*Best Cover Versions You've Ever Heard*
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Thought it would be cool to hear some good cover versions of great or not so great songs. I'll start by listing some songs that i think stand out as exceptional covers. Feel free to explain your choices too.
"All Around The World" - The Pixies - Newport Folk Festival - Folk Song\Traditional
This has become one of my favorite covers in recent memory, this performance, specificaly.
I guess the Grateful Dead used to cover this too. Origins in question, old folk tune. "Rock Me Joey!" moment at around 1:30. Shivers my spine. One more *amazing* cover by the Pixies is Winterlong by Neil Young. *Fantastic*
Cryin, Waitin, Hopin - Marshall Crenshaw - LaBamba Sndtrk - original by Buddy Holly
Now i absolutely adore Buddy Holly, but from the moment i heard the Crenshaw version from LaBamba i was just in a stupor. Its just a sad little love song, but the back beat he throws in, the driving pulsing rythm, that smidge of reverb\delay and of course the ridiculously wonderful solo just put the original Holly dity to shame. All though i still have an afection for that Holly voice at 1:40 where he does "all night long" in the original. live version for shits and giggles.
"Dead Flowers" - Guns N Roses - live in Argentina '93 - original by Rolling Stones
There are a good few versions around, including one from Gilby's "Pawnshop Guitars" CD with Axl singing. This song always gets me going, though. Not much else to say except rock on boys! Here for added fun is another great one: "Salt of the Earth" Axl, Izzy and the Stones. And who could forget Axl singing "Free Fallin" with Tom Petty back when MTV actualy had some balls? better audio of FFallin
Stray Cat Blues - Soundgarden - S.O.M.M.S - original by Rolling Stones
Man, this fucking version blows away the Stones. I mean wipes the floor with them. Wow!
"Too Much Of Nothing" - Peter Paul & Mary - original by Bob Dyaln
This live version isn't all that, but the original recorded version by PPM is rock solid. I dunno why i like it so much, but if you hear Dylan's version you'll realize how great the arangement here is.
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes - original by Dusty Springfield
For some reason when i was 14 to 16 i used to listen to Dusty Springfield a lot, even though i was also listening to a lot of "industrial" music too. Weird. First time i heard this by the Stripes I nearly pissed my pants! God damn is it a powerful version!
Son of a Gun - Nirvana - original by The Vaselines
Nothing much needed to say here. Put a "K" over your heart for Kurt. This song will always give me chills.
I CALL THE FOLLOWING COMPLETING THE CIRCLE (give it a try yourself):
You're So Square - Buddy Holly covering Elvis Presley
I Fought The Law - The Clash covering Buddy Holly
Death or Glory - Social Distortion covering The Clash
Completing the circle with Pearl Jam:
Ball And Chain - Eddie Vedder & Mike Ness playing Social Distortion
Know Your Rights - Pearl Jam covering The Clash
Everyday - Pearl Jam covering Buddy Holly
I Can´t Help Falling In Love With You - Pearl Jam Covering Elvis Presley
CIRCLE COMPLETE.
[the way i usualy play u just have to stack them A-B B-C C-D] so you could have finished with just Eddie on Ball And Chain, but i took it ALL the way back around this time]
Thanks Eddie.
Thought it would be cool to hear some good cover versions of great or not so great songs. I'll start by listing some songs that i think stand out as exceptional covers. Feel free to explain your choices too.
"All Around The World" - The Pixies - Newport Folk Festival - Folk Song\Traditional
This has become one of my favorite covers in recent memory, this performance, specificaly.
I guess the Grateful Dead used to cover this too. Origins in question, old folk tune. "Rock Me Joey!" moment at around 1:30. Shivers my spine. One more *amazing* cover by the Pixies is Winterlong by Neil Young. *Fantastic*
Cryin, Waitin, Hopin - Marshall Crenshaw - LaBamba Sndtrk - original by Buddy Holly
Now i absolutely adore Buddy Holly, but from the moment i heard the Crenshaw version from LaBamba i was just in a stupor. Its just a sad little love song, but the back beat he throws in, the driving pulsing rythm, that smidge of reverb\delay and of course the ridiculously wonderful solo just put the original Holly dity to shame. All though i still have an afection for that Holly voice at 1:40 where he does "all night long" in the original. live version for shits and giggles.
"Dead Flowers" - Guns N Roses - live in Argentina '93 - original by Rolling Stones
There are a good few versions around, including one from Gilby's "Pawnshop Guitars" CD with Axl singing. This song always gets me going, though. Not much else to say except rock on boys! Here for added fun is another great one: "Salt of the Earth" Axl, Izzy and the Stones. And who could forget Axl singing "Free Fallin" with Tom Petty back when MTV actualy had some balls? better audio of FFallin
Stray Cat Blues - Soundgarden - S.O.M.M.S - original by Rolling Stones
Man, this fucking version blows away the Stones. I mean wipes the floor with them. Wow!
