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Subject: 80s Covers
Not 80s songs that have been covers, but 80s hits that were covers to begin with!
There are many that spring to mind:
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (Elvis)
Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On (Supremes)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones)
Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love (Supremes)
Roxy Music - Jealous Guy (John Lennon)
Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (Simon and Garfunkel)
Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way (Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes)
Bananarama - Venus (Shocking Blue)
...I can't have exausted them yet, can I? :)
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
One of my favorites songs...
Camper Van Beethoven- Pictures of Matchstick Men(Status Quo)
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
Some more to consider:
"Eight Miles High" (The Byrds) by Roxy Music
"Like A Hurricane" (Neil Young) by Roxy Music
"In The Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett) by Roxy Music
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" (The Shirelles) by Bryan Ferry
"Sister Ray" (Velvet Underground) by NewOrder
"All Tomorrow's Parties" (Velvet Underground) by Japan
"Route 66" (Nat King Cole?) by Depeche Mode
"Lay All Your Love On Me" (ABBA) by Information Society
"Tears Of A Clown" (Smokey Robinson) by The English Beat
"Red, Red Wine" (Neil Diamond) by UB40
"The Man Who Sold The World" (David Bowie) by Ultravox (one of the best covers I've heard)
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
Tiffany-I Think We're Alone Now-(?)
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Always Something There to Remind Me--Naked Eyes (Sandie Shaw/Dionne Warwick/R. B. Greaves)
Pretty Woman--Van Halen (Roy Orbison)
Dancing in the Street--Van Halen; David Bowie & Mick Jagger (Martha Reeves & the Vandellas)
Mony Mony--Billy Idol (Tommy James & the Shondells)
Stop! In the Name of Love--The Hollies (The Supremes)
Wild Thing--X; Sam Kinison (The Troggs)
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
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Tiffany-I Think We're Alone Now-(?)
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Tommy James & the Shondells.
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Kylie Minogue - Locomotion..(Original Artist ??).... ???
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Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye (Gloria Gaynor? Jacksons? Someone else?)
Pet Shop Boys - Where the Streets Have No Name/Can't Take My Eyes off You (U2, Julio Iglesias)
Thompson Twins - Revolution (Beatles)
Pseudo Echo - Funkytown (Lipps Inc.)
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Devo - I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Ramones - Needles and Pins
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Joan Jett & The Blackhearts "Crimson and Clover"
Billy Idol "Mony Mony"
Tiffany "I Think We're Alone Now"
(all three from Tommy James & The Shondells)
Some more covers. Most of them weren't hits, but what the heck.
Debbie Gibson "In The Still Of The Night (I'll Remember)"
Appears on "The Wonder Years" soundtrack & "Live In Concert: The Out Of The Blue Tour" video.
Originally from The Five Satins
Debbie Gibson "Crocodile Rock" On "Live In Concert: The Out Of The Blue Tour" video.
Originally from Elton John.
(Deborah Gibson performed a medly of Motown songs during her "Electric Youth" tour, 1989/1990)
One of them appeared on her "Live Aound The World" video.
(She sang "Dance To The Music" by Sly & The Family Stone)
More from "The Wonder Years" soundtrack (1989):
The Escape Club "Twentieth Century Fox" (The Doors)
Indigo Girls "Come Together" (The Beatles)
Was (Not Was) "Baby I Need Your Loving" (Four Tops)
Judson Spence "Drift Away" (Dobie Grey)
Julian Lennon "Ruby Tuesday" (Rolling Stones)
Ritchie Havens "Peace Train" (Cat Stevens)
Carole King "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (The Shirelles)
Note: Carole King wrote that that song.
BTW, Deborah Gibson sang a bit of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" in the "Live Around The World" video.
The album may not been successful, but I enjoy the album. :)
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
Lay Lady Lay"by the Everly Brothers.It's on the EB 84 album.The reason they didn't record it in the 60s is because they thought the line,as sung by Dylan,"Lay across my big brass bed."was "Lay across my big breasts,babe>>.."Intelligibilkity was never one of Dylan's streong points.Cheers!
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
Tiffany - "I saw him standing there" (Beatles - "I saw HER standing there")
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
Quoting:
"The Man Who Sold The World" (David Bowie) by Ultravox (one of the best covers I've heard)
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Actually, this was a solo by Midge Ure (was lead singer in Ultravox) and it was the B-side to his hit "If I Was", which went to no.1 in the UK for one whole week in 1985! But you're right about it being an excellent cover though :-)
On the same subject, Midge Ure's 1982 cover of "No Regrets" (orginally by the Isley Brothers) was pretty awesome as well - and still is, cos he played it at a gig I went to on Monday night!
Not sure if the Soft Cell cover of "Tainted Love" is better than Gloria Jones' - I like both of them!
Subject: Re: 80s Covers
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Wild Thing--X; Sam Kinison (The Troggs)
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The band on Sam Kinison's version of "Wild Thing" was none other than Bon Jovi! ;D