I'm sure you'd rather have avoided the pain and inconvenience of what happened but I guess it's not an inconsequential amount at least

Fontaines DC cover the overly brilliant JAMC

Blimey Ralph, that's a serious injury for a bloke who lives alone.

If you need anything, (Well, almost anything) let me know.

Very good :-)

What kind of damages can one get for something like this - does it depend on bone breakages, impact on life post the fall, blood spilt, etc.

Very interesting read Alex, like Tikay, a world about which I know nothing so all the more fascinating

Didn't know much about The Associates but White Car in Germany was on just about any mixtape (those were the days) I made back then

Good story Tom, much better than the ones a couple of days ago :-)

Merry Xmas and all the best for the New Year, think the big poker scores are coming in 2023

Catch you soon

Never heard the original of that Boo, but that's amazing, thanks

I'm sure you have , it's Adele.

Ha, if it's Adele, I can pretty much guarantee I've never heard it, heard it :-)

Not many bands make me wish I was as old as Tikay and could have seen in their pomp, but early Faces wold be in the line up


Merry Xmas

Never heard the original of that Boo, but that's amazing, thanks

100 or so gigs. I appreciate the dedication and sure they do too

Some great songs here, love Siouxsie and that was a great cover.

Embarrasingly had to look up who did the original Happiness is a Warm Gun. Reminds me of hearing comfortably numb, for the first time....by the Scissor Sisters, seemed to amuse the people I was with at the time that I had managed to avoid Pink Floyd almost entirely (bar the period when they had a few chart entries) and they seemed to feel I'd missed out never having heard the original. Played it once, that was quite enough :-)

Like the contributions from Chompy and Karma, standard nu metal entry and diddly country style from chompers and inevitably heavier from KD. Will look up the bloke you mention as well.

In the nu metal and heavier genres I think Korn do a pretty incred version of Alice in Chains 'Would' but although I'm not remotely a Mettalica fan (probably know 3 songs) this cover by korn from the MTV awards is pretty stunning imo - love Korn and JD's voice.

Stuart Adamson's daughter covering one of Big Country's anthems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b8NKVcb3w4

Love that, you can see she's his daughter. Their performance of this live on The Tube I think is one of the most uplifting things I ever watch and return to a fair bit

I was shocked to learn of his abduction.

R.I.P.

Likewise, pretty shocking stuff.

Our Lips are Sealed his cover and the original one of my fav tracks. When you're most of our ages , fav tracks means being in the top few hundred I think - Gangsters probs in that category too. Deffo becoming a tad concerned at the number in my age cohort dropping off currently

Think "Our Lips are Sealed" was jointly written with one of The Go-go's, so wasn't really a cover.  Preferred the Go-go's version, but pretty sure I heard it first, and that always biasses you.  Have heard The Funboy Three's version multiple times since last night and keep thinking they should play the better one.  Don't think anyone has played a Specials song on 6 music whilst I was listening either.

Hadn't appreciated it was a joint thing. I'd forgotten a few specials tracks and found quite a few others to enjoy last night. Nice trip down memory lane

One of my favourite You tube rabbit holes I disappear down, after a drink usually, is looking for cover versions of some of the songs I love the most.

Tennage Fanclub would be in, lets say, my top 20 favourite artists of all time, not 'arf. So sad , when Gerry went his own way and now you can only go and see different bits of them but not all at the same time.

Will post from time to time, more like a permanent record of days when I had a drink.

Here's an amateur cover that I really enjoy of one of their great tracks, might not be unconnected to the attractive girl in this band. Would love to know of any other covers people enjoy, never too old to learn