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Old 15-05-2015, 12:28
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what's your favourite cover versions of 80's songs ? right now i'm loving
Blancmange - The Day Before You Came
Dollar - Oh L'amour
Together In Electric Dreams - Kish Mauve
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Old 15-05-2015, 15:13
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Much prefer Erasure's original of Oh L'Amour, Dollar were total and utter CRAP

how about

Flying Lizards - Money

UB40 - Red Red Wine

The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
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Old 15-05-2015, 15:22
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Much prefer Erasure's original of Oh L'Amour, Dollar were total and utter CRAP

how about

Flying Lizards - Money

UB40 - Red Red Wine

The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
Oh i gotta disagree about Dollar !
And Flying Lizard's version of Money was a hit in August 1979 in the UK . .. but it is a underrated classic. IMO
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Old 15-05-2015, 15:32
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Whoops! I stand corrected, about the date of the Flying Lizards' number Not about Dollar's shiteness - I stand by that opinion

Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth was a cover of a reggae song song originally called Pass The Kutchie (meaning a joint) changed to Pass the Dutchie (meaning a cooking pot)
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Old 15-05-2015, 15:41
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madness did a good cover of 'it must be love'.... but i still prefer the original

labi siffre - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7NV5StCLu4
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Old 15-05-2015, 16:14
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Sturgill Simpsons cover of The Promise by little known 80's band When in Rome shows how the same song can be SO different.

When in Rome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HI_xFQWiYU

Sturgill Simpson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eWJmN8D820
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Old 15-05-2015, 16:16
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'September Gurls' by the Bangles.
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Old 15-05-2015, 16:46
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Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
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Old 15-05-2015, 16:49
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Dave Stewart (not the Eurythmic) & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party (a number 1, and rightly so).

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind

Donna Summer - State Of Independence

Good call from the OP, with Blancmange's Abba cover.
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Old 15-05-2015, 17:16
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Am I the only one who's confused as to whether this is covers of 80's songs or Eighties covers? Assuming it's the latter..

Grace Jones - Pars (Jacques Higelin)

Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence (Beatles)

Blondie - The Tide Is High (The Paragons)
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Old 15-05-2015, 19:02
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Paul Young - A Soldier's Things (Tom Waits song)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Surfin' USA

Kirsty MacColl - A New England (Billy Bragg song)

David Bowie - Wild is the Wind (a bit of a cheeky inclusion. Originally appeared on the Station To Station album in '76 but was released as a single in '81)
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Old 15-05-2015, 21:24
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Am I the only one who's confused as to whether this is covers of 80's songs or Eighties covers? Assuming it's the latter..
I'm confused as well. I think it's covers of 80s songs as the OP has mentioned Kish Mauve (who I had to google as I've never heard of them) and they were formed in 2005 which would suggest it's covers of 80s songs.
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Old 15-05-2015, 21:54
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I'm confused as well. I think it's covers of 80s songs as the OP has mentioned Kish Mauve (who I had to google as I've never heard of them) and they were formed in 2005 which would suggest it's covers of 80s songs.
Ok .. it was supposed to be covers of 80's songs .. but the first 2 i picked were 80s songs covered in the 80s ... was i trying to be too clever !?
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Old 15-05-2015, 22:28
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Always On My Mind - PSB
It Must Be Love - Madness
Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Jimmy Nail
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Old 16-05-2015, 09:42
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Always On My Mind - PSB
It Must Be Love - Madness
Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Jimmy Nail
First 2 are pure class, but I never really liked Jimmy Nail.
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Old 16-05-2015, 09:51
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Much prefer Erasure's original of Oh L'Amour, Dollar were total and utter CRAP

how about

Flying Lizards - Money

UB40 - Red Red Wine

The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
IMO, a contestant for worst cover version of all time. They absolutely butchered the song and ripped the heart and soul out of a song that was absolute perfection in it's original form. Replacing Teddys beautiful soulful vocal masterclass with Jimmys high-pitched caterwauling shouldn't have been allowed
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Old 16-05-2015, 09:58
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IMO, a contestant for worst cover version of all time. They absolutely butchered the song and ripped the heart and soul out of a song that was absolute perfection in it's original form. Replacing Teddys beautiful soulful vocal masterclass with Jimmys high-pitched caterwauling shouldn't have been allowed
Agreed 100%. With any 80's song covered by Atomic Kitten a close 2nd. But that's me getting off topic
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Old 16-05-2015, 11:13
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Agreed 100%. With any 80's song covered by Atomic Kitten a close 2nd. But that's me getting off topic
But you're not going off topic as the thread is about covers of 80s songs (see post numbers 12 & 13)

Regarding Atomic Kittens atrocious 80s covers. Out of: -

The Tide Is High
Ladies Night
Eternal Flame

Eternal Flame was marginally the best (but not better than the original)
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Old 16-05-2015, 12:53
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But you're not going off topic as the thread is about covers of 80s songs (see post numbers 12 & 13)

Regarding Atomic Kittens atrocious 80s covers. Out of: -

The Tide Is High
Ladies Night
Eternal Flame

Eternal Flame was marginally the best (but not better than the original)
I thought it was about cover versions that were done in the 80's (as the Don't leave me this way cover was)

Probably agree with your order of Atomic Kitten's covers. Their version of Eternal Flame is still quite moving but not to the same effect as the original
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Old 16-05-2015, 12:58
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I thought it was about cover versions that were done in the 80's (as the Don't leave me this way cover was)

Probably agree with your order of Atomic Kitten's covers. Their version of Eternal Flame is still quite moving but not to the same effect as the original
The OP says
what's your favourite cover versions of 80's songs
So your AK ones fit whereas Don't Leave Me This Way is the one that is off topic. But then it's DSn going off topic is the order of the day
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Old 17-05-2015, 00:08
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I love to hear my most favorite singer James Otto cover that song named "Purple Rain".

God bless you and him always!!!

Holly
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Old 17-05-2015, 00:13
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First 2 are pure class, but I never really liked Jimmy Nail.
Aw!

Have you seen Jimmy in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet?

He was brilliant in that!
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Old 19-05-2015, 21:41
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A View To A Kill - Shirley Bassey
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Old 19-05-2015, 22:15
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I'll throw a bit of a curve ball into the mix.....

Age of Chance doing 'Kiss' (Prince).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVB4dAw6jk
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Old 20-05-2015, 11:27
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Living in a box - living in a box
johnny hates jazz - shattered dreams
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