The Medusa Fora

I´d love to hear Shane sing some prison songs from Johnny Cash - Folsom prison blues, 25 minutes to go, I got stripes ...

And although Mr Cash did a fine version himself, Shane singing Nick Cave´s "The mercy seat" would be a standout song.

Dirty Old Town.

Oh, wait a minute...

hmm i will always love you.
a Kinks song would be great
1916 by Motorhead
Galway girl Steve Earle
pretty vacant sex pistols
anything by the Ramones
save the last dance for me
pogues doing devil in disguise Shabe has proved he can sing it
the clown Greenland whalefishers
seven drunken nights dubliners
I wish i was your mother mott the hoople

are some of the 1000 songs i like to hear covered by the Pogues

rebel waltz (the clash)

Simon wrote:1916 by Motorhead

Bloody good choice!! That would be great.

Angel, Robbie Williams

Johnny Cash - I walk the line

I'm not sure Shane is up to it these days, but I like it when he gets his tonsils round those torrents-of-words type songs.
I'd like to hear him tackle Subterranean Homesick Blues, It's The End of the World as We Know it or Elvis C's Tokyo Storm Warning.

What I really think lacks gravitas are some of his covers from the last ten years or so - Danny Boy, My Way and Cracklin' Rosie for example. They sound like very poor karaoke.

Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse.

The Slider wrote:What I really think lacks gravitas are some of his covers from the last ten years or so - Danny Boy, My Way and Cracklin' Rosie for example. They sound like very poor karaoke.

I would tend to agree... excepting Crackliin' Rosie, which i heard first on the Live at Montreax dvd, and was pretty impressed (though i've more recently heard the studio version, and it certainly sounded a bit flat & uninspired).

Those Neil Diamond songs pop up in the funniest places; Little Bit Me Little Bit You by the Specials, Solitary Man by Johnny Cash, I Am I Said by Killdozer...

Low D wrote:Those Neil Diamond songs pop up in the funniest places; Little Bit Me Little Bit You by the Specials, Solitary Man by Johnny Cash, I Am I Said by Killdozer...

I think Neil Diamond had some great songs but I've never liked him. Everytime I hear him I think another artist would have doen it better and every cover I have heard has been preferable to Neil's originals.

The Slider wrote:Those Neil Diamond songs pop up in the funniest places; Little Bit Me Little Bit You by the Specials, Solitary Man by Johnny Cash, I Am I Said by Killdozer...

Don't forget UB40's version of Red Red Wine

"Muskrat Love"

Nibbling on bacon, chewin' on cheese
Sammy says to Susie "Honey, would you please be my missus?"
And she says yes
With her kisses

...And they whirled and they twirled and they fuckin' tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love

La da da da da...

kmurray105 wrote:

Low D wrote:Those Neil Diamond songs pop up in the funniest places; Little Bit Me Little Bit You by the Specials, Solitary Man by Johnny Cash, I Am I Said by Killdozer...

I think Neil Diamond had some great songs but I've never liked him. Everytime I hear him I think another artist would have doen it better and every cover I have heard has been preferable to Neil's originals.

I'm a medium-grade fan.
He is a remarkably talented man - as a writer and a singer - and that early 70s period was very very good indeed.
I'd quite honestly recommend anyone with even a passing interest to download the BBC 1971 concert (2nd item down) here.
He has charisma and talent to burn. It is a great great show - one in the series that included Neil Young, Joni MItchell, Elton John, James Taylor, Cat Stevens et al. Imagine if the BBC did a series of contemporary young singer songwriters now. I should imagine it would be pretty slim pickings in comparison.

Songs I'd like to see covered:

Love will tear us apart

In the Ghetto

Hymn ( Ultravox ) - yeah, right, kick me for that

Delia's gone

Hurt

Come as you are

Bridge over troubled Water

Suspicious minds

Let it be

You've Lost That Loving Feeling

Unchained Melody