Author Topic: Great cover versions  (Read 205176 times)

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #950 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".
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Steph

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #951 on: 10 March, 2021, 03:31:54 pm »
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

citoyen

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #952 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.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #953 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!

Steph

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #954 on: 10 March, 2021, 08:42:49 pm »
Thanks, Peter. I suppose your comment is exactly why this thread is here!
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #955 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.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Steph

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #956 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.
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Steph

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #957 on: 15 March, 2021, 10:53:44 am »
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citoyen

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #958 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
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #959 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.

citoyen

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #960 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.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #961 on: 17 March, 2021, 01:00:28 pm »
KO's 10 minute Comfortably Numb guitar solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF_KGJflC34
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #962 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

TimC

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #963 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

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #964 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
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

citoyen

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #965 on: 02 April, 2021, 11:40:32 am »
Squid do a nice live version of Robert Wyatt’s Pigs:

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

tonycollinet

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #966 on: 03 April, 2021, 09:09:26 am »

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #967 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
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #968 on: 25 April, 2021, 09:25:54 pm »
For No One - Emmylou Harris

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

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #969 on: 28 April, 2021, 11:46:56 am »

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #970 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.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #971 on: 29 April, 2021, 09:56:28 pm »
Ray Charles making a Leon Russell classic his own

Song For You:

https://youtu.be/CzAkTrDiXxg

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

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #972 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

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #973 on: 29 April, 2021, 11:30:06 pm »
Wow!  Just discovered this and it IS a cover!

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #974 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

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