Robby Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Pictures At An Exhibition - Emerson Lake & Palmer (Modest Mussorgsky) Well, it almost was a cover.I don't think Mussorgsky wrote a piece into the composition for playing feedback by balancing an organ on it's side.But I did buy a orchestral version of this piece after listening and loving ELP's album Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Pictures At An Exhibition - Emerson Lake & Palmer (Modest Mussorgsky) Well, it almost was a cover.I don't think Mussorgsky wrote a piece into the composition for playing feedback by balancing an organ on it's side.But I did buy a orchestral version of this piece after listening and loving ELP's albumWhich brings to mind ELP's take on Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" that I only knew the ELP version of until mid-80s..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 'Girls Talk' by Dave Edmunds before I heard Elvis Costello's original.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT0cwGYwUzAi think i heard the Linda Ronstadt version before the EC version. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Can you imagine what it would have been like if we thought The Beatles in the early 60's sounded as silly as Vanilla Ice did in the early 90's? Vanilla Ice's silliness has more to do with being Vanilla Ice, and less with his chosen cultural appropriation. Though white artists in hip hop are the minority, the Beastie Boys and Eminem are legit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Los Lobos: La Bamba, before Richie Valens. Bowie's China Girl before Iggy Pop (though, since they both wrote it, I suppose it isn't a cover. But, Iggy's was definitely released before Bowie's.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Vanilla Ice's silliness has more to do with being Vanilla Ice, and less with his chosen cultural appropriation. Though white artists in hip hop are the minority, the Beastie Boys and Eminem are legit.What about Blondie/Debbie Harry, the original white rapper? Or Snow? Or 3rd Bass? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 What about Blondie/Debbie Harry, the original white rapper? Or Snow? Or 3rd Bass?http://www.mtv.com/news/2905399/a-condensed-history-of-white-rappers/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 http://www.mtv.com/news/2905399/a-condensed-history-of-white-rappers/I heard the Blondie version of "Hanging On the Telephone" before the original by The Nerves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robby Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I used to think it was funny when I saw some white 16 year old driving around with his windows down singing/rapping along with Tupac until I thought, "well you used to do the same thing when you were 16" - it was just the Beatles or Stones covering Chuck Berry. Maybe I'm just getting to be an old curmudgeon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 What about Blondie/Debbie Harry, the original white rapper? Or Snow? Or 3rd Bass?a friend of mine likes to post A LICKY BOOM BOOM DOWN as Facebook comments every now and then. pretty much always cracks me up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I heard Cyndi Lauper doing Girls Just Want to Have Fun before the Robert Hazard original version. I heard Cyndi Lauper doing Money Changes Everything before the Brains original version. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I heard the Subsonics version of Love Comes in Spurts before hearing the Richard Hell and the Voidoids original. Or actually, I guess the Voidoids version wasn't the first recording of it, although it is a Richard Hell song. I think the Neon Boys recorded it first, and the Heartbreakers did it, too, but I don't know if they recorded it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Hangin' On The Telephone - Blondie, then Nerves Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 ouch Hangin' On The Telephone - Blondie, then Nerves I heard the Blondie version of "Hanging On the Telephone" before the original by The Nerves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 funny that your Blondie/white rapper post prompted both of us w/ the same post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
suites Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I heard Cyndi Lauper doing Girls Just Want to Have Fun before the Robert Hazard original version. I heard Cyndi Lauper doing Money Changes Everything before the Brains original version.Not sure I ever heard the hazard version and it says on wiki that he only recorded a demo. Curious to hear it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
worldrecordplayer Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Hangin' On The Telephone - Blondie, then Nerves Another one I had no idea. This is an education. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 funny that your Blondie/white rapper post prompted both of us w/ the same post.There's not a single person here who heard the original of Tide Is High first either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chez Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Iggy's version of "Something Wild" before John Hiatt's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Another one I had no idea. This is an education. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I wanna Be Your Man-Rolling Stones Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doug C Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hw846vx_uk Sonny Curtis is still around. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 I heard the Blondie version of "Hanging On the Telephone" before the original by The Nerves. Me too! I only got into the Nerves a few years ago and I love them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 There's not a single person here who heard the original of Tide Is High first either.i didn't know it was a cover! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 i bet Elastica's "Connection" was the first time a good chunk of people heard Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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