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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?
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
Less Than Jake covering The Proclaimers - I would walk 500 miles
Tori Amos covering Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Lindsey Stirling covering RMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Placebo covering Robert Palmer - Johnny and Mary
And as Righog said, "anything Johnny Cash covered".
Like:
Jonny Cash covering Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Sadly not the entire song, but you get the idea.
Street Spirit/ Fade Out as covered by The Darkness. Bonkers, unexpected and frankly brilliant:
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!
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.
'Jolene' - White Stripes
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
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
[i]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.[/i]
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.