Rufus Wainwright doing Lenny Cohen's [url=
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[i]Lake of Fire[/i][/url] (Meat Puppets)
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Sub [i]Southern Trees[/i][/url] (not exactly a cover version, but heavily inspired by [i]Strange Fruit[/i])
[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvABWs3r-VI ]The Chequers [i]Get Up, Stand Up[/i][/url] Marley/Tosh reggae classic gets disco makeover
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Ha! I love a good cover version, haven't clicked on all the links above and couldn't be bothered to find these on youtube but they're all good (IMO)
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Pixies - Winterlong
Flunk - Blue Monday
Taken by Trees - Sweet Child 'o' Mine
Headless Heroes - Just Like Honey
Caulfield Sisters - Please, please, please etc. (the Smiths song) and Some Candy Talking
Clayhill - Please, please, please etc
Ada - Maps
Carter USM - Panic and This is how it Feels (the Inspiral Carpets song)
and many more!
Good shout on the Fall's Victoria and This Mortal Coil Song to the Siren 🙂
as part of a quest to find new music i have listened to every one of those links lol!
I'm surprised neither of these have been said yet...
Sweet child of mine - taken by trees
Numb - Jamelia
Also, already mentioned. "Running up that Hill" by Placebo and "Man who sold the world" by Nirvana are both superb...
Excellent thread! 🙂
edit, billyboulders beat me to it with Taken by trees... Me and my slow typing.. D'oh!
Pogues' Dirty Old Town is great; follow the link to "Cinnamond" doing the same song and "WTF is that second rate quo copy!"
anyway.
+1 for This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren.
May I also suggest these:
- better version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kVBdVBn9w
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in the Supermarket - The Afghan Whigs[/url]
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- Alarm Will Sound[/url]
Love that someone has gone to the trouble of transcribing digitally borne music for an orchestra to cover the Aphex Twin 🙂
Stayin' Alive - Dweezil Zappa, with Donny Osmond on vocals:
John Drummer, Sisters Knockin on Heavens Door! A classic how did I leave that one out - Good shout
May I also recommend their version of Jolene (if you can find it!)
And you forgot this Sisters one
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+1 Sonic Youth 'Superstar'.
Always had a penchant for Trickys 'Black Steel'.
Rainbow - still I'm sad
Jose Feliciano - California Dreamin'
orig - Mammas n papas
little wing
brilliant cover
Love Hangover by the Associates.
I love this one... Abba gone Therapy?
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Gimme Gimme[/url]
There's something really pleasingly ramshackle and offkilter about the whole thing.
And I might regret this, but... Marmaduke Duke doing Beyonce
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This one seemed to upset people, but it works for me
[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOuSxal8pf4 ]It takes one to know one[/url]
"markfu - Member
China Drum - Wuthering Heights"
Wooo!
I find this haunting; but that may be due to the end of year show from my eldest daughter's dance school. Two of the senior students danced to this and there wasn't a dry eye in the place with the way they interpreted it (except mine, of course, because I don't cry, ever, honest)
And slightly more fun
Listen through for the classic guitar break at about 2:20.
and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHTKM1jd_Mc
Both from the seminal Ruby Tracks CD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Trax
yeah cool version of little wing. And err... Andrea Corr... Um!
Leatherface doing Abbas 'eagle'
NOFX - doing 'straight edge'
Pretty much anything by snuff or the gimme gimmes
+1 for dinosaur jr - just like heaven
Ah, Straight Edge is fantastic, I'd forgotten about that...
All of Paul Anka's Rock Swings album is fantastic too.
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Slow Gin - Joe Bonamassa. Brilliant!!
+1 Hurt by Johnny Cash
+1 for all of snuff's covers
Also ....
Motorhead by Primal Scream
Number of The Beast by Djali Zwan
Reverend Horton Heat's psychobilly cover of Paranoid
Peter Skellern - Puttin on the Ritz
Cake - I will survive
and can't really leave out Bill Shatner's cover of Common People
With A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker - by far the definitive version.
if you're talking "Paranoid", nothing beats this:
and also from the same band, "Eve Of Destruction", "Nights in White Satin" and of course, the seminal [url=
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Man Blues'[/url] played 'Live at Leeds' by The Who.
Originally titled 'A Young Man', by Mose Allison.
Ace of spades by hayseed dixie
maybe this link works sonic youth do superstar
The drummer singing in foo fighters version of pink Floyds have a cigar
The Pixies covering Leonard Cohen's I Can't Forget
Nick Cave Shane Macgowan Wonderful World
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bng3agUOYiI
Timperley Sunset - Frank Sidebottom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3H4H0XorrA
Too many to mention by The Black Crowes but I will anyway.
Oh sweet nothing- Velvet Underground
Forever Young and Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan
Hard To Handle - Otis Redding
The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down - The Band
Over The Hill - John Martyn
Driving Wheel - Tom Rush
Roll Um Easy - Little Feat
Or Neil Young doing Oh Lonesome Me or Blowin In The Wind
The Stones doing Like a Rolling Stone
Hendrix doing All Along The Watchtower or Wild Thing
The White Stripes doing i Just don't Know What To Do With Myself
whoever said All Saints, I hope you were joking
Ramones My Back Pages (Bob Dylan)
Ramones Do You Wanna Dance (Bobby Freeman)
Jose Gonzalez Heartbeats (The Knife)
There's loads of others but I like covers that are quite a different take on the original
Had forgotten about that Pixies cover of Leonard Cohen's [i]I Can't Forget[/i] 🙄 It's superb 🙂
Here's a last three for the evening before I get completely lost trawling through records/mp3s/the internets.
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Mustang - Mike Patton[/url] (Serge Gainsbourg)
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Down Make Love - Nine Inch Nails[/url] (Queen)
[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dnHW7s05tk ]Bitches Brew - nomeansno[/url] (Miles Davis)
mike flowers pops wonderwall.. ?
Kiss Kiss by Holly Valance
we gotta get out of this place - DOA feat. Jello Biafra
i think we're alone now - snuff
he's got the whole world in his hands - the sisters of mercy
