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Title: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 30 January, 2010, 09:18:55 am
I was putting together a little compilation cd for the car last night and found myself adding in several cover versions - i.e.  examples of an artist who normally composes his/her/their own material recording a song written or made famous by another artist.  In fact the cd ended up entirely made up of covers.

So, what are your 'best' covers? I'm thinking of versions that take the original to a new level rather than just being copies.  Here's a few that ended up on my CD.

Summer Breeze (Seals and Croft) by the Isley Brothers
This Flight Tonight (Joni MItchell) by Nazareth
Walk on By (Dionne Warwick) by Isaac Hayes
I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) by Cake
God's Song (Randy Newman) by John Martyn

Yours?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2010, 09:22:41 am
Leader of the Pack by Julian Clary
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 January, 2010, 10:13:28 am
"Born To Run" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
"Live And Let Die" by Guns 'N' Roses
"I Will Survive" by Snuff (http://www.10past12records.com/downloads/six_of_one/14%20I%20Will%20Survive.mp3)
"Hazy Shade Of Winter" by Snuff
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Woofage on 30 January, 2010, 10:21:39 am
At risk of being accused of repeating myself:

"The Witch's Promise" by All About Eve

and

"Song to the Siren" by The Cocteau Twins

But the award for the best goes to:

"All Along the Watchtower" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MSeries on 30 January, 2010, 10:24:08 am
Last Christmas - Cascada


(only kidding)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MSeries on 30 January, 2010, 11:22:22 am
I fought the law - The Clash
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 30 January, 2010, 11:30:15 am
Out of Time - Manic Street Preachers
Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt
Sea of Heartbreak - Johhny Cash
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 30 January, 2010, 11:38:52 am
But the award for the best goes to:

"All Along the Watchtower" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Without question. Reinvented a good song into a great iconic piece of our culture.

Whilst on Jimi, it's worth mentioning:

Gloria

The Star-Spangled Banner

Hey Joe

And, gloriously, the unscheduled cover of Sunshine of Your Love on the Lulu Show, to mark the break-up of Cream, when the Experience completely outplayed Cream's own version.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: nicknack on 30 January, 2010, 11:50:31 am
An old hippy speaks.

This Flight Tonight (Joni MItchell) by Nazareth

Noooooo!!!!!!

Can't argue with the Watchtower.

But if we're talking about Joni covers then I would recommend Tina Turner doing "Edith and the Kingpin" off Herbie Hancock's "River: The Joni Letters".
Some other good versions on that album, but Corinne Bailey Rae massacres "River".
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Woofage on 30 January, 2010, 12:25:24 pm
And, gloriously, the unscheduled cover of Sunshine of Your Love on the Lulu Show, to mark the break-up of Cream, when the Experience completely outplayed Cream's own version.


I was watching this on Guitar Heroes at the Beeb only the other day (recorded on my Myth box). Never seen that clip before :).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Jaded on 30 January, 2010, 12:26:29 pm
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 30 January, 2010, 12:27:20 pm
And, gloriously, the unscheduled cover of Sunshine of Your Love on the Lulu Show, to mark the break-up of Cream, when the Experience completely outplayed Cream's own version.


I was watching this on Guitar Heroes at the Beeb only the other day (recorded on my Myth box). Never seen that clip before :).

The kerfuffle of the production staff is a delight (though I have been on the other side of that)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 30 January, 2010, 12:39:02 pm
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Basil on 30 January, 2010, 02:12:34 pm
"Wish You Were Here" - Wyclef Jean
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Woofage on 30 January, 2010, 03:06:04 pm
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil?

Technically, yes, but it was performed by the members of the Cocteau Twins.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tourist Tony on 30 January, 2010, 03:45:32 pm
Delilah--SAHB.
Next--SAHB
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Dinamo on 30 January, 2010, 03:58:29 pm
"Wish You Were Here" - Wyclef Jean

I have to disagree ! I wouldn't say its 'Great'

Just bought this months Mojo magazine which includes a cover CD of
Syd Barrett ' The Madcap Laughs ' album

including REM's cover of Dark Globe
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Manotea on 30 January, 2010, 04:22:18 pm
Having just checked them both out, The Stranglers "Walk on by" comprehensively sees off Issac Hayes, methinks. Sock it to me, mama!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: oncemore on 30 January, 2010, 04:37:23 pm
Jolene. White Stripes.

Stand by your man. Me First and The Gimmee Gimmees - in fact MOST of their stuff!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 30 January, 2010, 05:00:18 pm
Dang! TT beat to the SAHB ones!  :P

Most of the cover versions in my music collection seem to be of the heavy rock flavour, but one I particularly like is the Boston-based band Damone's acoustic take on Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years".

Damone cover version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76fv0e_IITk)
Iron Maiden original version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOVzXYEU3Bk)

Other covers that add a certain something (and in some cases, quite a lot!):

There's No Way Out Of Here - Monster Magnet
A Hazy Shade Of Winter - The Bangles
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
Denis - Blondie
Up Around The Bend - Hanoi Rocks   :o ;D
Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray
Baker Street - Foo Fighters
Word Up - Gun  8)
Feelin' Good - Muse
The Green Manalishi - Judas Priest  :o :o
Johnny B. Goode - Judas Priest  :o
Sweets For My Sweet - Magnum
Back In The USA - MC5
Louie, Louie - Motorhead/Robert Plant/The Sonics
Morning Dew - Nazareth/Robert Plant
Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
One More Cup Of Coffee - Robert Plant
Darkness, Darkness - Robert Plant
Hey Joe - Robert Plant (I've got two different versions, one on his "Dreamland" album, the other - a demo recorded with the Band Of Joy on his "66 To Timbuktu" compilation)
Song To The Siren - Robert Plant
Ride Like The Wind - Saxon
Jackie - Scott Walker
Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
I Don't Need No Doctor - W.A.S.P.  :o
Locomotive Breath - W.A.S.P.  :o :o (actually, I'm pleasantly surprised by this one!  :demon: )
I Thank You - ZZ Top/Bonnie Raitt
Mrs Robinson - The Lemonheads
I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
Who Do You Love? - George Thorogood & The Destroyers/Juicy Lucy
Mission Impossible Theme - Adam Clayton & LArry Mullen Jr.
Hounds Of Love - Futureheads
My Way - Shane MacGowan  :o ;D
Get It On - Power Station
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Whole Lotta Love - CCS
Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
I'm Free - Soup Dragons

There are no prizes for filling in all of the original artists!  ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 30 January, 2010, 05:16:35 pm
Delilah--SAHB.
Next--SAHB

SAHB's unique take on the Brel classic has been recently added to my local pub's digital jukebox, which along the addition of Budgie's "Breadfan" and Diamond Head's "Am I Evil?", almost makes up for the fact that £2 gets only 7 credits instead of the 10 available on the old CD jukebox.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 30 January, 2010, 11:37:28 pm
Suicide is Painless - Maniac Street Preachers

Hotel California - Alabama 3
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Jurek on 31 January, 2010, 12:30:19 pm
Autumn Leaves by Coldcut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkHHdfPWj0w)

Creep by Chrissy Hynde (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lML2N4xB9GU)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 31 January, 2010, 01:05:51 pm

      YouTube
            - grace jones private life video
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIxZtmBdX2w)

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 January, 2010, 01:08:51 pm
To howls of derision:


      YouTube
            - [HD] Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgoQ1T9tGk)

Loses points for the student-style dancing at the end.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tourist Tony on 31 January, 2010, 02:20:14 pm
Whipping Post--Zappa
Masters of War--Martin Simpson
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tim Hall on 31 January, 2010, 02:38:56 pm
Teenage Dirt Bag - Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
White Christmas - Stiff Little Fingers
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mark on 31 January, 2010, 03:12:18 pm
It turns out that "Me and Bobby McGee" was recorded by several others (Roger Miller, Gordon Lightfoot) before Janis Joplin recorded it. Janis' version is definitely one of the better cover versions out there, IMHO.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Frenchie on 31 January, 2010, 03:58:35 pm
Many on The man comes around by Cash, e.g. Hurt, Bridge over troubled water or Personal Jesus, all by very different bands, yet so nicely covered by THE man himself!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: dasmoth on 31 January, 2010, 04:07:59 pm
Romeo and Juliet -- Indigo Girls.

(Actually, Steve Knightly's version isn't bad either).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 31 January, 2010, 05:57:08 pm

      YouTube
            - Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_809EZ6bIA)

Damon .
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: border-rider on 31 January, 2010, 06:02:25 pm
Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus

You've Lost That Loving Feeing - Human League
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Zoidburg on 31 January, 2010, 06:03:10 pm
Stairway To Heaven - Rolf Harris.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Oaky on 31 January, 2010, 06:07:22 pm
The Model (Kraftwerk) Big Black
Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode) Lacuna Coil
Viva Las Vegas (Elvis) Dead Kennedys
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 31 January, 2010, 06:25:24 pm
Stairway To Heaven - Rolf Harris.

Hear that sound, Zoiders?

It's the Led Zeppelin fans stacking kindling around the stake...  ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 31 January, 2010, 06:41:54 pm

      YouTube
            - Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_809EZ6bIA)

Damon .

I love this track, as well as the original.  And I love the fact that during the guitar break all they show in this clip are close ups of the drummer and girls in the audience. 
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 31 January, 2010, 06:47:52 pm

      YouTube
            - Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_809EZ6bIA)

Damon .

1:24  Absolutely fucking trashed.   ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 31 January, 2010, 08:52:48 pm

      YouTube
            - Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekta6EKhb2g)

      YouTube
            - Nana Mouskouri - Imagine
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KU2q16IoQ)

      YouTube
            - William Shatner "Rocket Man"
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hARDXYz2io)

      YouTube
            - NEW SEEKERS  PINBALL WIZARD PROMO
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjdJG1p-IVw)

      YouTube
            - The Beatles - Money (STEREO / HQ)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzIeVyBKbsE)

      YouTube
            - Jake Thackray performs Brother Gorilla
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQm_8uoljWM)

Damon.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 31 January, 2010, 08:55:23 pm

      YouTube
            - Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekta6EKhb2g)

      YouTube


 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KU2q16IoQ)

Good call. Now that is something special.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 31 January, 2010, 09:03:54 pm

      YouTube
            - JULIE LONDON - CRY ME A RIVER
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXg6UB9Qk0o)

      YouTube
            - Patsy Cline - Crazy
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wJNpWgss8)
Not strictly a cover version, but the writer released his own version.

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 31 January, 2010, 09:33:38 pm

      YouTube
            - William Shatner "Rocket Man"
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hARDXYz2io)

OMFG!  :o ;D

Whilst we are plumbing the depths...


      YouTube
            - William Shatner - Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Ar79f8aN8)

So bad, it's almost good!

Not forgetting...


      YouTube
            - Peter Sellers: A Hard Day's Night
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s)

 :demon: :demon: :demon:

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pizzicatooff on 31 January, 2010, 09:34:29 pm
Fairport Convention - SI TU DOIS PARTIR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmCSOpPzZc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmCSOpPzZc)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MSeries on 31 January, 2010, 09:39:19 pm
Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus

ooo yeah !!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 31 January, 2010, 09:42:01 pm

      YouTube
            - The Beatles - Twist And Shout  ( subitulado )
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr7JFmKoSCA)

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 31 January, 2010, 09:44:22 pm
I'm on Fire by Mos Eisley.  Or by Electrelane.  Both better than Brucie's version.

Actually, Ballboy's version of Born in the USA is better than the original, too.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: hatler on 31 January, 2010, 09:47:33 pm
Roland Alphonso - James Bond theme

You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LyTmtgjsY)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 31 January, 2010, 10:01:43 pm
Also, the Futureheads' Hounds of Love.  Curse me all you want, eighties fans, but I like it.

(prompted by the pop quiz thread).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: nicknack on 31 January, 2010, 10:45:10 pm
Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_xvTaYavw)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Torslanda on 31 January, 2010, 11:32:17 pm
Comfortably Numb by the Scissor Sisters was successfully covered by a little known group called 'The Pink Floyd Sound' or something similar.   ::-)

A four piece from London or  the Fens or somewhere, featuring bass & lead guitars, drums and a guy buried under keyboards they actually came up with a decent rendition, or so I thought.  ;D

Coat. Hallway. Later.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Oaky on 31 January, 2010, 11:39:41 pm
Also, the Futureheads' Hounds of Love.  Curse me all you want, eighties fans, but I like it.

(prompted by the pop quiz thread).

+1
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 01 February, 2010, 12:28:41 am

      YouTube
            - Xentrix - Ghostbusters
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97pJV8REtdE)

Ray Parker Junior, thrash metal style!  :o ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: onb on 01 February, 2010, 09:41:45 am
Black Magic Woman -Santana

With a little help from My Friends -Joe Cocker


Say Hello Wave Goodbye -David Gray

Angel -Rod Stewart

Cum on Feel the Noise -The Imagined Village


I left my Heart in San Francisco- The Bonzos

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: bikenerd on 01 February, 2010, 09:52:58 am
Happiness is a warm gun - The Breeders
The Partisan - Electralane
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 01 February, 2010, 11:38:04 am
Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray
Definitely, but conversely, I like Marc Almond's The Days of Pearly Spencer more than the David McWilliams original.

Also, Honky Tonk Woman - Rolf Harris
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: alexb on 01 February, 2010, 01:06:48 pm
We so need a YACF Spotify account.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Martin on 01 February, 2010, 01:08:44 pm
We so need a YACF Spotify account.

they've stopped taking new subcriptions sinced I joined it
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 February, 2010, 02:36:04 pm
Since everyone has been bigging up various versions of "Song To The Siren", I'll recommend Half Man Half Biscuit's version.  Srsly.

Also Spacemen 3's version of The 13th Floor Elevators "Roller Coaster", and their almost-unrecognisable cover of Bod Diddley's "It's Allright" (sic).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 01 February, 2010, 03:26:36 pm
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil?

Technically, yes, but it was performed by the members of the Cocteau Twins.

Eh? This Mortal Coil were a 4AD 'super-group' that combined members of the Cocteau Twins and others...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 01 February, 2010, 03:33:55 pm
Since everyone has been bigging up various versions of "Song To The Siren", I'll recommend Half Man Half Biscuit's version.  Srsly.

I prefer Brian Kennedy's version to either of those.

And who did that viol and hurdy-gurdy version of Purple Haze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enxqm85WFxI) that was used for the BBC series, The Mediaeval Mind? That was awesome...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 01 February, 2010, 04:25:42 pm
Suicide is Painless - Maniac Street Preachers

Not bad, but the B-side was even better: Fatima Mansions version of Everything I Do, which transforms it from a saccharin love song into the deranged ramblings of a psycho stalker. Utter genius. I find it genuinely scary.


      YouTube
            - FATIMA MANSIONS EVERYTHING I DO
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXoxIOiTACA)

Both were done for the NME's Ruby Trax compilation (40 cover versions of No.1 hits to mark 40 years of the charts) which also features some other nice covers, including Vic Reeves's daft take on Vienna, which has a bizarre bit about the Belgian police that I'm sure wasn't in the original.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Woofage on 01 February, 2010, 04:34:29 pm
Eh? This Mortal Coil were a 4AD 'super-group' that combined members of the Cocteau Twins and others...

Indeed, but my memory of that album was that it was a compilation by different bands from the 4AD label rather than a collaborations between the various bands. Therefore, if the same song had appeared on a Cocteau Twins album, no one would have batted an eyelid (apart from the small matter of real lyrics).

But I accept that I gave the incorrect credit for the artist and Jaded and FM have put me right :thumbsup:.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 01 February, 2010, 06:43:59 pm
...
A Hazy Shade Of Winter - The Bangles
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
Denis - Blondie
Up Around The Bend - Hanoi Rocks   :o ;D
Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray
Baker Street - Foo Fighters
Word Up - Gun  8)
...
That cover of Baker St would have been great - if they had a sax player!
Love the Foos, but for me that was a bit pointless. A prize for any decent cover of Baker Street - I've certainly never heard one.

[Several of your other choices are good, so I might still work further down the list ... ]
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 01 February, 2010, 10:26:32 pm

      YouTube
            - Mad World - Gary Jules
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4)

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 01 February, 2010, 10:33:36 pm
Jolene. White Stripes.


Also Stop Breaking Down, I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself and a few others by the White Stripes.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 01 February, 2010, 10:50:22 pm
In a similar vein to the Damone re-tooling of Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years", try Googling for Hellsongs, a Swedish band who specialise in folk/lounge pop covers of heavy rock classics.

Of course, the headbangers will argue that bands like Hellsongs belong in the "criminal covers" category, but I find their take on Black Sabbath quite engaging!  ;D


      YouTube
            - Hellsongs - paranoid
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWLHSRnVqug)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Torslanda on 01 February, 2010, 11:04:11 pm
Anything, ABSOLUTELY ANY-F***ING-THING by Spike Jones and his City Slickers . . .

May I recommend 'You always hurt the one you love!' 'Chloe' or the 'William Tell Overture'

If you don't laugh you will be instantly declared a cultural wasteland or you have been DED for several weeks and haven't stopped moving yet  ;D

All on t'intertubez can't be arsed with the fancy shmancy linkz I'm too busy laffin'!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 01 February, 2010, 11:06:25 pm

      YouTube
            - SMOKE ON THE WATER - SENOR COCONUT
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqR7_Xz-zY)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Torslanda on 01 February, 2010, 11:24:57 pm

      YouTube
            - SMOKE ON THE WATER - SENOR COCONUT
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqR7_Xz-zY)

That's kind of sub-Bonzo Dog stuff, already done years ago by Neil Innes, Viv Stanshall and the rest . . .

Now, if you'll excuse me I have the Count Basie Orchestra on triangle accompanying Princess Anne on sousaphone.

PS 'All you need is cash!' by The Rutles

'Please wait while we check your trousers . . .'
 
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 02 February, 2010, 10:12:46 am

      YouTube
            - Cilla Black  - Anyone Who Had A Heart (Live)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZury-SGt_g)
Good performance from Cilla, but who's on drums? You have to wonder what George Martin made of Ringo when he was used to playing like that.

      YouTube
            - Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIrS5dtTZI)
I love the audience in this one.

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Jaded on 02 February, 2010, 10:29:56 am
But I accept that I gave the incorrect credit for the artist and Jaded and FM have put me right :thumbsup:.

I don't know much but I did know that!  ;D ;D

I remember when I first heard it - on a quiet backwater street in Cheltenham, blaring out from a builders' radio halfway up a scaffolding. Stopped me in my tracks.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 02 February, 2010, 10:47:17 am
Heaven 17 and La Roux - Sign Your Name (Terence Trent D'Arby)

OMG! (as the kids might say)

BBC - 6 Music - Live - Heaven 17 and La Roux (http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/hub/artists/laroux-heaven17.shtml)

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 02 February, 2010, 01:28:40 pm
King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale.

Regulator need not reply.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 02 February, 2010, 02:39:07 pm
Bronksi Beat's version of I Feel Love, and The Communards' Don't Leave Me This Way - both transformed by Jimmy Sommerville's startling voice, that is somehow on the edge of being choirboy pure and a scream of pain and orgasm - all at once.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 February, 2010, 06:21:10 pm
How "Hazy Shade Of Winter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoyiPc9bM4)" should be played.

YouTube has a video of some Japanese students covering Snuff covering other people's songs  ??? ;D

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tewdric on 02 February, 2010, 06:26:46 pm
Stairway To Heaven - Rolf Harris.

No no no no no,

No no no,

No.


Has anyone mentioned Gary U S Bonds "New Orleans", as covered in the headbanger stylee by Ian Gillan?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: John Henry on 02 February, 2010, 06:30:59 pm
I have a minor obsession with Shonen Knife.

Here's a couple of their best covers:

Top of the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ba360Dz1sQ)

Daydream believer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RAbi2xEvo&feature=related)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: onb on 02 February, 2010, 07:29:03 pm
Black Magic Woman -Santana

With a little help from My Friends -Joe Cocker


Say Hello Wave Goodbye -David Gray

Angel -Rod Stewart

Cum on Feel the Noise -The Imagined Village


I left my Heart in San Francisco- The Bonzos




Oh I forgot Shakin all Over -The Who
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tourist Tony on 02 February, 2010, 09:58:45 pm
The Zappa......with jazz influences

      YouTube
            - Frank Zappa - Whippin' Post - Barcelona 1988
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abD17IHjO20&feature=related)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 02 February, 2010, 10:04:17 pm
Just heard an amazing cover of Cum On Feel The Noize by Martin and Eliza Carthy's band, The Imagined Village, played on the Radcliffe & Maconie show on Radio 2. Loved it - and not even in an ironic way.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 February, 2010, 10:09:23 pm
I heard that too, but hadn't heard who it was - it was great.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tourist Tony on 02 February, 2010, 10:15:25 pm
Liza looks so much like her dad. And her mother.
Poor girl......... ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 02 February, 2010, 10:17:23 pm
Just noticed that onb already mentioned it upthread. Way ahead of the game, that boy.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 02 February, 2010, 11:12:37 pm

Good performance from Cilla, but who's on drums? You have to wonder what George Martin made of Ringo when he was used to playing like that.



Maybe he was glad to have a drummer who knew his place   :D

Ringo was still a big improvement on his predecessor!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 03 February, 2010, 09:56:40 am

Good performance from Cilla, but who's on drums? You have to wonder what George Martin made of Ringo when he was used to playing like that.



Maybe he was glad to have a drummer who knew his place   :D


He had to play that loud for the band to hear over Cilla.

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: onb on 03 February, 2010, 11:10:08 am
Just heard an amazing cover of Cum On Feel The Noize by Martin and Eliza Carthy's band, The Imagined Village, played on the Radcliffe & Maconie show on Radio 2. Loved it - and not even in an ironic way.

d.



Great pick as per my previous post .Treat yoursel to their latest album its great.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: microphonie on 03 February, 2010, 07:07:09 pm
I have a minor obsession with Shonen Knife.


Marc Riley is playing an old Peel Session of theirs this week on his 6Music show.


My contribution:

Age of Chance - Kiss (Prince)
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Sine (Prince - Sign of the Times)
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Ghost Town (Specials)
Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles)
Siouxie & the Banshees - The Passenger (Iggy Pop) / Trust In Me (Kaa - the Jungle Book!)
Cabaret Voltaire - Theme from Shaft (Isaac Hayes)
Cabaret Voltaire - Here She Comes Now (Lou Reed or VU)
The Human League - You've Lost That Loving Feeling (The Righteous Brothers)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 03 February, 2010, 07:51:59 pm
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone by Sex Pistols
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: onb on 04 February, 2010, 09:39:45 am
Liza looks so much like her dad. And her mother.
Poor girl......... ;D


Yes but she is a very talented girl .I thought she was a real looker when she was younger she seems to be turning more and more into her mother as she get older .
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 04 February, 2010, 05:13:09 pm
I have a minor obsession with Shonen Knife.

Here's a couple of their best covers:

Top of the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ba360Dz1sQ)

Daydream believer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RAbi2xEvo&feature=related)

Yeah, they are great. Even better live. I've seen them in Tokyo... twice.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 04 February, 2010, 06:25:00 pm
You've reminded me of another great Monkees cover.

      YouTube
            - Robert Wyatt - I'm A Believer [totp2]
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7PBPd3UA7Q)

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 04 February, 2010, 06:50:55 pm
You've reminded me of another great Monkees cover.

      YouTube
            - Robert Wyatt - I'm A Believer [totp2]
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7PBPd3UA7Q)

Damon.

I put that on the office stereo last week and got some very funny looks from my colleagues. Mind you, they also look at me like that if I put a bit of Brel on. Philistines.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 04 February, 2010, 06:53:33 pm
Young folk think that it's 'The Streets' and they've taken a radical new direction.

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 05 February, 2010, 10:33:15 am

Gladys Knight & The Pips – Help Me Make It Through The Night.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: slowfen on 05 February, 2010, 05:18:22 pm
Stairway To Heaven - Rolf Harris.

No no no no no,

No no no,

No.

enjoy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgsH1pdWJ84) ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: slowfen on 05 February, 2010, 05:19:53 pm


He also did Bohemian Rhapsody :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 05 February, 2010, 05:37:27 pm


He also did Bohemian Rhapsody :-\ :-\

Didn't you mean to type "did for" Bohemian Rhapsody?  :demon: ;)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 05 February, 2010, 05:48:42 pm
You can't really make Bohemian Rhapsody any more ridiculous than it is already...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Zipperhead on 05 February, 2010, 05:54:56 pm
You can't really make Bohemian Rhapsody any more ridiculous than it is already...

but you can try (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 05 February, 2010, 07:23:02 pm
You Got The Love - Florence and the Machine
She's a Model - Terrorvision
Breadfan - Metallica (I know they get a mention in the other thread, but I like their cover of this over the original)
Last Caress/Green Hell - ditto (ditto)
In a Gadda-da-Vida - Slayer (from the Less Than Zero soundtrack)
Love Rollercoaster - RHCP
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cunobelin on 06 February, 2010, 09:54:52 am
I always love it when someone performs a "cover", but also manages to male it their own as well.

An example is Ofra Haza's versions of Led Zep's KAshmir...

One is a slow very eastern version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5Cgb6Yy4Y&feature=PlayList&p=59D2C8D7EAA861D1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29) the other a much livelier one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2rRorhtN6Y)

Given Plant's fascination with this region, one wonders what a cooperative venture would have ended up like?

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 06 February, 2010, 10:08:38 am
I always love it when someone performs a "cover", but also manages to male it their own as well.

An example is Ofra Haza's versions of Led Zep's KAshmir...

One is a slow very eastern version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5Cgb6Yy4Y&feature=PlayList&p=59D2C8D7EAA861D1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29) the other a much livelier one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2rRorhtN6Y)

Given Plant's fascination with this region, one wonders what a cooperative venture would have ended up like?

Take the version of Kashmir on "No Quarter - Page & Plant Unledded" and crank it up to 11.


      YouTube
            - Plant -Page Kashmir
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0jiiURy_So)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 06 February, 2010, 10:49:22 am


      YouTube
            - Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIrS5dtTZI)

I like the Ella Fitzgerald (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI5fU6ZbyaA) version where she forgets the lyrics but keep going.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cunobelin on 06 February, 2010, 06:43:34 pm
I always love it when someone performs a "cover", but also manages to male it their own as well.

An example is Ofra Haza's versions of Led Zep's KAshmir...

One is a slow very eastern version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5Cgb6Yy4Y&feature=PlayList&p=59D2C8D7EAA861D1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29) the other a much livelier one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2rRorhtN6Y)

Given Plant's fascination with this region, one wonders what a cooperative venture would have ended up like?

Take the version of Kashmir on "No Quarter - Page & Plant Unledded" and crank it up to 11.


      YouTube
            - Plant -Page Kashmir
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0jiiURy_So)

Love that album -  "Gallows Pole" is in itself an excellent cover.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 07 February, 2010, 01:33:39 am

Now, if you'll excuse me I have the Count Basie Orchestra on triangle accompanying Princess Anne on sousaphone.
 

I'm afraid I'll have to invoke Godwin's Law, with Adolf Hitler looking very relaxed on vibes.


Here's one - possibly the greatest version of Wild Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ym2ZRx4uo),  grrrrr.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 07 February, 2010, 11:22:11 am



Here's one - possibly the greatest version of Wild Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ym2ZRx4uo),  grrrrr.

Yay! I knew who it would be before I clicked the link.  Because of the grrrrr.   ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: kcass on 07 February, 2010, 11:30:52 am
Take the version of Kashmir on "No Quarter - Page & Plant Unledded" and crank it up to 11.


      YouTube
            - Plant -Page Kashmir
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0jiiURy_So)

Rock music just never works on TV does it? One day I'm going to have a record player  in my bedroom again. That's the only way to listen to it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: kcass on 07 February, 2010, 11:35:02 am
The Stranglers - Walk On By.  Absolutely brilliant. The only version where you really feel the  pain of the separation.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 February, 2010, 12:51:20 pm
Sugababes' "Freak Like Me".  Even though they bowdlerised the lyrics (the very obviously missing word from the chorus is "pump").
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2010, 01:58:45 pm

Now, if you'll excuse me I have the Count Basie Orchestra on triangle accompanying Princess Anne on sousaphone.
 

I'm afraid I'll have to invoke Godwin's Law, with Adolf Hitler looking very relaxed on vibes.


Here's one - possibly the greatest version of Wild Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ym2ZRx4uo),  grrrrr.

Dear me, that is the most embarrassing thing I have seen in a long time!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cunobelin on 07 February, 2010, 05:32:11 pm
Again a little eclectic, but I have a soft spot (no smut please) for the "Twelve Girl Band" and thir interpretations (are they covers?) of western music
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 February, 2010, 06:16:47 pm
The Pet Shop Boys' version of "Go West" could have been a slice of camp perfection, except that Neil Tennant ducks the high notes in the line "I know you love me".
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 07 February, 2010, 08:43:58 pm
Mary Coughlan did some fine cover versions, but 'Ain't Nobody's Business', reinvented as a tango, with the words changed but the meaning strengthened, is brilliant.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 07 February, 2010, 08:45:28 pm

Dear Prudence - Siouxie and the Banshees.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tourist Tony on 07 February, 2010, 08:45:36 pm
"Greensleeves" by Loreena McKennitt. She says "I wondered how Tom Waits would sing it...." and she is perfect.

      YouTube
            - Loreena McKennitt  Greensleeves
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5sSrYzzIKw)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: redshift on 07 February, 2010, 09:53:10 pm
Somebody mentioned Grace Jones upthread, and that reminded me of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08A90DyfOjY)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tourist Tony on 08 February, 2010, 01:17:17 am
Nobody's Fault but Mine"
Led Zep.....
and Martin Simpson
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Frenchie on 08 February, 2010, 08:54:18 am
Trivium -- Iron Maiden (the album cover is great)

 YouTube - Trivium - Iron Maiden Live  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOSI-dL7kmM)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 08 February, 2010, 09:14:37 am
"Greensleeves" by Loreena McKennitt. She says "I wondered how Tom Waits would sing it...." and she is perfect.

      YouTube
            - Loreena McKennitt  Greensleeves
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5sSrYzzIKw)


That's lovely. And, curiously, the film works well with Roy Harper's When an old Cricketer Leaves the Crease, as well.  Don't ask how I found out - were I technically literate I would demonstrate.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 08 February, 2010, 01:51:20 pm
'Just Like Heaven' by Dinosaur Jr.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Gaseous Clay on 08 February, 2010, 01:54:00 pm
Love Me Do by the Baron Knights.....
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 08 February, 2010, 11:06:03 pm
The original was good but I like this better

 Patti Smith - When Doves cry  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VfUZFPAC5k)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 09 February, 2010, 10:49:07 am


The Nice - America.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 09 February, 2010, 10:56:09 am


The Nice - America.

That's fabulous.  Bernstein hated it apparently.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Moloko on 09 February, 2010, 10:59:19 am


The Nice - America.

That's fabulous.  Bernstein hated it apparently.

Yeah, I've read a few articles about Bernstein really hating it.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 09 February, 2010, 01:21:38 pm
The Stranglers - Walk On By.  Absolutely brilliant. The only version where you really feel the  pain of the separation.

If you say so. It's not bad - the Isaac Hayes one is better though, I reckon. However, for me, the Dionne Warwick original is perfect in every way from the vocal performance to the arrangement by Burt Bacharach and the typical understated brass. That's not to say people shouldn't cover it, but I can't see how it can be improved.

Of the same era, undoubtedly one of the best covers is of course 'Respect' by Aretha Franklin. The original by Otis Redding is good enough but it's a bit pathetic - Aretha turns it into an absolutely huge feminist anthem such that you can't even imagine any more that it was intended to be sung by a man.

I also quite like The Who's version of 'Summertime Blues' (one of their signature live tunes of the 60s). The Monterrey version is great. I am not sure that it beats Eddie Cochrane's original though.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 09 February, 2010, 03:37:38 pm
'Respect' belongs to Aretha.

Changing genders the other way, I believe a young white male singer did a passable version of 'Hound Dog', as first performed by Big Mama Thornton.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 09 February, 2010, 03:47:37 pm

      YouTube
            - Jackie Wilson - light my fire
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfS37rjjCTY)

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 09 February, 2010, 03:58:31 pm

      YouTube
            - Brenda Lee - Hound Dog
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baTVZytxs_k)

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: hubner on 09 February, 2010, 04:30:38 pm
Re Respect

Otis Redding's original is a piece of raw pulsating down home southern soul, whereas Aretha Franklin's is smoothed-over corporate "soul". IMHO Aretha Franklin has to be one of the most over-rated singers of all time; all style no substance. OK, she did record a few great songs, eg "(You Make Me feel) a Natural Woman", but they were great songs to start with.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 09 February, 2010, 06:32:03 pm
Hard to Handle - Black Crowes

I think this was another Otis Redding song - the Crowes just gave it that extra 5% tempo, and it really flies along. Love it.

(There's also a Tom Jones version, which sucked.)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 09 February, 2010, 07:32:30 pm

      YouTube
            - Jackie Wilson - light my fire
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfS37rjjCTY)

Damon.
That's dire (I hate that song...), but I love Jackie's version (with the awesome Count Basie) of Respect!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GulPCSRV7fA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GulPCSRV7fA)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 11 February, 2010, 05:01:41 pm
Changing genders the other way, I believe a young white male singer did a passable version of 'Hound Dog', as first performed by Big Mama Thornton.

Passable? Elvis makes it about his dog. The original version is so powerfully sexual its almost frightening.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 11 February, 2010, 10:42:43 pm
It doesn't have the flowing loveliness of Gordon Lightfoot's version (he sings, as Reeves and Mortimer would have it, 'in The Club Style'), but this is stunning, gravelly, heartfelt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdCdSLS6c5M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdCdSLS6c5M)

(Johnny Cash If You Could Read My Mind)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 February, 2010, 10:50:41 pm

      YouTube
            - Cilla Black  - Anyone Who Had A Heart (Live)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZury-SGt_g)
Good performance from Cilla,
Are you deranged? She's like nails down a blackboard.  ;D

Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 11 February, 2010, 11:35:36 pm


Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.

Reminds me of this (2.45 onwards) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqygc8DNTvQ)  ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2010, 09:01:18 am
It's a long way to the top (if you want to rock and roll) - Lucinda Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-ZN8CcpU0)

Mad and completely brilliant.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 12 February, 2010, 09:50:01 am


Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.

Reminds me of this (2.45 onwards) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqygc8DNTvQ)  ;D

Does Mick Jagger turn into Max Wall there?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 12 February, 2010, 01:02:04 pm


Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.

Reminds me of this (2.45 onwards) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqygc8DNTvQ)  ;D

Does Mick Jagger turn into Max Wall there?
Apparently so  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ8xM83fMhU) - (0:55 & 1:35)  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Really Ancien on 12 February, 2010, 01:15:39 pm


Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.

Reminds me of this (2.45 onwards) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqygc8DNTvQ)  ;D

Does Mick Jagger turn into Max Wall there?
Apparently so  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ8xM83fMhU) - (0:55 & 1:35)  :thumbsup:

Jagger thought he was doing this.

      YouTube
            - JAMES BROWN GREATEST DANCE MOVES EVER-THERE WAS A TIME LIVE
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gEAvOW2nc)
But Max Wall is about right.

Damon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 12 February, 2010, 01:23:41 pm
Michael who? ;)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Tourist Tony on 13 February, 2010, 09:08:40 am
It's a long way to the top (if you want to rock and roll) - Lucinda Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-ZN8CcpU0)

Mad and completely brilliant.
Oh yes!

Reminds me of the lyrics from "Ain't no fun waiting round to be a millionaire"
"Hey there, Howard
Hughes
Next door neighbour...
Get your ******* jumbo jet out of my airport!"

And see my entry in "Criminalcovers"

Anyway, here's the original. With bagpipes....

      YouTube
            - AC/DC - Its A Long Way To The Top If Ya Wanna Rock And Roll
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iR2Wi3u5o&feature=related)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 20 February, 2010, 09:31:46 pm
Bill Bailey does a great version of Radiohead's Creep as an encore of Tinselworm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_DNfKeLQU)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 23 July, 2011, 11:48:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgaVe6miq-8

Eddie would, I think, have approved. Possibly my favourite thing is how they seem to sing in English, or Japanese, or something inbetween.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Biggsy on 24 July, 2011, 11:00:21 am
I like Mark Ronson's "Version" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_%28album%29) - an album of covers, particularly "Stop Me" (Smiths covered by Daniel Merriweather) and "Valerie" (The Zutons covered by Amy Winehouse).

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Palinurus on 24 July, 2011, 01:20:04 pm
The type of music I like best is very fast and busy music. I don't like feeling that there's going to be a long wait before the next chord change.

