It's an awesome feeling when you hear an artist bring fresh life to one of your old favorite songs. Do you have any that just changed the way you felt about song forever?
Here's one of my favorites. It's the first time I ever heard the Cowboy Junkies, and it made me a fan for life. It also gave me a whole new appreciation for Lou Reed and inspired me to buy more of his music.
Preston (1946-2006) would go on to become somewhat well known for the hits "Will It Go 'Round In Circles" and "Nothing From Nothing." He never got the level of fame he truly deserved, though. Posted by Jerry on :
Billy Preston was amazing. Nice pick.
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Nara Leão (1942-1989) is one of my favorite Brazilian musicians. Here she is doing a rare turn on an American standard (though she's singing it in Portuguese): "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."
Not really a song I ever thought of as being subtle or introspective, until I heard this version.
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BTW, great idea for a thread, Jerry. These links are great!
Here's a little more Mitchell before I head off to bed: Terri Lyne Carrington and her band play "Ethiopia".
Jazz musicians really love Mitchell. I think Herbie Hancock did an entire CD of her songs at one time. And Ethel Ennis, a criminally underrated vocalist, did a killer version of "For Free" on her If Women Ruled The World disc, accompanied by one of my favorite horn players: Jane Ira Bloom. (Couldn't find that one on YouTube, unfortunately.)
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by cleome: I think Billy Preston's version of "Can't Get No Satisfaction" blows the original clear out of the water.
Preston (1946-2006) would go on to become somewhat well known for the hits "Will It Go 'Round In Circles" and "Nothing From Nothing." He never got the level of fame he truly deserved, though.
quote:Originally posted by Jerry: Billy Preston was amazing. Nice pick.
Wow! I was not expecting to find some other Billy Preston fans at Legion World! He never got the level of fame he truly deserved but I think a lot of other musicians would kill for the career he had and the achievements he earned during it. How many people get credited with being 'the 5th Beatle' due to all the work he did with that group?
Some incredible Billy Preston videos on Youtube...
* 11 year-old piano prodigy Billy with Nat King Cole on his show -
I can't help but be reminded of my friend Michael Johns' less successful attempt at that song on American Idol but then that also reminds me of his amazing version of Dolly Parton's 'It's All Wrong, But It's All Right' which I think blows hers out of the water (and that's coming from a big Dolly fan) -
quote:Originally posted by cleome: BTW, great idea for a thread, Jerry. These links are great!
Here's a little more Mitchell before I head off to bed: Terri Lyne Carrington and her band play "Ethiopia".
Jazz musicians really love Mitchell. I think Herbie Hancock did an entire CD of her songs at one time. And Ethel Ennis, a criminally underrated vocalist, did a killer version of "For Free" on her If Women Ruled The World disc, accompanied by one of my favorite horn players: Jane Ira Bloom. (Couldn't find that one on YouTube, unfortunately.)
Yes, the Herbie Hancock tribute is called River. It's nice and he won a grammy for it. Lots of great guests. Tina Turner does vocals on Edith. It's fun to see jazz musicians embrace Joni Mitchell. She was bitterly rejected by the jazz establishment when she made her initial efforts at writing, singing, and playing jazz.
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Rebekah Del Rio covers Roy Orbison's Crying (Llorando), from Mullholland Drive
Club Silencio. Great scene from a great movie, rouge.
One of my favorite covers I actually posted a while back in the "Your Latest Favorite Song" thread, but I like it so much it bears repeating.
Beck has an online project where he's done covers of complete albums of artists like Skip Spence, Leonard Cohen, and the Velvet Underground, the last of which produced this fantastic cover of "I'll Be Your Mirror":
quote:Originally posted by Exnihil: Club Silencio. Great scene from a great movie, rouge.
Not to get too far off topic, but it really is such a brilliant scene. You're told that it's a recording, you think that you "know" it is a recording, but when she collapses and her voice continues, it's still so shocking. The illusion is just so convincing, and the song so powerful.
It just reflects so beautifully on the "Reality" the characters are experiencing up til this point. One of the best scenes in cinema.
