[kj] KJ Covers

[Rob Moss]

Thing is with covers is that, at the time, you think your version is great. I still think our version of stand and deliver is!!

But it's never good enough is it?

If your favorite band does a cover of something you have never heard, then on a personal basis it can work. White rabbit by the damned is great in my opinion. I hadn't heard the original at the time and still prefer the damned version, no doubt others will hate it. 

We have that jokey version of wardance but actually could do a proper vocal and mix it better. But for what??? A bit of attention seeking perhaps...........

Good a reason as any I suppose , in 9 out of 10 cases probably the prime motivator. Maybe we should!



I always wondered why the clash did covers but on reflection can see that some of their output was pretty patchy!! At the time though I believed they were done in homage to the originals. Quite agree that I fought the law was done very well

Covers for b sides is ok I suppose but I do recall being thoroughly let down by that banshees covers album. That was a pretty wet affair considering their original material at the time was pretty strong. 

I should not like to hear killing joke do a cover  though. the bodies thing was really just throw away mucking about. But can you imagine them doing it now? What would the point be?
A dreadful thought!!!!!

Yuck!


On 23 Jan 2011, at 21:38, GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com> wrote:


> 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?

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> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:04:12 -0800

> From: saulomar1 at yahoo.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] KJ Covers

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> 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."

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> Also, was the Specials' "Maggie's Farm" a cover?

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> 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

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> 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!

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> From: LONESTYLE at aol.com

> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:03:34 -0500

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] KJ Covers

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

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> ~ LB

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> 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?

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> I think they should cover The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black."

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