Author Topic: Great cover versions  (Read 205433 times)

clarion

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #450 on: 04 May, 2016, 02:23:19 pm »
If that's the one I think it is (and not a Matthew's Southern Comfort failure), it is a great song, and a huge improvement on the original.
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Vince

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #451 on: 24 May, 2016, 09:55:55 am »
Have we had Kate Melua's version of Wonderful Life
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T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #452 on: 24 May, 2016, 10:41:10 am »
Mary Hopkin's "cover" version of her own "Those were the days", in French.  Rather Piafesque.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #453 on: 24 May, 2016, 11:44:35 am »
On a Piaf-tangent, The Walker Brothers' No Regrets is excellent - especially the guitar solo.  Tom Rush's original version on The Circle Game (itself an album mostly full of covers of songs by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne) is just something else, though.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #454 on: 25 May, 2016, 12:38:03 pm »
Have I mentioned Patax before?  ;D

Habanera from Carmen sung in Spanish, Flamenco singing / Return-to-Forever-Jazz stylee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfW8pbO7ofM


Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #455 on: 25 May, 2016, 12:48:53 pm »
Bonnie Raitt covers Inxs' "Need you tonight" on later with Jules Holland

https://youtu.be/GhFGrGV_-lY

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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

T42

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #456 on: 25 May, 2016, 12:53:27 pm »
Having posted this in another place, I might as well add it here: Alexis Vacher's cover of Requiem for a Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XTHoyECZ4
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #457 on: 25 May, 2016, 12:57:05 pm »
Lowell George giving it his all on he great Allen Toussaint's "What do you want the girl to do ?"

https://youtu.be/H9aWs7rdKME

I've actually got this album on vinyl. Its pretty rare I think.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Redlight

  • Enjoying life in the slow lane
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #458 on: 26 May, 2016, 10:27:44 am »
Lowell George giving it his all on he great Allen Toussaint's "What do you want the girl to do ?"

https://youtu.be/H9aWs7rdKME

I've actually got this album on vinyl. Its pretty rare I think.

I used to have a vinyl copy but it was one of the first that I replaced with the CD version when I finally succumbed to getting a CD player.*  Lovely album.

* brilliant marketing - getting us to go out and buy what we already had.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #459 on: 26 May, 2016, 11:02:53 am »
Mary Hopkin's "cover" version of her own "Those were the days", in French.  Rather Piafesque.

Hopkin's version of TWTD was a crappy english translation of the original Russian folk song - better in the original language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd5q1Ioo588

Or try the Leningrad Cowboys / Red Army choir version in English / Russian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJIJx1dYk8
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Andrij

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #460 on: 26 May, 2016, 02:36:38 pm »
Tracey Ullman did a great spoof of TWTD many, many moons ago.  Sadly, I can find neither a video clip, the even the complete lyrics.

What I remember went something like:
     I remember when the proletariat
     Shaved with engine grease and shards of glass;
     I remember when the toilet paper
     Took the skin right of your commie ass.
          Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end, we broke our backs and never once complained.
          We had our five-year plan, and rock-n-roll was banned; bring back those days, those blessed Brezhnev days!

;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

fuzzy

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #461 on: 20 June, 2016, 05:00:58 pm »
Last night at that there Wemberley, whilst supporting Coldplay, Lianne La Havas did a really nice rendition of 'Say a little prayer'.

here is a YouTube videl from ealriler in the tour-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW88tZtTZsk

and here is her Soundcloud recording of the same-

https://soundcloud.com/liannelahavas/say-a-little-prayer

CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #462 on: 22 June, 2016, 09:39:36 pm »
Two of my favourite Judas Priest songs are covers:

Green Manalishi (Ex Fleetwood Mac)
Diamonds & Rust (Joan Baez!!)

Possibly favourite cover - Joanne Shaw Taylor covering Frankie Miller's "Jealousy"

Original - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuk6l3WwBG0
Cover - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZIWHU-zVcw

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citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #463 on: 23 June, 2016, 11:26:17 am »
Portishead do Abba...

https://youtu.be/WVe-9VWIcCo
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #464 on: 28 July, 2016, 01:11:01 pm »
Marc Almond covers Brel

https://youtu.be/pqdsjOQ8634

The best version in Engish of Ne Me Quitte Pas I think.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Steph

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #465 on: 28 July, 2016, 02:48:13 pm »
Marc Almond covers Brel

https://youtu.be/pqdsjOQ8634

The best version in Engish of Ne Me Quitte Pas I think.

While nothing compares to the original, I prefer Dusty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCVxPEPx5Y
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Steph

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #466 on: 28 July, 2016, 02:58:09 pm »
Portishead do Abba...

https://youtu.be/WVe-9VWIcCo

Wow. I  shall come down from that with a performance I was at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCVxPEPx5Y
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #467 on: 28 July, 2016, 07:23:06 pm »
Marc Almond covers Brel

https://youtu.be/pqdsjOQ8634

The best version in Engish of Ne Me Quitte Pas I think.

It's good, but I really do NOT like the echo effect on the vocal - extremely unpleasant. I have to agree with Steph - Dusty's version is beautifully restrained compared to the overwrought Marc Almond effort.

The original is untouchable though. No one does Brel like Brel.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #468 on: 28 July, 2016, 07:23:31 pm »
I'm getting sidetracked by all the different versions of the song on YouTube. Here's another great one:

https://youtu.be/slHjkszSAKs
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #469 on: 01 August, 2016, 10:53:26 am »
Graham Parker and the Rumour - Hold Back the Night

https://youtu.be/YUz6JSWxSko
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Ruthie

  • Her Majester
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #470 on: 09 August, 2016, 11:39:17 pm »
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Saint Saviour.  Cor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpg5UxcmoJs
Milk please, no sugar.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #471 on: 13 August, 2016, 10:17:22 am »
More of a classical one: what Carmen might have sounded like if Bizet had really been Spanish and into jazz and flamenco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfW8pbO7ofM

It's a party.

(FWIW, I ended up going back to the French version to check the words - I'd never listened to them before - and compare. All very different.)

microphonie

  • Tyke 2
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #472 on: 16 August, 2016, 11:41:26 pm »
The Are You Being Served theme tune covered by Coil. As strange as it comes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhA5pbWYmOA
Bingo! That's what I am, a saviour.
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Andrij

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #473 on: 17 August, 2016, 08:47:21 am »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #474 on: 17 August, 2016, 09:26:59 am »
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Saint Saviour.  Cor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpg5UxcmoJs
I still prefer the Joy Division version for its darkness

The Are You Being Served theme tune covered by Coil. As strange as it comes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhA5pbWYmOA

Wow! :o

And they do love their Expressionist cinema, don't they?
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