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Here's Herbie Hancock and Tina Turner covering Joni MItchell.
quote:Originally posted by Jerry: ...It's fun to see jazz musicians embrace Joni Mitchell. She was bitterly rejected by the jazz establishment when she made her initial efforts at writing, singing, and playing jazz.
A lot of the initial hostility had to do with the time it first happened, I figure. There's a long history of cultural appropriation in jazz that it was hard for Black musicians to talk about without suffering automatic commercial suicide-- until fairly late in the 20th Century. A lot of Black musicians probably looked at Mitchell and thought she was just another carpetbagger, gaming somebody else's culture for whatever cache she could get from it. They didn't think she was serious or that she any sincere interest in the form.
Meanwhile, a lot of White critics were just going to dismiss anyone tagged with the "rock" label who got near their genre without really examining what they were doing with it.
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quote:Originally posted by Blacula: Wow! I was not expecting to find some other Billy Preston fans at Legion World! He never got the level of fame he truly deserved but I think a lot of other musicians would kill for the career he had and the achievements he earned during it. How many people get credited with being 'the 5th Beatle' due to all the work he did with that group?
Some incredible Billy Preston videos on Youtube...
I admit that I'd forgotten what a gem the guy was, until a few years back when I heard a local soul-funk tribute band playing "Will It Go 'Round In Circles" live. Such a great melody. Never goes out of style.
And don't forget, despite his commentary in "Nothing From Nothing," Preston had a side career as superhero.
I bumped the Beatles thread, since I already had some other covers posted over there.
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quote:Originally posted by cleome: It was those gents from Queens, N.Y., who made me kind of almost enjoy Aerosmith.
Okay, I love the Run DMC version...but I almost lost it with the second one. Where did you ever find that?
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I blame the local "community" radio station, Dev. Their weekday morning show when I used to get up for work several years ago was always very folk-bluegrass oriented. Sometimes they got bored will all those songs about broken hearts and the untimely death of loved ones and stopping the war and yadda yadda yadda. Then they'd slip this Hayseed Dixie masterwork into the mix.
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Posted by Jerry on :
These guys did a great job making this song feel new, while totally respecting the King.
Percy Mayfield has written so many Blues/R&B classics. ("Hit The Road, Jack;" "River's Invitation," "Please Send Me Someone To Love," etc.) I knew his name, but it wasn't until hearing this rip-roaring take of "You Don't Exist No More" that I counted myself a capital-F fan.
Mayfield's original version is introspective and sad. Whereas Li'l Ed and his band sound mad enough to kick a house down-- while the ex is still in it.
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Posted by Jerry on :
Concrete Blonde does Leonard Cohen. Don Henley also does a respectable cover of this song, but I prefer Blonde's.
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Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Love the Bobs! Discovered them years ago on Dr. Demento.
Though not a cover, to my knowledge, check out "Banana Love."
They also have off-the-wall covers of "Pscyho Killer" (Talking Heads), "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin), and "Light My Fire" (Doors).
Posted by Set on :
30 Seconds to Mars cover of Kanye West's Stronger is freaking awesome to listen to. The lyrics are pretty creepy, but it sounds amazing. (According to the eldest daughter, the fan-video I linked to is like, totally hot.)
I'm a huge Bowie fan, but I like the Wallflowers cover of Heroes better than the original. (Sacriledge, I know!)
And to compound the heresy, I like Nirvana's cover of The Man Who Sold the World better than Bowie's version! (And I generally loathe Nirvana.)
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Posted by Jerry on :
Regardless of one's opinion of Nirvana, it's hard to deny that the unplugged session contained some soulful, deeply felt, and well performed music.
I generally like the Wallflowers, but it's hard to top Bowie on Heroes.
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Speaking of unplugged, here is another good moment. This one became a hit. I still prefer the Patti Smith version, but Natalie gained some respect from me with this performance.
The Def Leppard take on Rock On is pretty awesome, but I think I like the David Essex one better, which surprises me.
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TBH, The Rolling Stones to me are usually like a bag of chips. When I'm in the mood, sure. It's crunchy and distracting and then in ten minutes it's gone and I've forgotten all about it.
Most of their stuff is okay but not interesting to me. There's no "there" there.
