Author Topic: Great cover versions  (Read 205197 times)

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #500 on: 17 February, 2017, 09:56:52 pm »
The Black Crowes doing Oh Sweet Nothing (Velvet Underground)

https://youtu.be/lf9-BCix4io

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

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #501 on: 22 February, 2017, 05:17:55 pm »

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #502 on: 10 March, 2017, 09:46:49 am »
Not sure if this is great or just insane:

https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4

Tyrolean take on Highway to Hell
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #503 on: 12 March, 2017, 06:08:21 pm »
Not sure if this is great or just insane:

https://youtu.be/n_gtGfAail4

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

(and what a perfect guitar sound she gets for the intro; I know I'm on tinny-laptop-sound, but at first I thought they were just miming!)
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #504 on: 12 March, 2017, 07:25:19 pm »
DJ Random just played me a vaguely hip-hop version of His Bobness' "Like A Rolling Stone", sung mostly in Spanish.  By Beck, natch.  Oddly appealing.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #505 on: 13 March, 2017, 11:34:40 am »
Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released

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

Nina Simone - Strange Fruit

Nina Simone - To Love Somebody

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #506 on: 13 March, 2017, 12:01:37 pm »
I'll give you most of those but I still prefer Billie Holiday's version of Strange Fruit.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #507 on: 13 March, 2017, 03:54:23 pm »
Oh, Billie's is electrifying and unmatchable, but Nina's is a keening lament turning to anger, which brings a different aspect to the song.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #508 on: 13 March, 2017, 04:48:09 pm »
Never heard Nina Simone's version of Strange Fruit before so just looked it up on youtube. Crumbs. That's powerful.

Her version of Sign O' The Times posted by ESL earlier is rather excellent too.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #509 on: 26 March, 2017, 03:01:45 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huglp30mYSw

Rickie Lee Jones - Sympathy for the Devil (live)


(I must confess that the GnR version is still my favourite  ;D )
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #510 on: 27 March, 2017, 02:04:24 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4PxjNE7zv4

Rick Wakeman, Space Oddity - does it even count as a cover?

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #511 on: 08 April, 2017, 06:59:43 pm »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #512 on: 21 April, 2017, 05:39:17 pm »
Bimey! this kid absolutely nails it.

https://youtu.be/K-or8ujt0U8

Teenage busker going all Michael Shenker on UFO's Rock Bottom.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #513 on: 12 June, 2017, 04:18:11 pm »
Hurra Torpedo

Total Eclipse of the Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIaz6zBz1go
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #514 on: 12 June, 2017, 04:23:04 pm »
Anything by Steve n Seagulls.

This is a good example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #515 on: 13 June, 2017, 09:13:39 am »
^^^^^^^ +1

And my latest find: Hayseed Dixie - Bohemian Rhapsody
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #516 on: 13 June, 2017, 10:33:00 am »
DJ Random played me a rather compelling version of His Bobness' "Masters Of War" yesterday, which I had to check on iTunes to learn that it was credited to Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #517 on: 13 June, 2017, 11:08:29 am »
Bela Fleck- Crossing the tracks.

Texas Barbeque is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHiMJD0t7RE

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #518 on: 27 June, 2017, 07:51:01 pm »
DJ Random played a version of Pink Floyd's "Fearless" this afternoon.  Slightly unfamiliar and lacked the Kop Khoir singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the end.  Turned out to be Low.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #519 on: 27 June, 2017, 09:52:21 pm »
DJ Random played me a rather compelling version of His Bobness' "Masters Of War" yesterday, which I had to check on iTunes to learn that it was credited to Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready.
Roger Taylor covered it on one of his solo albums, possibly Strange Frontier. Roger Taylor of Queen, not Duran Duran.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #520 on: 23 July, 2017, 02:34:54 pm »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #521 on: 19 October, 2017, 06:07:43 pm »
Have Walk off the World appeared here before and I missed them?

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


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

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #522 on: 19 October, 2017, 06:21:34 pm »
Have Walk off the World appeared here before and I missed them?

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

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

Nice. A bit gimmicky but nice.

Makes you think how much better OK Go would be if they used other people's songs for their videos.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #523 on: 19 October, 2017, 07:11:30 pm »
Bimey! this kid absolutely nails it.

https://youtu.be/K-or8ujt0U8

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

As one of the first comments has it, all those folk just walking past obl8vious...
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #524 on: 14 November, 2017, 01:45:18 pm »
Gregg Allman doing Tuesday's Gone

https://youtu.be/-EOD8w-3Tz4
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.