Cover Versions (worse than the original)

[stonerblue]

One of Ric's fave's i believe....

 

[Mike N]

Not defending the cover version or the video but the following puts in context:

Background[edit]
A hit cover version of "Dancing in the Street" was recorded by the English rock singers Mick Jagger and David Bowie as a duo in 1985, to raise money for the Live Aid famine relief cause. The original plan was to perform a track together live, with Bowie performing at Wembley Stadium and Jagger at John F. Kennedy Stadium, until it was realized that the satellite link-up would cause a half-second delay that would make this impossible unless either Bowie or Jagger mimed their contribution, something neither artist was willing to do. In 1968, Jagger and Keith Richards had already "borrowed" a line from the song in "Street Fighting Man" - "'Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy."

In June 1985, Bowie was recording his contributions to the Absolute Beginners soundtrack at Abbey Road Studios, and so Jagger arranged to fly in to record the track there. A rough mix of the track was completed in just four hours. Thirteen hours after the start of recording, the song and video was completed. Jagger arranged for some minor musical overdubs with Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero in New York.

Reception[edit]
The David Bowie and Mick Jagger recording of "Dancing in the Street" was issued as a single on EMI, with all profits going to the charity. The song topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, and reached No. 7 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Bowie and Jagger would perform the song once more, at the Prince's Trust Concert on June 20, 1986. T

Fair enough . I've always quite liked them both but had to laugh at the video .

 

[bluemike]

This is the worst, so far. What fuckin idiot thought it was a good idea.
And. Who the fuck bought it?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Sorry if this stirs nightmares, but Unchained Melody by Robson Green and Gerome Flynn was utter dogshit!

 

[Barcon]

I'm just going to copy and paste this from the "better cover versions" thread that some deluded twat had put.

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Guns 'n' Roses.

I'll go on to say that anything that this Hilda fucking Ogden sounding **** has ever sang that was written by somebody else can go in here as well.

 

[paulbob]

"Money" by the Flying Lizards, a truly awful cover

 

[Stuuuuuu]

 

[Hoghead]

I'm just going to copy and paste this from the "better cover versions" thread that some deluded twat had put.

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Guns 'n' Roses.

I'll go on to say that anything that this Hilda fucking Ogden sounding **** has ever sang that was written by somebody else can go in here as well.

Nope, great cover version. And I presume you didn't go and see AC/DC on tour this year.
Each to their own I presume.

 

[@BluePhil8]

Any song covered by an American 'teen punk' band

 

[trotsky]

Any song covered by an American 'teen punk' band

Agree, but every rule has an exception...