Pras - Ghetto Supastar (interpolation of islands in the stream)
Same for me with this one. In fact I think I only knowingly heard Islands In The Stream for the first time a few years ago and had previously thought Pras was interpolating the verse from "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
John Martyn Solid Air vs Pharaoh Sanders Astral Travelling (which I think came before Lonnie Liston Smith's own version)
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
A Certain Ratio's version of "Shack Up" by Banbarra is my example
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
I don't hear anything other than a similar pace and mood between "Solid Air" and "Astral Travelling"?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
this happened to me soo much bc when napster first came out i mainly used it to download stuff i coulnd find in the shops - import-only bonus tracks and b-sides that were often covers, but it wasnt always obvious bc i didnt have the liners with writing credits or anything.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
Vanessa Williams - 'Work to Do'. My eyes just about shot out of my head when I stumbled upon the Isley Brothers' AMAZING original a few years back.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
Oh, lol, I was having second thoughts about the Isleys' being the more famous one and double checked: Isley Brothers hit 51 on the charts and Vanessa hit 52, so it scans.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link
One time as a kid I was listening to the Naked Eyes version of "Always Something There", and my dad came by and said, "this was the first song I heard after coming to America in the 60s" and for years it gave me a very mistaken impression of how old the Naked Eyes version was
for all the oldies radio I listened to growing up I never knew this song was a cover until just now, so I don't think the Naked Eyes version is less famous than the original
― eisimpleir (crüt), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
Ditto "Tainted Love" at about the same time; both were hits and you needed to be informed of their coverness.
― chillin' like Emperor Maximilian (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
Tin Tin Out was the first version of 'Always something there' I heard, and I didn't know it was a cover until years later.
― kinder, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
xp i'd bank on the soft cell version being much better known though
(and yeah the tin tin out versh was the first one i heard too)
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
There's been baffled discussion 'round these parts before re: 'Always Something There to Remind Me'. Partly because the original wasn't that huge a hit and wasn't an oldies radio staple, partly because the Naked Eyes cover, while released by a British band, pretty much turfed out in the UK but became a huge hit in the US and elsewhere.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
I first knew "Eight Miles High" from the To the Power of 3 album (the ELP minus Lake album that even the hardcore fans don't seem to know about)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
I might have know the Husker Du cover first? Is that possible? *racks brain*
― Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
Sandie Shaw's recording of "Always Something There to Remind Me" was #1 in Canada, the UK, and South Africa, acc to Wikipedia. I think I did hear it before the Naked Eyes, although it's tricky with songs I heard very young, tbh.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
You can be sure Naked Eyes were very familiar with the Sandie Shaw version, being British and all, it's her signature song.
― Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
Ofc hers wasn't the first recording either and I'm not sure the concept of "cover" even works for songs like this.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
Yeah, there were a bunch of songs in the mid-'60s (not infrequently written by Bacharach and David) that were insta-standards, for all intents and purposes, recorded and released as singles by multiple artists all within a short period of time.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
I wish I'd heard Sandie Shaw's version of "Your Time Is Gonna Come" before Led Zeppelin's original, it's great.
― Punk's not daft (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
I can't remember which one it was but Aretha Franklin released her version of a Beatles song before the actual Beatles version of the song dropped.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
I think I actually heard Sonic Youth's "Superstar" before the Carpenters'.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
Oh and Judy Collins released her recording of 'Both Sides, Now' before Joni did.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
xpost Yeah, definitely heard SY's version first. Which is also true for about half of the covers on If I Were a Carpenter.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Dear Prudence", "Helter Skelter"
I actually heard their version of "All Tomorrow's Parties" before the Velvets'. It's pretty obscure but a local campus radio station played it in the early 90s when I was taping songs off the radio.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
Along with 'Dear Prudence', there's probably several songs I first discovered via cover versions on 120 Minutes (literally my only access to non-top 40 music during several teenage years spent in the middle of nowhere). The Bauhaus version of 'Ziggy Stardust' immediately springs to mind.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, on that note, I heard Love & Rockets' "Ball of Confusion" first. Also Springsteen's version of "War".
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
I mean, not from 120 Minutes but from some 'alternative' program on MuchMusic or possibly album-oriented radio, I think.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
The Burds 8 Miles High vs John Coltrane 's India.
Rewriting into what was becoming rock.
Like John Martyn showing his love for Pharaoh while writing about his mate Nick Drake a few years later.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
The Aretha Beatles cover was "Let It Be", released a month or so before their version.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Sandie Shaw's recording of "Always Something There to Remind Me" was #1 in Canada, the UK, and South Africa, acc to Wikipedia. I think I did hear it before the Naked Eyes, although it's tricky with songs I heard very young, tbh.― to party with our demons (Sund4r)
― to party with our demons (Sund4r)
It's weird that in the US even Sandie Shaw's version charted higher than Dionne's. Shaw was not particularly high-profile in America (biggest hit "Girl Don't Come" at #42). Dionne's version was only released in '68 though, four years after Shaw's.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
I def. knew Rod Stewart/Jeff Beck's "People Get Ready" before hearing the Curtis Mayfield/Impressions original or even Dylan's covers.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
I knew Rod Stewart's "You Are Everything" before the Stylistics. sadly.
same thing with "This Old Heart of Mine".
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
(before the Isley Brothers)
Basically the entire saggy, cover-laden back half of Rod Stewart's career.
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
(Only just recently learned that even 'Some Guys Have All the Luck' was a cover, although obviously not a more popular one.)
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
Some Guys Have All the Lunch
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
Summer breeze by the isley brothers before Seals & Croft. Maybe by TYpe O Negative before taht though
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
The Main Ingredient's version of Summer Breeze is the one to beat (but admittedly, I only discovered that one recently)
― enochroot, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
The doom-goth-metal version of "Summer Breeze" was the titles music for one of the big teen horror revival films in the 90s so I could def see how that had more traction than a crusty old AM gold hit for people of a certain age.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
^^^had to look it up, it was I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
Dopn't think that was how i knew iti. Not sure why that was teh lp I picked up by them but it was. Bloody Kisses.Don't know how many of those films I've seen. THink if any its been on tv way later.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
fairly sure I heard Beats International's "Dub Be Good To Me" before I ever became familiar with the SOS Band's "Just Be Good to Me"
― akm, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
"Take Me Home Country Road" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
I didn't realize it was not a local song and was a cover until I was in high school.
― hourspass, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-tqI0D1CAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzajXmENvyo
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
re: “You Don’t Own Me”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22urvGcWy4hugely popular Dutch cover version (from 1981)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
100% sure I did. might not have been familiar enough to pick Guns Of Brixton at the time, and didn't hear Jam Hot until the last year.
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz-RNe7xoVI
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
The Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme ShelterDevo - I Can't Get No SatisfactionThe Danse Society - 2000 Light Years From HomeThe Soup Dragons - I'm Free
I guess I had no exposure to the Stones as a kid, except for their 80's stuff.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
I knew DJ Sammy's version of "Heaven" long before I knew it was a Brian Adam's song.
I hate both versions with a passion.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
*Bryan Adams
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link