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You know, after looking at the image that Hedgie posted that's now in the OP, I think my favorite part of it is that Madonna is drawn like the abominable snowman from Skifree.
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I remember grabbing that Frente version back in the dark days of the Internet, after hearing it on the local college station with no attribution. Then scouring non-google search engines to figure out who it was, and sifting though mistagged mp3s on Napster.
Memories.
Edit: I think I wound up finding it as a "Sixpence None the Richer" cover, which obviously it wasn't.
Love some of the covers you guys have posted here. This thread reminded me that there are quite a few covers of songs that I enjoy just as much as the original, if not more.
I'll toss in two songs that I enjoy the original of that have pretty good covers as well.
The first was an artist already mentioned. It's Jose Gonzalez's rendition of Teardrops by Massive Attack. I think this was in House which is where I originally heard it.
Not to pick nits, but I don't consider renditions of traditional or folk music to be the same sort of thing as covering the song of a particular artist. One of the characteristics of this sort of music is that it is cultural, and not the song of a particular artist.
A rendition of a folk song can be, at best, definitive for a while, until the next definitive version comes along.
So this isn't a cover precisely, but it's still my favorite for this thread.
Not to pick nits, but I don't consider renditions of traditional or folk music to be the same sort of thing as covering the song of a particular artist. One of the characteristics of this sort of music is that it is cultural, and not the song of a particular artist.
A rendition of a folk song can be, at best, definitive for a while, until the next definitive version comes along.
So this isn't a cover precisely, but it's still my favorite for this thread.
I tend to agree with you, though lots of people consider them to be covers.
Also you are right that Nirvana did this amazingly. It's one of the most painful sounding songs ever.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Loving this thread and a number of my favorites have been posted. Here are a couple that I think that do a good job of transforming and/or genre swapping.
Also the Iron Horse Pickin' On series pretty much covers every song known to absurdity, I do like the cover of Modest Mouse's Gravity Rides Everything. I think it does change the genre very well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLQabcr9E7k
I've also come to hate the Butthole Surfers' cover of American Woman. Mostly because my dipshit hipster friends put it on every comp tape in the late 90's. Every fucking tape.
I'm not saying it's the best cover of all time. But when you get hired to sing it as the first dance song at a wedding for the Royal Family of Great Britain, I think you've done something right.
I love that SRV cover because I feel like it closes the Hendrix blues-rock loop. From Muddy Waters to Hendrix and Stevie brings it back to the blues. It's like going back to your old home town. It's all the same, but you see it with eyes shaped by your travels....
That was going to be my contribution to this thread, SRV's cover of little wing. Just so chill. I used to listen to it while on patrol in Iraq. We'd have a quick security stop, I'd hook up my ipod to the in-vehicle comms, blast SRV's little wing, and smoke a cigarette.
Someone mentioned another Hazy Shade of Winter cover earlier, but this is my pick. Done by an aussie punk band, this is pretty much my go-to 'get pumped up' song.
An aussie radio station (triple J) has a 'Like A Version' segment every friday morning where they get a band in (often international bands in australia on tour) to do a live version of their own song followed by a cover of someone else's that has produced some gems.
It's like, in the final decade of his life, Johnny Cash said "Fuck it, I'm gonna show all these youngin's how it should be done". Which, the original Personal Jesus is still the best... not that Marilyn Manson was ever remotely close to changing that.
His name is The Spine, the puppet is named GG. You should check out their original stuff, it's awesome as well.
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I saw Chris Cornell perform a few weeks ago, and he played a cover/mashup of Metallica and U2's "One". He took the lyrics to the former and sang them to the chords/melody of the latter, and I thought it was really cool. Here's a recording from one of the shows, but I'm sorry for the lacking quality.
A lot of people are getting stoked about Cash's cover of NIN, and rightly so, but I didn't know until recently that he covered Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage" as well, and it's really cool!
Similarly, when MTV had an "Icons" show/concert for Metallica, Avril covered Fuel. The music was fine, but she could absolutely not keep the frenetic pace of the vocals.
This is pretty great. I dunno if it's Hendrix great. But it's Dylan great, at least.
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Here's a pretty great cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Madeleine Peyroux, from the same album as the Dylan cover I posted a few pages back
I think I am literally the only person on the planet that doesn't like that Cash cover. The only fucking one. I don't hate it, I don't think it's terrible, I just don't like it. And of course I'm the only one on the planet that liked Reznor and Karen O doing Immigrant Song.
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Frente, "Bizzare Love Triangle" (originally New Order):
Memories.
Edit: I think I wound up finding it as a "Sixpence None the Richer" cover, which obviously it wasn't.
