Avg rating:
Your rating:
Total ratings: 2724
Length: 4:39
Plays (last 30 days): 4
Starting and then stopping, taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings, disappointed people, clinging on
To bottles 'cause when it comes it's so, so, so disappointing
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
I say let down and hanging around
Shell smashed, juices flowing, wings twitch, legs are going
Don't get sentimental, don't, it always ends up drivel
One day, one day, I am gonna, I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless, hysterical and
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
I say let down and hanging around
Let down and hanging, let down and hanging, let down and hanging
You know, you know where you are with, you know where you are with
Floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
One day, one day, I am gonna grow wings, it's a chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
I say let down and hanging around
Crushed, crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
I suspect there's an element of Radiohead purists out there who are filled with indignation at the mere thought of one of 'their' songs being covered.....at all, let alone by a ska band, and have down voted it in a fit of pique !
Personally I'm a big fan of both versions.....solid 8 from me
Same here. I like RH and I think this is a fun, well done interpretation. I just bumped my rating up a point.
1. Brits say "streets ahead" instead of "miles ahead"
2. I promise not to coin the phrase in the U.S. of A.
I can't believe the low scores some people give this song. This is an amazing example of ska music in it's purest and most original form!
I hate ska
You left out All Along the Watchtower! Even Bob Dylan preferred Jimi's cover.
Tainted Love - another where the cover is more popular than the original. The list goes on and on.
The trumpet solo sounds like something I would do better. Even though I have never been near such an instrument.
It's a trombone, but thanks for your insightful comment.
I can't believe the low scores some people give this song. This is an amazing example of ska music in it's purest and most original form!
and?....
melodica I believe?) always elicits a smile. Brilliant cover. Thanks
RP for keeping this in the rotation.
I can't believe the low scores some people give this song. This is an amazing example of ska music in it's purest and most original form!
Perhaps some people don't like ska? Perhaps.
Streets better than the original.
I like this better than Radiohead's version.
I feel the song is completely ruined.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=enlZw1...
I'd say this is more raggae than ska.
I'm not one to play stereotypes, but there is a Jamacan flag on the album.. with a Jamacan dude on the front... and the album title has the word 'dread' in it... not to mention it just plain sounds like a raggae song and not a ska song.
Ska also originated in Jamaica.
Could not have chosen a better gif myself. Box of gold stars for you.
I suspect there's an element of Radiohead purists out there who are filled with indignation at the mere thought of one of 'their' songs being covered.....at all, let alone by a ska band, and have down voted it in a fit of pique !
Personally I'm a big fan of both versions.....solid 8 from me
Totally agree!
I learnt something new today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrLnFIkuDBA
( there is not enough martha & the muffins on RP)
Whoa - that was interesting, thanks for the link!
I agree - more M&M!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrLnFIkuDBA
( there is not enough martha & the muffins on RP)
I have my doubts.
Absolutely! Radiohead’s version and this one are different and both outstanding pieces of music.
depends on your definition of 'better', right?
i'd argue that 'better' generally translates to 'more popular' and there are hundreds of covers that are clearly more popular than the original.
off the top of my head:
the most obvious is Louie Louie - written and first recorded by Richard Berry & The Pharohs - popularized by the Kingsmen. The Kingsman version is (or was in years past) consistently named as one of 'the greatest rock songs of all times'. i doubt the Richard Berry version would even be mentioned in footnotes had it not been for the Kingsmen.
Red Red Wine - written written and first recorded by Neil Diamond is - UB40 version is far more popular
One of my favorites is Sister Morphine - written and first recorded by whatsername (Marianne Faithful? - i think i've heard it here on RP?) - made 'better' by the Stones.
Black Magic Woman - by Fleetwood mac, popularized by Santana
any of 8 to 10 songs 'by' Led Zeppelin are 'covers' of old blues songs (at least the lyrics are covered)
the list is really huge and, in many cases, the cover is so poular that people don't even know that there was an 'original' (like when people hear Bob Marley sing I shot the Sherrif' and ask why all the great classic rock songs get turned into Reggae tunes...)
You left out All Along the Watchtower! Even Bob Dylan preferred Jimi's cover.
Ahhhh.. no. Radiohead's is better.
That is almost never true, where the cover is better.
Technically it should never be true... because even on very rare occasions where the cover is 'better' (improves) on the original... it is still a cover, and the orignal artist(s) still did the hardest job of writing the song - even though your, or my, personal opinion is that you like the song more.
My vote is for this version. Covers of Radiohead songs are generally better than the originals because they don't have Thom Yorke singing on them. Ironclad exception to your rule.
And this is Toots and the Maytals. Enough said, FFS.
Definitely proves that radiohead are amazing
Exactly...and listens to pop music in the coffin.
