Swansea_Saint Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 I detest Blondie's version of 'The Tide is High'. A rock-steady classic by the Paragons from the early 70s, which Debbie and her chums took and made into an anodyne slice of faux-reggae, a common thing in the early 80s. The worst thing is that so many people assume that Blondie's version is the original. Jimmy Summerville's version of 'Don't Leave Me This Way'. The original (by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes) oozes soul and hurt; Jimmy put a bouncy, up-tempo beat on it and somehow contrived to make it sound like a cheerful little ditty. It's a song about having your heart torn into shreds, for god's sake. On the subject, Simply Red did a horrible cover of anther Harold Melvin song, 'If You Don't Know Me By Now'. As Bexy said above, UB40 have made a career out of crap covers, though in truth I never cared for their earlier, original stuff too much either. Just didn't like Ali Campbell's voice. On the other side of things, I remember hearing Bread's original 'Anything I Own' and thinking how drippy it sounded compared to Ken Boothe's cover, which I'd heard first. Soft Cell's version of 'Tainted Love' is great; can't remember who the original is by, but it's a good song too. Towards the end of his life, Johnny Cash recorded a load of stuff with Rick Rubin, most of it covers. Some, like 'One', are brilliant - and I hate U2 with a passion. Others are awful. So it goes. Just had a listen to that song - fantastic, never heard it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 McFly covering a Town Called Malice, hang your heads in shame you bulbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dronskisaint Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 Thats fair enough, but some covers do actually add to the song. Case in point, the beautiful south did basically a straight cover of everybodys talking about me by nilsson, but with a venom that fundamentally changed the tone and meaning without altering it musically. What I meant about the soft cell one was the chord change during the "take your hands off me...." chorus, where the cover reversed the chords from the original. That was a shame because apart from that I really liked the cover version. And I'm surprised none of our older members has mentioned sid vicious belting out My Way yet...... I'm old but Sid's version deserves a place on the other thread...brilliantly different and absolutely right for him and the Pistols Still think he was a c*ck though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 Any song done by that Cascada bint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjsaint Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 Bad covers seem to be compulsory for all the no-talents on X Factor and Poop Idol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 (edited) This is one of the most soulful songs I've ever heard [video=youtube;gzIAiyxS-nk] And despite having a nice arse, she goes and completely ruins it. Just compare the 2 vocals, they are a million miles apart......... Another ****ing joke is Sting's version of I Shall Be Released..........Richard Manuel would have turned in his grave after that one. Edited 26 July, 2011 by Lord Duckhunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-Armstrong Posted 26 July, 2011 Author Share Posted 26 July, 2011 I agree with this guy. He is also very funny in his explanation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIV0ZlkJMTw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durleyfos Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 J Lo's new song has a sample of 'The Lambada' running through it. It is beyond awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefunkygibbons Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 Scissor sisters should have been publically executed for what they did to Comfortably Numb. That was the one that came to my mind first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA_c1o5Y95o This. Truly f**king sh*t. What do All Saints know about friends dying of smack overdoses ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 The George Michael cover of True Faith by New Order that came out for Comic Relief was horrific I am a big, big New Order fan, but I think what George Michael did here was quite interesting. First time I have heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKhPHzPIoU Jesus............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 I'm old but Sid's version deserves a place on the other thread...brilliantly different and absolutely right for him and the Pistols Still think he was a c*ck though I happen to agree, and I'm also probably the only person on here that thinks the great rock and roll swindle was a terrific film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 Anything by the Dickies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Site Agent Posted 28 July, 2011 Share Posted 28 July, 2011 What's race got to do with it? Find a genre of non-classical contemporary music that's exclusively white in origins; I'll go listen to that... Country and Western? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Site Agent Posted 28 July, 2011 Share Posted 28 July, 2011 Any lads you see that wear tracksuits, Nike trainers, speak with a Jamaican accent and generally are chavvy little c*nts all listen to rap music. When Madness first started out, they used to have a lot of skinheads and National Front at their gigs as they assumed that the image Madness had was right wing. They were a group with a Ska/Jamaican beat background and their first record was about Prince Buster. It's wrong and dangerous to generalise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 28 July, 2011 Share Posted 28 July, 2011 Everything in the charts these days is absolute f*cking sh*t. It's mainly black artists singing sh*t rap or r&b. It then leads to white lads listening to it, speaking with a Jamaican accent and suddenly thinking they're hard. If they want to be black they can move to Africa. Another vile EDL racist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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