I'll toss in two songs that I enjoy the original of that have pretty good covers as well.
The first was an artist already mentioned. It's Jose Gonzalez's rendition of Teardrops by Massive Attack. I think this was in House which is where I originally heard it.
youtube.com/watch?v=2CqWZ9sLklM
The second song is a rendition of the Proclaimers 500 miles done by Sleeping at Last. My wife and I had this at our wedding last month.
youtube.com/watch?v=muLfJWOfqGQ
Hopefully the links work. I don't usually post links.
KMFD : Mysterious Ways(U2)
Chili Peps covering Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder.
A rendition of a folk song can be, at best, definitive for a while, until the next definitive version comes along.
So this isn't a cover precisely, but it's still my favorite for this thread.
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Still remember young teenage me watching them play that live for...Woodstock '94? So fucking awesome. Blew my mind.
youtu.be/hebZV0l0Lng
I tend to agree with you, though lots of people consider them to be covers.
Also you are right that Nirvana did this amazingly. It's one of the most painful sounding songs ever.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Lambchop covering This Corrosion (Sisters of Mercy)
Aztec Camera covering Jump (Van Halen)
Strange Acapella:
180-G's covering Car Bomb (Negativeland)
Also the Iron Horse Pickin' On series pretty much covers every song known to absurdity, I do like the cover of Modest Mouse's Gravity Rides Everything. I think it does change the genre very well:
I've also come to hate the Butthole Surfers' cover of American Woman. Mostly because my dipshit hipster friends put it on every comp tape in the late 90's. Every fucking tape.
I enjoy this as well as the original:
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An aussie radio station (triple J) has a 'Like A Version' segment every friday morning where they get a band in (often international bands in australia on tour) to do a live version of their own song followed by a cover of someone else's that has produced some gems.
Bob Evans (not his actual name) covering Lily Allen's 'Not Fair'
Very stripped back version of Outkast's 'Hey Ya'
Plenty more up on youtube, obviously with a bias towards australian music but I'd say that's no bad thing
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Johnny Cash covers Marty Robbins's "Big Iron"
Also, like many, many others, even Johnny covered the greatness that is Depeche Mode
It's like, in the final decade of his life, Johnny Cash said "Fuck it, I'm gonna show all these youngin's how it should be done". Which, the original Personal Jesus is still the best... not that Marilyn Manson was ever remotely close to changing that.
You guys are talking about covers of music, good or bad, and nobody mentions Joe Cocker? You guys are lame.
This is ridiculously better than the original.
- John Stuart Mill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tU-VJOzb-10
His name is The Spine, the puppet is named GG. You should check out their original stuff, it's awesome as well.
A lot of people are getting stoked about Cash's cover of NIN, and rightly so, but I didn't know until recently that he covered Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage" as well, and it's really cool!
The Capsules - Down on Me (Jesus and Mary Chain)
Chromatics - Into the Black (Neil Young and Crazy Horse)
Chromatics - Running Up the Hill (Kate Bush)
Elvis Costello - What Do I Do Now? (Sleeper)
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) Red Version
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) Black Version
Nouvelle Vague - The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen
Morissey - That's Entertainment (The Jam)
Radiohead - The Headmaster Ritual (The Smiths)
Radiohead - Ceremony (Joy Division/New Order)
Colleen Green - Good Good Things (The Descendents)
The Ramones - Indian Giver (1910 Fruitgum Company)
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -- Jack Kirby
Unrelated, here's an amazing acoustic cover of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Blaze Bailey Finnegan 3
Black and Yellow by Wiz Khalifa
this girl is so cute : (
Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO
Electric Feel by MGMT
Wishing Well by Terence Trent Darby
The covers of Heartbeats are okay in their own ways, Ellie goulding and Jose Gonzalez
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
On a better note, from BioShock Infinite..
Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" sung a cappella. The whole game has all kinds of covers of (mostly) modern songs, and they're all pretty wonderful.
This is pretty great. I dunno if it's Hendrix great. But it's Dylan great, at least.
I've always wondered if it's possible to kill someone with my mind
get back to me if it doesn't work
Here's a pretty great cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Madeleine Peyroux, from the same album as the Dylan cover I posted a few pages back
Virtuoso Paul Gilbert covers Spice Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Cky1nzbZIA4
Nice! Might as well use this opportunity to post Slaughter of the Bluegrass's version of this song:
edit: when my fiancee and I saw Amon Amarth live a few months ago, we sang along to it in this style.
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I also like the Reznor cover. And the GnR cover in the initial post.
and this pink cover:
Tom Jones and Barenaked Ladies doing "Little Green Bag" (originally George Baker Selection)
Ridiculous, but I love it.