Showing posts with label WACKY COVER VERSIONS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WACKY COVER VERSIONS. Show all posts
Friday, January 18, 2019
Friday, June 29, 2012
earlier in the year i was chatting about bands who almost made a career out of wackeee cover versions (Flying Lizards, Laibach to an extent... and the Residents, for certain phases.... others I'm forgetting)
well i clean forgot about the Dickies ... and then was reminded by Graham's post here
and why would I remember, you might ask... weren't the Dickies the epitome of forgettable, dispensable?
Well, they had some UK hits
indeed this one got to #7 in the charts!
but "Nights in White Satin" just dented the Top 40
This, their first single, went Top 50. Strangely pointless given that "Paranoid" is already a punk song.
you mind be forgiven for wondering if did the Dickies ever did any original songs? well yes, but most of the singles seemed to be cover versions
non-single covers include Monkees' "She" , the Isley Brothers' ""Nobody But Me", the Left Banke's "Pretty Ballerina", and "Hair"
well i clean forgot about the Dickies ... and then was reminded by Graham's post here
and why would I remember, you might ask... weren't the Dickies the epitome of forgettable, dispensable?
Well, they had some UK hits
indeed this one got to #7 in the charts!
but "Nights in White Satin" just dented the Top 40
This, their first single, went Top 50. Strangely pointless given that "Paranoid" is already a punk song.
you mind be forgiven for wondering if did the Dickies ever did any original songs? well yes, but most of the singles seemed to be cover versions
non-single covers include Monkees' "She" , the Isley Brothers' ""Nobody But Me", the Left Banke's "Pretty Ballerina", and "Hair"
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