"Too Much Of Nothing" - Peter Paul & Mary - original by Bob Dyaln
This live version isn't all that, but the original recorded version by PPM is rock solid. I dunno why i like it so much, but if you hear Dylan's version you'll realize how great the arangement here is.
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes - original by Dusty Springfield
For some reason when i was 14 to 16 i used to listen to Dusty Springfield a lot, even though i was also listening to a lot of "industrial" music too. Weird. First time i heard this by the Stripes I nearly pissed my pants! God damn is it a powerful version!
Son of a Gun - Nirvana - original by The Vaselines
Nothing much needed to say here. Put a "K" over your heart for Kurt. This song will always give me chills.
I CALL THE FOLLOWING COMPLETING THE CIRCLE (give it a try yourself):
You're So Square - Buddy Holly covering Elvis Presley
I Fought The Law - The Clash covering Buddy Holly
Death or Glory - Social Distortion covering The Clash
Completing the circle with Pearl Jam:
Ball And Chain - Eddie Vedder & Mike Ness playing Social Distortion
Know Your Rights - Pearl Jam covering The Clash
Everyday - Pearl Jam covering Buddy Holly
I Can´t Help Falling In Love With You - Pearl Jam Covering Elvis Presley
CIRCLE COMPLETE.
[the way i usualy play u just have to stack them A-B B-C C-D] so you could have finished with just Eddie on Ball And Chain, but i took it ALL the way back around this time]
Thanks Eddie.
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That Salt of the Earth brings a tear to my eye. Don't feel ya though on the Stray Cat Blues
I've never heard her play this live, but based on album version, I prefer her version.
FNM - I Started a Joke (Bee Gees)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMv6_2HqbF8
FNM - Easy (The Commodores)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv9UM4zis1M
FNM - This Guy's in Love with You (Herb Alpert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-XzqcP79vQ
Peeping Tom - Desperate Situation (Marvin Gaye)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwetH5x3Nvk
Fantomas - Simply Beautiful (Al Green)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXI47_URvmE&feature=related
Yep, that ought to cover it.
I'll start with one of my favourite bands, The Frames.
They are doing covers all the time live, and... I just love it. It's kinda weird, they sometimes actually cover THE song that I really want to hear from that other band, songs that I'm really into at the time...
Favourites of those at the moment are:
The Frames - Into The Mystic (originally by Van Morrison)
The Frames - Listen Girl (originally by Mic Christopher)
The Frames - Love Will Tear Us Apart (originally by Joy Division)
The Frames - Debaser (originally by The Pixies)
The Frames - Where Is My Mind? (originally by The Pixies)
The Frames - Suspicious Minds (originally by Elvis Presley)
The Frames & Josh Ritter - The Man In Me (originally by Bob Dylan)
The Frames - Devil Town (originally by Daniel Johnston)
...other bands to come I guess
Joe Strummer - Redemption Song Orginially by Bob Marley
My Morning Jacket - It Makes No Difference. Originally by The Band
The Twilight Singers - What Makes You Think You're The One. Originally by Fleetwood Mac.
Speaking of Patton.
I know this is NOT him, thank god, but he did play with Dillinger Escape Plan for a time ...
My Michelle covered by Dillinger ... originaly by Gun n Roses ... quite possibly one of the WORST COVERS EVER.
Fucking Eeeeeww.
:eek:
Turn it up REALLY loud if you want to vomit.
LOL, and THAT BEEGEES Started A Joke cover is fucking classic!
KENNEDY. WAS THAT KENNEDY!?!
speaking of which, watch Kennedy interview J Mascis ... fucking hillariously obnoxious. Poor J. He looks MEGA-Bummed!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Ouch. My ears are bleeding. That was horrible!!!!!!
i loooooove the frames!
ps well done glen
my favourite cover is 'rock around barrack' by pearl jam lite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n7KUUUdIOg
Eric Clapton..."I Shot The Sheriff" originally written and recorded by Bob Marley
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
My favorite cover that has ever been recorded, however, is Pearl Jam doing "Rockin' in the Free World"
we sit around and wonder exactly why our marriage should feel threatened by gay marriage
Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden cover) by Incubus
Just Like Heaven (the Cure cover) by Dinosaur Jr.
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
The Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn, Mr. Tambourine Man
Summerfest 2006
"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
I forgot one i really really enjoy,
unfortuanately a full version isn't available on the net,
here is one spliced with interview from their documentary, "The Unheard Music",
"Soul Kitchen", X (the band), original by The Doors.
