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#51 2006-03-16 8:13 pm
Re: Great song covers
resedit wrote:
Country Top 20 isn't exactly famous.
Hell - pop top 20 isn't exactly famous.
Um, if you say so...
/goes to tell Roger Miller's ghost that he's forgotten
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#52 2006-03-16 8:38 pm
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Re: Great song covers
resedit wrote:
Malkin wrote:
resedit wrote:
Janis Joplin "Bobby McGee" is like that.
She didn't do it first. I can't name the guy who did.
The Dead also have a nice version of it, but Janis defined it.How is it like that? It was written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, originally performed by Kristofferson and is one of the most-covered songs of all time. Joplin may do a great cover, but she wasn't the first one to record it by a long shot.
Exactly - the song wasn't made famous by the original recording artist.
Written by one artist, made famous by another.
If the topic is 'great song covers', then another artist doing someone else's song better or differently but well, would fit, regardless of whether or not the original singer had a hit with it. I notice "All Along the Watchtower" is mentioned twice (Hendrix & U2), but no one's argued over that.
"Crazy" may be an exception, because I don't believe that Willie Nelson had a recording contract, he was a contract songwriter at the time, not a performer.
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#53 2006-03-16 8:42 pm
Re: Great song covers
mtpalms wrote:
"Crazy" may be an exception, because I don't believe that Willie Nelson had a recording contract, he was a contract songwriter at the time, not a performer.
Precisely. Not only did Cline make it famous, but she was the first one to record it. One can't cover a song that's never been recorded before.
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#54 2006-03-18 12:11 am
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Re: Great song covers
DevoDoc wrote:
I'm also quite fond of The Soup Dragons' cover of The Rolling Stones' "I'm Free"
I'd give my port-ward kiwi for that song! iTMS doesn't have jack by the Soup Dragons! What the F?
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#55 2006-03-18 2:19 am
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Re: Great song covers
We can't let a thread like this go by without mention of Dread Zeppelin.
Black Dog
Heartbreaker (at the End of Lonely Street)
(I mean, c'mon...what's not to love about a reggae Zeppelin cover band fronted by a guy named Tortelvis?
Fun Stuff! 
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#56 2006-03-18 3:03 am
Re: Great song covers
Malkin wrote:
resedit wrote:
Country Top 20 isn't exactly famous.
Hell - pop top 20 isn't exactly famous.Um, if you say so...
/goes to tell Roger Miller's ghost that he's forgotten
I guess I see your point.
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#57 2006-03-18 9:41 am
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Re: Great song covers
ckm wrote:
We can't let a thread like this go by without mention of Dread Zeppelin.
Black Dog
Heartbreaker (at the End of Lonely Street)
(I mean, c'mon...what's not to love about a reggae Zeppelin cover band fronted by a guy named Tortelvis?
I've always loved Sid Vicious' version of "My Way". There's a public domain video available, fwiw. But it's the ltyrics that make it.
I suppose I should add, 'No Fun', but I can't post the appropriate smilies, so never mind.
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#58 2006-03-18 9:48 am
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Re: Great song covers
fredges wrote:
DevoDoc wrote:
I'm also quite fond of The Soup Dragons' cover of The Rolling Stones' "I'm Free"
I'd give my port-ward kiwi for that song! iTMS doesn't have jack by the Soup Dragons! What the F?
Yeah. I noticed that a while ago.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#60 2006-03-23 3:22 pm
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Re: Great song covers
Montrose is a great band. Rock Candy is one of my all-time favorite rock songs. ...So hot, sweet and stickaaaaaaay!
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#61 2006-03-23 3:24 pm
Re: Great song covers
VegasACF wrote:
Montrose is a great band. Rock Candy is one of my all-time favorite rock songs. ...So hot, sweet and stickaaaaaaay!
Oh they were. Ronnie Montrose still plays. Of course, Sammy is still rockin. I had a chance to see Montrose way back when, but chose to see Skynyrd instead. I made the right choice, since not long after that was the plane crash.
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#62 2006-03-23 7:43 pm
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Re: Great song covers
Dylan's Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues by Nina Simone
Loudon Wainwright's One Man Guy by Rufus Wainwright
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#63 2006-03-24 4:19 am
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Re: Great song covers
jondaris wrote:
The Flaming Lips are the best band ever. It is so past time for a new album.
Nice call, April 4!
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#65 2006-03-24 7:09 am
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Re: Great song covers
fredges wrote:
DevoDoc wrote:
I'm also quite fond of The Soup Dragons' cover of The Rolling Stones' "I'm Free"
I'd give my port-ward kiwi for that song! iTMS doesn't have jack by the Soup Dragons! What the F?
You can get it at half.com for less than the price of an iTMS track. Well, not including shipping.
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. - Henri Poincaré
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#66 2006-03-24 9:11 am
Re: Great song covers
Joss Stone's cover of Grand Funk Railroad's "Some Kind of Wonderful"
Manfred Mann's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded By The Light". Never liked Bruce's version.
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