Here's John Zorn covering Coleman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiVF3TsSph4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiVF3TsSph4)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Biggsy on 24 July, 2011, 01:26:58 pm
:o  Good for waking people from a coma.  Of course you'll think the music I like is good for putting people into a coma.  :)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 July, 2011, 01:07:42 pm
:o  Good for waking people from a coma.  Of course you'll think the music I like is good for putting people into a coma.  :)

Hence the headline "Car crash recording wakes Enya coma victim" ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: YahudaMoon on 25 July, 2011, 07:45:08 pm
I like that hardcore jazz.   :)

This is maybe my fave Shirley Bassey tune. A cover version of The Doors 'Light My Fire'

I found this on the famous Blue Note jazz label a few year back, I love the acoustic guitar intro and how it goes into big horns and big band  though it keeps a mellow Shirley Bassey flavour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4axSpwbKuis
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: YahudaMoon on 29 July, 2011, 04:12:42 pm
I just love this. Paul Anka does Smells Like Teen Spirit. Big Band Style :)

It was released as a single a few year back I think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 30 July, 2011, 12:44:19 am
Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.

Brilliant. Also their version of It's All Over Now, which I'd really never thought of as a cover since their version is pretty much definitive. However, I recently looked up the original by the Valentinos (Bobby Womack's first band) and it's excellent:

It's All Over Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDN2yn7zjA)


Here's another cover I discovered recently that brings me out in a broad smile - absolutely love it:

That's Not My Name (http://youtu.be/vCvxsmXYDyA)

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 30 July, 2011, 12:50:25 am
I put this on the office stereo recently. A couple of people assumed this must have been the original and the Foo Fighters version was the cover...

Times Like These (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlJ325lgYk)

Totally owns it.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Palinurus on 30 July, 2011, 10:38:02 am
I'll take some time to go through this thread later and check out the rest of the posts.

I did the first few pages yesterday.

I do like that Fatima Mansions cover of Everything I do...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Efrogwr on 06 August, 2011, 06:27:39 pm
Ry Cooder did a good cover of It's All Over Now on Paradise and Lunch.
Most of his solo work was good /great covers.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 06 August, 2011, 06:45:07 pm
Isley Brothers 'Lay Lady Lay' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgiRjW1AeY) from their album Givin' it back, which is rather a swipe at the number of white artists who had had hits with covers of their songs. They sound like they're enjoying it so much they don't know when to stop.
Put the emotion that Zimmerman lacked into the song.

Of course, no-one should ignore 'Gravelands' by The King; possibly one of the best cover albums ever - the whole concept and execution is genius.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 06 August, 2011, 08:02:39 pm
Thought I'd put forward Beck's cover of The Korgi's Everybody's gotta learn sometime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVh8Mu1a4Q) as being somewhat great.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 08 August, 2011, 12:14:38 am
Ry Cooder did a good cover of It's All Over Now on Paradise and Lunch.
Most of his solo work was good /great covers.

I'm a big fan of RC.  He's done swo much but I can't think of a single cover that doesn't add to the original in some way.  His Tex-Mex habanera-style take on He'll Have To Go, which is normally a country waltz is great and the time shifts in All Shook Up are great, too.  A true genius!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 09 August, 2011, 03:55:01 pm
Isley Brothers 'Lay Lady Lay' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgiRjW1AeY) from their album Givin' it back, which is rather a swipe at the number of white artists who had had hits with covers of their songs.

Ironic given the track mentioned in the OP.
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Summer Breeze (Seals and Croft) by the Isley Brothers

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: interzen on 09 August, 2011, 04:18:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Dqirtba1M

Take a good song, and make it better ....
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 09 August, 2011, 06:17:31 pm
Excellent! Not heard that one before, though I am rather fond of their version of Anarchy In The UK.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: interzen on 09 August, 2011, 06:30:21 pm
Excellent! Not heard that one before, though I am rather fond of their version of Anarchy In The UK.

d.
Saw them live in Leeds a couple of months ago. They were bloody brilliant (and they did 'The Queen Is Dead' :) )
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Post by: clarion on 09 August, 2011, 09:07:27 pm
Have we mentioned Patti Smith's Because The Night yet?

Or her Gloria?
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Post by: essexian on 11 August, 2011, 12:56:04 pm
Oh look....here comes Ian with another Carter USM song..... this time its their cover of the Insprial "This is how it feels."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ixQFOnU4yM&feature=related


I was at this gig.... brilliant as normal.

Carter do quite a few good covers including Rent, Panic, Down the Tube Station at midnight and bedsitter.


Edit to add....how could I forget this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZXTK_aecwQ&feature=related
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Post by: Billy Weir on 15 August, 2011, 09:13:58 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBXFc8iB2tg

First heard this on Rob da Bank's early morning show (or late night, depending on which end of the telescope you are looking through).

On a completely different train of obscurity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jq617ENMd0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Red on 15 August, 2011, 09:46:22 pm
Birdy's cover of Bon Iver's 'Skinny Love'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzCDt2eidg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 16 August, 2011, 08:07:27 am
I know this sounds like being one of those 'novelty' style covers, but it's actually rather good:

http://www.last.fm/music/Corduroy/_/Motorhead
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: red marley on 16 August, 2011, 08:20:48 am
I love the final few frames of that video - "(C) Acid Jazz 1994". As if we needed telling.


Actually, I have to confess to liking Corduroy. Saw them a few times live and I was once a keyboard player in a band that tried to produce Corduroyesque music.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 20 August, 2011, 10:51:41 pm
Todd Rundgren's cover of 'Tin Soldier' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np0pNrzPqnI)

Then again, he's done rather a lot of good cover versions. Some of them Faithful, others not so much.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Rhys W on 15 September, 2011, 05:04:57 pm
Just watched this: [urlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/sep/15/bill-bailey-gary-numan-cars-video]bill-bailey-gary-numan-cars-video[/url]

Great theremin solo.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Juan Martín on 21 November, 2011, 06:19:33 pm
Oops! I Did It Again - Richard Thompson (really)

I had forgotten about this and it has just popped up on the shuffle thingy.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 22 November, 2011, 12:11:21 pm
Oops! I Did It Again - Richard Thompson (really)

How have I never heard that before? Just looked it up on YouTube… Great stuff! Part of his 1,000 years of music thing, apparently.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 23 November, 2011, 09:06:23 am
Just watched this: bill-bailey-gary-numan-cars-video]http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/sep/15/bill-bailey-gary-numan-cars-video]bill-bailey-gary-numan-cars-video (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/sep/15/bill-bailey-gary-numan-cars-video)

Great theremin solo.  :thumbsup:
Fixed linky, I think
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 November, 2011, 06:59:25 pm
There's a rather nice cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights on 6music now by a band called China Drum.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 26 November, 2011, 06:04:44 pm
<ifwehadan Awful Cover Versions thread>

On the radio just now:
Careless Whisper by Seether

No, I've never heard of them either, but they sound like they want to be Metallica. I would suggest they stick to covering Metallica songs in future  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 01 December, 2011, 02:04:51 am
This has already been mentioned upthread but it came up randomly on my iPod this evening and I enjoyed it so much, I thought I'd share it with you all again - pop goes the prog rocker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DL-FmG4JTIfk


While I'm at it, this is another stone-cold classic genre mash-up - a danceable yet soulful folk-pop rendering of a disco anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CutmpI2UhZg

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fuzzy on 02 December, 2011, 02:02:22 pm
Don't know if they have been mentioned yet but-

Black Eyed Peas "The Time (Dirty Bit)". A slant on "(I've had) The time of my life" Dirty Dancing. I think this would be a great track for a spinning class :thumbsup:

"A little respect" by Wheatus from the album Wheatus, covering the Erasure classic.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 13 December, 2011, 05:35:07 pm
I think I've found a goodie that hasn't come up yet (and it's in the rare instrumental category):

Apache by 17 Hippies
http://www.myspace.com/17hippies/music/songs/apache-32412602
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Feanor on 13 December, 2011, 05:52:39 pm
I think Rufus Wainwright's rendition of 'Halleluja' ( as featured in Shreck ) has something that Leonard Cohen's didn't.  ( It just came up on Junior's iThing a moment ago. )

And I quite like Leonard Cohen, in a kind of retrospective way.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 13 December, 2011, 07:12:46 pm
Have we had the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red army choir yet?

Sweet Home Alabama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 December, 2011, 06:53:47 pm
Epic ! I love that.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 January, 2012, 10:28:07 am
Adele - Lovesong

Excellent cover of a great Cure track.
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Post by: Rhys W on 31 January, 2012, 12:02:28 pm
Speaking of The Cure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikf69Q7zosg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Rhys W on 31 January, 2012, 02:28:44 pm
J just rocks - he has 3 full Marshall stacks pointed at him from 5 feet away.   8)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 31 January, 2012, 11:29:43 pm
I tend to rate Summer Breeze by the Isley's as one of the finest cover versions ever. So I was intrigued by what sounded like it might be the original version of 'Who's that Lady'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Kf1Iy5E6U&feature=related
It turned out to be the 64 version by the Isley's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxKgf8fai7M&feature=related
a hell of a tune in itself
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 31 January, 2012, 11:40:51 pm
I heard the Bryan Ferry version of 'The In Crowd' recently, the coda is the best bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td0YlKnv6Jg&feature=related
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Post by: Palinurus on 13 May, 2012, 06:32:42 pm
I do like Tremelo Beer Gut's version of Death Valley '69.

Here: http://youtu.be/T86V_rCqXls (http://youtu.be/T86V_rCqXls)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Rhys W on 13 May, 2012, 09:03:03 pm
I am honestly afraid to click on that link, for fear that it doesn't sound as good as I expect it to!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 13 May, 2012, 10:40:22 pm
What are peoples' views of the 'The one That I Want' cover on the current Sky (spits) adverts, by Angus & Julia Stone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTbObag1r0I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTbObag1r0I)
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Post by: Steph on 13 May, 2012, 11:47:11 pm
i actually like that one, and it made me think of a cracking cover...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9alAuYr2g_8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-sk9abOYQ4 (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtjShZxsBIA&feature=related and again...but slightly different

I will add this one just for the sake of wallowing in her voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGCE1yzwzY&feature=related
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 14 May, 2012, 12:47:50 am
There's a cover of a Melanie song that did quite well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 14 May, 2012, 04:28:04 pm
What are people's views of the 'The one That I Want' cover on the current Sky (spits) adverts, by Angus & Julia Stone?
Oh dear. that was almost brilliant. But then the off-the-beat vocal timing just drove me mental.

It's not her, it's me! :( I can imagine others lapping it up.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 14 May, 2012, 04:33:43 pm
it made me think of a cracking cover...
[Melanie Safka - Ruby Tuesday]

You know, I really thought that had already been mentioned upthread but I checked and it hasn't, which is a shocking oversight on my part. I was brought up on that version and absolutely love it.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 14 May, 2012, 04:59:08 pm
Here's another one of those you may not have realised was a cover.

I bring you one of the only white men who can sing soul - Paul Young and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTWt_pKiMl4

Which - eighties track suit aside - is a stonking rendition

The original was Ann Peebles, and having looked on Youtube there are a huge numbers of versions, but the only one that sounds like the version I have and that can send chills down your spine (although laptop speakers don't do it justice) is this from 72:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b05Laa7GS5g
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 14 May, 2012, 05:05:28 pm
Probably been mentioned before, but the second half of Nirvana's Unplugged set was all covers, and a couple stand out for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXYz0gtJeM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh1lce1PwmY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 14 May, 2012, 05:07:11 pm
And just for completeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGc-6GHQps
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 14 May, 2012, 10:04:47 pm
I used to drink with Mr Young....
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Biggsy on 14 May, 2012, 10:13:35 pm
What are peoples' views of the 'The one That I Want' cover on the current Sky (spits) adverts, by Angus & Julia Stone?

Boring.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 May, 2012, 10:24:59 pm
What are peoples' views of the 'The one That I Want' cover on the current Sky (spits) adverts, by Angus & Julia Stone?
Not as good as the version by The Beautiful South.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: LindaG on 15 May, 2012, 09:25:28 pm
A stunning cover version of a stunning song by an iconic artist.   l like it even more the original, if that were possible.

Hand in Glove by Sandie Shaw with Johnny Marr et al.  Thanks to the Tune Association thread for reminding me of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyx4yJ-RNTQ
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Post by: interzen on 15 May, 2012, 09:44:35 pm
Loop - Mother Sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMC_fwJUnSs

Whilst I like Can, a lot, this kills the original stone dead - you can almost smell the dope smoke ;)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 16 May, 2012, 09:01:54 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYPg8qCrNAY

This could go in either this thread of the criminal cover versions thread.  Whichever you think it should be in you can't argue that they have taken a truly miserable song and made it even more miserable.

It makes Leonard Cohen sound downright happy....
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 16 May, 2012, 06:18:42 pm
Can I admit to being in the audience for that Oysters/Tabor performance?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Palinurus on 16 May, 2012, 06:41:36 pm
I am honestly afraid to click on that link, for fear that it doesn't sound as good as I expect it to!

I think it will be safe.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: LindaG on 19 May, 2012, 01:03:53 pm
Patti Smith's album of covers, 'Twelve', including 'Teen Spirit' is absolutely great, I listen to it all the time.  Recommended.  I do like her though.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 May, 2012, 09:45:07 am
Rodders and The Faces - Maybe I'm Amazed  (Paul Mcartney)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLhoLkTyNkM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLhoLkTyNkM)

I'm Loosing You (The Temptations)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOPJXrUWII&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOPJXrUWII&feature=related)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 28 May, 2012, 03:46:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2haiLrFRJqY&feature=related
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: jogler on 28 May, 2012, 03:56:28 pm
The Shadows have built a career on great cover versions
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: LEE on 28 May, 2012, 04:29:31 pm
The Shadows have built a career on great cover versions

FTFY

imo, every Shadows cover version renders an otherwise good song into "elevator music".

PS.  I am a big fan of actual original Shadows music, having covered most of their greats in my early teens using only a tennis racquet.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: jogler on 28 May, 2012, 04:37:37 pm
The Shadows have built a career on great cover versions

FTFY

imo, every Shadows cover version renders an otherwise good song into "elevator music".

PS.  I am a big fan of actual original Shadows music, having covered most of their greats in my early teens using only a tennis racquet.

I can do the Shads onna stratoracket ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 09 June, 2012, 04:53:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C5-ClvcHtK4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 09 June, 2012, 09:31:35 pm
Los Colorados do Rammstein's "Du hast".

http://www.youtube.com/embed/a5xSxGhlHfc

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Rhys W on 10 June, 2012, 12:21:17 am
Loop - Mother Sky

Whilst I like Can, a lot, this kills the original stone dead - you can almost smell the dope smoke ;)

I think I have a flexi-disc somewhere of the last gig by fey indie-janglers The Field Mice doing a cover of a Loop song, all feedback and venom. Most odd.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: interzen on 13 June, 2012, 10:25:06 am
Couple of epic Slayer covers here. First, Apocalyptica doing 'Angel Of Death' with cellos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUE-wMQFX3Y

Finally, Tori Amos(!) covering "Raining Blood". Yes, really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpOAXIgF9U

The Tori Amos cover is epic in more ways than I can possibly imagine ;D

EDIT: Actually, this is more epic - Motorhead doing "Enter Sandman" ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9Gr5waAJg&feature=related
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: microphonie on 13 June, 2012, 11:45:02 am
Technically not a cover version as it only uses the melody of Black Sabbath's Iron Man, but worth posting 'cos it's ace:

Lee Scratch Perry on great form collaborating with the On-U Sound label.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHadLAHQSvU&feature=related
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Biggsy on 23 June, 2012, 09:26:24 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti336dxpQgk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Rhys W on 09 August, 2012, 11:01:28 am
This one is quite interesting...

http://vimeo.com/24938151
Title: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 13 August, 2012, 08:19:04 pm
This just came up on my iPod on shuffle - not so much a cover as an homage, but it takes the cheesiness of the original and cranks it up to 11...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf_h9kg9n2Y

I feel sorry for Blamcmange - they were the band who weren't the Pet Shop Boys with the keyboard player who wasn't Vince Clarke, but they did two classic electropop albums.

Talking of turning it up to 11, I really shouldn't admit to liking this but I do. Very much...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IcMvkyw-Y

d.
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Post by: clarion on 13 August, 2012, 08:22:09 pm
I do love that Blancmange track. 
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Rhys W on 16 August, 2012, 02:51:59 pm
Just when you think you've seen it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4JWzEPJe8&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 16 August, 2012, 03:43:21 pm
Bonkers.

d.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: red marley on 16 August, 2012, 05:02:15 pm
Sort of reminds me of this:

Acid Brass - What time is love? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27-FwZuEKQE)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 September, 2012, 06:03:06 pm
It's not a real cover version, just a remix, but the dance version of "Long Train Runnin'" improves on the original quite subtly.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 September, 2012, 09:41:54 pm
Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George doing Blind Faith's (Stevie Winwood) "Cant Find My Way Home"
Doesn't start until about 2:50 through this YouTube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 16 September, 2012, 10:19:19 pm
The Velvets get the psychedelic treatment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW-qJWaY4C0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 16 September, 2012, 10:24:20 pm
2Pac in a blues-rock stylee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Nlmm6w6rc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 17 September, 2012, 08:48:00 pm
Cornershop's sitar-laden cover of Norwegian Wood:

http://youtu.be/y_5V62wxnWY

(it's knocking about on an advert for some TV show at the moment).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 20 September, 2012, 01:12:02 pm
Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George doing Blind Faith's (Stevie Winwood) "Cant Find My Way Home"
Doesn't start until about 2:50 through this YouTube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related)

By gum that were good, quite set me off on a Youtube frolic, back to the original which was truly great and through some peripheral ambles off to what has to be the strangest nomination for great cover version. Can't find my way home by..... Steve Winwood. It appears via his website as the kick off for a cover version contest http://www.stevewinwood.com/contests also uploaded officially to youtube (inc HD) . Been up since May apparently but no other covers. Could be fun to watch for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSn2Y-b6wI





Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 November, 2012, 11:34:02 am
The Civil Wars doing Michael Jackson's Billie Jean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aiC_CxJ8Vc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aiC_CxJ8Vc&feature=related)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 07 November, 2012, 04:53:07 pm
McArthur Park by Hugo Montenegro. It's like the incidental music to a Jason King car chase. I love the timpani.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNM6187cznE&feature=related
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 November, 2012, 05:50:37 pm
Groovy ! parts of that sound like the Pearl and Dean theme tune.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 10 November, 2012, 06:50:17 pm
Hard to Handle - Black Crowes

I think this was another Otis Redding song - the Crowes just gave it that extra 5% tempo, and it really flies along. Love it.

(There's also a Tom Jones version, which sucked.)

+1. 

Also like Diamonds and Rust - Judas Priest covering Joan Baez  ::-)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 14 November, 2012, 02:51:59 pm
This is astonishing, crank it up. Joss Stone & Melissa Etheridge,  Take Another Little Piece of my Heart

Melissa appears at around 2:00, it was recorded shortly after her chemotherapy which adds several layers to her performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FwL_huvYjQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 01 December, 2012, 04:58:34 pm
2 for the price of one with the local group Soulweaver, who I saw play last week - Hendrix's Voodoo Chile vs Fleetwood Mac's The Chain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw0FlCZQleg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 01 December, 2012, 06:04:28 pm
If you think you've heard it all, I suggest doing a YouTube search for a Finnish super-group called Northern Kings, who have given an interesting selection of songs the symphonic metal treatment. Kyle Minogue's "I Should Be So Lucky", imagined more as a phone call from a stalker, anyone?  ;D

http://youtu.be/PNbN9XbNvBU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: onb on 02 December, 2012, 07:52:32 pm
Apologies if its been mentioned befor


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwwNXpIXgdY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 02 December, 2012, 11:52:03 pm
I'm quite taken with Thea Gilmore's acoustic cover of Dead Or Alive's 'You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record)'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odcrDuw5y1Q
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 14 December, 2012, 11:17:43 am
A seasonal one - won't be to everyone's taste but I rather like it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfsxMIBI7n8

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 18 December, 2012, 12:25:00 pm
This ticks all the boxes for me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOsLlihVrk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 December, 2012, 10:20:23 am
While browsing Northern Soul stuff on YouTube this morning, I came across this jaw-dropping take on Eleanor Rigby that combines the sublime vocals of Kim Weston with astonishing orchestration.
I like the Aretha and Ray Charles versions but this is something else...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhHzIH9W9Sc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: canny colin on 22 December, 2012, 12:12:44 am
I saw kim weston perform at a northern soul night in the sage in gateshead a few years a go now.  she was spot on.   
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 December, 2012, 11:57:39 am
Heard this cover of Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas" by Alison Moyet on the radio today. Lovely. I didn't know she was half French. She;s actually Geneviève Moyet, Alison is her middle name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv9M4oCqhbM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv9M4oCqhbM)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: LindaG on 24 December, 2012, 12:01:21 am
Heard this cover of Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas" by Alison Moyet on the radio today. Lovely. I didn't know she was half French. She;s actually Genevi�ve Moyet, Alison is her middle name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv9M4oCqhbM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv9M4oCqhbM)

Oh, god.  That's just too good.  Must you?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 12 February, 2013, 10:30:11 pm
Not usually a fan of Presley, but this is good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOGkmoijhYI

(actually, most of the Gravelands album is worth a listen)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 12 February, 2013, 10:34:35 pm
The Peddlers - On a Clear Day. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAsNH13uLjU)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 13 February, 2013, 05:20:59 pm
Not sure it's great but I rather like it

Samba Patti (sic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0m0LodkdmY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Littlesox on 19 February, 2013, 10:32:04 pm
At one time I was in to "heavy stuff" and latched on to what was hailed at the time as "The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal" (or NWOBM as labelled by NME). I saw Iron Maiden on their first tour, and moshed to the likes of Panterra and Saxon in small venues until it all went global. Despite all this, one of the bands I never really took to was Def Leppard - don't know why, but not really my thing.

However, fast forward many years, and catching up with an old school friend (who was always a big fan of theirs) lead me to hear an album of all covers by Def Leppard. Pretty damn good it was too ! Blondies' Hanging on the telephone, and The Kinks Waterloo Sunset feature. However, the revelation, and my contendor for the album would be their version of David Essex's Rock On.

Track it down and give it a spin pop-pickers. It'll knock your socks off. Not half !
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: ianrauk on 27 February, 2013, 03:35:14 pm
Husker Du - Eight Miles High

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: jogler on 27 February, 2013, 05:05:18 pm
I like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0WDetbx0Rk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PaulF on 27 February, 2013, 05:58:25 pm
Lotte Kestner does a great version of "I Want You" (the Elvis Costello version), in fact most of her covers album Stolen is pretty good.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 28 February, 2013, 09:00:33 am
Following my discovered passion for Patax, Man in the Mirror, where the intensity builds wonderfully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-pZxIQM2k
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Efrogwr on 28 February, 2013, 09:52:57 am
Halleluja by k d lang. I like the song anyway, but she lifts it to a new level.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 28 February, 2013, 10:11:48 am
I have a feeling we've had this one already, but it won't hurt to mention it again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvoajDAOHkc

Not just a great cover version but a great translation - it achieves the rare feat of matching the poetry and wit of the original.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Littlesox on 01 March, 2013, 10:05:25 pm
Sinead O'Connor - Ode to Billie Joe
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 10:11:29 pm
Following my discovered passion for Patax, Man in the Mirror, where the intensity builds wonderfully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-pZxIQM2k

We enjoyed that one!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 06 March, 2013, 02:48:27 pm

By gum that were good, quite set me off on a Youtube frolic, back to the original which was truly great and through some peripheral ambles off to what has to be the strangest nomination for great cover version. Can't find my way home by..... Steve Winwood. It appears via his website as the kick off for a cover version contest http://www.stevewinwood.com/contests also uploaded officially to youtube (inc HD) . Been up since May apparently but no other covers. Could be fun to watch for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSn2Y-b6wI

The winners are in

#1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4FId2Sy2fk
Brenna Fitzgerald


#2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Lv-PZN81c
Yochi Aoyama


#3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y4itjg92EE
edlamps
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 06 March, 2013, 10:52:35 pm
Black Magic woman


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcJHqVr65I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcJHqVr65I)


Tuvan throat singing at its best

Seriously - an excellent album
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 08 March, 2013, 06:50:00 pm
Just found this - a great band doing a great cover of a great song by one of the all time great recording artists...

http://youtu.be/W7LtX9k_ElU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 08 March, 2013, 06:58:39 pm
And this version is pretty damn great too...

http://youtu.be/0-rvmYCHm5o
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 08 March, 2013, 08:33:38 pm
Just found this - a great band doing a great cover of a great song by one of the all time great recording artists...

http://youtu.be/W7LtX9k_ElU

The missing link between The Jam and The Style Council

(edit: response before I clicked the second link)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 14 March, 2013, 03:12:31 pm
Smoove and Turrell, a great cover of "Don't Go":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGLXYHne8nU

The Milk, their, also excellent, cover of "Express Yourself", but I can't find a video for it, only find it on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/thisisthemilk/express-yourself
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 15 March, 2013, 09:51:36 pm
http://www.channel4.com/news/russian-grannies-imagine-singing-with-guru-murthy-video
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 April, 2013, 09:26:02 am
"Your no good" famously done by Linda Ronstadt but here by Van Halen. Almost unrecognizable but excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0TqgbVRaI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0TqgbVRaI)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 April, 2013, 09:29:17 am
Heart's "Baracuda" covered by Alice in Chains fronted by country singer Gretchen Wilson. She rawks ! Who new ? Watch out for Nancy Wilson coming on stage half way through to do the solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQkECIn738 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQkECIn738)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 15 May, 2013, 08:24:55 am
Discovered this recently, can't believe I've not heard it before. Now excuse me, I think I've got a speck of dust in my eye or something...

http://youtu.be/GEO7MNk3PF4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 31 May, 2013, 05:12:21 pm
The original version of a country classic, better known for the cover by Paul Simon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2mBkQzg-Po
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 May, 2013, 05:52:18 pm
Delbert McClinton's take on Lay Down Sally.

Becca Bramlett sounds and moves just like her mum !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DfbGnC3fMI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DfbGnC3fMI)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 31 May, 2013, 07:46:49 pm
The original version of a country classic, better known for the cover by Paul Simon...

Careful! There will be kids reading this who don't know any better.

(Graceland was a Paul Simon composition. AFAIK, anyway!)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 01 June, 2013, 12:05:34 am
(Graceland was a Paul Simon composition. AFAIK, anyway!)

Lyrically, it's unmistakeably Paul Simon. Works soooo well as a country tune though!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 July, 2013, 04:25:42 pm
Grace Potter puts a different spin on Beyonce's "Why don't you love me"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtDbpTbbVxQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtDbpTbbVxQ)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 01 July, 2013, 09:59:32 pm
Bloody right  pcolbeck... and White Rabbit deserves mention too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOxwveMaaZA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 July, 2013, 07:47:19 am
And Tush. Tight band she has too. The excellent Catherine Popper (ex Hem, Ryan Adams and Willie Nelson bands) used to play base with the Nocturnals for several years.

http://vimeo.com/31653062 (http://vimeo.com/31653062)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 02 July, 2013, 08:30:33 am
Are instrumental covers allowed here?

Lee Ritenour, Shape of My Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leIHpa7KmAA

Warning - listening to the album it comes from - Six String Theory -  might be bad for your pocket. To quote "Ritenour is among twenty legendary world class guitarists who guest on the recording, produced along with John Burk of Concord Records. Joining him in this tribute to the guitar, the all-star line-up includes: George Benson, BB King, Slash, Steve Lukather, John Scofield, Robert Cray and Vince Gill among many other superstars."
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 02 July, 2013, 09:14:09 am
Been having a blues-fest this morning

Beth Hart, Change is gonna come. Not as smooth as Sam Cooke, but real blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnIL8AKWRNQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 16 August, 2013, 11:35:32 am
A cover version doing what it is supposed to do, i.e. not just faithfully re-produce the original, but make it their own.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Apples, with their cover of "Killing In The Name Of".

If this doesn't make you smile, I don't know what will :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he9E2Kd-3n4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 August, 2013, 10:56:44 am
The Stones covering Stevie Wonder's "I don't know why"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x46cBLgtaTs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x46cBLgtaTs)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 28 August, 2013, 10:14:05 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEI2K7kLmp8
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: RJ on 28 August, 2013, 10:43:44 pm
Apologies if these have already appeared (but then that's partly the point ;)):

Inner City Blues - Working Week
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
I'm Looking Through You - Steve Earle
Walk On By - Stranglers
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 September, 2013, 10:52:47 am
The Damned's version of Eloise.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 26 September, 2013, 11:56:46 am
The All-nighter's Tainted Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18nkT-LK3eI

Not because it is better than the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQFSBWBQVs

But because it is better than the Soft Cell out.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 21 October, 2013, 07:32:05 pm
Probably not good enough for this thread, but Javis Cocker played Vanilla Fudge's slightly emotive psych-rock cover of You Keep Me Hangin' On yesterday, and mentioned the memorable performances by the band, so I went to check out the video. Wow. These lads are giving it everything.  The bassist looks as though his goldfish just died in a terrible accident, the guitarist gives some great gurning, and even the drummer's showing off by twirling his drumsticks. None of it's quite as scary as the singer/keyboardist, though. Especially his teeth.

http://youtu.be/YFabNBveHOk

Apparently Vanilla Fudge were a psych-rock covers band. It's like Deep Purple went pop.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Zipperhead on 21 October, 2013, 08:40:42 pm
Apologies if these have already appeared (but then that's partly the point ;)):

Inner City Blues - Working Week

I've had to go and put that one because I haven't enjoyed it for far too long
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 23 October, 2013, 10:14:58 pm
Gideon Coe on 6Music is hosting a programme of covers right now.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 03 November, 2013, 09:13:38 am
Have I mentioned Patax before? I have, oh  ;)

They Don't Care About Us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZVtWQuVW4

Oh. And if you liked that, Smooth Criminal - no Bulerias, unfortunately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSn9rwS4JJs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Gus on 10 December, 2013, 05:01:58 pm
The Dresden Dolls ~ War pigs

http://youtu.be/WimY82SpGhY (http://youtu.be/WimY82SpGhY)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PaulF on 10 December, 2013, 05:04:11 pm
Just found another couple:

Mick Harvey's version of "The Way Young Lovers Do" and Fun Lovin' Criminals version of "Couldn't Get it Right"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 12 December, 2013, 09:52:51 am
I love this. A stylish, soulful cover of an electropop classic...

https://soundcloud.com/izzy-lindqwister/dont-go

She's also done a great cover of a Jacques Dutronc song - which I love, being a Jacques Dutronc fan:

https://soundcloud.com/izzy-lindqwister/izzy-lindqwister-les-gens-sont

Her own compositions are rather good too!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 22 December, 2013, 04:39:59 pm
The Dresden Dolls ~ War pigs

http://youtu.be/WimY82SpGhY (http://youtu.be/WimY82SpGhY)
Wow. What a drummer!
Title: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 11 January, 2014, 12:39:26 pm
Just reminded of this by hearing it on 6music and I don't think we've had it before so...

I love the original, but this is one of those occasions where the cover is possibly even better. When you listen to it, it's almost impossible to believe it was written by a Dartford-born British public schoolboy... It could almost pass for authentic delta blues.

Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt

http://youtu.be/NBwC7Qzljso
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 07 February, 2014, 03:22:39 pm
Wow, I hadn't realised that was a cover version ;D I heard it in the Big Lebowski, and assumed it was a van Zandt original.

He does have the proper accent to pull it off, and things do sound better with a proper accent, which is what I thought when I was listening back to Arab Strap's ultra-Scottish cover of You Shook Me All Night Long:

http://youtu.be/xZH1f3jENu0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 on 07 February, 2014, 03:53:34 pm
The guitar on TvZ's Dead Flowers is beautiful - good bass.  Not too fond of some of his other stuff - hard to know when he's singing that way for effect or if he's just careless - but Dead Flowers is wellnigh perfect.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 February, 2014, 04:00:13 pm
Pissed quite often rather than careless actually.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 09 February, 2014, 10:08:27 pm
Iron Maiden managed to do a version of Hocus Pocus without yodelling, which is an immediate improvement on the original.  Very good recording, and I'm a bit sad I only came across it yesterday.

Iron Maiden also do a fair cover of Doctor Doctor (the UFO version, not the Thompson Twins ::-) ).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 11 February, 2014, 06:12:07 am
Eddie and the Soul Band's version of Shaft (video link set to 6:37 in, which is where the 2nd 12 inch version starts)

http://youtu.be/ftaSCYk5Kg4?t=6m37s

As it says in the youtube "about" comment, in his later years Isaac Hayes performed a version live that was based on this rather than his 1971 original.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 11 February, 2014, 06:56:38 am
The Ukulele Orchestra do a very good version of Shaft.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 12 February, 2014, 02:44:16 pm
clarion's Hocus Pocus post led me to this thread, on a forum that quite frankly scares me a little (and not just with the somewhat unrestrained sigs): http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=88154
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 12 February, 2014, 02:46:20 pm
Sorry.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 February, 2014, 08:35:19 am
Lowell George - What Do You Want the Girl To Do

http://youtu.be/7a2lvQ2qMLE

It's an Allen Toussaint song that quite a few people have covered including Bonnie Raitt but this version from Lowell's solo album "Thanks I'll Eat it Here" is my favorite.
The whole album is excellent if you ever run across it by the way. I only have it on vinyl after picking it up in a bargain bin years ago.

[edit]
Wikipedia reveals that Bonnie Raitt is singing backing vocals on Lowell's version which is kind of circular.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 05 March, 2014, 03:03:10 pm
I'm not a fan of Miles Kane but I just heard his take on Jacques Dutronc's Le Responsable (on the rather excellent soundtrack to the forthcoming film Svengali (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Svengali-OST-Various-Artists/dp/B00IERAFQU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394031739&sr=8-1&keywords=svengali+soundtrack), currently playing on the office stereo) and I have to admit I liked it - it's a pretty straight cover, just with the words translated into English...

http://youtu.be/MRqdi_dpOfw

If the film is even half as good as the soundtrack, it'll be worth seeing.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 05 March, 2014, 08:33:42 pm
Lowell George - What Do You Want the Girl To Do

The whole album is excellent if you ever run across it by the way. I only have it on vinyl after picking it up in a bargain bin years ago.


Agreed. The cover of I Can't Stand the Rain is pretty good too.

Another of the Gone Too Young club.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Zipperhead on 05 March, 2014, 11:33:50 pm
There are some songs that mere humans just shouldn't try and cover because they are, after all, not Etta. They just haven't lived enough and they just haven't got the voice for it, and adding warbling just isn't going to do it.

But, oh but, Koko Taylor did this version of I'd Rather Go Blind which is up there with Etta....

http://youtu.be/Hpvm4GbnFZQ (http://youtu.be/Hpvm4GbnFZQ)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 March, 2014, 11:15:08 am
Not a song and all classical music is essentially covers but:

Chris Thile - Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 (http://youtu.be/j3lH_Tevw5o)

Bach on a mandolin by a master mandolin player.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 07 March, 2014, 06:50:38 pm
Not sure it's great, but it's a cover version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbdwmBKA5ro
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 09 March, 2014, 08:41:41 pm
Wilson Picket, Hey Jude, with Duane Allman. I really like Roger Hawkin's drumming on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RD0y8Q2PATVyI&v=0y8Q2PATVyI
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 09 March, 2014, 08:47:49 pm
Wilson Picket, Hey Jude, with Duane Allman. I really like Roger Hawkin's drumming on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RD0y8Q2PATVyI&v=0y8Q2PATVyI

That's excellent.  Muscle Shoals again.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 09 March, 2014, 09:36:08 pm
The Beatles covered one of the earliest Muscle Shoals recordings by Arthur Alexander.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJwwLcV3KY

The Mick Hucknall cover of the Beatles cover is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crvz9_0SVa8
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 10 March, 2014, 07:53:29 am
Introduced to me by Mrs T, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

It's worth checking out some of their other stuff, too.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 March, 2014, 11:22:41 am
Linda Ronstadt - Willin'

http://youtu.be/IJHcD0kHTGk

A different take than Lowell's origional.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 March, 2014, 11:27:00 am
Another one from Linda.

Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good

http://youtu.be/haZPPBJC8Ic

bongotastic !
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: jogler on 20 March, 2014, 01:46:25 pm
I like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAkMTu6q2pY

one of my favourite tracks by a band who I have never liked watching* but whose music I do enjoy.

