MackneyHackem
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Pogues are better.
Original songs better than their more famous cover versions
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Pogues are better.
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I'll give you that.
Despite Thin Lizzy not being the original version it's better than the Metallica one. Debtabale whether Metallica's version is more famous though
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Now that I'm up to speed 
luvulongtime
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Story for you mate. Brian Ferry got his first break in the music scene via an old mate of mine. He rocked up to a hairdressing salon in answer to an advert for a vocalist and as he had no previous experience he didn't know many songs. After a brief discussion between him and the band members they settled on Hound Dog. My mate never tires of telling me about the WTF look on the musician's faces as he introduced them to his "unique" delivery of this classic song.
Leiber and Stoller who wrote it tell a better story tbf. they were telling Willie Mae it's a womans song about a no good husband try and sing it as a woman scorned. apparently the 20 stone razor slashed Willie Mae pinned one of them to the studio wall and said 'i'll give it a go'
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Leiber and Stoller who wrote it tell a better story tbf. they were telling Willie Mae it's a womans song about a no good husband try and sing it as a woman scorned. apparently the 20 stone razor slashed Willie Mae pinned one of them to the studio wall and said 'i'll give it a go'
I'll give you that one. Knocks a laugh at a Herrington hairdressing salon into touch.
Rainy Night In Georgia.
luvulongtime
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I'll give you that one. Knocks a laugh at a Herrington hairdressing salon into touch.
that was the abridged version btw 'you pair of jewish fucks' i missed out
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Good Bloke Fairly
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Funnily enough I came here to say my dad prefers the original. In particular the version where Reznor plays it on the piano on his own.
Skandhaless
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A truly wonderful song when it's heard in the original
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becs
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Sugarbabes About You Now sounds much better by an Irish rock band
fyl2u
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Great shout.
The Liane Carroll version is way better than the original.
(I know, there are a million different covers of it out there, but check hers out, it's amazing).
Gonna get shot with shit for saying that but also missing the point of the thread
Teed
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Prefer the Cocker version to the Beatles, cracking guitar work from Jimmy Page too, nice Hammond from Tom Eyre anarl...
Prefer this original too.
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Ask 1000 people who sang Whiskey in the Jar and nobody’s answering Metallica.
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