Author Topic: Great cover versions (Read 214710 times)

citoyen · « **Reply #1050 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.

citoyen · « **Reply #1051 on:** 23 March, 2022, 09:44:52 am »

Quote from: 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

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.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1052 on:** 23 March, 2022, 10:14:05 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 23 March, 2022, 09:44:52 am

Quote from: 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

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!

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.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1053 on:** 23 March, 2022, 10:53:52 am »

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap - Joan Jett

https://youtu.be/2sky1tt8vLA

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1054 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.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1055 on:** 09 April, 2022, 09:18:34 am »

KIngs of Leon - Simple Man

https://youtu.be/RbNP0yqbsVs

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1056 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.

TimC · « **Reply #1057 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.

citoyen · « **Reply #1058 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

Ham · « **Reply #1059 on:** 17 May, 2022, 01:58:19 pm »

Came across Pina Del Re, 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

Legs · « **Reply #1060 on:** 19 May, 2022, 08:40:38 am »

Have we had Faith No More covering The Bee Gees' I Started A Joke?

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1061 on:** 20 May, 2022, 08:14:07 am »

Blackberry Smoke and Amanda Shires covering Tom Petty

You got lucky

Completely different feel to the original.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1062 on:** 31 May, 2022, 04:50:03 pm »

Never Been to Spain - Chris Robinson Brotherhood

https://youtu.be/-vGkd-uz7Yo

Pingu · « **Reply #1063 on:** 13 June, 2022, 12:50:54 am »

Isolation by Therapy? I'm not sure it's great, but I enjoyed it.

fd3 · « **Reply #1064 on:** 13 June, 2022, 01:04:45 pm »

I saw them in an somewhat oversized pub, then two month later they were headlining festivals.

StuAff · « **Reply #1065 on:** 13 June, 2022, 10:13:56 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 19 May, 2022, 08:40:38 am

Have we had Faith No More covering The Bee Gees' I Started A Joke?

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

StuAff · « **Reply #1066 on:** 13 June, 2022, 10:18:35 pm »

Quote from: 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.

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.

fd3 · « **Reply #1067 on:** 13 June, 2022, 10:53:56 pm »

I was talking >~ 20 years ago.

StuAff · « **Reply #1068 on:** 13 June, 2022, 11:07:15 pm »

Quote from: fd3 on 13 June, 2022, 10:53:56 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).

Jaded · « **Reply #1069 on:** 13 June, 2022, 11:17:36 pm »

Just heard a brilliant live cover of "Slippery People".

fd3 · « **Reply #1070 on:** 15 June, 2022, 11:15:45 pm »

Quote from: StuAff on 13 June, 2022, 11:07:15 pm

Quote from: fd3 on 13 June, 2022, 10:53:56 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).

I'm so old I can be out by 10 years and not notice! Yup, it would have been the 90s.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #1071 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.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1072 on:** 27 June, 2022, 01:45:34 pm »

Quote from: StuAff on 13 June, 2022, 10:13:56 pm

Quote from: Legs on 19 May, 2022, 08:40:38 am
Have we had Faith No More covering The Bee Gees' I Started A Joke?
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.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1073 on:** 27 June, 2022, 02:12:43 pm »

Quote from: 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.

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.

citoyen · « **Reply #1074 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.