The Frank & Walters – Cemetry Gates
I like the bass line. 🙂
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qek3Lf_sc[/video]
Futureheads – Hounds Of Love
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Bb_rL8juk[/video]
The Ukrainians – Venus in Furs
Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine of your Love
Julie Driscoll / Brian Auger – Season of the Witch
Can’t remember who it’s by, but featuring Brian Molko out of Placebo – Summertime Rolls
The Third Degree – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
The Third Degree – Mercy
Metallica – Stone Cold Crazy
As well as those covers that have sort of become so definitive in the mainstream consciousness that lots of peeps don’t realise they’re not the originals:
Hendrix – Hey Joe
The Clash – I Fought the Law
The Specials – Message to You, Rudy
Aretha Franklin – Respect
Does the Anthrax / Chuck D version of Bring the Noise count as a cover? If so, then that too.
ti_pin_man – Member
usually most covers ruin a good song…
Rubbish. As above, there are many, many great songs that few realise are covers.
Which is better, Shipbuilding, by Robert Wyatt, or Elvis Costello, and which is the original version?
Hmm, I seem to be the loudmouth dominating the conversation in this thread a bit..
If you only click on one of the links I’ve posted, make it the Julie Driscoll one. I really can’t overstate how wonderful her voice is on that song. The video is a wee bit dated, I grant you, so maybe just listen to the audio….
quite often, a good cover will not sound like a cover – I know I was surprised to find several excellent songs I thought were originals were actually covers, e.g.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be7iNHw8QoQ[/video]
(originally be joe jackson?)
I recall when Step On was out (the Mondays version) Annie Nightingale played literally dozens of different versions of the song on her request show. Can’t remember who a single one of them was by, unfortunately.
And I certainly never realised, until you posted it, that Got The Time wasn’t an Anthrax original. Cheers
Yeah, a bit sad, but when I was a student I used to trawl charity shops specifically looking for obscure cover versions…
I also used to DJ a bit and have been known to play cover-only sets when the crowd were so pissed they wouldn’t care what was played (rowing / rugby club sort of events).
Each to their own an all that!
I’ll dig out the cassette of my old band doing “Careless Whisper” when I get home. It’s much much better than the Gossip version, which is crap. Actually I don’t think I’ve got that cassette anymore.
Maybe the “Moonage Daydream” cover my other band did. That’s obscure, I’ll rip that. Ah, that had no vocals. Oh well.
The essential Richard Berry covers (although given that the Kingsmen played it all wrong and Iggy’s is based on that, his is more of a cover of a cover of Richard Berry I suppose):