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  • Unusual cover versions of famous songs.
  • bikewhisperer
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    seven
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    tj i'll raise your stairway….. i give you dolly parton

    tazzymtb
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    Turisas- folk metal covering Boney M!! beat that

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmbXZAsPbOo&feature=related

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    boxelder
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    MrNutt
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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.

    CountZero
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    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.

    kimbers
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    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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpqKA9_ddFk but when the levee breaks is no led zepplin

    Macinblack
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    Order Of The Ebon Hand's version of the Banshees' "Spellbound"

    andrewh
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    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.

    singletrackmind
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    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.

    donald
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    drain
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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.

    muddyfoxcourier
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    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 …. "

    robgarrioch
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    Disturbed have a habit of covering some '80s choons per album, eg.
    Shout, Tears for Fears
    Land of Confusion, Genesis (quite a good version, this)

    Metallica doing Bob Seger's 'Turn the Page'

    Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind…

    theflatboy
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    Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind…

    or in fact machine head message in a bottle

    M6TTF
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    Arctic monkeys cover of girls aloud

    Ryan adams covering wonderwall

    theflatboy
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    biffy clyro – killing in the name, made even better by the participation of the crowd.

    algarvebairn
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    Fun lovin crimnals have done a few. Sinatras (I think) summer wind is a rather fine example.

    nostoc
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    DJ Lebowitz plays "Holiday in Cambodia"

    MrSmith
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    beastie boys- benny and the jets
    be good tanyas – when doves cry

    zigzag69
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    Hellsongs – Hymns in the key of 666. Mellow at times folky covers of rock classics. Paranoid cover is superb. Ninja edit: Youtube version is a wee bit different 🙂

    noteeth
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    Get up, Stand up by The Chequers.

    Marley goes disco.

    bassspine
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    Tricky's cover of The Cure's Lovecats
    Mechanical Bride – Umbrella

    (I found myself singing Richard Cheese style Rape Me in Tesco once [:-(] )

    br
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    Van Halen – Pretty Women, cracking opening riff

    andrewh
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    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.

    RustySpanner
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    Singletrackworld said:

    Sussanah and the magical orchestra did a haunting cover of 'Love will tear us apart'.

    Brilliant cover version of a brilliant song.
    Sooo intense it's untrue.

    And The Biscuit's version of 'The whole world in his hands' –
    Paintballs coming home. It's great.

    TandemJeremy
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    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.

    B.A.Nana
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    Nouvelle Vague cover lots of old Punk classics and other stuff from that era:

    The Clash, Guns of Brixton is good
    http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/MUSIC.html

    RustySpanner
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    One of my favourite ever covers, this time OF the Dead Kennedys:

    Les Thugs – Moon over Marin.

    I almost prefer it to the original.

    TandemJeremy
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    maxsatnav
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    Sid Vicious… MY WAY

    nuff said

    TandemJeremy
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    The ukelele orchestra are simply awesome

    Smells like teen spirit
    Anarchy in the Uk

    RustySpanner
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    Christine Collister

    one of my favourite vocalists ever – From Boulder to Birmingham (originally by Emmylou Harris).

    Although anything she sings is fine by me……

    TheSanityAssassin
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    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

    martinxyz
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    The dead weather – are friends electric?

    slimtubing
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    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

    HeathenWoods
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    Jeffrey Lewis covering CRASS

    And because everything's been bordering on good taste, Armitage Shanks doing a Friday night favourite (admittedly it's a cover of a phrase, not a song)

    davidtaylforth
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    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.

    RustyMac
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    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

    Mackem
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    The Bates doing "Billie Jean" – not unusual, just damn good.

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