only pick one: "hey joe"

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was there a law in the 1960s that forced every garage band to cover this?

possible sub-topic: slow version vs fast version!

my pick: the leaves.

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Love's version.

http://www.heyjoe.org/

― gabbleratchet, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Can I skip ahead a couple of decades and pick the Make-Up's version of Hey Joe?

― Jeff K (jeff k), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Leaves

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

heywoods

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

Evidently, the Leaves recorded 3 different versions. Check this page out.

http://www.heyjoe.org/perf.html

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

body count!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

"Hey Punk" -Mothers of Invention

or Hendrix

― steve ketchup, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Patti Smith.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

yep

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Leaves

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Buckwheat Zydeco
does this with screeching feedback
on accordion

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

TYPE O NEGATIVE.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

nick cave and the bad seeds.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Black Uhuru's dub version.....

......but Nick Cave right behind

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

leaves single version

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

Tim Rose's version on Tim Rose. Hendrix's rendition is fantastic, too.

― brettino's bounce (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that was 2. Tim Rose it is.

― brettino's bounce (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

leaves is the best, tho i like hendrix's - it's one of the few where his voice actually sounds good. there's a byrds version but it's not so good.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

>was there a law in the 1960s that forced every garage band to cover this?

Yes.

>leaves is the best

Also yes.

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

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awesome record by those scamps over at Millburn High School New Jersey..u may know them from their Bob Dylan blowin in th wind scandal,here they tackle john philips straight shooter..bells of rhymney..and hey joe by jimi hendrix.here's a lil taste.. http://webzoom.freewebs.com/thebunnybrains/heyjoe.mp3

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

http://i15.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/c2/74/3c_1.JPG
awesome record by those scamps over at Millburn High School New Jersey..u may know them from their Bob Dylan blowin in th wind scandal,here they tackle john philips straight shooter..bells of rhymney..and hey joe by jimi hendrix.here's a lil taste.. http://webzoom.freewebs.com/thebunnybrains/heyjoe.mp3

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

music machine's

― josh w (jbweb), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Johnny River's slow, psyched-out version is my favorite, especially since he gives himself credit for the song. what a guy.

― ghost nuts (ghost nuts), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh, I'll take the Mothers' "Flower Punk" same as Steve Ketchup.
My dream version (mashup?), however would be a fusion of the Hendrix (slow, brooding, half-spoken) and Byrds (amphetamined 12-string guitar leads stuffed into every spare crack) versions.

And I gotta say that The Leaves' version has never impressed me as much as Love's. Which puts me in a minority.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I really love the Byrds version. It sounds like it's going to fall off the tracks.

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Hendrix.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Johnny River's slow, psyched-out version is my favorite, especially since he gives himself credit for the song. what a guy.

Well, authorship of this song has never been resolved, as far as I know.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Eugene Chadbourne.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Os Mutantes' version is over 12 minutes long, and has some very distinct Yes like moments. In fact, it sounds exactly like it belongs on Tales From Topographic Oceans.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Wow. I want to hear that. What's it on?

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

It's the fourth track on OAeoZ, which was released in 1973 and re-issued some time in the early 90s, I think.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Os Mutantes - Hey Joe

In all of its Yes-like glory.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

ysi is so great. :-)

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Jimi Hendrix. Mainly because that's the most familiar version, and kind of the way I expect the song to sound. Most of the other versions are faster, which to my ears just doesn't seem right because I am used to Hendrix.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 29 December 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Leaves.

The Type O Negative version is quite wry, though.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Just to make the thread interesting:
Marmalade.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 30 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I'll admit the guilty pleasure of appreciating the yeah-baby-yeah telephone segment in the middle of The Make-Up's version. Otherwise it's not a very good cover, but the phone play kind of sums up everything I love about them...

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 30 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Music Machine

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__obEhNWtIc&feature=endscreen&NR=1

― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:42 (fourteen years ago)

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