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Covers
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:58 pm
by Wink Wink
Well you will all of heard Sherly Crows cover of 'The First Cut Is The Deepest' which has also been done by Cat Stevens & Rod Stewart but does any one know which song has had the most covers done?
Has anyone got a fav cover or some real shockers?
I heard a cover of a song the other day & the performer had totally murdered it!! It was so bad I've forgotten what the song was!
Quite like Sherly's & Rod's versions of 'First Cut...' but not so sure about Cat's!
Re: Covers
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:56 pm
by steve56
pp arnold had the hit with cut in 67 around the spring time,i heard cheryls version today not bad.
Re: Covers
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:03 pm
by steve56
my way has been covered the most im sure,there was a omnibus feature on it some time ago.
Re: Covers
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:35 pm
by woodgnome
"fly me to the moon" by blossom dearie.
a slice of grade 'a' sinatra swing, remodelled into a meltingly tremulous torch song. the sort of radical yet unpretentious reworking that justifies doing a cover job in the first place.
unlike most efforts, which tend to be a product either of artistic egotism, marketing cynicism, or a complete lack of imagination.
Re: Covers
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:11 pm
by Guilbert
Actually it is 'Yesterday' (Beatles/McCartney) that has had the most recordings of any song.
And Cat Stevens wrote 'The first cut is the depest'.
Guilbert
Re: Covers
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:16 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
For mine it would either be
Stairway to Heaven or
Georgia
Just a guess mind you
cheers
B....OZ
Re: Covers
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 2:09 am
by mart
I have heard that "Without You" originally sung by Nilsson(1972), written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans (half of Badfinger) was one of the most covered.
Mart
Re: Covers
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 3:26 am
by Pervert
And a damned fine tune it was too before loopy Mariah Carey got her larynx round it.
For more unusual cover versions, try listening to the slowed down Aztec Camera version of Van Halen's Jump, Deacon Blue's take on Teardrop Explode's Trampoline, or some of the recent various artistes' tribute to everyone's favourite "music to slash your wrists to" wordsmith Leonard Cohen.
Rod-awful
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:04 am
by The Last Word
Come to think of it, R. Stewart himself seems to have spent a large part of his career cheerfully garotting innocent songs using nothing but his vocal cords. Highlights include a version of Ruby Tuesday too awful for words and a version of Shotgun Wedding that put a shotgun firmly in mind.
The best cover I've heard is Ring of Fire by Wall of Voodoo.
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