Thread is about eclipsing the original (or, that’s what I thought it was supposed to be about). If This Mortal Coil hadn’t covered that beautiful song it would have remained in complete obscurity. To think otherwise is to be deluded.

Tim was on an upward curve that TMC cynically surfed on. To say the original was eclipsed shows your deluded my friend. It’s a damn fine cover, I don’t dispute, but better? Plus liz’s warbling does my napper in…. 😆

Besides, it was so much better in obscurity, ordinary **** people, I hate ’em…

eclipses what exactly?

the original, obviously, duh. I guess I just don’t ‘get’ the stones.

Completely stripped down and distilled.
[video]http://youtu.be/W97TF9PCKWg[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL7jUYjAaC4[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUTiASn2B8[/video]

‘Ten hits you may not know were cover versions’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29568083

No Doubt – Its My Life. Way better than the Talk Talk version.

[video]http://youtu.be/ubvV498pyIM[/video]

Besides, it was so much better in obscurity, ordinary **** people, I hate ’em…

Jeez, and Rusty calls me a snob! 😆

Just listened to that Satisfaction cover. Devo’s is better, far more imaginative .

Happy Mondays Step on.. Although I prefer the original

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld1vQVoaQIM[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/v7G5MIpFui4[/video]

Just listened to that Satisfaction cover. Devo’s is better, far more whiney .

FTFY

Just for you DezB….

I think Johnny Cash is a load of turgid nonsense with a completely fake attitude about ‘oooh he’s so dangerous so cool’ BS

Good shout nick1962 – here’s another beatles cover better than the original
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB24z00ajU4[/video]

Posted this on the ‘where’s Kim’thread, but it’s a pretty good cover of a Beatles song:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zclXIyAwIVY[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNuL72dXkjI[/video]

for those on smartphones, it’s The Damned doing Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC6_WgraOBA[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/kfbHScyol1k[/video]

completely stripped down and distilled

@metalheart – I think we’ve agreed about this before on STW… Cat Power’s The Covers Record still fugging demolishes me. Wonderful album. 😀

@noteeth, possibly. I know we have agreed on a couple of things in the past…

Did I ever tell you how good Bill Callahan was earlier on in the year?…..

how good Bill Callahan was

I can imagine – gutted to have missed him at [Bristol’s] St George’s Church. 🙁

metalheart, I can play that song over and over again.Excellent choice. I remember Evan Dando joining a covers band (Shout Brothers)in Sydney and doing a cracking version of that.

** Right now – BBc Radio 6Music – Now playing with Tom Robinson – covers.

Cracking cover of Billie Jean by Ian Brown!

Jason and the Scorchers – Absolutely Sweet Marie.
Steve Hillage – It’s All Too Much.
Black Sabbath – The Warning.

It surprises me that so few ‘heads’ have heard this…..

……surely one of the greatest covers ever?

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjo5b6N535g[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/MM2noU6w5wk[/video]

And indeed anything off the Show and Tell album: http://www.allmusic.com/album/show-tell-a-stormy-remembrance-of-tv-themes-mw0000236617

Abset Elk covering Girls Aloud – The Loving Kind
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6g4A06haVw[/video]

Flaming lips covering Kylie – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFREWbwgIMA[/video]

Cake covering Gloria Caynor – I Will Survive
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596qaxm-u4o[/video]

Less Than Jake covering The Proclaimers – I would walk 500 miles
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUnwUNUYPE[/video]

Tori Amos covering Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHNZVrxEts[/video]

Lindsey Stirling covering RMFAO – Party Rock Anthem
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2APZN9FJNY[/video]

Placebo covering Robert Palmer – Johnny and Mary
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIwHpznTuZo[/video]

And as Righog said, “anything Johnny Cash covered”.
Like:
Jonny Cash covering Marty Robbins – Big Iron
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZfItlZG97Q[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W25_jgiY51I&spfreload=10%20Message%3A%20JSON%20Parse%20error%3A%20Unexpected%20EOF%20(url%3A%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW25_jgiY51I)[/video]

Sadly not the entire song, but you get the idea.

Street Spirit/ Fade Out as covered by The Darkness. Bonkers, unexpected and frankly brilliant:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IcMvkyw-Y[/video]

kcal – Member
Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding (org. Costello)

Strictly speaking, Costello’s version is a cover, as were a number of other songs that he wrote, like ‘The Other End Of The Telescope’; Costello wrote them for other artists, who recorded them some considerable time before Costello finally did his own version.
Carol King’s ‘Tapestry’ album is nearly all covers of songs that were hits for other people first, although she co-wrote them with Gerry Goffin.
So to answer someone else’s query, yes, you can cover your own song, it has to have been recorded previously by one or more other artists, and to have been fairly successful.

a cover of the Jake Holmes’ original. Ripped off, eclipsed, shredded, stormed and offered to the Gods Of Rock and Roll in a ceremony off unholy ritualistic riffage!

[video]http://youtu.be/ZQgYn23Xvck[/video][list]

eX-Girl’s bonkers genius cover of the already bonkers ‘Pop Musik’ by M – it’s as if it was pencilled in for them twenty years earlier waiting to be perfected.

[video]http://youtu.be/gjwIuePPiZo[/video]

‘Jolene’ – White Stripes
[video]http://youtu.be/kS60oTRxh0g[/video]

This may be controversial but I much prefer Social Distortions version of Under My Thumb to the original. Mike Ness has one of the best voices in the game.

Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix

Fear Factory (with Gary Numan) – Cars

[video]http://youtu.be/8lERqGULWxs[/video]

2 songs by The Damned.
Eloise and Alone Again Or.
And The Impossible Dream by Carter USM.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29791820

The Pet Shop Boys’ Always On My Mind has been voted the top cover version of all time in a BBC Music vote.

The song, written by John Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, was first made famous by Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley in 1972.

Johnny Cash’s cover of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt came in second place, followed by The Stranglers’ version of Dionne Warwick’s Walk On By.

Jimi Hendrix’s take on Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower came fourth.

Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s classic Hallelujah completed the top five.

Actually a pretty decent top 10. Good mix of songs

Top two are wrong way round IMO

Hmm, yeah, that top 10 is pretty good. 2,3,4 & 6 are probably on my iPod.