Flaming lips do a good dark side of the moon job, covered the whole album - here's a taster
Does Run DMC v Aerosmith's version of Walk this Way count?
Bob Dylan and Carole King songs are the usual candidates for great covers. Both are great songwriters but neither are particularly good singers.
Less weedy than Bowie, less "in French" than Brel. 😀
An incredibly dark song made even darker. Hauntingly excellent (even when there are lines missing in the video).
Excellent thread & some great shouts already -
Tricky - Black Steel
Nirvana - Man who sold the world
Gloria Gaynor - Tainted Love
Jimi Hendrix - All along the Watchtower
some of my favourites here-
& kind of...
Is it technically a cover? Probably not. But it is great.
+1 Hackney Collier Band. 😀
Jeffrey Lewis murdered some Crass stuff (if that's possible?), but Where Next Columbus? was ok
I like the sound, but the "Hackney Colliery" thing pisses me off a bit, as a [s]northerner[/s] yorkshireman, there's a bit of that appropriating folk culture in a metropolitan, knowing, 'ironic' way that gets my goat when real "colliery" bands have been stuffed by the death of the industry, as the communities they emerged from have been ripped apart. It's all a bit "Nathan Barley" for me
(and I lived in bloody Hoxton, in the late 90s too)
edlong - hear what you're saying & kind of with you but on the flip side - ITS BRASS RAVE! (I played it out last weekend & the place went mental.)
Plenty of Brass Bands around at the moment - Hot 8, Brass Roots, Renegade Brass, Hypnotic Brass ensemble etc etc and its great to see Brass being popular again with a whole new demographic.
When in N'awlins last year there were Brass bands playing/busking on corners & in lots of bars & clubs - amazing musical scene & mad for brass
So it seems like China Drum are winning the thread so far, good stuff...
I love this...
and lets end with something that makes no sense whatsoever
StefMcDef reminded me of one of my all time faves.
Scott Walker does Jacques Brel better than anyone. FACT.
Loads of good covers, but the absolute pits was this:
I have to go and watch the New Order version to cleanse my head after even searching for this....
Edit: if the video link doesn't work don't bother as George Micheal should have been ashamed of himself for that, even if it was for charity.
The Sisters Of Mercy did some good covers (if you like that kind of thing):
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also +1 for some of the above:
The Cramps - Fever
The Clash - I Fought The Law, Brand New Cadillac
Hendrix - Hey Joe, All Along The Watchtower
Banshees - Dear Prudence
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Therapy? - Isolation
Now normally people shouldn't dream of covering a Motorhead toon...let alone this one, but I reckon one good formula for a cover is to take a great tune, do it differently and it still be great.
Wins on all counts...
..and I love this
For sas78
Space Captain. Twas a good gig.
This is my favorite of all the covers they do.
Oh Sweet Nuthin', originally by the Velvet Underground.
Original
Not strictly a cover however The Stones got the writing credits.
She by Elvis Costello
Or
Comfortably Numb by Scissor Sisters
The Clash did some cracking covers.
I fought the law.
Brand new Cadillac.
Pressure Drop.
Nirvana - Man who sold the world
Never. Listen to the original and say that. Seriously, it really is not even close.
Ohh, and Wild Horses by Susan Boyle.
another couple I've just remembered:
Echo & The Bunnymen - Paint It Black
The Meteors - Johnny Remember Me
Why not...
The original is pretty good too 🙂
Back with a couple more. Not sure what I think about the first one, but it serves as some sort of antidote to the pointless and painful FATM version:
Can't remember how I came across this one - I know nothing about it, but I kinda like it (I think):
I know nowt about these two neither, except that the voice makes me feel, well, kinda warm and fuzzy:
The wife and I had this one paying as we walked back down the aisle after getting married:
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This is a current one that I quite like:
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But this is probably my favourite cover ever:
[url= http://youtu.be/xyvQJA_vyv4 ]The Gypsy Kings covering Hotel California[/url]
Edited as I am apparently too retarded to be able to post up videos...
ti_pin_man - Member
usually most covers ruin a good song...
CountZero - Member
Rubbish. As above, there are many, many great songs that few realise are covers.
The thing is though... what are we thinking of as 'the song'. In recent history the [i]recording[/i] is thought of as the authentic version of a song - a performance captured in a studio, that band of friends, that sound, the energy of the day is thought of as the 'song'. But a good song should be good just written on a sheet of paper. So if you can't make a good cover of it then the song wasn't good to start with.
There was an interview with [url= http://blog.scifiromance.net/2012/06/response-to-awesome-roman-mars-frozen.html ]Jon Brion[/url] that makes this point with Led Zeppelin. They made great records and did great gigs but nobody can do a good Led Zeppelin cover because there isn't really a song there to play if you take the band away - theres a group of musicians making great sounds, but not much of a song under it. So if someone else want to cover a Led Zep song they either have to impersonate Zep - which isn't very satisfying - or lampoon them. Anything inbetween just reveals a lack of song
A good song is one anyone could play (so long as they've got the rudimentary skills) because the song itself is just good. Brion gives Lithium as an example - you could play it in the manner of Girshwin or in the manner of primary school choir and it would still be good. By the same measure Zep could play Girshwin and it would be ace, but if Girshwin played Zep he'd struggle to find anything to actually play.
Arguably one of the best songs in recent history is "Happy Birthday to You" - anyone can cover it, someone who's never touched an instrument before could play it as their first song, you can orchestrate and arrange and interpret the blazes out of it and it still persists.
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