Songs that can't be covered

porkmarras · 10.19.2006, 02:18 PM

i was just listening to Sonic Youth covering to 'My New House' by The Fall and it just made me think of that.The Smiths,for one, are impossible to cover.

Savage Clone · 10.19.2006, 02:19 PM

Diamanda Galas' entire output.

screamingskull · 10.19.2006, 02:19 PM

i think sonic youth are pretty hard to cover, i have that confuse yr idols cd, and its pretty bad.

Cantankerous · 10.19.2006, 02:20 PM

bob dylan.

TheDom · 10.19.2006, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

bob dylan.

Not true. Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower is 127218741287108x better than Dylan's.

Cantankerous · 10.19.2006, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDom

Not true. Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower is 127218741287108x better than Dylan's.

i will say this: that is the ONLY good cover of a dylan song i've heard in my lifetime. and i agree. it's fucking fantastic.

strictlycommercial · 10.19.2006, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

bob dylan.

Mainly that's cause everyone trys it. Even the simplest of his songs require an incredible amount of dexterity & skill, most people who cover Dylan don't quite have either.
Some people can, most can't, probably best left alone.

Rob Instigator · 10.19.2006, 02:31 PM

the smiths are very hard to cover, you need someone wgho not only can play the guitar like marr, but someone who can sing the phtrasing like Morrissey. I can sing it like a motherfucker. me and the Moz are the same range. The karaoke bar does not ahve suffcient smiths or morrissey stuff!!!

I can sing anything Morrissey sang! bring it on!

Everyneurotic · 10.19.2006, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

bob dylan.

bullshit!

proof:

the byrds - mr tamborine man
fairport convention - si tu dois partir (dylan's if you gotta go, go now)
fairport convention - percy's song

just to name three.

porkmarras · 10.19.2006, 03:22 PM

Bullshit 2:
The Byrds - All i Really Want To Do.

Nailed even.

porkmarras · 10.19.2006, 03:23 PM

Thanks for refreshing my memory Everyneurotic.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 10.19.2006, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

i will say this: that is the ONLY good cover of a dylan song i've heard in my lifetime. and i agree. it's fucking fantastic.

Richie Havens- She Breaks Just Like a Woman

Glice · 10.19.2006, 03:48 PM

Johnny Cash's version of It ain't me babe is grand as well. Much better in a manly baritone rather than a whiny twats voice. Tijuana brass on a Dylan song? Why the begorrah not.

The Delgadoes and Prince spring to mind for impossible to cover bands. I think Erasure should be covered by not awful bands, they've written sooooo many brilliant songs that need a young and hip audience. Other than myself, obviously.

Glice · 10.19.2006, 03:49 PM

Oh, I neglected to mention - just how utterly pish is that Fall covers session? It's a rarity, and was probably quite fun at the time, but just so very bad.

Cantankerous · 10.19.2006, 03:51 PM

oh and i forgot about the johnny cash cover.

other than that, all of you, die.

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 10.19.2006, 03:54 PM

I think "My new house is sick."

Glice · 10.19.2006, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

oh and i forgot about the johnny cash cover.

other than that, all of you, die.

I do entirely agree with you on the fact that Dylan can't be covered though. Apart from Johnny 'the polisher' Cash, there's only so much polishing you can do before you realise that the turd is never becoming a diamond.

Savage Clone · 10.19.2006, 04:10 PM

Let me get you some bactine for that wicked burn.

Cantankerous · 10.19.2006, 04:11 PM

fuck off, i said.

Everyneurotic · 10.19.2006, 04:11 PM

dylan should have died a long time ago.

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