Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better
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Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better
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the sexiest song ever written!Originally Posted by mpfunk
I really enjoy this cover.
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[QUOTE=mpfunk;40830]Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better
Nice call, MP, that's your second excellent cover in the thread.
PLesa excuse the tpyos.
Ok, you can boo me for picking the most obvious and cliched response for this topic, but I'm doing it anyway.
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Buckley just owns this thing. You hear his version and completely forget that it's a Cohen song. In fact, all the covers on Grace are outstanding.
(It should also be noted that I tend to avoid listening to this song because it usually brings me to tears)
I'll throw this one out there since I'm listening to the album as we speak and think it is a nice cover:
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Conor Oberst sings Dylan's part on the album, but I couldn't find a clip with him in it. There was one with Ben Gibbard filling in for him, but the sound quality was horrible.
And of course my favorite artist collides with my father's favorite:
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Seeing a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac would be cooler than a Deadhead one.
holy crap! you are insanely hot!
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Wasn't this song in Shrek? It is in some cartoon, but I can't remember which one.Ok, you can boo me for picking the most obvious and cliched response for this topic, but I'm doing it anyway.
Buckley just owns this thing. You hear his version and completely forget that it's a Cohen song. In fact, all the covers on Grace are outstanding.
Hey, I just realized that it is called Spaceland because that is the stage at Spaceland in LA. duh.I'll throw this one out there since I'm listening to the album as we speak and think it is a nice cover:
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Tricky – Black Steel (covering Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos)
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The Yorke cover of after the gold rush is pretty good. I was at that concert (and once I get to say that instead of Triplet; amazing) and it was pretty good. I try to get to all the bridge school concerts; they are almost always good shows.
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PLesa excuse the tpyos.
The whole notion of covers is very interesting. I once read somebody analyze American culture. They said that in American culture we are always looking for the next new thing. Once something is old, we discard it. IN other cultures, they tend to try to perfect the old thing; they communicate with the past by learning what was unique, what was essential, about the thing the ancestors did and try to improve on it, but also to capture it again. So you do an old song again, and again, or a traditional dance over and over. I suppose covers, if you remove the crass attempts at simply selling records (and yes, as a matter of fact, I was thinking of the Ataris as an example here), are a version of trying to get the thing right, of trying to communicate across generational lines. So a new artist takes what another gnereation has done, and tries to find the the essence, or the groove, or the idea in the art and express it again.
So a great cover is likely to either take the essence and re-interpret it, without losing it, or to re-create it almost exactly being successful only if it captures the same emotion, or the same idea, as the original.
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Sheryl Crow did the worst cover ever when she bastardized Sweet Child O' Mine.
Anyone who likes her version is a FLAMING homo.
Maybe. I think it undermines the point a little, but I suppose if you are of a certain age they say different things.
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I think Sheryl Crows version is not bad. It is a different feel but I guess I prefer to listen to her than a pudgy sour ball with a nappy on his head. It would have been nice to have some guitar work instead of the mighty Wurlitzer solo in the middle of the song, however.
I am not ashamed to say this because, although I can't recall why, I know you have already inducted me into the 'flaming' club before.
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you went to a radiohead concert? serious?
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Buckley's cover of Hallelujah is awesome. That song is amazing.
I also think Cash's version of Hurt is incredible as well.
I've posted this before but I love this cover:
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As far as punk covers, I don't think any of them can be taken seriously. That said, there's a place in my heart for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. I always liked their cover of One Tin Soldier.
Bruddah Iz did this one well:
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And I liked the arrangement here by Johansen:
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"Nobody listens to Turtle."-Turtle
If you wanna talk about bad covers...
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that gets worse every time i hear it.
"I don't know the origin of said bitch booming."-Art Vandelay
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Not exactly, it was a bridge school benefit concert which Neil Young puts on every year at the Shoreline amphitheater.
Although I should probably be offended byt this question, I refuse to be and will simply say that I am pleased to not only have been to a good concert triplet didn't even know about but also to be able to teach Mr. Popular Culture about the Bridge School Benefit concerts. IF you have never been you should try to come up this year and I'll go with you. Search on the web, you will see Brother Neil (almost) always has an eclectic lineup that brings interesting folks together.
When you're here you can FINALLY buy me the streak dinner you promised me at Vic Stewarts.
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I can't find a good link to video or audio for it, but Quicksand covering "How Soon is Now" by The Smiths.
Ouch. Boylenover wins, hands down. That is so horrible it defies description. What was she thinking? People pay MONEY to see that? If vegas is ever burned like Sodom and Gomorrah it will be because of something like this, not all of its other vices.
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People wait in line and throw down a lot of money for that.
"Nobody listens to Turtle."-Turtle
Yet another argument for the MWC hoops tournament to never be held in Vegas.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader
Those people are the masses that are asses.
I must stop because in talking about Celine Dion I am like MpFunk talking about the Beatles; irrational and unreasonable.
PLesa excuse the tpyos.
This is assuming there is anything rational or reasonable about Celine Dion.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader
Landslide by the Smashing Pumpkins. I'll take Billy Corgan's voice over Stevie Nicks any day.
Also, Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson. Better than Elvis. Better than the Pet Shop Boys.
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ha, sorry if my question read poorly. I actually was expressing surprise that you went to a radiohead concert specifically, not that you went to a concert, in general. In fact, I am not surprised at all that you would go to a Neil Young show. I had never really heard you express much interest either way in radiohead, so that is why I was surprised.
I had never heard of Bridge School Benefit shows. Sounds cool.
ps we need to plan the Vic's trip on a weekend that bluegoose is going to be out of town. Sounds like these days, he will show up with Steel and they will both be hungry from playing volleyball. I can't afford that many steaks.
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The Dixie Chix version of landslide is pretty good as well.
James Taylor's versions of Everyday (Buddy Holly) and Up On the Roof are both solid covers. He's done several over the years tat I enjoy.
I've seen Brad Paisley in concert twice do Walk of Life by Dire Straights and thats a pretty good version as well.
Not surprisingly, Oasis has a number of Beatles covers, and I like those.
"They're good. They've always been good" - David Shaw.
Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Didn't Brenda Lee originate that one? Man I can't stand Brenda Lee.
I didn't even realize Manfield Mann's Blinded by the Light was a remake until last week, but it's ten thousand times better than the original.
I prefer Garth's Shameless to Billy's.
Whitney's rendition of I Will Always Love You rivals the original.
UB40 improved on Neil Diamond's Red Red Wine, but then that's not saying much.
This one seems to me like the Don Henley song. Just as it seems absurd for the Ataris to try to sing that you can never look back, Natalie and company failed to convey the sense of retrospect and the struggle to come to terms with age that makes the original so powerful.
Babs, babs, babs. nothing is 10,000 times better than Bruce. Really. Nothing. But, to be truthful, Mannie Mann and his band do a fine job and I think it is an excellent cover.
Now whitney's version (sung pre-crack) not only rivals the original, it kills the original.
PLesa excuse the tpyos.
You are spot on. Stevie knew what she had written and sang about it with true feeling. Natalie whiny Maines misses the whole point of the song, and her phrasing is all wrong.
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