Author Topic: Great cover versions (Read 206775 times)

Steph · « **Reply #975 on:** 01 May, 2021, 05:06:01 pm »

Quote from: 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

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

pcolbeck · « **Reply #976 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.

TimC · « **Reply #977 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.

Canardly · « **Reply #978 on:** 04 May, 2021, 05:01:41 pm »

Both sides now, Mona Lisa twins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA3JNBLGq4Y

pcolbeck · « **Reply #979 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.

phil653 · « **Reply #980 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

toontra · « **Reply #981 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

Mind you, they could have cleaned the place up a bit before shooting the vid.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #982 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.

Peter · « **Reply #983 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

pcolbeck · « **Reply #984 on:** 26 May, 2021, 04:35:21 am »

Quote from: 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

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.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #985 on:** 26 May, 2021, 05:05:11 am »

And speaking of Lowell

"I Can't Stand The Rain"

https://youtu.be/tMkXm4q7pfU

Peter · « **Reply #986 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!

citoyen · « **Reply #987 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

pcolbeck · « **Reply #988 on:** 31 May, 2021, 08:36:16 pm »

Janis Joplin - Maybe (originally by The Chantels)

Live in Germany 1969

https://youtu.be/12wVpoZJWH4

StuAff · « **Reply #989 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

perpetual dan · « **Reply #990 on:** 31 May, 2021, 11:09:17 pm »

Those are great Stu. I like Chelsea Wolfe very much.

Peter · « **Reply #991 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

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perpetual dan · « **Reply #992 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

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #993 on:** 22 June, 2021, 11:15:51 am »

On a similar theme, Robyn Hitchcock does an acoustic version of Lipps Inc's “Funkytown”.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #994 on:** 23 June, 2021, 02:57:39 pm »

The Chain

https://youtu.be/pwEdMi9MvBw

Plain Jane

fd3 · « **Reply #995 on:** 24 June, 2021, 11:20:45 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 17 March, 2021, 12:12:02 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 ...

Peter · « **Reply #996 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=CYdX4_9VbBA

Cover your own original.....

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #997 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).

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #998 on:** 08 July, 2021, 08:31:04 pm »

This one is kind of different: https://youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc

citoyen · « **Reply #999 on:** 08 July, 2021, 10:51:26 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 30 June, 2021, 07:06:00 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.