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Post by Steve1956 » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:37 pm

https://youtu.be/momdVmE47WY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If there has been a better cover than this it must be a cracker.a masterpiece from Guy Garvey.

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Re: Covers.

Post by tim_noone » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:41 pm

"Sound of silence" Disturbed....end of thred. :D
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Re: Covers

Post by Pimlico_Claret » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:46 pm

Steve1956 wrote:https://youtu.be/momdVmE47WY
If there has been a better cover than this it must be a cracker.a masterpiece from Guy Garvey.
It's bloody awful, and I'm a big Elbow fan.
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Re: Covers

Post by JohnDearyMe » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:49 pm

Decent effort but doesn't come close to Glen Campbell's masterpiece for me
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Re: Covers

Post by Pimlico_Claret » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:51 pm

JohnDearyMe wrote:Decent effort but doesn't come close to Glen Campbell's masterpiece for me
Million miles away

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Re: Covers

Post by theroyaldyche » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:51 pm

More of a duvet man
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Re: Covers

Post by JohnDearyMe » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:54 pm

Pimlico_Claret wrote:Million miles away
Not sure why any artist would cover that song in the first place. Cannot imagine it ever being bettered
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Re: Covers

Post by LeadBelly » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:55 pm

Just to prove musical tastes vary hugely- I thought that Garvey effort was unimpressive. I say that as someone who got, and enjoyed, the first four Elbow albums 2001- 2008.

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Re: Covers

Post by RingoMcCartney » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:59 pm

This is when elbow do covers well.


https://youtu.be/zSQDR1yF3uQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Covers

Post by RingoMcCartney » Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:02 am

Drove past the Corner Pin, in Rammy (no longer a pub) recently.

The place of elbows 1st ever gig.

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Re: Covers

Post by ElectroClaret » Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:09 am

Campbell's song. (Courtesy of Jimmy Webb)

No one else's.
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Re: Covers

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:23 am

Covers aren't usually better than the original, but here's one.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fyf1jcrnpc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Covers

Post by thatdberight » Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:30 am

ElectroClaret wrote:Campbell's song. (Courtesy of Jimmy Webb)

No one else's.
No. As wonderful as Campbell's version is, it's best sung by Webb himself. Webb's more ragged voice only serves to amplify the beauty of the greatest popular song ever written.

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Re: Covers

Post by The Enclosure » Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:53 am

That is awful. Truly awful.

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Post by BFCmaj » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:40 am

thatdberight wrote:No. As wonderful as Campbell's version is, it's best sung by Webb himself. Webb's more ragged voice only serves to amplify the beauty of the greatest popular song ever written.
Webb’s version is a cover of Campbell’s version of Webb’s song! :)

The Elbow version is pretty ropey though to be fair. The original recording by Campbell is amazing and takes me to Kansas and those long straight roads in the middle of nowhere that you associate with that part of the US whereas the Elbow version sounds like something cobbled together on a Friday morning as a last minute idea of what to play when invited to do something for the Radio 2 Breakfast Show. It’s a pretty bog standard cover of a song with no thought or feeling put into it.

Has anyone seen this version of Stairway to Heaven that has Robert Plant welling up by the way? Not my favourite cover by the way but it’s pretty impressive.
https://youtu.be/LFxOaDeJmXk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Covers

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:07 am

Well I liked it.:(
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Re: Covers

Post by MACCA » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:24 am

Tog 15 out of the cupboard and on standby, don't think it will be long now.

Oh...
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Re: Covers

Post by fatboy47 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:31 am

Dreadful.

May as well get the Wurzels to cover it next.

It's about the mid-west, not Bury Market ffs.
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Re: Covers

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:49 am

What's Bury market got to do with it?
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Post by bobinho » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:02 am

I think there will be some just creaming over this because A) it’s elbow, and B) it was done live on the “Chris Evans with tits” breakfast show.

My own observation being that they are BOTH a little pretentious.

Hundreds and hundreds of better covers out there. I’m off to look for some links on the yootoob.

Here’s one that blows elbows effort right out the water.
https://youtu.be/zyv16mZakVE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You’re welcome...
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Re: Covers

Post by harryharryharry » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:03 am

BFCmaj wrote:Webb’s version is a cover of Campbell’s version of Webb’s song! :)
Not really : since the very first recording, albeit never released, was Webb's demo sent to Campbell of a song that wasn't finished yet as it was a verse short. It never has been finished...

Webb also takes some of Campbell's versions back to how they were intended. Not so much this one but he's pretty down on how 'Galveston' was arranged for example.
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Re: Covers

Post by tim_noone » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:12 am

harryharryharry wrote:Not really : since the very first recording, albeit never released, was Webb's demo sent to Campbell of a song that wasn't finished yet as it was a verse short. It never has been finished...

