prince doing Just my imagination

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. Al Green's version kicks major ass.
We Can Work It Out-Stevie Wonder

blue monday-orgy
shade and honey-alessandro nivola
leaving on a jet plane-p.j. harvey & bjork
i've got no strings-wendy and lisa

I am sure there are more but I can't think of any that everyone else hasn't already mentioned

Song To The Siren-Liz Fraser(Cocteau Twins) does a beautiful version of this Tim Buckley song on the first This Mortal Coil album
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Rock And Roll Radio, originally by The Ramones, covered by KISS on the tribute album. I never thought anyone could top The Ramones on one of their songs but KISS did it. IT's bigger, more fun, and ooooohhh those horns.

Mikey

Most covers of Beatles songs. The boys were cool, but I love updates on their pieces.

ThreadBare said:

its like Odoulles beer or something, however its spelled..

PMDAWN - Superstition


simpy kicks arse.

EvilWhiteMale said:

that is the original





you have got to be kidding me! Blasphemy & outrage!!!!

EvilWhiteMale said:

Are you sure you want to confess to liking Orgy in public?

Novabreaker said:

I'll second that EWM, Orgy do a killer version of Blue Monday.

And for the record Novabreaker, have you actually properly heard any Orgy albums?
Cos it seems a bit like when people describe Leonard Cohen as depressing - you know, people who haven't actually listened to his music.

Orgy are a great band, so there!

Clubkid said

NOT a cover !

[gettheorgersdamnnamesrightedit]
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abierman said:

not that isn't the original... the song was originally done in the 60s by soul singer gloria jones... personally, i prefer gloria's version... it's not as wimpy as the soft cell version...

AsylumUtopia said:[quote]

Novabreaker said:

may very well be, but still they raped New Order's 'Blue Monday', a modern classic that they shouldn't have touched!
I don't know how old/young you all are (I'm in my 30's) but I can still very well remember when this song was a hit and how I liked it then alreday!
I don't know Orgy, but it seems that they have scored with one killer song which wasn't theirs....where are they know?

Venus - Bananarama

abierman said:

Well, I'm also in my thirties, and of course remember the original Blue Monday, a classic. I love the original, but New Order lose points for that vile remix of it they did in the 90's (a bit like 1999:TNM).

I agree with you to a certain extent, in that classics really shouldn't be touched as they are usually mangled and murdered by inferior musicians with no talent of their own and a complete reliance on stealing the work of others. However, I don't think this is the case with Orgy. In fact, I didn't even know they released it as a single, I assumed it was just an album track.

I only actually discovered Orgy by accident - I was working in Denver and happened to pick up Vapour Transmission to look at the cover art. I liked the cover art so much I decided to do something I've only done a handful of times in my life - buy an album completely unknown to me. If their cover of Blue Monday is the only Orgy song you've heard then I can assure you you know nothing of their musical capabilities. I loved Vapour Transmission so much I bought Candyass on the strength of it, which is when I heard their cover of Blue Monday. If I had heard it as a single I probably would not have bought Candyass on the strentgh of it, but having said that, I think you do them an injustice by saying they raped the song. This is one of the best cover versions I have ever heard. They stick to the orginal's style, the don't change the lyrics (unlike many morons trying to 'personalise' their covers - and that includes Prince - "just a slave like one of us" yeeuuuuggghhhh!), about all they've done to it is grunge it up a little bit.

OK, so you don't like it, but I could probably name hundreds of stomach-turning cover versions that should never have been allowed, and that are far worse than Orgy's Blue Monday.

As for where they are now? I have no idea. A quick web search didn't tell me much (apart from "the search string you have entered is likely to return adult content"). I gather that they have done nothing since Vapour Transmission. It sounds, then, as if they were one-hit-wonders, doing a cover, which is dissapointing. I could choose plenty of possible singles from their albums that would have served them better.

P.S. Can you come to Ireland and teach the brewers here how to make REAL beer; I'm sick of the expensive fizzy yellow piss they make here.

"La Vie En Rose"--Grace Jones. Edith Piaf did it in the 40s. Leave to Grace though to give it new flava.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that guite a few old songs were covered in the 80s. I've already mentioned "Venus" and "Tainted Love."

abierman said:

Novabreaker said:

That's the only song of theirs that I know, so I can't say I actually like them, just that song.

A couple of these have already been mentioned, but I still have to mention them:

Lay Lady Lay- Duran Duran (Originally Dylan)
I'm On Fire- Tori Amos (originally Springsteen)
I can't make you love me- George Michael (originally Raitt)
Hurt- Johnny Cash (Originally Nine Inch Nails)
Nobody Does It Better- Radiohead (originally Carly Simon, I believe)
A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall- Edie Brickell (originally Dylan)
Get Down Make Love- Nine Inch Nails (originally Queen)
Tourniquet- Rasputina (originally Marilyn Manson)
Smells Like Teen Spirit- Tori Amos (originally Nirvana)
Raining Blood- Tori Amos (originally Slayer)
Dancing Barefoot- U2 (originally Patti Smith)
Crazy- Patsy Cline (originally Willie Nelson)
White Lines- Duran Duran (originally Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five)
Black no.1- Electric Hellfire Club (Originally Type O Negative)

Ones I don't like more than the original, but still deserve a mention because they are so good:

A Case Of You- Tori Amos (originally Joni Mitchell)
The Scientist- Aimee Mann (originally Coldplay)
Up From The Skies- Sting (originally Hendrix)
Night And Day- U2 (originally Sinatra)
Gold Dust Woman- Hole (originally Fleetwood Mac)
I'm Your Boogieman- White Zombie (originally KC & The Sunshine Band)
Brick House- Rob Zombie & Lionel Ritchie (originally the Commadores)
Physical (you're so)- Nine Inch Nails (originally Adam Ant)
Sweet Dreams (are made of this)- Marilyn Manson (originally the Eurythmics)
Two Of Us- Aimee Mann & Michael Penn (originally The Beatles)




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JediMaster said:



Rasputina is awesome, though I still love the original better. I wish they'd do it live.

okaypimpn said:

ditto
co-sign
i concur

D'Angelo...voice like butter...body like dayum!!

lillith said:

Ever heard the slowed down version thats around 8 minutes?

definant sex song.

ooh ooh ooh


i forgot one of my faves...

'Lately'- Jodeci (stevie Wonder)
love Stevies version...but the Jodeci remake just makes me wanna get nekkid and freak!!!

lillith said:

DAMN STRAIGHT.. Best Version Ever (the Live One)

Whips Stevies version by far. Thats soul.

EvilWhiteMale said:

Well, I absolutely LOVE the original (as I do in most cases), but I'm crazy about theirs!

maxwell's cover of kate b's

'this woman's work'

kicks much ass

the brotha kills it

i first heard maxwell's

version while watching

the movie love and basketball

i thought it was prince singing

maxwell's falsesetto is brilliant

i thank he been drinkin

that purple koolaid