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Pavement vs. the Bunnymen

Postby black francis » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:31 pm

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/11/0 ... -bunnymen/
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Postby black francis » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:35 pm

And I love Pavement and all but it's not even close. Bunnymen all the way. Too bad Spiral Stairs intro for the Crystal Days box set sucked. Now Wayne Coyne, that was a fuckin' intro.
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Postby tonywojo » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:15 pm

black francis wrote:And I love Pavement and all but it's not even close. Bunnymen all the way. Too bad Spiral Stairs intro for the Crystal Days box set sucked. Now Wayne Coyne, that was a fuckin' intro.


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Postby Mr.Sparkle » Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:28 pm

Totally different sounding version from Pavement, hard to compare but I like the Bunnymen's version better . I think it's cool that Malkmus starts singing other songs off Ocean Rain.
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Postby In The Margins » Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:42 pm

Does anybody know where or when the Bunnymen video was recorded? I put it about 1986/1987.

The Pavement version is pretty cool.
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Postby black francis » Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:58 am

It was in 1985
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Postby zabird » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:13 am

The Pavement version is too slow for my tastes, but extra points for working other Ocean Rain lyrics into it. Bunny boys it is for me. Plus, Mac's cresting ocean wave 'do is over the top.
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Postby Mr. Brian » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:57 am

It's a great cover and one of my favorite Bunnymen covers. Pavement really owns it which is hard to do with a well known song.
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Postby Dave Smith » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:58 am

Major Leagues-what a song.
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Postby Kounelaki » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:19 am

It's a good cover.
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Postby electrabunny » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:24 pm

That cover made #19 out of 50 for greatest cover songs by Spin Magazine:

http://www.spin.com/articles/50-greatest-cover-songs-20-11?aggr_node=51880
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Postby DivaDiana77 » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:13 pm

electrabunny wrote:That cover made #19 out of 50 for greatest cover songs by Spin Magazine:

http://www.spin.com/articles/50-greatest-cover-songs-20-11?aggr_node=51880


What???? even a great song can be sung less well, I suppose. Made a cover list? Seriously? I think Will opined that they didn't really get it, but they don't mind the royalty cheques.

However, I think the Bunnies cover of People Are Strange is way better. Ian and the boys did well.
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