:)

It's an adolescent crush. We all had them at his age :glugglug

A cover in the first place? :)

The version that most of us know by Joan Jett (one of my fave songs) was not the original . The original was by The Arrows :)

Nobody should know music trivia that obscure :winkwink:

Was the original any good? May have to try and track it down on Ares now as I'm curious.

I know, but the "first place" would be the Arrows version. :winkwink:

Just giving you a hard time. :-)

lol..yes, I knew that was awkward as I was typing it..lol

Yeah it is pretty good. It is a male group so it has a slightly different vibe. My husband liked the Arrows so we always have a friendly fight over which version is the best.

You are right, I shouldn't know this stuff but I do. I just found out Toni Basil's 'Hey Mickey' is a cover. Go figure.

Damn that's two I've gotta look for now. Given how distinctive the sound of Hey Mickey is the original is porbably totally different. Be worth hearing just to compare.

Actually it is fairly similar other than that it is done by a man and it called 'Hey Vicky' or something like that. I heard it on a great radio show/website crapfromthepast.com


Letting people know that Tainted Love was not original to Soft Cells does appear to be one of my missions in life too.

Hey there, people, I'm Bobby Brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiney
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
I'm dressin' sharp 'n I'm
Actin' cool
I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work 'n maybe later I'll rape her



Oh God I am the American dream
I do not think I'm too extreme
An' I'm a handsome sonofabitch
I'm gonna get a good job 'n be real rich
(Get a good, get a good, get a good, get a good job)



Women's Liberation
Came creepin' across the nation
I tell you people, I was not ready
When I fucked this dyke by the name of Freddie
She made a little speech then,
Aw, she tried to make me say when
She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick
I guess it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick



Oh God I am the American dream
(P.U.)
But now I smell like Vaseline
An' I'm a miserable sonofabitch
Am I a boy or a lady . . . I don't know which
(I wonder wonder, wonder wonder)



So I went out 'n bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change, but I'm still kinda cute
Got a job doin' radio promo
An' none of the jocks can even tell I'm a homo
Eventually me 'n a friend
Sorta of drifted along into S&M
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
'Long as I gets a little golden shower



Oh God I am the American dream
With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream
An' I'll do anything to get ahead
I lay awake nights sayin', "Thank you, Fred!"
Oh God, Oh God, I'm so fantastic!
Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now; I'm goin' down,
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now; I'm goin' down,
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now; I'm goin' down

50 bad covers of old songs

That Jessica Simpson "Take my breath away" cover and this Brittney cover do in fact make me turn dial each time they come on.

The thread that just won't die :)

I knew about Tainted Love but then I liked the Soft Cell version a lot so looked into it. :)

Yeah the original is much more motown but the most interesting thing about it is that the singer was later Mrs. Marc Bolan.

I am still trying to recover from Puff Daddy's (P Diddy now) cover of Kashmir.


Badly covering classic songs should carry an automatic sentence of CASTRATION.

Coo - now that I hadn't managed to pick up on. For some reason it always surprised me that he was str8.

hey i liked Boby Browns song when i was young
and i like Britney's remake cuz it reminds me of when i first heard the original

Well, the Frankenfurter look from Rocky Horror was based on his look so I can understand the confusion..lol. There was a LOT of bisexuality floating around that scene in London.