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Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Josef K. Sourdust posted:

Incidentally, are there any cover versions of Bowie songs that come close to equalling the original? I know of Nirvana's The Man Who Sold The World but nothing else.

I don't think it tops the original but Anna Calvi's cover of Lady Grinning Soul is really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwyN4PrMFH0

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Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

BigFactory posted:

His Springsteen and Iggy Pop are pretty good! The Dylan and whoever number 3 is? tom waits? are not good.

I think it's supposed to be Marc Bolan, not Dylan

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002
Anna Calvi's cover of Lady Grinning Soul is insanely good too, I think I might have posted it earlier in the thread

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002
I love how the same year that Low came out Nick Lowe released an EP called Bowi

And then he wrote a song that borrowed the title from Breaking Glass and sounded like Sound and Vision

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002
Oh yeah dude, I love Nick Lowe and Jesus of Cool is one of my all-time favorite albums

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Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

El Gallinero Gros posted:

How do Bowie superfans regard Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold The World? I'm curious.

It's a pretty good cover but I much prefer the original

The best version however is the 1979 SNL performance with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias

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