Rather Marvellous Cover Songs

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Your favorite cover songs.
I’ll start with this:

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Motorhead doing Bowie’s “Heroes.”

For some reason, it makes me think of lesbian mecha pilots in a sci-fi Berlin, but that’s probably just me.

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They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Originally performed by The Four Lads.

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:grinning: :person_shrugging: :wink:

Just, no words. Never before seen a more perfectly formed sentence.
Will now retire to a life of contemplation and regret.
Fate, you have triumphed.

ETA: Got to add, that could have been the plot of an Iain M Banks SciFi novel, RIP.

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You’re welcome :grin::+1:

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I suppose this has to be included.

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Here’s one I like:

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Noice version.

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I had no idea that was a cover!

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It kinda bums me out sometimes that some of their most well-known songs are covers, but I am reassured by the idea that after people discover TMBG, they have so many other great songs to listen to.

Here’s another one of their well-known covers:

This is a live performance, so may be slightly different than the EP.

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I won’t say is better than the original, but it made me laugh…

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Cheers, Mr. L.
Nice to see you here.

Have a kangaroo on me.
:kangaroo:

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AURORA - Life On Mars

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I wasn’t expecting this :smiley:

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I’m not really breaking the rules here.
This is a rather marvellously bad rendition of a cheesy classic.

But it was the last thing I posted over there.
I wanted to leave a message.

And it’s ver’ funni

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Sprinkling a little Dead South all over the place. :slight_smile:

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Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians’ 1984 cover of The Byrds 1965 The Bells of Rhymney.

RH – British – influenced by British Invasion music and covering an American group’s song from that time.

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