Fantasy Folk Covers

Subject: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 10:09 AM

Maybe we've been here before, maybe not...

My question is, which Folk Songs would you like sung by which Folk Artists? Taking folk as broadly as possible of course, which as far as Mudcat is concerned might well include everything after all.

No fan of Steeleye Span I, they nevertheless continue to fascinate on a level of perversity that, at times, might requite certain excorcism, especially when my head is overrun by Seven Hundred Elves.

So by way of catharsis might I suggest a cover version of Seven Hundred Elves by The Fall, feeling sure that Mark E Smith is the perhaps the only human being alive who might render this piece of iksome whimsy genuinely menacing. It's not as if he hasn't sang of elves before; witness The Elf Norman of Elf Prefix, or The Elves of Dunsimore of, er, Elves.

So what would your Fantasy Folk Cover be? And why?

Subject: RE: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 10:25 AM

The Jam's That's Entertainment, sung by The Imagined Village.

Why? Because I think it would be brilliant - much better than Paul Weller's lacklustre John Barleycorn cover for last year's CD.

Subject: RE: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: glueman
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 10:33 AM

Show of Hands - who always sound like it's a lecture - doing James Brown's Sex Machine. Failing that, June Tabor doing Donna Summer's I Feel Love (12" mix).

Subject: RE: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: Banjiman
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 10:36 AM

Kate Rusby doing Motorhead's Ace of Spades maybe?

Subject: RE: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: Banjiman
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 10:41 AM

Actually wouldn't mind hearing Motorhead doing Kate's Bitter Boy either.......

Subject: RE: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 10:59 AM

Seriousy, I've always thought Oasis could do a cracking job of Vashti Bunyan's Diamond Day; likewise D. Bowie's vintage Silly Boy Blue.

Subject: RE: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 10:59 AM

Lee Marvin doing a cover of the Watersons' 'Lyke Wake Dirge'.

Subject: RE: Fantasy Folk Covers
From: GUEST,Vic at work
Date: 22 Apr 08 - 11:17 AM

Bryn,

Close the thread, there can be no more said. Probably the most sublime pairing that can be thought of. Thank you for this wonderful moment.