But the award for the best goes to:
"All Along the Watchtower" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
This Flight Tonight (Joni MItchell) by Nazareth
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.
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 :).
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil?
"Wish You Were Here" - Wyclef Jean
Delilah--SAHB.
Next--SAHB
Stairway To Heaven - Rolf Harris.
YouTube
- Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_809EZ6bIA)
Damon .
YouTube
- Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_809EZ6bIA)
Damon .
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)
YouTube
- William Shatner "Rocket Man"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hARDXYz2io)
Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
Also, the Futureheads' Hounds of Love. Curse me all you want, eighties fans, but I like it.
(prompted by the pop quiz thread).
Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David GrayDefinitely, but conversely, I like Marc Almond's The Days of Pearly Spencer more than the David McWilliams original.
We so need a YACF Spotify account.
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil?
Technically, yes, but it was performed by the members of the Cocteau Twins.
Since everyone has been bigging up various versions of "Song To The Siren", I'll recommend Half Man Half Biscuit's version. Srsly.
Suicide is Painless - Maniac Street Preachers
Eh? This Mortal Coil were a 4AD 'super-group' that combined members of the Cocteau Twins and others...
...That cover of Baker St would have been great - if they had a sax player!
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)
...
Jolene. White Stripes.
YouTube
- SMOKE ON THE WATER - SENOR COCONUT
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqR7_Xz-zY)
But I accept that I gave the incorrect credit for the artist and Jaded and FM have put me right :thumbsup:.
Stairway To Heaven - Rolf Harris.
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
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.
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
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.
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I have a minor obsession with Shonen Knife.
Liza looks so much like her dad. And her mother.
Poor girl......... ;D
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)
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.
Stairway To Heaven - Rolf Harris.
No no no no no,
No no no,
No.
He also did Bohemian Rhapsody :-\ :-\
You can't really make Bohemian Rhapsody any more ridiculous than it is already...
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?
YouTube
- Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIrS5dtTZI)
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)
Now, if you'll excuse me I have the Count Basie Orchestra on triangle accompanying Princess Anne on sousaphone.
Here's one - possibly the greatest version of Wild Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ym2ZRx4uo), grrrrr.
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)
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.
"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)
The Nice - America.
The Nice - America.
That's fabulous. Bernstein hated it apparently.
The Stranglers - Walk On By. Absolutely brilliant. The only version where you really feel the pain of the separation.
That's dire (I hate that song...), but I love Jackie's version (with the awesome Count Basie) of Respect!
YouTube
- Jackie Wilson - light my fire
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfS37rjjCTY)
Damon.
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.
Are you deranged? She's like nails down a blackboard. ;D
YouTube
- Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart (Live)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZury-SGt_g)
Good performance from Cilla,
Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.
Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.
Reminds me of this (2.45 onwards) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqygc8DNTvQ) ;D
Apparently so (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ8xM83fMhU) - (0:55 & 1:35) :thumbsup:
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:
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?
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)Oh yes!
Mad and completely brilliant.
: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. :)
Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones - fantastic.
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.
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.
Summer Breeze (Seals and Croft) by the Isley Brothers
Excellent! Not heard that one before, though I am rather fond of their version of Anarchy In The UK.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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Oops! I Did It Again - Richard Thompson (really)
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)Fixed linky, I think
Great theremin solo. :thumbsup:
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 made me think of a cracking cover...
[Melanie Safka - Ruby Tuesday]
What are peoples' views of the 'The one That I Want' cover on the current Sky (spits) adverts, by Angus & Julia Stone?
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.
I am honestly afraid to click on that link, for fear that it doesn't sound as good as I expect it to!
The Shadows have built a career ongreatcover versions
The Shadows have built a career ongreatcover 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.
Loop - Mother Sky
Whilst I like Can, a lot, this kills the original stone dead - you can almost smell the dope smoke ;)
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)
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.)
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)
Following my discovered passion for Patax, Man in the Mirror, where the intensity builds wonderfully.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-pZxIQM2k
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
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 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!)
