Re: Covers of Pinball Wizard

[Shane Matheson <matheso@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>]

On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Lev Polinsky wrote:

> Well, the few covers I have heard of Who songs tend to sound pretty bad.  
> Gorky Park's My Generation, for example, doesn't really work (and I 

Green Day did "My Generation" on their Kerplunk album, which sounds okay 
though I think you'd have to make a conscious effort to make MG sound bad.

The Breeders did "So Sad About Us".  Sounds pretty good with female vocals.

The Sex Pistols do a couple of early Who covers which sound good (if you 
like the Pistols)

There is also an album of Who covers called "WHO covers who" with a bunch 
of covers by fairly recent British bands, and while none of them 
qualifies as great, there are some intersting interpretations.

I also once heard a version of Tommy done by various hardcore thrash/punk 
bands, or at least the cover said it was Tommy, you couldn't tell by the 
sound.


Shane Matheson					MechEng/CompSci UWO

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