Cover version discovery

Here’s another very slightly different take on Slip Away:

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Love this cover of the Linda Smith song that features on the Sky Girl comp

And a Japanese cover:

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Heard this for the first time today.

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Heard this a lot on Jamie XX Boiler Room & it always nagged me
Waterboys - Trumpets

Brilliant sample ( if not cover usage)

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I thought I was the only one who couldn’t take that stuff - those covers just felt far too smug

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Beautiful track.

Great track!

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From '71:

And then '72:

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Both infinitely better than the Elton John version, especially the Lesley Duncan one …

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That Lani Hall vocal knocks me out, everytime.

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That’s a jam yeah.

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A lorra lorra heat is on…

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It’s on the soundtrack to Beverley Hills Kop.

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i was trapsing around wikipedia the other day and found out tori amos covered slayers raining blood. fair warning now, it’s absolutely shit

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A classic, in so many ways.

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This was in his Hip Hop period, I remember he did a cover of 2 Live Crew’s Me So Horny the week after, brought the house down.

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