Apologies if these have already appeared (but then that's partly the point ;)):
Inner City Blues - Working Week
The Dresden Dolls ~ War pigsWow. What a drummer!
http://youtu.be/WimY82SpGhY (http://youtu.be/WimY82SpGhY)
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.
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
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):Wow!
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
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
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"
:(
Zappa's 'Whippin' Post' is pretty epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-dm1JU4no
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
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 ...
20 Songs You Might Not Know Were Covers (http://mentalfloss.com/article/53336/20-songs-you-might-not-know-were-covers)
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 :-[
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 :(
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 :(
And related to other posts, there is his Swaggart Version of Ring of Fire.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
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!
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.And Smalltown Boy is one of the most joyous celebrations of, er, loneliness ever.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh BABY!
Not sure if we have had this one before.
Manic Street Preachers - Umbrella
https://youtu.be/C5Of_F0-hOw
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
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.
Greg Allman's version of Jackson Browne's "These Days"Have you heard Glen Campbell's?
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.
Jeff Healey, Gordon Lightfoot, The McGarrigle Sisters, Bob Dylan (almost), Ron Sexsmith and now Felix - great Canadian musicians.
Greg Allman's version of Jackson Browne's "These Days"Have you heard Glen Campbell's?
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.
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
One of those songs that's better known as the cover than the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s
One of those songs that's better known as the cover than the original.Really ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s
One of those songs that's better known as the cover than the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s
Really ?
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.
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.'"
All Tomorrows Parties covered by Oysterband and June Tabor
https://youtu.be/SSFEM7ndC6g
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
Los Colorados do Rammstein's "Du hast".
http://www.youtube.com/embed/a5xSxGhlHfc
Los Colorados do Rammstein's "Du hast".
http://www.youtube.com/embed/a5xSxGhlHfc
And a klezmer version by Dobranotch: https://youtu.be/3C04TKCce8s
Los Colorados do Rammstein's "Du hast".
http://www.youtube.com/embed/a5xSxGhlHfc
And a klezmer version by Dobranotch: https://youtu.be/3C04TKCce8s
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.
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! :)
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)
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)
Blue Monday - 1930s cover (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lh9lt)
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.
DJ Random has just played a cover of Comfortably Numb which I thought an odd choice for USAnian folkie Dar Williams.
The Disturbed version of The Sound of Silence that Lord Kenneth of Bruce has recently been playing on his R2 show is most excellent.
À chacun son goût.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.
;DÀ chacun son goût.
Indeed. And you can't help it if your taste is terrible. ;)
Topically, Sinead O'Connor's version of Prince's Nothing Compares to U.
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.
Mary Hopkin's "cover" version of her own "Those were the days", in French. Rather Piafesque.
Marc Almond covers Brel
https://youtu.be/pqdsjOQ8634
The best version in Engish of Ne Me Quitte Pas I think.
Portishead do Abba...
https://youtu.be/WVe-9VWIcCo
Marc Almond covers Brel
https://youtu.be/pqdsjOQ8634
The best version in Engish of Ne Me Quitte Pas I think.
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Saint Saviour. Cor.I still prefer the Joy Division version for its darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpg5UxcmoJs
The Are You Being Served theme tune covered by Coil. As strange as it comes...Wow! :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhA5pbWYmOA
No doubt, but only Nina is Nina, mispronunciations and all...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.
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)
Ooh I rather like that.
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.
Not bad, but much prefer little feat.
Not sure if this is great or just insane:Oh wow. I thought Hayseed Dixie had mined that particular seam dry, but maybe not :)
https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4
Tyrolean take on Highway to Hell
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.
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
Bimey! this kid absolutely nails it.
https://youtu.be/K-or8ujt0U8
Teenage busker going all Michael Shenker on UFO's Rock Bottom.
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...
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!
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.
Eno Collaboration.
Has anyone mentioned the "Disturbed" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbed_(band)) version of "Sound of Silence" yet?
Shine on you crazy Rabbi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97gP-1zyqQyou 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.
