The Gogos version of the Ramones I wanna be sedated is better than the original. See it on Youtube
Cake - I will survive plus any cover version by The Wedding Present ... Getting Better or Come up and see me, make me smile are my personal faves.
Orion by Rodrigo y Gabriela
And
Message in a bottle by Machine Head
Perhaps not quite the same, but still quite impressive:
https://twitter.com/JamesL1927/status/1604612140618448899
Loving the mariachi self cover by Hugh Cornwell, top notch cheating or not.
This might be my GOAT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKQ2Z1odSc
Rips a legendary song to tiny little pieces but still manages to pay homage
Black Crowes Oh Sweet Nuthing. Velvet Underground Cover
Tainted Love by Soft Cell, although does a rerecording of a song really become a "cover", as it had a separate writer to the first performer (Gloria Jones).
Hurt is the answer. Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover "that song isn't mine any more" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)
Mike Flowers pop's wonderwall
The Fall's Ghost in my house
But Mark Cohn's original version of Walking in Memphis is better than any cover (except my mate Paul Woodward)
A serious one
Try this for blazing and crumbling steel guitar:
Can't beat a bit of the fannies.
Chris Cornell doing a grand job of covering a "cover".
That Michael Winslow video is incredible
Orion by Rodrigo y Gabriela
This is utterly superb.
Two by the same band -
On a different tip…
Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover “that song isn’t mine any more”
on a similar theme
Hurt is the answer. Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover “that song isn’t mine any more”
That's mighty scary as that came up on my YouTube feed earlier today ........
Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover “that song isn’t mine any more”
Which is pretty much what Bob Dylan said when Jimi Hendrix did All Along the Watchtower.
From Steve Earle's albumin of Townes Van Zandt covers, most of them are rubbish but this is a complete banger!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1RGSFNboi4
PWEI doing Prodigy's Their Law, mind you PWEI were co credited with making the song so it's borderline but is fantastic!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=05FKtPJO8IQ
Considering which band he is a part of, what their musical style is and how his voice normally sounds this completely blew me away!
Oh, and ANYTHING by 2Cellos is simply ace
If you're going to cover Rage Against The Machine, you better kill it...
... & Denzel Curry killed it.
Written by the Rolling Stones but I prefer his cover
I love the Creedence Cover of Heard it through the grapevine as featured on this vid - even has MTB content. ;o)
Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights (a Postal Service cover)
arctic monkeys - love machine - this is a classic
pennywise is class but not a patch on johnny cashs cover of NIN
Johnny Cash and Hurt is probably the correct answer every time, but I do have a soft spot for Von's choice of cover...
burntembers
Full MemberIron and Wine – Such Great Heights (a Postal Service cover)
Absolutely love this. Frank Turner also does a great cover of The District Sleeps Alone Tonight which I love. Can't bloody stand the Postal Service but they did write some fantastic songs. I should seek out more Postal Service covers
@redmex there's an even better version on some cd or other I have where Townes drums on the back of his guitar and someone else plays the tune
What's remarkable is that she had such an amazing talent, and then just disappeared from the music industry almost overnight. She's done nothing since and apparently lives a simple, quiet life in Ireland somewhere.
I was introduced to The Dickies early and thought their version of Paranoid was an original. Only years later to be shown Black Sabbath's version, which I thought was a poor cover version at first.
See also The Dickies version of Nights in White Satin, Sounds of Silence and of course the Banana Splits.
They are still one of may favourite bands.
Speaking about remarkable talent that didn't get the recognition it deserved (at the time)
I’m a big fan of metal(ish) and punk covers of pop songs so my votes go to
for being a bit of an emotional rollercoaster
and
for being fun.
Honourable mention for Less Than Jake doing the whole grease soundtrack and having the gall to release it as an album, and David Gray’s version of Say Hello Wave Goodbye
in the end though, the Cash version of Hurt is probably the right answer, or Jeff Buckleys Hallelujah, but that’s been done to death now and it’s been ruined a bit.
