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Post by Rad on Sept 23, 2007 18:56:42 GMT
Anyone been catching some of this? I keep missing all the interesting bits (the mystery year, the special guest evening shows etc) but I have heard a few of the cover versions.. anyone know if they are all on Youtube yet? Am intrigued to h ear the rest...
And I love the fact that there are lots of classic old tunes being played at the moment.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 23, 2007 21:21:05 GMT
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Post by Bridgey on Sept 23, 2007 22:56:25 GMT
I feel like a vote on the worst cover version. The View are basically just doing one of their songs, The Kooks and The Enemy are trying to be ironic, and as for the Stereophonics - well they're going to give me fucking nightmares and turn me lesbian. Bridgey xxx
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Post by xenomaniac on Sept 23, 2007 23:16:55 GMT
I feel like a vote on the worst cover version. I vote It Must Be Love, the Madness version isn't a patch on the original as it is.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 23, 2007 23:40:04 GMT
Madness are just awful. I didn't know that it was a cover though. Paolo's version interests me somewhat because I've got a real soft spot for the sexy drunk.
The one that fills me with dread is the Stereophonics one. However, it can be skipped and Kylie doing Love Is The Drug more than makes up for the shit songs. I'm also interested to hear Gossip doing Careless Whisper.
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Post by xenomaniac on Sept 23, 2007 23:47:37 GMT
Madness are just awful. I didn't know that it was a cover though. Paolo's version interests me somewhat because I've got a real soft spot for the sexy drunk. It's a gay love song. Possibly.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Sept 24, 2007 0:01:53 GMT
Oh yes, from Wikipedia about the original performer:
This may have been the guy that my Aunty Cher (who's a registrar type) gay married. I remember her being very excited about a famous gay with a weird name who I'd never heard of coming to her to organise his wedding when it was first became legal.
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Post by Rad on Sept 30, 2007 21:45:02 GMT
Did anyone hear Vernon Kay this morning with the old breakfast show hosts being interviewed? Nice to see DLT and Mike Read have let the wounds heal with time and aren't still bitter old has-beens, oh no. (although I forgive Mike Read anything because Saturday Superstore and Mike Read's Pop quixz were two of the defining TV shows of my 80s)
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Post by El Capitan on Sept 30, 2007 23:11:51 GMT
Has anyone heard the Aloud's version of Teenage Dirtbag yet? I almost went blind when I saw that they were doing it.
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Post by fused on Oct 1, 2007 0:04:34 GMT
Has anyone heard the Aloud's version of Teenage Dirtbag yet? I almost went blind when I saw that they were doing it. Yep. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nPa21Izy2TcPretty good I think. It's quite a different take from the original "horny geeky guy fancies the hottest girl in school" version, but it still keeps the same spirit. Actually, I think those sort of songs always sound good sung by women. I remember this car advert that I think had some air hostesses singing it and, as with 'Stacy's Mom' by Fountains Of Wayne, I've seen quite a few girls choose to sing it on karaoke.
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Post by schmindie on Oct 1, 2007 23:20:17 GMT
Klaxons' version of "No Diggity" was a bit of a surprise, i.e. they sound like they can sing.
Colin Murray had Mark Radcliffe on, Friday I think... It was so nice! They played various Shirehorses songs, I think I heard some Chalk or Cheese and there was lots of talk about bobbins and Fat Harry White etc... Made me feel like I was fifteen again. *sighs wistfully, reaching for wine*
I heard Vernon on Saturday, and a bit of Zoe Ball and Sara Cox, but they made my ears bleed (almost) so switched it off.
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Post by coxy1979 on Oct 2, 2007 14:51:14 GMT
Fellow lowculturers, a warning....
Do not buy this album. It's so bloody mediocre and pedestrian it makes the terminally dull 'Live Lounge' sound like the latest nu-rave sensation coming out of a Shoreditch cesspit.
Seriously, it's just really naff (and yes Kylie, you're in that group).
However, Mutya, Girls Aloud, the Klaxons, and inexplicably, the Pigeon Detectives are all OK. I'll go back to Popjustice now...
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Post by El Capitan on Oct 2, 2007 17:17:22 GMT
Surely the Feeling's version of You're So Vain must be in the 'ace' category? I haven't heard it but I imagine fabulousness abounds.
