Round 1: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" vs "Hurt" *CLOSED*

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Round 1: Best Covered Song?

Poll ended at February 5 17, 7:13 am

"I Wanna Be Your Dog" by Uncle Tupelo, originally performed by The Stooges
9
41%
"Hurt" by Johnny Cash, originally performed by Nine Inch Nails
13
59%
 
Total votes: 22

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Re: Round 1: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" vs "Hurt"

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The NIN version is better.

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heyzeus wrote:SECRETS:

The NIN version is better.
You know what? Until I started the tourney, I actually thought the NIN version was also a cover. I knew Cash had covered it, but I thought he did his version back in like the 70s or something and that the original was from like the 1950s or 1960s. I had no idea NIN wrote it in the early 90s and that Cash covered it in 2002 only a few months before his death.

Sidenote: I don't listen to much Johnny Cash, and didn't even really start listening to it until the mid-2000s when I was finishing up college.

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Swirls wrote:
heyzeus wrote:SECRETS:

The NIN version is better.
You know what? Until I started the tourney, I actually thought the NIN version was also a cover. I knew Cash had covered it, but I thought he did his version back in like the 70s or something and that the original was from like the 1950s or 1960s. I had no idea NIN wrote it in the early 90s and that Cash covered it in 2002 only a few months before his death.

Sidenote: I don't listen to much Johnny Cash, and didn't even really start listening to it until the mid-2000s when I was finishing up college.
Not sure of this, but I think it was recorded not that long after June died, so it came across as extra emotional in light of that.

zeus - that is a good UT song.

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Re: Round 1: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" vs "Hurt"

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heyzeus wrote:SECRETS:

The NIN version is better.
Just threw your dog song a bone. Remember that when my Cash cover comes up in a future round.

Would that be quid pro quo? Need a legal opinion please.

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Radbird wrote:
heyzeus wrote:SECRETS:

The NIN version is better.
Just threw your dog song a bone. Remember that when my Cash cover comes up in a future round.

Would that be quid pro quo? Need a legal opinion please.
That's just a bilateral contract. Nothin' to see here.

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heyzeus wrote:You put me up against [expletive] Johnny Cash?

I hate you Swirls.

All I ask is that y'all listen to that Uncle Tupelo cover of the Iggy and the Stooges classic. It's twangy! It's fun! It would make a great soundtrack to a movie fight scene in a honky tonk!

I'm going to lose, and I'm angry.
You know how I feel about Heart's Stairway to heaven now....

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Uncle Tupelo did some really good covers. I like "Give Back the Key to my Heart" and "Moonshiner" a lot too. This is a pretty rough matchup though.

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heyzeus wrote:SECRETS:

The NIN version is better.
Preach. I'll be (futilely) voting against the overplayed-and-overvenerated-to-hell-and-back Cash cover every damn round.

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Re: Round 1: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" vs "Hurt"

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The Third Man wrote:
heyzeus wrote:SECRETS:

The NIN version is better.
Preach. I'll be (futilely) voting against the overplayed-and-overvenerated-to-hell-and-back Cash cover every damn round.
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Kincaid wrote:Uncle Tupelo did some really good covers. I like "Give Back the Key to my Heart" and "Moonshiner" a lot too. This is a pretty rough matchup though.
Kincaid knows his UT. Hell yeah.
I believe Doug Sahm played with them on Give Back.
Jay also did a nice understated cover of Ron Wood's Mystifies Me on Trace.

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