Heartland

For comparison's sake... give it a listen

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Almost as emotional as 's version, no?

(it's off my 7" single, so forgive the vinyl effects)

oh aye. deffo more goth that von's rendition

That´s definately one for the Do´s and dont´s section of music..
Do it like The Sisters, don´doit like Hot Chocolate.
There are lightyears beween the two versions.
Thanks for the link!

Usually I hate cover versions unless the band doing them can add something that adds or betters the original,make it theirs if you like.The Sisters are one of the few bands capable of this.Emma and Gimme shelter are two perfect examples and I now always think of them as Sisters songs first.

wild bill buttock wrote:Usually I hate cover versions unless the band doing them can add something that adds or betters the original,make it theirs if you like.The Sisters are one of the few bands capable of this.Emma and Gimme shelter are two perfect examples and I now always think of them as Sisters songs first.

Well said that Man

wild bill buttock wrote:Usually I hate cover versions unless the band doing them can add something that adds or betters the original,make it theirs if you like.The Sisters are one of the few bands capable of this.Emma and Gimme shelter are two perfect examples and I now always think of them as Sisters songs first.

You can add Jolene to that list. Just love the way sings it.

Sad story: A mate of mine saw Errol Brown singing in Coventry Precinct a couple of years ago with a little amp, a tape deck and a mic. As he sang his heart out people just carried on with their shopping.

And HC's version of Emma is great Heard it before The Sisters and loved it then. Everything else they ever recorded without exception is s**t.

Sisters version of Shelter is one of the very few covers ever that exceeds the original as far as I am concerned..

Hom_Corleone wrote:
And HC's version of Emma is great
Everything else they ever recorded without exception is s**t.

Yeah! I love Hot Chocolate's version too, very much so The Sisters' cover ain't that bad either...

And what do you mean s**t?! Don't forget about the the groovy Mindless Boogie or the true story Heaven's in The Back Seat of My Cadillac?!

Hmm.."Emma" yes, far better. "Jolene" an interesting take on it, better than the White Stripes attempt. "Gimme Shelter" is utter crap when attempted by Eldritch though. The playing is spot on, but his voice is way too slow and it just drags. Bit self-indulgent sounding.
Nobody mentions the pretty decent version of "Confide in me"..?

I think the White Stripes' version of Jolene was pretty good The boy can scream!

HC's version of Emma is very nice indeed, even though it doesn't have any sense of irony whatsoever.
And so is Dolly Parton's Jolene, The Stones' Gimme shelter, etc. I don't like the idea that the Girls picked up crap songs and turned them into groovy covers. I think they actually picked nice songs, including Gimme gimme gimme, and tried to look at them from a different angle, that's all.

Ghost Dance did some ace covers too. Poor recording quality or not, Both Ends Burning and the whole HFOS single are amazing takes on those songs.

davedecay wrote:
Almost as emotional as 's version, no?

(it's off my 7" single, so forgive the vinyl effects)

I love this version, no irony just dead pan straight

Also love the vinyl effects takes me back to a time when all music had such personal touches

I love HC's version! Good song, well performed!

Dark wrote:Ghost Dance did some ace covers too. Poor recording quality or not, Both Ends Burning and the whole HFOS single are amazing takes on those songs.

More Ghost Dance covers can be found here

Emma is my favorite cover that the Sisters have done, I love the Hot Chocolate original as well, superb song

Nice one, scotty.

I'll wait until one of them says they've got your copy, then continue the fine trade.

Dark wrote:Nice one, scotty.

I'll wait until one of them says they've got your copy, then continue the fine trade.

There's another one there now

I actually heard the Sisters version first, & didn't realise know that it was a cover version.
The 1st time that I heard the Hot Chocolate version was a couple of years later on a radio station 'Golden Hour', and I thought someone was covering a Sisters song. Like anyone would be covering a Sisters song in 1986!

I know HC's Emma much longer than the SOM version.
Always liked the song very much.
Great beat and beautiful voice.

made a mysterious cover of it.
He makes the song sound as painful as it should.
The version of the sisters made me listen to the lyrics
and that's something Errol Brown never really did.

it's hard to understand, but doesn't say on the Amsterdam Paradiso 1983-08-28 boot, just before Emma, "all who have tears, prepare to shed them now..."

On one bootleg before Emma he says "time for a weepy" or something like that.

robertzombie wrote:On one bootleg before Emma he says "time for a weepy" or something like that.

Speed Kings.

Emma - Hot Choc, of course I've heard it.
I'm old enough to be most of you peoples' Dad!

What Mr.E and the rest did with it is genius.

mh wrote:

robertzombie wrote:On one bootleg before Emma he says "time for a weepy" or something like that.

Speed Kings.

nah it's an old one. isn't Speed Kings the Ireland 1990 one?