The deal with this series is that it's a song that I like in the original - or the most popular version you'd know of, in some cases . . . but I like a cover, better.
The original? Bill Haley and His Comets, Rock Around the Clock.
Rockabilly classic.
The version I like better? Both of these versions by Tenpole Tudor / Edward Tenpole - one from when he was getting flogged as a possible replacement for John Lydon in Sex Pistols, the other a different version off of a Stiff Records compliation. The first is also the first place I heard Tenpole Tudor.
Pistols version:
Listen to that fantastic Steve Jones guitar over classic Paul Cook drumming.
Stiff version:
And fuck, I should just do a post on Tenpole Tudor. Underrated band.
