A Conversation for Cover Versions That Are Better Than The Original Song
Combine Harvester?
PQ Started conversation Feb 23, 2003
I thought melanie had a brand new pair of rollerskates...not a combine harvester *dredges up memories of cheesy vinyl fenzy at 14*
Now guess what song is my head
Combine Harvester?
egon Posted Feb 23, 2003
The wurzels cover changed it to "I've got a brand new combine harvester and i'll give you the key- Melanie's version was called, I believe, "Brand New Key"
Combine Harvester?
PQ Posted Feb 23, 2003
Yup...the line was "I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates and you've got a brand new key
"
And it's now cycling through my head repeatedly
Oh I've just thought REMs cover of the troggs Love is All Around, was blatantly copied by wet wet wet a year later who proceded to destroy it.
Still trying to get my hands on a copy of the REM-Troggs collaborative album
...all parties involve say it's utter swill
Combine Harvester?
egon Posted Feb 23, 2003
"the REM-Troggs collaborative album"
hmm, I can just imagine Michael Stipe doing "Wild Thing"...
Combine Harvester?
Mu Beta Posted Feb 24, 2003
It was indeed rollerskates, as aptly proven by Heather Graham in Boogie Nights (just before she gets her kit off
). But it's still very obviously a cover version.
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