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Another strong shout…

Definitely better than the original. #controversial.

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Nowt controversial bout it. 100% true.

On the subject of Jimi Hendrix, it was only recently that I learnt that my favourite song of his was actually a cover:

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This was a good version too

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This is a fantastic cover , not many people can do an Etta james cover justice.

Originally posted by @Mangobean

This was a good version too

This is the best cover of a Hendrix song i’ve heard . it’s also features the best three guitarists on the planet IMHO.

https://youtu.be/JHHhfY4xgKY

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I would like to enjoy this gorgeous little number just before I die.

… and the song’s quite nice as well.

How could I forget one of my favourite covers? Possibly because I’ve never actually heard the original. Here we have the late, great James Carr singing To Love Somebody, a song written by the Brothers Gibb so, I would assume, originally recorded by them as well.

One of the great soul voices, as this and so many other of his songs attest. However, James was afflicted by severe stage fright and found it almost impossible to perform live. He did record a fair number of records, but his career never really took off.

I can’t let this thread die. Here’s a cover I hadn’t heard for years; an obscure Bob Dylan song is given the Brit-reggae treatment to great effect by Matumbi (probably best know for the theme tune to Empire Road).

One other thing - the original may not be among the Zim’s best-known works, but I’ll give yo uplenty of six to five that Lord Pap of Pap Towers will recognise it in milliseconds.

That the trouble getting here late Bletch…I was going to post the exact same link even down to the story of having been at The Brook to catch one of Arthur Lee’s final gigs. So to make up for it here’s something, for some sacrelege for others a band paying homage…

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I enjoyed that - a subtle reworking, and I like the way they eschewed the hook line that marks out the original so strongly.

Well lifeintheslowlane, we must have been at the same gig. I mentioned above that the details are sketchy because in my mind it was only months before he died, but I googled for the Brook gig, and it seemed to suggest it was a few years before he died.

The Calexico cover of LWTA is interesting, and as you say as a nod in the direction of Joy Division and Ian Curtis, that’s fair enough, but I think that song might just be left as is. I really love the Calexico cover of Alone again, or… Very special.

What are you memories of the Arthur Lee gig? Do you remember the year? I remember him opening and appearing a little distant/drunk and then got right into it. Then again it might have been that when he opened I was completly sober, and by the end was a little tipsy/hammered. I’ve had a few good nights in The Brook, but that was right up there.

We were definitely at the same Brook gig Bletch…I think it must have been around 2002-2003 shortly before he recorded the “Forever Changes Concert” at The Festival Hall in 2003.

All I remember of the gig was the slow start but just really impressed with Arthur’s voice…as good and as strong as it ever was. I thought the whole gig was sensational but I, being a late teenager in the summer of love, was high on the nostalgia trip at the time :laughing:

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A couple of points 'slowlane. Fowllyd of this parish was at the RFH concert. So that’s an amazingly high percentage of papswebbers that saw a relatively obscure, but incredibly influential individual perform.

Secondly, if you’re ever having a rough day, checkout the link in this thread to You set the Scene - recorded on Jools Holland.

Wonderful.

Originally posted by @saintbletch

A couple of points 'slowlane. Fowllyd of this parish was at the RFH concert. So that’s an amazingly high percentage of papswebbers that saw a relatively obscure, but incredibly influential individual perform. Secondly, if you’re ever having a rough day, checkout the link in this thread to You set the Scene - recorded on Jools Holland. Wonderful.

Thanks for drawing my attention to “You set the Scene”…just perfect. I think “Fowllyd” and I must be of the same vintage.

Oddly, I had very little knowledge of Love’s music prior to seeing them at the RFH; A friend of mine suggested that a gourp of us go to the concert (back then I was part of a gang of four who used to attend such events on a semi-regular basis. None of the four of us lives in London any more). Anyway, the show was superb, and Bletch’s link to the Later performance is much appreciated.

I would have been seven years old in the summer of love (or indeed of Love), which makes in between you and Bletch I think.

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Originally posted by @Fowllyd

Oddly, I had very little knowledge of Love’s music prior to seeing them at the RFH; A friend of mine suggested that a gourp of us go to the concert (back then I was part of a gang of four who used to attend such events on a semi-regular basis. None of the four of us lives in London any more). Anyway, the show was superb, and Bletch’s link to the Later performance is much appreciated.

I would have been seven years old in the summer of love (or indeed of Love), which makes in between you and Bletch I think.

Yep looks like I have just over 10 years on you…the first 10 were good, you missed a lot. :wink:

Another one getting some airtime on 6music. Can’t quite make my mind up on this one, thoughts gang?

^^^ Sorry don’t know the original so not offended by it :wink:

A few I like but don’t have the time to attach videos:

Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson

Changes - 2pac

Whole Lotta love - Goldbug

Cold as Ice - MOP

Baker Street - Foo Fighters

Voodoo People - Pendulum

Professional Widow - Armand Van Helden

Koochy - Armand Van Helden

It’s like that - Jason Nevin’s remix

I suppose it’s where you draw the line with sampling and covers.

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