Cats, due to popular demand, here we are.
If any of you have heard a song of late that you’ve never heard before or a new cover of a song you love, then you know what to do.
Post it, preferably with a film clip in the comments.
Otherwise, just post your favourite songs.
Given we’re existing in a very uncertain time in human history, there’s nothing wrong with a bit of escapism.
Such as this:
Let’s have some tunes, Cats!
The latest ear worm here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq-VOt-02XY
Flo and Eddie sound like interesting gentlemen.
The wild ones …
Hi, Neetha!
Actually a cover (not many people know that:
What’s So Funny ’bout Peace, Love & Understanding.
I saw this line up live c. 1978.
I think this was the encore.
Hey Joe
Hanging on the telephone
BM sporting four exhausts:
Them – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue ( ROCKER 1972 )
The new Stones LP is pretty good. They still have it!
The Rolling Stones – Mess It Up (20 Oct)
Gerry Rafferty – Get It Right Next Time
The YT sidebar just put this one up for me, since I’ve linked Black Crowes tracks in the past. Cheating I know, since this is the first time have seen or listened to it, but hey.
The Black Crowes – Wanting and Waiting (15 Mar)
Yep the album isn’t out until next week, but they’ve already uploaded this one. It’s pretty good. The antics on stage are cheesy but the music is good bluesy rock.
Ah…the mid ’80s; Dickey Betts rocking a skinny tie and a Les Paul Goldtop.
He’s long since retired on the royalties from Top Gear.
A great cover of a classic radio song from my youth (featuring the songwriter):
Listen to the Music
Flash And The Pan — Midnight Man
Eight minutes of utter bombast, Cats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVJPgCn-Z8
The sort of pure pop that her late husband was incapable of …
Arguably…nay, probably the greatest cover version of all time.
Animotion – Obsession
Aerosmith – Rag Doll
Beck – Devils Haircut
Two great & lovely female singers from the 1960s covering ‘Different Drum’, written by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees fame:
P.P. Arnold
Linda Ronstadt
With an honourable mention …
The Four Tops in 1967 covering The Left Banke’s 1966 baroque pop masterpiece:
Walk Away Renee
Chuckle.
For poor ol’ Pol Dot …
🙂
Not a cover, but often covered by others:
Gimme Some Lovin’
Reportedly written in half an hour under pressure to come up with a hit.
Paul Wallee and the Yamz! 🙂
Keep on runnin‘, Rog! 🙂
Steve Winwood…often reduced to opening for acts that don’t have a tenth of his talent.
Not sure what went wrong there.
It’s strange, Cats …
Singin’ In The Bathtub
err, a young womanage who might just happen to be a bit sassy …
Rumours Of Fleetwood Mack:
“Gold Dust Woman” Fleetwood Mac performed by Rumours of Fleetwood Mac (2022)
Because lerve is just the sweetest thang …
The delicious irony of Weller’s later work
Riverside
ah, think I’m in trooble … 😕
Bucc – Paul Walleee, lookin’ like the gangster he always imagined himself to be … 🙂
Weird Al, no send up dressed like Buddy Holly, doing Toto with the band who’s biggest hit was named Buddy Holly
Heaven’s at the end of this alleyway …
Weller does a great protest song, but his lyrics sound like they don’t belong to the left anymore
Bucc, I always preferred Walleee’s love songs as opposed to his protest songs.
The former hit hard in all the right places, the latter is him just engaging in empty sloganeering.
One of my favourite Paul Walleee songs
Reminds me of a long lost love …
Good fun.
Back to the Future | Marty McFly Plays “Johnny B. Goode” and “Earth Angel”
you’ve never seen something like this before
feelings
Cover versions – one of the best ever for a Beatles song is from an unlikely Australian band called Zoot – here.
Looking it up (I wanted to check the details) I discovered that everyone and his/her dog has covered Eleanor Rigby, especially a roll call of American blues/jazz/soul artists. It’s a haunting song.
Daryl Cotton on vocals, Beeb Birtles bass and Rick Brewster guitar. It’s rough and raw, and I love it!
Someone upthread mentioned Flo and Eddie, aka The Turtles. They were a couple of edgy comedians, and did a memorable stint with Frank Zappa. Their piece about groupies, on Mothers Live at the Fillmore East, still makes me chuckle after decades of listenings. I had the good luck to see them live once, and they were a hoot.
Further to cover versions, blues and blues-influenced rock is 95% cover versions. So is a lot of folk and folk rock.
But if the definition is directly copying a recent song, an award must go to the Easybeats. David Bowie covered Friday on My Mind, a huge compliment from a megastar. 🙂
Where Will the Dimple Be?
Don’t you
Forget about me …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A&list=RD5mPJXdNEVKw
Del Shannon Under my Thumb
Matrix 1:10 pm
The cover of feeling is indescribable from the original I am so in reply intwined with
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OfAaE2skMyNtZtzhlpA5q?si=e7AQNttIQnayQwTUWSUm-A&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Amorros%2Balbert%2Bfeelings
Sweet Home Alabama by The Leningrad Cowboys backed by the Red Army Choir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4aecZhFsqA
Damnfine version of “Knocking on Heavens Door” by Mark Knofler.
context
play it from 2:11 for all it’s dick-slapping glory
I’ve been getting back into James Brown a bit lately..
How can you beat this for a performance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRubq5D-3kM
.. and a bit of smoooth 70’s funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mjovmCPftU
a bit of left field – this has to be the best use of music in a movie/show scene I’ve seen for some time..
Letterkenny – Dierks getting caught
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSrdL7jIO70
(for background. The chick in the red top is Katy, who’s going to the US to surprise her boyfriend, Dierks.
Wayne (Katy’s brother) has warned Dierks not to mess with his sister, and has been tipped off that he’s been cheating on her, so the whole town drives over the border to kick the living sh*t out of him).
This Have a Cigar cover may have come up before — fantastic..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6StQfLNbw