I did not know it was a cover! (1 Viewer)

[Reets]

@pete there was an cover by The XX that you posted a fair bit maybe 10 years ago. By any chance do you remember what it was?
I know I liked it at the time and for some reason my brain thought it was very important to figure out what song it was at 3am last night.

 

[pete]

@pete there was an cover by The XX that you posted a fair bit maybe 10 years ago. By any chance do you remember what it was?
I know I liked it at the time and for some reason my brain thought it was very important to figure out what song it was at 3am last night.

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[Reets]

Thank you!!

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I didn't know this was a cover of a Violent Femmes song until recently.
I still only know that one song.

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[therealjohnny]

I've loved this since it was in the charts when I was a kid- and have only just discovered it's a cover

“Girls Talk” is a new wave song written by Elvis Costello and first recorded by Dave Edmunds in 1978. Costello gave an early version of the song to Edmunds, who reworked the song and released it on his album Repeat When Necessary. Edmunds’ version peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and number 12 in Ireland, becoming one of Edmunds’ most successful career singles.

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Original

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[Kermit McDermott]

Talk Talk - Talk Talk (1982)

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First released by the reaction, the band Mark Hollis was in before Talk Talk.

The reaction- Talk talk talk talk (1977)

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[Kermit McDermott]

They should have kept the original song title so it could be

Talk Talk - Talk talk talk talk

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I've loved this since it was in the charts when I was a kid- and have only just discovered it's a cover

“Girls Talk” is a new wave song written by Elvis Costello and first recorded by Dave Edmunds in 1978. Costello gave an early version of the song to Edmunds, who reworked the song and released it on his album Repeat When Necessary. Edmunds’ version peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and number 12 in Ireland, becoming one of Edmunds’ most successful career singles.

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Dave Edmunds version is the keeper.

 

[seanc]

Some parts educational, others enjoyably ensmuggifying,

It has little factoids throughout each video. Nederbeat is a genre?

BBC Two - 40 Originals at the BBC

Original versions of songs that became bigger hits for the artists who covered them.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[therealjohnny]

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[Kermit McDermott]

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Seasons in the Sun is an English-language adaptation of the 1961 Belgian song Le Moribond ("The Dying Man") by singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, with lyrics rewritten in 1963 by singer-poet Rod McKuen.
In 1964, the Kingston Trio became the first to record an English version of "Seasons in the Sun," which was later heard by Terry Jacks and served as the foundation for his rendition in 1974.

 

[therealjohnny]

I didnt realise Brownsville Station had covered Gary Glitter

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[therealjohnny]

The full-length :60 of the 1970 Hal Riney commercial. Roger Nichols and Paul Williams wrote "We've Only Just Begun" for this spot. The song was originally in a wedding-themed television commercial for Crocker National Bank in California in early 1970, with Paul Williams on vocals

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[therealjohnny]

I knew the Heart song was a reworking of this but I never bothered listening to it til just now

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[Kermit McDermott]

And

iTen - Alone (1983)

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[Kermit McDermott]

This version of after the love has gone was recorded before the Earth wind & Fire version...but was released after it. Airplay was a band made up of the writers of the song, David Foster, Jay Gradon with lyrics by Bill Champlin.

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[therealjohnny]

And

iTen - Alone (1983)

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Jaysis/ Heart didnt bring much to the table

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Heart refined it in to power ballad perfection.

 

[pete]

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Via “Elkie Brooks covering Whitesnake??”

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