Sweet Jane

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Lou Reed - Sweet Jane from Rock n Roll Animal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdWPeHFAMk

The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgUs7yWnDJ8

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8W7VSS2ChY

Mott The Hoople - Sweet Jane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ScP7vi6TG0

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zs9nNlwuDUI/SGMuf7J079I/AAAAAAAABzE/-cOtYPKRs4g/s400/velvet+underground+band.jpg

[unpossibles]

1. all of the above. nt

[mitchum]

2. Brownsville Station's version smokes the Velvets!

I keed! I keed!

actually, I like the way that Reed references it in Gimme Some Good Times

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Went to school with their original bass player, Tony Driggins...

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...a Hendrix-esque figure (had the look and played with his tongue
and behind his head. We went to a school that required sportcoats
and ties -- Tony would show up in the most amazing silk paisley
psychedelic sportcoats EVER).
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Saw them play our old Armoury (a 19th-century prison) several
times in front of between 100 and 200 people.
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Stephen King wrote about their guitarist, Cub Koda, as one of the
best rock guitarists EVER. Uber-nerdy looking -- but I tend to
agree with King. Cubby died some years back, but I had found him
again writing incredible articles and reviews on allmusic.com .
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[IcyPeas]

3. I think Lou Reed even said . . . . . .

the Cowboy Junkies version was better than his own.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Yep...here's the reference from Wikipedia

1988: Cowboy Junkies on The Trinity Session album. Later released as a CD single, and used on the Trent Reznor-compiled Natural Born Killers soundtrack. The Cowboy Junkies's version is based on the slower early version included in 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. Lou Reed himself described it as "the best and most authentic version I have ever heard".<2>(^ "Cowboy Junkies" Radio 4 Woman's Hour. BBC (29 January 2007))

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Jane

[BurtWorm]

13. Was he saying it was better than the Velvets' version?

It doesn't look like it to me, but I haven't heard the whole interview. He could just as likely be saying it's the most authentic cover, since it sounds almost note for note like the Velvets live version, with a bit of the emotion drained out of the vocals.

[BarbaRosa]

5. While I voted for the Cowboy Junkies,

I need to give a shout out to G.B. Leighton's Sweet Jane on the Live from Pickle Park CD.

[Kat45]

6. Great guitar in the Rock n Roll Animal version n/t

[Taverner]

7. Lou - but only if its the version with the Intro from Rock N Roll Animal

[TorchTheWitch]

8. always loved the Cowboy Junkies version

love her voice

[Withywindle]

9. It's not in my Top 15 of favorite Velvet Underground songs.

It's not even in in my list of top 5 songs on 'Loaded.' It ranks below "Head Held High," "Train Round the Bend," "Oh Sweet Nothin'", "New Age," and "Rock & Roll."

Sorry. I think it's a decent song, but overrated.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Some of the finest guitar work EVER on Lou Reed's "Rock and Roll Animal" version...

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...AND all that Lou Reed energy of that era (plus one half of that amazing
guitar duet was Dick Wagner from my area in Michigan -- lead guitarist and
vocalist for Frost -- their "Frost Music" was the first album I ever bought --
though right on its heels was Led Zeppelin's first).
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Even so, I hesitated a LONG time before passing on the Cowboy Junkies'
version -- I do think that's what Lou was looking for with that song.
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It's the version I'm listening to right now.
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[tigereye]

12. much prefer the original version- the Junkies version leaves me cold.