Friday night is ... unusual cover versions night
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TwickenhamCyclist
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raleighnut
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Not strictly a cover, he may have changed some words, worth a post though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vOwKq7T3Hfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vOwKq7T3Hfw
philk56
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Can't believe 10 pages of this thread and nobody has posted this yet - a classic in every sense of the word:
philk56
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And the Boss:
Poacher
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Dammitall. Mrs Poacher told me to do this, and it can't wait till (later that same) morning.
The original, and they thought, inimitable, Georges Brassens with "Gare au goriille", which I'm told cannot be embedded for some reason - someone should have told the old French ladies who admired his credentials before he escaped.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWyQn50Mto
and Jake Thackray's loose translation, which for the purposes of this thread I shall denote as a cover version, even though it stands in its own right.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQm_8uoljWM
which also cannot be embedded - what's going on here?
I was present at Jake's first performance (unless you know different) down south in that there London, in the Bull in Whetstone. He sang one of his own songs about courting a young lady in competition with a rich rival, who offered her a Porsche, or some such inducement, with which he couldn't compete - "a silly soft pillock I looked with me ladies' bike". At this point, he translated the northern term "pillock" for southerners as "scrotum". General hilarity ensued, followed by an abrupt silence, during which a young lass asked her companion in what she had anticipated to be a whisper, but turned out to be rather louder, "What's a scrotum?". To his credit, he answered her in clinical detail. I doubt that she's ever recovered from her embarrassment.
The original, and they thought, inimitable, Georges Brassens with "Gare au goriille", which I'm told cannot be embedded for some reason - someone should have told the old French ladies who admired his credentials before he escaped.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWyQn50Mto
and Jake Thackray's loose translation, which for the purposes of this thread I shall denote as a cover version, even though it stands in its own right.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQm_8uoljWM
which also cannot be embedded - what's going on here?
I was present at Jake's first performance (unless you know different) down south in that there London, in the Bull in Whetstone. He sang one of his own songs about courting a young lady in competition with a rich rival, who offered her a Porsche, or some such inducement, with which he couldn't compete - "a silly soft pillock I looked with me ladies' bike". At this point, he translated the northern term "pillock" for southerners as "scrotum". General hilarity ensued, followed by an abrupt silence, during which a young lass asked her companion in what she had anticipated to be a whisper, but turned out to be rather louder, "What's a scrotum?". To his credit, he answered her in clinical detail. I doubt that she's ever recovered from her embarrassment.
Vapin' Joe
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I didn't realise how good the lyrics on the song were till I listened to that version. Sometimes you can here a record countless times without really taking them in.
Richard A Thackeray
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The version by Restless (still one of my favourite bands) works very well for me
Restless again
The guitarist on this, is Mark Harman, the lead guitarist/singer on the Restless tracks (nice guitar break, at about 1.34)
Restless again
The guitarist on this, is Mark Harman, the lead guitarist/singer on the Restless tracks (nice guitar break, at about 1.34)
Supersuperleeds
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MontyVeda
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I remember that coming out... bought the single and thought it was amazing... completely ignorant of Led Zep's original. Shame on me
Cletus Van Damme
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MontyVeda
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10 pages and no Dick Cheese? 
U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday (Sangria Domingo Sangria) wonderfully reinvented samba style...
Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby in smooth jazz mode...
Coldplay's durgeful Yellow in happy mode...
and finally... The Beastie Boys...
U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday (Sangria Domingo Sangria) wonderfully reinvented samba style...
Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby in smooth jazz mode...
Coldplay's durgeful Yellow in happy mode...
and finally... The Beastie Boys...
TwickenhamCyclist
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Great video as well...
Certainly better than another 'classical' interpretation of an AC/DC track I could mention...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JWE9x0twn4
TwickenhamCyclist
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Saw the Ruttles years back - with Phil Jupitus - great gig - especially when Bary Cryer joined in - said his favorite track was "I Call My Willy Nelson Because He Only Has One Eye" ...
