Glad Leo got a look in we earlier, his YouTube channel is a gloriously extensive pit of metal covers!
Violet orlandi who has done some stuff with him has a great metal cover of Eiffel 65 Blue with the Melodicka brothers.
Also DMA's cover of Cher's Believe on triple J like a version. It's a thing or gum chewing glory.
Not a cover but a mashup.... So apologies nor this breaks to the rules. But this shouldn't work as well as it does!!!
This one is interesting - I don't know the band but I believe the rest of the bands output is some kind of metal
I was surprised that Disturbed didn't appear sooner given how popular it seemed to be a while back. Not to my taste though - shouting "Sound of Silence" seems, well, odd.
I am very fond of a bit of reggae and reggae is full of cover versions. Sanchez who is covering this has a beautiful voice - but who thought this was a good idea?
Love these threads, really enjoy listening through the lot!
My favourite two groups for covers at the moment are Pompalmoose
And Larkin Poe
Mmmmm, loving the Larkin Poe cover! Shame they don’t seem to have an actual recording of it anywhere.
Just looking through Larkin Poe’s recordings and videos, and found this cover; always had a soft spot for the song, but this is gorgeous.
I’d completely forgotten this one, Aimee Mann covering Coldplay.
I’m not sure, but I think this might be one of the better covers of this song. I’ve seen the original artist quite a few times, and she’s never sung it live. One day, perhaps.
Someone posted up Nilsson covering Badfinger, personally I think his version knocks spots off the original; this is another Badfinger song, the original I really like, but Aimee Man really does a cracking version of it.
And Tom Waits…
Phoebe Bridgers covering Tom Waits:
And Patty Griffin:
First time I saw Patty she was supporting Emmylou Harris at the Royal Albert Hall, just a tiny figure alone on a big stage, but she was mesmerising, and just filled the stage by her presence. Amazing singer.
This is a great one - cover of Sly and the Family Stone.
And another by the same band - this time of Curtis Mayfield. Love the message of this song - and the original version too.
In a sort of Larkin Poe stylee, I love this
(Johnny Cash wins BTW)
As much as I love Johnny Cash - I think this is a better cover, especially as it is a live radio session.
Some great stuff in here. Keep 'em coming.
I'm sure there are loads that I don't even know are covers (including some in here), but if we're going with stuff the original artist supports I'll throw in this one. Billy even did a re-write and added some verses, although still kept that cringeworthy line about space hardware 🙂
Lianne la Havas does Weird Fishes
I quite like this one too although the penultimate note sounds like he's taking the piss 🙂
Nina Gordon doing Straight Outta Compton. NSFW. Delicious.
A sixteen year old girl absolutely nails it....
Not a massive fan of covers, but I love a Jack White/White Stripes cover. 3 different styles...
(Beefheart cover)
I guess a different arrangement of a traditional song counts? This one has real meaning for me. Its the song I used to sing to Julie as we wandered round the mountains and my friends sang it when we scattered her ashes. I love this version of it- very different to the trad arrangements of the corries or the country feel of the Byrds. Tears in my eyes everytime I hear it
It’s a wonderful song TJ - I personally love The Byrds version.
Far from my favourite artist but Harry Styles does some good covers. And I could watch Sarah Jones drum all day.
Sledge Hammer
Chain
IDLES ain’t bad at owning a cover
Just an excuse to post up some Pixies. Cecelia Ann.
Just another couple of the same Mettalica song covers for CountZero
Just so happens she's my cousin as well 🙂
This is fantastic and makes me emotional every time I watch it.
If we're doing Metallica covers how about some Mongolian metal.
The HU Sad But True
the slits-heard it through the grapevine
the stranglers-walk on by
the dickies-nights in white satin
https://youtu.be/_aLpwtaLDw8
I quite like PSB’s up-tempo version of BSP’s ‘A Boy Vertiginous’
And also BSP’s pre-emptive version of PSB’s ‘White Star Liner’
And last but not least a BFI video cover of BSP’s ‘From The Sea To The Land Beyond’
Neil Young cover
The best track of some pretty good Springsteen covers
Quite partial to a Frank Turner cover. Basically just like normal only on an acoustic guitar, and depressing. I mean, a lot of people miss that Thunder Road is a sad story- 2 kids with no future just desperately jumping and hoping it works out, and then the Promise tells you just how badly it went. But because it's Springsteen people hear an uplifting story about getting up and making a new life.
But Frank's version? Yeah you know it's going to end badly. Dancing Queen becomes a crushing account of the shortness of youth. You Are My Sunshine or Build Me Up Buttercup become suicide notes. I mean, Modern Leper ffs! "Here we have a song about mental health issues by my friend who has killed himself. LET'S MAKE IT EVEN SADDER"
John kongos …. Original “ step on “ before the mancunian scallys took it
I do like a cover. I find the volume and variety of the musical output of us clever apes absolutely astonishing. Somehow having different people do the same things accentuates the difference in approach and styles. I guess it's a bit like a Whip-off comp on a dirt jump, or a "best method" comp 0in snowboarding meet.
I do like a comedy take too - the Senor Coconut album TJ posted is a favourite, a bit of a chuckle as well as being very well done. I think their version of Sade's Smooth Operator is my favourite through. ( @tjagain - if you like a left-field cover - look up Rondellus. Black Sabbath, sung in Latin, played on medieval instruments)
Surprised no-one's mentioned Richard Cheese. Las Vegas lounge singer style. Stupid and brilliant, some utterly inappropriately jaunty covers. Sunny Side of the Moon Pink Floyd refraction image upturned in a martini glass. NSFW *at all*.
I love this. Beautiful and haunting. Faithful to the original and still a very different take.
Richard Cheese is brilliant
ha! took too long to type mine!
Do live versions count?
Springsteen's done a few, my favorite is Free Nelson Mandela which he opened his first tour of South Africa with. Great for several reasons; Steve Van Zandt was heavily involved in the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980's, and it's good to watch the (largely white) crowd sing along.
This cover of Doom metal band Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats is just hauntingly brilliant! What a voice!
I think Dinosaur Jr deserve full credit for aiming high and hitting the mark with this one.
You'd think anyone but Hope Sandoval singing this would be a disappointment, but...