I know its been discussed before but I do enjoy a good cover version. toay I found Toots an the Maytals "Country Roads" - the John Denver / Oliva Newton John song.
Very funny.
currently listening to an African Reggae version of "wish you were here" - alpha blondy if anyone wants it on spotify. Extra weirdness as it has bagpipes coming in in the chorus.
I have heard an African version of "all shook up" in a zoukous styleee
So - anyone any more weird cover versions?
dub side of the moon - whole reggae take on pink floyd - works ok'ish
Anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
Nothing Compares 2U is superb.
snuff - i think we're alone now
dinosaur jr - just like heaven
dead kennedys - my sharona/pull my strings
Stumbled upon a West African version of Johnny Cash's ring of fire the other day, I'll see if I can find a link.
Worked quite well...
dredd Zeppelin on a similiar theme - ok ish you may need to be stoned to enjoy it not heard it in my straight days
Seu Jorges Brazilian Bowie songs are quite cute
I can see for miles - The Who
covered by Lord Sitar - quite brilliant
[url= http://www.last.fm/music/Lord+Sitar/_/I+Can+See+for+Miles ]I can see for miles - lastfm[/url]
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
covered by China Drum - great bunch of lads and should have been the British Green Day - they were better
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Anything by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE&feature=related ]Shaft[/url]
Shinehead doing Billy Jean
And i have somewhere got a mate's mate's psychobilly band covering 'Fine time to leave me Lucille' which is quite unique
Simon Ralli doing Britney 😯
beatalica?
The cover of hotel california from the gipsy king.
2nd Dub Side of The Moon (Easy Star Allstars) they also did one of the Radiohead albums, but that just doesn't work as well.
A lot of Richard Cheese's covers are funny and/or good. His version of Radiohead Creep is great, and Nivarna's Rape Me is something different in the chilled lounge/piano jazz style!
It wasn't a particularly great version, but I used to enjoy a nice Lemonheads/Evan Dando b-side that I'd recorded onto my minidisc player, can't remember the name.
The lyrics seemed very familiar.
Then one day, Whitney Houston was warbling away on the radio and I realised what I'd been humming for so long.........
Hayseed Dixie, y'all!
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HammerLock doing Pancho and Lefty is pretty unexpected.
Richard Cheese - All your favourite hits in lounge style.
Jimmy Eat World (I think) covering Firestarter by Prodigy
Another Prodigy cover for you here;
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Toys doing their funky best with Voodoo People[/url]
bikemonkey - I'm glad someone else knows of Richard Cheese!
Hayseed dixie - I'd forgotten them - very good.
Richard Cheese - loads on spotify - that should amuse me for a while.
Ukelele orchestra are very good. I rather prefer the ones that are not supposed to be funny like many of the reggae ones.
Edit - Richard Cheese - rock the casbah 😯
M Ward doing David Bowie's "Let's Dance"; breaks my heart in two- barely recognisable and beautiful.
Another vote for Richard Cheese here. His version of "Baby got back" is truly top drawer.
On a slightly different note, check out the Balanescu Quartet's (they did the theme tune to University Challenge) versions of The Model, We are the Robots and a couple of other Kraftwerk tunes. They're ace!
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- Electrifying[/url]
Placebo doing Johnny and Mary and Running up that Hill - class
Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Gimme Gimme a Man after midnight they also did a great version of Jolene
DKs - viva las vegas
Hard and Phirm's rodeohead medley? [url=
Link[/url]. Used to love than in years gone by, probably doesn't fit your requisite of a serious cover as although excellently done tongue's firmly in cheek. Got an album a while ago called Cosmosonica when I was going through a cover appreciation phase. NOt great tbh but loved the scissor sister's cover of Franz Ferdinand's 'take me out'.
Cake doing I Will Survive.
No mention of Apocalyptica yet?
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piemann - Member..........check out the Balanescu Quartet's versions of The Model, We are the Robots and a couple of other Kraftwerk tunes. They're ace!
Brilliant! Enjoying that.
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Hayseed Dixie are following the path beaten by Run C&W. Their bluegrass version of Sweet Soul Music is brilliant. "Spotlight on Tanya Tucker - Wouldn't you like to ... be in her video"
I also like Rodrigo y Gabriela's Stairway to Heaven, and Dimples D covering I dream of Jeannie
Manfred Mann 'Quinn the Eskimo' is quite a bit different to Dylan's original.
anything by Nouvelle Vague, especially Teenage Kicks.
A3's Hotel California is quite eerie and darker than the Eagles'.
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Cat Power's covers are a bit different too.
The Pogues - Honky Tonk Woman
Rythms del Mundo - Dark of the Matinee
Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
I assume most of you know [url=
version of stairway to heaven[/url]??
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Straight out of Compton by Nina Gordon [url=
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And if we're talking Shatner then [url=
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don't ask why, but i was looking for cat's in the cradle the other day, versions by [url=
chapin[/url], [url=
cash[/url] (great version) and [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAGmEsWjaws ]ugly kid joe[/url].
the comedy entry, though, was [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwiYKiWSI6U ]this by "3rd Bass"[/url] 😆
Paul Anka did an entire album of brilliant songs in an easy-listening style, including Nirvana and Van Halen. It was actually quite good but I can't be bothered to search youtube
Ahh go on then
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tj i'll raise your stairway..... i give you [url=
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Turisas- folk metal covering Boney M!! beat that
No-one mentioned [url=
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Mr Simon Ralli your cover of Britney Spears has made all the rugs in my house curl up! you have quite an amazing talent there.
