Trust me, it’s faster. I have no idea how they can sing it, but when I hear the REM version it seems so slow.
Here is the video
If, by kicken’, you mean unbelievably crappy, you’ve hit it square on the head. A cover that couldn’t possibly be fast enough (to more quickly put us out of our misery).
They did the same to Slade’s Run Runaway. Here’s Slade’s. GBS’s.
Their versions of some of the traditionals they do are on the fast end of the spectrum of different arrangements for them. Lukey’s Boat comes to mind, immediately.
Having listened to the original for the first time in a LONG time (possibly since GBS’s version came out, actually), it actually feels downright LETHARGIC to me.
Really? I listened to Great Big Sea’s and it didn’t sound that much faster to me. A little, yeah, but the way you guys hyped it I was expecting something like Brobdingnagian Bards’ Bog Down in the Valley.
Yes…I can actually keep up with Stipe. Doyle, not so much.
Well, there’s parts which can’t really be speeded up much; they’ve speeded up the parts in between.
Ray Stevens’ cover of “Misty”
Beck’s cover of Lepoard Skin Pill Box Hat.
Aerosmith’s Come Together is respectable.
G’n’R’s Live and Let Die is perhaps a wee bit slower than the original, but maybe it’s just bombastic?
This cover of Revolution isn’t that slow, but you know, Thompson Twins, so, dull anyway.
Actually, the first two of those are soothing (more than Sir Paul’s originals) & I could go to sleep on them if they were played back quietly. The other one, well, Thompson Twins have done better.
The Dickies’ “Nights In White Satin” (video link above) is terrific. Other good punkesque covers include the Ramones doing “Time Has Come Today”, “Substitute”, “Shape Of Things To Come” and “Surf City”. I’d also nominate the DIodes’ “Red Rubber Ball” (a song co-written by Paul Simon, which the Diodes reportedly covered to annoy Simon, who had criticized the emergence of punk).
And I thought I was the only one who liked Capaldi’s cover. The Nazareth one always sounded to me like the singer was in a state of terminal constipation.
I really like The Lemonheads’ cover of Mrs. Robinson. YMMV, of course, but I really like what the rhythm section does with it.
I just realized that it’s actually pretty similar in tempo, but I think Dr. John’s cover of Deal feels a little more up-tempo than when the Grateful Dead do it.
Metallica covered Stone Cold Crazy by Queen.
Queen’s version is pretty damn fast as it is,Metallica rocked it even harder.
Not to mention his polkas. Most of them are medleys, but there’s also Bohemian Polka, a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s something like 2 minutes shorter.
Oooh! I didn’t know about this one. As a Queen fan, and a fan of that song, I’ll have to look this one up. Thanks!
According to wiki, a lot of people mistake it for being by Rammstein but it’s not.
ArchiveGuy said:
We obviously have different taste in music.
But the OP wanted faster versions than the original, and The Boys of Summer qualifies.
Back in the 70s, Bowie did an album of covers called “Pin Ups”. Most of the songs were about the same tempo as the originals.
A lot of the British Invasion bands, from the Beatles on down, started out doing a lot of covers. I think most of them were either the same tempo or faster than the originals. Too many songs to list.
Then there’s the album “Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive”… uptempo covers of uptempo originals by Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, etc.
Wow! I love the Dope, go to sleep for 11 hours and run some errands and you’ve got the rest of the day to check out new songs!
I heart GBS’ cover of The End of the World.
I was going to say their cover of VH’s “Ain’t Talkin’ 'Bout Love.” Takes less than 40 seconds, IIRC.