*I like this particular video for the other performers strutting their stuff.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 12 April, 2014, 12:53:31 am
Those of you who've been watching the Arena programme on Spitting Image this evening will have heard this (it wasn't too hard to find):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4JWzEPJe8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4JWzEPJe8)

A Welsh male voice choir (and a piano) singing "Blue Monday". Impressive
Wow!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 15 April, 2014, 06:04:11 pm
Cover version? I think so. I have a thing about watching ASL/BSL versions of songs, even though I can't understand a word, ever since seeing the version of Cee Lo Green's **** You (amusingly the copyright owners complained about the track of the original so audio is now muted, a funny speeded up version is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQ9lEuEzrc - I would have thought the SL version has similar humour to the audio)

But I really think this version of Gotye's Someone I use to know adds to the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUt4W8sE8Ns
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 15 April, 2014, 08:39:04 pm
Those of you who've been watching the Arena programme on Spitting Image this evening will have heard this (it wasn't too hard to find):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4JWzEPJe8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4JWzEPJe8)

A Welsh male voice choir (and a piano) singing "Blue Monday". Impressive

Meanwhile, on a smaller scale, the best live act that I saw last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNrAgbzMXOI

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 16 April, 2014, 11:49:56 pm
Esther Phillip's version of Scott Heron's Home is where the hatred is

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

She sings it like she means it:
"You keep saying, kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it
God, but did you ever try"

:(
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 April, 2014, 12:17:54 pm
More curiosity than great, but allow me to present Ne Me Quitte Pas... by Iggy Pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDcnH1clqjU

Worth it for Fabrice Eurly's piano, actually
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 22 April, 2014, 10:55:21 am
Esther Phillip's version of Scott Heron's Home is where the hatred is

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

She sings it like she means it:
"You keep saying, kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it
God, but did you ever try"

:(


It's a brave singer who tries to cover Gil, but that works.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 26 April, 2014, 11:49:04 am
Not quite a cover version but maybe an improvement on the original

Dolly Parton Jolene at 33 1/3 rpm (http://www.wimp.com/unexpectedsound/)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2014, 03:44:51 pm
Another take on Jolene

http://youtu.be/SXOYpLOMZo4

Grace Potter.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2014, 03:49:28 pm
She likes to do cover versions so here for contrast to Jolene she slips War Pigs into her set:

http://youtu.be/aFs96cYCNgw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 April, 2014, 11:39:07 am
Ode to Billie Joe, by Ray Charles. Sung by Clydie King.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmlZEbs_z-c
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 29 April, 2014, 12:07:31 pm
As seen on last week's ...Later, Zara Mcfarlane's cover of "Police and Thieves".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBXbrOOo2nM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 26 May, 2014, 01:17:30 am
Redlight, I was at that Spooky performance.

Now, as Pingu says, it's a cover version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk&list=RD6CNB5OLUPM0&index=23
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 May, 2014, 01:17:10 pm
Uncle Tupelo cover The Stooges "I wanna be your dog"

http://youtu.be/IWn5B1FE3fU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2014, 12:05:46 am
Zappa's 'Whippin' Post' is pretty epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-dm1JU4no
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 June, 2014, 12:26:11 am
Zappa's 'Whippin' Post' is pretty epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-dm1JU4no

But do I prefer the Zappa 'Bolero' ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2hiDYE5Qdw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 July, 2014, 08:42:08 pm
Shelby Lynne - Just A little Lovin'

Fantastic alternative take on the Dusty Springfield original. Apparently she did a whole album of them and they are all blinding !

http://youtu.be/VRUyc64esjU

Edit : oh yes Breakfast in Bed live !

http://youtu.be/3BTxk6sBPWI

I can feel a CD splurge coming on !
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Efrogwr on 19 July, 2014, 09:16:47 pm
Wilson Picket, Hey Jude, with Duane Allman. I really like Roger Hawkin's drumming on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RD0y8Q2PATVyI&v=0y8Q2PATVyI

Bloody hell! I've just found this. Cracking stuff.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 20 July, 2014, 01:09:04 am
A cover of "Blurred Lines"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckDT0hGyofE

It's not about the song  - I could watch/listen to this girl sing all day!!!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 30 July, 2014, 10:41:02 pm
Discovered this recently - better late than never. It is all kinds of awesome...

Flaming Lips cover Madonna's Borderline (http://vimeo.com/m/4103608)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 August, 2014, 02:04:02 pm
DJ Random has just coughed up John Campbell's version of "When The Levee Breaks".  Not better or worse than Zeppelin, but bangin' all the same.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 06 August, 2014, 04:18:30 pm
From discussions elsewhere, two very different covers of Ring of Fire.

Wall of Voodoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cyfTFbzk9A
Social Distortion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BaksqH2YXQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 06 August, 2014, 05:15:28 pm
This is a good, if not great cover. Bluegrass covers of heavy metal are nothing new, but this made me smile from the start - it makes you think that a banjo is THE obvious choice for playing that riff!

http://loudwire.com/steve-n-seagulls-acdc-thunderstruck/


And I may be a bit late with this one, but it's rather good:
http://youtu.be/aTNC9l46oR4

Arctic Monkeys do Love Machine - which really was a great pop-song! I reckon we'll hear a lot of Girls Aloud covers in time ...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 06 August, 2014, 06:09:38 pm
This is a good, if not great cover. Bluegrass covers of heavy metal are nothing new, but this made me smile from the start - it makes you think that a banjo is THE obvious choice for playing that riff!

http://loudwire.com/steve-n-seagulls-acdc-thunderstruck/


Awesome.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 06 August, 2014, 07:36:42 pm
And I may be a bit late with this one, but it's rather good:
http://youtu.be/aTNC9l46oR4

Arctic Monkeys do Love Machine - which really was a great pop-song! I reckon we'll hear a lot of Girls Aloud covers in time ...

That is great. I've always thought the key to a good cover was the song being good in the first place. Which may sound like a trite observation but the point is that a well crafted song transcends genre. And some of these cheesy throwaway pop songs are actually very well crafted indeed.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 06 August, 2014, 07:56:34 pm
Yes exactly  :thumbsup:

(You could even say that a lot of pop classics are wasted on crappy talent-free manufactured bands!)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 07 August, 2014, 01:02:06 pm
20 Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (http://mentalfloss.com/article/53336/20-songs-you-might-not-know-were-covers)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 August, 2014, 03:49:24 pm
20 Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (http://mentalfloss.com/article/53336/20-songs-you-might-not-know-were-covers)

Page keeps crashing Chrome chiz :(
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 07 August, 2014, 04:16:01 pm
20 Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (http://mentalfloss.com/article/53336/20-songs-you-might-not-know-were-covers)
I didn't know about No3  :-[

Apart from records I know NOTHING about, I knew the rest  ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 07 August, 2014, 04:21:29 pm
20 Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (http://mentalfloss.com/article/53336/20-songs-you-might-not-know-were-covers)

Page keeps crashing Chrome chiz :(

Works fine in FlamingReynard.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 07 August, 2014, 04:38:32 pm
20 Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (http://mentalfloss.com/article/53336/20-songs-you-might-not-know-were-covers)

Page keeps crashing Chrome chiz :(

IME Chrome has never played at all well with pages containing lots of embedded videos. Added to which, the latest version seems to slurp up my PC's RAM like Oliver Reed working his merry way through the contents of a hotel mini-bar.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 August, 2014, 10:59:58 pm
Worked, albeit slowly, in Chrome under Windoze.

I wasn't surprised to see that the author is USAnian as anyone who thought Cum On Feel The Noize was a Quiet Riot original must be:

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 08 August, 2014, 02:08:34 am
Zappa's 'Whippin' Post' is pretty epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-dm1JU4no

But do I prefer the Zappa 'Bolero' ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2hiDYE5Qdw
And related to other posts, there is his Swaggart Version of Ring of Fire.

"Oh, Annie! Oh, Annie! Oh,  Anne---usol!"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 19 October, 2014, 07:52:07 pm
BBC radio are running a "best covers evah" type poll this week. Tom Robinson has been playhing some crackers just now,  including this:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=dwZEVI72J-6s7Abv2oHIAQ&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4op1esLn4mc&ved=0CCcQtwIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNG1XaTbCoje5Q6XIb2PrZ1X8lJAxA
Nouvelle Vague - Ever Fallen In Love

... which I adore, and may not have been on this thread already?

earlier he played quite a decent Smiths cover, which was new to me; I can't actually recall any other Smiths covers. <floodgates open ... >
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 October, 2014, 08:51:51 pm
I'm not exactly blown away by the new Alt-J album but I rather like this gem of a cover they've tacked on the end of it...

http://youtu.be/lIboZ8Hi6mY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 October, 2014, 08:59:33 pm
Specially for you, mattc: http://youtu.be/LtmS2ePSSdU

Just be grateful I didn't post a link to Miley Cyrus's take on There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2014, 11:42:07 am
Here's one that's not covered much. I like this though, Lucinda's rasp makes a nice change from the original.

http://youtu.be/zvzJ39m4vsA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 11 December, 2014, 02:08:11 pm
I know I've posted Patax before, but this isn't Patax. Almost.

It's a man's world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAy1ZQQLXEE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 December, 2014, 07:17:18 pm
I finished Richard Coles's autobiography the other day and have been listening to some Communards/Bronski Beat this week. I know some miserable buggers will deny it, but the Communards' version of Don't Leave Me This Way is absolutely stonkingly phenomenol. It manages to retain a touch of melancholy while being completely joyous and compellingly danceable.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh BABY!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fuzzy on 12 December, 2014, 12:10:52 pm
I finished Richard Coles's autobiography the other day and have been listening to some Communards/Bronski Beat this week. I know some miserable buggers will deny it, but the Communards' version of Don't Leave Me This Way is absolutely stonkingly phenomenol. It manages to retain a touch of melancholy while being completely joyous and compellingly danceable.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh BABY!

And Jimmy S still does it justice. He belted it out at rewind this summer :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: IanDG on 12 December, 2014, 12:38:39 pm
Has this been mentioned yet?

http://youtu.be/MBYo9o6y1k4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 12 December, 2014, 01:10:02 pm
I finished Richard Coles's autobiography the other day and have been listening to some Communards/Bronski Beat this week. I know some miserable buggers will deny it, but the Communards' version of Don't Leave Me This Way is absolutely stonkingly phenomenol. It manages to retain a touch of melancholy while being completely joyous and compellingly danceable.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh BABY!
And Smalltown Boy is one of the most joyous celebrations of, er, loneliness ever.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 December, 2014, 01:43:14 pm
I think You Are My World is my favourite Communards song.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: sg37409 on 17 December, 2014, 03:21:27 pm
Cecilia, by Suggs  from "The Lone Ranger" album the whole of which is a pretty good album.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 December, 2014, 01:41:34 pm
Adam Buxton & Gaz Coombes - I Believe In Father Christmas

http://youtu.be/21jo7Z8z1ys
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: IanDG on 23 December, 2014, 03:47:27 pm
Thgis has always been my favourite of cover versions - and (I would argue) probably the greatest ever

RIP Joe

http://youtu.be/bRzKUVjHkGk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 12 February, 2015, 10:16:01 pm
Couple of Futureheads tunes. I thought I'd already mentioned them, but in case I haven't...

Beeswing (Richard Thompson cover):

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

The No. 1 Song in Heaven (Sparks):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Uc1eunvBc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 February, 2015, 09:17:01 am
Greg Allman's version of Jackson Browne's "These Days"

http://youtu.be/zCUxJFtTFNk

Jackson Browne considered it the definitive version and I have to agree. Nico's version is pretty good too in an icy German Nico kind of way.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2015, 06:01:28 pm
Maroon 5's Maps - covered by The Postmodern Jukebox with Morgan James on vocals.

https://youtu.be/8gO_lxThc1M
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2015, 06:38:58 pm
A clutch of My Morning Jacket ones:

Oh sweet nothing (Velvet Underground)
https://youtu.be/7H1i1I1BFn4

Tyrone (Erykah Badu)
https://youtu.be/mPsw5ssi-58

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band)
https://youtu.be/tQsTPiVLgEo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Oaky on 11 March, 2015, 06:49:47 pm
I found out recently that the Jose Gonzalez Heartbeats version is a cover.

I hadn't realised until I heard the original, that it was by a Swedish electronica duo "The Knife" originally.  I like both versions.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 13 March, 2015, 12:37:08 pm
Not strictly a cover, found through Digg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpASSx0ecTU

Their comment: To everyone who ever felt cool for finishing this song on "Guitar Hero": don't

"Comfortably numb" is done reasonable justice to, as well.

Mind you they make a big thing about her being only 15, I've looked at her facebook page and she is almost 16 now. I wonder what music it would take to get her excited?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 March, 2015, 01:18:42 pm
She needs to learn some feel. There is more to life than being bang on time and really good at shredding.
Mind you she is still 10000x better than me and as you say only 15.

This girl has the groove more:

https://youtu.be/iqlBoGr82_4

still a few too many pinched harmonics for my taste but there again I'm old.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 13 March, 2015, 01:33:56 pm
That first girl is probably technically superior, but without detracting from that I could help think while watching it that she was doing the audio equivalent of a video game, the second girl sounded like she was playing music, so you didn't really mind her not being Keef (ETA - she is ten years older thobut)

I'm going to go and listen to some more Zepparella now.

(ETA followed by Ten Years After, methinks - who hasn't got much work this afternoon then ?  ;D)

(EATA Probably wasn't fair to put Alvin Lee alongside)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2015, 01:35:16 pm
That there first lass can play a bit but she makes Kraftwerk look like The Dickies.  Smile, young lady!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 March, 2015, 08:30:33 am
"I don't want to hear it anymore"  Shelby Lynne

https://youtu.be/aA-cmTp3E0Y

Shelby does a whole album of these Dusty covers all in completely stripped back arrangements. It's a bit marmite as some people think its too stripped back and others (like me) love it.
This is my favourite track.
It's an amazing album on headphones as the production is so good and intimate )it won an award for production).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 April, 2015, 09:35:16 am
A couple of Everley Brother's songs done by two sisters instead of two brothers

https://youtu.be/WfKpF_YLgQ4

Oh and the great Albert Lee is on guitar on this too for extra smashingness !
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: perpetual dan on 03 April, 2015, 01:15:16 pm
I'm rather partial to The Slits' version of I heard it through the grapevine.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 April, 2015, 03:50:56 pm
Frazey Ford - One More Cup Of Coffee (Bob Dylan)

https://youtu.be/3oMb06O2wXo

And Steve Earl

https://youtu.be/1f1_1vEomck
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Riggers on 23 April, 2015, 11:03:48 am
Neil Hannon's cover version of Time to Pretend by MGMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Xs96Yx3Ck

Sadly, the recording here isn't particularly good, and sounds like you're listening with a blanket covering your ears, but hey, I think he's a smasher, and can do no wrong in my book! He's divine. Now, I bet that's the first time that's been used.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 April, 2015, 09:08:31 am
That was unexpected KT Tunstall does Chaka Khan !

https://youtu.be/xTDqhiavP3E
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 28 April, 2015, 04:25:10 pm
Storming!  Love KT's voice.  Rock's greatest front woman manque. :)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 May, 2015, 10:52:49 am
Not sure if we have had this one before.

Manic Street Preachers - Umbrella

https://youtu.be/C5Of_F0-hOw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 14 May, 2015, 12:11:13 pm
Not sure if we have had this one before.

Manic Street Preachers - Umbrella

https://youtu.be/C5Of_F0-hOw

Good, but not as good as Biffy Clyro's
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Si_Co on 14 May, 2015, 12:16:28 pm
Two of my favourites, Black Label Society doing Whiter Shade of Pale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmpJZZmseM

and Metallica doing Whiskey in the Jar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 14 May, 2015, 12:38:05 pm
Two of my favourites, Black Label Society doing Whiter Shade of Pale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmpJZZmseM

and Metallica doing Whiskey in the Jar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ

Indeed, at the time the latter came out I used to make sure I bought Metallica singles on 12" as they, usually, had 2 covers ont he B-side, not one.  Their cover of "Am I Evil?" still ranks as one of rock's finest moments.  Shame they went all tossy after the Black album*.

*Barring 2X4, in it's original form, not the watered down version they released on the album.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Si_Co on 14 May, 2015, 12:52:43 pm
Two of my favourites, Black Label Society doing Whiter Shade of Pale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmpJZZmseM

and Metallica doing Whiskey in the Jar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ

Indeed, at the time the latter came out I used to make sure I bought Metallica singles on 12" as they, usually, had 2 covers ont he B-side, not one.  Their cover of "Am I Evil?" still ranks as one of rock's finest moments.  Shame they went all tossy after the Black album*.

*Barring 2X4, in it's original form, not the watered down version they released on the album.

<recalls seeing Diamond Head perform that one supporting Metallica>   ;D

Metallica did some cracking stuff before, as you say, they began to believe their own press following the Black album, which wasn't even close to their best. Breadfan was another good cover.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 04 June, 2015, 11:49:14 am
Anything by Pentatonix https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pentatonix

A capella, all of it, with beat box thrown in.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 04 June, 2015, 02:54:13 pm
Yeah, I came across them via Sesame Street.  They are all very talented, work astoundingly well together, and seem to have a lot of fun doing it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 June, 2015, 12:35:40 pm
Dr John - "There must be a better world somewhere"

Makes Jules Holand's boogie woogie piano look lame. Actually it's not strictly a cover as Dr John and Doc Pomus wrote this song for BB King and were on the session when BB King cut it.

https://youtu.be/cXJP1xp5FH8
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 June, 2015, 08:55:28 am
If you listen to this without watching, you might find it hard to beleive that this Robert Johnson cover is being performed by a blind ten year old (Felix St Hillaire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI87kqmKXzo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 17 June, 2015, 10:09:41 am
Ham, a thousand thanks for that!  That is more than just prodigious.  Did you see the one of him as a seven year-old?  One of the advantages of open tuning is the opportunity to have a quick scratch now and then!

Jeff Healey, Gordon Lightfoot, The McGarrigle Sisters, Bob Dylan (almost), Ron Sexsmith and now Felix - great Canadian musicians.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 17 June, 2015, 03:21:53 pm
Greg Allman's version of Jackson Browne's "These Days"

http://youtu.be/zCUxJFtTFNk

Jackson Browne considered it the definitive version and I have to agree. Nico's version is pretty good too in an icy German Nico kind of way.
Have you heard Glen Campbell's?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 June, 2015, 04:09:33 pm
Jeff Healey, Gordon Lightfoot, The McGarrigle Sisters, Bob Dylan (almost), Ron Sexsmith and now Felix - great Canadian musicians.

Cough Neil Young cough cough

ETA: Little Miss Higgins
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 June, 2015, 05:28:53 pm
Greg Allman's version of Jackson Browne's "These Days"

http://youtu.be/zCUxJFtTFNk

Jackson Browne considered it the definitive version and I have to agree. Nico's version is pretty good too in an icy German Nico kind of way.
Have you heard Glen Campbell's?

I hadn't, thanks for pointing me at it. Another good version, the sign of a great song when it can be covered in completely different ways and still be great.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 June, 2015, 05:32:05 pm
Jeff Healey, Gordon Lightfoot, The McGarrigle Sisters, Bob Dylan (almost), Ron Sexsmith and now Felix - great Canadian musicians.

Cough Neil Young cough cough

ETA: Little Miss Higgins

You forgot Joni Mitchell and if we move away from blues/folk/rock then Oscar Peterson, Glenn Gould and Angela Hewitt spring to mind as well.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 18 June, 2015, 07:13:20 pm
Didn't forget any of these people!  Just concentrating on an elegant sentence!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 19 June, 2015, 12:39:19 pm
It was only (some 20 years late) that I discovered that this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJTM03UByU

Is a cover of a Public Enemy song.

Tricky's version is much much better.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 02 July, 2015, 02:07:09 pm
One of those songs that's better known as the cover than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mark on 02 July, 2015, 02:54:58 pm
My favorite cover of that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wz7jiMLhM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 July, 2015, 03:04:16 pm
One of those songs that's better known as the cover than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s

Really ?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mark on 02 July, 2015, 03:39:29 pm
One of those songs that's better known as the cover than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s
Really ?

For a long time Prelude's cover seemed to get more air play than Neil Young's original. Patti Smith's version is my personal favorite, followed by Neil Young's original, followed by the Prelude cover.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 02 July, 2015, 04:15:47 pm
One of those songs that's better known as the cover than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s

Really ?

Quote
The song has been covered numerous times. In 1973, it was interpreted by Prelude, whose version was a top 40 hit all over the globe, especially the United Kingdom where it re-charted in the Top 40 in 1982.

Neil's original is an album track.

Dolly Parton asked what it meant.
Quote
Dolly Parton once commented about the making of her version of the song: "When we were doing the Trio album, I asked Linda and Emmy what it meant, and they didn't know. So we called Neil Young, and he didn't know. We asked him, flat out, what it meant, and he said, 'Hell, I don't know. I just wrote it. It just depends on what I was taking at the time. I guess every verse has something different I'd taken.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Gold_Rush_(song)

As usual there's a Nana Mouskouri version I quite like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzDF5s8bC-E
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: nikki on 22 July, 2015, 10:13:56 pm
Pun-tastic genius.

https://youtu.be/On4v2zQ7K5k

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 22 July, 2015, 10:19:14 pm
King Creosote's version of Demis Roussos's Forever and Ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGH8-BcXQcQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 24 July, 2015, 08:56:14 pm
Gary Gilmore's Eyes, sorta-country style (though Jon Langford of the Mekons is part of the band, so it's hardly the Nashville sound):

https://soundcloud.com/bshq/gary-gilmores-eyes-by-the-pine
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: bobb on 31 July, 2015, 06:51:38 pm
You've probably seen this already (unless you've been in a cave the last week), but it's worth posting anyway  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE

There are quite a few other videos of the various takes of the drums, guitars, vocals recorded individually. There's obvioulsy a fair bit of tweaking in Pro Tools (or whatever) afterwards with most of the sound coming from the guy's own band with all the others mixed in accordingly.

It's bad enough being in a band with 2 guitarists - constantly trying to outdo each other, imagine what it must be like with hundreds?!  :P
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fuzzy on 03 August, 2015, 10:14:30 am
Great? Dunno.

Happy making? Yarp.

Bloke waiting for an underground train after an Erasure concert-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYORZMMd9q4
 
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 08 August, 2015, 12:34:07 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gpin2AUAdk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 08 August, 2015, 01:50:12 am
I remember when that was first broadcast.  Amazing.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 17 August, 2015, 03:55:28 pm
Unexpected, but I like the Dylan affectation in his voice.  It's a bloody excellent song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKE7MK7KVc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKE7MK7KVc)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 17 August, 2015, 09:48:22 pm
It is a great song, isn't it?  This cover is not for me, but that's what makes the world go round!  I'm glad when anyone does a Dylan song, especially the earlier stuff.  I think (for me) this cover suffers from him choosing to do it in E.  That's also the key that Dylan sings it in but I'm pretty sure that he plays it in C with a capo at the 4th fret (as he does for Don't Think Twice).  That's how he gets those bass runs which are so charecteristic of his early playing.

Where the cover emulates Dylan successfully is in the pretty awful guitar sound!  A lot of Dylan's early stuff, even the recordings, sounds as if he was playing strings made of....well, string.  They are wonderful, and redolent of a time when the song was thing, not the production.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 28 August, 2015, 10:01:53 am
Stevie Wonder covering Fragile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZgNYoZkeU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 06 October, 2015, 11:21:23 pm
I've just heard Tom Jones on Later covering Gillian Welch's Elvis Presley Blues.

It really shouldn't work but it does.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: IanDG on 16 October, 2015, 10:53:39 pm
All Tomorrows Parties covered by Oysterband and June Tabor

https://youtu.be/SSFEM7ndC6g
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 17 October, 2015, 09:30:27 am
All Tomorrows Parties covered by Oysterband and June Tabor

https://youtu.be/SSFEM7ndC6g

Oooooooh yes!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 22 October, 2015, 12:36:52 am
Do duets with the original artist count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRmRvNx4rCs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 November, 2015, 09:52:55 am
Bob Dylan's "Make you feel my love". Famously a hit for Adele but I like this version by John Talley.

https://youtu.be/jqvUcSH2iWk

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 24 November, 2015, 10:06:58 am
Bob Dylan's "Make you feel my love". Famously a hit for Adele but I like this version by John Talley.

https://youtu.be/jqvUcSH2iWk

At least you didn't put up Billy Joel's, which is strangely rubbish.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Vince on 25 November, 2015, 07:51:07 am
I only want to be with you - The Tourists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTIuNikq4w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTIuNikq4w)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 November, 2015, 08:39:17 pm
Is there a thread for Crap Cover Versions?  And does it count if $ARTIST releases one of their own songs in the style of a club singer in a version that's barely recognisable as being the same ditty?

Yes, you, Mr B Dylan of USAnia and Muswell Hill...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 25 November, 2015, 09:54:38 pm
Los Colorados do Rammstein's "Du hast".

http://www.youtube.com/embed/a5xSxGhlHfc

And a klezmer version by Dobranotch: https://youtu.be/3C04TKCce8s
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 25 November, 2015, 10:01:32 pm
Los Colorados do Rammstein's "Du hast".

http://www.youtube.com/embed/a5xSxGhlHfc

And a klezmer version by Dobranotch: https://youtu.be/3C04TKCce8s


The bind moggles...  :o ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 26 November, 2015, 01:55:33 pm
Los Colorados do Rammstein's "Du hast".

http://www.youtube.com/embed/a5xSxGhlHfc

And a klezmer version by Dobranotch: https://youtu.be/3C04TKCce8s

I've always thought of Rammstein as just a noisy shouty metal band but those two covers really bring out the underlying songcraft. I had to look up the lyrics because what I could make out sounded interesting (my German isn't that great) and there's some great wordplay in there. Good stuff.

Los Colorados though... wtf are they on? This is amazing:
https://youtu.be/1upZz3a-7iM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Vince on 17 December, 2015, 09:12:50 am
Teenage Dirtbag - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 08 January, 2016, 10:24:50 pm
I found this bunch LEJ after seeing someone's facebook video post which had been completely anonymised (as ever :( )

Having found out who they were, I think they make quite a good and reasonably original noise, very Parisienne. Here's their cover of  Hit The Road Jack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLW0DXVya2s)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 February, 2016, 10:32:31 am
Bobby Whitlock and Coco Carmel - "Why does love have to be so sad ?"

https://youtu.be/wkPm_aoKR1o

Does it count as a cover if he co wrote it and played on the original ?
Storming lead guitar as well on this, no idea who it is though.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 February, 2016, 10:42:29 am
Next in a series of covers of songs from "Layla and other assorted love songs".

"Anyday"  - Tedeschi Trucks Band

https://youtu.be/jiwktkw_rqE

Storming, a band I would love to see live.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 February, 2016, 10:44:24 am
Bobby Whitlock and Coco Carmel - "Why does love have to be so sad ?"

https://youtu.be/wkPm_aoKR1o

Does it count as a cover if he co wrote it and played on the original ?
Storming lead guitar as well on this, no idea who it is though.

Tactical use of Google suggests the guitarist lurking in the shadows may well be Jeff Plankenhorn.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 February, 2016, 11:22:33 am
Ta Mr L.

Now "I looked away" - Mike Nesmith, yes that Mike Nesmith

https://youtu.be/LtQcpW8BSxM

Not a brilliant cover but its not a song many people cover.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 February, 2016, 11:26:52 am
"Bell bottom blues" - Cher

https://youtu.be/nGzmtX9KogY

Unusual for a woman to cover this song but I think Cher nailed it. Helps having Jimmy Webb producing I guess.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 04 February, 2016, 11:59:10 am
A surprisingly good Me and the Elephant by the late Sir Michael Terence Wogan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GH3ZtD0JdE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GH3ZtD0JdE)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 05 February, 2016, 11:23:15 am
"She's gone" - Rob Thomas

https://youtu.be/hApQJ_n447A

Blinding version, mind you Daryl doesn't invite duff performers to his house.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 05 February, 2016, 07:04:28 pm
I'm not sure that you can have 'covers' of trad. songs, but anything by Rhiannon Giddens is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: StuAff on 05 February, 2016, 11:57:02 pm
I've always thought of Rammstein as just a noisy shouty metal band but those two covers really bring out the underlying songcraft. I had to look up the lyrics because what I could make out sounded interesting (my German isn't that great) and there's some great wordplay in there. Good stuff.
The wordplay and the songcraft are two of the many reasons I love them. You have me or you hate me? Fans are still trying to decide! :)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: jsabine on 06 February, 2016, 03:10:10 am
I'm not sure that you can have 'covers' of trad. songs, but anything by Rhiannon Giddens is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk)

She is rather good, isn't she? Totally pwned the Transatlantic Sessions at the RFH with that, in a superb version. Poor bloke who was up next stepped to the mike, paused for a moment, and was greeted from the stalls with a sympathetic shout of 'Follow that!'
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 27 February, 2016, 09:41:26 pm
House of the Rising Sun - instrumental (https://youtu.be/Ht9UJhBSwo8)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 09 March, 2016, 10:46:43 pm
Blue Monday - 1930s cover (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lh9lt)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 10 March, 2016, 10:22:33 am
Holy shite, I've just heard Justin Hayward murdering Clifford T Ward's The Best Is Yet To Come on R2.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 10 March, 2016, 10:30:14 am
I'm not sure that you can have 'covers' of trad. songs, but anything by Rhiannon Giddens is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk)

This is a rather enjoyable version of a simple swedish folk song by an Australian singing group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyGCz4jX9k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyGCz4jX9k)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 26 March, 2016, 01:56:18 pm
Blue Monday - 1930s cover (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lh9lt)

I love it!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ruthie on 26 March, 2016, 02:09:07 pm
The Shooting Of did two gorgeous cover versions of Life on Mars and Five Years when I saw him live.  Going to see him as part of this tomorrow.  Oh, and if anyone's interested, I have a spare ticket.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1540/25443671843_e99dd354fe_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ELntci)Bowie poster (https://flic.kr/p/ELntci) by Ruth Irving (https://www.flickr.com/photos/106826773@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 27 March, 2016, 12:44:55 am
I'm not sure that you can have 'covers' of trad. songs, but anything by Rhiannon Giddens is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOMlXy7Bmk)

This is a rather enjoyable version of a simple swedish folk song by an Australian singing group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyGCz4jX9k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyGCz4jX9k)

Without opening the link, I am going to guess that the Aussie group will all be wearing hats. "To the left-oi!". I am rather partial to their Sufi song.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Vince on 01 April, 2016, 01:42:37 pm
Note to self. Don't bother clicking on you tube links from a computer without speakers.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 06 April, 2016, 10:54:32 am
Lovin Cup - Black Crowes

https://youtu.be/fhX-FjUUFZo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 April, 2016, 07:47:43 am
Joe Cocker's "The Letter" covered by Tedeschi Trucks Band

https://youtu.be/PG1_LAAL4w0

The contrast between Susan's speaking and singing voice makes me smile.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 13 April, 2016, 09:54:55 am
Without opening the link, I am going to guess that the Aussie group will all be wearing hats. "To the left-oi!". I am rather partial to their Sufi song.

Spot-on.  I'm surprised they got away with the Sufi song, knowing how Barry Gibb is famously lacking in a sense of humour, but it's a great part of the live act.  And I love The Sweetest Kick", on the same album.

Sticking with the covers theme, their performance, with Show of Hands, of "Don't You Want Me?" is also worth seeking out on YT.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 April, 2016, 10:01:59 am
DJ Random has just played a cover of Comfortably Numb which I thought an odd choice for USAnian folkie Dar Williams.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 13 April, 2016, 10:30:08 am
The Disturbed version of The Sound of Silence that Lord Kenneth of Bruce has recently been playing on his R2 show is most excellent.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 April, 2016, 10:32:07 am
DJ Random has just played a cover of Comfortably Numb which I thought an odd choice for USAnian folkie Dar Williams.

Gov't Mule who are really a Southern Rock/Blues band did some gigs and a CD where they covered the whole of Dark Side of the Moon (Dark Side Of The Mule).

https://youtu.be/KJy3R0tZheE

That was strange.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 April, 2016, 10:52:22 am
And now DJ Random is on a Stevie Ray Vaughan plays Hendrix binge.  First "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" and then "Third Stone From The Sun".
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 20 April, 2016, 07:31:42 pm
The Disturbed version of The Sound of Silence that Lord Kenneth of Bruce has recently been playing on his R2 show is most excellent.

I heard that on Mayo/Kermode's podcast last week and thought about posting it here, even though it is actually terrible (sorry, Legs, but it is). But then I checked out the video, which is totes hilar (or 'a bit Asgard', as one of Mayo/Kermode's correspondents put it):

http://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 21 April, 2016, 10:30:17 am
The Disturbed version of The Sound of Silence that Lord Kenneth of Bruce has recently been playing on his R2 show is most excellent.

I heard that on Mayo/Kermode's podcast last week and thought about posting it here, even though it is actually terrible (sorry, Legs, but it is). But then I checked out the video, which is totes hilar (or 'a bit Asgard', as one of Mayo/Kermode's correspondents put it):

http://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4
À chacun son goût. 
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 21 April, 2016, 10:33:06 am
À chacun son goût.

Indeed. And you can't help it if your taste is terrible. ;)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 21 April, 2016, 10:52:28 am
À chacun son goût.

Indeed. And you can't help it if your taste is terrible. ;)
;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: LEE on 21 April, 2016, 11:07:06 am
Stand aside everyone, I'll see you all your cover versions and raise you this one....

Prepare to smile.

The best 5 minutes of your life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3UfxyIdgs)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rafletcher on 21 April, 2016, 08:16:12 pm
Topically, Sinead O'Connor's version of Prince's Nothing Compares to U.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 25 April, 2016, 11:02:32 pm
Melt-Banana's million-rpm version of Monkey Man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsiht-Be_Rg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 26 April, 2016, 11:31:25 am
Topically, Sinead O'Connor's version of Prince's Nothing Compares to U.

 :'(
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 26 April, 2016, 11:33:39 am
Just heard this on 6music, which I've somehow never managed to hear before (even though according to wikipedia it was the band's only chart single) - Fairport Convention's French version of If You Gotta Go, Go Now. I love it!

https://youtu.be/AmmCSOpPzZc

Until now, I've only been familiar with the superb Manfred Mann version, though of course that is strictly a cover as well since it's a Bob Dylan song.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2016, 12:05:51 pm
Nice. And on a related note:

https://youtu.be/OXeh742_jak

Nina Simone's version of "Who knows where the time goes".
I still like Sandy's version with Fairport the best but the Nina version is different and good.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 04 May, 2016, 12:35:32 pm
Best bassline ever (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0379w35).  Seal's gonna hurt his voice with those high notes!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: IanDG on 04 May, 2016, 12:43:41 pm
How about this Joni Mitchell cover?

https://youtu.be/7ulDc8R4uhA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion 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.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Vince on 24 May, 2016, 09:55:55 am
Have we had Kate Melua's version of Wonderful Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abGe6uM9Ias)
Spoilt only by its use advertising a hotel chain.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 on 24 May, 2016, 10:41:10 am
Mary Hopkin's "cover" version of her own "Those were the days", in French.  Rather Piafesque.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs 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.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham 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

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck 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

Slinky !
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 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
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck 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.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight 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.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 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 (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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJIJx1dYk8)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij 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!

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fuzzy 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
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete 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

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 June, 2016, 11:26:17 am
Portishead do Abba...

https://youtu.be/WVe-9VWIcCo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck 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.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph 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
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph 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
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen 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.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen 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
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 August, 2016, 10:53:26 am
Graham Parker and the Rumour - Hold Back the Night

https://youtu.be/YUz6JSWxSko
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ruthie on 09 August, 2016, 11:39:17 pm
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Saint Saviour.  Cor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpg5UxcmoJs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg) version to check the words - I'd never listened to them before - and compare. All very different.)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: microphonie 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
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 17 August, 2016, 08:47:21 am
The Segue Sisters: Mr Blue Sky (https://youtu.be/bJLdjbpb2pQ)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion 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?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 17 August, 2016, 09:33:39 am
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.

No doubt, but only Nina is Nina, mispronunciations and all...

https://youtu.be/TI8F6DbB2cE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 22 August, 2016, 02:51:07 pm
This is wonderful - I wouldn't say it's an improvement on the original (that would be impossible), it's really a totally different song and brilliant in its own ways...

https://youtu.be/mj4of1kGhYs

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: LEE on 24 August, 2016, 04:44:58 pm
Here's a Bass cover of Paul McCartney on "Rain" (Possibly my favourite Beatles song).

It reveals perfectly just how good, and innovative, McCartney was. Basically it's modern Bass playing from almost 50 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f7D2_jUkqA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f7D2_jUkqA)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 25 August, 2016, 10:07:51 pm
I'm not sure if they count as cover versions, but Stevie Rix's 'Bee Gees Misheard Lyrics' videos are hilarious:

https://youtu.be/2qDZMjN3EOM

and

https://youtu.be/Otmq80677V0

 ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 07 October, 2016, 08:01:33 am
I actually had to look for Meghan Trainor's All About the Bass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk) which turned out to be a very slick, quite pleasant boppy little number with substantial production value. Or, a girl with voice and a bass along with a piano in Jamaica - Jamilia Falak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoVfmbI7KWA) (I then went on to watch her other video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl0VSgS7Of8))
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 07 October, 2016, 08:25:15 am
Here's a Bass cover of Paul McCartney on "Rain" (Possibly my favourite Beatles song).