OTOH, Band of Susans' trademark menacing fuzz guitar sound gives "Paint It Black" all kinds of sinister undertones that are totally missing from the original.
BoS was awesome. I still love them after all these years.
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Posted by Sketch Lad on :
I can't help but be reminded of my friend Michael Johns' less successful attempt at that song on American Idol but then that also reminds me of his amazing version of Dolly Parton's 'It's All Wrong, But It's All Right' which I think blows hers out of the water (and that's coming from a big Dolly fan) -
Yep, Michael renewed my enjoyment of ATU and I LOVED his version of the Dolly song (which I'd never heard before.) I liked it when he performed it on Ellen that year.
At the risk of seeming like a total Idol geek, I really liked Adam Lambert's weird version of "Ring of Fire." In fact, I liked MOST of Adam Lamberts covers on Idol.
Okay.... Idol segue over... carry on...
Posted by Jerry on :
Dar and Ani cover Pink Floyd. This one has became part of our soundtrack for my partner's journey through cancer. We were both Floyd fans back in the day, but are now at an age and stage where Dar is more frequently played in the house. The line "Your lips move but I can't hear what you are saying" became a helpful tool for giving perspective to the awful bedside manner of one particular doctor.
Stones covers? Yeah, sometimes hard to pull off. This one I like. I never paid any attention to Keith Urban before I saw this performance. I never liked Alicia Keyes. She changed my mind, with this, by showing that she can rock. My favorite performance from Live Earth.
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Posted by cleome on :
Gah. I can't believe I left the wrong link in the above BoS post for days.
Anyway, it's fixed now.
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LOL. I found it any way. While I was looking I found a fun old Tracy Ullman sketch where she paints her kitchen black. Hadn't seen it in years.
Posted by cleome on :
quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: Love the Bobs! Discovered them years ago on Dr. Demento.
Though not a cover, to my knowledge, check out "Banana Love."
They also have off-the-wall covers of "Pscyho Killer" (Talking Heads), "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin), and "Light My Fire" (Doors).
I've got an autographed copy of their all-covers disc, but I got it at a thrift store. So its not autographed to me.
I linked to the Be Arthurs upthread without naming them, but here's their awesome cover of Beck's "Think I'm In Love." The cuteness... IT ATE MY BRAAAAAAIN!! Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Okay -- I need to get some more Joni Mitchell covers out there:
Here's the song of hers that is probably the most frequently covered. The Counting Crows had the biggest hit with it, and deservedly so. Sleek and clean version. It always makes me feel good when this one comes on the radio.
This one has been covered a lot, too. It has been "the Christmas song" around our house for years. Sarah's version now has it getting played on all the commercial stations, with the rest of the Christmas standards, each year.
I'd say just about the entire album Encomium, which was a tribute to Led Zepplin.
Here's a take from it, but the sound is pretty bad. The album however, is great, and some folks did some truly amazing covers. Sorry if they have been mentioned before, I haven't read the entire thread.
Speaking of Encomium, one of the best tracks recorded for it didn't make on the album, though it apparently got a fair amount of radio play, at least in the LA market, back in the day.
I think the first song I ever heard by Kevin Gilbert was this cover, however.
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Thanks for the reminder about Encomium. I listened to it once at a friends house a few years back. There is some nice work on it. This is the first I'm hearing of Kevin Gilbert, EDE. He's got some talent.
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Posted by Jerry on :
Bette Midler does the Andrew Sisters. Just for fun.
Long ago, before Rod Stewart became a schlock-meister, he was, among other things, a remarkably good interpreter of other people's songs. He did many Bob Dylan covers, and this is my favorite, "Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time"
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Posted by Jerry on :
Cleome, the Shirley Horn performance is beautiful. It's hard to find words for it.
Outdoor Miner, I love Fairport Convention on Dylan. Here's another favorite Dylan cover of mine. The recorded version starts out much stronger, but Sophie lets it build up during this live performance.
