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Post by stevo on Apr 10, 2008 19:53:03 GMT
If you were given the chance to do a covers album what songs would you choose to give the Radiation treatment too?
The Tearjerkers did a mean "Wipeout" and "Bad Moon Rising"
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Post by rhinoreggie on Apr 10, 2008 22:39:06 GMT
Maybe you could call it 'Today's Specials'? No wait.......
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 11, 2008 7:41:11 GMT
Tomorrows Nadgers you Badly Packed Kebab.
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Post by inlikeflynn on Apr 11, 2008 15:23:52 GMT
Maybe an album of classic Rock n Roll under the name of Rockin' Roddy and the Rebel Rousers... OR Roddy and the Radiators... ?
Daz
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 11, 2008 15:26:11 GMT
Rebel Trousers more like!
No ive got plenty of my own songs, people only do covers when they cant write any new ones.
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Post by inlikeflynn on Apr 11, 2008 20:23:38 GMT
i believe yoobee40 did that for about 10 years... anyway i hear that now they've kicked out Robin ... Ali and the rest are recording an authentic Dub album ....akin to their early stuff i hear
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 12, 2008 9:48:57 GMT
Back to the Roots mann!
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Post by stevo on Apr 12, 2008 11:42:55 GMT
people only do covers when they cant write any new ones. Whilst I think that is the case with some artists (Patti Smith did an LP last year of cover versions which is not very good), I think others do them as they actually like the songs and want to do their own version. (Bowies Pin Up's, Costello's Almost Blue. Richard Thompsons son Teddy did an excellent country covers LP last year, mainly because he had gotten so much into country music and he wanted to do his own spin on some of the songs.) |
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Post by stevo on Apr 12, 2008 11:47:07 GMT
Maybe you could call it 'Today's Specials'? No wait....... I might be wrong here but didn't "Todays Specials" start out as a Neville solo project? So I presume that the choice of songs was not a democratic thing? I think in a thread else where Roddy has already said he thought it was a mistake to come back with a covers LP rather than an LP of original music, I tend to agree with him here. |
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 12, 2008 13:18:51 GMT
Okay! so cover albums do introduce people to stuff they wouldnt hear other wise.
Yes "tODAYS sPECIALS" was a demo tape of Nevelles hed given to Paul Doggert ( an early M.K2 manager) who once worked for M.C.A and he met Ali Campbells manager on holiday in Jamaica..
I was totally against the idear of calling ourselves The Specials then trying to do a
"Labour of Love" - Ubees jobby.. but as i was the only one with any new songs and i suppose the other guys were hardly into a Skabilly type album that Hong Kong Phoey happened.
While i was on holiday ( my wife had booked it months before) during the mixing several tracks i had picked were quietly dropped and by the time i got back there wasnt time to bring them up to spec!
Maybe i shoulda walked out then?
But actually now,a,days there are a couple of tracks off that album i quite like*
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Post by stevo on Apr 13, 2008 9:17:04 GMT
What tracks were dropped then?
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Post by inlikeflynn on Apr 13, 2008 9:40:28 GMT
Theres a couple tracks on the Roddy Radiation Anthology album... i think All Over Now was one of them .... but talking of Dropped Tracks ... Reckless Romance is one i wish had made The ' Guilty' album...personally i think its classic hard hitting Specials tune .....incidentally i quite like a few tracks on Todays Specials as well... i believe Take Five was a track the Original Specials either performed live or Demo'd at some point ?
Daz
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Post by roddy byers on Apr 13, 2008 21:01:47 GMT
Yes "All over now" was one that got dropped and "Proud Mary".
"Reckless Romance" i wanted on the Guilty album but the band thought the songs topic too dodgy.
The live version of "Take Five" was alot better than the studio version.
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Post by stevo on Apr 14, 2008 18:56:44 GMT
I would like to hear "Proud Mary" any chance of putting it up on the web site Roddy?
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Post by stevo on Apr 14, 2008 18:58:37 GMT
But actually now,a,days there are a couple of tracks off that album i quite like* and what would those songs be, Sir? |
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