Great band, great song, inexplicably feeble cover

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The Damned, "Looking At You": I fail to understand how the band that did "Neat Neat Neat" can make this song sound rote, but the vocals don't seem as desperate/love-torn as they should and the guitar solo goes nowhere fast.

Felix da Housecat, "Magic Fly": A bit too Kraftwerkized, way too "ambient", and sapped of its urgency. Possibly the least bumping track on Kittens and Thee Glitz even though most of the other songs on the album -- and Space's original -- are full-throttle intense.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Bowie's an expert at this sort of thing.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

His name is David Gray. The name of the song is "Loving You, Hating Me"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Bowie's an expert at this sort of thing.

B-b-but his cover of "Cactus" is amazing!

"Try Some Buy Some" on his latest was completely pointless, though.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Wild is the Wind is terrific; it's just that loads of them are rubbish. Across the Universe; Kingdom Come; Let's spend the night together and so on.

― KeefW (kmw), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Moby: Temptation (New Order)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

"Hello, we are R.E.M. before we went snoozy. We would now like to play you our crap version of 'Strange'."

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I also gotta say that despite owing damn near 2/3 of their sound to the Stooges (and the other 1/3 to some weird melange of Blue Oyster Cult, the Ventures and Van Morrison), Radio Birdman's version of "TV Eye" sounds just a little too off to work (and is probably the only song on Radios Appear I tend to skip over).

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Firewater's cover of "Hey Bulldog".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash's 'Wichita Lineman'. i nearly soiled myself with excitement in anticipation of hearing this, and all for naught, as for once the great man didn't deliver. it's a case of the original just being too hot to touch (i mean, Kool and the Gang - you don't touch that shit...)

― Lee F# (fsharp), Saturday, 9 April 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

it's a case of the original just being too hot to touch (i mean, Kool and the Gang - you don't touch that shit...)

i take it you're joking?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 9 April 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Bowie's an expert at this sort of thing.

Not on Pin Ups he's not.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Sunday, 10 April 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Whoops --

Bowie's an expert at this sort of thing.

Not on Pin Ups he's not.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Sunday, 10 April 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

I actually kind of like Bowie's "Let's Spend The Night Together." It's probably the weakest thing on Aladdin Sane, but I find it difficult to really dislike camp. And it's too riotous to be called "feeble." But then maybe I'm just not suitably acquainted with the original.

"Kingdom Come" is horrible. Opinion of "Across The Universe" seems very mixed, but to me it is merely dull (like much of Young Americans, two or three amazing songs notwithstanding).

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 10 April 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

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