989 without the debut yet released - he was still working on it and he was 2 years late already - but being a Rock star he had the good taste to cover Buddy Holly. They do it perfectly of course.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 2, 2019 23:58:20 GMT
"I'll play Lesley Gore before I play anything..."
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 8, 2019 16:38:05 GMT
Imagine the degree of offensiveness when an all-black pop group does a song entirely based on Asian/Charlie Chan stereotypes.........ok, well, now imagine an all-white band covering that song. The level of genius in even knowing about the original song and how brilliantly they do this cover and somehow make it good-natured and sweet is actually a big mystery for Charlie Chan to solve. Mattsby and Viced - who either agree with the above or will be all "wtf, don't drag me into this pacinoyes"
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 8, 2019 17:31:34 GMT
pacinoyes I didn't realize how many black musicians they covered on Too Much Too Soon - the Coasters, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Jay Hawks, Archie Bell & the Drells. That's almost half the album, and.... all great covers....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 12, 2019 22:24:51 GMT
One of the great lost things in 60s Rock is that Cream didn't make a blues covers album since all their Blues covers kind of rule.....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 27, 2019 22:31:42 GMT
Dave Edmunds covering Graham Parker's rowdy song which he recorded first but Parker played live earlier and later cut himself. Edmunds was a covers specialist in Rockpile and on his own too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 30, 2019 18:58:49 GMT
JT covers Dion - who doesn't like this? Seriously what's wrong with you......
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Post by DaleCooper on Jun 30, 2019 20:10:22 GMT
Manfred Mann's Earth Band cover of Spirit in the night
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 13, 2019 21:07:23 GMT
Alex Chilton covers his spiritual brother Ray Davies on one of the best albums ever made and an album with no specified tracklist - eventually everything recorded for this album came out on it - and some of the best songs were the covers Femme Fatale and Whole Lotta Shakin' and Nature Boy songs that mixed what made him happy and sad and the connecting point between them:
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 14, 2019 14:19:37 GMT
Taken from the Faces incredible box set "Five Guys Walk Into A Bar" - basically a goldmine for covers.
Best part - Rod pushing the whole band forward ........"everybody! everybody!"
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 15, 2019 15:31:09 GMT
They could have had a whole career just doing their Slade and T. Rex covers.....in concert the crowd would have been happy for a whole set of covers.......in some concerts they did just that too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 24, 2019 20:05:23 GMT
Well the last post in this thread was before we all even knew about this newly announced box set release which will have Gudbuy T'Jane again......and it'll have this one too - but in a previously unheard studio version with Tom Waits helping out. Something to wet the appetite until then, here's the live sloppy drunk version. Viced, Mattsby
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 28, 2019 23:30:39 GMT
Some things just are too easy - the Stones cover Berry. Jagger plays to the camera, has all the moves already, mass hysteria ensues and every year after this scintillating performance for the next 8 years at least .........they'd get better
The mind boggles......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 29, 2019 23:14:38 GMT
In anticipation of the 80s album poll - Prince who may win it all covers his own song - and does it better I think too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 5, 2019 23:36:07 GMT
The Donnas cover the very best KISS song ever - there's not that many - and a sexist KISS song too.....that when they do it becomes a feminist song or at least kinda sorta it is......neat trick.....and they sound like they love playing it too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 12, 2019 23:13:24 GMT
Really how could the Beatles compete with this band - Lennon (singing his ass off), Keith Richards (cool as fnck on bass), Clapton and Mitch Mitchell (both Godlike) covering the Beatles "Yer Blues".
This is a historic moment ....
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 18, 2019 22:38:18 GMT
Genius of covers guy who fronted a band of junkie cross-dressers transforms into a professional and fronts a new band of solid spandex wearers. A fine Animals medley ...........though like Robert Christgau noticed in his review how a guy who used to wear a a freakin' dress and write the best double entendre lyrics doesn't include "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is kind of a headscratcher.
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Aug 30, 2019 0:08:21 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Aug 30, 2019 0:26:39 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 30, 2019 23:48:10 GMT
Kim Shattuck of The Muffs was a genuine rock star - still is actually. Hired by the Pixies to replace Kim Deal she was promptly fired after less than a year. Wtf.
Whatever - here she and her band rip through Kids in America and she lets loose a great scream at the end too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 7, 2019 18:03:29 GMT
The beloved Rockpile covering Chuck Berry with Keith Richards on lead guitar - a glorious mess......alcohol may have been consumed before..... during .......and after.
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Post by Viced on Sept 9, 2019 23:03:20 GMT
The punks of the '70s covering some of the more goofy music of the '60s is my favorite genre of music tbh.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 9, 2019 23:29:37 GMT
For Viced - this song was done in the 70s by the Sex Pistols too but um, Thunders did it first but then again he kind of did everything first and certainly before those limey bastards. Make America(n) (Rock and Roll) Great Again.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 12, 2019 20:19:22 GMT
Stiv Bators version of "So Alone" was the "Disconnected" solo record except it wasn't as good and Disconnected sounded completely unlike him where "So Alone" sounds even more like Thunders .......but in a lot of ways the power pop sheen of Disconnected is Bators' peak - he hit higher points with The Dead Boys and Lords of The New Church ........but those were uneven bands and the Disconnected album is good all the way through......you just have to adjust your expectations.
Here he is doing an ace cover of The Electric Prunes "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"
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