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    • March 8, 2013 12:19 PM CST
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    • LIGHTHOUSE - SUMMER DAYS , Hardly my favorite , but it gets the laziness vibe down pat.

      Troggs - Summertime (Not "When the gIrls wear the dresses so low....wish you were here , The Miller Beer Ads. )  ,  I'LL BUY YOU AN ISLAND , and yes , SUMMERTIME (YOU CAN SEE THE SUN ON THEIR T-T-T-T-T-T-TANNED SKIN.....).

      Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime  (Of course. Back when singing about drinking and driving and taking advantage of rich and poor girls aliKE could land you an international top ten).

      Hanoi Rocks - Malibu Beach Nightmare (No too takin' er easy , but , the perfect summer song.).

    • March 8, 2013 12:16 PM CST
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    • Zen Guerrilla's version of The Seeker....

      Lunachicks - more than a feeling

      ...just sayin'

    • March 8, 2013 12:09 PM CST
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    • HA HA , THE FEEDERZ  ,"HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW" - THAT'S JUST WRONG. SO WRONG , IT'S RIGHT .

      OF COURSE , THE DICTATORS DID A GREAT "SLOW DEATH" , TOO. I LIKED HOW THEY PUT "I JUST WANNA HAVE SOMETHING TO DO" AND "NEXT BIG THING" TOGTHER....A GENIUS OF A NO - BRAINER.

      I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVY - I'M NOT YOUR STEPPIN' PIRAHNA - ABOUT AS LEFT OF CENTER AS IT GETS.

      MACC LADS - FAT BASTARD (BLOCKBUSTER , THE SWEET.). ABOUT AS  WRONG AS IT GETS.

    • March 8, 2013 10:54 AM CST
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    • Feederz - Have You Ever Been Mellow

      Dictators - I Got You Babe and California Sun (better than the Ramones cover too!)

      Minor threat - Steppin' Stone (even though I love Monkees/ Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart)

      That Slayer cover is pretty rad

    • March 7, 2013 9:31 PM CST
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    • NO  , JAMES LOWE WOULD NOT HAVE PUT HIS VOCAL SKILLS UP AGAINST HOWLIN' WOLF....BUT , HE'S A HOWLIN' MOTHERFUCKER , JUST THE SAME!

      Tersicore said:

      The Electric Prunes´s version is indeed fantastic!!
      But whether does beat the original or not... not sure..
      not on vocals, i would say. (love that howl so much!;)

      But i´ll spend you a beer anyway!! :)

      John Battles said:

      I RETRACT THAT NON - FACT....The Electric Prunes did a great version of "Smokestack Lightning".....on the "Live , Stockholm '67 album" , with a great turnaround , and would'nt you know , James Lowe's timely advice to an audience already, no doubt,  smoking their brains out , " IF YOU CAN'T DRINK.....THEN YOU OUGHT TO SMOKE.".....
       
      John Battles said:

      i THINK YOU'LL WIN THAT BET. I HEARD "SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING" BY THE YARDBIRDS , FIRST , THINKING THAT IT SOUNDED A LOT LIKE "PRIMITIVE" BY THE CRAMPS" , NOT YET AWARE OF HOWLIN' WOLF'S ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE FORMER , AND THE GROUPIES' ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE LATTER.....I CAN'T EVEN THINK OF ANY OTHER VERSIONS OF "SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING" , OFFHAND ........ IN THE STATES , THE CHESS RECORDS CATALOGUE WAS OUT OF PRINT UNTIL 1984 , AND , EVEN THEN , THE OBVIOUS STUFF LIKE CHUCK , BO , WOLF AND MUDDY WAS SLOW IN ARRIVING.
       
      Tersicore said:

      Well, since most of us grown up with R´n´R, Rock, Punk and so on, i guess is not too difficult to find more appealing versions of some old Jazz, Folk or old R´n´B songs. 
      We may have heard in most cases the cover earlier than the original one,  
      or maybe never heard the original at all. 

      Personally i´d be more curious about comparing songs which were both, original and cover, quasi contemporary, or from not so extremely different musical genre.
      What do you think?

      BUT: I´ll spend a beer to anyone who comes with a better version of the original "Smokestack Lightning" by Howling´Wolf! ;)

    • March 7, 2013 6:00 PM CST
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    • Totally agree!!

      and coincidentally you also instanced one cover which beat the original, for my taste!!
      As a kid i first heard the original which was great, of course!
      But later as a teen, this cover by Devo just blew me away!


      The Fnords said:

      Ah, covers; do it different or better is the guide, I believe. 

      Devo - Satisfaction. Different.

      D.

