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prophet:marginal wrote: Tue May 26, 2020 7:36 pm Thank the lord you didn't sling up that terrible version by Excepter!!
Haha, oh yeah. That's great too! :wink:
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Wet Wet Wet did two good covers of :

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His version of Piece of my Heart is superb as well.
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They Might Be Giants version of the psychetastic ‘I Enjoy Being a Boy’



Is a great cover of the original by none other than The Banana Splits (which is great too) :

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Nice to see Gary Jules making an appearance in both this thread and its counterpart. :D

Today's contribution - beautiful.

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WCpete wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 2:07 am
Wrong thread, that's an absolutely Terrible Cover Version!
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Another couple of famous covers, though the Happy Mondays did contribute the immortal new line "You're Twisting my Melons!"




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WestHamIFC wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 1:31 pm Another couple of famous covers, though the Happy Mondays did contribute the immortal new line "You're Twisting my Melons!"


I had no idea this was a cover version. I just checked out the original and the Mondays' version is definitely better!
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Probably the greatest...

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Not the obvious Lemonheads cover, but this is them doing one of the best songs ever written....
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Korea Hammer wrote: Tue May 26, 2020 7:17 pm A few more...

Robert Smith liked this so much that The Cure changed the way they played the song live to sound more like it.

My mate James recorded this for me on a C90 compilation. I assumed for years that the tape had just run out at the end.
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Not well-represented here, but in the film they were imaginative.

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I heard this on Mary-Anne Hobbs's show today:


And then I found that they did this too:
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