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Post by shadowplay » Mon Mar 06, 2017 6:08 am

Stelvio Cipriani - Notte Delle Streghe almost like a long lost Broadcast instrumental and off a very good is pricey library record. The parentage isn't exactly dead obvious like his unbuttoned to the waist satin shirt ramraid on the same tune Percussion Gun, but after extensive lab testing...

cover/rip off of...

Iron Butterfly - In Gadda Vida

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Post by shadowplay » Wed May 10, 2017 3:38 am

Billie Ray Martin & Spooky - Persuasion Billie bravely climbed over the 'KEEP OUT DANGER OF DEATH' signs. Very much of its time and down the street marked Strange Cargo/Torch Song but still interesting.

I think herCabaret Voltaire coversare better but this is a still decent effort and turns 'the little biscuit tin to keep your panties in' refrain into a singalong. ???

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Post by shadowplay » Thu May 11, 2017 2:38 am

The Woodbine & Ivy Band Pretty Fly Lullaby sort of school band rendition.

original from Night of The Hunter

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Post by shadowplay » Thu May 11, 2017 4:31 am

A.C. Marias - Time Was (Canned Heat Cover) Has some nonentity on lead guitar! ;) ;D

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Post by shadowplay » Fri May 12, 2017 1:28 am

I just went back to X-TG - Desertshore cover album. Now I consider Nico's Desertshore megalith of supernatural awe, a receptacle for some of the most amazing singing ever recorded and one of the greatest albums of all time and I LOVE Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey and Coil above all others but I approached it originally with trepidation. Anyway when it's good it's great, never as great but we are talking about an area surrounded by a thousand savage guard dogs and a thousand foot wall.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgG3EaOCh_c]Janitor of Lunacy[/url](with Anthony) and the original sung byNico of course.

The Falconer(with Marc Almond) and by Nico.

Afraid (with Sasha Grey)Much trepidation when I saw this, I couldn't give too fucks about her past but I was worried it was a novelty pick but this works with her voice (and she did great with Death In Vegas even if she was in Cosey apprentice mode). I love the song almost beyond reason, I've had this record for going on 40's years and I've never tired of it and I've even been known to sit down at the old Joanna and kill a knees up with me croaking through Afraid. Anyway the original master.


My Only Child (sung by Cosey Fanni Tutti) and the ice maidens original.

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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Sun Jun 25, 2017 3:04 am

shadowplay wrote:A.C. Marias - Time Was (Canned Heat Cover)
Both of these were great (although, typically, I think the Canned Heat version is still king).

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Post by shadowplay » Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:17 am

The Flowerpot Men - Walk On Gilded SplintersI guess many would regard this as uncoverable but I think it is a work of genius and it does contain genuine essence of Dr John and a heady measure of black cat bone.

Dr. John - I Walk On Guilded Splinters

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Post by countertext » Sun Jul 09, 2017 9:18 pm

shadowplay wrote:The Flowerpot Men - Walk On Gilded SplintersI guess many would regard this as uncoverable but I think it is a work of genius and it does contain genuine essence of Dr John and a heady measure of black cat bone.

Dr. John - I Walk On Guilded Splinters

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Growing up in southern Georgia I was first introduced to that song by Johnny Jenkins, and his 1970 version included a veritable who's who of southern musicians, not least of which was most of the Allman Brothers Band. Knowing this cover first meant that the spookiness of Dr. John's original really leapt out at me the first time I heard Gris-Gris. The difference in the songs, in my mind even 30 years later, is emblematic of the difference between Georgia's deep south and Louisiana's deep south.

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Post by shadowplay » Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:18 am

^^^

Yeah I know that version it's good. I'm a bit like you, I owned the Marsha Hunt version before I owned the Dr John one. Pretty sure I had the Flowerpot Men one before I had the DJ one. :D

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Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:46 am

One of the most played-out, overestimated tunes of all time, in my world, but this version puts a fresh spin on it....by going back the best part of a century.

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Post by shadowplay » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:25 am

Sometimes it's interesting to see the same song done by a few folk.

Rainy Day ‎– I'll Keep It With Mine good version and worth hunting down the seven if you don't have it. It features Sussana Hoffs and David Roeback of The Dream Syndicate and later Opal and Mazzy Star.

Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine Nico still at the chrysalis stage IMO and almost friendly sounding...which is a shame!

Fairport Convention - I'll Keep It With Mine

There's other versions I am sure but these are the ones I know off the top of my head.

and the the first version I ever heard which I'm not too bothered about really.

Judy Collins - I'll Keep It With Mine

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Post by shadowplay » Mon Jul 31, 2017 10:31 am

Denial - California Dreaming belting old Austrailian minimal wave seven

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Mon Aug 07, 2017 4:41 am

The Big Eyes Family Players - Song For Thirza much prettier and less thistly is probably the way to go with this.

Lal Waterson - Song For Thirza (1971 Demo) :-*

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