    • March 7, 2013 5:37 PM CST
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    • If true, nevertheless, cool song! :)

      D. A. Anguiano said:

      The Hex Dispensers covered a song I wrote called 'I'm a Ghost' and killed it. It's better than the original by miles. :)

      /tootsownhorn

    • March 7, 2013 4:57 PM CST
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    • The Electric Prunes´s version is indeed fantastic!!
      But whether does beat the original or not... not sure..
      not on vocals, i would say. (love that howl so much!;)

      But i´ll spend you a beer anyway!! :)

      John Battles said:

      I RETRACT THAT NON - FACT....The Electric Prunes did a great version of "Smokestack Lightning".....on the "Live , Stockholm '67 album" , with a great turnaround , and would'nt you know , James Lowe's timely advice to an audience already, no doubt,  smoking their brains out , " IF YOU CAN'T DRINK.....THEN YOU OUGHT TO SMOKE.".....
       
      John Battles said:

      i THINK YOU'LL WIN THAT BET. I HEARD "SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING" BY THE YARDBIRDS , FIRST , THINKING THAT IT SOUNDED A LOT LIKE "PRIMITIVE" BY THE CRAMPS" , NOT YET AWARE OF HOWLIN' WOLF'S ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE FORMER , AND THE GROUPIES' ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE LATTER.....I CAN'T EVEN THINK OF ANY OTHER VERSIONS OF "SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING" , OFFHAND ........ IN THE STATES , THE CHESS RECORDS CATALOGUE WAS OUT OF PRINT UNTIL 1984 , AND , EVEN THEN , THE OBVIOUS STUFF LIKE CHUCK , BO , WOLF AND MUDDY WAS SLOW IN ARRIVING.
       
      Tersicore said:

      Well, since most of us grown up with R´n´R, Rock, Punk and so on, i guess is not too difficult to find more appealing versions of some old Jazz, Folk or old R´n´B songs. 
      We may have heard in most cases the cover earlier than the original one,  
      or maybe never heard the original at all. 

      Personally i´d be more curious about comparing songs which were both, original and cover, quasi contemporary, or from not so extremely different musical genre.
      What do you think?

      BUT: I´ll spend a beer to anyone who comes with a better version of the original "Smokestack Lightning" by Howling´Wolf! ;)

    • March 7, 2013 6:25 AM CST
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    • Dead Moon Forever!!

      Audio Gasoline said:

      Dead Moon's cover of "Parchman Farm" knocks it out of the park, especially in contrast to Mose Allison's well-known jazzified piano blues original.

    • March 6, 2013 3:43 PM CST
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    • I agree , I like The Blue Cheer version better than The Who , but , certainly neither of them better than Eddie Cochran. I think , if you could have asked Johnnys Thunders , Ramone , and , on a good day , Rotten , they'd have agreed Cochran laid down the foundation for Punk. Link Wray , too. Gene Vincent , Johnny Burnette Trio , handful of others. Rockabilly WAS the original Punk Rock , before Garage Punk . 70's Punk = Heavy Cochran.
       
      Glenn Barton said:

      I prefer BC'S cover to The Who's though I like The Who's also. I like Eddy's original a bit more than BC'S cover. Kinda' perfect rock and roll song.


       
      The Fnords said:

      Ah, covers; do it different or better is the guide, I believe. One of the difficult ones; Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran or The 'Oo?

      In my view, EC was the trailblazer with a brilliant song and the Who took it on a bit; they complement each other.

      Going back to previous posts about Mose Allison, there's the Who's take on Young Man Blues, too.

      Devo - Satisfaction. Different.

      George Thorogood - Boogie Chillun. Better, maybe (but probably because of improved technology and so on).

      D.

    • March 8, 2013 10:49 AM CST
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    • Roberto, you fuckin' rule. Awesome stuff!

    • March 7, 2013 8:10 PM CST
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    • Sweet comp, that's totally the kind of recent stuff I was looking for. Any chance you know of any older material from your area? So little Eastern European stuff makes it's way to the US, but I know there was lots of vinyl in that part of the world back in the day. Thanks a lot for pointing out this album, and you can't beat a free download.

      roberto milic said:

      Here is an interesting compilation of contemporary bands (punk, garage...) from this part of Europe (Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia).
      http://eroticbiljanandhisheretics.bandcamp.com/album/ex-yu-rocknrol...

    • March 8, 2013 8:29 AM CST
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    • The DVD for the documentary Saicomania, about the peruvian garage punk band Los Saicos, is now for sale:

      www.saicomania.com

      El DVD del documental Saicomania, sobre la banda garage punk peruana Los Saicoa, ya está a la venta:

    • March 7, 2013 11:11 AM CST
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    • Just saw the memories/white fang and colleen green last night and had a b-b-blast. So I add them to my list!

    • March 7, 2013 7:56 AM CST
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    • Hi. My name is Axel. I'm 22 male from Reykjavík Iceland. I've played with now with 4 bands and lots of sideprojects. My recent band was the retro/psych/rock/pop band The Dandelion Seeds. We're not active now but we still got one record we haven't released :S. My new project is more trashier garage-ish psych rock n roll. We call ourselves Pink Street Boys. Stay tuned!

      I like lots of music. but nothing beats tough,loud,violent,trippy rock n roll.