Great point. Espeically the instrumental part that somehow sounds so similar with completely different instruments and voicings.
Insert random word in blank.
Fun?
Works better in the context of the album. It's a song for song cover of OK Computer, each track done by a different reggae, ska, or dub artist.
Greenwood and Yorke had nothing but good things to say about it. And maybe that's just down to PR and royalties, but I like to think they were blown away by the transformation.
In fact, I'm gonna fire it up right now and try to decide which track is my favorite.
... except it's a cover. So not at all original.
Insert random word in blank.
Insert > Utter brilliance
Insert random word in blank.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
+1
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Give us his riff on John Denver. Perhaps the best cover of all time.
Take me home, West Jamaica
Ha ha! But imagine being a fly on the wall during that conversation. Somebody must have thought they were having a laugh with the great Toots right up until the moment when he said "Sure, let's cover a Radio head song."
Two songs that should never be covered.
It's sort of like any man who tries to sing like Barry White. You just can't do it. Give up.
1
Yuck.
So what youre saying is that in your opinion, Leonard Cohen should not be able to sing his own song because someone else, who happens to be dead did another version which you prefer?!
after a few whiskeys, 20 Marlborogh and 6 hrs sleep I DO sound like Barry White.
Yes Yes Yes, and I've seen Radiohead live. This makes me smile right up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfkPmbg1ymM ?
Two songs that should never be covered.
It's sort of like any man who tries to sing like Barry White. You just can't do it. Give up.
1
Yuck.
After a latelate-night emergency coding session yes, yes: this is f*in nice.
So long, Meester David Let-Ter-man and thanks for all the memories.
Yes Yes Yes, and I've seen Radiohead live. This makes me smile right up.
In February 2003, Easy Star All-Stars released a cover album of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon entitled Dub Side of the Moon, a complete reggae reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd album. Dub Side of the Moon has remained on the Billboard Reggae Charts since its release in 2003. It features instructions on how to synchronize the record with The Wizard of Oz, referencing the audiovisual pairing sometimes referred to as Dark Side of the Rainbow.
Dub Side of the Moon was followed by the 2006 release of Radiodread, a reimagining of Radiohead's album OK Computer. At a 2006 Radiohead concert, Thom Yorke praised Toots & The Maytals version of "Let Down" on Radiodread. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has also praised the cover version, calling it "truly astounding."
Dub Side of the Moon is excellent, as is Radiodread. Their Lonely Heart's Dub Band version of Sgt. Pepper's is also worth checking out too.
I like a really cool, weird, innovative cover. It stands up on its own and allows reflection on the original. Two fer the price of one, as it were...
If you think Marianne Faithfull wrote that song by herself you don't know much about the Rolling Stones my friend.
Good points on Black Magic Woman and I shot the Sherrif
I always think of Neil Diamond (and Carol King) as songwriters first who decided to record their own output.
I stand corrected, although i would still like to believe that I know a fair-bit about the Stones...
Sister Morphine .... written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Marianne Faithfull. Faithfull released a version of the song as the b-side to her 1969 single "Something Better" on Decca Records, 21 February 1969. Although sung live to a backing track by Faithfull at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, that film was never televised and "Something Better" did not hit the UK chart, an estimated 500 copies only being issued by Decca. A different version was released two years later by The Rolling Stones as a track on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers.
This is great.
I'll sencond that motion
I didn't know RP had any of it - awesome.
depends on your definition of 'better', right?
i'd argue that 'better' generally translates to 'more popular' and there are hundreds of covers that are clearly more popular than the original.
off the top of my head:
the most obvious is Louie Louie - written and first recorded by Richard Berry & The Pharohs - popularized by the Kingsmen. The Kingsman version is (or was in years past) consistently named as one of 'the greatest rock songs of all times'. i doubt the Richard Berry version would even be mentioned in footnotes had it not been for the Kingsmen.
Red Red Wine - written written and first recorded by Neil Diamond is - UB40 version is far more popular
One of my favorites is Sister Morphine - written and first recorded by whatsername (Marianne Faithful? - i think i've heard it here on RP?) - made 'better' by the Stones.
Black Magic Woman - by Fleetwood mac, popularized by Santana
any of 8 to 10 songs 'by' Led Zeppelin are 'covers' of old blues songs (at least the lyrics are covered)
the list is really huge and, in many cases, the cover is so poular that people don't even know that there was an 'original' (like when people hear Bob Marley sing I shot the Sherrif' and ask why all the great classic rock songs get turned into Reggae tunes...)
If you think Marianne Faithfull wrote that song by herself you don't know much about the Rolling Stones my friend.
Good points on Black Magic Woman and I shot the Sherrif
I always think of Neil Diamond (and Carol King) as songwriters first who decided to record their own output.