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Your favorite version of "I Think We're Alone Now"
Tommy James & the Shondells 56%  56%  [ 13 ]
Gary Lewis & the Playboys 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
The Rubinoos 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Lene Lovich 17%  17%  [ 4 ]
Tiffany 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Snuff 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Screeching Weasel 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Donnie Barren 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Girls Aloud 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
The Birthday Massacre 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
The Click Five 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
The Spinto Band 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Jenny Powers 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Karen Parry and Pascal 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:08 am 
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Time to go bubblegum this week.

I love this song.....but, in my opinion, there are quite a few mind-numbing versions starting with the turn of the 80s.....(which charted) Feel free to disagree.

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I love the Rubinoos, but I gotta go with the Shondells.

Lene Lovich sang it in Japanese.

And I don't hate Tiffany's dance-pop remake. So sue me.

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I voted Tommy James but I'll confess I also liked Tiffany's version.


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Much as I wanted to vote for the Rubinoos, I picked the Screeching Weasels by a hair. I also love the Birthday Massacre version. I didn't know the Spinto Band did a cover of this song: I like their albums & will have to track this down.


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Lene for me

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Lene too!

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I'm tempted to vote for Screeching Weasel just by the name :D

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Paulo wrote:
I'm tempted to vote for Screeching Weasel just by the name :D




Kill the Musicians is a fine collection though I prefer their main releases like Bark Like a Dog, Wiggle and My Brain Hurts. Almost any of their early-to-mid '90s albums are great.


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Screeching Weasel's cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" was a staple of my college radio station in '92. I love their album My Brain Hurts - their originals are as snappy as anything they cover.

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Any list with The Rubinoos is likely to get my vote, and this one is no exception, even though I love the original too.

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Shondells.

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The TJS original version may have been my favorite song a a little boy.

The Tiffany was surprisingly not bad, but definitely voted TJS. I didn't even know about any of the others!

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I love most versions of this song. I'm a huge Tommy James fan and t's just a real good song. I had a hard time picking one, but I went with Lene Lovich because I first heard it right around the time that Tiffany's version was super-popular. At the time, I was an alterna-snobby middle/high schooler and Lene's version was like an antidote to Tiffany's. But I like Tiffany's version now too. Her 80s mallrat voice/persona goes well with the lyrics.

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I voted "Other" because my favorite cover is by a local Hawaii group called Shnazz, from 1980.


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Lawrence Talbot wrote:
Paulo wrote:
I'm tempted to vote for Screeching Weasel just by the name :D




Kill the Musicians is a fine collection though I prefer their main releases like Bark Like a Dog, Wiggle and My Brain Hurts. Almost any of their early-to-mid '90s albums are great.

I'll check them out on you guys' recommendations but I can't say I liked their version of the song much.

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Geff R. wrote:
The TJS original version may have been my favorite song a a little boy.

The Tiffany was surprisingly not bad, but definitely voted TJS. I didn't even know about any of the others!

Agreed. I don't remember it being bad but her voice sounds shockingly amateurish.

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I voted for Tommy James, but have always been kinda charmed by this low-fi, heavily Brit-accented version from the Pipettes that's been around on YouTube for a few years...



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I like the Pipettes version, never heard it before now. Wish it was on one of their albums.


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Lawrence Talbot wrote:
I like the Pipettes version, never heard it before now. Wish it was on one of their albums.

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