TOTP2

[mrph]

(yes, I know, it's still going on, but the Carpenters aren't holding my full attention right now...)

Nice as it was to see Bowie do "Heroes", I'm somewhat traumatised by the Rattles - I'd never actually heard of them before, and until now I'd been blissfully unaware that Rosetta Stone's "The Witch" was actually a cover. Eeek.

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[sarcaustik.livejournal.com]

They're a bit scary, aren't they? I was familiar with that one, but what I didn't know until Sunday night was that The Damned's 'Eloise' was a cover version. I was also massively shocked when I first found out that "Like a Hurricane" which always seemed to me to be full of pure Wayne-isms, was actually originally by Neil Young! So there you go!

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I saw that video on TOTP a few years ago and was amazed that the original was done in the early 1970's!

I had a flatmate in the US who loved Current 93/DiJ/Boyd Rice and she played a song on one of her CDs and I then played the original: Blue Oyster Cult's "This Ain't the Summer of Love". She was quite surprised...so was I since Current 93 didn't credit BOC.

[mina-laury.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it was you who told me it was a cover.

Oh well, maybe it was someone else, but you're the only person I'll usually sit still and be instructed about music by...

*shrug*

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Whereas I'd always known the Rattles version and have always wondered what the cover was like. How different/similar is it?

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[mrph.livejournal.com]

Growly male vocals, slightly more oomph to it (Sisters of Mercyish goth-with-guitar style), and otherwise not much different. As someone said on upg, all the things that made the cover successful (screechy violins etc) are poached directly from the original.

But it does drop the mad laughter. Which is good.