It reveals perfectly just how good, and innovative, McCartney was. Basically it's modern Bass playing from almost 50 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f7D2_jUkqA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f7D2_jUkqA)

Absolutely love that - and at the original speed too, not the slowed-down single speed.
Title: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 29 October, 2016, 12:18:25 am
This is hilarious - just a shame they left out the last verse...

https://youtu.be/VRGVttNE2RA

(For the non-francophones, it's Serge Gainsbourg's Le Poinçonneur des Lilas, which is about the man who checks tickets on the Paris Metro, spending all day underground punching little holes until it eventually drives him to despair and he punches one last little hole in his head - but that's the bit the kids missed out)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 05 November, 2016, 11:50:10 pm
French jazz trio takes on a psych-rock classic...

https://youtu.be/RSJhe7ynzI4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: red marley on 06 November, 2016, 11:11:13 am
Ooh I rather like that. If they turned up the jazz one notch and the psych rock down one, it could be even better.

I always felt that you had to endure the 10 minutes of pych improv in Interstellar Overdrive in order to "feel the benefit" when the head comes back in towards the end.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 08 November, 2016, 05:07:03 pm
Ooh I rather like that.

Nice, isn't it.

Quote
I always felt that you had to endure the 10 minutes of pych improv in Interstellar Overdrive in order to "feel the benefit" when the head comes back in towards the end.

It does test your patience slightly but I think that's a necessary part of the overall effect. 'Feel the benefit' is a good way of putting it. If you think the 10-minute version is a test of endurance, you should try the 16-minute live version - https://youtu.be/aHNQCdWOfdM

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 08 November, 2016, 05:41:59 pm
If you liked that try this:

https://youtu.be/QtmGBPwRKww

I think they are a tribute band really as all they seem to do is cover Gong - the French Acid Jazz version that evolved after David Allen left.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 08 November, 2016, 05:45:57 pm
Mmmmmmmm, niiiice.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 November, 2016, 01:05:44 pm
Linda Ronstadt does justice to Lowell George's Willin

https://youtu.be/IJHcD0kHTGk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: sg37409 on 10 November, 2016, 01:15:54 pm
Not bad, but much prefer little feat.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 November, 2016, 01:39:59 pm
Not bad, but much prefer little feat.

Oh I just found this. Linda singing Willin again but backed by Little Feat at the Lowell George tribute concert. A better version (though film quality is poor), she looks likes she's about to break down which is probably what was happening since she more than a friend of Lowell's - they had had an affair

https://youtu.be/_2pAfJy1lTo.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 November, 2016, 01:53:14 pm
And in a sort of covers chain:

https://youtu.be/7a2lvQ2qMLE

Lowell George does Allen Toussaint.

I love this version, one of the tracks that makes me fire up the old record player and spin some vinyl.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 11 November, 2016, 08:04:37 am
A Leonard Cohen song seems appropriate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch6h278GEpA


(and yes, I admit I didn't know it was by Cohen when I first fell in love with this track!)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 December, 2016, 10:25:19 pm
DJ Random decided that this would be worth listening to this afternoon:

When The Levee Breaks ~ John Campbell (https://youtu.be/dMj3E6csfbQ)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Jock Stewart on 19 December, 2016, 04:28:34 pm
Screamin' Jay Hawkins covering Tom Waits' Heart Attack and Vine https://youtu.be/4xLBQIWeAjI
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 January, 2017, 01:12:11 pm
a capella Star Trek, anyone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yTjibSATY

Like that? you might enjoy her Space Oddity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6yTjibSATY

If you think that's interesting, she sings with Lenacay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r501sDzKUc), (which is what happened after Ojos de Brujo) and Patax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPXH5rOZ4Yg)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: hubner on 17 January, 2017, 09:19:22 pm
Normally I can't stand cover versions but ...

Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgRYncR1Nog


The Sex Pistol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-y6rLj58Q
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 January, 2017, 04:34:34 pm
Lucinda Williams smashes Gram Parson's "A song for you"

https://youtu.be/zvzJ39m4vsA

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 January, 2017, 04:59:32 pm
A couple of covers of "Boulder to Birmingham"

Jill Johnson

https://youtu.be/KuQ8dJZWLMM

Lucinda Williams

https://youtu.be/oMPjxcBSbhA

Emmylou is in the audience for both of these and the camera catches her trying not to cry both times. I am not sure she can hear this song without crying though no matter who sings it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 February, 2017, 12:35:27 pm
An interesting one this "Wild Horses" - Gram Parsons

https://youtu.be/LZHJajD6T-M

Its a cover of the Stones song but it was released a year before the Stones version and Gram had a huge influence on Keef at the time this was written as they were hanging out together.
Lots of people believe Gram actually wrote this but it more likely the tune and style came out of an idea Keef got from jamming with Gram. The lyrics are definitely Mick Jagger as Keef's original working lyrics were dumped for new ones about Marianne Faithfull.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 09 February, 2017, 01:43:29 pm
Nina Simone doing a sort of spoken version of Prince's Sign O' the Times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILHRVgR8PoE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 February, 2017, 09:56:52 pm
The Black Crowes doing Oh Sweet Nothing (Velvet Underground)

https://youtu.be/lf9-BCix4io

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: hellymedic on 22 February, 2017, 05:17:55 pm
Rabbis Got Talent
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/unbelievable-amazing-orthodox-rabbis-sing-sound-of-silence/ (http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/unbelievable-amazing-orthodox-rabbis-sing-sound-of-silence/)
at imitation
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 March, 2017, 09:46:49 am
Not sure if this is great or just insane:

https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4

Tyrolean take on Highway to Hell
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 12 March, 2017, 06:08:21 pm
Not sure if this is great or just insane:

https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4

Tyrolean take on Highway to Hell
Oh wow. I thought Hayseed Dixie had mined that particular seam dry, but maybe not :)

(and what a perfect guitar sound she gets for the intro; I know I'm on tinny-laptop-sound, but at first I thought they were just miming!)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 March, 2017, 07:25:19 pm
DJ Random just played me a vaguely hip-hop version of His Bobness' "Like A Rolling Stone", sung mostly in Spanish.  By Beck, natch.  Oddly appealing.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 13 March, 2017, 11:34:40 am
Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released

Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You (better than the original)

Nina Simone - Strange Fruit

Nina Simone - To Love Somebody

etc etc repeat to fade
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 March, 2017, 12:01:37 pm
I'll give you most of those but I still prefer Billie Holiday's version of Strange Fruit.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 13 March, 2017, 03:54:23 pm
Oh, Billie's is electrifying and unmatchable, but Nina's is a keening lament turning to anger, which brings a different aspect to the song.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 13 March, 2017, 04:48:09 pm
Never heard Nina Simone's version of Strange Fruit before so just looked it up on youtube. Crumbs. That's powerful.

Her version of Sign O' The Times posted by ESL earlier is rather excellent too.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 26 March, 2017, 03:01:45 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huglp30mYSw

Rickie Lee Jones - Sympathy for the Devil (live)


(I must confess that the GnR version is still my favourite  ;D )
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 27 March, 2017, 02:04:24 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4PxjNE7zv4

Rick Wakeman, Space Oddity - does it even count as a cover?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 08 April, 2017, 06:59:43 pm
Folsom Prison Blues/Pinball Wizard Mashup (https://youtu.be/6bfPwtUTP4k)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 April, 2017, 05:39:17 pm
Bimey! this kid absolutely nails it.

https://youtu.be/K-or8ujt0U8

Teenage busker going all Michael Shenker on UFO's Rock Bottom.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 12 June, 2017, 04:18:11 pm
Hurra Torpedo

Total Eclipse of the Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIaz6zBz1go (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIaz6zBz1go)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: menthel on 12 June, 2017, 04:23:04 pm
Anything by Steve n Seagulls.

This is a good example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 13 June, 2017, 09:13:39 am
^^^^^^^ +1

And my latest find: Hayseed Dixie - Bohemian Rhapsody (https://youtu.be/sAWl5peI8HY)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 June, 2017, 10:33:00 am
DJ Random played me a rather compelling version of His Bobness' "Masters Of War" yesterday, which I had to check on iTunes to learn that it was credited to Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: menthel on 13 June, 2017, 11:08:29 am
Bela Fleck- Crossing the tracks.

Texas Barbeque is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHiMJD0t7RE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 June, 2017, 07:51:01 pm
DJ Random played a version of Pink Floyd's "Fearless" this afternoon.  Slightly unfamiliar and lacked the Kop Khoir singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the end.  Turned out to be Low.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 June, 2017, 09:52:21 pm
DJ Random played me a rather compelling version of His Bobness' "Masters Of War" yesterday, which I had to check on iTunes to learn that it was credited to Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready.
Roger Taylor covered it on one of his solo albums, possibly Strange Frontier. Roger Taylor of Queen, not Duran Duran.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 23 July, 2017, 02:34:54 pm
Gangnam Style, in a bluegrass stylee. (https://www.youtube.com/embed//Z9s57UBMWdk)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 19 October, 2017, 06:07:43 pm
Have Walk off the World appeared here before and I missed them?

Outkast Hey Ya was the first one I heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7R8XRKqHAI


Then found their Search Results Somebody That I Used to Know at some point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
which apparently has been found by upwards of 180M before now
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 October, 2017, 06:21:34 pm
Have Walk off the World appeared here before and I missed them?

Outkast Hey Ya was the first one I heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7R8XRKqHAI

That's this year's John Lewis Christmas ad sorted!

Quote
Then found their Search Results Somebody That I Used to Know at some point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
which apparently has been found by upwards of 180M before now

Nice. A bit gimmicky but nice.

Makes you think how much better OK Go would be if they used other people's songs for their videos.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 19 October, 2017, 07:11:30 pm
Bimey! this kid absolutely nails it.

https://youtu.be/K-or8ujt0U8

Teenage busker going all Michael Shenker on UFO's Rock Bottom.

As one of the first comments has it, all those folk just walking past obl8vious...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 November, 2017, 01:45:18 pm
Gregg Allman doing Tuesday's Gone

https://youtu.be/-EOD8w-3Tz4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 14 November, 2017, 02:01:22 pm
Bimey! this kid absolutely nails it.

https://youtu.be/K-or8ujt0U8

Teenage busker going all Michael Shenker on UFO's Rock Bottom.

As one of the first comments has it, all those folk just walking past obl8vious...

I doubt if they're oblivious, Steph, just studiously ignoring soneone who has decided to impose himself on them.  Yes, he's very good, there's no doubt about that but I, for one, hate having other people's decibels imposed on me, in shops, transport, or wherever.  Nobody has any rights in a constitutionless country but my non-rights are surely as valid as his.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 November, 2017, 07:34:13 pm
Things I did not about until recently: Motörhead's covers album, imaginatively entitled Under Cöver.  Contains a version of Bowie's "Heroes" :o

It's not nearly as terrible as you might imagine, but does suffer from a lack of Robert Fripp.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Riggers on 15 November, 2017, 09:38:45 am
Robert Fripp! Bloody hell. That's going back a bit ain't it. I'm sure he was on Rock Bottom, with Robert Wyatt. I might have that wrong of course!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 November, 2017, 01:52:59 pm
Mr Fripp's CV is as long and varied as a lengthy thing of perpetual change.  I'm sure I heard him say that he took a day trip to Berlin to record his guitar part on "Heroes" before going back to whatever it was he was up to.  Probably an Eno Collaboration.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 15 November, 2017, 07:12:04 pm
Robert Fripp! Bloody hell. That's going back a bit ain't it. I'm sure he was on Rock Bottom, with Robert Wyatt. I might have that wrong of course!

You have, it was Fred Frith. Fripp's work is commercial, and somewhat jaunty, by comparison.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 15 November, 2017, 09:42:17 pm
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Darling Be Home Soon

https://youtu.be/MtG5bT13m8U
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Riggers on 16 November, 2017, 03:32:53 pm
Robert Fripp! Bloody hell. That's going back a bit ain't it. I'm sure he was on Rock Bottom, with Robert Wyatt. I might have that wrong of course!

You have, it was Fred Frith. Fripp's work is commercial, and somewhat jaunty, by comparison.



OOOH, it was a Fripp/Frith mix-up! Scanning down the Wikipaedia listing, I see Nick Mason was the producer. Yes, that Nick Mason! And I don't mean Nick Mason from Yes, as there is no such thing!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 16 November, 2017, 05:30:34 pm
Has anyone mentioned Phoebe Snow's version of Every Night yet?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 November, 2017, 03:59:27 pm
Having only recently discovered Jane Weaver (how on earth has she passed me by up till now?) I’ve been going through her back catalogue and discovered this gem - a psych-folktronica take on a country classic...

https://youtu.be/b0zlS501uig
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 November, 2017, 04:11:44 pm
Eno Collaboration.

I see what you did there.

Although surely Heroes was the Eno Collaboration, so he must have gone home to do something else?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 November, 2017, 04:27:46 pm
Martin Mull - Duelling Tubas

https://youtu.be/ojqrd7FeXmg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 09 December, 2017, 09:22:04 pm
Corinne Bailey Rae - Since I've Been Loving You

https://youtu.be/DznSalRqVBU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PaulF on 09 December, 2017, 11:12:49 pm
Chris Thile’s version of Radiohead’s Daydreaming
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 December, 2017, 04:40:17 am
After Mr W Weasel otp posted pictures of himself done up as The Joker, I have been earwormed by the Eagles Of Death Metal's cover of "Stuck In The Middle With You"  :-\
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: dim on 10 December, 2017, 11:03:54 am
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - The Creator Has A Master Plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIaTDBLc74Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIaTDBLc74Y)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: dim on 10 December, 2017, 11:13:19 am
Rodriguez - Crucify Your Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj4f-JUcaxs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj4f-JUcaxs)

Sixto Rodriguez-Establishment Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_7u06P3ebU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_7u06P3ebU)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: dim on 10 December, 2017, 11:24:02 am
Alice Phoebe Lou - She

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPH9j0qVM3A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPH9j0qVM3A)

Alice Phoebe Lou - Lou Reed - Walk on the wild side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVBfmOYvTiI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVBfmOYvTiI)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: dim on 10 December, 2017, 12:20:49 pm
Taj Mahal - Queen Bee - Bloody Sunday Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjTEkhXgu_4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjTEkhXgu_4)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2017, 08:17:29 am
The Heimatdamisch: Highway to Hell (https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fimm on 18 December, 2017, 03:02:24 pm
Has anyone mentioned the "Disturbed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbed_(band)) version of "Sound of Silence" yet?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 18 December, 2017, 04:30:32 pm
Has anyone mentioned the "Disturbed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbed_(band)) version of "Sound of Silence" yet?

Yes, but we forgave them.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 20 December, 2017, 12:32:52 pm
Shine on you crazy Rabbi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97gP-1zyqQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 January, 2018, 02:27:19 pm
Dear Mr Fantasy - Gov't Mule

https://youtu.be/nCFY-WXK4O4

They segue into it at 4:00m. Wish I could play guitar like Warren Haynes.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 07 January, 2018, 03:03:51 pm
Tina Turner - Whole Lotta Love   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtejfVN_tGc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 09 January, 2018, 08:04:44 am
Bohemian Rhapsody - Lake Street Dive

https://youtu.be/KqEiWN44L3M

Check out their other covers. I particularly liked their swing version of Aha's "Take on Me" and this one of Hall and Oat's "Rich Girl"

https://youtu.be/89Oc1UE7SS4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 10 January, 2018, 12:14:59 pm
Shine on you crazy Rabbi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97gP-1zyqQ
you will rarely see an example of 2 guys trying harder to impersonate another act, note-for-note, inflection-for-inflection. So not a great cover.

But nice. And it looks like a lovely performance to actually experience on a street in Jerusalem :)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 05 February, 2018, 01:08:56 pm
The queen of rock Joan Jett - I want to be your dog

https://youtu.be/Ks-JBOOtPAo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 21 February, 2018, 09:33:44 am
One to potentially win the whole thread

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

A non-electronic Blue Monday
Title: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 28 February, 2018, 11:51:30 pm
This was used as the end credit music on an episode of Save Me, which I watched tonight. I knew the song (a Fairport classic) but didn’t recognise the singer as Nina Simone until I shazammed it...


https://youtu.be/a5Pc9T6IMEU

Wouldn’t go so far as to say I prefer it to the original but it’s quite as lovely in its own way.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 14 March, 2018, 07:55:12 pm
I'm hoping this cutting down of a Youtube video works, coz nobodys goning to get through the 3 minutes of talk introducing the song...

The Darknesses's IBIATCL, by Delta Goodrem:

https://youtu.be/_vhxtSZ-unk?t=2m54s
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 19 March, 2018, 02:57:22 pm
The Sherlock (https://youtu.be/MoJcP86gwsw) theme.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: andrewc on 19 March, 2018, 06:15:53 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_XbFwaR8o


Dylans "Masters of War" covered by Justin Sullivan of NMA.    Angry, as it should be.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: clarion on 20 March, 2018, 08:29:54 am
The Sherlock (https://youtu.be/MoJcP86gwsw) theme.
I don't know the original tune, so I can't compare, but it is a marvellous achievement sitting down in that skirt.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 on 20 March, 2018, 09:09:10 am
I'm hoping this cutting down of a Youtube video works, coz nobodys goning to get through the 3 minutes of talk introducing the song...

The Darknesses's IBIATCL, by Delta Goodrem:

https://youtu.be/_vhxtSZ-unk?t=2m54s

It'd be better without being able to understand the lyrics. Great voice, though.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 11 April, 2018, 06:14:27 pm
Diane Birch - This Corrosion

https://youtu.be/RS6WGDBTRB4

nothing like the Sisters of Mercy at all !
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 11 April, 2018, 08:08:33 pm
(I know this is the wrong thread for this, but it's rather brilliant, and is loosely related to Cover versions!)

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

Camille Yarbrough - Take Yo' Praise (1975)

... which I perhaps heard for the first time this morning*. And now I know that Fatboy Slim sampled it, for his rather better known hit.

Both grrrrrreat tracks IMO :)


*Oh FFS. Just found it on YESTERDAY's 6Music playlist. I really am getting old ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/tracks/find/6music/2018/04/10/7AM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 11 April, 2018, 09:59:57 pm
Not to everyone’s taste, no doubt, but I really Joakim’s version of Neil Young’s On the Beach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWpG1M4c44k

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Canardly on 13 April, 2018, 09:42:31 am
Someone pointed me to this Mary Spender Leo Mariocchioll, Sultans of Swing cover, excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RV0kgdqJU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RV0kgdqJU)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 13 April, 2018, 10:52:51 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_XbFwaR8o


Dylans "Masters of War" covered by Justin Sullivan of NMA.    Angry, as it should be.

The tune is trad, "Nottingham Fair", and I heard it years ago in a sneering, hate-filled rendition by Martin Simpson.

From about 10:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NB8irWl1c8

"I'll stand on your grave till I'm sure that you're dead"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 13 April, 2018, 03:22:33 pm
Dylan's is pretty sneery, I think!

This is an unusual one in that we often refer to covers of Beatles' songs rather than covers by the Beatles.  But Please Mister Postman is a great cover of the Marvellettes original, which is great in its own right.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 13 April, 2018, 04:24:06 pm
Diane Birch - This Corrosion

https://youtu.be/RS6WGDBTRB4

nothing like the Sisters of Mercy at all !

No idea who she is, she seems a bit too MOR for my liking but that's a good cover version.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 13 April, 2018, 04:28:17 pm
Because it's Friday 13th, Mark Radcliffe played a selection of 13 songs related to the number 13 on his 6music show today. Disappointed that he didn't include Big Star's Thirteen in the list, but I just listened to it of my own accord anyway. Also came across this rather nice version by Garbage, which apparently Alex Chilton rated as his favourite cover of the song:

https://youtu.be/tYAn6bMgqVs

The stripped-back simplicity is one of the things I love about the original but it seems to work just as well buried under a ton of reverb!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 April, 2018, 05:21:47 pm
Steel Panther - She's Tight

https://youtu.be/-qnzg300hMY

Very similar to Cheap Trick's original but the video is funny.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 16 April, 2018, 07:07:09 pm
I know it's Despacito, but still..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BDUVh0j-y4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 16 April, 2018, 10:23:12 pm
Steel Panther - She's Tight

https://youtu.be/-qnzg300hMY

Very similar to Cheap Trick's original but the video is funny.

This reminds me: we have a local 'comedic glam rock band' called Iron Fist, who do a version of Prince's Purple Rain...

...with the word Vein in place of one of the words in the title.

it contains the line " only wanna see you sliding up my purple v***"  :o

By the way, their line-up includes: Jackson M Cobalt (vocals, guitar); Hugh Jorgan (drums); Stevie Thunder (supposedly blind bassist) & lead guitarist 'Gash'  :demon:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 20 April, 2018, 11:47:22 am
Does the Bad Wolves cover of Zombie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ) fall into the same category as Disturb'd's Sound of Silence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4)?  Am I allowed to like it?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 02 May, 2018, 08:47:52 pm
These are three of my absolute favourites.  The lives and works of the songwriters and the cover artists are so intertwined that they can't fail to do justice to the music.  :thumbsup:
Baez does Dylan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AQJZys0cvI)
Rush does Mitchell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzXyoeKOcx4)
Taylor does Goffin/King (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqS1d7tE8o)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 May, 2018, 08:59:15 pm
Nic Jones - The Humpback Whale

https://youtu.be/bPOmNXW2Mzc

In fact every track on Penguins Eggs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 02 May, 2018, 10:04:13 pm
It's great to publicise the wonderful and tragic Nic Jones - but "covers"?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 May, 2018, 11:10:57 am
It's great to publicise the wonderful and tragic Nic Jones - but "covers"?

Yes "The Humpback Whale" was written by Harry Robertson and originally had the title "Baillina Whalers". It was recorded by Harry for his 1971 LP along with Little Pot Stove which he also wrote and again Nic covered on Penguin Eggs.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: LEE on 03 May, 2018, 01:26:11 pm
The queen of rock Joan Jett - I want to be your dog

https://youtu.be/Ks-JBOOtPAo

I'm not convinced that Joan Jett and Iggy Pop are 2 separate people
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: hellymedic on 06 May, 2018, 02:17:26 pm
Melodica Men do Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vqRuoctWnk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vqRuoctWnk)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 07 May, 2018, 09:26:53 am
Just heard this utterly wonderful reggae version of Michael Jackson’s Don’t Stop on 6music...

https://youtu.be/iM_D7shp2xM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 11 May, 2018, 01:21:31 pm
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', the Scandi-Noir cover version

https://youtu.be/sHhVydgvuAc

Similarly, her cover of the Kiss classic Crazy, Crazy Nights becomes a wrist-slitting affair set to a haunting voice

https://youtu.be/irNVvl_TuLs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: cygnet on 14 May, 2018, 11:04:54 pm
In a completely different vein..

https://youtu.be/YGeb7DQdKw8 (https://youtu.be/YGeb7DQdKw8)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 on 18 May, 2018, 03:15:20 pm
Morgana King, A Taste of Honey:

https://youtu.be/Y1VVJ5B5u-c
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PaulF on 18 May, 2018, 05:16:25 pm
Siobhan Miller ~ One Too Many Mornings


https://youtu.be/UXMbjwQiRvo (https://youtu.be/UXMbjwQiRvo)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 30 May, 2018, 02:48:33 pm
Angelique Kidjo has recorded her take on the whole of Talking Heads' Remain In Light. And it is truly magnificent...

https://youtu.be/Z84rtbVbIEQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 June, 2018, 09:50:16 am
Elvis Costello - Sleepless Nights

https://youtu.be/2_zE9wktaWA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 June, 2018, 07:31:08 am
Beth and Joe - Give it everything you got

https://youtu.be/pELav-8aLeY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: StuAff on 25 June, 2018, 11:33:12 pm
NIN covering Bowie at the Albert Hall last night. One of the highlights of an awesome show, a very moving tribute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvxhZWVoMfM&frags=pl%2Cwn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvxhZWVoMfM&frags=pl%2Cwn)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 04 July, 2018, 10:49:22 pm
I always had a soft spot for Life of Agony's super-faithful cover of Tangerine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhY5LOFkyOI

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 10 July, 2018, 10:44:23 pm
I was reminded that Hotel California was the sound of the long hot summer of 1976, and that it's reggae-influenced. So a French reggae cover is appealing in the current climate. It's brave to cover the guitar duet as a solo, but who has two lead players?

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

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 on 11 July, 2018, 08:20:07 am
Not quite my cuppa but brave right enough. Wonder why they changed to the third person - maybe because if it's in the first person and you can never leave, how do you get back to write the song?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 July, 2018, 01:59:27 pm
[...]It's brave to cover the guitar duet as a solo, but who has two lead players?

Wishbone Ash?

Lynyrd Skynyrd had three :demon:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 11 July, 2018, 02:18:21 pm
[...]It's brave to cover the guitar duet as a solo, but who has two lead players?

Wishbone Ash?

Lynyrd Skynyrd had three :demon:

Steely Dan also did a lot of twin lead stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WTh_IEyU1w
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 19 July, 2018, 01:12:21 pm
Take On Me (https://youtu.be/QHpU0ZfXZ_g) gets the ska treatment.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 19 July, 2018, 06:43:07 pm
[...]It's brave to cover the guitar duet as a solo, but who has two lead players?

Wishbone Ash?

Lynyrd Skynyrd had three :demon:
Thin Lizzy were a twin lead guitar band as well. Loads of NWOBHM bands like Def Leppard and Iron Maiden had / have twin leads.
Steely Dan also did a lot of twin lead stuff.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 25 July, 2018, 08:09:21 am
The logical treatment of the Shatner 'Common People'.

https://youtu.be/zI3UfxyIdgs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: simonali on 20 August, 2018, 12:46:09 am
One of my favourites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1DTTpGPMc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 22 August, 2018, 07:58:14 am
Seeing these at the weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGzVHBrUKw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 23 August, 2018, 02:04:58 pm
Seeing these at the weekend

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

I'll be seeing them in Oct. Looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 23 August, 2018, 04:20:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6MtHz-g4k

Dawes do Warren Zevon
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 August, 2018, 05:28:57 am
DJ Random played me Tortoise's cover of David Essex' "Rock On" this afternoon.  That was a bit odd.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: CAMRAMan on 28 August, 2018, 09:26:29 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Kms1yUfKc The unlikely bastard offspring of Half Man Half Biscuit and the Bee Gees.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 28 August, 2018, 11:22:03 pm
Seeing these at the weekend

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

That works better than I would have thought. He’s on good form :-)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 29 August, 2018, 09:48:14 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6MtHz-g4k

Dawes do Warren Zevon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo3lxKrjABE

Zevon does did Winwood
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 29 August, 2018, 07:28:08 pm
Seeing these at the weekend

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

That works better than I would have thought. He’s on good form :-)
he was on excellent form, and he brought the house down with the ending, walking out alone and doing 'Beeswing'. He really seems to be enjoying himself.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 September, 2018, 09:17:19 am
A couple from Corinne Bailey Rae

Is This Love - Bob Marley

https://youtu.be/tVxaf2booV8

River - Joni Mitchell - this from a Herbie Hancock album of Joni covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrBilBQ1C54
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 28 September, 2018, 03:53:38 pm
CBR has a lovely voice but she gets the affectation in too early in "River".  She manages to sing, "cutting" as if it had two t's in it but then in the next line she gets a glottal stop in "putting" to make it "pu-ing".  Drives me barmy that kind of thing - like vocoding.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 September, 2018, 04:01:33 pm
CBR has a lovely voice but she gets the affectation in too early in "River".  She manages to sing, "cutting" as if it had two t's in it but then in the next line she gets a glottal stop in "putting" to make it "pu-ing".  Drives me barmy that kind of thing - like vocoding.

Yes well, she's a Wessie so that would probably explain it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 20 October, 2018, 07:18:17 pm
Not exactly a cover...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpLi1iJH7Y&fbclid=IwAR30yRfElIzeMc7JGipANtFRRrBHpmAVQ-4sQMQq1S_YlOZmJaKwsrjAr9g
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 October, 2018, 03:16:39 pm
Your time is gonna come - Sandie Shaw !

https://youtu.be/JDykVOZbim4

The whole album "Reviewing the Situation" is of covers. Some she carries off better than others.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2018, 01:34:05 pm
This is absolutely blistering.

https://youtu.be/7qcDJzq9rLM

Allmans cover Muddy Waters "You can't loose what you never had" live.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 October, 2018, 04:46:17 pm
Marc Almond's cover of "Jacky", a slightly loose and risqué Scott Walker translation of the original Jacques Brel song.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 18 November, 2018, 08:22:21 am
Just found Pomplamoose - https://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic/videos

Apparently they've been about for 10 years, some interesting, listenable (and brave?) takes on standards like Eleanor Rigby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVz65Phjqbc) and Another One Bites the Dust (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxfAw_bCSak)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Canardly on 19 November, 2018, 09:46:45 pm
Leo again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6r1dAire0Y&index=2&list=RD0Gd-jNKhTC8
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 19 November, 2018, 09:48:34 pm
Laura Cantrell - Indoor Fireworks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD0DdLluLsg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 20 November, 2018, 10:39:51 am
Marc Almond's cover of "Jacky", a slightly loose and risqué Scott Walker translation of the original Jacques Brel song.
You have a very peculiar definition of 'great'...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 21 January, 2019, 08:05:30 pm
'The Only Way is Up', by Yazz and the Plastic Population.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjD3EVC1-zU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 21 January, 2019, 08:48:12 pm
From the 'Truly Terrible Jokes Thread' some time ago:

I always wondered what my old pal Yazz was doing these days. I've just seen her working in my hotel. Great singer, terrible lift attendant.
Wot!?

 :demon:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 21 January, 2019, 09:26:28 pm
'The Only Way is Up', by Yazz and the Plastic Population.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjD3EVC1-zU
Seriously?  I'd never heard the Otis Clay version before today (thank you!), but it's approximately a bazillion times better than that dreadful song!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 22 January, 2019, 01:10:56 pm
I would have said that Yazz and My Ever Changing Moods are possibly the only appearances of cycling lycra in pop videos. Having watched the Style Council (https://youtu.be/rmVkOlZFF3Y) again they weren't in lycra, but any excuse to watch that again is worth it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 22 January, 2019, 01:24:56 pm
She's About a Mover, Otis Clay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgIbp8TBLRk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 15 February, 2019, 09:25:08 am
Alone - Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw1ng75KP0&list=RDEHhnD6QZUi0&index=3), another song that you probably didn't know was a cover.  The original has its own merits, but probably still falls into the category of 'songs not quite fulfilling their true potential' (see also Russ Ballard's original Since You Been Gone...)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Torslanda on 28 February, 2019, 07:32:16 pm
Acoustic cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lML2N4xB9GU) of Radiohead's 'Creep' by Chrissie Hynde.

Don't click the link if you're emotionally fragile...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 March, 2019, 02:10:57 pm
I just discovered that Marvin Gaye's version of I heard it through the Grapevine is actually a cover. It was originally (but only six or so months earlier) done by Gladys Knight. It sounds quite different:
https://youtu.be/WWvwP72FuVg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PaulF on 18 March, 2019, 02:26:16 pm
Acoustic cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lML2N4xB9GU) of Radiohead's 'Creep' by Chrissie Hynde.

Don't click the link if you're emotionally fragile...

That is a great version! And it led me here: https://youtu.be/1xZxxVlu7BM


Rachael Price and Live From Here: Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home."
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 18 March, 2019, 02:33:50 pm
I just discovered that Marvin Gaye's version of I heard it through the Grapevine is actually a cover. It was originally (but only six or so months earlier) done by Gladys Knight. It sounds quite different:
https://youtu.be/WWvwP72FuVg

A propos, Marvin's original of Wherever I Lay My Hat is really average compared with Paul Young's devastating cover (check Pino Palladino on freatless bass).  I may have mentioned this before.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 March, 2019, 02:34:43 pm
Do we have a term to indicate the version that's generally accepted as "original" though in fact it's a cover? Maybe standard? Though that has a slightly different meaning too.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 March, 2019, 02:36:39 pm
I just discovered that Marvin Gaye's version of I heard it through the Grapevine is actually a cover. It was originally (but only six or so months earlier) done by Gladys Knight. It sounds quite different:
https://youtu.be/WWvwP72FuVg

A propos, Marvin's original of Wherever I Lay My Hat is really average compared with Paul Young's devastating cover (check Pino Palladino on freatless bass).  I may have mentioned this before.
It's quite possible that I Heard it on the Grapevine has been mentioned before too, I didn't check! As for Wherever I Lay My Hat, I didn't even know Marvin had sung it...

Ed: Just listened to it. Not dreadful, but not good.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 March, 2019, 03:31:56 pm
Do we have a term to indicate the version that's generally accepted as "original" though in fact it's a cover? Maybe standard? Though that has a slightly different meaning too.

Canonical?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 18 March, 2019, 05:01:34 pm
Do we have a term to indicate the version that's generally accepted as "original" though in fact it's a cover? Maybe standard? Though that has a slightly different meaning too.

I don't know but it sounds like a subject for a thread in itself.

I may have already mentioned the Valentinos' fantastic original version of All Over Now:
https://youtu.be/71XrZ7ghpZg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 18 March, 2019, 05:11:01 pm
I just discovered that Marvin Gaye's version of I heard it through the Grapevine is actually a cover. It was originally (but only six or so months earlier) done by Gladys Knight. It sounds quite different:
https://youtu.be/WWvwP72FuVg

Marvin's version is indeed the second Motown recording of 'Grapevine'. But Gladys and the Pips cut the third. The first was by the Miracles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Jo5pmFKgg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 March, 2019, 08:09:03 pm
I just discovered that Marvin Gaye's version of I heard it through the Grapevine is actually a cover. It was originally (but only six or so months earlier) done by Gladys Knight. It sounds quite different:
https://youtu.be/WWvwP72FuVg

Marvin's version is indeed the second Motown recording of 'Grapevine'. But Gladys and the Pips cut the third. The first was by the Miracles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Jo5pmFKgg
However, they were released in reverse order.

I think Smokey's version kind of falls between two stools in comparison to the other two.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 March, 2019, 08:10:59 pm
Do we have a term to indicate the version that's generally accepted as "original" though in fact it's a cover? Maybe standard? Though that has a slightly different meaning too.

I don't know but it sounds like a subject for a thread in itself.

I may have already mentioned the Valentinos' fantastic original version of All Over Now:
https://youtu.be/71XrZ7ghpZg
That is absolutely wonderful! Kinda puts the roll in the rock. Almost surprising it was allowed to be released in the early 60s!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2019, 08:39:28 pm
Sheryl Crow and Lukas Nelson - Midnight Rider

https://youtu.be/zk3CLvzE_jk

I'd never heard of Lukas Nelson before falling over this on Youtube. He's Willie Nelson's son and he and his band are currently Neil Youngs backing band.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2019, 09:06:06 pm
Brandi Carlile - Madman across the Water (Elton John)

https://youtu.be/oVOstw9eKdE

I'm listening to a lot of Brandi Carlile at the moment, she's a new discovery for me.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 19 March, 2019, 08:32:48 am
I just discovered that Marvin Gaye's version of I heard it through the Grapevine is actually a cover. It was originally (but only six or so months earlier) done by Gladys Knight. It sounds quite different:
https://youtu.be/WWvwP72FuVg

Marvin's version is indeed the second Motown recording of 'Grapevine'. But Gladys and the Pips cut the third. The first was by the Miracles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Jo5pmFKgg
However, they were released in reverse order.

I think Smokey's version kind of falls between two stools in comparison to the other two.
Of course, the best version (IMHO) is Creedence Clearwater Revival's.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 March, 2019, 11:25:44 am
This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 20 March, 2019, 12:06:58 pm
I just discovered that Marvin Gaye's version of I heard it through the Grapevine is actually a cover. It was originally (but only six or so months earlier) done by Gladys Knight. It sounds quite different:
https://youtu.be/WWvwP72FuVg

A propos, Marvin's original of Wherever I Lay My Hat is really average compared with Paul Young's devastating cover (check Pino Palladino on freatless bass).  I may have mentioned this before.
It's quite possible that I Heard it on the Grapevine has been mentioned before too, I didn't check! As for Wherever I Lay My Hat, I didn't even know Marvin had sung it...

Ed: Just listened to it. Not dreadful, but not good.

Marvin was a co-writer of the song, along with Norman Whitfield (who also wrote Grapevine) and Barrett Strong, who wrote and sang the original of "Money".  Marvin may even have played drums on the record - he started as a drummer and played on quite a few early Tamla songs, I think.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 21 March, 2019, 07:54:27 am
Of course, the best version (IMHO) is Creedence Clearwater Revival's.

