Can't Get No Satisfaction versions death match poll

and George Burns?

Its hard to to wrong with Phyllis Diller.

and George Burns?

all write-ins accepted!

haven't heard a lot of these, but devo, television, otis redding are all excellent if I'm not voting for the original.

Leaning towards the extended stomp of the Trad Gras och Stenar version at the moment.

Trad, Gras all the way. I love drinking cough syrup.

Television, because its freekin amazing & I don't want to vote for the original. :-)

Trad, Gras all the way. I love drinking cough syrup.

― chromecassettes, Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:13 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
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Not that it would win or neccessarily ought to have been in the running, but I love this Italian cover from 1973. I love how the Stones version went into the ears of some hippy in Rome and somehow sounding like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7-GekO_bmA

so easy: devo.

devo, best cover ever

The Los Apson version is awesome too, but Devo really did kill it - and they Scorcese points for that scene in Casino.

best video ever, too.

that jittery, pasty-faced druggie flipping himself over-and-over is an eerie highpoint of 80s music video production.

and is there any truth to that rumour that Otis had never heard the original when he recorded his?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYSFEfeC3Ro&feature=related

haha, that doesn't sound too likely, but I'd like to believe it ...

devo, best cover ever

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:43 PM (1 hour ago)

^^^

Trad Gras. The second half of the this is incredible

The Rolling Stones thought Otis did it better, but I thing the Rolling Stones did it best. Stones, u fukkers.

From the Stax/Volt singles box set liner notes:

Scrounging for material to round out the album, Steve Cropper had a brainstorm: "It was my idea to do it. I went up to the front of the record shop, got a copy of the record, played it for the band and wrote down the lyrics... (Otis) just didn't know the song. He hadn't heard it as far as I know."

Redding's manager Phil Walden concurs: "Otis kind of read the lyrics through about once or twice and then just really jumped right into the thing. That was a real spontaneous record. He had never heard the Rolling Stones' version."

So, we have two people who fuel the rumor. Perhaps it is true.

Even so, I'm voting for the Del Rubio triplets. I've never heard their version of this, but their cover of "Whip It" is better than Devo, and Devo's cover of "Satisfaction" is better than the Stones, therefore...

Guys, holy SHIT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-J1OdZNcJg

Voted Phyllis, but a few write-ins FYC:

Bubblerock (www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cTHKWtfAE - Jonathan King reinvents the song as soft rock manna complete with a full string section)

Gary McFarland (breezy, so.cal., soft samba. Mmmm, nice)

Jose Feliciano (in a similar vein, but he cracks up half way through)

Bill Cosby (from 'Hooray for the Salvation Army Band!' Cool and insane at the same time)

Vanilla Ice (not actually heard this one, but...it's Vanilla Ice!)

If we can believe that Wilson Pickett had never heard "Hey Jude" (or had heard it but somehow thought it was called "Hey Jew"), then Otis's "Satisfaction" ignorance is pretty plausible.

Wish I'd heard more than a half-dozen of these! Considered voting for Justine Bateman because nobody else will, except that somebody probably WILL, so I'll go with Devo. And she says, "Babybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybaby..."

betting that Cat Power will carry the lurker vote.

Residents version is conceptually great but not my favorite listening track from them.

This is Devo, clearly.

Still, threw my vote to Fushitsusha since likely not many others will.

the top 3 listed are my favs. Devo and Cat Power really made the the song their own.

devo, best cover ever

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:43 PM (1 hour ago)

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― Grisly Addams (WmC), Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

given my current groove, i had to drop my vote on the devo version.
no brainer really.

I had to go with Mongo Santamaria. <3

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devo, best cover ever

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:43 PM (1 hour ago)

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― the one corey (Pillbox), Friday, 18 June 2010 19:17 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

But Residents = scariest cover ever

imo Stones shouldn't have been an option, goes without saying that the original is great and without it the covers wouldn't exist. so i voted for Devo as best cover.

true, hadn't thought of it like that but that would have been more accurate.

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haha only on ILM

some dude otm

somewhere PEW is hopefully having a stroke

decent turnout for Trad Gras

lol @ Vanilla Ice

I just listened to the Vanilla Ice version and it's way more of a mindfuck than Devo's fwiw. just not in a good way.

Do people not like the Residents version or just not heard it? Cos imo wuz totally robbed.

I voted for it

Me too. So there you go.

Missed the poll, but would have voted for Otis. Among the versions I've heard, I like the Britney and Devo covers better than the Stones original as well. I find Aretha's version to be a curious misfire, one of the very few things she recorded around that time that I don't like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWHCUm05LU