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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 21, 2019 14:08:39 GMT
I have often talked on here about "The Girls Don't Like It" - as a contender for maybe greatest power pop song ever and The Undertones have a more famous contender for that title too ("Teenage Kicks"), when they did this style right they really did it right.
This is a remake of the 60s song - and they do it with an almost possessed energy....
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 3, 2019 22:11:07 GMT
RIP to Kim Shattuck - lead singer of The Muffs and Kim Deal's Pixies replacement too. She passed away at 56 yesterday. Here she is collaborating with The Mr. T. Experience on the Elton John cover.
I've posted some of her other music in the past - she will be missed.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 4, 2019 4:56:45 GMT
I've been digging this lately.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 6, 2019 20:50:03 GMT
The Sonics never did a bad cover and no one covered them badly either - here The Cramps do their garage classic "Strychnine" in terrific style.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 30, 2019 23:33:02 GMT
The Cramps being scary for the season:
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 9, 2019 6:19:48 GMT
Going through a phase of listening to a lot of The Lords Of The New Church - and this is a fairly sensational cover of the 60s song:
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 14, 2019 19:50:21 GMT
This song - which goes back a long way - is indicative of what Clapton often did in the 60s, finding a great blues obscurity that he then played faithfully but updated to sound modern.
This version actually improves on the album cut which was fantastic already:
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Post by cheesecake on Dec 4, 2019 4:05:37 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 4, 2019 21:14:16 GMT
One of the great contradictions of The Rolling Stones - and they had a lot of 'em - is as they got richer, more drugged up, and more famous they became more connected to music - the blues - that they weren't remotely close to actually living.
Yet they did their best blues performances after 1967 - better than anyone ever had before or after in Rock - and this is not only one of the very best examples but Jagger here doing the Robert Johnson classic Love in Vain - gives one of his best and saddest vocal performances.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Dec 9, 2019 11:52:06 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 3, 2020 22:57:01 GMT
An awful idea that actually works much better than you'd think it would .......if you're in a bar and this song comes on, in this version, people go crazy....
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Post by Joaquim on Jan 5, 2020 10:25:33 GMT
I’m just now realizing this is a cover.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 7, 2020 17:23:58 GMT
The mighty Faces - a GOAT covers band.......heck, a GOAT band period doing a stupendous version of Willie Dixon's "Evil" that rivals Howlin' Wolf's take on it. From "Five Guys Walk Into A Bar" - a must own boxset. Love this photo too, the band is likely drunk, lost in the woods.....evil behind every tree lads?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 21, 2020 23:16:32 GMT
She was pretty righteous at covers all through her career which makes you wish the Runaways didn't write their own (not great) songs so much but what can you do......
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Post by cheesecake on Jan 24, 2020 1:09:04 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 16, 2020 18:27:12 GMT
REM covers Wire on album #5 ........
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Feb 17, 2020 2:39:59 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 27, 2020 20:34:10 GMT
The late (occasionally) great Stiv Bators had a discernible talent for many things - punk outrage, goth fashion, power pop appropriation but what he really was, more than anything was a provocateur. This cover of Like A Virgin recorded at near the time of the original release - 1 year later or so - is obnoxiously funny and crass like the photo.
He also knew that trashing the song like this would sort of raise their profile more than anything the band had in their own material so crooned the hell out of it anyway.....bastard.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 21, 2020 14:11:29 GMT
The Replacements at one of their most famous drunken disaster live shows - at CBGB's in front of industry heavy hitters - this rivals Portland or the Shit Hits The Fans or...... The difference is they decide to suddenly play this 60s cover straight and for real - and it's kind of amazing. First of all who even tries this - a cover of an all black R&B act with a female lead singer that is actually quite complex with harmonies and backing vocals.
.......oh and Paul is so drunk that his ears can't keep up with his mouth - when you're really drunk you can't hear exactly where you're off - I think he's bluffing/slurring his way through this song and it's ............greeeeeeeeeeeeeat.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 24, 2020 17:05:30 GMT
I was going to post another great Tommy Keene song - "Don't Feel Right At All" - but I think I've over done "sick" songs so instead this cover from the most wtf album in Saint Alex's catalog (or anybody else's) and this ode to Catholic schoolgirls - covered fantastically - was the least wtf topic on Not A Saint Alex's most wtf album......
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 29, 2020 0:21:55 GMT
Sexiest female on the planet at this time lip-synching her way through an utterly joyous cover of Buddy Holly in her cross-dressing awesome outfit.
40 years later Lana Del Rey would drop the f word on every f'ing song on an album that has the f word in the title for fncksakes and not come close to approximating the manic pop thrill or the actual sex appeal of this smoke show.
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Post by Deceit on Apr 10, 2020 19:49:04 GMT
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Apr 12, 2020 17:30:37 GMT
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Post by futuretrunks on Apr 12, 2020 19:05:15 GMT
My boy John Mayer kills it with the covers:
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 20, 2020 19:26:59 GMT
Stumbled upon this today.
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