Oh, a Music Paper is giving away a CD with CURE COVER VERSIONS on it. Might as well POLL

i vote we destroy the CD with a sledgehammer for the song choices being so jaw-droppingly dull

Wait, Editors did a cover of "Lullaby"???????

King Boy Pato did a cover of "Inbetween Days"??????????

The only two I'd be even remotely interested in are BSP's Forest and TDW's Primary, mostly because those songs, while by far the most popular on their respective albums, aren't quite such predictable choices as the others. And I don't mind the bands involved.

was "just like heaven" a predictable choice in 1989?

um I don't know which Cure cover compilations you've seen lj but let me assure you that every single song on here is an incredibly predictable choice except for "Cut Here"; "Catch" is probably the 2nd-least-predictable but still, predictable as shit.

It's majoring on the "dead poppy" stuff.

I don't actually know anything about "Cut Here"* or The Alkaline Trio so I kinda glossed over that one, but you've got a good point

http://www.coversproject.com/artist/cure/

oh shit, A Forest has been covered by like 15 different bands

was "just like heaven" a predictable choice in 1989?

Dunno if that's rhetorical, but Dinosaur doing JLH seemed pretty weird at the time and people weren't quite sure if they were just taking the piss or what. Even J seemed a bit ambivalent about the Cure - think his quote was something like 'they right nice songs, but then you see this faggy dude in make-up and um uh...'

I'm, ashamedly, an Alkaline Trio stan, so "Cut Here" is about the only one I'm curious to hear of those I haven't already.

"Cold," from the The Cure album "Pornography" , was covered on the Autumnblaze album "Mute Boy Sad Girl."
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this is more fucken like it

The Dinosaur Jr track for the win. Great in '89, great now.

lol I got the Dino Jr 12" EP even though I already had it on the Fossils CD just to make sure my CD wasn't defective (with the cut off ending and that)

King Boy Pato did a cover of "Inbetween Days"??????????

lol

never heard any of these except for dino jr (which I love) and don't care to either

We got it in the UK on a free flexi with a magazine!

Then the single came out.

One day, they'll find that ending somewhere. And add it to the deluxe issue of "Bug"

would quite like to hear art brut version

no "mint car", no vote from me.

TBH, this is the comp you should be polling

CD1:

1. Xu Xu Fang - Fascination Street (05:37)
2. Bat for Lashes - A Forest (03:23)
3. Hecuba - Killing an Arab (02:57)
4. Indian Jewelry - The Walk 1 (05:47)
5. Geneva Jacuzzi - The Walk 2 (03:40)
6. Astrid Quay - The Caterpillar (03:52)
7. Rainbow Arabia - Six Different Ways (02:45)
8. We Are the World - Why Can't I Be You (03:30)
9. Blackblack - In Between Days (02:55)
10. Aquaserge - 10.15 Saturday Night (05:19)
11. Gangi - Fire in Cairo (04:09)
12. Rio en Medio - Pictures of You (04:35)
13. Jokers Daughter - Kyoto Song (03:57)
14. Caroline Weeks - The Drowning Man (03:54)
15. ExReverie - The Hanging Garden (04:53)
16. Voyager One - M (03:33)
17. Devastations - All Cats Are Grey (06:39)

CD2:

1. The Dandy Warhols - Primary (04:23)
2. Veil Veil Vanish - The Upstarirs Room (03:30)
3. Wolfkin - Charlotte Sometimes (04:25)
4. Army Navy - Jumping Someone elses Train (05:31)
5. The Muslims - Grinding Halt (02:49)
6. Lemon Sun - The Exploding Boy (03:26)
7. Kaki King - Close to Me (03:37)
8. Les Byclettes Blanches - Hot Hot Hot (03:52)
9. Buddy - Sugar Girl (04:07)
10. Katerine Ottosen - The Love Cats (04:42)
11. Mariee Sioux - Love Song (03:51)
12. Corridor - The Kiss (07:06)
13. Tara Busch - Let's Go to Bed (04:16)
14. Jesu - The Funeral Party (06:52)
15. Sarabeth Tucek - Three Imaginary Boys (03:42)
16. Lewis and Clarke - Disintegration (08:48)

Or there was that one where they got every cure track ever, covered by contributors, into a 10 CD set.

Made a deluxe package, made one per contributor, plus some additional ones.

They presented RobSmith with one, and he was all "Oh, right. Thanks.." (there's a pic somewhere on the site that originated the project)

Where is the love for carnage visors

Wait, I'm much more interested in the full comp. When did that come out?

I'm really really intrigued by the idea of the Dandys doing Primary, TBH.

But Jesu doing The Funeral Party would... ohmigod, that would... that would be SO HEAVY I might die from the heaviness.

You know what, Kate? I'm about to agree with you again. :-O

we talked about it a few montsh ago - that Jesus version is streaming on myspace somewhere

Jesu, I meant!

It's here

oooooooooo

or it's free with this weeks NME.

There, I said it.

oh shit this is awesome

My fave is actually Bat for Lashes' 'Forest'

Soulja Boy should cover "Just Like Heaven":

"YOUUUUU!!!! Soft and only YOOOOUUUUUU!!!! Lost and lonely YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!" &c.

I'm getting the Teenagers to rip me the good tracks on it. They are very useful for some things. They seem to agree that the Esser track is the best. (I am learning to trust Teenagers' musical opinions - at least these ones.)

Oh god, streaming Jesu now... LOVELY. 118 bpm A+++++++

wtf why did I sleep on this, this Jesu cover is fucking wow

Hang on, carry on and listen to Bat For Lashes going A Forest - holy sheeeeeet. Nice. OK, I know there's loads of hate for BFL on this board, but it's a bloody good version, really spooky and atmospheric.

The "Let's Get Dan Into Metal" campaign starts here, folks

There are bits of metal I already like (Opeth and Therion, for example)!

Awesome! Opeth are pretty damn good when they're on their game. If you like them (and I haven't actually HEARD Therion yet), then there's plenty of other stuff I reckon you'd dig.

Yeah the Jesu cover = godlike. Inspired choice of song to start with.

now I want to hear Jesu cover everything, starting with "A Milli"

It's a good cover but I never liked the original to begin with (I know, I know...) so I can't entirely get behind it.

"A Milli" OTOH...

Pretty much everything on that MySpace has been awesome so far. Who are Xu Xu Fang and what else have they done?

The Dinosaur Jr track for the win. Great in '89, great now.

Yes.

While we're talking about all these covers, a recent interview with the guy behind it all.

xxp: Hah! that 'Fascination st.' cover by Xu Xu Fang is indeed amazing

Artists seem to feel an everlasting need to pay tribute to their influences by making cover albums. They have now discovered nobody is interested in actually buying those. So that is why they do it in mags like Uncut instead.

Yes, in short.

It sort of started with a 'tribute to Syd Barrett' where the bands made fully fleshed out versions of Barrett songs. How successful it was, artistically, I don't know. The same label went on to do Beefheart and Velvet Underground ones.

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Awesome.

Damn, I forgot to vote. :-(