The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by sammynb » Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:36 am

shadowplay wrote:^^^

What's the deal with the singles club? I know some preorders are getting ridiculously long and delayed but you've received nothing, not even a 'sorry'?

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Sweet fuck all. I've emailed (no reply) and FB messaged them (half arsed reply) and it appears things have lapsed for the last 9 months with them not releasing a singles club release.
Allegedly things are happening again soon, so I'll give them until the end of the Q1 in 2017 and if there is still nothing I'll ask for a refund.
I'm happy to wait, just not to stiffed.
Also my mate who lives in Brisbane died suddenly of a heart attack last month, so I cannot even send the "boys" around!

Now the Too Pure singles club in London is fucking awesome and I highly recommend it to any and everyone.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Thu Dec 01, 2016 4:21 am

^^^

He maybe needs to add a 'seemed' or a 'to me', which would make it fair enough. Severed Heads, Scattered Order, SPK and the great M Squared label all showed Aus with it best feet pointing forward.

I do think it's an important record (especially as a reflection of overt pop classicism) but that big statement is surely only valid from a personal point of observation or if you'd been a particularly excitable NME writer in 1985.

I think a lot of folk seem to forget or not even know that Sloblands came out before Upside Down and if anything it's more like records being made a few years down the line.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Tue Dec 27, 2016 5:21 am

I just got the new Us and Them 10' on Fruits De Mer and within it contains some really rather lovely covers and Roud interpretations.

Us and Them - Winter Winds

Sandy Denny - Winter Winds
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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Thu Jan 05, 2017 4:21 am

Lake Ruth - Tam Lin totally fantastic baroque psychedelic cover of the Fairport Convention's imagining of the original Child Ballad.

Fairport Convention - Tam Lin

If you don't know Lake Ruth check them out I really liked their recent album Actual Entity and am totality gaga for the The Inconsolable Jean​-​Claude seven. A must have purchse if you have found yourself purchasing records like The Left Outsides

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by Haddock » Thu Jan 05, 2017 4:54 am

I'm surprising myself to post a link to some disco but Pink's Floyd "Echoes" cover by Fireball FC is really nice.
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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:15 am

Haddock wrote:I'm surprising myself to post a link to some disco but Pink's Floyd "Echoes" cover by Fireball FC is really nice.
Have you ever heard Rosebud? They did a whole album of cosmic disco Pink Floyd covers in 1977 called Discoballs (A Tribute To Pink Floyd) . I only bought this due to it being no money, having a tacky sleeve and pure curiosity.

Rosebud- Interstellar Overdrive Sounds best pitched down a bit IMO and features folk from Magma and Space (or the same person who was in both).

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:52 am

Villa Nah - Spy nice re-appropriation from Finland's finest synth poppers

Spy vs Spy (C64 music)

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:41 am

Not so much a cover as the same carol tackled by a diverse range of artists from full acapella folk interpretations, to tense electronic brooding spread over a 50 year plus period

Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold - Seven Virgins

Sandy Denny - Seven Virgins (The Leaves of Life)

Eyeless in Gaza - The Leaves of Life / Seven Virgins

The Watersons - Seven Virgins (The Leaves of Life)

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:51 am

June Tabor - All Tomorrow's Parties - hadn't noticed the similarity between JT's voice and Nico's before, but I fancy I can hear it in old OSG favourite The Scarecrow too.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:12 am

Two T-rex covers by the same group.

The Fast Set - Children of the Revolution seven inch bee side on Axis (4AD precursor)

The Fast Set - The King of the Rumbling Spires from the Some Bizarre album.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by dezb1 » Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:03 am

Yet another Bob Dylan cover:

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by furtherpale » Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:50 pm

Fuel covering Elton John's "Daniel"

I'm not even a Fuel fan, but this stills makes my eyes water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKIMk9yOEHQ
Sorry - I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am...

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