neverknows wrote:Snarfyguy wrote:neverknows wrote:Isn't Neil Young difficult to cover?
The Feelies used to do Powderfinger and Sedan Delivery pretty well.
And I'm a Feelies fan!
Were those on the 12" with the Beatle covers?
neverknows wrote:Snarfyguy wrote:neverknows wrote:Isn't Neil Young difficult to cover?
The Feelies used to do Powderfinger and Sedan Delivery pretty well.
And I'm a Feelies fan!
Quaco wrote:Are you fucking high?
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.
neverknows wrote:'Sedan Delivery' is on The Good Earth. They did 'Barstool Blues' too, for a French promo CD. 'Powderfinger' I'm not sure.
Jimbo wrote:Look, all I know is pretty much what I get from Robert Parry over at Consortium News.
The Slider wrote:And anyone for that horrible Like A Hurricane by Roxy Music?
Jimbo wrote:Look, all I know is pretty much what I get from Robert Parry over at Consortium News.
Beno wrote:Saint Etienne did 'Only Love Can break Your Heart'.
The Slider wrote:You'd think it was just that his simplicity and individualism makes his own versions definitive and all others completely superfluous (as I personally think the Pixies' Winterlong is - it is a carbon copy).
But then there is Bob Dylan.
And there are hundreds of brilliant interpretations of Bob's songs.
I don't know why, it is just is.
Corporate Whore wrote:Personally I'd like to hear Frank Sidebottom take a stab at Rockin' in the Free World.
neverknows wrote:Snarfyguy wrote:neverknows wrote:'Sedan Delivery' is on The Good Earth. They did 'Barstool Blues' too, for a French promo CD. 'Powderfinger' I'm not sure.
They used to play it live; it might not have come out on a record.
There actually is a recorded version by Feelies side project Yung Wu, opening their Shore Leave album.
Jimbo wrote:Look, all I know is pretty much what I get from Robert Parry over at Consortium News.
neverknows wrote:Maybe Neil Young is more a performer than a songwriter. Dylan is (was) both, his own versions of his songs are often definitive, but many songs clearly have (had) pop / soul / etc potential. Put on Solomon Burke's 'Maggie's Farm' in a party and only those who know the song will think 'Dylan'. It is always great to tell the others: 'You are actually dancing to a Bob Dylan song'.
The Slider wrote:
With Dylan all the great cover versions seem to be of his more stripped back and less musically involved songs - Ferry's Hard Rain, Hendrix's Watchtower, The Byrds Mr Tambourine Man/My Back Pages, Rod's Tomorrow is a Long Time etc etc .
No one ever did an interesting version of anything off Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 did they?
geoffcowgill wrote:The Slider wrote:
With Dylan all the great cover versions seem to be of his more stripped back and less musically involved songs - Ferry's Hard Rain, Hendrix's Watchtower, The Byrds Mr Tambourine Man/My Back Pages, Rod's Tomorrow is a Long Time etc etc .
No one ever did an interesting version of anything off Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 did they?
I take your point, and for the most part agree, but I think Nina Simone's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is the exception to this.