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(56,582 posts) Wed Sep 17, 2014, 01:28 PM Sep 2014

In honor of Cat Stevens's new album and tour: Songs you didn't know were covers

To take the obvious hit: "The first cut is the deepest".

I had no idea until recently when I was going through my dad's vinyl collection and unearthed his Cat Stevens collection. Sue me.

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In honor of Cat Stevens's new album and tour: Songs you didn't know were covers (Original Post) Recursion Sep 2014 OP

Some people think "The Man Who Sold The World" is a Nirvana original begin_within Sep 2014 #1

Didn't they introduce it as a Bowie song? cemaphonic Sep 2014 #2

Yes, I think so, begin_within Sep 2014 #3

And then there was 10,000 Maniacs' cover of Peace Train KamaAina Sep 2014 #4

Betcha didn't know this was a cover KamaAina Sep 2014 #5

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1. Some people think "The Man Who Sold The World" is a Nirvana original

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 03:44 PM

Sep 2014

because Nirvana performed it on an "MTV Unplugged" special in 1994. I've added comments to let them know it was written and recorded by David Bowie 24 years earlier.

cemaphonic

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2. Didn't they introduce it as a Bowie song?

Reply to begin_within (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 04:51 PM

Sep 2014

Of course, lots of people probably know it from the album/radio single, which wouldn't have had the song introductions. I remember them doing a ton of covers on that show.

begin_within

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3. Yes, I think so,

Reply to cemaphonic (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:30 PM

Sep 2014

I'd have to watch it again. But I remember reading a comment somewhere that Bowie had done a cover of Nirvana's "The Man Who Sold the World" and I felt compelled to correct them on it.

On the subject of covers, and Cat Stevens, I didn't realize for years that his "Another Saturday Night" was a cover of a 1950s song...

KamaAina

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4. And then there was 10,000 Maniacs' cover of Peace Train

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 06:46 PM

Sep 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018666773#post1

KamaAina

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5. Betcha didn't know this was a cover

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 06:50 PM

Sep 2014

The original is by NOLA's fabulous Irma Thomas. Keith frequents NOLA, so he must have heard it there.

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