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Post by QuincyMD on Oct 4, 2007 15:26:13 GMT
I managed to get all 40 Dj's on the XL quiz on the Radio 1 site without resorting to Google Imaging various names.
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Post by fused on Oct 6, 2007 13:32:22 GMT
Most of the covers aren't offensively awful, but the majority of them are quite bland and no different from the originals.
The ones that really are terrible are The Streets doing "Your Song", The Feeling-'You're So Vain', Mika/Armund Van Helden- 'Can't Stop Loving You', and The Kooks- 'All That She Wants'- no surprise at any of those not being very good to be honest.
Some are pretty decent though. Mutya Buena's version of 'Fast Car' is lovely, and I quite liked The Twang's take on 'Drinking In L.A'- and the originals of those two are among my favourite songs of all time.
I also thought Foo Fighters- 'Band On The Run', Sugababes 'Betcha By Golly, Wow', Gossip- 'Careless Whisper', Maximo Park-'Like I Love You', Hard-Fi- 'Toxic' and of course Girls Aloud- 'Teenage Dirtbag' were pretty good as well.
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Post by Rad on Oct 6, 2007 14:48:17 GMT
I managed to get all 40 Dj's on the XL quiz on the Radio 1 site without resorting to Google Imaging various names. I don't know whether that's scary or impressive. I managed 30 straight off, contemplating whether I can be arsed to figure out the next ten or not
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Post by Mike on Oct 6, 2007 19:48:17 GMT
I feel like a vote on the worst cover version. The View are basically just doing one of their songs, The Kooks and The Enemy are trying to be ironic, and as for the Stereophonics - well they're going to give me fucking nightmares and turn me lesbian. Bridgey xxx Those are all dreadful bands, so the chances of them producing dreadful covers were pretty high anyway. Even at that, nothing beats the horror of Mike Skinner slaughtering Your Song....and can anyone imagine a more boring musical prospect than The Fray covering REM? I actually think this compilation, while inevitably hit-and-miss, is pretty interesting overall. There were a couple of surprises - Klaxons' No Diggity is surprisingly faithful to the original, Calvin Harris' version of Stillness In Time is so daft it's hard not to love and Just Jack's Lovefool is far from the disaster it could have been. Sugababes, Girls Aloud, The Feeling, Foo Fighters, Mutya, Lily Allen, Franz Ferdinand, Editors and Corinne Bailey Rae have nothing to be ashamed of either.
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Post by Bungle on Oct 6, 2007 21:38:33 GMT
The Stereophonics cover makes me a little sick.
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Post by QuincyMD on Oct 8, 2007 14:37:33 GMT
I managed to get all 40 Dj's on the XL quiz on the Radio 1 site without resorting to Google Imaging various names. I don't know whether that's scary or impressive. I managed 30 straight off, contemplating whether I can be arsed to figure out the next ten or not Someone in the office is so young that they didn't even know who Fluff was, I felt old at that point and the last one I got on the sheet was Kevin Greening as he looked nothing like how I pictured him. ....a misspent youth listening to Radio 1, "one more record to Bits and Pieces" etc etc etc
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Post by Rad on Oct 8, 2007 17:46:45 GMT
Kevin Greening was easy!
But some of the really old (60s/70s) ones were hard, plus a young lad who I thought was called Wez but obviously not, and a woman with a sleek brown bob whose face is really familiar but whose name I can'tplace...
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Post by QuincyMD on Oct 9, 2007 7:54:28 GMT
It's Wes and don't get me started on spelling Jakki Brambles!!!!
The woman with the bob is Emma Freud, host of the worst show Radio 1 ever put on air.
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Post by Rad on Oct 9, 2007 10:05:46 GMT
It's Wes and don't get me started on spelling Jakki Brambles!!!! The woman with the bob is Emma Freud, host of the worst show Radio 1 ever put on air. Of course it is. Bloody Wes. I know in my head it was him, so I award myself 31 points anyway. I spelled Jakki Brambles correctly first go. Is that worrying?
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Post by QuincyMD on Oct 9, 2007 11:12:00 GMT
Not so much worrying as showing that you have an affinity with crap 80's takes on normal names.
Whatever happened to Jakki Brambles?
EDIT: a quick Wikki reveals that she is now on Loose Woman, well I never! She was still a shit DJ!
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