Comparing covers to the original (blues, dance, favorite songs, great song)

right-track · 04-24-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

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OMG! Soft Cell's Version is shocking! As for The Kinks V The Fall-I like both!

^And on the topic of The Fall versus...
I'll forgive you your taste with Soft Cell Urban, if only for The Fall's cover of 'There's A Ghost In My House'....just don't upload that B-Side!

sleepy jack · 04-24-2008, 06:11 PM

Big Star "Thirteen"

Elliott Smith "Thirteen"

They're not too different aside from Elliott's version having one guitar but I think Elliott's version provided an intimacy that is absent in Big Star's version which adds a more honest level to the song and since its so simple it works so much better.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-24-2008, 06:11 PM

The Fall did 2 R Dean Taylor songs.

They did Gotta See Jane as well

jackhammer · 04-24-2008, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

MARTINA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Her album Quixotic was in a local charity shop a couple of days ago but I was potless. Went back next day as I remembered you mentioning her a while ago and the fecker had gone

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Big Star "Thirteen"

Elliott Smith "Thirteen"

They're not too different aside from Elliott's version having one guitar but I think Elliott's version provided an intimacy that is absent in Big Star's version which adds a more honest level to the song and since its so simple it works so much better.

You are a troubador Ethan! I can see that Smith's version is more intimate but I think the upbeat edge of the original aligns itself with the lyrics better.

right-track · 04-24-2008, 06:34 PM

I'm with Ethan on this.
Elliott Smith's version lends more weight to the lyrics.

sweet_nothing · 04-24-2008, 06:38 PM

well it is Ellliott Smith after all....

sleepy jack · 04-24-2008, 06:40 PM

The songs obviously about young love. I love Big Star but they very much sound dated sometimes and that song is one of those times which makes it sound like its coming from an older person which very much takes away from it. Elliott's sounds like it's coming from a much younger person, someone who could be Thirteen perhaps and I think that makes the lyrics much more powerful because they sound less like reminiscing and more like serenading.

jackhammer · 04-24-2008, 06:43 PM

Original air guitar classic:

Recently out:

I know which version I prefer!

sweet_nothing · 04-24-2008, 07:32 PM

the stooges- no fun

sex pistols- no fun

i think the stooges sounds better, but the pistols sound like they mean it.

mr. goth glam · 04-24-2008, 10:14 PM

There's a cover of Don't Fear The Reaper that I've always liked...

Can't think of the band...but the song was used over the closing credits in The Frighteners.

04-24-2008, 06:11 PM	#23 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	The Fall did 2 R Dean Taylor songs. They did Gotta See Jane as well __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Original air guitar classic: Recently out: I know which version I prefer! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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mr. goth glam Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Waverly, VA. Posts: 406	There's a cover of Don't Fear The Reaper that I've always liked... Can't think of the band...but the song was used over the closing credits in The Frighteners. __________________

04-24-2008, 06:34 PM	#25 (permalink)
right-track Atchin' Akai Join Date: May 2005 Location: Unamerica Posts: 8,723	I'm with Ethan on this. Elliott Smith's version lends more weight to the lyrics.