Certainly my favourite version. Take a soul classic and turn it into an 11-minute blues jam. With the added bonus of John Fogerty’s vocals. What’s not to like?

https://youtu.be/93S_l0qZrXA

I never really knew much about Creedence until I borrowed Cosmo’s Factory from the Leeds student union record library, back when I was a callow first year. Loved the whole album but I mostly remember playing that one track over and over until my roommate told me to stop.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 March, 2019, 12:10:48 pm
Spook!  The Creedence version was the last track played over the PA before Joanne Shaw Taylor came on at the Shepherd's Bush Empire last night.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 March, 2019, 09:01:35 pm
Lowell George - What Do You Want The Girl To Do

https://youtu.be/7a2lvQ2qMLE

The best version I have heard even though his voice was a bit shot by this stage.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 02 April, 2019, 12:46:28 am
Not actually a cover, but a performance by King Crimson of 21st Century Schizoid Man, in Japan in 2015, with 3 drummers and no keyboards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3028oDEKZo4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 April, 2019, 11:01:31 am
DJ Random's latest contribution to this thread: Elton John's "Daniel" covered by Tortoise :o
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 April, 2019, 06:19:43 pm
Danielle Nicole Band - "Jolene"

https://youtu.be/HRa0Rc9ZcOU

Reminds me of Brel singing "ne me quitte pas"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 13 April, 2019, 01:02:55 pm
Rock the Casbah by Rachid Taha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1p_dkJo6Y8&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1p_dkJo6Y8&feature=youtu.be)

Sadly he seems to have died recently :(
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: andrewc on 17 April, 2019, 10:29:13 pm
This popped up in my Twitter feed earlier.  A rather good version of Pink Floyd's "Mother" by Amanda Palmer.    https://vimeo.com/242575536     Video is tagged as "Mature"


http://amandapalmer.net/mother/
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2019, 11:12:01 am
So, DJ Random, whose "this is a lie1" cover of "California Dreamin'" was that?  Proggie Norwegians Motorpsycho, you say?

1: They certainly sound like they'd rather be in Bergen in the rain than cavorting on the beaches of Malibulibumbum.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2019, 01:16:49 pm
Get Ready - Rare Earth

https://youtu.be/o3Z8NU5ImK0

They were the first all white band on Motown home of the Temptations who originally had a hit with this Smokey Robinson song.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: nicknack on 26 April, 2019, 01:51:15 pm
Of course, the best version (IMHO) is Creedence Clearwater Revival's.

Certainly my favourite version. Take a soul classic and turn it into an 11-minute blues jam. With the added bonus of John Fogerty’s vocals. What’s not to like?

https://youtu.be/93S_l0qZrXA

I never really knew much about Creedence until I borrowed Cosmo’s Factory from the Leeds student union record library, back when I was a callow first year. Loved the whole album but I mostly remember playing that one track over and over until my roommate told me to stop.
One of the bands I play with does this version (with added sax of course).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evxWAcw9TQc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2019, 08:11:16 pm
Have we had this one yet ?

https://youtu.be/UrOPJXrUWII

The Faces doing the Temptations "I'm Losing You".
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 26 April, 2019, 08:29:57 pm
I really like this, though I suspect it might irk the purists - Lizzo's version of Blondie's Rapture:
https://youtu.be/7_4DCOieSYo

It doesn't really do anything new or interesting with the song, just feels like a nice 21st century update, and I love her voice. The only thing missing is the guitar solo.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Jurek on 26 April, 2019, 08:48:53 pm
I really like this, though I suspect it might irk the purists - Lizzo's version of Blondie's Rapture:
https://youtu.be/7_4DCOieSYo

It doesn't really do anything new or interesting with the song, just feels like a nice 21st century update, and I love her voice. The only thing missing is the guitar solo.
S'ok, but the voice is a bit, errr.... thin.
Compared to Debs.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 07 May, 2019, 11:13:25 am
Rocking in the free world performed by 250 dutch musicians of all ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwV-NH6t1YM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwV-NH6t1YM)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 08 May, 2019, 08:34:03 pm
I was just about to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ophw7rvZcyc

... cos it was on the radio just now, and made me smile.

But then I found this post:

I know this sounds like being one of those 'novelty' style covers, but it's actually rather good:

http://www.last.fm/music/Corduroy/_/Motorhead

Jeez ...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 21 May, 2019, 09:16:56 am
It's difficult no nominate a "great" with such a classic, but I came across this version of I'd Rather Go Blind by Beth Hart and The Guitar Playing Accountant, she utterly pwns it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHwO_UEp7A

Do try to watch as well as listen (if you are interested, obv), she sings it like she means it. Ten minutes of magic.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 21 May, 2019, 09:26:04 am
One that DJ Spottyface presented to me, just the other day, is Eagles of Death Metal's cover of Family Affair.

Go hunt it out, you know you want to!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 May, 2019, 01:03:29 pm
It's difficult no nominate a "great" with such a classic, but I came across this version of I'd Rather Go Blind by Beth Hart and The Guitar Playing Accountant, she utterly pwns it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHwO_UEp7A

Do try to watch as well as listen (if you are interested, obv), she sings it like she means it. Ten minutes of magic.

Beth Hart is a force of nature.

I wonder why that video credits the song to Tina Turner, its an Elliot James song (probably co-written with someone else but certainly not Tina Turner).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 May, 2019, 01:27:47 pm
Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James - Dream On

https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 23 May, 2019, 11:17:25 pm
The Passenger - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Caravan of Love - The Housemartins
Anything he cared to cover (except for what he recorded for "Pin Ups") - Bowie
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 23 May, 2019, 11:38:11 pm
'Caravan of Love' demonstrates how good the Isley's were, yet again.

We saw 'The Christians' recently, at a small venue in East Lancashire. They did a good cover of 'Harvest for the World' in 1988, but not great. But a good reminder of the sentiment that informed 'Live Aid'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRbzaP4H3U
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 May, 2019, 11:45:09 pm
I was reminded of this earlier - Grace Jones' version of the Pretenders' Private Life...

https://youtu.be/8xpVTUy4zDc

Superb but still not as good as the original.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 24 May, 2019, 12:03:08 am
A bit of youtube surfing led me to this absolute pop masterpiece...

The Go-Gos - Our Lips Are Sealed
https://youtu.be/r3kQlzOi27M

Which made me want to listen to the equally brilliant Fun Boy Three version...
https://youtu.be/lFimGP5kgmc

Of course, the song was co-written by Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Gos and Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three.

And from the Go-Gos to a bona fide classic cover by another classic girl band:

The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter
https://youtu.be/TxrwImCJCqk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 24 May, 2019, 12:06:19 am
And I'm sure we've had this one before but it's always worth repeating - a genuine better-than-the-original cover:

Kirsty McColl - A New England
https://youtu.be/Vnzpg5GgQCo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 24 May, 2019, 12:12:30 am
I was reminded of this earlier - Grace Jones' version of the Pretenders' Private Life...

https://youtu.be/8xpVTUy4zDc

Superb but still not as good as the original.

Chrissie thought it was better.

Quote
Hynde is quoted as saying: Like all the other London punks, I wanted to do reggae, and I wrote "Private Life". When I first heard Grace's version I thought 'Now that's how it's supposed to sound!' In fact it was one of the high points of my career - what with Sly and Robbie being the masters, and Grace Jones with her scorching delivery. Someone told me it was Chris Blackwell's idea - thanks Chris!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 24 May, 2019, 12:16:03 am
Chrissie thought it was better.

Yes, I was aware of that, but I disagree. She's too modest!

Although to be fair I think I only prefer the Pretenders original because that's the version I knew first - often the way with covers, familiarity with one version making it hard to get to grips with a different version.

Of course, the Pretenders did some pretty decent covers themselves:
Stop Your Sobbing - https://youtu.be/RTVqZNObw5o
I Go To Sleep - https://youtu.be/Kfyg2aks76Y
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 24 May, 2019, 12:43:45 am
I do like the Zappa version of 'Whipping Post'. I saw Zappa at the Wembley Arena in 1989, when he did his 'Stairway to Heaven', but there isn't a good version out there. How they came to cover the Allman Brothers is a good story.

Quote
"The only thing I'm concerned about is that people are aware that there are alternatives to Captain & Tennile or the Allman Bros." (FZ in Zappa On Air)

There's a sense in which you play "Whipping Post" as the ultimate joke on encores, because that's the most requested encore song of all time.
Well, I'll tell you how it happened. We were playing Helsinki, Finland about six or eight years ago, and in the middle of this very quiet, nice concert hall from the back of the room a voice rings out, "Whipping Post." And I thought, if we only knew it we could blow this guy's socks off. You know, it would be great to just ... sure, fuck you, "Whipping Post" ... all right, here it is. So, when we got Bobbie Martin in the band I said, "He can sing the shit out of 'Whipping Post' and so let's go for it."
What did the other members of your band think when you said ...
"God damn right, let's do it." They love it. They enjoy playing it.
Did you similarly like Duane Allman?
I never listened to their music. I like "Whipping Post," though. In fact, I think they even premiered it when we were working together at this pop festival at the baseball stadium in Atlanta years and years and years ago. It was the first time I heard this song and I liked it then, thought it was really good but I am not an Allman Brothers consumer.
But, as a guitarist you were obviously aware of Duane Allman.
Well, I heard him like the same way I hear other things, if it happens to be on the radio when I go someplace. I don't follow it, I don't consume it.
But, you do offer a kind of homage to a famous dead guy who was a great player.
The credit is all his. It's his song. I didn't invent it. It's a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu32TgPeXM8

Probably the most pertinent comment from 9 months ago.

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Was listening to Zappa's "Whipping Post" with my band as we were all riding together in the van on the way home after playing. At one point when the band stopped playing and you could hear the sound of the live audience, my bass player was freaking out, suddenly realizing that he was listening to a live performance. "WHAT! This is LIVE?"  We were all in shock, honestly.

However, it's worth remembering that there was enough money in album sales to re-record any faults in the live performance, and plenty of studios in LA to do that in.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 24 May, 2019, 11:32:07 am
I'm curious about them, but not curious enough to press "play"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/24/morrissey-california-son-review-clumsy-covers-troll-like-spirit

Anyone feel like taking one for the team?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 24 May, 2019, 08:28:32 pm
I've heard Wedding Bell Blues and Lady Willpower on R2 and yes, they're pretty woeful...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 May, 2019, 10:23:09 am
I'm curious about them, but not curious enough to press "play"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/24/morrissey-california-son-review-clumsy-covers-troll-like-spirit

Anyone feel like taking one for the team?

No, and nor is a record shop in Cardiff (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/record-store-bans-morrissey-albums-far-right-support-838984/).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 25 May, 2019, 10:41:26 am
I'm curious about them, but not curious enough to press "play"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/24/morrissey-california-son-review-clumsy-covers-troll-like-spirit

Anyone feel like taking one for the team?

No, and nor is a record shop in Cardiff (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/record-store-bans-morrissey-albums-far-right-support-838984/).

Merseyrail have taken down advert posters for the album, so I guess they're going to sit this one out too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-48393548
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 May, 2019, 08:54:18 pm
Joan Osborne - What becomes of the broken hearted:

https://youtu.be/rG5FGjnp_yU

Its a cover but the band is The Funk Brothers i.et. the Motown House Band when all these hits were originally rerecorded.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 May, 2019, 09:26:13 pm
Grace Potter  - Why Don't You Love Me?

https://youtu.be/r8qBuxGvGCw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 27 May, 2019, 10:55:20 pm
An epic "With a little help from my friends".

https://youtu.be/x3yJTI7otqA

Its from a festival in the US. Not sure exactly who everyone is but on guitar there is Derrick Trucks (Allman Brothers) and Doyle Bramhall II. On vocals its Susan Tedeschi and Chris Robinson (Black Crowes). Huge number of other musicians and backing singers, presumably this was an ensemble effort from everyone playing at the festival.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 on 28 May, 2019, 08:51:39 am
All About That Bass by Postmodern Jukebox:

https://youtu.be/aLnZ1NQm2uk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 28 May, 2019, 05:54:31 pm
Radcliffe & Maconie played the Madness version of It Must Be Love on Saturday morning. It's one of tracks where you can easily forget just how good it is because it's been somewhat dulled by over-familiarity (see also Soft Cell's Tainted Love) but it really is excellent. Well worth taking a moment to listen to it properly to remind yourself...

https://youtu.be/vmezIIrFQmY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 29 May, 2019, 09:28:39 am
Over-familiarity with Soft Cell is easy enough to avoid.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 29 May, 2019, 10:26:40 am
Over-familiarity with Soft Cell is easy enough to avoid.

By not listening to commercial radio, you mean?

I imagine there's a statistic about Tainted Love being played somewhere in the world at any time, along the lines of that one about Friends being shown on TV somewhere in the world at any time.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 29 May, 2019, 12:01:21 pm
Ha!  There's usually a button marked "off" somewhere!  The trick is not to have an accident falling over some household object in one's haste to reach it!

Peter

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 May, 2019, 11:56:51 pm
Sunshine of your Love, by Spanky Wilson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNY6JZgFfZk&list=RDGNY6JZgFfZk&start_radio=1&t=14
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 31 May, 2019, 05:42:29 am
Sunshine of your Love, by Spanky Wilson.

Ooh yes, that’s great!

I can think of a few other Cream tracks that would benefit from a funk’n’soul treatment in the same way.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 June, 2019, 10:13:04 pm
Motörhead "Heroes"

https://youtu.be/J06yQb4lbPk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 June, 2019, 10:39:19 pm
This one is brilliant, not for the quality of the vocals but just for the passion.

Foo Fighters cover "Tom Sawyer"

https://youtu.be/aDWfMv3BloE

All hail Brian, balls of steel!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 10 June, 2019, 11:19:04 pm
David Byrne and Choir! Choir! Choir! - Heroes. (https://happymag.tv/watch-david-byrne-perform-a-chilling-cover-bowies-heroes-backed-by-a-choir-of-strangers/?fbclid=IwAR31dOnEkzZUVQ472AOBnGjc-_ZYUSiKm1HcHzq0rTlqG5DxKC9Sz1Q6Srs)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 11 June, 2019, 05:07:36 pm
Here's one that's a little more esoteric.

I've been enjoying Pomplamoose (a canadian band) for a while, I may well have nominated one of their covers earlier in these pages.

This, though, is chanson - one of George Brassens tunes, Je me suis fait tout petit (I make myself small) which takes on a whole new level of darkness sung by a girl. I've gone looking for a translation in case anyone is interested http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.com/2008/02/je-me-suis-fait-tout-petit_08.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTP246fnKAI

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 11 June, 2019, 10:42:09 pm
Sunshine of your Love, by Spanky Wilson.

Ooh yes, that’s great!

I can think of a few other Cream tracks that would benefit from a funk’n’soul treatment in the same way.

Not exactly funk’n’soul, but this is well worth a listen:

https://youtu.be/tC5hXBt5RIs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 11 June, 2019, 11:06:47 pm
Tomorrow Never Knows.
Junior Parker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1YKfu5sD24
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 12 June, 2019, 01:23:04 am
The Beat Goes On, Buddy Rich -

https://youtu.be/4Zrn15bYcH4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: andrewc on 21 June, 2019, 12:11:06 am
The Tiger Lillies do "Is That All There Is ?"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx9ycwCLA_Y
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 21 June, 2019, 12:59:57 am
Sunshine of your Love, by Spanky Wilson.

Ooh yes, that’s great!

I can think of a few other Cream tracks that would benefit from a funk’n’soul treatment in the same way.

So. Imagine that Jeff Beck had contributed to the writing of 'Superstition', and he'd recorded a live version in 1973, as a trio, in the style of Cream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyyhm1D7zlI

There are later versions with Jeff and Stevie.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 21 June, 2019, 05:07:15 pm
<meme>
What's that song called?
Darude - Sandstorm
</meme>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9l4oVTK_F4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 June, 2019, 07:13:42 am
Taimane Gardner - Love Song (The Cure)

https://youtu.be/x_yW3toqNow

On ukulele - yes really but not like you think.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 24 June, 2019, 10:17:42 am
There are some great covers by Weezer on The Teal Album, not least Africa.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 24 June, 2019, 10:46:43 am
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain covers Pinball Wizard (https://youtu.be/XvdpjZYLumw).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 June, 2019, 10:20:04 pm
Never Been to Spain - Chris Robinson Brotherhood

https://youtu.be/-vGkd-uz7Yo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 05 July, 2019, 12:19:32 pm
Come Together - Pomplamoose

https://youtu.be/VW7evu7SJBA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 10 July, 2019, 11:37:15 am
Foxes and Fossils (extra points for the band name) and Landslide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2N7gYom9-A
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 July, 2019, 10:24:45 pm
Fortunate Son - 38 Special

https://youtu.be/RzuIb8J4AQQ

Yes that is Ronnie Van Zant's brother. Unfortunately in the 80s 38 Special turned into a stadium rock band in the mode of Journey but worse.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 20 July, 2019, 07:20:07 pm
Lateralus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dr6ZlcR6Fo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Canardly on 31 July, 2019, 09:10:42 pm
The Sound of Silence Pentatonix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVjVtpr55M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVjVtpr55M)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 August, 2019, 02:02:14 am
Seattle supergroup Mad Season's cover of Lennon's "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier"

https://youtu.be/egkmYMXw488
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 13 August, 2019, 11:27:08 am
I can't remember if I put this up earlier, bit some of the comments are a delight--especially from the person who didn't get the joke at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNqGxddOM5E
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: perpetual dan on 14 August, 2019, 08:37:00 pm
The Shop Asistants' cover of "train from kansas city" popped into my head yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZA4u5IsEY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZA4u5IsEY)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 27 August, 2019, 02:45:40 pm
OMG I've just heard Kate Bush's cod-reggae cover of Rocket Man on R2 and I don't think my ears are ever going to recover.  Please make it stop!  :sick:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 August, 2019, 09:40:00 am
Sade - Still in love with you

https://youtu.be/bW8HHw8kpfM

A long way from Thin Lizzy
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 16 September, 2019, 08:54:48 pm
I just heard an interesting update of Zappa's 'More Trouble Every Day' on the Jo Wiley show. This is a live version of it from 1973 by Frank, it's preceded by 'Son of Orange County', which is about Nixon, but can serve for Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1JR-TgPfU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 September, 2019, 10:12:14 pm
A nice ensemble version of "Fooled around and fell in love"

https://youtu.be/87u5Sw553U4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 September, 2019, 10:37:16 pm
Bonnie Raitt covering "Love has no pride" live with the kind of backing singers money cant buy:

https://youtu.be/-nmPdUiT5ks
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 September, 2019, 10:55:30 pm
Bonnie Raitt - Need You Tonight

https://youtu.be/GhFGrGV_-lY

Still red hot.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 25 September, 2019, 11:16:09 pm
More Bonnie, ‘I Feel The Same’ (a cover, though I must admit I’m not familiar with the original:


https://youtu.be/rYfJkSY3_Po
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 28 September, 2019, 08:06:49 pm
sorry for re-nominating Pomlamoose, actually, no I'm not

Sweet Dreams/Seven Nation Army mashup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLBSCiEoas
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 30 September, 2019, 11:53:47 am
Michael Jackson's Come Together.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 01 October, 2019, 09:02:23 am
Bonnie Raitt - Need You Tonight

https://youtu.be/GhFGrGV_-lY

Still red hot.

There was me thinking you meant...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGr4NHj92rY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 07 October, 2019, 02:55:52 pm
Q: Name one singer who could, potentially knock "Whole Lotta Love" out the park

A:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PaulF on 07 October, 2019, 03:03:22 pm
Q: Name one singer who could, potentially knock "Whole Lotta Love" out the park

A:
(click to show/hide)

Wow!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 October, 2019, 07:11:07 pm
The albums Ms Hart has done with singing accountant Joe Bonamassa are well worth a spin.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 07 October, 2019, 07:27:39 pm
Indeed ... this points to a good entree https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29267.msg2395371#msg2395371


Just FTR Bonamassa is a perfect fit against the daydreams for myself dating back to the 70's when I was training to be annacountant. I confess I used to dream of playing guitar on stage. In my suit. I thought that would have been SOOOOO cool.

Also FTR, I can't play guitar like Mr Bonammassa. In case you wondered.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2019, 09:45:41 pm
Not many people cover Joni. I think probably as its quite difficult.
Anyway someone has done the whole of Blue!

Morgan James

https://youtu.be/m7PXuyufm-E

She's dome it as an album as well as this live version.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 11 October, 2019, 11:44:08 am
Tom Rush's brilliant 1968 album The Circle Game includes 3 Joni Mitchell covers including the title track (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzXyoeKOcx4).  The original No Regrets (covered, of course, by the Walker Brothers), is a thing of beauty (even if it is missing the big guitar solo).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 22 October, 2019, 10:04:29 pm
Kashmir by the Yamato string quartet. Go on, you know you want to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xriCZzyaC7Q
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rafletcher on 23 October, 2019, 01:52:21 pm
And another Zeppelin cover; Heart and Stairway to Heaven.

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

As it says in the comments..

You are watching Rock Legends,
cover Rock Gods,
in front of said Rock Gods
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2019, 12:10:43 pm
Nice.

And now some people covering Heart:

https://youtu.be/WK2siEQsADk

Halestorm -All I Wanna Do (is make love to you)

https://youtu.be/BqQkECIn738

Gretchen Wilson and Alice on Chains - Baraccuda

https://youtu.be/E8PX01Eh1rE

First Aid Kit - Crazy on You
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 24 October, 2019, 12:19:40 pm
Bonnie Raitt covering "Love has no pride" live with the kind of backing singers money cant buy:

https://youtu.be/-nmPdUiT5ks

Pat, I've got this on an Old Grey Whistle Test compilation album from the 70s.  It's just Bonnie and guitar and is terrific - did you already know it?  The album also includes Vigilante Man by Ry Cooder and Drift Away by Dobie Gray.  We were spoiled in those days!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 24 October, 2019, 12:22:57 pm
More Bonnie, ‘I Feel The Same’ (a cover, though I must admit I’m not familiar with the original:


https://youtu.be/rYfJkSY3_Po

Try to get familiar with Chris Smither - he's a lost gem.  as well as his own songs he does some fascinating versions of Dylan in altered tunings.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2019, 12:36:56 pm
Bonnie Raitt covering "Love has no pride" live with the kind of backing singers money cant buy:

https://youtu.be/-nmPdUiT5ks

Pat, I've got this on an Old Grey Whistle Test compilation album from the 70s.  It's just Bonnie and guitar and is terrific - did you already know it?  The album also includes Vigilante Man by Ry Cooder and Drift Away by Dobie Gray.  We were spoiled in those days!

I think I saw that years ago on a Whistle Test repeat. I can remember ever seeing a Whistle Test album though. I'll have to keep an eye out for them.

Peter you might like her live from Ultrasonic Studios 1972 session. It has Lowell George playing on some of it as well. Free from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/13ICantBeSatisfiedLive
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 24 October, 2019, 12:40:56 pm
Cheers, she is just terrific.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 03 November, 2019, 07:25:32 pm
Czech these 11 year olds out (they were 9 when they recorded this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYqM3nPZWlI
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fuaran on 03 November, 2019, 08:51:49 pm
Karine Polwart has done some nice covers for her recent album. I'm liking this version of Dignity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4iETQibBZQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: andrewc on 09 November, 2019, 11:10:05 pm
A one woman cover of "Venus In Furs" by Paz Lenchantin.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhVNZp3ckhY&frags=pl%2Cwn
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 November, 2019, 08:26:28 pm
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

https://youtu.be/S23VK1v9dB8

No idea who Foxes and Fossils are but the harmonies and production on all their YouTube videos are phenomenal.
I get the idea that perhaps the girls are the daughters of one or more of the guys and that the guys were or are professional musicians or producers as the sound quality is just ridiculous for armature live stuff.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 15 November, 2019, 05:59:36 pm
And they just released another one!

Dedicated to the one I love:

https://youtu.be/5J_dUt7xyro
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 15 November, 2019, 06:35:32 pm
Nice.

And now some people covering Heart:

https://youtu.be/BqQkECIn738

Gretchen Wilson and Alice on Chains - Baraccuda

bless you. How fucking wonderful is that.

(I had no idea who Gretchen Wilson was until now, but gawd bless her too! )
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 November, 2019, 09:32:05 pm
Blackberry Smoke - You got lucky

https://youtu.be/td8To6gb3qA

They have a penchant for doing Tom Petty covers.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 December, 2019, 11:05:25 am
Not so much a cover as a reworking, shifting the emphasis:
https://youtu.be/4ytX3IaFHGk

Though this is another where the best know version is not the original (that was apparently by one Barry Macguire.)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 20 January, 2020, 11:42:33 am
Folk and electronica have a car crash with The Cutty Wren (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZo__1GJMw), in the shape of Solarference
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 January, 2020, 11:37:39 am
Never Been to Spain - Chris Robinson Brotherhood

https://youtu.be/-vGkd-uz7Yo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 21 January, 2020, 02:01:39 pm
Not so much a cover as a reworking, shifting the emphasis:
https://youtu.be/4ytX3IaFHGk

Though this is another where the best know version is not the original (that was apparently by one Barry Macguire.)
Well, it was written by the Phillipses, but first recorded by Barry 'Eve of Destruction' McGuire.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 January, 2020, 03:11:18 pm
Gov't Mule - "Echoes (Part 1)"

https://youtu.be/P4lu_r0w-SE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 24 January, 2020, 08:07:14 pm
I can't get over how effortlessly this guy moves his hands around the keys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJTJKLy8Dx0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJTJKLy8Dx0)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 February, 2020, 03:10:16 pm
https://youtu.be/YhC1NP2zWgk
Reinterpretation as much as cover version.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: IanDG on 14 February, 2020, 09:44:19 pm
Heard this on the radio the other day - Little Roy, reggae version of Lithium

https://youtu.be/yy9y1uxpgrM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 February, 2020, 09:32:19 pm
https://youtu.be/YhC1NP2zWgk
Reinterpretation as much as cover version.
Okay, I was wrong. It's just a cover, cos the original is not Gangsta's Paradise, it's Stevie Wonder.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 February, 2020, 08:22:56 am
Polly covers Dylan

https://youtu.be/D3CIK5SoTio
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 February, 2020, 05:16:09 pm
La Chanson Des Vieux Amants - Nara Noïan

https://youtu.be/jZfTtqUU4yk

Lovely rendition of this Brel classic.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 February, 2020, 12:37:57 pm
I'm not sure exactly why you would want to do a cover of this but hey ho if you do then it might as well be good:

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Sina-Drums

https://youtu.be/xyF5A7BFnqw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 March, 2020, 01:35:44 pm
So close to the original it's almost a recreation rather than a cover:
https://youtu.be/rKKZ5J-PBU0

You Make it Easy.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2020, 09:33:53 am
First Aid Kit & Maja Francis - It Must Have Been Love

A tribute to Roxette's Marie Fredriksson at a Swedish charity concert.

https://youtu.be/ugkkjZR1cao
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 20 March, 2020, 01:33:25 pm
worth 4:22 of anyone's time, The Petersons with Jolene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQx4KDivPY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 29 March, 2020, 05:41:30 pm
Rather unhinged take on Zep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-Iz7IzPzQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 March, 2020, 07:13:06 pm
Rather unhinged take on Zep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-Iz7IzPzQ
Interestingly deconstructionist! Makes me think "this is what Led Zep would sound like if done by Kate Bush"!!!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 March, 2020, 08:01:42 pm
Midnight Rider - Blackberry Smoke

https://youtu.be/KxhK5xTDVNg

Here's the kicker its recorded in Capricorn Studios.

First release from a new Covid 19 charity EP they are doing.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 March, 2020, 08:37:14 pm
Rather unhinged take on Zep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-Iz7IzPzQ
Interestingly deconstructionist! Makes me think "this is what Led Zep would sound like if done by Kate Bush"!!!
Should've done "Steinway to Heaven".  ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 30 March, 2020, 08:00:57 am
worth 4:22 of anyone's time, The Petersons with Jolene

I rather like this Miley Cyrus version:

https://youtu.be/wOwblaKmyVw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2020, 07:20:43 pm
The Highwomen cover The Chain

https://youtu.be/jVLNB3d-2cA

Great harmonies.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 31 March, 2020, 07:30:51 pm
Gaz Coombes, late of Supergrass, now of Hotrats, was on 6music yesterday talking about his new covers project. Sounds fun. They played one of the tracks from it... WOW!

https://youtu.be/-z4k-fBGz9Y

This is totally the definition of how to do a cover version.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 31 March, 2020, 07:50:29 pm
For me this is a good example of a cover version that should be good, but just isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVW95Mxv6k

The Staves, I'm on fire. They've got lovely voices and sing in great harmony, but.....

Maybe it's just me.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 04 April, 2020, 06:50:02 pm
OK, I suspect we have never had lederhosen in this thread, that's about to change.

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

The Heimatdamisch: Sweet Child o' Mine

They're really quite good. And, don't miss the gherkin placement (around 3:00)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 04 April, 2020, 08:57:43 pm
That’s great. But actually, I reckon their version of Poker Face is even better...

https://youtu.be/i3HzTjPonOU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 06 April, 2020, 07:24:06 pm
That’s great. But actually, I reckon their version of Poker Face is even better...

https://youtu.be/i3HzTjPonOU

That's as may be, but then, had I chosen that track, you would have had to do without the gherkin placement.

As a curiosity, I observed that the front lady (if I may so refer to her) had outstanding features. Chasing down that rabbit hole, I discovered was labelled Connie Kreitmeier, led me through some cabaret with very German humour, thence to Daisy Ultra. Most of her stuff is interesting rather than remarkable, but then I found her version of Purple Rain in  Munich Pride 2017  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCq44zhp_ZE).

My next rabbit hole is labelled rock music with signing, what little I saw in that video looked to open possibilities, with the added benefit you don't need to understand the signing as there are subtitles ;)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: PeteB99 on 16 April, 2020, 06:20:20 pm
Spirit in the Sky by Evol walks  (see also new music thread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W1Jm2jF8MI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W1Jm2jF8MI)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 April, 2020, 07:46:00 am

My next rabbit hole is labelled rock music with signing

Pharell, Happy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3KSKS3TTbc)
Adelle, Rolling in the Deep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUb6PhDBNc)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 19 April, 2020, 10:39:04 am
worth 4:22 of anyone's time, The Petersons with Jolene

I rather like this Miley Cyrus version:

https://youtu.be/wOwblaKmyVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLyKwlvWrc

A.A.Williams version of Jolene.  Turns me inside out.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 19 April, 2020, 11:37:56 am
A.A.Williams version of Jolene.  Turns me inside out.

Hmmmm. Doesn’t do it for me.


Have we had this one before? Prelude’s version of After The Gold Rush - one of the great covers, better than the original in my opinion. Was reminded of it when RadMac played it on the radio this morning...


https://youtu.be/W2Taxuott5s
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 April, 2020, 02:02:22 pm

My next rabbit hole is labelled rock music with signing

Pharell, Happy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3KSKS3TTbc)
Adelle, Rolling in the Deep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUb6PhDBNc)
Clicked on the first one, not knowing what to expect; perfect for today!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: canny colin on 19 April, 2020, 11:05:59 pm
West coast Band the spin off from Prelude, Played at the 2019 York cycle  Rally . Irene Hume still has that distinctive and amazing voice .

Guess who has tickets to see Heimatdamisch at the cluny  Newcastle in November  . If the lock down is over it will be mental .
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 April, 2020, 12:31:58 pm
Shaun Keaveny just played Robyn's disco anthem Dancing On My Own on 6music. I don't think it's a song that I've ever paid much attention to before but it's an absolute pop banger. So I went online to listen to it again and the YouTube sidebar pointed me at this rather spiffing soft-rock-ballad version by Kings Of Leon...

https://youtu.be/aQ-vU28uPb0

(Just a shame the mix puts the guitar too high and drowns out the vocals)

There's also this acoustic version by Calum Scott that sounds a bit too bedwetty for my liking, and I hate his nasal tone, but I can't deny it works...

https://youtu.be/q31tGyBJhRY

Evidence that a truly great pop song transcends genre.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 April, 2020, 01:14:50 pm
Talking about guitar versions of pop classics with my son, he told me about this acoustic take on Cher's Believe, which is great:

https://youtu.be/MmwFnoMoDDg


From the same series, I absolutely love this - Chvrches doing Arctic Monkeys:

https://youtu.be/CjwwmFrsX_E

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 23 April, 2020, 05:33:18 pm
I realised that i have 9 different versions of Smoke on the Water, but none of them are technically covers.  There is the original studio version and 4 different Deep Purple Live versions, 3 Ritchie Blackmore/Rainbow ones, and Ian Paice's Sunflower Jam.  However, there are several more vocalists:  Ian Gillan, David Coverdale, Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet, and Ronnie Romero coming out to Montreux along the way.  I once used this as a playlist for a marathon rowing session.  It worked quite well.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 April, 2020, 06:51:05 am
Laura Marling - The Needle and the Damage Done

https://youtu.be/3yxBeq0Std4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 24 April, 2020, 09:02:25 am
After hearing the well-meant-but-somewhat-iffy charity version of Times Like These this morning, I had to dig out this, which is about as definitive as cover versions get:

https://youtu.be/qVJ2B2itVfU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 April, 2020, 11:56:30 am
I realised that i have 9 different versions of Smoke on the Water, but none of them are technically covers.  There is the original studio version and 4 different Deep Purple Live versions, 3 Ritchie Blackmore/Rainbow ones, and Ian Paice's Sunflower Jam.  However, there are several more vocalists:  Ian Gillan, David Coverdale, Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet, and Ronnie Romero coming out to Montreux along the way.  I once used this as a playlist for a marathon rowing session.  It worked quite well.

There's a special super-duper edition of Made In Japan which contains the original version, the remastered one and recordings of all three gigs from which the album was distilled.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 April, 2020, 04:06:03 pm
Have we had G'N'R's "Live And Let Die"?  Someone needs to do a fan cut of the film, replacing the original for the title sequence.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 April, 2020, 08:31:45 pm
Laura Marling - The Needle and the Damage Done

https://youtu.be/3yxBeq0Std4
Saw the title and thought "Oh, Lynnyrd Skynnyrd". No, a different needle song.  ::-) Still, maybe she should cover that too?  ???
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 25 April, 2020, 11:51:30 pm
A.A.Williams version of Jolene.  Turns me inside out.

Hmmmm. Doesn’t do it for me.


Have we had this one before? Prelude’s version of After The Gold Rush - one of the great covers, better than the original in my opinion. Was reminded of it when RadMac played it on the radio this morning...


https://youtu.be/W2Taxuott5s

No
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 April, 2020, 07:17:14 pm
Gaz Coombes, late of Supergrass, now of Hotrats, was on 6music yesterday talking about his new covers project. Sounds fun. They played one of the tracks from it... WOW!

https://youtu.be/-z4k-fBGz9Y

This is totally the definition of how to do a cover version.
I think this has solved my lockdown haircut problem. Instead of mangling it myself, I'll grow it like "We're alright" era Gaz Coombes. Except it might not work nowadays.  :o :D

Ed: This would mean I'd have a cover of a cover of Noddy Holder hair.  :o :D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 27 April, 2020, 09:52:45 am
Second release from Blackberry Smoke's Capricorn Studios CV-19 charity EP. This time with added flute as they are covering The Marshall Tucker Band.

Take The Highway

https://youtu.be/Pd-wis4z8o0

Which makes me think of flutes in rock:

Marshall Tucker Band
Jethro Tull
Focus

Any more?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 27 April, 2020, 10:06:05 am
Which makes me think of flutes in rock:

Marshall Tucker Band
Jethro Tull
Focus

Any more?

Mercury Rev have a flautist. And to get this on topic, I saw them live many years ago and they did an amazing cover of the Specials' Ghost Town, in which the flute was used to great effect in a long instrumental section.

Also, not exactly 'rock' but dance diva Lizzo can play the flute while twerking, which is properly impressive.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 April, 2020, 01:14:29 pm
Second release from Blackberry Smoke's Capricorn Studios CV-19 charity EP. This time with added flute as they are covering The Marshall Tucker Band.

Take The Highway

https://youtu.be/Pd-wis4z8o0

Which makes me think of flutes in rock:

Marshall Tucker Band
Jethro Tull
Focus

Any more?

Although best known for his saxophony, Hawkwind's Nik Turner occasionally played the flute.  His solo album Xitintoday contains one track of flutey Stuffs recorded inside the the Great Pyramid, because hippie.
Title: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 27 April, 2020, 02:00:39 pm
Mention of Hawkwind reminds me that there was a flute-playing member of the Ozric Tentacles when I saw them way back when.

ETA: John Egan, according to the internets
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: spesh on 27 April, 2020, 02:33:34 pm
Second release from Blackberry Smoke's Capricorn Studios CV-19 charity EP. This time with added flute as they are covering The Marshall Tucker Band.

Take The Highway

https://youtu.be/Pd-wis4z8o0

Which makes me think of flutes in rock:

Marshall Tucker Band
Jethro Tull
Focus

Any more?

Canned Heat's "Going Up The Country" has a flute part.

Quote from: El Wiki
Canned Heat, who were early blues enthusiasts, based "Going Up the Country" on "Bull Doze Blues", recorded in 1928 by Texas bluesman Henry Thomas. Thomas was from the songster tradition and had a unique sound, sometimes accompanying himself on quills, an early Afro-American wind instrument similar to panpipes. He recorded "Bull Doze Blues" in Chicago on June 13, 1928, for Vocalion Records.

