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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals 09:14 - Dec 19 with 5300 viewsDJR

I am not sure if this has been done before as a topic, but I was alerted to this by an article about Toni Basil in the Guardian. And the fact that it has a different title makes it particularly obscure.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:46 - Dec 19DJR

Perhaps a bit of a cheat but the German version of what was called in English The Model.

I first came across the German version 40 odd years ago on an NME cassette, and the German lyrics add to its hypnotic nature.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:57 - Dec 19IndependentlyBlue

Covered to particularly good effect by Elvis Costello


Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:59 - Dec 19DJR

Difficult to argue that anything by Dylan or Springsteen is obscure but less well known than the cover probably fits the bill.



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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:07 - Dec 19DJR

A song which with a change of title and lyrics morphed into Surfing USA.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:10 - Dec 19You_Bloo_Right


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:15 - Dec 19You_Bloo_Right


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:17 - Dec 19DJR

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 21:31 - Dec 19 by IndependentlyBlue

From late 50s



He also wrote this. It was about Salford where he grew up.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:19 - Dec 19You_Bloo_Right


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:22 - Dec 19You_Bloo_Right

Somewhere.
Beyond the sea ..


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:24 - Dec 19You_Bloo_Right

Imagine you are a member of SAHB and Alex walks in one day saying, "Today we're going to play a tango" ...


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:25 - Dec 19Melford

The Prodigy took this to another dimension

Dragging TWTD into the gutter since 2009
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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:26 - Dec 19You_Bloo_Right

As for Terry Jacks, he can just do one.


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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:35 - Dec 19PhilTWTD

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:24 - Dec 19 by You_Bloo_Right

Imagine you are a member of SAHB and Alex walks in one day saying, "Today we're going to play a tango" ...



You could basically do this thread just with Jacques Brel on his own.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:39 - Dec 19PhilTWTD

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:42 - Dec 19PhilTWTD

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:53 - Dec 19WeWereZombies






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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 22:55 - Dec 19BanksterDebtSlave

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"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 23:07 - Dec 19You_Bloo_Right



Not the first recording, apparently, but the first release.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 23:28 - Dec 19Godzilla

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 13:01 - Dec 21DJR

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(No subject) (n/t) on 13:07 - Dec 21DJR

(No subject) (n/t) on 11:23 - Dec 19 by BlueBoots



A song made famous by the Rolling Stones.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 13:24 - Dec 21DJR

Two great songs later covered by the Beat.



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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 13:54 - Dec 21PhilTWTD

Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 13:24 - Dec 21 by DJR

Two great songs later covered by the Beat.





On a similar note.

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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 14:21 - Dec 21DJR

This by Leon Rosselson is almost unrecognisable from the cover by Dick Gaughan, which Billy Bragg based his on.





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Friday music thread: obscure or little-known originals on 16:30 - Dec 21Whos_blue


"Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see?"

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