Covers!

Lorelli!

I love hearing a cover song especially when they make them better. It can change the song completely for the better or worse or make you hear something you didn't recognize from the original.

My favourite is Urge Overkill's version of Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon. That version is amazing!

I heard this by Vanilla Fudge recently and I love it. You have to listen to it loud. I like the original and the Kim Wilde version but this one just has something that's missing from the other two.

Favourite, unusual or bad covers?

wally79

Superstar - Sonic Youth

Edit: read the question

It’s one of my favourites

B_ecke_r

Elton John and Eminem - Stan

smacl

Gutter Brother's Kiss, because you we don't see nearly enough skiffle bands covering Prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJuThcKAclE

smacl

Another favourite that I actually got from this forum, pure genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhGGzFWEuBo

The Princess Bride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9m5GiTkLk8

I love this version, just very different to the original, which is obviously, quite brilliant.

The Princess Bride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCIRSE7t6Do

I love Conor O'Brien's voice anyway, so it's easy for me to like this.

Lorelli!

Mike Flowers version of Wonderwall

Have to play the Oasis version to neutralise that

Birneybau

Cover of Tim Buckley

NIMAN

Always liked The Wallflowers version of Heroes

The Princess Bride

https://twitter.com/TodayFM/status/1072815154935545856?s=19

The Blizzards do their slowed down version of Wild Youth's Can't Move On.
It works !

idnkph

Dave Stewart does a class version of Zombie and creep ( as homeless mustard)

Lorelli!

NIMAN wrote: »

Always liked The Wallflowers version of Heroes

Nirvana made Bowie's Man Who Sold the World their own!

Bowie did a nice cover of Sorrow himself. I don't know the original though.

RobMc59

Aimee Winehouse cover of Valerie by the zutons wasn't bad.This is the original version.
Valerie https://g.co/kgs/RdLG8x

The Princess Bride

Great idea for a thread Lorelli!, thank you.

Not everyone realises that Annie Lennox' version is a cover, so here's the original too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSkboTTTmpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDrISl5z_4

Sabre0001

Think Disturbed's covers of Sounds of Silence and Shout are great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo62kvjLHvY

A band called Brass Against do great covers of songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dr6ZlcR6Fo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zfYO9sZjrE

And Weezer released a cover recently, including a delightful cover of No Scrubs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55UtG-1os_s

The Princess Bride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1TZXc5DiY

I am on holidays, having a coffee, and this cover comes on.
Had forgotten it.

Noveight

Nice version of Bruce's classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ydSirqY38

ShooterSF

Probably the obvious one but still my favourite cover.

Birneybau

For me, two of the touchstones of alternative music, covered by one of the best purveyors of alternative music.

RobMc59

Noveight wrote: »

Nice version of Bruce's classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ydSirqY38

And here's another of the same song.
https://youtu.be/3PiQzpW-v4g

Vowel Movement

Alien Ant Farm Smooth Criminal :cool:

cruizer101

Postmodern Jukebox do a lot of great covers but this is one of my favourites

Lorelli!

cruizer101 wrote: »

Postmodern Jukebox do a lot of great covers but this is one of my favourites

Yeah I heard a few of those covers and they're not bad. I like that one ^^ though your man 'Puddles' must be sick of dressing up as clown at this stage! In full costume!!

smacl

Well, for covers with clowns in the background, this gets my thumbs up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6-gBGCJ-4

faceman

I’m a fan of interesting covers.

Covers that IMO are better than the originals:

Johnny Cash “Hurt” (originally NIN)

William Shatner “Common People” (originally Pulp)

Hugo “99 Problems” (Originally Jay Z)

Jenny Owen Young’s “Hot in Herre” (can’t remember original artist)

Honourable mentions to:

Jimmy Eat World “Firestarter” (originally The Prodigy)

Motörhead “Enter Sandman” (originally Metallica)

Easy Star All-Stars “Thriller” (originally he who will not be mentioned)

Sorry on mobile so can’t link to vids

Arghus

Nine Inch Nails cover Adam Ant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jV22UJND7g

Conchir

Heart's version of Stairway to Heaven, the lads themselves even seemed to really enjoy it.

I really like some of Mike Mass stuff, there's some great harmonies in his covers.

Ian OB

Belly did a version of "Are You Experienced" which I came across on a tape called "This Is Fort Apache". Came free with NME a few years ago. (25 if memory serves correct).

I think its outstanding. So will you.

https://youtu.be/hk1nVnpsYAQ

Lorelli!

Lorelli! wrote: »

I love hearing a cover song especially when they make them better. It can change the song completely for the better or worse or make you hear something you didn't recognize from the original.

My favourite is Urge Overkill's version of Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon. That version is amazing!

Good, but not as amazing as Cliff Richard's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWbtQQnRGI

Overplayed as hell but still deadly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

Robert Hazard's 1979 original is a new wave classic. Female anthem which was written and originally performed by a man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg