[kj] KJ Covers

[GREG SLAWSON]

Yes, the original Police and Thieves is better...I'm pretty sure Maggie's Farm is a Dylan song--isn't the Specials version terrible though?
 


Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:04:12 -0800
From: saulomar1 at yahoo.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] KJ Covers







I'd hear their (Clash) "Police and Thieves" after i'd heard the original, and, oooof, I wish they hadn't, but I really like their "I fought the Law" and "Police on my back." 
 
Also, was the Specials' "Maggie's Farm" a cover?






From: GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>
To: gathering <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Sat, January 22, 2011 9:56:32 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] KJ Covers



I hate covers, but judicially chosen and creatively executed, they can work. Look at the Clash's covers--a twisted yet still good version of "Police and Thieves", a better version of a too-mellow ska tune "Wrong 'Em Boyo" (slightly
different spelling on the JA version), a great reggae version of an old blues song or something in "Junco Pardner", a differnt but no-better-than-the-original version of "I Fought the Law" (the original was great too), and
an amazing version of an amazing song, "Police On My Back" (the original was by some biracial 60s group--name begins w/E--and Eddie Grant I think was the lead singer and that song was an great example of 60s garage/psychedelic...And what about the great Specials' covers--A Message to You Rudy, Monkey Man, Enjoy Yourself--any band that can improve on jems like those are gods!
 


From: LONESTYLE at aol.com
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:03:34 -0500
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] KJ Covers


No one. I just want to hear original songs of The Joke.... not cover songs.:)
 
~ LB
 

In a message dated 1/22/2011 2:57:46 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, saulomar1 at yahoo.com writes:


But.. who has Killing Joke covered?
Name some creative covers you think they should try, or any artists KJ actually has covered?
 
I think they should cover The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black."
 


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