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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #425 on: 10 March, 2016, 10:22:33 am »
Holy shite, I've just heard Justin Hayward murdering Clifford T Ward's The Best Is Yet To Come on R2.

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #426 on: 10 March, 2016, 10:30:14 am »
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

This is a rather enjoyable version of a simple swedish folk song by an Australian singing group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyGCz4jX9k

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #428 on: 26 March, 2016, 02:09:07 pm »
The Shooting Of did two gorgeous cover versions of Life on Mars and Five Years when I saw him live.  Going to see him as part of this tomorrow.  Oh, and if anyone's interested, I have a spare ticket.

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #429 on: 27 March, 2016, 12:44:55 am »
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

This is a rather enjoyable version of a simple swedish folk song by an Australian singing group

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.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #430 on: 01 April, 2016, 01:42:37 pm »
Note to self. Don't bother clicking on you tube links from a computer without speakers.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #431 on: 06 April, 2016, 10:54:32 am »
Lovin Cup - Black Crowes

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

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #432 on: 13 April, 2016, 07:47:43 am »
Joe Cocker's "The Letter" covered by Tedeschi Trucks Band

https://youtu.be/PG1_LAAL4w0

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

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #433 on: 13 April, 2016, 09:54:55 am »
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.

Spot-on.  I'm surprised they got away with the Sufi song, knowing how Barry Gibb is famously lacking in a sense of humour, but it's a great part of the live act.  And I love The Sweetest Kick", on the same album.

Sticking with the covers theme, their performance, with Show of Hands, of "Don't You Want Me?" is also worth seeking out on YT.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #434 on: 13 April, 2016, 10:01:59 am »
DJ Random has just played a cover of Comfortably Numb which I thought an odd choice for USAnian folkie Dar Williams.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #435 on: 13 April, 2016, 10:30:08 am »
The Disturbed version of The Sound of Silence that Lord Kenneth of Bruce has recently been playing on his R2 show is most excellent.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #436 on: 13 April, 2016, 10:32:07 am »
DJ Random has just played a cover of Comfortably Numb which I thought an odd choice for USAnian folkie Dar Williams.

Gov't Mule who are really a Southern Rock/Blues band did some gigs and a CD where they covered the whole of Dark Side of the Moon (Dark Side Of The Mule).

https://youtu.be/KJy3R0tZheE

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

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #437 on: 13 April, 2016, 10:52:22 am »
And now DJ Random is on a Stevie Ray Vaughan plays Hendrix binge.  First "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" and then "Third Stone From The Sun".
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #438 on: 20 April, 2016, 07:31:42 pm »
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
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #439 on: 21 April, 2016, 10:30:17 am »
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. 

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #440 on: 21 April, 2016, 10:33:06 am »
À chacun son goût.

Indeed. And you can't help it if your taste is terrible. ;)
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #441 on: 21 April, 2016, 10:52:28 am »
À chacun son goût.

Indeed. And you can't help it if your taste is terrible. ;)
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #442 on: 21 April, 2016, 11:07:06 am »
Stand aside everyone, I'll see you all your cover versions and raise you this one....

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #443 on: 21 April, 2016, 08:16:12 pm »
Topically, Sinead O'Connor's version of Prince's Nothing Compares to U.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #444 on: 25 April, 2016, 11:02:32 pm »
Melt-Banana's million-rpm version of Monkey Man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsiht-Be_Rg

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #445 on: 26 April, 2016, 11:31:25 am »
Topically, Sinead O'Connor's version of Prince's Nothing Compares to U.

 :'(
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #446 on: 26 April, 2016, 11:33:39 am »
Just heard this on 6music, which I've somehow never managed to hear before (even though according to wikipedia it was the band's only chart single) - Fairport Convention's French version of If You Gotta Go, Go Now. I love it!

https://youtu.be/AmmCSOpPzZc

Until now, I've only been familiar with the superb Manfred Mann version, though of course that is strictly a cover as well since it's a Bob Dylan song.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #447 on: 26 April, 2016, 12:05:51 pm »
Nice. And on a related note:

https://youtu.be/OXeh742_jak

Nina Simone's version of "Who knows where the time goes".
I still like Sandy's version with Fairport the best but the Nina version is different and good.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #448 on: 04 May, 2016, 12:35:32 pm »
Best bassline ever.  Seal's gonna hurt his voice with those high notes!

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #449 on: 04 May, 2016, 12:43:41 pm »
How about this Joni Mitchell cover?

https://youtu.be/7ulDc8R4uhA