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Re: (TV) another Verlaine cover..and a new thread???

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Subject: Re: (TV) another Verlaine cover..and a new thread???
From: "maxbiz" <maxbiz@email.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:13:04 -0600
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Hold back the night was a Tramps original......yeah the
Tramps of "disco inferno" fame! (gasp)

Great cover though!
(also love GPs "soul shoes")

Mark







-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Powell <nick@powelln.freeserve.co.uk>
To: tv@obbard.com <tv@obbard.com>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) another Verlaine cover..and a new thread???


>Stand corrected on Soul Shoes--thought it was a cover. Remembered another
GP
>& The Rumour favorite cover though which was Hold Back The Night--can't
>remember who dod the original though.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: SCOTT ALDRICH <scott.aldrich@worldnet.att.net>
>To: <tv@obbard.com>
>Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 8:08 PM
>Subject: Re: (TV) another Verlaine cover..and a new thread???
>
>
>> Great list but Soul Shoes is an original. Graham Parker did a great cover
>of
>> "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5, though, calling it, "I Want You Back
>> (Again)", it was the B-side to "Mercury Poisoning", I think, on Stiff.
>Also
>> on the live promo-LP "Live at the Marble Arch" he does a killer "Kansas
>> City" and "Chain Of Fools". I guess you could call Dave
Edmunds/Rockpile's
>> "Crawling From The Wreckage" a cover( and a great one), but since Parker
>> never officially recorded it, it stands as an original, since Dave's
>> repertoire pretty much consists of other people's tunes.
>> Also just thought of a great one: Alex Chilton doing "Femme Fatale" on
>"Big
>> Star/Third/Sister Lovers" with Steve Cropper on guitar. Beautiful and
>weird.
>> Also on that record he does a rocking cover of "Till The End Of The Day",
>by
>> the Kinks, though it's more of a straight cover. Another great
>> collaboration/cover is George Jones doing "StrangerIn The House" with
>Elvis
>> Costello. Very appropriate honky-tonk sound. Interestingly enough, on
>> Elvis's own version of his song (released as a promo-only single with the
>> first 50,000 pressings of This Year's Model in the UK), he and the
>> Attractions do a slow, funky version of the Damned's "Neat,Neat,Neat" on
>the
>> B-side, an oddity indeed, and well worth seeking out. It's a live version
>> with saxophone! Pretty cool. Also from the same year(78) Elvis and
Richard
>> Hell performed "You Gotta Lose" and "Shattered" together at CBGB's. If
>> that's not a great homage to the Stones I don't know what is.
>> Elvis plays rhythm guitar to "Shattered" like "Radio, Radio"(think his
>> appearance on SNL that year).
>> Scott
>>
>> ----------
>> >From: "Nick Powell" <nick@powelln.freeserve.co.uk>
>> >To: <tv@obbard.com>
>> >Subject: Re: (TV) another Verlaine cover..and a new thread???
>> >Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2000, 12:19 PM
>> >
>>
>> > Hope I'm not too late--I love covers.
>> >
>> > I've said before on the list I reckon the best cover version ever put
on
>> > vinyl
>> > is Husker Du doing 8 Miles High.
>> > In my my view Husker Du were kings of covers as I'd also include(not
all
>put
>> > on vinyl/cd etc)
>> > by them, Sunshine Superman, Love Is All Around(Rhoda theme tune),
>Blitzkrieg
>> > Bop, Helter Skelter  and Daytripper(and if they can make me like a
>couple of
>> > Beatles songs then that's an achievement--believe me!).
>> >
>> > I love loads of others but have to cut it down a bit.
>> >
>> > Stiff Little Fingers  Johnny Was( this band told me more about the
>troubles
>> > in Northern Ireland than any politician).
>> >
>> > Billy Bragg  Which Side Are You On( he did adapt it a bit) and World
>Turned
>> > Upside Down( the 2 songs most likely to bring me close to tears--they
>> > immediately bring back memories of the mid-eighties miners strike in
>Britain
>> > and that fu*king woman Thatcher).
>> > Lemonheads   Amazing Grace
>> > Naked Raygun   Love Battery
>> > Dead Kennedys   Viva Las Vegas
>> > Residents   Satisfaction
>> > Television   Psychotic Reaction/Fire Engine
>> > Capitol Punishment  In Dreams( my award for best destruction of a
>song--in a
>> > good way)
>> > Down By Law   500 Miles( the slight change to the lyrics makes it
really
>> > funny)
>> > Chris Farlowe  Out Of Time
>> > Screeching Weasel  I Can See Clearly Now
>> > Love Sculpture   Sabre Dance
>> > Frankie Goes To Hollywood   War(whatever you thought of them--they got
>an
>> > anti-war song to #1 in the charts for weeks).
>> > Nils Lofgren  Goin Back
>> > Graham Parker & The Rumour  Soul Shoes
>> >
>> > I could go on but..................
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: <Adoinel73@aol.com>
>> > To: <tv@obbard.com>
>> > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 1:33 AM
>> > Subject: (TV) another Verlaine cover..and a new thread???
>> >
>> >
>> >> Just got set Three on the Maria Mckee tree list today and it includes
>> > several
>> >> covers of everyone from John Cale to old Gospel hymns.   One song that
>I
>> > was
>> >> pleased to hear her do was Patti Smiths and Verlaines song Break It Up
>off
>> >> Horses.
>> >>
>> >> So much talk on the list about Another Girl Another Planet that it
>> > reminded
>> >> me of a great cover that the Replacements did of it.  In an attempt to
>> >> perhaps start a new thread, what are peoples favorite cover
versions???
>> >> off the top of my head here are some of mine.
>> >>
>> >> Big Star's Ballad of El Goodo....Vanessa Paradis
>> >> Patti Smith's Free Money.....Maria Mckee
>> >> Dylans Knockin On Heavens Door....Television
>> >> Beatles Across The Universe.....Fiona Apple
>> >> Bowie's Ziggy Stardust....Nina Hagen
>> >> Television's Little Johnny Jewell.....Siouxsie and Banshees
>> >> Bee Gees Holiday....Claudine Longet
>> >> Kinks I'm Not Like Everybody Else....Boss Hog
>> >> Jim Carroll's It's Too Late.....Seven Year Bitch
>> >> Psycho(who's song is this??)....Elvis Costello
>> >>
>> >> Jeremy US
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