Tag: Cover version
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Covers covers covers
Via Ian Fondue posting the video of Art vs Science’s fascinating psych/funk version of Enter Sandman by the (below) which mixes vocoder with great psych guitar, I started listening to Triple J’s Like A Version, and found this fascinating trip hop cover version of Bitter Sweet Symphony by E^ST above…with a wonderful surprise at the…
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Save a Prayer for Number 1
There’s been a campaign to get Eagles of Death Metal’s Duran Duran cover to UK number 1 after the events of the Bataclan in Paris, and it looks like it will succeed. I’m not a big fan of EODM but I love ‘Save A Prayer’, I love that cover and love Duran even more –…
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Working In a Coalmine – RIP Allen Toussaint
Meant to post this yesterday, sad to hear the death of Allen Toussaint, whose history from The Meters, Glen Campbell’s best moment ‘Southern Nights’ to the infamous Lee Dorsey track ‘Working In A Coalmine’ pervades music history until today. Hip-hop as Questlove pointed out would be a lot poorer without ‘Get Out Of My Life…
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Rounds – Big Love (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Big Love by Rounds One of the highlights of the year so far is seeing Fleetwood Mac in concert at last. Surprisingly my big gig moment of 2015 out of all the gigs I’ve been to is the aforementioned doing a timely long psychedelic jam version of Gold Dust Woman. Sadly Kirk who went with…
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RIP Erroll Brown
An ever-present force in the 1970’s, redeemed by Full Monty, but way before that I always loved You Sexy Thing. But not many know their first record was on Apple, a reggae cover of Give Peace A Chance that John Lennon liked. Sadly Erroll Brown died of cancer yesterday. On the eve of the election,…
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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…