Ray Manzarek produced the first handfull of X albums, thats why hes yapping.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
heck, I found another Frames-one to be shared:
The Frames - Heyday, originally by Mic Christopher
So, other bands...
Sneaker Pimps covering The Prodigy's Firestarter
Nine Inch Nails doing Joy Division's Dead Souls
Tori Amos also covers quite a lot. Here are some of my favourites:
Enjoy The Silence, originally by Depeche Mode
Sweet Dreams, originally by Eurythmics
The next ones aren't all exactly covers. When Nine Inch Nails have toured with Bauhaus a few years ago, they did radio sessions. Played each others songs and covers and stuff. A few of the songs they played (Those are youtube-links. If anyone wants the sessions, I'll upload them in a zip-folder or something.):
Reptile
Bela Lugosi's Dead
Warm Leatherette
And, seeing as I didn't find it on youtube, some sort of teaser:
Hurt, done by Peter Murphy.
Juliette & The Licks - Hot Stuff
]In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel cover) [/url] by Ben Harper
Fools in Love (Joe Jackson cover) by Inara George
I'm Only Sleeping (Beatles cover) by Stereophonics
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover) by The Kooks
Zelda by System of a Down
Sufjan Stevens - The Star Spangled Banner
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ucNGlYaQ96U
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
One of the best Beatles covers ever done by anyone.
Mojo
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'Too many people on this earth. We need a new plague.' - Dwight Schrute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIeqZ3qPFWs
Rheostatics - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot)
Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Death Cab For Cutie)
Arcade Fire - Born On A Train (Magnetic Fields)
Barenaked Ladies - Lovers In A Dangerous Time (Bruce Cockburn)
The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry (Prince)
Beck - True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston)
Calexico - Ocean Of Noise (Arcade Fire)
Cat Power - Wonderwall (Oasis)
Cat Power - Sea of Love (?)
Crash Vegas - Pocahontas (Neil Young)
the Dandy Warhols - Ohio (CSNY)
Death Cab For Cutie - All Is Full Of Love (Bjork)
the Decemberists - Human Behavior (Bjork)
Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven (the Cure)
Faith No More - I Started A Joke (the Bee Gees)
Feist - Secret Heart (Ron Sexsmith)
Feist - Inside and Out (the Bee Gees)
The Flaming Lips - Can't Get You Outta My Head (Kylie Minogue)
The Flaming Lips - Knives Out (Radiohead)
The Flaming Lips - Golden Age (Beck)
The Flaming Lips & Sparklehorse - Go (Daniel Johnston)
Grandaddy - Revolution (the Beatles)
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights (the Postal Service)
the Jesus & Marychain - My Girl (?)
the Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
Luther Wright & the Wrongs - One Of My Turns (Pink Floyd)
Mogwai - Gouge Away (the Pixies)
the National - Pretty In Pink (the Psychedelic Furs)
Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
the Postal Service - Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
the Postal Service - Suddenly Everything Has Changed (the Flaming Lips)
Sarah Harmer - Will He Be Waiting For Me? (Dolly Parton)
Sebadoh - Pink Moon (Nick Drake)
the Shins - We Will Become Silhouettes (the Postal Service)
Slowdive - Some Velvet Morning (?)
Sonic Youth - Within You Without You (the Beatles)
Sonic Youth - Superstar (the Carpenters)
Stars - This Charming Man (the Smiths)
Sun Kil Moon - Ocean Breathes Salty (Modest Mouse)
Tori Amos - Angie (the Rolling Stones)
Tori Amos - Time (Tom Waits)
the Weakerthans - Bad Time To Be Poor (Rheostatics)
Weeping Tile - Don't Let It Bring You Down (Neil Young)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Diamond Sea (Sonic Youth)
and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
damn dude!
thanks 4 the list.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
the whole thing.
yeah, i said it.
yeah......I guess it's not very helpful without links - but if any of the songs peak anyones interest I can point them in the right direction
my "covers" playlist on my iPod has 400+ songs in it
and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
David Gray - Streets Of Philadelphia
Glen Hansard - Cry Me A River
Jack Johnson - Plastic Jesus
Lisa Hannigan - Down To The River
Mark Lanegan - Man In The Long Black Coat
Muse - Cant Take My Eyes Off You
Placebo - Daddy Cool
Rage Against The Machine - Kick Out The Jams
RHCP - Fire / I Feel Love / Search & Destroy
Ukulele Orchestra - Wuthering Heights
Vyvienne Long - Purple Haze
and also any song by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes (particularly I Believe I Can Fly, and Desperado)
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Masters of War by Eddie Vedder Originally by Bob Dylan
Hysterical rendition.