Alternative versions of songs

ballsymchugh · 24-07-2014 12:06AM #1

heard a classical version of a basement jaxx song earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8bNJo_qmpw

which reminded me of other versions of other songs, some dodgy, some not so dodgy..

Hey Ya on recorder

creep by choir..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ado5PMjr5k

anyone else got some?

Sir Arthur Daley · 24-07-2014 12:08AM

I have loads, they are over in the music forum :pac:

WilyCoyote · 24-07-2014 12:28AM

Edit Piaf's The Port Of Amsterdam done by Bowie, Alexis Korner etc by Jacques Brel takes the biscuit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV3jHGZ6-w

brummytom · 24-07-2014 12:43AM

I posted this not long ago... An S Club 7 song done by the Beautiful South.
Instead of being an upbeat, party song, it just sounds a bit creepy/hypnotic.

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

And a brilliant version of Twist and Shout, by Beverley Knight. I saw this on BBC4 a few weeks ago and rewound it about 20 times. She really lets rip towards the end, it's brilliant...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Us_HIwyR8

Hotfail.com · 24-07-2014 12:43AM

Not exactly a very "alternative" version of the Simon & Garfunkel original, but I'll take any chance I get to post something by him. :P

Cienciano · 24-07-2014 12:56AM

I like when someone does a totally different version. They can be hit and miss though. This is a hit

This one is the worst cover song of all time. I warn you, clicking this link may put you in a bad mood for the rest of they day, it's wrong on so many levels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daAG5JfNNFQ

24-07-2014 01:04AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMia7HJR2l4

one of the best covers ever.

entropi · 24-07-2014 01:11AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg

He has a whole new album of stuff coming out soon, here's one of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

131spanner · 24-07-2014 01:12AM

By covering it, they pretty much created a new song. Top stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE

DazMarz · 24-07-2014 01:13AM

Standing on a mountaintop, lightning cracking overhead, wind blowing through your hair, a sword gripped in one hand, the head of your vanquished foe in the other... and this is the soundtrack. Epic, godly and... just brilliant!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV75qGY7jBk

PeteEd · 24-07-2014 01:18AM

Away to the live lounge with you my good Sir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

ballsymchugh wrote: »

heard a classical version of a basement jaxx song earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8bNJo_qmpw

which reminded me of other versions of other songs, some dodgy, some not so dodgy..

Hey Ya on recorder

creep by choir..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ado5PMjr5k

anyone else got some?

LaVail · 24-07-2014 01:21AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc

and as Gaeilge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unnqtwfy10U

Ex Seller8 88mph · 24-07-2014 01:26AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KJjVMqNIgA

Shakespeare's Sister · 24-07-2014 01:27AM

Cienciano wrote: »

I like when someone does a totally different version. They can be hit and miss though. This is a hit

God I adore that song, and think I prefer that version to the original.

ballsymchugh · 24-07-2014 01:31AM

PeteEd wrote: »

Away to the live lounge with you my good Sir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

aw, sorry, i live outside london, not close enough to dalston or hackney for that malarky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8NhXtgG_A

24-07-2014 01:37AM

Here's a children's a capella choir covering Crystal Castles:
Shouldn't work but it does!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7a2u9v0V0c

(Here's the original for comparison)

Q: What's more awesome than Radiohead?
A: 8-bit Radiohead!

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

(The original)

And here are Babes in Toyland doing magnificent (or horrific, depending on your point of view) things to "All By Myself", turning it from a power ballad into a grungey mindfúck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfzmUOt0Cy8

Say Your Number · 24-07-2014 02:08AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS9Mv2Tpd4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOg_g6BxOo

Meangadh · 24-07-2014 02:21AM

This choir are unbelievable, their versions of various songs are class- really worth watching. This one is my favourite though, their rain/thunder sound effects at the beginning are amazing! Their other videos are well worth checking out too though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw

And a bit closer to home, this school choir (from Kilkenny) version of "With or Without You" is really beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzs4RQB66C4

FanadMan · 24-07-2014 03:29AM

Deleted User wrote: »

one of the best covers ever.

WOW!

I really loved that song when it came out first but this blows it out of the water! I've never heard of Ane Brun before but am gonna have to listen to more of her. Such a beautiful and haunting voice!

Thanks $hifty

FanadMan · 24-07-2014 03:45AM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8NhXtgG_A

As great as DeDannan are, that was done in a studio......loads of editing etc. This has to be one of the best versions of Arrival ever - one guy, one guitar in front of a camera. Heard another version of this by the same guy Chris Moreton on a cd that came with a guitar magazine years ago and have never forgotten it.

Kaycee2 · 24-07-2014 08:31AM

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

jimgoose · 24-07-2014 08:32AM

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