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Post by shadowplay » Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:04 am

Innerspace Orchestra - One Way Glass I'm just posting something on the Vanishing Twin album and thought it worth adding in this Manfred Mann cover by Cathy Lucas of Vanishing Twin/Orlando and Tom Furse...let's get One Direction on this....my favourite Horror.

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Post by shadowplay » Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:22 am

Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free Robert just ones in on the hollowed out turmoil of the original.

Chic - At Last I Am Free I was once at a funeral and they played this as the casket went through the curtains. I was both a hopeful and terribly sad moment as my friends mother who had caught her self up with a succession of spiteful and violent shit bags and a whole lot of depression and inner turbulence, went off to become ashes. He always remembered her playing this and it's a truly great tune.

Weirdly this just landed on my mat; Autarkic - At Last I Am free not as good as the Wyatt version but full marks for trying

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Post by PJazzmaster » Mon Nov 07, 2016 4:19 am

Peaches' take on Hannelore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQL9cNRvGo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Original from Claire Waldoff (almost 100 years old): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYkvm5V7Wk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by shadowplay » Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:56 pm

Coil - Who By Fire I remember reading that Leonard wasn't a fan of most of the big covers of his songs but that he really liked this.

Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire

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Post by eggwheat » Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:52 am

Hopefully no screeching covers of Hallelujah to come... Never liked the song originally to be honest.

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Post by shadowplay » Fri Nov 11, 2016 7:27 am

eggwheat wrote:Hopefully no screeching covers of Hallelujah to come... Never liked the song originally to be honest.
Kill it with (who by) fire.

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gave a busker £2 to stop playing So Long Marianne. I'm sure she was the same one I gave money to stop playing chi-chi-changes. Jackals!

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:26 am

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eggwheat wrote:Hopefully no screeching covers of Hallelujah to come... Never liked the song originally to be honest.
Kill it with (who by) fire.

A mate sent me this text;

gave a busker £2 to stop playing So Long Marianne. I'm sure she was the same one I gave money to stop playing chi-chi-changes. Jackals!

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Post by shadowplay » Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:18 am

Eric Random & The Bedlamites - Father Can't Yell superb freeze-dried cover off a really good album on Doublevision. I was reminded of this when digging out some Plurex stuff, since Eric Random has a 12' on the label.

Cover of Can - Father Cannot Yell

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Post by sammynb » Thu Dec 01, 2016 2:51 am

Interesting project. Earlier this year JMC played shows in Sydney and Melbourne to mark the gazillion years since Psychocandy was released.
But not in Brisbane, so Tim of Tym's guitars/records/that twat took my money for a singles club subscription almost a year ago and has not sent me a thing, decided he would record/release an album of Psychocandy covers by local Brisbane bands.
And here it is Psychocandy Brisvegas style.
Some corkers and some not so but interesting none the less.

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Post by shadowplay » Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:08 am

^^^

I bought the Pleasure Symbols 12', their cover isn't up to their own material. Couldn't really get into the others either.

I don't understand the whole 'so far ahead of everyone else in the world thing' from the blurb.

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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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by sammynb » Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:30 am

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I don't understand the whole 'so far ahead of everyone else in the world thing' from the blurb.

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D, you have to lived here in Australia in the 80s or preinternet, to understand where he's coming from.
Musically we were the other side of the world to everyone, back then it took 6 months for NME or MM to make our shores (unless you were really wealthy and could afford the airmail version which was only a week old.)
And to live somewhere like Brisbane (which back then really was just a big country town in a state where the police ruled and they actively prosecuted consenting homosexuals) or regional Australia it was even more backward.
The city I grew up in was an hour from Sydney and had a pop of over a million people but in 84/85 the "indie/alt/punk" population of that place was about 100-200 people, there were no clubs, venues for alt bands and the local radio was filled with 60s and 70s shite.

Then somehow Psychocandy was released here on a major(ish) label and it was stores everywhere. It was a big deal in such a suppressed place.

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