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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Spitfire on January 03, 2009, 09:53:12 PM
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seems people do not really know slade wrote cum on feel the noize (im guessing mostly americans) and think its a quiet riot song.. what others are like this?? i know a lot of people think kiss wrote god gave rock and roll to you.
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Westlife - Father and Son (Cat Stevens song)
Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light (Springsteen wrote this one)
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (Bowie wrote it)
Gary Moore - Walking By Myself (Jimmy Reed if memory serves me right)
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well, many kids believe that enjoy the silence is a lacuna coil song... :)
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It would be cool to tell people who wrote... ;)
Can't remember now anyone
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well, here you can find a loooooot
http://www.coversproject.com/ (http://www.coversproject.com/)
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Downtown train - Tom Waits
Really gets my goat when it is quoted as a Rod Stewart song.
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Whiskey in the Jar - Thin lizzy.
It's originally by The Dubliners.
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Whiskey in the Jar - Thin lizzy.
It's originally by The Dubliners.
and there was me thinking it was a Metallica song :lol:
edit - I did know it wasn't a Metallica song really!
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You'd be surprised how many conversations I've had which go like this:
"Have you heard Thin lizzys cover of Whiskey in the jar?"
To which I reply "Oh yeah, it's much better than the Dubliners one"
"Who?"
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Behind Blues Eyes - Limp Bizkit, original by The Who
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Behind Blues Eyes - Limp Bizkit, original by The Who
Yeah that's a common one, I actually prefer the Limp biscuit one. :bash:
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Behind Blues Eyes - Limp Bizkit, original by The Who
ah yes, how dare they! along those lines I think Eminem covered an Aerosmith song.....there should be a law against stuff like that...
how bout "Hey Joe" - Hendrix, originally The Leaves I think...
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Hendrix - Watchtower.
Prefer the Dylan myself...
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The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand.
I had a minor hit with it in 1948.*
*I didn't really...
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Hendrix - Watchtower.
Prefer the Dylan myself...
uhm... dylan's original is a great song but hendrix made it THE song... :)
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Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen (especially with two covers being in the charts at the same time).
Bangkok as played by Steve Vai was originally written by a member of ABBA for a stage musical.
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Whiskey in the Jar is a traditional folk song, the Dubliners didn't write it neither :D
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Hallelujah was one I was going to cite. Having said that I like Leonard Cohen's version but Jeff Buckley's is the one that I love the most.As for the abomination that was No 1-well that just about undid the life breathing that Jeff did. In my band we were thinking of doing it but abandoned it when we heard that woman wailing her way through it as the general public may only know the "wailing" version. Occasionally covers can be improvements but it is always going to be down to opinion but the amount of covers that are unattributed does annoy me at times-but hell, at the very least it would be good to think that the composer gets a few quid out of it. Personally I liked Rod Stewart's version of Street Fighting Man more than the Stones own -having said that they balanced out and it's probably neck and neck now.
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I recently heard Diane by Husker Du (I know spelling is not correct). I always thought it was an original by Therapy.
Whiskey In The Jar isn't by the Dubliners either. It's an old traditional.
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I recently heard Diane by Husker Du (I know spelling is not correct). I always thought it was an original by Therapy.
Whiskey In The Jar isn't by the Dubliners either. It's an old traditional.
the words are traditional.. i think thin lizzy wrote the arrangement which has been covered a lot tho.
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Black Magic Woman is by Fleetwood Mac (a Peter Green Song), not Santana
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i didn't realise 'warning' on the first black sabbath album was a cover:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ6flwRot9c
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I have to say, everthing in this thread I'd have never thought people wouldn't know which the original was. Really surprised some folks think that Whiskey in the Jar is even a 20th Century number. Maybe my music trivia knowledge is just really geeky. :lol:
First one that springs to mind for me would be God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You by Argent.
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The other day on X-Factor or some such there was a load of people who thought "Without You" by Harry Nilsson was by Mariah Carey :lol: .
Actually there's a lot of songs by Harry Nilsson which he is largely uncredited for. My favourite songwriter :)
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The other day on X-Factor or some such there was a load of people who thought "Without You" by Harry Nilsson was by Mariah Carey :lol: .
Actually there's a lot of songs by Harry Nilsson which he is largely uncredited for. My favourite songwriter :)
Yeah, Nilsson is ace.
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The other day on X-Factor or some such there was a load of people who thought "Without You" by Harry Nilsson was by Mariah Carey :lol:
Weren't nearly all of those "Mariah Carey" songs actually covers? After 2 hours of Cowell and that tw@t Dermot O'Leary crawling up her arse going on about what a musical genius she is....
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"Without You" having been written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger who recorded it originally.
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"Without You" having been written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger who recorded it originally.
:o :oops: owned
never knew that!
EDIT: I'm listening to Badfinger singing it on YouTube. This is awful, haha.
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All By Myself - Rachmaninoff (sung by Eric Carmen)
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The other day on X-Factor or some such there was a load of people who thought "Without You" by Harry Nilsson was by Mariah Carey :lol: .
Actually there's a lot of songs by Harry Nilsson which he is largely uncredited for. My favourite songwriter :)
Yeah, Nilsson is ace.
+1
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Didn't mean to pull you up Indy sorry. I agree though that the Nilsson version is way superior to that by Badfinger. Having said that, listen to their "No Matter What" and "Day After Day".
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The Monkees - I'm a Believer - written by Neil Diamond....