Tori Amos is always doing interesting covers. ‘Ring My Bell’ is a live favourite, but I don't think she's recorded it, but she did a version of a Chas and Dave song, the title of which escapes me at the 'mo, and I can't be arsed to go get the 'pod out of the car. She did a terrific version of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', (Nirvana), 'If 6 Was 9', (Hendrix), 'Strange Fruit', (Holliday), and 'Thank You' (Zeppelin). I've got a brilliant cover of 'I predict A Riot' by Cheshire Chord, a ladies choir, which I recorded from a radio stream, probably 6Music, as an MP3.
johny cash version of hurt was brilliant though i still love the nin version
marylin mansons sweet dreams
rage against the machine renegades of funk i like that whole album of covers, its great
a perfect circles emotive album i prefer their version of imagine
but when the levee breaks is no led zepplin
Order Of The Ebon Hand's version of the Banshees' "Spellbound"
Wierd Al
Like a surgeon
Smells like Nirvana
Another one rides the bus
What if God smoked cannabis?
Armish Paradise
Canadian idiot
Oops I farted again
Ugly girl
You're pitiful
Will the real Slim Shady please shut up
Amongst others. Not strictly covers though.
Best true cover, Bonnie Prince Billy, I see a Darkness.
Sussanah and the magical orchestra did a haunting cover of 'Love will tear us apart'. It was in Greys anatomy. They did an entire album and most of the tracks are waaaaay out there.
Placebo 'Running up that hill' is a really good cover, and the album that is on also has the pixies , Depeche and others.
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Another vote for Placebo's version of la Bush's classic. Also Nerina Pallot's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart.
OP said ' country roads '
There's a punk version on a ' Fat wreck chords ' sampler from , oh , er , ages ago .
I remember it being really good , but not who did it .
Dinosaur Jr . Yea . Listened to that one today . That mad ending . Ace .
Not strictly a cover , but how funny is it when Vic+ Bob do 'Foster and Allen ' ?
Mulligan and O'Hare .
... " she's gone to kenya , with that bloke from allied Carpets .... "
Disturbed have a habit of covering some '80s choons per album, eg.
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of Confusion, Genesis[/url] (quite a good version, this)
[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOibtqWo6z4 ]Metallica doing Bob Seger's 'Turn the Page'[/url]
Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind...
Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind...
or in fact [url= http://samples.musica.mustdie.ru/m/machine_head/1999_594.mp3 ]machine head message in a bottle[/url]
Arctic monkeys cover of girls aloud
Ryan adams covering wonderwall
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clyro - killing in the name[/url], made even better by the participation of the crowd.
Fun lovin crimnals have done a few. Sinatras (I think) summer wind is a rather fine example.
DJ Lebowitz plays "Holiday in Cambodia"
beastie boys- benny and the jets
be good tanyas - when doves cry
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/639x ]Hellsongs - Hymns in the key of 666.[/url] Mellow at times folky covers of rock classics. [url=
cover is superb. Ninja edit: Youtube version is a wee bit different 🙂
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up, Stand up[/i] by The Chequers[/url].
Marley goes disco.
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cover of The Cure's Lovecats[/url]
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Bride - Umbrella[/url]
(I found myself singing Richard Cheese style Rape Me in Tesco once [:-(] )
Van Halen - Pretty Women, cracking opening riff
M6TTF - Member
Ryan adams covering wonderwall
Only thing I know about him was something I read in a newspaper so it must be true. was performing at a festival and someone at the back shouted 'Do summer of 69.' He through a right strop and wouldn't continue until they were ejected.
Singletrackworld said:
Sussanah and the magical orchestra did a haunting cover of 'Love will tear us apart'.
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Sooo intense it's untrue.
And The Biscuit's version of 'The whole world in his hands' -
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coming home. [/url] It's great.
Some great stuff on this thread ta chaps and chapesses - will amuse me for a while. some I'd forgotten and some I never knew
Been enjoying hayseed dixie just now.
Nouvelle Vague cover lots of old Punk classics and other stuff from that era:
The Clash, Guns of Brixton is good
[url] http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/MUSIC.html [/url]
One of my favourite ever covers, this time OF the Dead Kennedys:
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I almost prefer it to the original.
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Sid Vicious... MY WAY
nuff said
The ukelele orchestra are simply awesome
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one of my favourite vocalists ever - From Boulder to Birmingham (originally by Emmylou Harris).
Although anything she sings is fine by me......
The Dickies - Sound of Silence
Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
The Ramones - Needles and Pins
Sisters of Mercy - Emma
The Hunters Club - Feel Like Making Love
The Chameleons - Tomorrow Never Knows
The dead weather - are friends electric?
Snuff- I can see clearly now by jimmy cliff
Redd Kross- Dancing Queen
FNM- Easy
Motorhead- Louie louie by the kingsmen
anything off Gravelands by The King
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Lewis covering CRASS[/url]
And because everything's been bordering on good taste, [url=
Shanks doing a Friday night favourite[/url] (admittedly it's a cover of a phrase, not a song)
At The Drive In - This night has opened my eyes
Dirty Projectors, the Rise Above album is interesting I guess. Some half arsed covers of Black Flag
Slayer - Filler/I dont wanna hear it (Minor Threat cover, and absolute weapon of a song)
Minutemen - 3 Way Tie for last album - some good covers on there.
One of the best covers has to be Muse's version of Feeling Good by Nina Simone. Epic
Me First and the gimmie gimmies is alwas good to listen to before a blast through the forest so many wicked covers.
cheers
Rusty Mac
The Bates doing "Billie Jean" - not unusual, just damn good.