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.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_XbFwaR8o
Dylans "Masters of War" covered by Justin Sullivan of NMA. Angry, as it should be.
Diane Birch - This Corrosion
https://youtu.be/RS6WGDBTRB4
nothing like the Sisters of Mercy at all !
Steel Panther - She's Tight
https://youtu.be/-qnzg300hMY
Very similar to Cheap Trick's original but the video is funny.
It's great to publicise the wonderful and tragic Nic Jones - but "covers"?
The queen of rock Joan Jett - I want to be your dog
https://youtu.be/Ks-JBOOtPAo
[...]It's brave to cover the guitar duet as a solo, but who has two lead players?
[...]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.[...]It's brave to cover the guitar duet as a solo, but who has two lead players?
Wishbone Ash?
Lynyrd Skynyrd had three :demon:
Seeing these at the weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGzVHBrUKw
Seeing these at the weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGzVHBrUKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6MtHz-g4khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo3lxKrjABE
Dawes do Warren Zevon
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.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 :-)
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.
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'...
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!?
'The Only Way is Up', by Yazz and the Plastic Population.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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjD3EVC1-zU
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...
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
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...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.
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.
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 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
However, they were released in reverse order.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
That is absolutely wonderful! Kinda puts the roll in the rock. Almost surprising it was allowed to be released in the early 60s!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
Of course, the best version (IMHO) is Creedence Clearwater Revival's.However, they were released in reverse order.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
I think Smokey's version kind of falls between two stools in comparison to the other two.
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...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.
Ed: Just listened to it. Not dreadful, but not good.
Of course, the best version (IMHO) is Creedence Clearwater Revival's.
One of the bands I play with does this version (with added sax of course).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.
I really like this, though I suspect it might irk the purists - Lizzo's version of Blondie's Rapture:S'ok, but the voice is a bit, errr.... thin.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
Chrissie thought it was better.
"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.
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.
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?
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/).
Over-familiarity with Soft Cell is easy enough to avoid.
Sunshine of your Love, by Spanky Wilson.
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.
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.
Bonnie Raitt - Need You Tonight
https://youtu.be/GhFGrGV_-lY
Still red hot.
Q: Name one singer who could, potentially knock "Whole Lotta Love" out the park
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Bonnie Raitt covering "Love has no pride" live with the kind of backing singers money cant buy:
https://youtu.be/-nmPdUiT5ks
More Bonnie, ‘I Feel The Same’ (a cover, though I must admit I’m not familiar with the original:
https://youtu.be/rYfJkSY3_Po
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!
Nice.bless you. How fucking wonderful is that.
And now some people covering Heart:
https://youtu.be/BqQkECIn738
Gretchen Wilson and Alice on Chains - Baraccuda
Not so much a cover as a reworking, shifting the emphasis:Well, it was written by the Phillipses, but first recorded by Barry 'Eve of Destruction' McGuire.
https://youtu.be/4ytX3IaFHGk
Though this is another where the best know version is not the original (that was apparently by one Barry Macguire.)
https://youtu.be/YhC1NP2zWgkOkay, I was wrong. It's just a cover, cos the original is not Gangsta's Paradise, it's Stevie Wonder.
Reinterpretation as much as cover version.
Rather unhinged take on ZepInterestingly deconstructionist! Makes me think "this is what Led Zep would sound like if done by Kate Bush"!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-Iz7IzPzQ
Should've done "Steinway to Heaven". ;DRather unhinged take on ZepInterestingly deconstructionist! Makes me think "this is what Led Zep would sound like if done by Kate Bush"!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-Iz7IzPzQ
worth 4:22 of anyone's time, The Petersons with Jolene
That’s great. But actually, I reckon their version of Poker Face is even better...
https://youtu.be/i3HzTjPonOU
My next rabbit hole is labelled rock music with signing
worth 4:22 of anyone's time, The Petersons with Jolene
I rather like this Miley Cyrus version:
https://youtu.be/wOwblaKmyVw
A.A.Williams version of Jolene. Turns me inside out.
