ColinB Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Would the 'Concert for George' count as a whole load of covers of George Harrison songs? If so, there were a lot of fantatstic covers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1417366868' post='2619599'] There must be some decent covers of the songs on Let it Be to swell the ranks... [/quote] How about Laibach's cover of the entire album? I seem to remember One after 909 was pretty cool. Edit: It is. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKiNm5WL2xg[/media] Edited November 30, 2014 by Musky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I really like "Imagine" by Randy Crawford & the Yellow Jackets. They made it their own and didn't crawl all over the original John Lennon version. http://youtu.be/bJViwpo0KlQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1417186982' post='2617974'] +1 That's the one. About the only Beatles cover that's better than the original. [/quote] I disagree. Yukihiro Takahashi's cover of "I need you" is IMHO better than the original. Given the electronica production, I would guess that a fair proportion of Beatles fans might disagree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckinthepod Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (original) The Fourmyula: Nature [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2EiHOB0Mw[/media] (cover) The Muttonbirds: Nature [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0G-8V4nCpc[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Original: No more I love you's by Lover Speaks [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgwnXp1Zb4Q[/media] Cover: No more I love you's by Annie Lennox. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i1DiWwx6hc[/media] Edited December 1, 2014 by Annoying Twit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Original: Sorrow by The McCoys [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y9A7AVtAFE[/media] Cover: Sorrow by David Bowie [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=292W2cF6_W4[/media] Edited December 1, 2014 by Annoying Twit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Original: You're Sixteen by Johnny Burnette [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjy-OMIyXbg[/media] Cover: You're Sixteen by Ringo Starr (with a little help by Harry Nilsson and Paul McCartney) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xroiz9ssBIU[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetaFunk Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) [quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1417440385' post='2620316'] Original: You're Sixteen by Johnny Burnette [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjy-OMIyXbg[/media] Cover: You're Sixteen by Ringo Starr (with a little help by Harry Nilsson and Paul McCartney) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xroiz9ssBIU[/media] [/quote] The singing of the great Johnny Burnette and Ringo both bring me close to tears for completely different reasons. One of these is a classic and one should never have seen the light of day. Edited December 1, 2014 by BetaFunk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1417441302' post='2620324'] The singing of the great Johnny Burnette and Ringo both bring me close to tears for completely different reasons. One of these is a classic and one should never have seen the light of day. [/quote] Different singers suit songs in different ways. I was thinking of including "All along the watchtower". But a quick relisten makes me think that Bob Dylan's rasp suits the song very well. Hence I think the Jimi Hendrix version is therefore different but not better . I think Ringo does a great job of "You're Sixteen". Johnny Burnette is a great singer and does sing technically better than Ringo, but I think his recording suffers from the rather boring arrangement. Edited December 1, 2014 by Annoying Twit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetaFunk Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 [quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1417440053' post='2620315'] Original: Sorrow by The McCoys [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y9A7AVtAFE[/media] Cover: Sorrow by David Bowie [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=292W2cF6_W4[/media] [/quote] This is an interesting one because i would imagine most here on BC would not only be more familiar with the Bowie version but also heard his version first. I bought the McCoys 45 the week it was released so was used to years of hearing it before the Bowie version arrived and that makes a big difference on how we feel about cover versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetaFunk Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 [quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1417441889' post='2620335'] I think Ringo does a great job of "You're Sixteen". Johnny Burnette is a great singer and does sing technically better than Ringo, but I think his recording suffers from the rather boring arrangement. [/quote] It's very much an age thing with a lot of covers. The Johnny Burnette arrangement is very much of it's time but at the time was anything but boring. I think it's a generation thing that we are never going to agree on and shouldn't agree as we are seeing them from a totally different angle and that's one of the reasons these sort of threads are interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoying Twit Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1417442475' post='2620344'] It's very much an age thing with a lot of covers. The Johnny Burnette arrangement is very much of it's time