For "Going Up the Country", Canned Heat's Wilson used Thomas' melody on the quills and his basic rhythm, but arranged it for a rock setting and rewrote the lyrics. In addition to the bass and drum rhythm section, Henry Vestine supplied a "light electric rhythm guitar" and multi-instrumentalist Jim Horn reproduced Thomas' quill parts on the flute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Up_the_Country

ETA - see also:

Magnum's "Kingdom Of Madness" album, particularly on the title track

Heart's Ann Wilson played flute on some tracks from the bands first five albums, notably on "Crazy On You" and "Keep Your Love Alive"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 29 April, 2020, 07:21:59 am
I've been listening to "Playing for Change" a bit, they are by their own description "A movement dedicated to inspire and connect the world through music." Their videos splice together musicians from around the world playing a track, which tends to make for interesting good cover versions rather than "great". Just come across their version of Higher Ground (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGSqqhhokE) which, by virtue of the rusty Dobro and quality of the vocals, I'd say is worth a listen. (those vocalists are also on What's Going On (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEp7QrOBxyQ) should you fancy)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 April, 2020, 09:53:18 am
The Eagles Of DETH Metal's demolition job on Careless Whisper is a sight, or rather sound, to behold.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 29 April, 2020, 07:43:15 pm
How have we avoided the Mona Lisa Twins? Try Wish You  Were Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUV9HqoKvo) or pretty much any of theirs (https://www.youtube.com/user/MonaLisaTwins/videos), they are rather fine singing together
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 April, 2020, 08:35:09 pm
(those vocalists are also on What's Going On (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEp7QrOBxyQ) should you fancy)
Is that a miniature Arc de Triomphe in New York? I had no idea. But it makes sense, matching the Statue of Liberty in Paris.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 29 April, 2020, 09:04:07 pm
And now I give you, Elise LeGrow, Ain't no Sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvMDwJkvZaw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 April, 2020, 12:13:25 pm
Biily Jean - Jose Feliciano

https://youtu.be/YN66mprnUjc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 01 May, 2020, 06:20:34 pm
The Big Push, sympathy for the devil, as much for the bass player as anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6tGeUVCw3g

Reckon they sound like a brilliant pub band
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 11 May, 2020, 08:46:11 am
Blackberry Smoke cover Little Richards "Southern Child"

https://youtu.be/LiN0Q3ULbKY

Apposite with his passing last week.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 May, 2020, 09:18:17 pm
Baba Oreily - Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids

https://youtu.be/nIYGDqGR3pU

pink guitars for the win!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 May, 2020, 09:48:31 pm
Blackberry Smoke -  Man of Constant Sorrow

https://youtu.be/Yr0uPC1GAzU

Not often you see rock bands covering a song from 1913 but this one gets covered a lot.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 May, 2020, 08:49:31 am
Prince - Whole Lotta Love

https://youtu.be/sMVFYGYr76A

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 31 May, 2020, 11:22:18 am
Have we had these guys before?  The house band from the long-running Aussie TV RocKwiz featuring the marvellous Bull sisters on backing vocals plus lead guests. Hurricane is pretty much a random choice as I've enjoyed almost as much every one of their vids I've tried so far, though this is the first I hit the replay button straight away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdA44sMAicM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 31 May, 2020, 11:38:11 am
I was reminded of this by the Teatime Theme Time on RadMac this morning. Might have been mentioned before but always deserves a repeat listen...

The Fall - Lost in Music
https://youtu.be/RTLzOp3uTYw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 31 May, 2020, 05:09:16 pm
Have we had these guys before?  The house band from the long-running Aussie TV RocKwiz featuring the marvellous Bull sisters on backing vocals plus lead guests. Hurricane is pretty much a random choice as I've enjoyed almost as much every one of their vids I've tried so far, though this is the first I hit the replay button straight away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdA44sMAicM

Thanks for that pointer, although I'm not entirely convinced that a lot of the stuff isn't an excellent session musician band that delivers stuff well, but not exceptionally. The Hurricane one, for example is good, but lacks the edgy quality of His Bobness' original - maybe lack of mouth organ? Also, the Beth Hart's "Rather go Blind" comes second to the one she did with the guitar playing accountant.

There are deffo exceptional bits, though - Radar Love changed from a rhythm to vocal turn gets my vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjReNpCInA - I'm going to enjoy dipping in and out of their stuff, although I suspect that the rabbit holes are going to be as interesting.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 01 June, 2020, 11:53:15 pm
The Heimatdamisch: Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI


And I genuinely laughed as they hit the first chorus 50s into Highway to Hell
https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 02 June, 2020, 12:04:28 am
I was reminded of this by the Teatime Theme Time on RadMac this morning. Might have been mentioned before but always deserves a repeat listen...

The Fall - Lost in Music
https://youtu.be/RTLzOp3uTYw

I haven't heard that before, cheers. He had a knack for hiring (and then you know the rest) good musicians, didn't he?

I was vaguely thinking about the Fall on my ride today, and the thought crossed my mind that Mark E Smith owed a lot to Howard Devoto's delivery. Shot-ah by both Sides-ah.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 02 June, 2020, 12:19:11 am
And I thought I'd mentioned it, but worth a look - Mercury Rev covered Bobbie Gentry's entire debut album in the way only they could, with a rotating lineup of fabulous female vocalists. It's much more lush than the fairly simple arrangements on the original, but I can't help thinking Bobbie would approve (given how her later albums went). A taster, with Laetitia Sadier out of Stereolab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmU75V3rsg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 02 June, 2020, 06:39:30 am
The Heimatdamisch: Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI


And I genuinely laughed as they hit the first chorus 50s into Highway to Hell
https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4

Missing stuff and repeating is understandable in this thread, but you did see the gherkin placement (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29267.msg2483782#msg2483782), I hope ?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 02 June, 2020, 07:41:26 am
Oops. I did a search for Heimatdamisch too :-(
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 02 June, 2020, 09:10:01 am
And I thought I'd mentioned it, but worth a look - Mercury Rev covered Bobbie Gentry's entire debut album in the way only they could, with a rotating lineup of fabulous female vocalists. It's much more lush than the fairly simple arrangements on the original, but I can't help thinking Bobbie would approve (given how her later albums went). A taster, with Laetitia Sadier out of Stereolab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmU75V3rsg

Love that. I might have mentioned it when it came out last year but it certainly deserves a repeat mention. Tbh, I wasn't previously familiar with the original - my Bobbie Gentry knowledge never stretched much beyond Ode to Billie Jo - but I've listened to Delta Sweete a lot since then. Great album.

Mercury Rev have always been good at cover versions. I saw them supporting Ride way back in 1991(?) and they finished their set with an incredible version of the Specials' Ghost Town.

Found a recording on Youtube, presumably from the same tour - sound quality isn't great but you get the general idea: https://youtu.be/nZWaQ2M0gXs - when I saw them (in Folkestone), they extended the song into a mad instrumental jam that went on for about 10 minutes.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 02 June, 2020, 11:11:11 am
Aye, they did a great cover of Planet Caravan too:  https://youtu.be/nZWaQ2M0gXs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 02 June, 2020, 11:37:13 am
Aye, they did a great cover of Planet Caravan too:  https://youtu.be/nZWaQ2M0gXs

You need to fix the link, but I found it anyway - https://youtu.be/PRbkmO4Ek20 - not heard that before but yes, very nice indeed!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 03 June, 2020, 01:11:48 pm
Boody teenagers, making all that noise. Probably don't get up before afternoon, either

Sina https://www.youtube.com/user/sinadrumming/videos

At this stage more of a pleasant curiosity than great, (<-- that's not fair, she's good) but given that she bashes it out on a pretty basic drumkit, worth a listen, something in her list for everyone.

Black Dog  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtQeGNIIBSU) led me to Aloyna (https://www.youtube.com/user/rjn3000), who is also rather pleasant  And brave to go for Joplin's A Piece of My Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjx3ieArUAs)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 03 June, 2020, 02:00:46 pm
Actually, it was brave of Janis to go for Piece Of My Heart after Erma Franklin's unbeatable original.  Written by Bert Berns one of the top writers (Here Comes The Night, et al) and reputedly one of the biggest shysters in the business!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 03 June, 2020, 02:04:52 pm
Erma Franklin's unbeatable original

One for the "songs I never knew were covers" thread...

Listening to Erma right now. Lovely.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 03 June, 2020, 02:24:37 pm
Boody teenagers, making all that noise. Probably don't get up before afternoon, either

Sina https://www.youtube.com/user/sinadrumming/videos

At this stage more of a pleasant curiosity than great, (<-- that's not fair, she's good) but given that she bashes it out on a pretty basic drumkit, worth a listen, something in her list for everyone.

I've just sat through the full 10 minutes of her take on Bat Out Of Hell. I know what you mean - very good indeed, rather than truly great, but above all else she's a lot of fun to watch, mainly because of how much she seems to be enjoying what she's doing. Which is great.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 June, 2020, 05:23:51 am
Black Dog  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtQeGNIIBSU) led me to Aloyna (https://www.youtube.com/user/rjn3000), who is also rather pleasant  And brave to go for Joplin's A Piece of My Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjx3ieArUAs)

The magic of the YouTube sidebar leads us to another singing model from the east (this time Ukraine) doing Led Zep:

https://youtu.be/PCDZwgtNxRU

Also AC/DC

https://youtu.be/f2p0xrY4CMs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 04 June, 2020, 11:17:36 am
Back in Black did you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75ZP8UFZdw


And  Thunderstruck  - which is worth playing to the end for the crowd 'reaction'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 04 June, 2020, 04:39:10 pm
Actually, it was brave of Janis to go for Piece Of My Heart after Erma Franklin's unbeatable original.  Written by Bert Berns one of the top writers (Here Comes The Night, et al) and reputedly one of the biggest shysters in the business!

Wasn't he also the real person behind "Medley-Russell", writer(s) of Twist and Shout, among other ditties?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 June, 2020, 05:19:08 pm
Second release from Blackberry Smoke's Capricorn Studios CV-19 charity EP. This time with added flute as they are covering The Marshall Tucker Band.

Take The Highway

https://youtu.be/Pd-wis4z8o0

Which makes me think of flutes in rock:

Marshall Tucker Band
Jethro Tull
Focus

Any more?

Thanks to DJ Random and bootlegpedia.com the flautist playing on "Are You Experienced"  - the version from the first show from the third night of Hendrix' "3 Nights At Winterland" ["recording of dubious provenance" - Ed.] has been identified as one Virgil Gonzalez.  Let this make you all happy in these troubled times.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 11 June, 2020, 11:24:53 pm
Medieval Creep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiIjMIlRw&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR03RKo6ZumhLC2RJgY3fhVQmvWexVmY6M2Qs0jJtqRULyZ21Sw1kWLSYQk)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 12 June, 2020, 10:24:23 am
Actually, it was brave of Janis to go for Piece Of My Heart after Erma Franklin's unbeatable original.  Written by Bert Berns one of the top writers (Here Comes The Night, et al) and reputedly one of the biggest shysters in the business!

Wasn't he also the real person behind "Medley-Russell", writer(s) of Twist and Shout, among other ditties?

The very same.  Also Hang On Sloopy. and almost a whole terrific album for Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters.  Also ended up outmanoeuvring Van Morrison over the royalties from "Brown-Eyed Girl", I think.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 June, 2020, 09:20:32 pm
Laura Marling - For The Sake of the Song (Townz Van Zandt)

https://youtu.be/N-SXfoQTdTg
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 June, 2020, 10:48:31 pm
Morgan James - Oh Me Oh My (Aretha Franklin)

https://youtu.be/c5Un3qe4b1k
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 16 June, 2020, 10:22:44 am
12. Emily Linge is 12

Morning has broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgB1-Von_g

There's a bit of echo in the production, but a few other of her vids show that she will likely be Rather Good.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 June, 2020, 10:45:01 am
12. Emily Linge is 12

Morning has broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgB1-Von_g

There's a bit of echo in the production, but a few other of her vids show that she will likely be Rather Good.

Blimey, her Desperado is ridiculously good for a 12 year old, scratch that it's better than most adult covers of it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 16 June, 2020, 11:49:13 am
Even more blimey - when she was 11 along with her brother - Time after time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsjTR7j8OA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 19 June, 2020, 05:25:30 pm
Two covers of  "La chanson des vieux amants". Very different from each other but I like them both:

Alison Moyet

https://youtu.be/rWj8lv29sq8

Nara Noïan

https://youtu.be/Ku7QCAwbn-k
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 19 June, 2020, 05:42:54 pm
Stumbled across Mea Culpa Jazz on YouTube. Seem to be a pretty competent but not very interesting French jazz covers band. Except for this cover of "Le Vent Nous Portera" which was originally a big hit in Europe for French band Noir Désir, it sounded nothing like this though.

https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 20 June, 2020, 12:15:02 pm
In an attempt to fight you obscurists at your own game
First Aid Kit covering Complainte pour Ste. Catherine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCD0oyDoFDw&list=RDZIZBwj6K5vI&index=4)
Norwegian band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.

Another haunting from my yoof
NOFX "doing" Champs Elysées (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f381G0k9Inc&list=RDf381G0k9Inc&start_radio=1)
This was the biggest song in Belgium.  They manage singing in Foreign much less well thoughbut.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 June, 2020, 12:35:47 pm
In an attempt to fight you obscurists at your own game
First Aid Kit covering Complainte pour Ste. Catherine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCD0oyDoFDw&list=RDZIZBwj6K5vI&index=4)
Norwegian Swedish band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.


FTFZy
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 20 June, 2020, 01:30:10 pm
In an attempt to fight you obscurists at your own game
First Aid Kit covering Complainte pour Ste. Catherine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCD0oyDoFDw&list=RDZIZBwj6K5vI&index=4)
Norwegian band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.

Another haunting from my yoof
NOFX "doing" Champs Elysées (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f381G0k9Inc&list=RDf381G0k9Inc&start_radio=1)
This was the biggest song in Belgium.  They manage singing in Foreign much less well thoughbut.

Tread softly, for when you "tread" on Kate and Anna McGarrigle you tread on my dreams.  I was prepared to be disappointed but it's really rather good.  They have the "blood harmony" of the original, if not quite the spine-tingling timbre of the McGarrigles.  A good effort!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 20 June, 2020, 02:38:35 pm
Norwegian Swedish band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.
FTFZy
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Aye, t'was described to me as Norwegian (or possibly Swedish) and I cared not enough to be certain.
Until this cover was shared with me I had never realised that the McGarrigles did music in English.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 21 June, 2020, 12:15:50 am
Stumbled across Mea Culpa Jazz on YouTube. Seem to be a pretty competent but not very interesting French jazz covers band. Except for this cover of "Le Vent Nous Portera" which was originally a big hit in Europe for French band Noir Désir, it sounded nothing like this though.

https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
The Noir Desir original is a fine pop song but, unfortunately, I can’t listen to it without the knowledge that the singer was a deeply unpleasant man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Cantat?wprov=sfti1
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 21 June, 2020, 12:20:50 am
This never gets old:
https://youtu.be/tVh_54oP4Zk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 June, 2020, 09:38:19 am
Stumbled across Mea Culpa Jazz on YouTube. Seem to be a pretty competent but not very interesting French jazz covers band. Except for this cover of "Le Vent Nous Portera" which was originally a big hit in Europe for French band Noir Désir, it sounded nothing like this though.

https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
The Noir Desir original is a fine pop song but, unfortunately, I can’t listen to it without the knowledge that the singer was a deeply unpleasant man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Cantat?wprov=sfti1

Not a very nice man at all is he. Its amazing anyone still wants to work with him.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 22 June, 2020, 12:47:08 pm
Tread softly, for when you "tread" on Kate and Anna McGarrigle you tread on my dreams.  I was prepared to be disappointed but it's really rather good.  They have the "blood harmony" of the original, if not quite the spine-tingling timbre of the McGarrigles.  A good effort!

Tbh, I never realised Complainte Pour Ste Catherine was anything other than a Kirsty MacColl song:
https://youtu.be/tmmelsbp96k

Have to say, I probably prefer both the McGarrigles' original (now that I've checked it out) and the First Aid Kit version. Although Kirsty's version is worth noting for her party trick, which she does on a number of her recordings, of doing all her own harmonies - quite a skill.

That's on her excellent 1989 album Kite, which is also notable for her lovely version of the Kinks' Days:
https://youtu.be/HNJcd1pTaL0

And of course her fab version of You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby - with Johnny Marr on guitar!
https://youtu.be/oo8xJ6cJeu0

Best Kirsty MacColl cover, though, is her definitive version of A New England, which she totally owns - kind of shows up how Billy Bragg's performing skills don't quite live up to his songwriting skills:
https://youtu.be/Vnzpg5GgQCo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 22 June, 2020, 01:06:39 pm
Even more blimey - when she was 11 along with her brother - Time after time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsjTR7j8OA
Frighteningly she's getting better, Somewhere Only We Know, stick with it to hear the bits that, to me anyhow, sounds like her voice maturing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7DVJIQu9Fw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 22 June, 2020, 04:29:39 pm
This is absolutely gorgeous - Different Drum by The Stone Poneys

https://youtu.be/v-DgG9PUCj0


Never heard this before but it got an airing on RadMac over the weekend and stopped me dead in my tracks. I love it. I've never even heard of the Stone Poneys, for that matter, though I know of Linda Ronstadt as a solo country act. Lovely voice.

Written by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees. The story goes that they wanted to record it for their TV show but the producers vetoed it, which is a shocking lack of judgment. A Monkees version would have been wonderful. Nesmith gave it to a bluegrass band called The Greenbriar Boys, who recorded it in 1966. The Stone Poneys version came a year later.

(It's really just a wonderful song - I checked out the Greenbriars Boys recording and that's rather nice too: https://youtu.be/1eHq7ZUkO1k )
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 June, 2020, 07:42:19 am
Try more Linda ! Not just a country she sang all sorts of stuff.

Here's a cover of a Linda Rhonstadt song by Sheryl Crow:

https://youtu.be/akxXlB2Xn4I

Check out the backing singers, you couldn't pay to get backing singer like that!
It also has added Waddy Wachtel goodness on the guitar solo for session musician spotters.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 June, 2020, 07:49:46 am
Linda Ronstadt was also responsible for The Eagles. Don Henley and Glenn Fry were in her backing band and when they wanted to form their own band she told them to hire Bernie Leadon and JD Souther who was living with Linda suggested Randy Meisner and there you go rock and roll history is made.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 June, 2020, 08:01:15 am
Emmylou Harris - 'Til I Gain Control Again

https://youtu.be/EDqHNvxz01I

A big hit for Crystal Gayle in the 80s but this album version from Emmylou Harris is better.
It has the advantage of Linda Ronstadt on backing vocals and the band containing Rodney Crowell who wrote the song and Elvis's side men James Burton and Glen D. Hardin.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 June, 2020, 08:56:09 am
Linda Ronstadt was also responsible for The Eagles.

We all have our crosses to bear.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 June, 2020, 05:01:09 pm
Bohemian Rhapsody

https://youtu.be/tgbNymZ7vqY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 25 June, 2020, 04:20:12 pm
Tbh, I never realised Complainte Pour Ste Catherine was anything other than a Kirsty MacColl song:
https://youtu.be/tmmelsbp96k
...

also notable for her lovely version of the Kinks' Days:
https://youtu.be/HNJcd1pTaL0
the first song my son learnt to play on the drums was "Days" and his drum teacher believed that it was by Kirsty MacColl.  His class teacher didn't get the humour in this as they "didn't listen to modern music" ... (No, not anywhere near too old for either).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 27 June, 2020, 09:55:00 pm
MC5 - Let it Rock

https://youtu.be/fNxB--hJkoQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 June, 2020, 06:47:24 pm
The Pretty Reckless - Champagne Supernova

With a cheeky bit of Dear Prudence in the middle.

https://youtu.be/PJ9Xy3RJoOA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 01 July, 2020, 05:34:53 pm
Alice Merton's 'No Roots' goes bluegrass courtesy of The Petersens.  A family band with Momma on the double-bass, plus possibly the world's cutest banjo player, and a family friend on the Dobro whose solo at the end brings me out in tingles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_STUSPozyU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 08 July, 2020, 04:20:33 pm
Larkin Poe are two sisters. Here's their Nights in White Satin on dobro and slide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yGhbIwG-3U

There're not just cover artists, you might want to checkout their new album, here's a track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3idn3XQN_w
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 July, 2020, 06:09:32 pm
My grate frend Mr Woolrich and I were supposed to be seeing Larkin Poe at the Hammy Odeon last month :'(
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 July, 2020, 04:21:35 pm
Need cheering up? Haim, doing "Oh Well" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VikyxJoBF2k

Turn it up to 11.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 26 July, 2020, 09:06:51 pm
HOTRS in Old French. Other videos are linked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c&feature=emb_logo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 26 July, 2020, 11:58:51 pm
Larkin Poe are two sisters. Here's their Nights in White Satin on dobro and slide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yGhbIwG-3U

There're not just cover artists, you might want to checkout their new album, here's a track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3idn3XQN_w
I was once acquainted with someone who was loosely associated with the Moody Blues. He told me that, on later tours, the female backing singers took delight in singing ‘the tights that I shat in...’
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Efrogwr on 30 July, 2020, 08:39:59 pm
Mercedes Benz by Larkin Poe. I found it on YouTube; be sure to watch to the end. Thank you Ham for bringing them to my attention.


Halleluja by k d lang.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 15 August, 2020, 12:44:51 am
Need cheering up? Haim, doing "Oh Well" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VikyxJoBF2k

Turn it up to 11.

Nope.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 19 August, 2020, 11:56:27 pm
The lovely Taylor Momson and The Pretty Reckless with a Champagne Supernova / Dear Prudence mash up.

https://youtu.be/PJ9Xy3RJoOA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Andrij on 20 August, 2020, 02:09:28 pm
The Lovecats (https://youtu.be/yqbmZhd1ZFo)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 23 August, 2020, 06:51:00 pm
Jack Conte has a long trajectory in music but has probably become better known as the founder of Patreon the crowdfunding platform. Meanwhile he has at least two musical projects with many posts on YouTube: Pomplamoose, and  Scary Pockets.  Both well worth a listen.  Scary Pockets seem to believe there's no song that can't be re-imagined as funk.

Here's my favourite.  As the BTL comment notes: come for the funk, stay for the sandals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcNuPheBQgU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 August, 2020, 07:44:31 pm
Hips Don't Lie

https://youtu.be/J3_DL0q9oq4

You have to watch until the end!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 25 August, 2020, 08:59:00 am
I've never heard this before until Steve Lamacq played this on the radio yesterday. Can't quite make up my mind but I think I like it... Certainly a bit different to the original!

This Flight Tonight - Nazareth
https://youtu.be/ylW6sC6NNhY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 August, 2020, 07:28:13 pm
I've never heard this before until Steve Lamacq played this on the radio yesterday. Can't quite make up my mind but I think I like it... Certainly a bit different to the original!

This Flight Tonight - Nazareth
https://youtu.be/ylW6sC6NNhY

Joni liked it :)

It was a massive hit both sides of the Atlantic.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 August, 2020, 08:39:38 pm
12. Emily Linge is 12

Morning has broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgB1-Von_g

There's a bit of echo in the production, but a few other of her vids show that she will likely be Rather Good.
If I wasn't already barefoot, my socks would have been knocked off.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 August, 2020, 09:46:10 pm
Cant find my way home Yvonne Elliman

https://youtu.be/VtupyJw_dn0

Lovely version and that harp solo is the very talented Marcella Detroit (of Shakespear's Sister fame and also backing singer for everyone from the 70s and a great songwriter in her own right).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 25 August, 2020, 10:06:07 pm
It was a massive hit both sides of the Atlantic.

Passed me by - I was less than a year old when it came out. But Joni's Blue is one of the records I was brought up on, so I'm very familiar with the original.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 26 August, 2020, 03:27:56 pm
Cant find my way home Yvonne Elliman

https://youtu.be/VtupyJw_dn0

Lovely version and that harp solo is the very talented Marcella Detroit (of Shakespear's Sister fame and also backing singer for everyone from the 70s and a great songwriter in her own right).

That solo really reminds me of the great Ray Jackson's style
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 26 August, 2020, 04:03:37 pm
I've never heard this before until Steve Lamacq played this on the radio yesterday. Can't quite make up my mind but I think I like it... Certainly a bit different to the original!

This Flight Tonight - Nazareth
https://youtu.be/ylW6sC6NNhY

May I refer you back to the original post (more than a decade ago  :o)  I've always loved both this and the original (despite what Mr Nicknack may say).

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29267.msg536758#msg536758 (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29267.msg536758#msg536758)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Redlight on 26 August, 2020, 04:25:22 pm
Larkin Poe are two sisters. Here's their Nights in White Satin on dobro and slide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yGhbIwG-3U

There're not just cover artists, you might want to checkout their new album, here's a track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3idn3XQN_w

Saw these two supporting Elvis Costello a couple of years ago. As well as their own warm-up set, they joined him for the final few songs of his set and the three of them kicked up quite a storm.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 26 August, 2020, 05:17:45 pm
May I refer you back to the original post (more than a decade ago  :o)  I've always loved both this and the original (despite what Mr Nicknack may say).

Excellent! I had a feeling it would be well known to some of you already, and that it would have been mentioned already in the thread. Amazed I've got this far in life without hearing it.

10 years though... I feel old.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 31 August, 2020, 08:02:02 pm
Muse. Matt Bellamy's paranoia via classical guitar. The final two minutes are outstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCpbpi7C4rQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 31 August, 2020, 08:06:20 pm
And while I'm on the subject of Muse, here's Starlight, fingerstyle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJiok_3B-JA&list=RDq7TXYtDw5s4&index=5
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 September, 2020, 09:12:21 pm
Ariane Grande - Somewhere over the rainbow

Manchester One Love 2017

https://youtu.be/iMNtiSvQWyg

Not the best vocal performance ever (she's trying not to cry all the way through it) but probably the most emotional. First time I have watched this since it was broadcast live.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 September, 2020, 11:09:40 pm
Miley Cyrus - Take it to the Limit (BBC Live Lounge)

https://youtu.be/Qz7IcGA4Aag

She's getting better as she gets older.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 September, 2020, 10:31:16 pm
Not a cover but either a glorious piece of technotrickal mash-up or a double sacrilege, depending on your point of view!
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 16 September, 2020, 12:32:44 pm
Here's some great talent AND an omafiets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlsqsIW6gx8

Adikara Fardy
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: quixoticgeek on 16 September, 2020, 12:39:20 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xh4qopQpk

Me thinks this is better than the original...

J
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 22 September, 2020, 08:44:44 am
David Lindley - Werewolves of London (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQpBhjm4zL8) (probably not as you'd recognise it!)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 22 September, 2020, 10:52:22 am
He's done great stuff with RY COODER. Here he is with RY a year later (and still wearing the same clothes).  There are better recordings of them but this has a certain je ne sais quoi (well I think I do, actually).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTtaj165Ig (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTtaj165Ig)

It's also a great cover in its own right:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8bum4civI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8bum4civI)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 22 September, 2020, 11:24:25 am
Thanks for that pointer.  I wasn't sure whether to put him in the Look At My F***king Red Trousers thread, but having seen that he's a repeat offender, he really ought to go there!

I'm most familiar with his collaborations with Jackson Browne, TBH.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 22 September, 2020, 11:49:45 am
Heard this on Lauren Laverne's 6music show this morning - a nicely done cover of Big Star's Thirteen by Bedouine, Hurray for the Riff Raff and Waxahatchee.

https://youtu.be/8pXuiZnUheE

Thirteen is one of my all-time favourite songs so a cover has to be pretty good to impress me. I really like the blend of different voices - nice contrast when they're singing individually, and lovely harmonies when together.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 September, 2020, 12:23:44 pm
Heard this on Lauren Laverne's 6music show this morning - a nicely done cover of Big Star's Thirteen by Bedouine, Hurray for the Riff Raff and Waxahatchee.

https://youtu.be/8pXuiZnUheE

Thirteen is one of my all-time favourite songs so a cover has to be pretty good to impress me. I really like the blend of different voices - nice contrast when they're singing individually, and lovely harmonies when together.

That's a nice cover.  Big Star were brilliant.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 September, 2020, 10:03:55 pm
Nina Simone - Isn't it a pity

https://youtu.be/DitOFrGBEQA

Manages to build and be epic with just her piano and some subtle bass.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Efrogwr on 25 September, 2020, 09:23:45 pm
He's done great stuff with RY COODER. Here he is with RY a year later (and still wearing the same clothes).  There are better recordings of them but this has a certain je ne sais quoi (well I think I do, actually).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTtaj165Ig (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTtaj165Ig)

It's also a great cover in its own right:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8bum4civI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8bum4civI)

Ry Cooder was responsible for several versions of Jesus on the Mainline; all different; all excellent. There's a studio vesion on Paradise and Lunch And a live one on Showtime..

David Lindley did a shitkicking version of Mercury  Blues on El Rayo-X.

 Individually they are  brilliant; together they are magic.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: sprogs on 28 September, 2020, 04:57:48 pm
The first time I ever saw your face - Marcia Griffiths.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 28 September, 2020, 05:12:58 pm
He's done great stuff with RY COODER. Here he is with RY a year later (and still wearing the same clothes).  There are better recordings of them but this has a certain je ne sais quoi (well I think I do, actually).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTtaj165Ig (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJTtaj165Ig)

It's also a great cover in its own right:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8bum4civI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8bum4civI)

Ry Cooder was responsible for several versions of Jesus on the Mainline; all different; all excellent. There's a studio vesion on Paradise and Lunch And a live one on Showtime..

David Lindley did a shitkicking version of Mercury  Blues on El Rayo-X.

 Individually they are  brilliant; together they are magic.

Welcome to the club!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 28 September, 2020, 05:22:07 pm
The first time I ever saw your face - Marcia Griffiths.

Gordon Lightfoot did a great version on his first album.  1966.  Ages before Roberta Flack's.

Maybe there will be a resurgence in popularity for this great Canadian performer and writer, if "th'inevitable hour" arrives.  But there's no hurry!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 30 September, 2020, 10:56:56 am
David Lindley did a shitkicking version of Mercury  Blues on El Rayo-X.
This live version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bG-t5iUe0) is the absolute epitome of shitkicking!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Efrogwr on 30 September, 2020, 01:41:08 pm
David Lindley did a shitkicking version of Mercury  Blues on El Rayo-X.
This live version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bG-t5iUe0) is the absolute epitome of shitkicking!

I cannot disagree
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 02 October, 2020, 03:42:37 pm
Anyone mentioned Phoebe Snow's version of Macca's Every Night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uShtB_hIgmE)?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 02 October, 2020, 03:45:56 pm
Bugger, just used the search function and found that I wrote nearly exactly the same words (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29267.msg2227530;topicseen#msg2227530) nearly 3 years ago...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 October, 2020, 09:16:39 pm
Miley Cyrus - Heat of Glass

https://youtu.be/YBPZELdVAT8

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 02 October, 2020, 09:39:31 pm
Miley Cyrus - Heat of Glass

https://youtu.be/YBPZELdVAT8

That’s horrible.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 02 October, 2020, 10:03:36 pm
What happens when a 15 year old whose likely worst excess is snogging behind the bike shed, or maybe sneaking something out the vodka bottle, has a crack at rehab?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDQDk7QcZw

and, why is _that_ in "great cover versions"? Because that girl has great, raw, talent, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pXRenvJqJQ , many of hers are worth a listen
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 03 October, 2020, 01:19:42 pm
I just knew this was going to be Allie Sherlock who makes me very uneasy.  She's been on Ellen Generes's show and others and is being pushed hard.  She has many assets (of which she is aware) and one of them is a terrific voice, which at the moment she uses to mimic other singers superbly.  She could go far.

But the real stand out is Fabio.  Watch him effortlessly and probably unintentionally steal "Isn't She Lovely" from under Allie's nose.  No fault of hers, he's just terrific.  If the world lived by the radio he'd be a terrific star.  As it lives by TV he's probably going to find it harder in exactly the way that Allie isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajxNN52QVg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajxNN52QVg)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 October, 2020, 09:01:30 pm
Maybe its just my age but when you said "Fabio" I immediately thought if this Fabio:

(https://doyouremember.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4-3.png)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 03 October, 2020, 11:09:13 pm
Bugger, just used the search function and found that I wrote nearly exactly the same words (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29267.msg2227530;topicseen#msg2227530) nearly 3 years ago...
Never mind. Here’s Phoebe with Bobby McFerrin doing a lovely cover of a well-known Smokey Robinson tune: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIMRsl2woIw&feature=share
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 04 October, 2020, 06:50:01 am
I just knew this was going to be Allie Sherlock who makes me very uneasy.  She's been on Ellen Generes's show and others and is being pushed hard.  She has many assets (of which she is aware) and one of them is a terrific voice, which at the moment she uses to mimic other singers superbly.  She could go far.

But the real stand out is Fabio.  Watch him effortlessly and probably unintentionally steal "Isn't She Lovely" from under Allie's nose.  No fault of hers, he's just terrific.  If the world lived by the radio he'd be a terrific star.  As it lives by TV he's probably going to find it harder in exactly the way that Allie isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajxNN52QVg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajxNN52QVg)

Not sure about your analysis, although we aren't disagreeing that much. Fabio is good, but IMO she has raw talent that is not yet developed. That "Isn't she lovely"? I may be being unfair, but to me it sounds like she's singing about herself. There's something there, you can hear when she lets rip, but it is no surprise that at 15 it's more about potential. It's why "Rehab" fails, although her voice is good. I hope she has the space and support to live the life she wants. And wants the life she needs.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 04 October, 2020, 11:12:30 am
There's no questioning her talent, certainly.  Agree with your final sentences, too.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 06 October, 2020, 12:19:35 pm
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne - While my guitar gently weeps

https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

Worth watching just for Dhani Harrison and Prince having an absolute blast.
But a great mystery, where does Prince's guitar go at the end ? It goes up but ....
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 06 October, 2020, 04:10:59 pm
This bona fide classic must have been mentioned already, but I was reminded of it just now by Legs mentioning Jose Feliciano's California Dreamin in t'other thread so I'll mention it again...

Gipsy Kings - Hotel California
https://youtu.be/xUZpoogW_40
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 07 October, 2020, 08:04:09 am
Awe.  Some.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: sprogs on 08 October, 2020, 06:40:53 pm
K.T.Tunstall.
Tangled up in blue.

I was watching a program of a concert celebrating Bob Dylan's birthday.
I have never seen such a bunch of crawly bum-licking sycophantic shite.
I was about to turn it off and leave for some fresh air when a group came on and the singer started pressing pedals that started some programmed rhythm's, (My personal pet hate) . I hurried to find the off switch on my remote and then she started the song.
Well !
Come back in. Sit down. Listen in awe.
A rose growing in a swamp of musical shite.
 
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: perpetual dan on 11 October, 2020, 07:39:21 pm
Sachal Studios Orchestra doing take 5 was on the radio earlier. I quite liked this.  https://youtu.be/GLF46JKkCNg (https://youtu.be/GLF46JKkCNg)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tiermat on 11 October, 2020, 07:49:22 pm
I have, recently, been listening to covers on Spotify.

Some great ones that have come up so far are:

Patience - Chris Cornell
Bad Guy - The Interrupters
And one of my favourites Fortunate Son - The Dead Daisies
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 16 October, 2020, 09:30:53 am
Lauren Laverne just played this on 6music - Ananda Shankar's sitar version of Jumpin' Jack Flash, which I love for it's wonderful cheesiness...

https://youtu.be/JYSutWPVMOI
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 28 October, 2020, 09:26:35 pm
A sort of cover version. It reminded me of the late, sadly-missed Alan Hull's original.

A bit damp in the eyes now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLp9MyKURo4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 October, 2020, 09:11:24 am
A sort of cover version. It reminded me of the late, sadly-missed Alan Hull's original.

A bit damp in the eyes now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLp9MyKURo4

I went to one of their legendary Christmas gigs at Newcastle City Hall back in the 80s. That was really something.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 29 October, 2020, 09:55:21 am
I went to them for several years. They were, indeed, amazing events.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 29 October, 2020, 10:13:00 am
not a cover but a re-mix (unnecessary) of my favourite Alan Hull song.  It seems appropriate to put it here:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jK2BpqUmX4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jK2BpqUmX4)

It's such a terrific congruence of melody, harmony, lyrics and sentiment (and vocal artistry) that I still listen in a jelly-like state whenever I hear it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 October, 2020, 12:08:21 pm
A sort of cover version. It reminded me of the late, sadly-missed Alan Hull's original.

A bit damp in the eyes now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLp9MyKURo4

I went to one of their legendary Christmas gigs at Newcastle City Hall back in the 80s. That was really something.

