Futureheads Hounds of Love. What a re-imagining
Rapeman cover of ZZ Top's just got paid.
href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE"
Michael Jackson got a makeover
href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ">
Underrated only because many don't seem to realise it is a cover
Slits, Heard it through the grapevine
Jimmy Cliff’s version of Rancid’s Ruby Soho is brilliant.
Joshua James’ cover of Modest Mouse Dramamine.
RATM - Africa Bambaata’s Renegades of Funk.
Sturgill Simpson - Nirvana In Bloom
and finally (unbelievably) ZZ Top - DMD (25 lighters) I Gotsta Get Paid.
Not sure about underrated.
But this is excellent:
30 Seconds to Mars - Stronger
Chris Cornell - Billie Jean
I'm going to commit total sacrilege now and mention Frankie Goes to Hollywood's cover of Born to run
...oh, and this one, of course!
Bit of a contrast here, but the Machine Head cover of Message in a Bottle:
And Billie Marten's version of In For The Kill:
Others I can't be bothered to YouTube:
Metallica
Whisky in The Jar
Guns n Roses
Human Being
Live n let die
That Kyuss cover is a brilliant track and I always forget it’s a cover. Was the original by Yawning Man?
Well, Bikebouy got in there before me to post Old Wobly Head, which tbh I have posted up before, so tongue in cheek I'll say Reel Big Fish, Take On Me.
The Slits mentioned above is on the same album.
Covered linky
Not quite in tune with the thread, but almost.
Pearl jam covering Neil young.
Rocking in the free world. And Neil young makes an appearance too.
Jeff Beck and Billy Gibbons - 16 Tons (Ignore the caption - it's Jeff Beck's band not ZZ Top):
[url]
The Boss - You Never Can Tell:
[url]
Beth Hart (doing a Steve Marriott impression) with Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee
[url] https://youtu.be/NooMzmbE0xc [/url]
and also their version of Nutbush City Limits
[url] https://youtu.be/b6VEHUJwUho [/url]
Well who would have guessed...following the instructions in teh forum help on posting videos doesn't actually work...I've changed them to URLs instead
A1's stab at A-ha's Take on Me wasn't too shabby.
Walk on by - the Stranglers (My favourite cover ever)
Running up that hill (Kate Bush) by Placebo
Hounds of Love (Kate Bush) there's a theme here) by the Futureheads
Blue Jean Blues (ZZ Top) by Jeff Healey
Ride Like The Wind (Christopher Cross) by Saxon. Hmm... debatable, that one.
don't know if it's great or not...... but it was only just pointed out to me the Easyjet advert music
is a total reimagining of
- and I do like a cover version that is a properly different version
Rosalia: I See a Darkness.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIgF8QyzyyU&feature=youtu.be
Crippled Black Phoenix ..covering ACDC's " Let Me Put My Love Into You "
I think it's better than the original
Lucky Chops - Hello
Taking a really shit song and making it immense.
TheThird Degree - Mercy
I know I’m in a minority when it comes to this one, but I kind of like Aimee Mann’s cover of “One” used on the “Magnolia” soundtrack.
A bit of backstory to this - Paul Thomas Anderson, director of Magnolia, is a friend of Aimee Mann’s, and was hanging out at Aimee’s place as she was working on the songs for what would become her album Bachelor #2. As it progressed, he felt there was a theme, a thread running through the songs, so he wrote the screenplay around it. The soundtrack album is different to Bachelor #2, and both are very well worth having.
In fact, all of Aimee’s albums are worth having, as are the ones she recorded with ‘TIL Tuesday.
If you ever get the chance to see Aimee play live, grab it, she’s a very good musician and performer, and she does some great covers.
Pearl jam covering Neil young.
Rocking in the free world. And Neil young makes an appearance too.
Well, he would! He toured Mirrorball, (the album he recorded with Pearl Jam as his backing band), with Pearl Jam - I saw him play Reading with that lineup.
Still wear the tee shirts, too!
Dunno about underrated covers, this is a cover by a criminally underrated band!
I Feel Love, by Curve
This is nice.
Julie Fowlis - Lon-dubh
Paul Weller’s soulful, full acoustic version of Sister Sledge’s Thinking of You is pretty damn good.
He also manages a decent version of Black is the Colour (Nina Simone).
Jason and the Scorchers - Absolutely Sweet Marie (Dylan)
Steve Hillage - It's All Too Much (Beatles)
Motorhead - Motorhead (Hawkwind)
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Rolf Harris)
Well I never knew that one of my favourite Kyuss songs was a cover... 😲
Always enjoy a bitta Peej..