but at the time was anything but boring. I think it's a generation thing that we are never going to agree on and shouldn't agree as we are seeing them from a totally different angle and that's one of the reasons these sort of threads are interesting. [/quote] Which is fair enough. A lot of this depends on which versions have been heard first. In the last four comparisons I've posted, I heard the cover first, and then the original. The Yukihiro Takahashi cover of "I need you" that I mentioned before was one of the few covers I feel is better than the original that I heard after I'd known the original for a while. The original is fine, but the cover just makes something more of the song, and successfully updates it for a whole new era. But I can't find a copy of it. (Which may be a good thing as not all Beatles fans may [size=4]appreciate all the synthesisers).[/size] [size=4]I enjoy the Sid Vicious version of "My Way" more than Sinatra's version (if that can be called 'the original' given how that song came to be), for the reasons that you give. I wouldn't call it 'better' though.[/size] Edited December 1, 2014 by Annoying Twit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Always thought the ELO vs of Roll Over Beethoven pisses all over Chuck's original but the purists would probably disagree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrenochrome Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 [quote name='pst62' timestamp='1417338868' post='2619184'] Judas Priest - Diamonds And Rust. (Joan Baez) [/quote] I'm planning to do this in our acoustic set, maybe with nods to both JP and Ms Baez's versions. Some good shouts, and TSOMs version of Emma was very powerful live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetaFunk Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 [quote name='KevB' timestamp='1417444698' post='2620371'] Always thought the ELO vs of Roll Over Beethoven pisses all over Chuck's original but the purists would probably disagree [/quote] Not only the purists i hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt P Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1417366868' post='2619599'] There must be some decent covers of the songs on Let it Be to swell the ranks... [/quote] Aretha Frankin's Version of Let it Be isn't just one of my favorite covers, it's one of my favorite recordings ever! i woiuld post a link but i'm at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiltyG565 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 [quote name='spacey' timestamp='1417188204' post='2618004'] Hurt, Johnny Cash. - Nice inch Nails. Thats what you call a cover..... [/quote] Damn! That's all I came to say Trent Reznor of NIN even said himself that Johnny Cash did it better than himself, and it's his song! High praise indeed! The NIN version is a bit more abstract though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiltyG565 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Just thought of another one; Beautiful World, RATM version. Originally by Devo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono Bolton Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Ryan Adams' version of Wonderwall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) Most of the covers I love, are of songs I like so much its hard to say they are better, just an awesome song to start with made different, in a fantastic way .. Absolutely amazing cover .. [media]http://youtu.be/RvdnMzQGbEQ[/media] Completely different to the originals , and played really straight , but I do love these .. [media]http://youtu.be/8qJw4X6okfQ[/media] [media]http://youtu.be/I-DLwygh4HM[/media] Edited December 1, 2014 by lojo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetaFunk Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 [quote name='lojo' timestamp='1417455496' post='2620512'] Most of the covers I love, are of songs I like so much its hard to say they are better, just an awesome song to start with made different, in a fantastic way .. Absolutely amazing cover .. [media]http://youtu.be/RvdnMzQGbEQ[/media] [/quote] That's another cover that was more well known than the original for many years. Certainly up to c1990 and the renewed interest in Gil Scott-Heron. Having heard both versions around the time they were released i still prefer the GSH original for it's more sparse production. Both great versions though and both sung by people who you believed they knew and meant every word they were singing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswareham Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl (they also did a great version of Summer Breeze, a song mentioned earlier in this thread, but a rather lacklustre Beatles medley). Jesus And Mary Chain - Mushroom (a Can cover) and a scorching version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love? Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now (no Morrissey vocal is a bonus for me), as well as a great version of Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy. And a stonking cover of The Sisters of Mercy's Walk Away. Sepultura - The Hunt (a New Model Army cover). Diamanda Galas - Gloomy Sunday (with the first English lyrics that are closer to the original Hungarian lyrics than the later, better known version covered by the likes of The Associates). Therapy? - Diane (Husker Du cover, although the original is great as well). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 The Third Degree's version of Duffy's "Mercy" [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU12FrWWVqA[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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