[Closed] Unexpected covers

Sandie Shaw's version of 'Sympathy for the Devil'

Oh, and more recently, Portishead's brilliant version of Abba's 'SOS':

there are a few here 🙂
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Mind you I only remembered that because it is so distinctive, but I didn't really get on with it

It's a bit good, isn't it?

First time I heard Wyatt playing it, it stopped me in my tracks.

Always think this is simultaneously the best and most ridiculous cover version ever made

Frost* covering ELO Here is the News

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thanks iolo 8)

Comfortably numb by the Scissor Sisters ?

Sandie Shaw's version of 'Sympathy for the Devil

Painful! Was she holding her nose?

Portishead's brilliant version of Abba's 'SOS':

A tiresome dirge.

Sandie Shaw's version of 'Sympathy for the Devil

Painful! Was she holding her nose?

There have been suggestions it was revenge on her record company for making her do Eurovision...

Reggiegasket - if you're talking covers of that, I prefer Sparklehorse's version:

I've been listening to this a surprisingly large amount recently:

Lawnmower Deth, 'Kids in America'

Good grief Pyro, as much as I love sparklehorse, that's [i]****[/i]. Is John Peel playing it at 33 instead of 45?

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Meh. I have different taste in music to you. It's not a crime, y'know...

The ultimate unexpected cover has to be Richard Thompson's version of Oops I Did it Again.

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That Disturbed thing is starting get the Joe Cocker treatment hereabouts.

Aphex Twin and Philip Glass have a crack at 'Heroes' by David Bowie:

Chamberlain – Talkin 'Bout A Revolution

Dammit... 😳

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Cheers zippy. 🙂 great cover.

They can pull it off live as well:

I've seen a better version at Donington (on the telly), but this is still pretty good.

Quite apt at the mo...

Russel Watson and Sean Ryder doing Barcelona. Painful.

Homeless man singing radiohead?

Rush play Neil Young

Some of Frank Turner's covers of The Hold Steady songs are a bit unexpected, particularly as Frank can be stridently atheist yet there's a strong Catholic undercurrent in The Hold Steady's songs.

Personally, I love the Sparklehorse cover of Wish You Were Here, but I can see it not being to everyone's taste. I'm not sure that video has a particularly good encoding of it, but I'm not sure that can soley be blamed for Northwind and Spin's reactions. 🙂

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Regarding the Sparklehorse cover of Wish You Were Here, I've just run them together, with one earphone in, and the opening bit with the acoustic guitar is pretty much identical, then the Floyd version pics up the tempo when the rest of the band come in, but it's not a million miles away.
There's a great cover of [i]She Moved Through The Fair[/i] by the Cocteau's Liz Frazer in that new series [i]The Living And The Dead[/i].

really like this,plus de staat cool as

Hackney Colliery Band - No Diggity

A guilty pleasure of mine is Cradle of Flith's cover of Temptation:

Conversely, I only just found out that China Girl by Bowie is a cover(!!). Well, a cover of a... Bowie track.. Performed by Iggy Pop. Still, weird to think Iggy's version came years before.

The hot 8 brass band - Sexual Healing

The Ukelele orchestra of Great Britain - Smells like teen spirit

This!

Steve'n'seagulls!

Cars - Fear Factory. I probably posted this in the other thread, but hey ho....

Weirdly, I was listening to that Sound of Silence version this morning, while getting ready for work.

Crazy in Love (Beyoncé) - Daniela Andrade:

Message In a Bottle:

Battery:

Zakkk Wylde singing Adele (Hello):

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Posted this one before:

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Dios mío, man...

Some nice things to listen to up there, but the Beyonce cover is everything I hate. Someone slowing down a great happy song and sucking all the life out of it.

This has got to be one of the best covers that I've heard though....

This always made me smile

Stuff - I think we're alone now

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Some nice things to listen to up there, but the Beyonce cover is everything I hate. Someone slowing down a great happy song and sucking all the life out of it.

It's just a different interpretation, isn't it?
It's not a choice of one or the other, you can listen to both of them whenever you want, or neither.

I was never that sold on the original, so am quite happy to listen to an alternative take on the same lyrics.

I really don't get why people love the Disturbed version of the Sound of Silence. A dull voice singing a dull arrangement of a song where the original is so, so much better. A good cover takes the original somewhere else. In Disturbeds case it goes from sublime classic to something worthy of the bin. Awful, awful thing.

More S&G. This time Scarborough Fair by Queensryche. Possibly worse than the Disturbed one.

Machine Head's Battery is better than the original at everything, but Robb just doesn't quite have the voice... I do like a metal cover though.

ChrisL mentioned Frank Turner, so here's a definitely unexpected cover- who'd have thought a whiny english guy could out Boss the Boss?

(aside; yes, this does make a happier song miserable; but Bruce originally wrote Thunder Road as a miserable song; he was "encouraged" to change the lyrics and give it the big band sound. He wrote the Promise later to tell us how those kids end up... I love that about Frank's version, it's all desperation and false bravado, 2 kids that know they're jumping off a cliff.)

 

Always liked Pantera's version of Planet Caravan...

More from my playlist.

The White Stripes, Jolene. I was there man, I was freakin there

I really don't get why people love the Disturbed version of the Sound of Silence. A dull voice singing a dull arrangement of a song where the original is so, so much better. A good cover takes the original somewhere else. In Disturbeds case it goes from sublime classic to something worthy of the bin. Awful, awful thing.

Oh, lighten up

It's an awesome version. i certainly think it does take it somewhere else, and without losing the spirit of the original (which is one of my favourite songs).

Apparently, Paul Simon contacted the band after he heard it and complimented them on it.

Revolting Cocks- do ya think I'm sexy.
Unexpectedly good.

I didn't recognise who was singing this when I saw the film, despite having her albums and having seen her live:

It's Emiliana Torini, Icelandic despite the Italian name.

Steel Panther do the Backstreet Boys.

Alice Russell

And inspired by the Halestorm Lady Gaga, here's Halestorm Daft Punk - which I think is a great version of a great song.

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