Covers

[cloughie]

What a pointless exercise - What a strange 50 to choose from - if they're going to do these things just let listeners text or email their own choices - no list needed! There seems to be more glaring omissions than good covers included.

[MrGongGong]

What a pointless exercise - .

I don't think it's entirely "pointless"
Some "cover" versions (as previously discussed here and on other threads) are wonderful

Webern's Musical Offering
or
Cash plays Depeche Mode

and so on

[teamsaint]

What a pointless exercise - What a strange 50 to choose from - if they're going to do these things just let listeners text or email their own choices - no list needed! There seems to be more glaring omissions than good covers included.

quite right Cloughie.

FAR more worth in a thread like this where you might actually stumble on something that you didn't know previously.or some merseybeat turned Goth nightmare..!!

[cloughie]

I don't think it's entirely "pointless"
Some "cover" versions (as previously discussed here and on other threads) are wonderful

Webern's Musical Offering
or
Cash plays Depeche Mode

and so on

Sorry GG I must have missed the Webern on the Radio 2 prescribed list!

I would also have prescribed Liszt!

[johncorrigan]

What a pointless exercise - What a strange 50 to choose from - if they're going to do these things just let listeners text or email their own choices - no list needed! There seems to be more glaring omissions than good covers included.

I assume R2 have a bank holiday to fill, cloughie... and I assume they took it down to 50 because that's all the Beeb algorithms could handle... and let's not have a free for all for goodness sake. Even looking at the 50 from an R2 playlist point-of-view there's some glaring omissions, as you say. I would have thought something like Al Green doing 'How can you mend a broken heart' would have been a shoo-in, but there you go; he made it so much his song they maybe didn't know it was a cover.

Anyway, just to say that Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer got me to re-listen to 'Redemption Song' like it was new again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSluIrqj4IU

[cloughie]

I assume R2 have a bank holiday to fill, cloughie... and I assume they took it down to 50 because that's all the Beeb algorithms could handle... and let's not have a free for all for goodness sake. Even looking at the 50 from an R2 playlist point-of-view there's some glaring omissions, as you say. I would have thought something like Al Green doing 'How can you mend a broken heart' would have been a shoo-in, but there you go; he made it so much his song they maybe didn't know it was a cover.

Anyway, just to say that Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer got me to re-listen to 'Redemption Song' like it was new again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSluIrqj4IU

Having seen the list of DJs making the choices the list is less surprising. The omissions that immediately come to mind are Animals - House of the Rising Sun, Don't let me be misunderstood and Bring it on home to me, Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away, Little red rooster, Beach Boys - Barbara Ann, Do you wanna dance, Then I kissed her, I can hear music. One of the most notable covers is a cover of her ownsong- Carole King's Will you love me tomorrow which she originally wrote for The Shirelles and recorded herself on Tapestry. Roberta Flack's cover is equally good.

[Globaltruth]

this Late Junction regular (blame Fiona) is guaranteed to be missing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhVydgvuAc

as is Cat Power who did a whole album...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEApf_FT25M

and not forgetting this Jimmy Scott class classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co01iVLaRSc

we have a playlist over on Spotify with a mere 314 irregular covers (it's a work in progress) ...

http://open.spotify.com/user/trautigan/playlist/07fvsgDV9Fem4PNDtt0gse

[MrGongGong]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B86CkeVeEw&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20JSON%20Parse%20error%3A%20Unexpected%20EOF%20(url%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8B86CkeVeEw)

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJUywl7CFw&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20JSON%20Parse%20error%3A%20Unexpected%20EOF%20(url%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcYJUywl7CFw)

and so on

[teamsaint]

you could do a " best Dylan covers top 50" very easily.

Gongers would like that.

I like this, rather oddly.

[johncorrigan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJUywl7CFw&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20JSON%20Parse%20error%3A%20Unexpected%20EOF%20(url%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcYJUywl7CFw)

and so on

Thanks for reminding me about going into the twangy first century, MrGG...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuakXuDWOw8

[johncorrigan]

you could do a " best Dylan covers top 50" very easily.

Gongers would like that.

I like this, rather oddly.

I'm pretty sure Bob didn't write that one, southernsainty!
Is that her off the radio singing on that? Must've been a while back.

Talking of Bob I like this take on 'As I went out one morning':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MxkrRy7rM4

[teamsaint]

yup, that really is her off the telly/radio6 whatever.

What i do, JC, is I sometimes talk about diferent things on the same post.
Seamless.

anyway, Bob would have been proud to have penned a Eurovision winner, I feel sure.

Did it win? Who knows? Who cares?

i think this board needs a country rock thread.

[johncorrigan]

i think this board needs a country rock thread.

Will this one do for starters, ts?

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

[teamsaint]

Will this one do for starters, ts?

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

nice.

What about this. Not a cover, so off topic..
But bloody great anyway.

[MrGongGong]

And not forgetting