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 Post subject: Original version of a song you all know and love as a cover
PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:09 pm 
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Brinsley Schwarz - "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?"
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Nick Lowe, yay!

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Richard Berry: "Louie Louie"
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Anyone listen?
How do you compare it to the Elvis version?
I like this better.
The backing vocals make it.

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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I would have listened, but some kind of bad juju is going on with the YSI servers.

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PopTodd Wrote:
Anyone listen?
How do you compare it to the Elvis version?
I like this better.
The backing vocals make it.


I listened. I am used to the Elvis version and I like its faster pacing better, but I enjoythis as well. Thanks, Pal.

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EC's version KILLS the Brinsley original. With EC it became a desperate call-to-arms, while Nick Lowe's laidback singalong sounded like wimpy hippy utopianism. Big difference.
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EC's version KILLS the Brinsley original. With EC it became a desperate call-to-arms, while Nick Lowe's laidback singalong sounded like wimpy hippy utopianism. Big difference.


What I was unable to articulate.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Senator Eamon D'VeLooGAR Wrote:
Radcliffe Wrote:
EC's version KILLS the Brinsley original. With EC it became a desperate call-to-arms, while Nick Lowe's laidback singalong sounded like wimpy hippy utopianism. Big difference.


What I was unable to articulate.


I think the spoken word interlude kinda lends it that feel.
But, knowing Nick Lowe's sense of humor, I also think that part was done kinda tounge-in-cheek and it was a bit of a sendup of the whole hippy thing.

Plus... the backing vocals kill me.
But yeah, EC's version is great, I just like this a little better because of what I mentioned above.

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PopTodd Wrote:
But, knowing Nick Lowe's sense of humor, I also think that part was done kinda tounge-in-cheek and it was a bit of a sendup of the whole hippy thing.

I don't think there's any doubt that Lowe was parodying the hippy sensibility - and that's another reason why EC's version slays. EC replaced Lowe's cocky smarm with righteous anger and turned a mildly amusing parody into nothing less than an anthem.

Probably surprised the hell outta Nick in the studio.
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ec's version is so much more passionate.
and you know i'm a nick lowe fan.
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the Nerves' Hanging On The Telephone is a better answer to this thread
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R.E.M. Superman...never have heard the original version, anyone know how it compares?

Oh yeah, I did listen and liked it quite a bit, the begining makes me think Roger Daltrey's going to start singing; that guitar sounds like Townshends patented windmill strums. You're right about the backing vocals, they really do add something to the song.

But Elvis still owns that song!

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splates Wrote:
the Nerves' Hanging On The Telephone is a better answer to this thread

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i wouldn't necessarily say that we all love the popular covers of these, but these originals smoke out the better-known covers.

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
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Erma Franklin - Piece of My Heart
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Bo Didley: Pills

also qualifies, don't know if it's better'n The Dolls, but it's a rocker.
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Bo Didley: Pills

also qualifies, don't know if it's better'n The Dolls, but it's a rocker.

Both versions are so awesome I can't choose.
Dolls= More Mongerous

Diddley =MORE MONGEROUS.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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