Is there a Dylan cover more kickass than Poster Children's "Isis"?

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Spirit's version of Like A Rolling Stone is majestic and has some rocking guitar work as you would expect.

Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 28 July 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link

although cat power has gone down the shitter lately, all the dylan covers she did were excellent.

"oh sister," "paths of victory," "kingsport town," "knockin' on heaven's door," "hard times in new york," "he was a friend of mine," etc.

call mr. lee (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

Oh man, Nazareth's 9 minute version of "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" so totally owns this thread. What the heck is wrong with me; I can't believe I forgot about it until now.

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

I think Manfred Mann Earth Band's "Please Mr. Henry" qualifies for reasons I can't say much better than sage Dave Marsh did in Creem:

''Please Mrs. Henry', included here is another in this series ('If You Gotta Go, Go Now', a hit in England, and 'With God On Our Side', on his second album are the others) of Dylan songs, and it may well be the best yet. The material is not as strong as 'Quinn' and 'Woman', but it is plenty good enough. And the treatment it is given – dynamic, noisy, alive, noisy – is perfect. The song is as good, if less "artistic," than the version on the Basement Tape.

The beginning at once is vengeful and despondent – it carries these contradictory emotions just as they are, as contradictions. Mann lets them clash, so that the impact is immediate; coupled with the volume (this cut seems 50% louder than the rest of the album), the effect is raucous and crude, pushing the lyric ("I'm DOWN on my KNEES/And I ain't got a DIME") the way it was intended. The guitars clatter. The girls in the background nearly bump into them, then suddenly they meld. It is as though two cars, in the midst of a horrible freeway accident, were suddenly fused into a pop sculpture that is not beautiful but extremely interesting, arresting within its own aesthetic context. This sounds like a hit single (and it almost was), and given the material ('Please Mrs. Henry', which is not a brilliant Dylan song, is a fine rock tune for anyone else.), Manfred Mann will almost always come this close to visualizing rock's aesthetic myth.'

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link

always liked "absolutely sweet marie" by jason and the scorchers

M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link

I have that Crust Brothers record (guys from Silkworm + Malkmus) and the opener, a cover of "Going to Acapulco", is fucking hot.

Euler, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Johnny Thunders' cover of "It Ain't Me, Babe" is brief and sweet.

bamcquern, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Ramones no doubt.

MRZBW, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link


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