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Unusual cover versions of famous songs.
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Straight out of Compton by Nina Gordon Cover your ears though, theres some effing and jeffing
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And if we're talking Shatner then Common People is one I'd put in the cover versions that are better than the original category.
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don't ask why, but i was looking for cat's in the cradle the other day, versions by harry chapin, johhny cash (great version) and ugly kid joe.
the comedy entry, though, was this by "3rd Bass"
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Paul Anka did an entire album of brilliant songs in an easy-listening style, including Nirvana and Van Halen. It was actually quite good but I can't be bothered to search youtube
Ahh go on then
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tj i'll raise your stairway..... i give you dolly parton
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Turisas- folk metal covering Boney M!! beat that
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No-one mentioned The Shirehorses yet?
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Mr Simon Ralli your cover of Britney Spears has made all the rugs in my house curl up! you have quite an amazing talent there.
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Tori Amos is always doing interesting covers. ‘Ring My Bell’ is a live favourite, but I don't think she's recorded it, but she did a version of a Chas and Dave song, the title of which escapes me at the 'mo, and I can't be arsed to go get the 'pod out of the car. She did a terrific version of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', (Nirvana), 'If 6 Was 9', (Hendrix), 'Strange Fruit', (Holliday), and 'Thank You' (Zeppelin). I've got a brilliant cover of 'I predict A Riot' by Cheshire Chord, a ladies choir, which I recorded from a radio stream, probably 6Music, as an MP3.
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johny cash version of hurt was brilliant though i still love the nin version
marylin mansons sweet dreams
rage against the machine renegades of funk i like that whole album of covers, its great
a perfect circles emotive album i prefer their version of imagine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpqKA9_ddFk but when the levee breaks is no led zepplin
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Order Of The Ebon Hand's version of the Banshees' "Spellbound"
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Wierd Al
Like a surgeon
Smells like Nirvana
Another one rides the bus
What if God smoked cannabis?
Armish Paradise
Canadian idiot
Oops I farted again
Ugly girl
You're pitiful
Will the real Slim Shady please shut upAmongst others. Not strictly covers though.
Best true cover, Bonnie Prince Billy, I see a Darkness.
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Sussanah and the magical orchestra did a haunting cover of 'Love will tear us apart'. It was in Greys anatomy. They did an entire album and most of the tracks are waaaaay out there.
Placebo 'Running up that hill' is a really good cover, and the album that is on also has the pixies , Depeche and others.Posted 2 years ago # -
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Another vote for Placebo's version of la Bush's classic. Also Nerina Pallot's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart.
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OP said ' country roads '
There's a punk version on a ' Fat wreck chords ' sampler from , oh , er , ages ago .
I remember it being really good , but not who did it .Dinosaur Jr . Yea . Listened to that one today . That mad ending . Ace .
Not strictly a cover , but how funny is it when Vic+ Bob do 'Foster and Allen ' ?
Mulligan and O'Hare .
... " she's gone to kenya , with that bloke from allied Carpets .... "
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Disturbed have a habit of covering some '80s choons per album, eg.
Shout, Tears for Fears
Land of Confusion, Genesis (quite a good version, this)Metallica doing Bob Seger's 'Turn the Page'
Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind...
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Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind...
or in fact machine head message in a bottle
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Arctic monkeys cover of girls aloud
Ryan adams covering wonderwall
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biffy clyro - killing in the name, made even better by the participation of the crowd.
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Fun lovin crimnals have done a few. Sinatras (I think) summer wind is a rather fine example.
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DJ Lebowitz plays "Holiday in Cambodia"
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beastie boys- benny and the jets
be good tanyas - when doves cryPosted 2 years ago # -
Hellsongs - Hymns in the key of 666. Mellow at times folky covers of rock classics. Paranoid cover is superb. Ninja edit: Youtube version is a wee bit different
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Get up, Stand up by The Chequers.
Marley goes disco.
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Tricky's cover of The Cure's Lovecats
Mechanical Bride - Umbrella(I found myself singing Richard Cheese style Rape Me in Tesco once [:-(] )
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Van Halen - Pretty Women, cracking opening riff
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M6TTF - Member
Ryan adams covering wonderwall
Only thing I know about him was something I read in a newspaper so it must be true. was performing at a festival and someone at the back shouted 'Do summer of 69.' He through a right strop and wouldn't continue until they were ejected.
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Singletrackworld said:
Sussanah and the magical orchestra did a haunting cover of 'Love will tear us apart'.
Brilliant cover version of a brilliant song.
Sooo intense it's untrue.And The Biscuit's version of 'The whole world in his hands' -
Paintballs coming home. It's great.Posted 2 years ago # -
Some great stuff on this thread ta chaps and chapesses - will amuse me for a while. some I'd forgotten and some I never knew
Been enjoying hayseed dixie just now.
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Nouvelle Vague cover lots of old Punk classics and other stuff from that era:
The Clash, Guns of Brixton is good
http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/MUSIC.htmlPosted 2 years ago # -
One of my favourite ever covers, this time OF the Dead Kennedys:
I almost prefer it to the original.
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