Clicked on the first one, not knowing what to expect; perfect for today!
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)
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.
Laura Marling - The Needle and the Damage DoneSaw the title and thought "Oh, Lynnyrd Skynnyrd". No, a different needle song. ::-) Still, maybe she should cover that too? ???
https://youtu.be/3yxBeq0Std4
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
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!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
https://youtu.be/-z4k-fBGz9Y
This is totally the definition of how to do a cover version.
Which makes me think of flutes in rock:
Marshall Tucker Band
Jethro Tull
Focus
Any more?
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?
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, 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.
(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.
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
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
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
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
Aye, they did a great cover of Planet Caravan too: https://youtu.be/nZWaQ2M0gXs
Erma Franklin's unbeatable original
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 apleasant 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)
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!
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?
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?
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.
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)NorwegianSwedish band coveringFrench CanukistaniQuebekistani song.
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 coveringFrench CanukistaniQuebekistani 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.
FTFZyNorwegianSwedish band coveringFrench CanukistaniQuebekistani song.
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.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
https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
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.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
https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
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!
Even more blimey - when she was 11 along with her brother - Time after timeFrighteningly 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsjTR7j8OA
Linda Ronstadt was also responsible for The Eagles.
Tbh, I never realised Complainte Pour Ste Catherine was anything other than a Kirsty MacColl song: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).
https://youtu.be/tmmelsbp96k
...
also notable for her lovely version of the Kinks' Days:
https://youtu.be/HNJcd1pTaL0
Larkin Poe are two sisters. Here's their Nights in White Satin on dobro and slide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yGhbIwG-3UI 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...’
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
Need cheering up? Haim, doing "Oh Well" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VikyxJoBF2k
Turn it up to 11.
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
12. Emily Linge is 12If I wasn't already barefoot, my socks would have been knocked off.
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.
It was a massive hit both sides of the Atlantic.
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).
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
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
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).
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.
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)
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.
The first time I ever saw your face - Marcia Griffiths.
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!
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!
Miley Cyrus - Heat of Glass
https://youtu.be/YBPZELdVAT8
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
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)
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
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.
if we're veering slightly off-topic towards mash-ups, here's something from Pomplamoose:
Also for the lolz, and not even a cover – do we have a mash-up thread? – brubeck x stranglers
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
And by the gift of Youtube sidebar
The Be Good Tanyas - Waiting Around to Die
https://youtu.be/-0SmXVrLlZ4
I really like this one!
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.
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
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 !
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 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...An experience! And the Chaka Khan cover even more so!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSfoeP1OF0
The Cranberries' Zombie from the angelic pipes of Julia Westlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYtj8Uwybs
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.
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.
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...I have a dry slap for both of youse!
https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
Has nobody thought of posting Laurence Mason's tribute to the Stanglers, in a Dave Brubeck stylee: Golden Brown?
https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
:)
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!Just thought of one - Bauhaus' version of Ziggy ("updating" the song from early 70s to early 80s)
It's hard to believe that such cracking melodies haven't led to a few decent covers - anyone want to nominate?
This is FUCKING AWESOME - Lou Hayter's take on Steely Dan's Time Out Of Mind:
https://youtu.be/A_PIiWA-w2c
More BowieFest trivia : "Oh You Pretty Thing" is a cover :o
I assume that we have had "All along the Watchtower". did Dylan have the sense to retire it after Jimi took it off him?
I assume that we have had "All along the Watchtower". did Dylan have the sense to retire it after Jimi took it off him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhaxH03Xok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhaxH03Xok
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
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.
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)
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
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)
Bauhaus doing Eno's Third Uncle - absolutely Better Than The Original:Nah, see, that's a Bauhaus song that Eno traveled back in time to cover ...
https://youtu.be/sILbx5xbwPY
Pete Shelley was probably a bit underrated as a songwriter
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)
Have we had this one yet ?Bizarre. Youtube wants me to verify my age before allowing me to watch that.
Maybe - Janis Joplin
https://youtu.be/cM0T9fumD5k
The original was by The Chantels back in 1957.
