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Post by DubipR on Aug 29, 2014 10:17:20 GMT -5
As much as I like Velvet Underground, I do enjoy Cowboy Junkies version of Sweet Jane
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 11:17:22 GMT -5
I like Eater's take as well --
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 11:22:57 GMT -5
First in a series of duplicates. Collect 'em all!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 11:23:29 GMT -5
A third cover version of Help!, in this case the B-side of the very first UK punk single, the Damned's "New Rose" --
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 11:25:48 GMT -5
Duplicate post. Kept getting a "bad gateway" response from ProBoards; had no idea the post had actually appeared. (Happened just now elsewhere with no video involved.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 11:26:24 GMT -5
As far as Beatles covers by early (post)punk bands go, I particularly like the Banshees' version of "Helter Skelter" from their first LP --
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Post by ironchimp on Aug 29, 2014 13:57:17 GMT -5
The first velvet's cover version - recorded in vietnam one month after the album came out.
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Post by Jasoomian on Aug 29, 2014 14:39:12 GMT -5
The Pizza Underground just announced their fall tour dates! They cover Velvet Underground songs, except the lyrics are changed so that everything is about pizza. Some may already be familiar with the lead male vocalist, a former actor and Michael Jackson mentee named Macaulay Culkin. Word is their repertoire is expanding to include some Nirvana tunes.  |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 29, 2014 14:53:35 GMT -5
The Pizza Underground just announced their fall tour dates! They cover Velvet Underground songs, except the lyrics are changed so that everything is about pizza. Some may already be familiar with the lead male vocalist, a former actor and Michael Jackson mentee named Macaulay Culkin. Word is their repertoire is expanding to include some Nirvana tunes. That's really funny. Macauley Culkin singing songs about pizza is hilarious. Wait...is this serious? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 15:00:59 GMT -5
Sounds like a band that really needs to experience the joys of spontaneous human combustion, to be honest.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 20:48:52 GMT -5
Classical music performed by orchestra might be the only musically correct interpretation of the highly intricate opuses, where the comic relief dressed like a penguin, tries to annoy the heck out of the otherwise very composed and always leisurely playing band, but the real excitement comes when these oeuvres are successfully modernized.
Claude Debussy might be turning in his grave... so what?!
Isao Tomita - Arabesque No. 1
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Post by berkley on Aug 29, 2014 21:07:39 GMT -5
Not bad. I think it worked pretty well except for the talking bits which were too cutesy and precious for my taste. It's hard to say how Debussy would have felt, but one shouldn't assume the classical world would turn up their noses at this kind of thing on principle. Glenn Gould, one of the most famous classical pianists of his tim, was very enthusiastic in his praise for Wendy/Walter Carlos Williams's synthesiser Bach album Switched on Bach.
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Post by Jesse on Aug 29, 2014 21:55:33 GMT -5
Here's a fun video homage, the Cancer Bats covering the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage".
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Post by berkley on Aug 29, 2014 22:48:41 GMT -5
Just came across what I think is an amazing video for Debussy's 1st Arabesque, with every single note animated so that you can see how the different melodic lines flow and intertwine. There seems to be a bunch of these, must investigate further.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 29, 2014 22:53:30 GMT -5
I finally remember the best cover! Prince's One Of Us
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