Because the Night - Patti Smith - Springsteen song
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Because the Night - Patti Smith - Springsteen song
this one took me by surprise... honestly i thought it was hers! :o
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Twist & Shout being an Isley Brother song.
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I've heard of people thinking that Hallowed Be Thy Name was written by Cradle of Filth. *shudder*
Same with Breadfan - Metallica (even though it kills the Budgie version IMO.) and some people actually thinking that Walk was an original of that awful band Avenged Sevenfold's.
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Behind Blues Eyes - Limp Bizkit, original by The Who
ah yes, how dare they! along those lines I think Eminem covered an Aerosmith song.....there should be a law against stuff like that...
how bout "Hey Joe" - Hendrix, originally The Leaves I think...
That'd be Dream On turned into Sing For The Moment.. Joe Perry actually contributed an outro solo, so I guess it was endorsed. :(
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how bout "Hey Joe" - Hendrix, originally The Leaves I think...
SERIOUS?!
That I didn't know..
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I don't know if it's been said but Land of Confusion was by Genesis, not Disturbed.
Wasn't Whiskey in the Jar a folk song even before the Dubliners recorded it?
Oh and I have an ex who believes the Nirvana Unplugged album is all original material :D
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Whiskey In The Jar is as ould as tae, as we say round these parts. It's a mash of an even older song about a highwayman called Patrick Fleming, the melody comes from a reel that's probably even older than that (I found it in a book of fiddle music from 1860, for one thing). There's a few hundred variants of it as well, as befits this kind of thing.
The one that annoys me is "I Put A Spell On You". Telling people that's not a Nina Simone original has led to proper stand-up arguments.
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How about Love is All Around? Big hit for Wet Wet Wet off the back of Four Weddings..., but was actually a Troggs song.
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How about Love is All Around? Big hit for Wet Wet Wet off the back of Four Weddings..., but was actually a Troggs song.
I think I've got the original single somewhere!
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I don't know if it's been said but Land of Confusion was by Genesis, not Disturbed.
:lol:
How about Love is All Around? Big hit for Wet Wet Wet off the back of Four Weddings..., but was actually a Troggs song.
Ha! I didn't know that one.
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I don't know if it's been said but Land of Confusion was by Genesis, not Disturbed.
:lol:
Fell off the sofa :lol:
Isn't Whiskey in a Jar a folk song :? :lol:
Animal (I $%&# like a beast) wasn't penned by Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P but Englebert Humperdink but his mum forbade him from performing it live. I know, that's what I thought.
Disgusting isn't it.
What a huge load of bollocks!! :lol: :lol:
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Animal (I $%&# like a beast) wasn't penned by Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P but Englebert Humperdink but his mum forbade him from performing it live. I know, that's what I thought.
Disgusting isn't it.
Fantastic. I think I remember that - didn't the album cover have Blackie wearing a cod-piece with a circular saw blade coming out of it?
Mark.
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Behind Blues Eyes - Limp Bizkit, original by The Who
ah yes, how dare they! along those lines I think Eminem covered an Aerosmith song.....there should be a law against stuff like that...
how bout "Hey Joe" - Hendrix, originally The Leaves I think...
That'd be Dream On turned into Sing For The Moment.. Joe Perry actually contributed an outro solo, so I guess it was endorsed. :(
He actually re-recorded the riff for it as well. He always felt the original was way too whimpy (like Slash with Sweet Child).
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Love the leaves version..think is an unknown source for hey joe
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Van Halen did a great load of Covers
You Really Got Me - Kinks
Ice Cream man - John Brim
Oh Pretty Woman - Roy ORbison
Dancing on The streets - Martha and Vandellas
etc
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Animal (I $%&# like a beast) wasn't penned by Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P but Englebert Humperdink but his mum forbade him from performing it live. I know, that's what I thought.
Disgusting isn't it.
Fantastic. I think I remember that - didn't the album cover have Blackie wearing a cod-piece with a circular saw blade coming out of it?
Mark.
That was Englebert
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Just been watching the wire (season 1) and love the title music (Way Down in the Hole). Little did I realise that it is a Tom Waits song. I am supposed to be a Tom Waits fan and even have the album that it is on - I am thorougly ashamed of myself.
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Kate bush - Running up that hill, came to mind. :roll:
Covered by Placebo and ummm..... cant think of that cheesy band.....within temptation thats the one.
Its on many soundtracks and stuff. I first heard placebos cover on Bones.
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Amazing but true
Valerie by Amy shiteehouse was written (and released) by The Zutons
:lol:
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Animal (I $%&# like a beast) wasn't penned by Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P but Englebert Humperdink but his mum forbade him from performing it live. I know, that's what I thought.
Disgusting isn't it.
Fantastic. I think I remember that - didn't the album cover have Blackie wearing a cod-piece with a circular saw blade coming out of it?
No, it was a picture (thankfully a painting rather than a photograph) of a Doberman sniffing a scantily clad young lady's crotch.
My mother burned my copy of Metal Hammer that had it advertised on the back cover :lol:
EDIT: Just remembered, that was actually the single of Animal rather than the album...
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"The Green Manalishi with the Two Pronged Crown" (or whatever it's called) isn't a Judas Priest original.
(Would have to google it to find out who originally wrote it though...)
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"The Green Manalishi with the Two Pronged Crown" (or whatever it's called) isn't a Judas Priest original.
(Would have to google it to find out who originally wrote it though...)
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era)