soul/funk covers by new wave bands?

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  • DubiousDubious 1,865 Posts
    Orange Juice rule

    there's a new comp that just came out... another CRIMINALY forgotten band


  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,899 Posts
    Hmmm, I dunno if The Housemartins were New wave...

    But they did Caravan of Love by Isley-Jasper-Isley

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts


    Shit, James Chance & Contortions/James White & the Blacks made their whole name on "new wave" (or probably more accurately, "no wave") funk & soul.
    Check the live record for a crazed version of "King Heroin" as well as an even better version of MJ's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough!!"

  • VagabondVagabond 417 Posts
    what's that dumbass song that samples Sugar on my Tongue?

    I think it's Trick Daddy. That pissed me off when I saw it on t.v.

  • mrfinewinemrfinewine 157 Posts
    english beat, "tears of a clown"
    bananarama, "he was really saying something"
    yawn

  • sublime covering dee dee warwicks foolish fool live

    http://doobie.sublimearchive.com/download.php?fileid=82

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts


    Shit, James Chance & Contortions/James White & the Blacks made their whole name on "new wave" (or probably more accurately, "no wave") funk & soul.
    Check the live record for a crazed version of "King Heroin" as well as an even better version of MJ's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough!!"[/b]

    Ah, but why talk about it, when I can share it? I keep forgetting I have full MP3-creating capabilities now...I might just have to start a "post 5 songs you're feelin' thread" tonight, to get my MP3 on...until then:

    James Chance - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (Live 1980)

  • 33thirdcom33thirdcom 2,049 Posts
    Not NEw Wave... bu Black Crowes and their numerous covers

  • Arto Lindsay covered Erotic City by Prince.

  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    Stray Cats did You Can't Hurry Love.

  • DJ_NevilleCDJ_NevilleC 1,922 Posts
    not really soul funk but
    Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    don't forget
    working in a coal mine-devo

  • bobbydeebobbydee 849 Posts
    i know theres been various mentions of Tainted Love, but the A side on my german 12" blends from tainted love into "where did our love go"


    cosign on the slits too- always flogging that track.

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    i know theres been various mentions of Tainted Love, but the A side on my german 12" blends from tainted love into "where did our love go"



    Yeah, that was the hit version in the US - they would play the edit sometimes, too, but when it was a hit on the radio it was the medley.

  • asstroasstro 1,754 Posts
    James Chance did a pretty OK cover of "I Got You I Feel Good" too, if you can dig that whole early 80's "no wave" stylee. I think that he made some great records, but he's one of those people that hasn't really been re-discovered yet.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    is Love of the Common People considered soul-ish? pop? country????

    Stiff Little Fingers did a cover of that.

    I'd consider it country, since the earliest version I can think of is by Waylon Jennings (pre-Winstons).

    The Nitecaps covered Wilmer & the Dukes'"Give Me One More Chance."

    And to the person who asked about the J. Geils Band's covers of R&B material, my faves include "Looking For A Love" (originally by the Valentinos, the same song that former Valentino Bobby Womack covered) and "First I Look At The Purse" (a Contours song).

    I'd sooner stick with the originals on their first two Atlantic albums (The J. Geils Band and The Morning After).

  • SoulificSoulific 103 Posts
    rachel sweet - b.a.b.y.
    pigbag - papa got a brand new pigbag
    madness - it must be love

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Isn't Fern Kinney's "Groove Me" kinda new wave? It's been mad long since I heard it.

    never heard her version, but i thought she was a straight-up soul singer (no new wave overtones at all)

  • Soul songs covered by Elvis Costello:

    Pop Life - Prince
    Many Rivers To Cross - Jimmy Cliff
    From Head to Toe - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
    Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Nina Simone
    Bama Lama Bama Loo - Little Richard
    Please Stay - he Drifters
    Leave My Kitten Alone - Little Willie John
    Point of No Return - Gene McDaniels
    Pouring Water on a Drowning Man - James Carr
    I Stand Accused - Jerry Butler
    Baby It's You - The Shirelles
    Step Inside Love - Cilla Black
    Get Yourself Another Fool - Charles Brown
    Strange - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
    The Dark End of the Street - James Carr

    Edited from http://www.coversproject.com/artist/elvis%20costello

    Maybe we should ask him to join SoulStrut. I have a feeling he could survive the initial hazing.[/b]

    whats crazy is i was standing next to dude no less than an hour ago. barely recognized him.
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