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Sing it again: Songs you love, original and redone versions

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by murphyc, Feb 8, 2013.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member



    AP thinks NIN covered Cash:

     
  2. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    No, you just can't read. But thanks for digging up a 7-month-old thread to demonstrate that for us.
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Oh crap. They did get it wrong. Saw it earlier.

    Must have corrected it by the time I went to find it again.

    See the comment on the article, and where it's run elsewhere.

    I fucked up. I admit it. AP doesn't have the balls to list an actual correction, they just change the article.
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Here's the original version:

    http://blink.htcsense.com/web/articleweb.aspx?regionid=45&articleid=12583156#.UiUWHX8Ids8.twitter
     
  5. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    I am not going to log into our system to find out if they did it correctly, but AP's corrections generally are embedded into stories as editor notes that don't get published by auto-publish systems. The AP is pretty up front when it catches its own mistakes, which is all too rare.
     
  6. Gold

    Gold Active Member

    "Time Is On My Side" Irma Thomas and the Rolling Stones
     
  7. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    The Grateful Dead made a career out of performing covers. In fact, many of their best songs were covers, and the songs they covered showed an astonishing range of genres:

    Turn On Your Love Light (Bobby Blue Bland)
    Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly)
    Morning Dew (Bonnie Dobson)
    Promised Land (Chuck Berry)
    It's All Over Now (Rolling Stones)
    Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Woody Guthrie)
    Good Lovin' (The Young Rascals)
    Dancing In the Streets (Martha & the Vandellas)
    El Paso (Marty Robbins)
    Big River (Johnny Cash)
    Me & My Uncle (John Phillips)
    Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
    Me & Bobby McGee (Kris Kristofferson, Janis Joplin)
    Hard To Handle (Otis Redding)
    Smokestack Lightning (Howlin' Wolf)
    Iko Iko (The Dixie Cups)
    Man Smart, Woman Smarter (Harry Belafonte)

    Plus, they redid a lot of wooly old blues, folk and jug band songs, many of which were traditional tunes passed down through various artists over the years:

    Don't Ease Me In
    Samson & Delilah
    Jackaroe
    Peggy-O
    Minglewood Blues
    Cold, Rain & Snow
    I Know You Rider
    Beat It On Down the Line
    Death Don't Have No Mercy
    Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl
    Next Time You See Me

    And finally, nobody did more Dylan covers than the Dead, to the point where they actually did a brief tour backing Dylan and playing their cover versions of his song, which resulted in a surprisingly mediocre live album:

    It's All Over Now Baby Blue
    Desolation Row
    Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
    Queen Jane Approximately
    When I Paint My Masterpiece
    All Along the Watchtower
    Knockin' On Heaven's Door
    Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

    Also, during the mid-to-late '80s they did a killer cover of Dear Mr. Fantasy that would segue into the coda of Hey Jude.
     
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