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PrintableSerious said: CalhounSq said: Serious said: I really LOVE Booker T. & The MGs and TTD doing "A Change Is Gonna Come" a fantastic version of a fantastic song...
 WHAAAT?? Where can I get this??  You can find it on 3 different releases: TTD's Greatest Hits (single CD / lim.ed.double CD from 2003) The Promised Land (double CD from 1995) Freedom - Songs from the Heart Of America (3 CD Boxset from 2003) Thanks  I just went to Amazon & got the Greatest Hits, don't know why I didn't get this before    I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it | |
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isaac hayes...
no one has ever done a better job of transforming other people's songs and making them sound like his own... walk on by by the time i get to phoenix i stand accused the look of love you've lost that loving feeling if loving you is wrong (i don't want to be right) and then johnny cash runs a close second as far as making other people's songs sound like he wrote them... rock island line dark as a dungeon it ain't me babe don't think twice, it's alright sunday morning coming down highway patrolman never has this been more true of johnny cash than in the 90s, now that he's has signed to american recordings... the beast in me bird on a wire rusty cage southern accents i won't back down one the mercy seat hurt bridge over troubled water i suppose it's because both cash and issac hayes are such master songwriters... it enables them to do more with a someone else's song that just cover it note for note... they transform them into something completely new and seperate from the original song... and a good portion of the time, you cease to associate these songs with their original artists...  Mr. Ellis Dee-licious, the Official NPGigolo 
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My all time fav. is
Jimi Hendrix All ALong the Watchtower, ... the moodiness the meaning the extra he gives to that song... still gives me thrills everytime I hear it... | |
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Harlepolis said: Lauryn Hill-I Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Yes, when I first heard that song it sent a chill down my spine it was so CLEVER.  | |
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Tricky's 'Black Steel'. "London, i've adopted a name that has no pronounciation.... is that cool with you?"
"YEAH!!!" "Yeah, well then fuck those other fools!" | |
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Might as well get my two cents in...
Grace Jones--"Warm Leatherette" Erasure--"Solsbury Hill" Pet Shop Boys--"Always on my Mind" Peter Murphy--"Love Me Tender" Prince--"I Can't Make You Love Me" George Michael--"Killer/Papa Was a Rolling Stone" David Bowie--"Let's Spend the Night Together" Frank Zappa--"Stairway to Heaven" (from his "The Best You Never Heard in Your Life" CD) | |
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Blackcat said: Harlepolis said: Lauryn Hill-I Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Yes, when I first heard that song it sent a chill down my spine it was so CLEVER. Actualy her version is my FAVE and it made me explore other versions. SonnySixkiller said:[qoute]Prince--"I Can't Make You Love Me"[/quote] I'm glad I'm not the only one who like it, I think ppl are so shady when it comes 2 Prince covering other stuff. Here are more: I Feel 4 You-Chaka Khan Hotel Calisfornia-Rene & Angela Inner City Bluse-Angela Winbush I Learned 2 Respect The Power Of Love-Stephanie Mills Purple Rain-Randy Crowford Till you come back 2 me, thats what I'm gonna do-Miki Howard The Billie Holiday tribute LP-Etta James Come 2ghether-Ike & Tina Hair-Chaka Khan The End Of A Love Affair-Chaka Khan Get It Up-TLC I Love 2 Love You Baby-No Doubt I'm Every Woman-Whitney Houston Love Don't Live Here Anymore-Faith Evans | |
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George Michael does a lot of great covers. some of my favorites:
Somebody To Love Killer/Papa Was A Rollin' Stone Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me As and many others. | |
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Anita Baker you belong to me, excellent remake!!! | |
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Here is an artist who I have heard almost nothing BUT covers from...Joe Cocker. I love his versions A Little Help From my Friends, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, The Letter, and more. I fuckin love this guys voice. Also props to John Belushi for doing a DEAD ON impersonastion of Joe Cocker on SNL back in the day!
I really like Oasis' version of I Am the Walrus (I'm on a Beatles kick at the moment, what can I say). Annie Lennox's Medusa CD...I know some people dump on it, but I really like A Whiter Shade of Pale, Don't Let it Bring You Down, and the Paul Simon song she covers. I also think Prince's cover version's are really underrated. His versions of I Can't Make U Love Me, One of Us, La La La Means I Love U, and all the covers he did at the ONA shows are very good. My all time fave cover tho...Jimi's version of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower".  | |
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