Category: Covers
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Mama Says Knock You Out
Well she does, she’s right there. Flula’s mum is ace in this LL Cool J cover, and phwoar accordions are so sexy. Not ironic, they are sexy, and Flula’s dad is rocking it right.
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Rainbow queen
OK people generally think the Rainbow (the classic British kids program) rave track was a mistake (I thought it was good, but then again I loved all the Toytown/Playground rave tracks), but just found these tracks from 2002 (?) from an album called Rainbow Rave Up! Yes always thought Rainbow was a bit camep, but…
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Do they know it’s Chapmastime?
Oh I LOVE this Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer’s take on THAT song, Band Aid ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas Time’ done live in Brighton last month. Love the altered lyrics about Bono and the end ‘Proceeds of this song will go towards trying to avoid Bob Geldof ever recording that thing again!’. Having gone through…
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Songs of freedom
Never knew that Joe Strummer’s Redemption Song was originally a duet with Johnny Cash? (The Strummer version is one of my favourite covers of all time). This version seems much more up, much more defiant and hopeful than the solo version. (thanks to Christopher Benedict for bringing this to my attention) Now finally released on…
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GWAR cover Pet Shop Boys & Jim Carroll
Just seen this – pure genius, GWAR cover West End Girls as part of AV Undercover and then seque into their version of Jim Carroll’s People Who Died as a salute to Oderus \m/
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Suzi Quatro – Warm Leatherette
Love this cover of Warm Leatherette by Suzi Quatro, apparently an outtake from 1980 it could have been recorded yesterday. It’s on the new Suzi Quatro box set, not sure I’d shell out £30 though just for this track, bought far too much music recently so on a moratorium on CD purchases…oh well. (via ben…