I Heard the Cover Version First

[Winston Legthigh]

i didn't know it was a cover!

 

Question for the cool kids: How come when the cool kids post youtube links, the video is embedded, but when pissants like me do it, only the link appears?

[radiatortunes]

That's a good question. I was wondering the same.

[PopTodd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc

 

Question for the cool kids: How come when the cool kids post youtube links, the video is embedded, but when pissants like me do it, only the link appears?

You gotta use the tag:

[ video] link [/video ]

Only no spaces anywhere where I have put spaces above. I just did that so it wouldn't render.

[Winston Legthigh]

You gotta use the tag:

[ video] link [/video ]

Only no spaces anywhere where I have put spaces above. I just did that so it wouldn't render.

SWEET!

 

Watch me blow up the you tube thread.

[Doug C]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc

 

Question for the cool kids: How come when the cool kids post youtube links, the video is embedded, but when pissants like me do it, only the link appears?

I'm far from a cool kid, but I learned from perusing VC itself.    (Just having a laugh, sir) I find it easier than the above method.

 

http://viachicago.org/topic/49411-embedding-youtube-videos/

[Winston Legthigh]

I'm far from a cool kid, but I learned from perusing VC itself.    (Just having a laugh, sir)

 

http://viachicago.org/topic/49411-embedding-youtube-videos/

oh sure!

[jff]

I heard Tin Machine do Maggie's Farm before Dylan.

[Winston Legthigh]

I heard Tin Machine do Maggie's Farm before Dylan.

 

That is utterly amazing. Not that you heard any version before Dylan, but that someone mentioned Tin Machine. 

[Doug C]

    

[jff]

That is utterly amazing. Not that you heard any version before Dylan, but that someone mentioned Tin Machine. 

I f-ing LOVED Tin Machine so much that I made a stencil out of a cardboard box and spray painted their name on one of my t-shirts so I could wear it proudly to school on out-of-uniform day.  Back then, there was no internet, so the only way to hear this song was to buy an obscure import 12".  I still like most of their first album, but rarely listen to it.

 

I also heard Tin Machine do Roxy Music's If There is Something looooooong before I ever heard any Roxy Music songs (with the possible exception of Love Is a Drug).

[Robby]

Not sure if anyone has already mentioned these:

 

Great Atomic Power - Uncle Tupelo (The Louvin Brothers)

No Depression - Uncle Tupelo (The Carter Family)

Left In The Dark - Uncle Tupelo (The Vertebrats)

I Want To Destroy You - Uncle Tupelo (The Soft Boys)

 

I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can think off of the top of by head.

 

BTW, listen to Great Atomic Power and then follow it up with I Want To Destroy You. Its a great mix.

[Winston Legthigh]

Speaking of Louvin Brothers, I first heard the Byrds' Christian Life before the LB's version.

[Doug C]

Speaking of Louvin Brothers, I first heard the Byrds' Christian Life before the LB's version.

Me too. Of course it's possible I heard Charlie and Ira's original when I was very young, as country records took up about half of our drive in's jukebox and mom always had country radio on. What a song.

 

Of the Byrds' covers, I prefer Gram's to Roger's. 

[uncool2pillow]

Iggy's version of "Something Wild" before John Hiatt's.

 

Hiatt wrote that for Iggy; I think at Don Was's request.

 

 

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I f-ing LOVED Tin Machine so much that I made a stencil out of a cardboard box and spray painted their name on one of my t-shirts so I could wear it proudly to school on out-of-uniform day. Back then, there was no internet, so the only way to hear this song was to buy an obscure import 12". I still like most of their first album, but rarely listen to it.

 

I also heard Tin Machine do Roxy Music's If There is Something looooooong before I ever heard any Roxy Music songs (with the possible exception of Love Is a Drug).

 

Tim Machine I is highly underrated. Tin Machine II is a flaming pile of shit.

 

 

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[lost highway]

I Want To Destroy You - Uncle Tupelo (The Soft Boys)

Interesting, me in 7th grade:

 

I Want To Destroy You - Circle Jerks (The Soft Boys)

[brownie]

Bobby Fuller Four.And, by your post, I am assuming that you don't know anything else that Bobby Fuller did, either. That is something that you need to remedy immediately.The Rhino "Best Of..." is a fantastic collection that is all-killer, no-filler. Seriously, do yourself a favor and check it out. I envy your discovery. This is the version that you want of this album:(Click the image for a link to the Amazon page where they're selling it.) And here is one of the fantastic songs on there:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd--QsJrxQ

I can't echo this sentiment strongly enough.

 

Many years ago, some musician friends of mine put on a tribute show to the Bobby Fuller Four. At the time, the only song of theirs I knew was I Fought the Law. Then I went to the show, and subsequently bought the Best of the Bobby Fuller Four and I was completely blown away.

 

Here's another choice cut - the song is called Never to Be Forgotten:

 

edit: sorry I don't know how to post the fancy video link.

[tinnitus photography]

Interesting, me in 7th grade:

 

I Want To Destroy You - Circle Jerks (The Soft Boys)

i never knew they covered this... i was a huge fan of _Group Sex_ and to a lesser extent _Wild In The Streets_ when i was in high school.

[jff]

I heard Dead Kennedys version of Viva Las Vegas before the original, which I assume is by Elvis.

[tinnitus photography]

i heard Camper Van Beethoven do Hava Nagila before anyone else. hey, i'm not Jewish!

[Lammycat]

i heard Camper Van Beethoven do Hava Nagila before anyone else. hey, i'm not Jewish!

Bob Dylan's got the all-time best one, imo, with "Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues" off of the Bootleg Series V. 1-3. It's about 30 seconds long.

[Winston Legthigh]

Pogues Dirty Old Town. Heard it before Ewan MacColl's (RIP) (Kirsty McColl's (also RIP) dad) version. 

 

[Doug C]

Finals are next week, so my students are studying, doing work for another class, or whatever. 2 were singing "One Way or another". I am certain that there is no way in hell that they ever heard of Blondie or good music in general. I asked them, "Who sings that song?". They gleefully replied in unison, "One Direction". Jesus H. Christ, it's true.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mCEZzzQ3o

[Oil Can Boyd]

Not exactly on topic but I heard Lou Reed's version of Heroin (from Rock and Roll Animal) before I heard the Velvet Underground version.  I listened to Lou's version so much that I still think of it as the original version.  

[The Inside of Outside]

My three teen daughters were floored when they learned that Lorde's Swinging Party was a cover of a Replacements song.

[uncool2pillow]

My three teen daughters were floored when they learned that Lorde's Swinging Party was a cover of a Replacements song.

 

I am floored to learn she covered it.

 

 

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