Siouxsie and the Banshees, the definitive version of "Dear Prudence" and "Helter Skelter"Yep.
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:Their accents are even worse than mine.
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
^ A recommendation I will follow up on.
Cake - I will surviveWhat - this hasn't been nominated before?? That's a crime!
https://youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU
The brass makes it.Cake - I will surviveWhat - this hasn't been nominated before?? That's a crime!
https://youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU
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.)
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.The brass makes it.Cake - I will surviveWhat - this hasn't been nominated before?? That's a crime!
https://youtu.be/f9rCUQjmkxU
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.)
And Jolene. (https://youtu.be/i6BKeODv7Yc)
Well, not actually...
I expect they intended that. Instead of being a cover, it seems to pull in well known lines from a variety of disparate sources.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.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.
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:Gonna check these out in time.
https://youtu.be/KFNYWzF02B4
But can anything beat the sheer overblown goth pomp of Sisters of Mercy?
https://youtu.be/Xo9Kmvxbvcc
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
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
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.
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.
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.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).
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
Whitesnake - Day Tripper
https://youtu.be/ub8rPHBXd20
Before Mr Coverdale changed Whitesnake to a US style hair metal band.
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: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).
https://youtu.be/ZlzAQbR858U
The one I heard was slower than that.
Seems Radiohead/ The Smile's J Greenwood likes this:
Creep by Limmy on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/Uqujr
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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)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?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Mclemoreavenue_album.jpg)
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
Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing played on a solo guitar:At 5:55 (https://youtu.be/sS1WYIu_gA4?t=354) he looks like he's going into the vinegar strokes ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1WYIu_gA4
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
The Chain
https://youtu.be/pwEdMi9MvBw
Plain Jane
So, what are your 'best' covers? I'm thinking of versions that take the original to a new level rather than just being copies.
This is an unlikely one Since You've Been Gone:Goes to show how subjective music is.
https://youtu.be/jq799Vf_auQ
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott covering Rainbow.
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.
This is an unlikely one Since You've Been Gone:Goes to show how subjective music is.
https://youtu.be/jq799Vf_auQ
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott covering Rainbow.
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.
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
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...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
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?
Have we had Weezer's cover of TLC's "No Scrubs"?
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...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.
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.
the writers might surprise some!
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.
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)
Have we had Weezer's cover of TLC's "No Scrubs"?They might be giants covering "bills bills bills".
https://youtu.be/55UtG-1os_s?si=fZ29G3in2eWYSA-7
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-).QuoteI 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.
A Rickroll with a difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlV0k-rC-00&ab_channel=JosepCastanyerAlonso"A series of fugues based on annoying tunes" :D
That really is quite superbly done.
This is new to me. Pretty epic. Hendrix covering 'Gloria':
https://youtu.be/IZN3MTgB0Ec?si=zDJNAE5wVK7L0Ax0
https://youtu.be/4nTo8rjo-lM?si=DnRFm1UlQlD6nL4-
Weezer's cover of "Paranoid Android" from a few years ago. Oh, the lead guitarist's not really as good as Jonny, say Radiohead fans. You do need to take into account that he's normally the drummer!
https://youtu.be/4nTo8rjo-lM?si=DnRFm1UlQlD6nL4-
Weezer's cover of "Paranoid Android" from a few years ago. Oh, the lead guitarist's not really as good as Jonny, say Radiohead fans. You do need to take into account that he's normally the drummer!
https://youtu.be/4nTo8rjo-lM?si=DnRFm1UlQlD6nL4-
Weezer's cover of "Paranoid Android" from a few years ago. Oh, the lead guitarist's not really as good as Jonny, say Radiohead fans. You do need to take into account that he's normally the drummer!
It is superb!
Hope this hasn't been posted. It has been around since ... well before this site! 1994 to be precise.I am so confused by that.
A super-group I wish had stayed together (even though I didn't know they'd existed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg39hJIhzAk
(favourite comment: "I still have an entire E180 VHS tape I kept solely for this." )