Webb also takes some of Campbell's versions back to how they were intended. Not so much this one but he's pretty down on how 'Galveston' was arranged for example.
Very knowledgeable Hampstead as always. :D

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Re: Covers

Post by Swizzlestick » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:18 am

Superior covers:

Everything But the Girl - I Don’t Want to Talk About It
Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Faith No More - Easy
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall

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Re: Covers

Post by harryharryharry » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:23 am

tim_noone wrote:Very knowledgeable Hampstead as always. :D
That's lost on me but, yes. Or no, if it's a criticism.

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Re: Covers

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:28 am

Just spent the last 40 minutes with the wife in bed listening to Glen Campbell very relaxing 40 minutes, may i add :lol:

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Re: Covers

Post by BFCmaj » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:40 am

Steve1956 wrote:Just spent the last 40 minutes with the wife in bed listening to Glen Campbell very relaxing 40 minutes, may add :lol:
I always send my wife upstairs to bed as well when I want to listen to my music.
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Re: Covers

Post by houseboy » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:47 am

RingoMcCartney wrote:Drove past the Corner Pin, in Rammy (no longer a pub) recently.

The place of elbows 1st ever gig.
My mum and dad used to have that pub before I was born. Apparently dad used to have a bookies runner (illegal then) so that the guys didn’t have to leave the pub to put a bet on.

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Re: Covers

Post by Funkydrummer » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:49 am

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93S_l0qZrXA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Creedence Clearwater Revival. Say no more.

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Re: Covers

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:02 am

BFCmaj wrote:I always send my wife upstairs to bed as well when I want to listen to my music.
:lol: I live in a flat buddy.
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Re: Covers

Post by Claret Till I Die » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:16 am

https://youtu.be/ZdfQ-fruMdg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Close the thread

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Re: Covers

Post by beddie » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:17 am

Sorry every time I hear Elbow it makes me feel depressed, it's all the same,dour.

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Re: Covers

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:20 am

beddie wrote:Sorry every time I hear Elbow it makes me feel depressed, it's all the same,dour.
Go and see them live beddie,I can assure you it's anything but dour.

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Post by beddie » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:24 am

Fair enough Steve. The only problem is it'll take me twelve months to save up the ticket price. :)
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Re: Covers

Post by Silkyskills1 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:10 pm

Heard this yesterday morning on Radio 2(including the coughing). Some things are better just left alone to stand the test of time. Most things by Glen Campbell fit that category.
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Re: Covers

Post by claret2018 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 1:23 pm

If you think that bad, listen to the cover of The Sound of Silence mentioned above

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Re: Covers

Post by bobinho » Sat Oct 12, 2019 1:39 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Despite the bum notes from Cobain at around 2:48, quite superb, and IMHO, better than the original.

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Re: Covers

Post by todclaret » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:16 pm

this is an absolute gem



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmKGjy-Ct0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Covers

Post by PhiladelphiaChris » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:23 pm

How about David Hasselhoff covering the Jesus and Mary chain.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BlCKwpDX54" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Covers

Post by Tricky Trevor » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:59 pm

todclaret wrote:this is an absolute gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmKGjy-Ct0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Not bad but, cheating I know, this how the Boss and Bono rock it. Even better cos I was there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RHEj70vj0qQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Covers

Post by ClaretLoup » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:10 pm

Dave Rawlings & Gillian Welch do some ace covers.

Here is a Neil Young Toon. Very amusing into too.

https://youtu.be/iliCadW0s5Q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Covers

Post by icu81b4 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:13 pm

Gary Moore - Red House

https://youtu.be/pvu7Y91xUKM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just stunning, I remember seeing Gary at Preston Guild Hall, he only said two words the whole evening. "Hello Preston"

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Post by dougcollins » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:22 pm

It would have been only three words from me.
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Re: Covers

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:15 pm

One of my favourite covers of all time is Elvis Costello's rendition of "She"
https://youtu.be/O040xuq2FR0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Covers

Post by Darnhill Claret » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:43 pm

Ruby Tuesday, Melanie.

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Re: Covers

Post by EarbyClaret » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:04 pm

these threads come up from time to time on here, this is always the first song that comes to mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Stranglers - Walk On By

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Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:15 pm

icu81b4 wrote:Gary Moore - Red House

https://youtu.be/pvu7Y91xUKM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just stunning, I remember seeing Gary at Preston Guild Hall, he only said two words the whole evening. "Hello Preston"
Was it a instrumental gig? :D

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Re: Covers

Post by basil6345789 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:58 pm

Not a good version.
Is he a linesman for Stockport or Derby County?

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Post by THEWELLERNUT70 » Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:27 am

End of thread ;)

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Re: Covers

Post by jdrobbo » Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:07 am

Make You Feel my Love, Adele (Dillon)

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Re: Covers

Post by Silkyskills1 » Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:22 am

The Teddy Bears 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' was covered a number of years by the incomparable trio of Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. Three vocalists of the highest quality who enhanced an already classic song.

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