classic rockers covering classic soul: search & destroy, etc.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

dunno if there's been a thread about this. kind of a flipside to the discussion of ironic indie covers of chartpop.

I'm fond of the Stones' "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", even if it doesn't exactly top the original.

CCR's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" is good too, although I guess if anybody has authority to cover R&B, it's them, since it went the other way with Ike & Tina's "Proud Mary".

I just got the reissue of The Who's first album, not sure what to make of all the James Brown covers. I like "I Don't Mind", though.

definitely destroy James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", although I kind of respect it for being so ballsy in its complete lack of balls.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 January 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the Flying Burritos' covers of 'Do Right Woman' and 'Dark End of the Street'.
The Who's 'Baby Don't You Do It' is ok.

― pete s, Friday, 2 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm fond of the Stones' "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", even if it doesn't exactly top the original.

Oh god, for a second I thought you said the Strokes and I wanted to find the 16 ton weight to drop on their head.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'd rather the Strokes cover TLC than the Temps, though.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 January 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather...well, we've been down this road.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't Do It, The Band (original single version, not live)

― rumple, Friday, 2 January 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Take Me To The River" -- Talking Heads -- no problems here.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 2 January 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Destroy: Living for the City by Gillan...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 January 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis Presley - True love travels on a gravel road

I agree with rumple about The Band, but I love the live version too.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 2 January 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the WORST soul cover

take me to the river, by just about anybody
but especially Talking Heads

― rumple, Friday, 2 January 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Shake Your Hips--Rolling Stones
The In Crowd--Bryan Ferry
Taxi--Bryan Ferry
Ain't That Peculiar--Leon Russell w/The Gap Band (unreleased)

― rumple, Friday, 2 January 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The In Crowd--Bryan Ferry

Now, I love this and I'm a right old soul purist. Ferry's version really brings out the fascist sneering in hipsterdom.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 2 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.