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My current faves:
My Generation - Patti Smith
Walk On By - Isaac Hayes (full version)
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Band On The Run - Foo Fighters
And The Beat Goes On Dub - Prince Fatty
Man Next Door - Massive Attack
Even Better Than The Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix) - U2
Age Of Love (Jam And Spoon Mix) - Age Of Love
Step On - Happy Mondays.
Torn - Avril Lavigne
When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Antisocial - Anthrax
Newton Faulkner - Teardrop.
Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Dolly Parton - Jolene (slowed down)
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
All Along the Watch Tower - Jimi Hendrix
Bears Den - Were going home (Drake)
Pretty much Snuffs entire catalogue particularly - I can see clearly now. And Hazy shade of winter
Hurt - johnny cash
Have a cigar - foo fighters
Best remix...
Best cover...
But good to see Snuff get a mention, their cover of the Shake n Vac jingle was a seminal work.
The original
The remix
Oh hell, another music thread..
Deep breath...
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
(it's mainly to flag up covers that people might not realise are covers, isn't it?)
[quote=edlong ]Oh hell, another music thread..
Deep breath...
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
(it's mainly to flag up covers that people might not realise are covers, isn't it?)
*cough* I meant her. not the other one. sorry about that
Step On - Happy Mondays.
No. Just, no! The original pisses in its boots and pwns it with bombers.
That aside,
Without You - Harry Nilsson. Much better than Badfinger's original, sadly it's almost impossible to find the original on YouTube.
Walk On By - [s]Isaac Hayes[/s] The Stranglers.
You're welcome.Keep Your Distance - Buddy and Julie Miller.
Whipping Post - Frank Zappa.
Kruder and Dorfmeister remix of Lamb's Trans Fatty Acid. Awesome tune
Step On - Happy Mondays.No. Just, no! The original pisses in its boots and pwns it with bombers.
I think it was Annie Nightingale's request show on a Sunday night back when the Mondays' version was out, they did a show dedicated to different versions of Step On. Sadly pre-iPlayer so not available to listen again, unless anyone has it on tape..
Joss Stone - Fell in love with a boy
Oh, and...CountZero - you are dead to me. 😉
Adam F. Circles.
Well it's not really a cover, and it's not exactly a remix either, but it's certainly a musical reinterpretation so...
The Soul Hooligans remix of Shoot You Down on The Stone Roses Remix album is a favourite of of mine.
One for the ess tee dub massive
Speed of the sound of loneliness - Alabama 3 - not the usual..
William Orbit - Adajio for strings.
(Although if Tiesto's version was available in my youth my head and those of my peers may well have exploded)
Aphex Twin ambient mix of Zeros and Ones by Jesus Jones.
GNR cover of Live and Let Die.
Pet Shop Boys,, Always on my mind.
Outta space - Prodigy
Stand by me - pennywise
Carter USM - The Impossible Dream.
The Damned - Alone Again Or
Just be thankful by Massive Attack.
Coupla gooduns
Chicane, offshore.
A must listen.
Wilson Pickett Hey Jude with Duane Allman recorded at Muscle Shoals
Epic version of All Along the Watchtower.
Forgot this was a cover. Never even heard the original; don't need to..
A song; Sublime/Pharcyde - Doin' Time remix
A whole album of covers; Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics
A cover of a whole album; Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon
https://youtu.be/VJEZWsnIECo
^^ My youngest brother couldn't believe it when our dad knew the lyrics to Maggie's Farm. The little ignoramus doesn't know Dylan..
Like a virgin - lords of the new church, ok not that good really but quite amusing.
Into the Groove(y) - Ciccone Youth continuing the Madonna theme.
Snuff always good value,
the man who sold the world - Nirvana
Spirit in the Sky - Doctor and the Medics
Jolene -Sisters of Mercy