Not underrated (I hope) but Thin Lizzy- Rosalie, a Bob Seger tune. Awesome live ! Sorry can’t link
Del Shannon’s Runaway by Avenged Sevenfold, awesome guitars
I’m going to commit total sacrilege now and mention Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s cover of Born to run
FGTH version is soooo much better.
Another Nirvana cover, nothing like the original
Someone ^^^ said that it’s hard to top Glen Campbell, and yes I reckon it is too..
But.. sometimes there is always an exception. In my choice here, I’m going for an Old Choon. Issac Hayes has a voice that, if targeted properly, could possibly melt a planets core.... Here he covers “By the time I get the Pheonix” and we all know what an awesome song that is when sung by Glen, in fact it has to be possibly in my top 100 tunes of all time... yet, you are going to need to get in sync with his version.. I recommend a quiet, dark, simpering moment when you are on your own without distractions.. it is after all 19mins long, with an introduction that could annoy if you are expecting instance gratification...
You need time, a large slug of whiskey and a dark room, feet up and relax...
Seven days is too long, covered by...
Dexys Midnight Runners....🤪 ok, this might get everyone frantically hitting the delete key, but have a listen. A classic Northern Soul song, from the early days of Chuck Wood.. ok, the original is unmistakably brilliant mainly for the space between the notes and that open recording sound.. but Dexys do a decent job of making you want to shuffle your feet in an ungainly manner around the kitchen..
Good call on GnR's version of Live and Let Die, rate it far higher than the original.
Anyway, my submissions:
1000 Homo DJ's - Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
Turisas - Rasputin (Boney M)
Clutch - Gravel Road (Mississippi Fred McDowell)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpvDZu-GFSY
I was going to nominate Hellraiser by Motorhead but seems Lemmy wrote it with Ozzy and Zack Wylde so it's not really a cover.
Hmmmm, I seem to be on a roll here, so here’s another.
Gwen McCrae has a voice hardly bettered, IMO, and here she sets out another Soul Classic that does better the original by about a whisker. Everyone likes a Hammond Organ right? Well, this song has that slow backbeat renound of the 70’s low-fi Philly Soul funk era.. probably best if this song follows on from Issac above, you could make a whole evening out of this kinda thing (and I do regularly)
Let’s straighten it out, original mastered by OV Wright if you fancy seeking him out.
Last one, for the time being.
Aretha Franklin. Yeah, that’s all it needs... her name. Covers a Carole King folk classic..
Listen, and weep.
You make me feel like a natural woman.
Indeed, you do.
This one is for derekstarship. 😉
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tlLi3zbSEMU
Australian band the DMA's cover of Cher Believe is sodding brilliant and fairly unexpected given they are a bit of a weird britpop throwback in some ways.
Actually Like A Version is a fairly good source of covers. Can be a bit of a mixed bag but some gems.
Love these threads, a great way to spend a mellow evening with a beer or three
anyway, bit more of a mashup than a straight cover but still ok. Pamplamouse and Jamiroquai/BeeGees
Dev Townsend's cover of Ween's 'Transdermal Celebration'... 'new' version over original video
William Shatner, Common People
Great song, and this is a great unofficial video.
Not a cover per say but you'll recognise the melody!
Not so much underrated, as not well known ar all, there’s a wonderful album called ‘Beat the Retreat’, covers of songs by Richard Thompson, and for me, the stand-out track is ‘The Dimming Of The Day’, by The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Guaranteed to send shivers down my spine every time I hear it.
Killdozer Sweet Home Alabama.
The Breeders - Happiness is a Warm Gun
Tindersticks - Kathleen
Always enjoyed silverfish's cover of white lines.
I’ve loved Shawn Colvin since her first album, and as a songwriter and singer she’s up there with the best, but she recognises a good song when she hears one, and her second album was a covers album! This cover was recorded for an American radio show, and I think the lyrics had a personal meaning, you can hear her voice catch a few seconds from the end:
Love this version of Heroes since I heard it on Lone Survivor.
Disturbed - Sound of Silence.
Tori does Kate:
No Quarter by Tool. Better than Zeppelin and l've been a LZep fan since 1970.
Haters gonna hate but Chrissie Hynde and Mozza swapping songs...
Disturbed's Sound of Silence twice now. Must be good 😆
I was in a record shop on saturday and nearly walked out - they were playing a country cover of I Just Called to Say I Love You. A shit cover of a shit song. What could be worse in this world of shit.
(Sorry. Please see the "How Much Sleep" thread)