      I got a guitar wolf tattoo.

    • March 7, 2013 2:23 AM CST
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    • Walking Tall! Leif Cunt i.e. Leif Pusser.

    • March 6, 2013 3:36 PM CST
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    • "Some girls in a club asked me what I did.   I said , I used to be a Male Prostitute". They said , "Really? What's your name ?
        "Simon Le Bon"     Marc Almond.
       
      Andy Climax said:

      Leif Garrett??? He's a cunt! Barry Gibb

    • March 6, 2013 3:34 PM CST
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    • A FANNY IN THE ENGLISH SENSE ! HERE , HERE.   ROKY HAS ALREADY SPENT WAY TOO MUCH TIME IN JAIL. PUT LEIF IN A PADDED CELL WITH JUST HIS OWN VIDEOS AND RECORDS TO KEEP HIM PREOCCUPIED , SEE HOW LONG HE LASTS.

      Andy Climax said:

      haha. He was on one of those gawd awful reality (check) programmes over here recently. I hate those fuckin' things. I don't know what he was there to achieve and I doubt he even knew really. Car crash telly at its worst. Even his rawk'n'roll stories were shit! Stick him an Roky in a cell together for the night and good luck to him. Wot a fanny (British translation of the word) haha
       
      John Battles said:

      HAVE TO AGREE , THERE. I SAW ON TV , WHERE SOME WOMAN PUT HERSELF ON THE LINE BY ADMITTING SHE WAS STILL A LEIF GARRETT FAN
      SOME 30 YEARS AFTER THEY STAMPED "HASBEEN" ON HIS FOREHEAD. SHE PRESENTED HIM WITH A CLAY BUST OF HIS HEAD THAT SHE'D MADE IN THE 70'S. HE REFUSED IT. 

      EVEN SHAUN CASSIDY AND TIMOTHY VAN PATTEN STILL HAVE CAREERS IN SHOW BUSINESS. APART FROM EFFECTIVELY PARODYING GUYS JUST LIKE HIM IN "SPIRIT OF '76" , WHAT THE HELL HAS HE DONE SINCE JIMMY CARTER STEPPED DOWN FROM THE PRESIDENCY ?  I MET A GIRL BACK IN JUNIOR HIGH WHO TOLD ME SHE RAN INTO GARRETT BEFORE A SHOW. "DO YOU PUT YOUR PANTS ON..." , SHE ASKED HIM , "OR DO THEY PAINT THEM ON ?!!".
      Andy Climax said:

      Leif Garrett??? He's a cunt! Barry Gibb

    • March 6, 2013 3:31 PM CST
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    • Was this YOU? That's a riot. I THINK.

      Ludes N. Dudes said:

      Ginger Baker, I'm delighted to meet you.

      Yeah? I'm not very good at interviews.

      Oh well, can we discuss your musical past? Your first instrument was the trumpet...

      Naaah, not really.

      But you played it a bit, didn't you?

      When I was in the Air Cadets, yeah. I wanted to play the drums but they told me I had to play the trumpet.

      What was the appeal of the drums in the first place?

      I couldn't stand it. I thought it was the most stupid fucking instrument ever in the world, so I didn't want to have anything to do with it ever. And I never have.

      I was asking about the drums not the trumpet.

      I was talking about the drums. That's what I just fucking told you. I'm an actor, I'm not a drummer.

      Do 'Toad! Ginger!

    • March 6, 2013 2:00 PM CST
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    • DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE | SUBSCRIBE TO ALL | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | BLOGSPOT

      Watcha WEIRD OHS! I'm Mr A the Barber and this is HIPSVILLE hip-shakers vol. 52 of YOU GOT GOOD TASTE

      3 Minutes Heavy - Time Keepers
      Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
      Clap Your Hands - The Ambertones
      I Do The Jerk - Bill Pinkney
      Everybody's Going Wild - International Kansas City Playboys
      Go Go Power - Sugar Pie DeSanto
      Upset The Town - Luther Thomas
      Everybody Dance - Lydia Marcelle
      Watchdog - Dorothy Williams
      Just How Much - The Kollettes
      Watermelon Man - Karin Krogh & The Public Enemies
      Bright Sounds - Big Moose & The Jams
      Rooster Knees and Rice - Clarence and Calvin
      Limbo Twist- Wailers
      Louie Louie - Travis Wammack
      Take a Trip - Johnny Vick & The Victors
      I'm Gonna Put A Watch On You - Ruby Dee
      Right Now - Ray Scott & The Scottsmen
      You Can't Hide - Lulu Reed & Freddie King
      Star Revue - Warren Lee
      Karate Boo Ga Loo - Jerry O
      Modesty - The 7th Son & The Rock In Airs
      Shake And Vibrate - Sir Latimore
      Soul Dance Number 3 - Pervis LaVawn & The Commanders
      Charge - Dreams Band

      Thanks for listening, see you next time Weird ohs!