Cover Songs You Didn't Realize Were Covers
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So usually I'm pretty on the ball with knowing when songs are covers. Recently, I heard Joe Jackson's "Got The Time" and without knowing that the Anthrax version was a cover. It wasn't until I saw it was on an album that pre-dated the Anthrax album that I finally put two and two together. I'm almost embarrassed by the fact that I didn't realize it before. I always liked the Anthrax version but in the past few years I've gotten more into Joe Jackson and I love the original version now way more than the Anthrax cover.
Wow, I had no idea either. I love that song and will have to check out the JD one.
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Oh, and speaking of Tesla, I forgot to mention this in my post yesterday. You'd be amazed at how many people don't realize that the song "Signs" isn't an original of theirs, either. It's a cover of a song by Five Man Electrical Band, and also influenced the title of Tesla's unplugged album Five Man Acoustical Jam that their cover of the song appeared on.
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Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun.
Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's For You and Blinded By The Light, both Springsteen covers.
David Bowie's China Girl (and several others).
Nirvana's The Man Who Sold the World, a cover of Bowie's song (who in turn actually covered it himself from Lulu, though Bowie actually did write it).
No Doubt's It's My Life, a cover of the Talk Talk song.
And, of course...
Marilyn Manson and/or Foo Fighters Down in the Park is a Gary Numan cover...
As is the Nine Inch Nails song Metal.
Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's For You and Blinded By The Light, both Springsteen covers.
David Bowie's China Girl (and several others).
Nirvana's The Man Who Sold the World, a cover of Bowie's song (who in turn actually covered it himself from Lulu, though Bowie actually did write it).
No Doubt's It's My Life, a cover of the Talk Talk song.
And, of course...
Marilyn Manson and/or Foo Fighters Down in the Park is a Gary Numan cover...
As is the Nine Inch Nails song Metal.
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Ph.D is actually just about to release their first album in over 25 years next month
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Oh, and speaking of Tesla, I forgot to mention this in my post yesterday. You'd be amazed at how many people don't realize that the song "Signs" isn't an original of theirs, either. It's a cover of a song by Five Man Electrical Band, and also influenced the title of Tesla's unplugged album Five Man Acoustical Jam that their cover of the song appeared on.
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I didn't make the connection until recently that on R.E.M.'s 1987 release Document the song Strange was a Wire cover. I had completely blanked out Wire's Pink Flag disc from 1977...
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Dig the cats in this far-out scene, man:
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Am I the only one who always hears Marge Simpson say "if you won't think of society's ills" every time they hear the chorus of "I Want Candy"?
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"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" I can understand but how can someone who frequents a movie web site NOT know that "Live and Let Die" was a cover of the Bond theme song?
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Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun.
Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's For You and Blinded By The Light, both Springsteen covers.
David Bowie's China Girl (and several others).
Nirvana's The Man Who Sold the World, a cover of Bowie's song (who in turn actually covered it himself from Lulu, though Bowie actually did write it).
No Doubt's It's My Life, a cover of the Talk Talk song.
And, of course...
Marilyn Manson and/or Foo Fighters Down in the Park is a Gary Numan cover...
As is the Nine Inch Nails song Metal.
Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's For You and Blinded By The Light, both Springsteen covers.
David Bowie's China Girl (and several others).
Nirvana's The Man Who Sold the World, a cover of Bowie's song (who in turn actually covered it himself from Lulu, though Bowie actually did write it).
No Doubt's It's My Life, a cover of the Talk Talk song.
And, of course...
Marilyn Manson and/or Foo Fighters Down in the Park is a Gary Numan cover...
As is the Nine Inch Nails song Metal.
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower... I always thought Bob Dylan copied Hendrix
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun... this song isn't an Animals original. According to wikipedia, the source is "uncertain"
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun... this song isn't an Animals original. According to wikipedia, the source is "uncertain"
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well, with due respect, the internet wasn't really big yet when GNR's Live And Let Die was on the charts
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Foo Fighters:
Manson:
Neither of which hold a candle to:
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I can't think of a single one. Sorry.
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being a kid in the 80's, I had no idea that either "Bette Davis Eyes" or "I Love Rock N' Roll" were remakes until many years later. Wasn't "Mickey" also a cover track? Hell, those are three of the most popular songs of the early 80's there and all were covers
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Eh, I like the Foo version best. The Manson one is terrible and I've never been able to get into Gary Numan.
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Terry Jacks's craptacularly morbid "Season sin the Sun" was a cover of a 1960s Belgian song, "Le Moribond"... which was a lot angrier and more sarcastic.
Also, "Superman" was originally by The Clique but more famously covered by R.E.M.
Also, "Superman" was originally by The Clique but more famously covered by R.E.M.
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Cyndi Lauper covered the Roy Orbison song "I drove all night" in 1989.
Strange thing is, Orbisons song wasn't finished and released until 1992, a few years after he died. So his song came out after the cover of it. Celine Dion also did a cover...
Strange thing is, Orbisons song wasn't finished and released until 1992, a few years after he died. So his song came out after the cover of it. Celine Dion also did a cover...
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Of course you do know that both Live and Let Die and Knockin' on Heaven's Door were originally hits from soundtracks of famous movies.
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