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Post by berkley on Nov 4, 2014 23:21:45 GMT -5
Two I particularly like are One by Three Dog Night (originally by Harry Nilsson) and Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede (originally by BJ Thomas). Good song. For a more or less manufactured band Three Dog Night had a few good tunes - though I've grown to heartily dislike that Jeremiah was a Bullfrog one that was a huge hit when I was a kid. As an aside, I have to laugh at how lame some of those trivia notes can be in these videos (from MTV?) - there was one here about how "ironic" it was that a band called Three Dog Night with three different vocalists had a hit with a song titled "One"! You might as well say how ironic it was that Harry Nilsson wrote a song called One - but he played a guitar with six strings or had a backing band with 4 members or whatever. |
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Post by Jesse on Nov 8, 2014 13:11:04 GMT -5
The Bricats doing a swingabilly cover of the Misfits' Last Caress.
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Post by berkley on Nov 8, 2014 17:17:39 GMT -5
I forgot to mention before - I'm a big Harry Nilsson fan but the Three Dog Night version of One has a much better arrangement, on the whole. Nilsson's starts off fine, but by the end it becomes too over-orchestrated to suit Nilsson's quieter, more subdued, and generally lower key (both figuratively and literally, I think?) vocal delivery. If it had stuck with just the keyboard and bass it would have been much better off, IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 5:35:07 GMT -5
Not by any stretch of the imagination my favourite song, but definitely my favourite cover:
That (or at least the heaviness of it) is how Radar Love always sounded in my memory, rather than the actuality of the original which is pretty wimpy if you go back to hear it now
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Post by Jesse on Nov 10, 2014 19:06:46 GMT -5
Foxes covering Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Doctor Who
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Nov 10, 2014 23:50:37 GMT -5
Tweeter and the Monkey Man by the Headstones (originally done by the Travelling Wilburys)
Heroes by the Wallflowers (originally done by David Bowie)
Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash (originally by Soundgarden)
Have a Cigar by Foo Fighters (originally by Pink Floyd)
4 songs where I loved the original and equally loved the covers.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 9:51:29 GMT -5
Tori Amos was the queen of covers in the early 1990s. Her unique takes on everything from Nirvana and REM to The Rolling Stones and Led Zepplin were truly outstanding. She could find something haunting and beautiful in the lyrics that had always been there, quietly simmering, and then give it a totally new voice. But ThIS was my favorite cover she ever did -- completely unprepared and on a whim during a radio interview: Her recent cover of Radiohead's "Creep" is pretty much one of the most fantastic things ever. But I think watching it live on video is probably more effective than just listening to it. Tori also has a way with facial expressions that really drive her songs home. |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2014 10:11:55 GMT -5
Tori Amos was the queen of covers in the early 1990s. Her unique takes on everything from Nirvana and REM to The Rolling Stones and Led Zepplin were truly outstanding. She could find something haunting and beautiful in the lyrics that had always been there, quietly simmering, and then give it a totally new voice. But ThIS was my favorite cover she ever did -- completely unprepared and on a whim during a radio interview: Her recent cover of Radiohead's "Creep" is pretty much one of the most fantastic things ever. But I think watching it live on video is probably more effective than just listening to it. Tori also has a way with facial expressions that really drive her songs home. So thrilled to have a fellow Tori fan here, Coldwater!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 12:56:55 GMT -5
Her recent cover of Radiohead's "Creep" is pretty much one of the most fantastic things ever. But I think watching it live on video is probably more effective than just listening to it. Tori also has a way with facial expressions that really drive her songs home. So thrilled to have a fellow Tori fan here, Coldwater! "Precious Things" will ALWAYS be my teenage anthem. |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2014 13:00:54 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse on Nov 11, 2014 13:47:36 GMT -5
Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash (originally by Soundgarden) I'm a fan of the original record and I agree the Johnny Cash version is incredible! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2014 20:27:34 GMT -5
Duran Duran's Lay Lady Lay is my favourite cover done by my favourite band. Just how favourite? I own over 1,000 songs/remixes/demos/live versions/radio-edits woohoo!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 3:42:18 GMT -5
Tori Amos was the queen of covers in the early 1990s. Her unique takes on everything from Nirvana and REM to The Rolling Stones and Led Zepplin were truly outstanding. She could find something haunting and beautiful in the lyrics that had always been there, quietly simmering, and then give it a totally new voice. But ThIS was my favorite cover she ever did -- completely unprepared and on a whim during a radio interview: Her recent cover of Radiohead's "Creep" is pretty much one of the most fantastic things ever. But I think watching it live on video is probably more effective than just listening to it. Tori also has a way with facial expressions that really drive her songs home. I got to see Tori (and Ben Harper but Tori was the headliner) play at a Christmas Bash concert sponsored by the local new rock station in the Hartford area a couple years before I moved out here to Ohio. Dee Snyder was the morning dj for the station at the time and a friend of ours was a regular guest personality on that show, so he got us comp tickets for the show. Tori was amazing and it was the show where I discovered Ben Harper for the first time, but seeing Dee try to hang out and talk with Tori after the show was just a bit weird and creepy at the same time. But yeah, seeing Tori play live was a pretty freaking awesome thing. It was just her and the piano, no backing band and it was just a dynamic performance. IIRC she did covers of Zep's Thank You and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen spirit in her set, and a lot of early classics but most of the stuff was form her most recent album, which I believe was Boys for Pele, but it might have been just after From the Choir Girl Hotel was released, memory is a little fuzzy from that time period  -M |
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Post by the4thpip on Nov 22, 2014 17:32:49 GMT -5
My favorite Soul and R&B versions of Bob Dylan songs:
The O'Jays with Emotionally Yours (Gospel version with an all-star choir at the end)
Eddy & Ernie with Lay Lady Lay
Roberta Flack - Just Like a Woman
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Post by Jesse on Nov 23, 2014 2:20:08 GMT -5
MxPx covering the Ramones.
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