I'm fairly sure I've still got the cardboard reindeer antlers handed out to the audience at an early 90s edition.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 09 November, 2020, 10:53:50 pm
Robert and Toyah for the lolz

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/heres_king_crimsons_robert_fripp_playing_led_zeppelin_classics__black_sabbaths_paranoid.html
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 November, 2020, 06:40:32 pm
Also for the lolz, and not even a cover – do we have a mash-up thread? – brubeck x stranglers
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 16 November, 2020, 05:03:41 pm
Bzzt! Repetition!  Mind you it was pretty special the first time you posted it in Sept too. And if we're veering slightly off-topic towards mash-ups, here's something from Pomplamoose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLBSCiEoas
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 16 November, 2020, 05:40:27 pm
if we're veering slightly off-topic towards mash-ups, here's something from Pomplamoose:

That's rather good!

Mash-ups are quite an artform and can be great when they work well. This one is a remix of the original records rather than a cover but it's great - Beastie Boys x Animotion:

https://youtu.be/SOMofzv-Wgk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 16 November, 2020, 05:43:57 pm
Also for the lolz, and not even a cover – do we have a mash-up thread? – brubeck x stranglers
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs

That's a bit like the Townes van Zandt cover of Dead Flowers, which is so authentic it makes you wonder if it was actually the Stones covering him...

https://youtu.be/2VgdtTRZhag
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 November, 2020, 07:35:17 pm
To keep on that theme Larkin Poe covering Townes

https://youtu.be/KuOrCuMqNi0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 November, 2020, 07:37:54 pm
And by the gift of Youtube sidebar

The Be Good Tanyas - Waiting Around to Die

https://youtu.be/-0SmXVrLlZ4

I really like this one!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 November, 2020, 12:05:13 am
DJ Random has this evening served up The White Stripes' version of “I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself”, which definitely qualifies, and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' “Something In The Air”, which almost certainly doesn’t.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 17 November, 2020, 01:28:54 pm
apoptygma berzerk: shine on
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 17 November, 2020, 04:28:37 pm
And by the gift of Youtube sidebar

The Be Good Tanyas - Waiting Around to Die

https://youtu.be/-0SmXVrLlZ4

I really like this one!

I like that one!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 November, 2020, 07:06:20 pm
Bzzt! Repetition!  Mind you it was pretty special the first time you posted it in Sept too.
Oh dear. Not only am I losing my memory, I'm exposing my boring, predictable listening habits.

Actually, it's just occurred to me that Dave Brubeck and the Stranglers are like opposite sides of a circle, meeting at a point. Brubeck and gang: so square and nerdy in their suits and just concentrated on the music that they're cool without caring 60 years later. Stranglers: so cool and darkly chic that they're actually decent musicians 40 years later even if they do care about it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 17 November, 2020, 07:46:24 pm
A friend, who is a massive Sisters of Mercy fan, just shared this on facebook, in honour of vaccine-facilitator Dolly Parton. I can't believe I've never heard it before. It's fantastic...

https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 November, 2020, 05:49:26 am
A friend, who is a massive Sisters of Mercy fan, just shared this on facebook, in honour of vaccine-facilitator Dolly Parton. I can't believe I've never heard it before. It's fantastic...

https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc

Outstanding !
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 18 November, 2020, 10:19:24 am
An awesome version of I shall be released by Rising Appalachia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn4h1Vms2zw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 18 November, 2020, 12:02:43 pm
A friend, who is a massive Sisters of Mercy fan, just shared this on facebook, in honour of vaccine-facilitator Dolly Parton. I can't believe I've never heard it before. It's fantastic...

https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc

Outstanding !

He also shared with me their take on Hot Chocolate's Emma, which is quite remarkable:
https://youtu.be/t0IN_5qZtxE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rafletcher on 18 November, 2020, 08:15:44 pm
DJ Random has this evening served up The White Stripes' version of “I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself”, which definitely qualifies

I like the Photos version, featuring Wendy Wu.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 23 November, 2020, 10:04:12 pm
OK, I know I've got previous with Patax, but I still think they've done a brilliant cover of Yesterday, If you're going to listen to it, it builds, stay with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyuOnq8bfI0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 07 December, 2020, 10:40:43 am
Wasn't really sure which one of the cover versions threads this fitted into best, but I enjoyed it, so...

A Kraftwerk cover by Bill Bailey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaxWoJPUC0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Efrogwr on 07 December, 2020, 09:33:59 pm
I Could Drink a  Case of You by k d lang.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Deano on 10 December, 2020, 09:38:43 pm
I can't remember if I've offered this before, but a Chinese experimental musician transcribed 2Unlimited's No Limits and convinced a bunch of classically-trained Chinese musicians to play it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSfoeP1OF0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 16 December, 2020, 07:02:21 pm
The Cranberries' Zombie from the angelic pipes of Julia Westlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYtj8Uwybs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2020, 07:24:00 pm
I can't remember if I've offered this before, but a Chinese experimental musician transcribed 2Unlimited's No Limits and convinced a bunch of classically-trained Chinese musicians to play it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSfoeP1OF0
An experience! And the Chaka Khan cover even more so!
https://youtu.be/XMrCKRBp-F0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 December, 2020, 07:40:06 am
The Cranberries' Zombie from the angelic pipes of Julia Westlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYtj8Uwybs

Technically good but it doesn't have the anger of the original.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 17 December, 2020, 08:57:38 am
The Cranberries' Zombie from the angelic pipes of Julia Westlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYtj8Uwybs

Technically good but it doesn't have the anger of the original.

I've followed Julia for a few years. She does 'pretty' vocals, but it's all a bit antiseptic. Her ex-BF David MeShow is actually a lot more interesting, when he can be arsed to put anything out.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 12 January, 2021, 01:54:09 pm
Grace Potter doing "whole lotta love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L1DPBEDsfg

Possibly should come with an NSFW label, but I suppose it's art. My, she's DURTY. You can't tell me the choice of the flying V was not deliberate.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 January, 2021, 04:31:14 pm
Grace Potter doing "whole lotta love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L1DPBEDsfg

Possibly should come with an NSFW label, but I suppose it's art. My, she's DURTY. You can't tell me the choice of the flying V was not deliberate.

She nearly always plays a flying V.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 12 January, 2021, 05:28:09 pm
A friend, who is a massive Sisters of Mercy fan, just shared this on facebook, in honour of vaccine-facilitator Dolly Parton. I can't believe I've never heard it before. It's fantastic...

https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc
I have a dry slap for both of youse!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 12 January, 2021, 05:34:50 pm
Grace Potter doing "whole lotta love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L1DPBEDsfg

Possibly should come with an NSFW label, but I suppose it's art. My, she's DURTY. You can't tell me the choice of the flying V was not deliberate.

She nearly always plays a flying V.

yebbut still  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 12 January, 2021, 05:50:31 pm
For slightly NSFW rock covers, Toyah and Bob Fripp do it pretty well!

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

And she's on a bike!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 January, 2021, 06:10:14 pm
Grace Potter doing "whole lotta love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L1DPBEDsfg

Possibly should come with an NSFW label, but I suppose it's art. My, she's DURTY. You can't tell me the choice of the flying V was not deliberate.

(Has moment)

Of course she could just be channelling her inner Lonnie Mack…
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 12 January, 2021, 07:44:42 pm
In the recent weekend Bowie-fest on the Beeb, there's been loads of covers. The best ones have been _by_ Bowie, to be honest!
It's hard to believe that such cracking melodies haven't led to a few decent covers - anyone want to nominate?

The only enjoyable one i heard so far very  uncool - Boys Keep Swinging by Susannah Hoff. It's nothing revolutionary, just very pleasant! (don't listen if you're not already a fan of hers!) Turns out she's done an album of covers with the mostly brill Matthew Sweet. Some are rather good, and of course you can always stare longingly at Ms Hoff (I assume everyone does this?)

https://youtu.be/aoZEkk2VI_Y
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 12 January, 2021, 10:24:42 pm
The Trent Reznor covers were some of the best I heard.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: StuAff on 12 January, 2021, 11:53:09 pm
The Trent Reznor covers were some of the best I heard.
When he and NIN played the Albert Hall a couple of years back they covered 'I Can't Give Everything Away'. It was heartrending.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 January, 2021, 10:00:25 am
Grace Potter doing "whole lotta love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L1DPBEDsfg

Possibly should come with an NSFW label, but I suppose it's art. My, she's DURTY. You can't tell me the choice of the flying V was not deliberate.

She nearly always plays a flying V.

yebbut still  ;D ;D

Grace covering Beyoncé

https://youtu.be/PtDbpTbbVxQ

Doesn't bother with the Flying-V on this one :)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 14 January, 2021, 04:17:28 pm
In the recent weekend Bowie-fest on the Beeb, there's been loads of covers. The best ones have been _by_ Bowie, to be honest!
It's hard to believe that such cracking melodies haven't led to a few decent covers - anyone want to nominate?

V hard to cover Bowie as he got so many helpings of awesome anyone trying to cover him would struggle.  I like Bowie's later covers, but his stuff on "Pin Ups" is the worst he's done, I would rate it between his "laughing gnome" stuff and "tonight".
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 14 January, 2021, 04:59:05 pm
Does Mott the Hoople's version of All The Young Dudes count as a cover? That's a good one.

Bryan Ferry did a few covers albums and they're generally excellent - he just makes them all sound like Bryan Ferry songs - eg this one from These Foolish Things (not the title track):
https://youtu.be/X6fqDVe863o

And this one, from Dylanesque:
https://youtu.be/D8NCSx31gws

And this one, which me and the missus had at our wedding:
https://youtu.be/TF6kVjY2Rdw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 14 January, 2021, 11:41:59 pm
^ I don’t think it does as Bowie wrote it for them (the story goes he offered them a different song which they didn’t like, so he scribbled it out in less than 30 mins on a scrap of paper) and it was years before he played it himself.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wobbly John on 15 January, 2021, 08:17:41 pm
Has nobody thought of posting Laurence Mason's tribute to the Stanglers, in a Dave Brubeck stylee: Golden Brown?

https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
 :)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fuaran on 20 January, 2021, 11:38:11 pm
I'm quite liking this one.
Lacuna Coil, Losing My Religion. https://youtu.be/XD7RHcp1wvc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 20 January, 2021, 11:52:58 pm
Has nobody thought of posting Laurence Mason's tribute to the Stanglers, in a Dave Brubeck stylee: Golden Brown?

https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
 :)

It's up there, somewhere ^^^
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 21 January, 2021, 03:03:39 pm
This is FUCKING AWESOME - Lou Hayter's take on Steely Dan's Time Out Of Mind:

https://youtu.be/A_PIiWA-w2c

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 21 January, 2021, 04:08:47 pm
In the recent weekend Bowie-fest on the Beeb, there's been loads of covers. The best ones have been _by_ Bowie, to be honest!
It's hard to believe that such cracking melodies haven't led to a few decent covers - anyone want to nominate?
Just thought of one - Bauhaus' version of Ziggy ("updating" the song from early 70s to early 80s)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 21 January, 2021, 09:01:59 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAtGpU_xY8

Josh Turner does The Beatles 'And Your Bird Can Sing'.  I've just been listening to this back to back with the original, and all that's missing is the bass.  Josh Turner's early stuff on YouTube is a bit goofy but over time he's become really, really good, and now he's doing both Paul and George's parts at once, while coolly sitting on a rug in the park!  With Carson, and Jim, they do a pretty good job with the close harmony vocals too.  'And Your Bird Can Sing' predates Crosby Stills and Nash style vocals by three years, and the dual lead guitar lines fooled Joe Walsh until Ringo, his brother-in-law, let on that it was two parts not one player. Josh Turner isn't the first to play them both at once but I'm mighty impressed.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 21 January, 2021, 09:45:51 pm
This is FUCKING AWESOME - Lou Hayter's take on Steely Dan's Time Out Of Mind:

https://youtu.be/A_PIiWA-w2c

I heard that and sat up and listened, too.

(ok, I didn't actually sit up but I did stop hacking away at some tiles on a wall for a minute, but then, any excuse will do)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2021, 12:15:47 am
DJ Random just played me the original version of “Roller Coaster” by the 13th Floor Elevators, which served to remind me of how much better Spacemen 3's version is.  No-one has matched the Elevators' original of “Slip Inside This House” though.  Drugs may have been involved.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 28 January, 2021, 03:43:26 pm
Way back when, LindaG mentioned that Patti Smith's covers album Twelve was great.
From it, Gimme Shelter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQTKkuMdAw).  She's almost out-Micking Mick...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 29 January, 2021, 11:08:34 pm
More BowieFest trivia : "Oh You Pretty Thing" is a cover  :o
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 February, 2021, 08:13:49 am
Maria Mckee - Free Money (Patti Smith)

https://youtu.be/XKEd6Jxz1ws

I was a big Lone Justice fan back in the day.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rafletcher on 10 February, 2021, 07:52:25 pm
More BowieFest trivia : "Oh You Pretty Thing" is a cover  :o

Yebbut, a cover of a song he wrote.
Title: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 13 February, 2021, 09:09:21 am
Just heard this* on 6music - Magazine taking on the family Stone. Bloody brilliant...

https://youtu.be/hfTqrQ-FZOM

Also reminds me that perhaps Barry Adamson deserves a mention in the inspirational bass players thread.


*it was actually an incredible live session version they played but I can only find the album version on the tube
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: hubner on 15 February, 2021, 01:35:33 am
Covers of AC/DC, Nirvana, White Stripes etc, done on two cellos by "2cellos":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_8Oe_8kj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6Y5Mi4fNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nji5zvkuuFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFao4M2_os
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfGggAGITwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_8Oe_8kj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMTPHiDcIyU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 17 February, 2021, 02:30:11 pm
Bob Dylan's "Watching The River Flow" swung into the stratosphere by one of the best "pick-up" bands in the business.  It's all fabulous but listen out for the bass solo and an astonishing low note from Ronnie Cuber on baritone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmO30Ij6D_o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmO30Ij6D_o)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 18 February, 2021, 02:57:33 pm
I assume that we have had "All along the Watchtower".  did Dylan have the sense to retire it after Jimi took it off him?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 February, 2021, 06:12:45 pm
I assume that we have had "All along the Watchtower".  did Dylan have the sense to retire it after Jimi took it off him?

There’s a version on His Bobness' Unplugged album released in 1995, so the answer would appear to be “no”.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 18 February, 2021, 10:30:39 pm
I assume that we have had "All along the Watchtower".  did Dylan have the sense to retire it after Jimi took it off him?

See also Adele and "Make you feel my love".
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 10 March, 2021, 03:31:54 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhaxH03Xok
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 10 March, 2021, 05:05:23 pm
I'm sure we'll have had this one before, but I was reminded of it after Lauren Laverne played it on the radio this morning, and it's one that bears repeating...

https://youtu.be/GuKXYeRCUzI

In line with other recent contributions to the thread, I trust Sister Sledge relinquished ownership of the track to M.Smith after hearing this.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 10 March, 2021, 07:37:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhaxH03Xok

Steph, she's a real find and I'll be trawling the right-hand side, later.  I don't know that Voodoo Chile is actually the best example (though it's great):  Sultans of Swing is excellent and I especially like The Man Who Sold The World.  For me it's Bowie's most danceable track and you can see she can hardly keep still.

Excellent stuff, thanks!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 10 March, 2021, 08:42:49 pm
Thanks, Peter. I suppose your comment is exactly why this thread is here!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 13 March, 2021, 10:09:00 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhaxH03Xok

But can she play it left handed behind her back or with her teeth ?


That is excellent though.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 13 March, 2021, 10:56:39 am
One thing I really enjoyed was the way she performed, as in her obvious delight in it. Proper musician, that.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 15 March, 2021, 10:53:44 am
Have we had this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=cUVXMZIwC8g&feature=emb_logo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 17 March, 2021, 12:12:02 pm
Not sure if we've had this one already, but it came up in discussion elsewhere so I'm sharing again to be on the safe side...

Bauhaus doing Eno's Third Uncle - absolutely Better Than The Original:
https://youtu.be/sILbx5xbwPY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 March, 2021, 12:23:47 pm
Not sure if we've had this one already, but it came up in discussion elsewhere so I'm sharing again to be on the safe side...

Bauhaus doing Eno's Third Uncle - absolutely Better Than The Original:
https://youtu.be/sILbx5xbwPY

Mebbe if you didn't live through the original? The Bauhaus addition of the "Lust for life" bass line does nothing for me.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 17 March, 2021, 12:32:13 pm
Not sure if we've had this one already, but it came up in discussion elsewhere so I'm sharing again to be on the safe side...

Bauhaus doing Eno's Third Uncle - absolutely Better Than The Original:
https://youtu.be/sILbx5xbwPY

Mebbe if you didn't live through the original? The Bauhaus addition of the "Lust for life" bass line does nothing for me.

Maybe. I would have been less than two years old when Taking Tiger Mountain came out, certainly too young to appreciate it at the time, though it has become one of my all-time favourites. And the original of Third Uncle is fantastic too. I just think Bauhaus make it their own.

Kind of agree about the bass line though.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: andyoxon on 17 March, 2021, 01:00:28 pm
KO's 10 minute Comfortably Numb guitar solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF_KGJflC34
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 21 March, 2021, 09:23:47 pm
Look, I know that Larkin Poe have a season ticket on this thread, but they've just released Wish You Were Here. That whooshing sound you just heard? It was them knocking it out the park.

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZApH4XknUc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 31 March, 2021, 02:05:56 am
Not sure how many metal/hard rock fans there are on YACF. It's a field that's dwindling in UK, but is alive and well in the USA - indeed, it's never dropped far from the mainstream. There are a host of bands who do amazing covers, not just of rock tracks, but music of all sorts. And many of the vocalists these days are female, which is something I very much approve of and enjoy. One of my current favourite bands is Halocene, who collaborate with a number of other musicians. The resulting repertoire is frankly outstanding. And, I'd venture, none of these kids was born when their inspirations were at their height.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoimajyGy33X_Pqt-SHCWeA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2021, 08:13:02 am
As a follow on to TimC (they have done some collaborations with Halocene) Ukranian metal band Sershen & Zaritskaya cover Stayin' Alive as a rock song.

https://youtu.be/bvCp-zxnCs4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 02 April, 2021, 11:40:32 am
Squid do a nice live version of Robert Wyatt’s Pigs:

https://youtu.be/DktZtQbo-YU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: tonycollinet on 03 April, 2021, 09:09:26 am
Patrick Kielty's Cover Stories

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000txjp/episodes/guide
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 April, 2021, 07:47:35 pm
Linda Ronstadt double cover - Tumbling Dice & You're No Good, Atlanta 1977

With added Waddy Wachtel

https://youtu.be/yBg5cnoNyAE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 April, 2021, 09:25:54 pm
For No One - Emmylou Harris

https://youtu.be/_xFIGlMFEhE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 28 April, 2021, 11:46:56 am
Warren Zevon - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euBuVh_BUe4)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2021, 08:18:00 am
Delaney & Bonnie - Piece of my Heart

https://youtu.be/_gkCvMGVf2k

Recorded the same year (1968) as the Janis Joplin version.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2021, 09:56:28 pm
Ray Charles making a Leon Russell classic his own

Song For You:

https://youtu.be/CzAkTrDiXxg

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 29 April, 2021, 11:18:51 pm
Thanks Pat - nice bit of "Gary Burton" from Brother Ray in the middle, there!  Leon Russell made a terrific contribution to music.  No surprise with these connections that Joe Cocker did this one, too.

This isn't really a cover but I think you'll enjoy it - Ray at his live best, with astonishing vocal orgasms!  Henry Glover's "Drown In My Own Tears".  Be careful, there are a few live versions by Ray, but this is the governor.  Pull up a drink and sit back and enjoy the slow..... !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBvzwq1nTOo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBvzwq1nTOo)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 29 April, 2021, 11:30:06 pm
Wow!  Just discovered this and it IS a cover!

]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLyKqcopnrQ[url] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLyKqcopnrQ[url)[/url]
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 30 April, 2021, 08:55:12 am

This isn't really a cover but I think you'll enjoy it - Ray at his live best, with astonishing vocal orgasms!  Henry Glover's "Drown In My Own Tears".  Be careful, there are a few live versions by Ray, but this is the governor.  Pull up a drink and sit back and enjoy the slow..... !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBvzwq1nTOo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBvzwq1nTOo)

Counts as cover as he didn't write it and wasn't the first to record it (first to have a hit with it though). Lovely version and what a great live recording doesn't sound like it was done in 1959 from the quality.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Steph on 01 May, 2021, 05:06:01 pm
As a follow on to TimC (they have done some collaborations with Halocene) Ukranian metal band Sershen & Zaritskaya cover Stayin' Alive as a rock song.

https://youtu.be/bvCp-zxnCs4


Hmm. Given their, ahem, focal point, I found the collision of that and the title of this piece rather apt. I was also unsurprised to see them covering Alannah Myles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6mpWSMkkyI

As for 'Staying Alive covers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2hHsHejhwk&t=165s

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 May, 2021, 07:03:18 pm
Body and Soul - Tony Bennet and Amy Winehouse

https://youtu.be/_OFMkCeP6ok

Tone Bennet rated Amy in the same class as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Pitty she took more of a Billie rather than an Ella trajectory with her life.
I think it might be her last recording too.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 03 May, 2021, 09:02:23 pm
I'm not a big fan of 50s/60s jazz/lounge music (it was definitely my Dad's bag, and in those days you did NOT like your Dad's music!), but the Bennett-Gaga sessions are wonderful. I saw Amy several times, lastly at V festival in 2009 with the Specials (a great show), but she was a disappointment on many occasions. Such a waste of a great talent.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Canardly on 04 May, 2021, 05:01:41 pm
Both sides now, Mona Lisa twins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA3JNBLGq4Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA3JNBLGq4Y)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 May, 2021, 08:54:31 am
Isn't it a pity - Peter Frampton

https://youtu.be/RjyO4vnINTI

No singing but a beautiful cover done as a sort of memento to the covid year.

Its sad he wont be able to play for much longer.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 22 May, 2021, 06:12:42 pm
 Johnny Cash: Hurt.  I can only see a passing reference to it on this thread, way back in 2010 (reply 28) but no linky.  Long overdue maybe, enjoy, if that's the right word.

I now appear to have something in my eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: toontra on 22 May, 2021, 07:30:51 pm
Torres with a respectful reprise of Portishead's "Wandering Star":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai01q2DVCG4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai01q2DVCG4)

Mind you, they could have cleaned the place up a bit before shooting the vid.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 24 May, 2021, 08:22:48 pm
"Why does love got to be so sad"

https://youtu.be/dkhaMFSep0I

Tedeschi Trucks Band

This is from a one of live performance of the whole of Layla and other assorted love songs by them and guests that is going to be released as an album shortly.
I saw them play this and Bell Bottom Blues in London last year just before lockdown. If you ever get chance go see.

Derek Trucks was in the Allman Brothers Band and his uncle was Butch Trucks the original Allmans's drummer. Duane Allman played on the Layla album ans played the solo on Layla.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 26 May, 2021, 01:03:04 am
Pat, I think this might be up your street, though for the desert island it has to be either Ryland or the gospel version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAXtY_0KHM&list=PLbMI-gXS1uM-HJI7jwTnpcaA0E7S337UG (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAXtY_0KHM&list=PLbMI-gXS1uM-HJI7jwTnpcaA0E7S337UG)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 May, 2021, 04:35:21 am
Pat, I think this might be up your street, though for the desert island it has to be either Ryland or the gospel version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAXtY_0KHM&list=PLbMI-gXS1uM-HJI7jwTnpcaA0E7S337UG (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAXtY_0KHM&list=PLbMI-gXS1uM-HJI7jwTnpcaA0E7S337UG)

Thanks Peter. I'd come across Ariel Posen before but not The Bros. Landreth. I really like that, there is something very Lowell George about it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 May, 2021, 05:05:11 am
And speaking of  Lowell

"I Can't Stand The Rain"

https://youtu.be/tMkXm4q7pfU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 26 May, 2021, 03:06:18 pm
Good one!  Have to say, though, that Ann Peebles is a very hard act to follow - if you disagree, I'll tear your playhouse down!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 27 May, 2021, 12:47:55 pm
Black Midi just performed a live cover of Hall & Oates' I Can Go For That on 6music. Maddest thing I've heard this year. But quite brilliant.

Should be available to listen again soon, or on live rewind if you're quick:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wd14


Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 May, 2021, 08:36:16 pm
Janis Joplin - Maybe (originally by The Chantels)

Live in Germany 1969

https://youtu.be/12wVpoZJWH4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: StuAff on 31 May, 2021, 10:12:20 pm
There have been a lot of great lockdown cover versions, but this one is the absolute best for me. Ozzy's 'Crazy Train' performed by the magnificent Chelsea Wolfe et al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnvkhh4PRUM Ended up buying her entire discography on Bandcamp...

Closely followed by the Kings of Quarantine, whose charity efforts started with a cracking cover of my favourite song by my favourite band, Faith No More's 'We Care A Lot', did a fine job on Jane's Addiction's 'Mountain Song', then, best of all, Public Enemy's 'She Watch Channel Zero' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_yD8nkzm8
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: perpetual dan on 31 May, 2021, 11:09:17 pm
Those are great Stu. I like Chelsea Wolfe very much.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 12 June, 2021, 12:37:56 am
Have we had this?  It's Richard Marx (with a couple of appropriate sidemen) and Randy Meisner's "Take It To The Limit".  I think it's pretty good, though the lead guitarist has a silly neck....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8g3NTfpTs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8g3NTfpTs)

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Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: perpetual dan on 22 June, 2021, 09:25:39 am
Apparently there’s a whole album of this. Great? I don’t think it’s terrible.  https://youtu.be/2aVIHcICc0U (https://youtu.be/2aVIHcICc0U)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 June, 2021, 11:15:51 am
On a similar theme, Robyn Hitchcock does an acoustic version of Lipps Inc's “Funkytown” (https://youtu.be/jL0_xjQn3e0).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 June, 2021, 02:57:39 pm
The Chain

https://youtu.be/pwEdMi9MvBw

Plain Jane
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 24 June, 2021, 11:20:45 pm
Bauhaus doing Eno's Third Uncle - absolutely Better Than The Original:
https://youtu.be/sILbx5xbwPY
Nah, see, that's a Bauhaus song that Eno traveled back in time to cover ...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 26 June, 2021, 11:44:32 pm
I've just posted this pair elsewhere but it belongs here, too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE1hf2nhi0s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE1hf2nhi0s)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdX4_9VbBA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdX4_9VbBA)

Cover your own original.....
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 June, 2021, 07:06:00 pm
I've just heard a cover of the Buzzcock's Ever Fallen in Love (with someone you shouldn't have) by Nouvelle Vague, a term I think of mostly as a film genre. A good cover of a great song (and Pete Shelley was probably a bit underrated as a songwriter). Also another case of a cover making me really hear the words (Patti Smith has this effect even more, but in a completely different style).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 July, 2021, 08:31:04 pm
This one is kind of different: https://youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 08 July, 2021, 10:51:26 pm
Pete Shelley was probably a bit underrated as a songwriter

Not by me! After all, he did write the original C4 Tour de France theme.  ;D

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 13 July, 2021, 09:18:32 am
TMBG doing Bills, Bills, Bills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij6foFRNxx0
A number of similar mismatched covers on the AV club.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 16 August, 2021, 01:31:11 pm
Here's Nanci Griffith covering Sand's "Who knows where the time goes"

https://youtu.be/YOeDsYx_u9Q

Danny Thompson on base behind her.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 18 August, 2021, 07:18:40 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j385NN9JDo
Donny McCaslin and the 'Blackstar' band: David Bowie's "Warsawa"

They kind of need to roll on a piano at the end and set fire to it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 18 August, 2021, 07:52:16 pm
Had this been mentioned already? Donna Summer’s McArthur Park Suite, all 18 minutes of it…

https://youtu.be/VF_o7aSjl_E
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 30 August, 2021, 09:14:17 am
Saw Katy J Pearson last night, which was exciting enough in itself - an actual real live gig! But the highlight of the show for me was her version of Willow’s Song from The Wicker Man - nothing like the original, a proper rock take on it. Fantastic.

Unfortunately, since I know of no recordings of it that I can link to, you’ll have to take my word for it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 August, 2021, 09:42:17 am
Never seen this one before:

https://youtu.be/bNk1EpF9vBk

Carla Olsen doing Sway with Mick Taylor on guitar.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 September, 2021, 11:23:03 am
Have we had this one yet ?

Maybe - Janis Joplin

https://youtu.be/cM0T9fumD5k

The original was by The Chantels back in 1957.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 10 September, 2021, 11:29:21 am
I'm on a bit of a Wedding Present nostalgia trip at the moment, and being reminded of some of the fantastic cover versions they did as part of their Hit Parade project. They're all good, but these are probably my two favourites:

Come Up And See Me (this one is worth watching just for the comedy value of seeing the Weddoes on TotP)
https://youtu.be/YKuY2Ebe4So

Pleasant Valley Sunday
https://youtu.be/JfrXzQYcRnc

I was also reminded that the Weddoes spin-off band, the Ukrainians, did an utterly awesome cover of Pretty Vacant... starts off great, and gets even better as it goes along:
https://youtu.be/1j__BA6bdPA

ETA - and apparently they also did a cover of Ace of Spades, which I've never heard before:
https://youtu.be/p5CTh840X68
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 10 September, 2021, 11:41:22 am
Actually, tell a lie, this one is my real favourite:

Falling
https://youtu.be/vEEu7qMHIKQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 11 September, 2021, 07:30:00 pm
Siouxsie and the Banshees, the definitive version of "Dear Prudence" and "Helter Skelter"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 04 October, 2021, 11:37:13 am
Not everybody knows that the oriGInal (rhymes with 'vaginal') version of Dancing In The Moonlight was this recording by King Harvest, which has a certain lounge feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEb8tuYhDBI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEb8tuYhDBI)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 04 October, 2021, 11:44:55 am
Not everybody knows that the oriGInal (rhymes with 'vaginal') version of Dancing In The Moonlight was this recording by King Harvest, which has a certain lounge feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEb8tuYhDBI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEb8tuYhDBI)

That's lovely. How on earth did Toploader manage to make that song sound so uninspiring?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 04 October, 2021, 12:01:45 pm
Yeah, it's good, isn't it?  I particularly like the funky time signature changes, which Toploader emblandened (is that a real word?).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 October, 2021, 12:15:55 pm
Have we had this one yet ?

Maybe - Janis Joplin

https://youtu.be/cM0T9fumD5k

The original was by The Chantels back in 1957.
Bizarre. Youtube wants me to verify my age before allowing me to watch that.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 October, 2021, 12:19:49 pm
Siouxsie and the Banshees, the definitive version of "Dear Prudence" and "Helter Skelter"
Yep.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 October, 2021, 12:20:19 pm
I was also reminded that the Weddoes spin-off band, the Ukrainians, did an utterly awesome cover of Pretty Vacant... starts off great, and gets even better as it goes along:
https://youtu.be/1j__BA6bdPA

ETA - and apparently they also did a cover of Ace of Spades, which I've never heard before:
https://youtu.be/p5CTh840X68
Their accents are even worse than mine.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 October, 2021, 01:37:07 pm
I'm not sure who these people actually are but they do a good Beatles cover,, Don't Let Me Down:
https://youtu.be/fPYm5cjP23Q
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 04 October, 2021, 02:00:10 pm
LSD are good but there's some smoke and mirrors here.  Who is playing the guitar part around which the whole thing is built?  It's not a difficult part but the singer is definitely not playing it.  I wonder if they have it on a Sheeran-o-phone?  This is a terrific song.  There aren't many actual rock/blues numbers with a 5/4 bar.  It's a worthy cover.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 October, 2021, 12:14:46 am
I don't know about any of that! But sticking with the Beatles covers:
https://youtu.be/21VaXxyfZS0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 05 October, 2021, 12:38:26 am
I like that, Cudzo1  It's a terrific collection of musicians, especially Bill MacCormick and Simon Phillips.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 October, 2021, 12:42:35 am
And following on from that, the Bauhaus version of Third Uncle
https://youtu.be/sILbx5xbwPY
(which I didn't know they'd covered till about ten minutes ago)
might possibly be better than Eno's
https://youtu.be/xB1gyzP7Hmc
(which I first heard in 1986 thanks to this guy: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jharwood/)

Or possibly not. They're both good.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 07 October, 2021, 06:43:16 pm
I had also previously believed that Third Uncle was a Bauhaus original (I think it did pop up on this thread earlier though).

Your post did lead me to investigate a bit more Eno, who I will have to listen to more once I'm through binging on Wire.  I did do a search for the top Eno albums to listen to and I found a top-5 listing that included his collaborations, but not a single Bowie one.  Which seems like a mistake as they would include 2 out of the 3 best albums ever.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 07 October, 2021, 07:19:37 pm
Yes, I'm sure I mentioned Bauhaus's Third Uncle earlier. It's great. They totally own it.

I do love the original though. In fact, Taking Tiger Mountain is a fantastic album in its entirety.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 08 October, 2021, 06:44:12 pm
^ A recommendation I will follow up on.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 03 November, 2021, 10:47:39 am
Squid have just put out a cover of Bill Callahan's America. Love the original. Love the cover...

https://youtu.be/Ove9RUVwbWk
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 03 November, 2021, 10:48:50 am
^ A recommendation I will follow up on.

If you haven't already, try Here Come The Warm Jets as well - proof that Eno does great pop songs too, not just the ambient stuff!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 November, 2021, 08:03:10 pm
A cover of Motorhead's Ace of Spades by... well just listen and find out.
 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1424093032094126081
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 04 November, 2021, 10:00:08 am
Awesome!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 06 January, 2022, 12:59:49 pm
The great Sabine Hossenfelder gives us her take on REM (and Coronavirus).

https://youtu.be/VrzzhxdJ1cE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 22 January, 2022, 01:53:47 pm
Through the Looking Glass by S&tB. All of it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 31 January, 2022, 06:44:40 pm
Now it has to be questionable whether classic blues numbers can qualify for cover versions, but I would recommend Samantha Fish's I Put A Spell On You  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GvhjFW2skc) if you are that way inclined, it is notable for being more understated than is often the case from a blues guitarist.

While I was there I made the mistake of reading below the line, what is it with some men?

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 January, 2022, 07:15:16 pm
Certainly her attire in that vid is a tad more understated than is sometimes the case.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 January, 2022, 09:16:11 pm
Cake - I will survive

https://youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 06 February, 2022, 10:28:21 am
Cake - I will survive

https://youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU
What - this hasn't been nominated before?? That's a crime!

Thankyou p. This should be in any top 5. (and they're an under-rated band - I got sucked in by the brilliantly strange The Distance, and Fashion Nugget is on my greatest albums list.)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 09 February, 2022, 09:28:31 am
This is not new but I don’t think I’ve heard it before it was on the radio this morning - lovely soulful cover of No Diggity by Chet Faker:

https://youtu.be/HIfFA8-RaHQ
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 February, 2022, 09:39:50 am
Cake - I will survive

https://youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU
What - this hasn't been nominated before?? That's a crime!

Thankyou p. This should be in any top 5. (and they're an under-rated band - I got sucked in by the brilliantly strange The Distance, and Fashion Nugget is on my greatest albums list.)
The brass makes it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: nicknack on 09 February, 2022, 09:44:45 am
Cake - I will survive

https://youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU
What - this hasn't been nominated before?? That's a crime!

Thankyou p. This should be in any top 5. (and they're an under-rated band - I got sucked in by the brilliantly strange The Distance, and Fashion Nugget is on my greatest albums list.)
The brass makes it.
Ha! Of course. About 10 years ago (hmm... probably more than that actually) I got roped in by a guitarist friend of mine to play the trumpet part on The Distance. I must have mentioned that I owned one. I seem to think it went alright.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 February, 2022, 07:06:01 pm
And Jolene. (https://youtu.be/i6BKeODv7Yc)

Well, not actually...
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 09 February, 2022, 10:11:39 pm
And Jolene. (https://youtu.be/i6BKeODv7Yc)

Well, not actually...

The way that started, I thought it actually was going to be a cover.

You know what, though - we could fill a whole thread with great covers of that Jolene. And then another thread with terrible covers of Jolene.

I'm sure we've had the White Stripes version in this thread before.

This is one of my favourites, by Olivia Neutron Bomb (who knew it was a disco number?):
https://youtu.be/K9ynEaf2s3I

Then there's the Scottish electropop take from Strawberry Switchblade:
https://youtu.be/KFNYWzF02B4

But can anything beat the sheer overblown goth pomp of Sisters of Mercy?
https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 February, 2022, 08:38:52 am
Going back for a second to I Will Survive, it's a song whose lyrics work really well as spoken poetry. If you have the delivery for it, which of course I have – in private. (Don't we all?)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 February, 2022, 08:48:11 am
And Jolene. (https://youtu.be/i6BKeODv7Yc)

Well, not actually...

The way that started, I thought it actually was going to be a cover.
I expect they intended that. Instead of being a cover, it seems to pull in well known lines from a variety of disparate sources.

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You know what, though - we could fill a whole thread with great covers of that Jolene. And then another thread with terrible covers of Jolene.

