Amazing cover versions….

Dancing Queen, you say?

Bleepy electronic Smiths, lovely

Just pick anything by Dread Zeppelin and I’d probably vote for it.

I’m sure I posted the death metal version of Let It Go last time we did this.

I only learned last week that yhis is a cover, and it was originally written about Don Maclean

The Gogos version of the Ramones I wanna be sedated is better than the original. See it on Youtube

Cake – I will survive plus any cover version by The Wedding Present … Getting Better or Come up and see me, make me smile are my personal faves.

Orion by Rodrigo y Gabriela

And

Message in a bottle by Machine Head

Perhaps not quite the same, but still quite impressive:

https://twitter.com/JamesL1927/status/1604612140618448899

Loving the mariachi self cover by Hugh Cornwell, top notch cheating or not.

This might be my GOAT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKQ2Z1odSc

Rips a legendary song to tiny little pieces but still manages to pay homage

Black Crowes Oh Sweet Nuthing. Velvet Underground Cover

Tainted Love by Soft Cell, although does a rerecording of a song really become a “cover”, as it had a separate writer to the first performer (Gloria Jones).

Hurt is the answer. Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover “that song isn’t mine any more” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)

Mike Flowers pop’s wonderwall
The Fall’s Ghost in my house

But Mark Cohn’s original version of Walking in Memphis is better than any cover (except my mate Paul Woodward)

A serious one
Try this for blazing and crumbling steel guitar:

Can’t beat a bit of the fannies.

Chris Cornell doing a grand job of covering a “cover”.

That Michael Winslow video is incredible

Orion by Rodrigo y Gabriela

This is utterly superb.

Two by the same band –

Socks utterly blown off.

Amazing (IMO)

Oh Well

On a different tip…

Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover “that song isn’t mine any more”

on a similar theme

Probably a bit mainstream for some but..
Stairway

Hurt is the answer. Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover “that song isn’t mine any more”

That’s mighty scary as that came up on my YouTube feed earlier today ……..

Imagine you wrote a song and performed it and then said on hearing the cover “that song isn’t mine any more”

Which is pretty much what Bob Dylan said when Jimi Hendrix did All Along the Watchtower.

From Steve Earle’s albumin of Townes Van Zandt covers, most of them are rubbish but this is a complete banger!!

PWEI doing Prodigy’s Their Law, mind you PWEI were co credited with making the song so it’s borderline but is fantastic!

Considering which band he is a part of, what their musical style is and how his voice normally sounds this completely blew me away!

Oh, and ANYTHING by 2Cellos is simply ace

A topical one 😟

If you’re going to cover Rage Against The Machine, you better kill it…

… & Denzel Curry killed it.

Written by the Rolling Stones but I prefer his cover

I love the Creedence Cover of Heard it through the grapevine as featured on this vid – even has MTB content. ;o)

The Legend of Tommy G

Iron and Wine – Such Great Heights (a Postal Service cover)

arctic monkeys – love machine – this is a classic

pennywise is class but not a patch on johnny cashs cover of NIN

Black Crowes, Oh Sweet Nuthin. Just gets to me every time.

Johnny Cash and Hurt is probably the correct answer every time, but I do have a soft spot for Von’s choice of cover…