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The Man Who Sold The World - covers you didn't know were covers

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VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 21/02/2021 01:04

I love this. It's my favourite Bowie song. Or so I thought.

It was on the radio yesterday and I was only half listening when they were talking about whether Nirvana's version was better than the original. I didn't really pay too much attention. But on Pointless Celebrities tonight they had The Man Who Sold The World as an answer as a Lulu/David Bowie collaboration. I've just googled it and it turns out that I love The Man Who Sold The World by Nirvana! My mind is blown!

Any covers that you love that you didn't know were covers?

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VimFuego101 · 21/02/2021 01:17

According to this it was released in 1970:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMannWhoSolddtheWorldd_(song)

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 21/02/2021 01:23

I don't quite understand, did you think that Bowie covered a Nirvana song?

Ariela · 21/02/2021 01:25

Some of us bought that one (in Woolies) when it came out in 1970

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TotalBlamBlam · 21/02/2021 01:27

Soft Cell's Tainted Love.

First recorded in 1964 by a then little known American artist, Gloria Jones, who went on to re-record the song in 1976, in effect covering her own record.

FetchezLaVache · 21/02/2021 01:31

If, as I infer, you think Bowie covered Nirvana and not vice versa, shouldn't your question be "Any songs you love that you thought were covers but aren't?"

FetchezLaVache · 21/02/2021 01:34

...but to answer your actual question, the only Bob Dylan song I have ever liked was Must Be Sana, which I later discovered was a cover.

RJnomore1 · 21/02/2021 01:35

Have you been listening to nirvana thinking it was Bowie?

Whatup · 21/02/2021 01:36

The mib theme will smith is a cover of a song called forget me nots

Fumnudge · 21/02/2021 01:36

Both of the above were shockers to me when I found out. In sure Bowie covered a song that I thought was his own but I can't find which one now.
The Pretenders Stop Your Sobbing was a Kinks song which I didn't know til a few years ago.

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VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 21/02/2021 01:40

@RJnomore1

Have you been listening to nirvana thinking it was Bowie?
Yes Smile I thought when I head The Man Who Sold The World it was David Bowie, but it wasn't it was Nirvana. I listen to too much Radio X. But I love Nirvana's cover.
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VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 21/02/2021 01:42

@TotalBlamBlam

Soft Cell's Tainted Love.

First recorded in 1964 by a then little known American artist, Gloria Jones, who went on to re-record the song in 1976, in effect covering her own record.

That's an awesome cover too! As is Where Did Our Love Go... but now not sure if that is a cover or a sample? It's been a long day.
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VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 21/02/2021 01:45

I also love Johnny Cash's Hurt but that's a cover of NIN right?

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bruffin · 21/02/2021 01:46

I was shocked to find out Cyndi Laupers Girls Just Wanna Have fun was a cover. Originally recorded 1979 by Robert Hazard

FetchezLaVache · 21/02/2021 01:47

@bruffin

I was shocked to find out Cyndi Laupers Girls Just Wanna Have fun was a cover. Originally recorded 1979 by Robert Hazard
@bruffin noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
MrsTerryPratchett · 21/02/2021 01:48

Prince Nothing Compares to You

I also thought Wild Horses was the Sundays not Rolling Stones. I normally hate the RS.

MNerGoneRogueAgain · 21/02/2021 01:53

I must be getting REALLY old as the surprise on this thread shocks me.

Waiting for the poster who says tragedy isn't a song by steps....

MNerGoneRogueAgain · 21/02/2021 01:54

BTW, LOVE a cover that's completely different to the original

MrsOrMiss · 21/02/2021 01:57

The Annie Lennox song, No More I Love Yous is a cover. I heard a discussion on the radio a couple of months back and was quite surprised.
All along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix - is too, again I didn't realise.

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VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 21/02/2021 02:02

Wait, what? Wild Horses? The Sundays is a completely different song - isn't it?

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MrsTerryPratchett · 21/02/2021 02:05

@VampireTheBuffetSlayer

Wait, what? Wild Horses? The Sundays is a completely different song - isn't it?
Nope, same song.
BettysButtons · 21/02/2021 02:07

@bruffin

I was shocked to find out Cyndi Laupers Girls Just Wanna Have fun was a cover. Originally recorded 1979 by Robert Hazard
I didn’t know that.
flatpack1 · 21/02/2021 02:08

Natalie Imbruglia's Torn is a cover

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/02/2021 02:10

@flatpack1

Natalie Imbruglia's Torn is a cover
Well she can't sing or write so 🤷‍♀️
MrsEricBana · 21/02/2021 02:19

Yes I was v disappointed to discover that Johnny Cash's Hurt was a cover.

Fab cover is Travis's version of Hit Me Baby One More Time.

MechantGourmet · 21/02/2021 02:55

Elvis Costello's version of She is wonderful, but I just love his voice tbh.