Start Me Up - sample on Soundcloud!

[amaitheanhorn]

Thanks for the link

I was hoping they'd do a bit more with the song, but it's not bad. It would have been good if the music was a bit heavier and louder to balance the vocal. It is always good though to have another song by the band

[Son of Stopped]

I'd...wait for it to pop up on You Tube. But it's a Manics cover. It sounds like the Manics. (I'm thinking production wise it's like their cover of "Rock'n'Roll Music")
And at least James didn't decide to do a "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be... Mick Jagger!".
He still sounds unmistakeably James. But wow, that voice is going to be so fucked this December tour!

[Frozendiva]

The Manics have never done a lousy cover.

[nocultureicons]

Originally Posted by Frozendiva

The Manics have never done a lousy cover.

I'd say Umbrella was a bit of a misstep.

[Takk]

Umbrella was really good live.

[allisvanity]

Didn't like that at all sadly.

Will be avoiding this album.

[tzb]

Originally Posted by Frozendiva

The Manics have never done a lousy cover.

Off the top of my head

Velocity Girl
Wrote For Luck
Been a Son (I love the song, this wheezy claustrophobic version is unlistenable)
Working Class Hero
This Is the Day

[allisvanity]

And there was that cover of 'It Ain't Over Til' It's Over' by Lenny Kravitz on PFAYM. That was shocking.

[gallafield]

The only manics covers I don't like are the songs that never did anything for me in their original form: been a son, didn't my Lord deliver Daniel?, the dire Amy Winehouse one.

Start Me Up falls into that category, sadly. Never liked the stones.

[tzb]

Originally Posted by allisvanity

And there was that cover of 'It Ain't Over Til' It's Over' by Lenny Kravitz on PFAYM. That was shocking.

Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow

I assume you're talking about Hazelton Avenue, the worst Manics song of all. I was gutted hearing that live; the cheesy rhythm, the lazy riff, the awfully cringe chorus. It's the musical equivalent of being dry-humped by a hammered predatory twat in a bar at the end of the night.

so true

[allisvanity]

Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow

I assume you're talking about Hazelton Avenue, the worst Manics song of all.

Indeed!

My least favourite actual cover would probably be Velocity Girl. Favourite being We Are All Bourgeois Now. They've done some pretty great covers over the years.

[tzb]

Yeah their hit-rate is pretty high, but a song which is based around a riff like this... I mean, it was only ever going to be a pretty direct cover, and pretty direct covers tend to be fairly worthless.

[AK47]

A throwaway cover but enjoyable. It's marginally better than This Is The Day.

[Takk]

Most of their covers are pretty throwaway i think.

[AK47]

Originally Posted by Takk

Most of their covers are pretty throwaway i think.

very true.