Best Clash covers?

[fingertrouble]

For a future show I'm looking for the best Clash covers - now you'd say 'Tim you must know all of them by now' - well I might know the really obvious ones (Pogues, Mighty Bosstones Moby etc.) but 99.9% of them are exceedingly crap-cakes. Especially as you can just listen to the originals.

So looking for odd / good covers other than ones I've played (the Urge, Josh Rouse come to mind, there's a few more but not many) and Clash rarities or remixes or Clash boots I might not have heard (yes I have heard the London Booted LP since I'm on it, and you might hear that on the show ;-)

So?

Ideas?

*Warning - I am very picky about what makes a good Clash cover, having heard so many now - so don't get upset if I say 'yuk!' or 'nah!' I still value the suggestion! But who knows maybe you could suggest one that rocks my world and I'll play it with a credit? Go on! See if you can flummox me...*

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Nouvelle Vague covering "Guns of Brixton"

[nlotic.livejournal.com]

Nouvelle Vague covering Guns of Brixton
Download at Insound for free here:
http://www.insound.com/mp3/mp3s.php?searchby=Nouvelle%20Vague

Re: Nouvelle Vague covering "Guns of Brixton"

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

ooh freebie!!! thanks!

I think I've heard this - there's a very good reason why Nouvelle Vague have never been played on Radio Clash - partly their awful samba version of Love Will Tear Us Apart for that alone hanging's too good for 'em.

*listens*

Not bad, better than I remember, still no Prozak for Lovers 'London Calling'?

Re: Nouvelle Vague covering "Guns of Brixton"

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

I really don't like her voice, she sounds like she's taking the piss (which could work, but with another song...)