More fantastic covers...this is proving to be quite a thread!
John's Beatles cover is brilliant...vocals somehow manage to steal the show from those fab jangly guitars. I love the early Beatles in particular...I thought they went a bit bonkers smoking all that shit and going all peculiar...although they produced more great songs later on...I dunno whether it was the flares and beards and stuff that got on my nerves too...anyway...
The "Seven Nation Army" cover is absolutely immense...amazingly powerful stuff with a vocal that could strip wallpaper at 100 paces...awesome
Kafla did an amazing job of Vince Clarke's Only You...I often wondered what Depeche Mode would have made of it, had he not scarpered with it and fallen for the completely resistible Ms Moyet...or if he'd had a bump on the head like Ronald Coleman in that film with Greer Garson that I can't remember the name of...or whatever the hell happened to him. This version I reckon knocks Yazoo into a cocked hat...the vocal is superb and it drips with emotion...whereas I thought Gus Poyet/Ms Moyet always sounded like she was neither fish nor fowl as my Grandma might have put it
Wicked Deeds took a fairly kitsch singalong ditty and turned it into a heart-wrenching ballad with that amazing string section. Soaring vocals in that one too! Peter Sarstedt must have been as thrilled at having a number one hit with this as he was uncomfortable at seeing that photofit of the Yorkshire Ripper
And when his Ma heard that they'd caught the Ripper and his name was Peter S...utcliffe...I bet she breathed a sigh of relief. You never saw them both in the same room together, did you?
Reminds me, a good friend of mine knew a guy who worked with Sutcliffe and he genuinely said "He was OK, was Pete"
Incredible, really.
These covers are incredible too. Great work on the playlist, John!