I'm sure we've had the White Stripes version in this thread before.

This is one of my favourites, by Olivia Neutron Bomb (who knew it was a disco number?):
https://youtu.be/K9ynEaf2s3I
Disco is an attitude. Any song can be disco. I'm not hugely impressed by that one musically but zoinks! the way she hits those extended high notes! I've never paid any attention to her before but she's clearly a hell of a singer.

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Then there's the Scottish electropop take from Strawberry Switchblade:
https://youtu.be/KFNYWzF02B4

But can anything beat the sheer overblown goth pomp of Sisters of Mercy?
https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc
Gonna check these out in time.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 February, 2022, 08:36:16 pm
And still on Cake, it was clever of Steed and Peel to do a precover of Short Skirt, Long Jacket.
https://youtu.be/idtYckLIZnI
 :D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 February, 2022, 02:22:54 pm
Not necessarily great but certainly unexpected, Youtube just threw me this cover of Led Zep: https://youtu.be/2_ZT8FJZtGw?t=255
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 22 February, 2022, 10:30:24 am
Two songs I learnt yesterday are covers:

Bette Davis Eyes - original honky-tonk version by Jackie DeShannon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQsOJbs-yo)

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - original guitar-laden punky version by Robert Hazard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zeOag2fU3s)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 23 February, 2022, 07:20:56 pm
Bit of Foghat...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziiDkT165zI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziiDkT165zI)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: perpetual dan on 24 February, 2022, 09:14:58 am
Like a Hurricaine, by Neil Young has been covered by various people. Bryan Ferry has sharper suits, obviously, but his version doesn't really grab me. This is probably because the first version I knew was by The Mission (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tav363O0u-g) - 80s goth being something I never quite grew out of. There's also this version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DO1nEw_xI), which suffers from 90s gig-quality sound, but benefits from a goth in a bright pink shirt and the energy turned up a bit.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 24 February, 2022, 11:42:35 pm
For Neil Young covers, I prefer Bowie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNgsCmcIYKo).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 25 February, 2022, 12:15:43 pm
Interesting charity version of When The Levee Breaks, it even features John Paul Jones

https://youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 14 March, 2022, 07:56:41 pm
Sophie Hunger - La Chanson d'Helene

It features Eric Cantana!

https://youtu.be/pXy-2-mObGo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 22 March, 2022, 07:57:49 pm
The nostalgia-fest that was TOTP's "1992 Biggest Hits" the other day reminded me of how good the Manic Street Preachers' version of Suicide is Painless was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR97IpIqo5w
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 March, 2022, 09:38:14 am
black midi covering Taylor Swift's Love Story - you need to hear this:

https://youtu.be/RC-Yl0L3Vis

They've made it sound like a Springsteen classic.

It's off a new EP of covers, along with King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man and Captain Beefheart's Moonlight on Vermont, which are also amazing - even if they are far more obvious choices for black midi to cover.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 23 March, 2022, 09:44:52 am
The nostalgia-fest that was TOTP's "1992 Biggest Hits" the other day reminded me of how good the Manic Street Preachers' version of Suicide is Painless was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR97IpIqo5w

That's great but the B-side from the single was even better - the Fatima Mansions doing Bryan Adams' Everything I Do... - they transform it from a soppy  love song into the deranged ramblings of a psycho stalker:
https://youtu.be/w3NLPSoU46k

Both were on the NME's Ruby Trax compilation, an album of covers of number one records to celebrate 40 years of the Top 40. It also included Vic Reeves doing a frankly bizarre but brilliant cover of Vienna*:
https://youtu.be/I8cixXyuT68

*yes, we all know that Vienna never actually made it to number one - famously held off the top spot by Joe Dolce.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 23 March, 2022, 10:14:05 am
The nostalgia-fest that was TOTP's "1992 Biggest Hits" the other day reminded me of how good the Manic Street Preachers' version of Suicide is Painless was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR97IpIqo5w

That's great but the B-side from the single was even better - the Fatima Mansions doing Bryan Adams' Everything I Do... - they transform it from a soppy  love song into the deranged ramblings of a psycho stalker:
https://youtu.be/w3NLPSoU46k


I'd never heard that before! :o Possibly because I couldn't stand the Bryan Adams version, and have given everything that may be vaguely related a very wide berth ever since. But that cover is pretty much unrecognisable, which is a very good thing. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 March, 2022, 10:53:52 am
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap - Joan Jett

https://youtu.be/2sky1tt8vLA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 March, 2022, 11:09:10 am
On the other hand DJ Random played me a cover of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by The Atomic Bitchwax yesterday.  Sorry boys, but without Bon Scott it just sounds WRONG.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 09 April, 2022, 09:18:34 am
KIngs of Leon - Simple Man

https://youtu.be/RbNP0yqbsVs
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 11 April, 2022, 02:58:33 pm
Straight out of Kyiv.

Metal treatment of Diana Ross's "Upside Down"

https://youtu.be/y35brk5C53Y

Looking at their Facebook and Instagram accounts they have staid in Kyiv for the duration.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 11 April, 2022, 07:10:58 pm
I did wonder if they would. They put this out just before the invasion. I haven't watched to see if they've turned up on Halocene's live stream, but I kind of hoped they might.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 29 April, 2022, 12:41:22 am
This is by some distance the best of the many covers of Willow’s Song on YouTube… her voice is wonderful…

https://youtu.be/MigySNv53c8
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 May, 2022, 01:58:19 pm
Came across Pina Del Re (https://www.youtube.com/c/PinaDelRe/videos), who has a lovely voice, but I was thinking to myself that she didn't add much to the covers she was singling, until I came across Songbird (https://www.youtube.com/c/PinaDelRe/videos)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 19 May, 2022, 08:40:38 am
Have we had Faith No More covering The Bee Gees' I Started A Joke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDo6g4CCeU)?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 May, 2022, 08:14:07 am
Blackberry Smoke and Amanda Shires covering Tom Petty

You got lucky (https://youtu.be/td8To6gb3qA)

Completely different feel to the original.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 31 May, 2022, 04:50:03 pm
Never Been to Spain - Chris Robinson Brotherhood

https://youtu.be/-vGkd-uz7Yo
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 13 June, 2022, 12:50:54 am
Isolation by Therapy? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZwXCDqlE9I) I'm not sure it's great, but I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 13 June, 2022, 01:04:45 pm
I saw them in an somewhat oversized pub, then two month later they were headlining festivals.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: StuAff on 13 June, 2022, 10:13:56 pm
Have we had Faith No More covering The Bee Gees' I Started A Joke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDo6g4CCeU)?
It's a good one- though all their covers have been.
On a related note, Mr Bungle (Mike Patton, Trey Spruance & Trevor Dunn, with in this incarnation Scott Ian & Dave Lombardo) mashed up Hell Awaits and Summer Breeze…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorlR4IFkjo&ab_channel=JimPowers
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: StuAff on 13 June, 2022, 10:18:35 pm
I saw them in an somewhat oversized pub, then two month later they were headlining festivals.
They're mostly playing in small venues these days, at least in the UK, though they were at the AB in Brussels a few weeks back. Their commercial heyday may be long over, but they're still making great records and putting on great shows.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 13 June, 2022, 10:53:56 pm
I was talking >~ 20 years ago.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: StuAff on 13 June, 2022, 11:07:15 pm
I was talking >~ 20 years ago.
Well, it's 30 now…(got blown away by them early afternoon at Reading '92, they were third on the bill the next year).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Jaded on 13 June, 2022, 11:17:36 pm
Just heard a brilliant live cover of "Slippery People".
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 15 June, 2022, 11:15:45 pm
I was talking >~ 20 years ago.
Well, it's 30 now…(got blown away by them early afternoon at Reading '92, they were third on the bill the next year).
:facepalm: I'm so old I can be out by 10 years and not notice!  Yup, it would have been the 90s.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 27 June, 2022, 01:30:41 pm
Whitesnake - Day Tripper

https://youtu.be/ub8rPHBXd20

Before Mr Coverdale changed Whitesnake to a US style hair metal band.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 June, 2022, 01:45:34 pm
Have we had Faith No More covering The Bee Gees' I Started A Joke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDo6g4CCeU)?
It's a good one- though all their covers have been.
On a related note, Mr Bungle (Mike Patton, Trey Spruance & Trevor Dunn, with in this incarnation Scott Ian & Dave Lombardo) mashed up Hell Awaits and Summer Breeze…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorlR4IFkjo&ab_channel=JimPowers

While we're on Summer Breeze, Type O Negative did a good version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFrVsjA-5UY).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 June, 2022, 02:12:43 pm
Whitesnake - Day Tripper

https://youtu.be/ub8rPHBXd20

Before Mr Coverdale changed Whitesnake to a US style hair metal band.

The Company Of Snakes – Micky Moody and Bernie Marsden plus a bunch of others, at least half of whom emerged from the Deep Purple axis of evil – used mostly to play Whitesnake songs but inna-blues-rock-stylee.  Worked quite well too.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 04 August, 2022, 02:12:03 pm
Just passing through Stratford International station, a young woman was playing the piano*. It took me a minute to recognise the tune but it eventually dawned on me that it was Sweet Child O' Mine. And it was rather lovely.


*when did pianos in stations become a thing? I remember when they put them in St Pancras it felt like a bit of a novelty, but they're bloomin' everywhere now.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Jurek on 04 August, 2022, 02:24:18 pm
Even Lewisham station has one.
It had a stool chained to it.
The stool was stolen.
That's Lewisham for you, I guess.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 August, 2022, 02:28:01 pm
Is that a London thing? There used to be a dozen or so dotted around Bristol, all gone years ago.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 August, 2022, 10:12:46 pm
Johnny Cash's version of "If You Could Read My Mind".  Technically, it's awful.  As an interpretation, it's perfect.

https://youtu.be/xEx147n9G1A
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 August, 2022, 03:34:45 pm
I heard a soul version of a Doors song last night. I can't remember the singer's name but the nearest I can find is this, which will certainly do:
https://youtu.be/ZlzAQbR858U

The one I heard was slower than that.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 17 August, 2022, 06:49:00 pm
Surely the best Doors cover is from the Lost Boys soundtrack.
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 August, 2022, 05:40:14 pm
Another cover version I heard on the radio the other night, but definitely not a great one, was Boney M's Belfast in Welsh.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 23 August, 2022, 02:27:19 pm
I heard a soul version of a Doors song last night. I can't remember the singer's name but the nearest I can find is this, which will certainly do:
https://youtu.be/ZlzAQbR858U

The one I heard was slower than that.
Jose Feliciano's version of that is TERRIBLE, but I do rather like this version of Up On The Roof (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOPAutpH7Ck).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 September, 2022, 08:15:12 am
https://youtu.be/by0fsLL4wSU

Has this crossed the swampy line from cover to another?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: geoff on 09 September, 2022, 08:09:13 pm
Seems Radiohead/ The Smile's J Greenwood likes this:

Creep by Limmy on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/Uqujr

Sent from my STF-L09 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 11 September, 2022, 11:08:02 am
Not strictly a cover, but if you like St Germain's Rose Rouge, I recommend this brilliant video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w36WINZnUpI
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 11 September, 2022, 01:38:14 pm
Seems Radiohead/ The Smile's J Greenwood likes this:

Creep by Limmy on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/Uqujr

Sent from my STF-L09 using Tapatalk

Nice!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 October, 2022, 09:32:06 am
Rufus Wainwright / Brandi Carlile - Who Knows Where The Time Goes

https://youtu.be/EQ51sxRJVE4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 October, 2022, 11:42:27 am
All star cover cover of "The Chain" in four part harmony.

https://youtu.be/jVLNB3d-2cA
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 23 October, 2022, 09:41:15 pm
l have nominated this previously as I've known it for a while, but hearing it on Iggy's Confidential reminded me of this, arguably an "ultimate" cover version.

Rachid Taha does Rock Le Casbah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Sg9H2T_TQ

Another who went too soon.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 November, 2022, 12:29:44 pm
This is an unlikely one Since You've Been Gone:

https://youtu.be/jq799Vf_auQ

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott covering Rainbow.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: mattc on 28 November, 2022, 06:46:03 pm
https://twitter.com/mumtuum/status/1596530065269227520?t=LTnXy8z7PXKDZTDjHViEzw&s=19
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 07 December, 2022, 10:17:04 am
I'm not sure if this is genius, but Booker T. and the M.G.'s' cover album (yes, I did get the apostrophes in the right place!), McLemore Avenue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffv4suQ3eHQ&list=OLAK5uy_kQxJEBDR90XXxs3zOWts4Fy7XWaXfxVZc) is worth a listen (warning, contains a lot of Hammond organ)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Mclemoreavenue_album.jpg)

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 23 December, 2022, 10:54:20 am
I've gone down a bit of a Spanish music rabbit hole the last couple of weeks.

Rosalia turns a boy band Samba hit from 1980 into something completely different and almost religious:

https://youtu.be/32d1bq-kG5c

Rosario Flores and Diego el Cigala cover Nino Brava's hit from 1970 "Te quiero, te quiero".
There is just something joyful about this performance.

https://youtu.be/tNQyzhZP6GM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 December, 2022, 05:13:54 pm
I'm not sure if this is genius, but Booker T. and the M.G.'s' cover album (yes, I did get the apostrophes in the right place!), McLemore Avenue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffv4suQ3eHQ&list=OLAK5uy_kQxJEBDR90XXxs3zOWts4Fy7XWaXfxVZc) is worth a listen (warning, contains a lot of Hammond organ)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Mclemoreavenue_album.jpg)
I saw the picture first and thought you were talking about the album cover, not a cover album. Now how about a thread for album (and single) cover covers?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 17 January, 2023, 02:21:46 pm
Sheryl Crow - You're no good

Linda Ronstadt's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Look at the backing singers,  Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Glenn Fry. And Waddy Wachtel on lead guitar!

https://youtu.be/akxXlB2Xn4I
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fimm on 18 January, 2023, 09:59:56 am
Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing played on a solo guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1WYIu_gA4
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 January, 2023, 06:10:26 pm
The Gurud'ian has a ranking of Bee Gees songs. At number 9 they have Words:
Quote
The second modern standard the Bee Gees came up with in less than a year. Words’ bulletproof tune – and Barry’s fabulous vocal, at turns fragile and anguished – spawned more than 150 covers, including versions by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Terry Wogan and Boyzone, alas not together.
Unfortunately the first three are dead, or the BBC and/or Band Aid etc could have staged an immense singathon version. Imagine all of them harmonising together Bee Gees style – it would sound... (probably horrendous)  ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: IanDG on 20 January, 2023, 08:04:57 am
Humble Pie acoustic version of "For Your Love (https://youtu.be/1wOa0EzfxTo)"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 20 January, 2023, 08:15:16 am
Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing played on a solo guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1WYIu_gA4
At 5:55 (https://youtu.be/sS1WYIu_gA4?t=354) he looks like he's going into the vinegar strokes  ;D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 March, 2023, 02:31:55 pm
The Decemberists having fun with a Heart song:

https://youtu.be/7yrL8PeORjU
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 March, 2023, 02:39:31 pm
Cowboy Junkies - Helpless

https://youtu.be/8-qIM1N2ONY
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 March, 2023, 10:50:09 am
Eurythmics - Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles

https://youtu.be/LbxocGwHBoE

I'm late to the party here, didn't realise they had covered this Françoise Hardy song.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Slave To The Viking on 28 March, 2023, 11:24:21 pm
Johnny Cash's version of "If You Could Read My Mind".  Technically, it's awful.  As an interpretation, it's perfect.

https://youtu.be/xEx147n9G1A

Hell's teeth, that's appalling. Johnny Cash spent a long time being regarded as hokey old nonsense, before being retconned into always having been respected. But by the time he did this, he was an old man with a cracked and knackered old voice, singing a song whose composer is an old man who can still sing beautifully. There's none of the effortless lyrical meandering that Lightfoot does so well - I quite possibly wouldn't have noticed how great a song it was if I didn't already know.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: phil653 on 19 April, 2023, 03:42:51 pm
The Chain

https://youtu.be/pwEdMi9MvBw

Plain Jane

I'll see your Plain Jane and raise you a Chiara Kilchling, who I don't think has featured here before. I was looking for covers of Led Zep's Kashmir and YT's algorithm threw her version my way - see link below, and more on that in a mo.  As far as the talented-youth-recording-in-a-bedroom genre goes I think this is about as good as it gets. My only quibble is that the bass isn't quite perfectly tuned for that F1 riff, for which there's no real excuse in this day and age of electronic tuners. Her voice and harmonies are excellent, and she's obviously got musical chops in spades. It's been on repeat this afternoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi2SSx_8YIA

Meanwhile, that Kashmir cover is also pretty impressive. Just her voice and an acoustic guitar, adorned with the symbols from Led Zep IV.  It's not from one single take, but that's no criticism. Kashmir is notoriously difficult given that the guitar part in in triple metre, whereas the vocal part is in quadruple metre, very hard to do both at the same time. She plays it in the correct DADGAD tuning, with overdubs - anything other than standard tuning, dropped D and open E or D baffles my muscle memory, and for the same reason 5 string bass was beyond me and I immediately reverted to four so as to match my double bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKfjh2fvYE
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: sam on 07 May, 2023, 08:00:04 am
It's not quite in the spirit of the OP,

So, what are your 'best' covers? I'm thinking of versions that take the original to a new level rather than just being copies.

more in the vein of Simon Cowell {ugh} 's reaction to Susan Boyle. The Last Band On Earth aka the Elsenburg family doing Fleetwood Mac:

(https://i.imgur.com/0WFs3f1.jpg) (https://youtu.be/8nvyqgTqOCU)

Not so much inspired as technically competent (I don't mean to damn with faint praise!), but as someone in the comments put it, "Clicked on this prepared to be unimpressed... boy was I wrong."

#LockdownGenre (https://cowbridge.nub.news/news/local-news/up-close-in-cowbridge-with-family-music-making-trio-the-last-band-on-earth)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 07 May, 2023, 10:45:36 pm
Would have been nice for the boy actually to have his part appear in the mix!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 09 May, 2023, 07:13:05 pm
Have we had Nils Lofgren's cover of Carole King's Goin' Back (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSBeEHUAfok)?  (I'm not a big fan of the Dusty version)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 July, 2023, 12:53:08 pm
Those lovely chaps of Amplifier have done a cover of “Kashmir” and while Sel Balamir would, I'm sure, be the first to admit that Percy is the better singer, it ent half bad.  Might be audible at https://www.rockosmos.com/music – this Unit just downloaded it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 July, 2023, 08:41:24 pm
Mr Bojangles sang by someone with a better voice than Bob Dylan
https://youtu.be/InFBVuxE6dI
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 10 July, 2023, 12:58:30 pm
Phish - Spanish Moon

https://youtu.be/7lHtcAGuc40
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 14 August, 2023, 02:00:47 pm
Just heard this on the radio and it has knocked my socks off - Gary Numan's Cars as interpreted by The Leisure Society:

https://youtu.be/9JQaf4tpqiA


I've always thought that the original kind of depended on that very particular Numan sound to work, but this proves that there's a decent song underneath the bombastic futuristic synths that stands up to other treatments much better than you might imagine.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: MattH on 24 August, 2023, 07:38:26 am
Africa - Angel City Chorale. The intro is especially clever.

https://youtu.be/-c9-poC5HGw?si=4VX8Y2jK_o2e2gqw
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 02 October, 2023, 07:50:46 am
Andy Williams' I Can't Help Falling In Love With You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VybjbIVv1Nw)

Sublime.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 06 October, 2023, 09:03:49 pm
I came across Elize Fleury, and I can't make up my mind whether she is actually very good or she just reminds me of a girlfriend from long ago (appearance, voice, playing).

Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EULp8xJEdCM
When the levee breaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRb4DJUhuA
Me and bobby McGee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFyDPj61a5M
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: sam on 07 October, 2023, 10:27:04 am
I wanted to do a post about Dylan covering Dylan, but I inevitably prefer the versions that made it onto CDs. This is a good example:

Dignity - alternate version (https://youtu.be/wOgsEkh9WsY?si=gCUTtqtBz-bP8m_2)
Dignity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h9xCEVKwtg)

Re Mr Bojangles, I think it needs a tired, gravelly voice to feel it in your bones.

It's very rare that I hear someone else singing one of his songs and think they've done it justice. My wife knows this, so when she introduced me to Simply Red's version of Positively 4th Street, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abk5A0KlBP4) she was sure I'd hate it. Happy to say she was wrong on that score (despite what I still consider to be a mismatch).
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 08 October, 2023, 11:54:17 am
@ Cudzo and Sam.  This are versions of Jerry Jeff Walker's Mr Bojangles that you really need.  They pre-dates all the ones you've mentioned.  The first is by Harry Nilsson in 1969:-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRREgC7xLqk][url][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRREgC7xLqk][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRREgC7xLqk][url][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRREgC7xLqk (http://[url=http://[url)[/url][/url]

And here's Nina Simone from 1971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjfV1q2yO1c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjfV1q2yO1c)

EDIT:  Just got a bit melancholic.  My older brother who died almost 3 years ago, bought me the Nilsson album for Christmas in 69.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 16 October, 2023, 11:08:20 pm
If you are a little tired of the overproduction that seems to be omnipresent these days, I offer you Biko's mama

eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSWA3vin7i4 - Say a little prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EpIM5GzA88 take five

Not the best covers but listening and watching I found pleasing.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 16 October, 2023, 11:42:01 pm
This is an unlikely one Since You've Been Gone:

https://youtu.be/jq799Vf_auQ

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott covering Rainbow.
Goes to show how subjective music is.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 17 October, 2023, 12:19:27 am
If you are a little tired of the overproduction that seems to be omnipresent these days, I offer you Biko's mama

eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSWA3vin7i4 - Say a little prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EpIM5GzA88 take five

Not the best covers but listening and watching I found pleasing.

Ham , your mis-spelling of Manna (mama) got me watching under false pretences, wondering just how old Steve Biko's Mama might be by now.  But I'm very glad I did!  These children are obviously not the finished article and hopefully they will survive being dragged around America like a freak show although they might have more opportunities than in Sarth Efrika.  Their take on Take 5 made me think for the first time (as a guitarist myself) what a flamenco type tune it is.  Excellent, thanks!
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 17 October, 2023, 12:24:52 am
This is an unlikely one Since You've Been Gone:

https://youtu.be/jq799Vf_auQ

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott covering Rainbow.
Goes to show how subjective music is.

Strictly speaking "Since You Been Gone" -  you tube's mistake, not yours.

The chorus riff might be considered as a cover version of Beethoven's Fifth!

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Ham on 17 October, 2023, 10:17:48 am


Ham , your mis-spelling of Manna (mama) got me watching under false pretences, wondering just how old Steve Biko's Mama might be by now.

Oh yes......  :-[

And yes, it appears that they will be chewed up, hope it all works out for them.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 October, 2023, 12:52:01 pm
I'm not sure whether this is great, but it's very different from the original and yet in the same mood. Probably better. And I only heard it cos I listened to one of the others mentioned upthread! The Day Before You Came covered by "The Real Tuesday Weld" whoever they are.

https://youtu.be/UmoVNCsPv1k?si=jdnqoWmsiQrULa02
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 31 October, 2023, 11:00:23 pm
I love Dusty Springfield and doubt anything she did could be improved upon, but I also love this cover of You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Walt Disco...

https://youtu.be/dmGSDfeEPiI?si=9WxpxXM_ZEv87uOn

Saw this bunch supporting another band a couple of weeks ago and they were awesome. They're supporting OMD on their big tour next year and Andy McCluskey rates them as his favourite band right now.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 31 October, 2023, 11:07:19 pm
I'm not sure whether this is great, but it's very different from the original and yet in the same mood. Probably better. And I only heard it cos I listened to one of the others mentioned upthread! The Day Before You Came covered by "The Real Tuesday Weld" whoever they are.

https://youtu.be/UmoVNCsPv1k?si=jdnqoWmsiQrULa02

Oh wow! I love that. The Real Tuesday Weld is aka The Clerkenwell Kid aka Stephen Coates. He has a quirky line in what you might call steampunk electronica, which that cover exemplifies perfectly. Have to admit I'd forgotten all about him but I remember very much liking his album I, Lucifer, which apparently came out way back in 2002. I have a vague recollection that the lead track from it, Bathtime in Clerkenwell, was used in an advert at the time so might be familiar...
https://youtu.be/ETyOwymflXc?si=6gTRhAJCgI6F4aCX

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 31 October, 2023, 11:10:50 pm
This is a much straighter* version of The Day Before You Came by Blancmange, but it's the definitive version for me because it's the one that first introduced me to the song the best part of 40 years ago (only found out it was a cover somewhat later - for some reason the original passed me by, and I don't think I ever twigged why Agnetha appears in the Blancmange video)

https://youtu.be/oWrS4oqtBW4?si=76ktwY1UHzBlSc_P


*fsvo "straight" ;)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 16 December, 2023, 11:41:15 pm
Just heard Tool's cover of No Quarter. It's very faithful.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 December, 2023, 10:58:14 am
I'm not sure whether this is great, but it's very different from the original and yet in the same mood. Probably better. And I only heard it cos I listened to one of the others mentioned upthread! The Day Before You Came covered by "The Real Tuesday Weld" whoever they are.

https://youtu.be/UmoVNCsPv1k?si=jdnqoWmsiQrULa02

Oh wow! I love that. The Real Tuesday Weld is aka The Clerkenwell Kid aka Stephen Coates. He has a quirky line in what you might call steampunk electronica, which that cover exemplifies perfectly. Have to admit I'd forgotten all about him but I remember very much liking his album I, Lucifer, which apparently came out way back in 2002. I have a vague recollection that the lead track from it, Bathtime in Clerkenwell, was used in an advert at the time so might be familiar...
https://youtu.be/ETyOwymflXc?si=6gTRhAJCgI6F4aCX
That is brilliant! The animation is excellent too. In 2002 I was living in the Far Off Frozen Wastes of Eastern Europe, so wouldn't have heard the advert. In fact, if I hadn't known, I might have guessed it was recorded in the early sixties or late fifties in the West Indies...

The Blancmange cover of The Day Before You Came is nothing special musically IMO but I did like the way they had Bollywood on TV.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 December, 2023, 12:56:53 pm
I'm wondering why TDBYC attracts multiple covers. It's hardly one of Abba's big hits. Are there perhaps factors which make a song a good prospect for cover versions? Maybe it's better if it wasn't a huge hit, so it's not too much associated with the original artist?
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 18 December, 2023, 01:48:07 pm
I'm wondering why TDBYC attracts multiple covers. It's hardly one of Abba's big hits. Are there perhaps factors which make a song a good prospect for cover versions? Maybe it's better if it wasn't a huge hit, so it's not too much associated with the original artist?

It may not have been a big hit at the time but it is retrospectively regarded as one of their very best. And perhaps that’s all there is to it - people cover it because they like it?

Other reasons could include the cool factor in picking one of the lesser-known songs to cover - the mark of the cognoscenti.

Plus the fact that it’s quite unlike anything else they ever did - the “this is an ABBA song? WTF!” factor.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 December, 2023, 08:37:19 pm
I'm not sure that an impromptu performance in a pub counts as a cover version, but last night I heard St James Infirmary played on "slap cello" and a sort of Chinese bamboo flute. More interestingly, but not a cover at all, the player of the Chinese flute had earlier performed on a sort of simple two-string Mongolian instrument apparently called dongola (or something similar) with throat singing in Mandarin.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 January, 2024, 06:00:14 pm
Scary Pockets - Bad Habits (Ed Sheeran)

https://youtu.be/DjZEAAtk8rc?si=Z9tDzBwMQjRnfR1H

Much better than the ginger one's origional.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 January, 2024, 01:08:36 pm
And another one from Scary Pockets - Kiss

https://youtu.be/Y63m5JqCziE?si=-Hpo7Al3M3ny6VBZ

They are a bunch of session musicians from LA just having fun in the studio, hence a revolving cast of players and vocalists.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 January, 2024, 02:00:20 pm
Have we had Weezer's cover of TLC's "No Scrubs"?


https://youtu.be/55UtG-1os_s?si=fZ29G3in2eWYSA-7
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 04 January, 2024, 03:39:15 pm
Have we had Weezer's cover of TLC's "No Scrubs"?

No, because this is the "great cover versions" thread, not the "pleasestopit'smakingmyearsbleed cover versions" thread"
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 12 January, 2024, 05:28:44 pm
To shamelessly copy what someone said elsewhere, CYRM by ØXN was the best album involving a member of Lankum to come out in 2023.

Not least for this splendid cover of Scott Walker's Farmer In The City...

https://youtu.be/HE9VmdB_o5E?si=AOyaDiGQErXzqWsP
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Legs on 19 January, 2024, 08:20:55 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUa5RvpUEhw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUa5RvpUEhw)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 20 January, 2024, 12:23:02 am
This is new to me. Pretty epic. Hendrix covering 'Gloria':

https://youtu.be/IZN3MTgB0Ec?si=zDJNAE5wVK7L0Ax0
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: slope on 12 February, 2024, 12:49:17 am
"Watch This Sound" by the Uniques - Sam Smith, Lloyd Charmers and Jimmy Riley. 1968.

Could it be satisfactorily described as a cover? Wonder what Mr Stills thought?

https://youtu.be/I1Y7cukyuf0?feature=shared
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: TimC on 12 February, 2024, 10:30:46 am
I'm a bit of a fan of Post Modern Jukebox. I also use various fairly clever bits of software to make music sometimes. My own efforts are clumsy at best, but this is a masterpiece. To be clear, this is an artificial voice created from singing 'building blocks' within a program called Synth V. It is not AI song creation. The AI comes in the way that the various voice components are combined to form recognisable words and translate the programmer's inputs into a musical output. The actual song creation is a manual process that requires a huge amount of study and work - much like using Blender to create amazing animated scenes.

This is so good it's effectively pointless! But as an exhibition of technique, it's superb.

https://youtu.be/MTiDN08F10w?si=EAamMA5XzR0D5PqM
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 12 February, 2024, 05:49:22 pm
Move over, the Flying Pickets! This is slightly twee but lots of fun - an acapella take on The Who's I Can See For Miles...

https://youtu.be/a1W6B6C6SYw?si=vFo1lXPoqQzZZAX_

Petra Haden, who is behind it, has recorded the whole of The Who Sell Out in the same vein (she does all the vocal parts herself on the record, which is impressive). Not listened to the rest of it yet.

It's not new but I only heard it for the first time a few days ago on the radio when Gideon Coe played it.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2024, 11:58:54 pm
A Rickroll with a difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlV0k-rC-00&ab_channel=JosepCastanyerAlonso

That really is quite superbly done.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 13 February, 2024, 12:29:15 am
Move over, the Flying Pickets! This is slightly twee but lots of fun - an acapella take on The Who's I Can See For Miles...

https://youtu.be/a1W6B6C6SYw?si=vFo1lXPoqQzZZAX_

Petra Haden, who is behind it, has recorded the whole of The Who Sell Out in the same vein (she does all the vocal parts herself on the record, which is impressive). Not listened to the rest of it yet.

It's not new but I only heard it for the first time a few days ago on the radio when Gideon Coe played it.
Petra Haden is the daughter of the late Charlie Haden, jazz bass supremo of note. He was responsible for the distinctive riff in Ian Drury's 'Sex & Drugs & Rock and Roll', which he created as part of his contribution to Ornette Coleman's 'Ramblin' in the 1960 studio recording.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Robh on 13 February, 2024, 12:33:35 am
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but it's interesting. The Smoke On The Water riff may not have been - as Ritchie Blackmore claimed - derived from Beethoven after all: https://youtu.be/wKzqC_TWrhs?si=TKY9-1sswRx4fXqF
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: pcolbeck on 20 February, 2024, 05:58:35 pm
Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad"

https://youtu.be/sZPoeZSnp9M?si=8ZbsYluMiT-81u0T

Does it count as a cover when Bobby wrote it with Clapton and played on the original?

Anyway his Hammond B3 playing is blistering. Dave Grissom and Eric Johnson doing the Clapton and Duanne Allman guitar bits are excellent as well.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 21 February, 2024, 03:27:38 pm
Slight inversion, here:-

Do we have many cases where an original is much more obscure than the really well-known but also much better?

I think this is a case in point.  The Beatles (who are on a pinnacle for me) are all over You Tube and their BBC collection with "Some Other Guy".  It's very good - dynamic and powerful, all you'd expect from the Beatles even at that stage in their career.  But I wonder how many people have heard the original?  I think it's much better and the writers might surprise some!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGiyRP6Sqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGiyRP6Sqc)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: sam on 22 February, 2024, 02:03:09 am
the writers might surprise some!

Quote from: Wikipedia
On March 9, 1958, Leiber and Stoller appeared together on the TV panel quiz show What's My Line? as rock and roll composers of "Hounddog", "Jailhouse Rock" and "Don't". They were not household names and did not appear as celebrity mystery guests (a regular feature of the show) but as ordinary people with an unusual “line” of work. They even signed in under their own names, as the producers apparently were certain that the panel would not know who they were.

Incidentally, I do like vids where record labels feature.

My offering tonight is AC/DC's Highway to hell:

Carla Bruni
https://youtu.be/6tJAYcxNSdA

Ms I'mUpHere (the YT comments are as one might expect)
https://youtu.be/d2RZXeQc5HU

Personally I think the original can't be beat.
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: citoyen on 22 February, 2024, 12:35:55 pm
Do we have many cases where an original is much more obscure than the really well-known but also much better?

I think we had a whole thread on this a while back.

The one that always comes to mind for me is the Valentinos - It's All Over Now (https://youtu.be/71XrZ7ghpZg?si=kmLGaa5Dv3W1F5r-).

Quote
I think this is a case in point.  The Beatles (who are on a pinnacle for me) are all over You Tube and their BBC collection with "Some Other Guy".  It's very good - dynamic and powerful, all you'd expect from the Beatles even at that stage in their career.  But I wonder how many people have heard the original?  I think it's much better and the writers might surprise some!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGiyRP6Sqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGiyRP6Sqc)

That is superb! Not sure I know the Beatles version but I can easily imagine what it sounds like.

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: fd3 on 22 February, 2024, 01:55:59 pm
Have we had Weezer's cover of TLC's "No Scrubs"?


https://youtu.be/55UtG-1os_s?si=fZ29G3in2eWYSA-7
They might be giants covering "bills bills bills". 
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Peter on 22 February, 2024, 02:22:36 pm
Do we have many cases where an original is much more obscure than the really well-known but also much better?

I think we had a whole thread on this a while back.

The one that always comes to mind for me is the Valentinos - It's All Over Now (https://youtu.be/71XrZ7ghpZg?si=kmLGaa5Dv3W1F5r-).

Quote
I think this is a case in point.  The Beatles (who are on a pinnacle for me) are all over You Tube and their BBC collection with "Some Other Guy".  It's very good - dynamic and powerful, all you'd expect from the Beatles even at that stage in their career.  But I wonder how many people have heard the original?  I think it's much better and the writers might surprise some!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGiyRP6Sqc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnGiyRP6Sqc)

That is superb! Not sure I know the Beatles version but I can easily imagine what it sounds like.

Yes, D, The Valentinos were the Womack Brothers and Bobby wrote it and sang lead.  As for The Fab Four and Some Other Guy, see if this matches your imagination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgvoNvjRFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgvoNvjRFY)

There's no denying the energy and general excellence of a group that were already streets ahead of the game but I think George's guitar is out of tune and I just love the Ray Charles vibe (especially the piano) on Richie Barrett's original.  it's great making these discoveries!

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: T42 on 04 March, 2024, 02:22:47 pm
Always look on the bright side of life - North Korean edition

https://youtu.be/ifLqzLEB3E0?si=l7q4IVAm-ofHbAgj

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 March, 2024, 02:26:21 pm
A Rickroll with a difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlV0k-rC-00&ab_channel=JosepCastanyerAlonso

That really is quite superbly done.
"A series of fugues based on annoying tunes"  :D
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: slope on 04 March, 2024, 03:23:51 pm
Has the forum had an acoustic guitar version of Henry Mancini's Pink Panther theme?

https://youtu.be/0gAY4lGhb6I?feature=shared

or -

https://youtu.be/fZ37IixBja4?feature=shared

and even Tommy Emmanuel's at it -

https://youtu.be/oUoxlagDVlo?feature=shared

Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: Pingu on 08 March, 2024, 11:47:36 pm
Classical Gas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33tWZqXhnk)
Title: Re: Great cover versions
Post by: jwo on 09 March, 2024, 08:09:49 am
This is new to me. Pretty epic. Hendrix covering 'Gloria':

https://youtu.be/IZN3MTgB0Ec?si=zDJNAE5wVK7L0Ax0

I do like a bit of Hendrix, but for me, there is only one outstanding cover of Gloria. Patti Smith made it all her own to the extent I'm not sure it even counts as a 'cover'.

And as live performances go, this is quite something...

https://youtu.be/VgNeBNMJFZs?si=kh4Q2IGSpvRCpOIN