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okay, so I'm listening to Jane's "It's a fine day" from that littlehits blog site.

I swore I heard it before, twice.

So let me see if i get this right:

Jane - "It's a fine day" -- > Opus 3 - "it's a fine day" -> Orbital - "Halcyon".

Have any other songs been mutated this much? Jane's cover is a simple acapella song, Opus 3 put techno-synth to it, then Orbital did the same thing, with even less original lyrics.

Have other songs been mutated this much?

The order is actually:
Opus III - It's a Fine Day
Orbital - Halcyon (+On+On)
Miss Jane - It's a Fine Day

Orbital just took the vocal samples and created their own track around it. Miss Jane's version isn't just acapella. There's lots of remixes for this release.

Can't think of any other songs that have changed that much (three times). The Cranberries' Dreams was covered by Dario G (renamed to Dream to Me) which has a euro/trance style to it. Duran's My Own Way (twice). The Shamen - Progen/Move Any Mountain and Make it Mine (both recorded twice). Depeche Mode - Photographic (twice). Lots that are twice ...

Opus III - It's a Fine Day
Orbital - Halcyon (+On+On)
Miss Jane - It's a Fine Day

and after Miss Jane

Nachtklang - It's A Fine Day

To further muddy the waters, Miss Jane isn't even the original Jane (!) but rather an Italian dance outfit fronted by a female lead for publicity purposes:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Miss+Jane

"It's a Fine Mess"[?]

Should have called her Jilli Vanilli

The original Miss Jane: <img src="http://www.pensitoreview.com/images/photo-bev-hillbillies.jpg">

[quote]Originally posted by British
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Jane's cover is a simple acapella song


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To clarify, the original acapella version by Jane was not a cover...it was the original! Released in 1983.

Opus III didn't put a synth to the original - they actually re-recorded it (with singer Kirsty Hawkshaw, who later worked with Orbital!).

Orbital essentially sampled the Opus III version in "Halcyon."

There was an A Guy Called Gerald remix of the ORIGINAL Jane version of "It's A Fine Day." It is currently available (along with the original version and other Jane tracks) on the CD "A Fine Day...and a Brilliant Evening: Cherry Red Rarities 1983-1985."

Kirsty Hawkshaw (singer of Opus III) has actually re-recorded the track as well for her "Meta Message" Cd (awesome album!).

Kirsty has also done vocals for BT, Delerium, Hybrid and Tiesto. Amazing voice and she is not hard on the eyes either. [;)]

Wow, there was actually a "Jane" too? Wow, that's even more re-versions added to the mix now [:)]. Crazy.

[quote][i]Originally posted by rewind[/i]

To clarify, the original acapella version by Jane was not a cover...it was the original! Released in 1983.

There was an A Guy Called Gerald remix of the ORIGINAL Jane version of "It's A Fine Day." It is currently available (along with the original version and other Jane tracks) on the CD "A Fine Day...and a Brilliant Evening: Cherry Red Rarities 1983-1985."

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The original is also available on the fantastic Pillows & Prayers compilation on Cherry Red UK, which reissued a CD containing Volumes 1 & 2

Volume 1
Portrait - Five Or Six
Eine Symphonie Des Grauens - The Monochrome Set
All About You - Thomas Leer
Plain Sailing - Tracey Thorn
Some Things Don’t Matter - Ben Watt
Love In Your Heart - Kevin Coyne
Modi 2 - Piero Milesi
Compulsion - Joe Crow (covered by Martin L. Gore)
Lazy Wars - Marine Girls
My Face Is On Fire - Felt
No Noise - Eyeless In Gaza
Xoyo - The Passage
On My Mind - Everything But The Girl
A Bang And A Wimpy - Attila The Stockbroker
I Unseen - The Misunderstood
Don’t Blink - The Nightingales
Stop The Music For A Minute - Quentin Crisp

Volume 2
Place In The Sun - Marine Girls
It’s A Fine Day - Jane
Feathering The Nest - Kevin Hewick
If She Doesn’t Smile - Fantastic Something
New Risen - Eyeless In Gaza
Jet Set Junta - The Monochrome Set
Une Homme Et Une Femme - Morgan Fisher
Penelope Tree - Felt
The Watery Song - Maurice Deebank
This Brilliant Evening - In Embrace
I’m Used Now - Grab Grab The Haddock
Water And John - Ben Watt And Robert Wyatt
The Look Of Love - Martyn Bates
Chenko - Red Box