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Nobody has ever managed to top Jimmy Cliff's original version of "Many Rivers to Cross". A lot of great artists have tried. Toni Childs gives an excellent attempt:
Thomasina Winslow and Marco Haber strip away Steve Miller's fake Prog mannerisms and come up with something muscular and sort of paradoxically wistful, too.
quote:Originally posted by Jerry: Nobody has ever managed to top Jimmy Cliff's original version of "Many Rivers to Cross". A lot of great artists have tried. Toni Childs gives an excellent attempt:
Haven't heard that version in years! Thanks for posting that, Jerry.
Jimmy Cliff's original is a favourite of mine and if anyone ever gets the opportunity to see the excellent Jamaican film that it was recorded for "The Harder They Come"...
... I recommend they do so. (Though you may need subtitles unless your ears are better at deciphering STRONG Jamaican accents than mine are.) That film is chock-a-block full of some of the most awesome early reggae/calypso/ska music you will ever hear. Including this gem by one of my favourite bands ever, Toots and the Maytals (which is actually a scene from the film) -
(Sorry - it's not a cover but I just had to post it anyway.)
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I saw "The Harder They Come" in a local art theater my freshman year in college. It was my first exposure to Jimmy Cliff, and was an assignment from my Cultural Arts professor. Thank goodness for good old fashioned American liberal education values.
Here's the late great Joe Strummer covering Jimmy Cliff.
Jerry, I love that cover. It helped get me through a particularly bad year for music.
Posted by cleome on :
Abbey Lincoln does her trademark reworking of a pop song: "Windmills of Your Mind" by Legrand/Bergman/Bergman.
She died yesterday, just a few days after her 80th birthday. Lincoln was an outstanding songwriter in her own right, and her last recording was a stripped down re-imagining of her own classic songs: full of country-blues flourishes more than traditional jazz.
Younger singers are great admirers of her work. Here's Kendra Shank, covering Lincoln's "Throw It Away."
RIP, Golden Lady. You'll be greatly missed. Posted by Jerry on :
Thanks for the Abbey Lincoln tributes. What an amazing talent.
Here's one that's a surprising change of pace. Matchbox 20 covering Cindi Lauper? Yeah, it works...
Glad you enjoyed it, Jerry. I'm falling behind on catching up on all the music links... will have to try and get to it over the weekend.
Oh, and about Boy George, hey-- I love to rant and rave about music, but don't apologize for posting what'cha love. I mean, it's your thread, right? And we don't all have to love exactly the same stuff.
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Yeah, I mentioned her in another thread, but you can't ever have too much of Katie Webster, the late, great "Two-Fisted Mama." So here she is covering the classic "Sea of Love" by Phil Phillips and George Khoury.
[dreamy sigh]
Posted by Jerry on :
Tina Turner let the world know she still had the goods when she covered Al Green's "Let's Stay Together". This perfect rendition marked the beginning of one of the greatest comebacks in pop music history.
Oh, and as an addendum to the 9 Signs that your husband is gay thread - if your husband can recount in detail exactly where he was and what he was doing the first time he heard Tina's version of "Let's Stay Together", there can be no doubt.
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Any talk of Tina Turner and 'covers' is not complete without including this absolutely AMAZING performance of a classic CCR song -
Being a bit more contemporary for a moment for all the young'uns here at Legion World, I think the White Stripes did a great job at updating these two old classics (and the video for the first one is sexy as Hell IMO - and I am no fan of the model involved) -
Yes, Blacula, Ike and Tina's cover of Proud Mary is one of the ultimate examples of laying claim to another's artist's song and making it your own. I could waste a whole day watching Tina Turner clips on youtube. So many amazing performances. She also claimed Elton John's hit "The Bitch Is Back" as her own.
Thanks for posting the White Stripe's "Jolene". I've been meaning to get to that one. Jack White just doesn't compromise as an artist. He brought the same sensibility to Loretta Lynn's work on Van Lear Rose a few years back to great effect.
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Posted by Jerry on :
Accordians do add something to that Rod Stewart song. Very funny. It does need a couple of drag queens, though.
This is the first time I heard the Gabriel cover of Young. I like it. What is the world is he doing releasing a cover album, though? He's always struck me as one of those chronic songwriters never able to sate the need to get his own music out there.
Pearl Jam does what is considered the most iconic Young cover, I guess. It always gets my blood pumping:
The Gabriel covers album was originally supposed to have a sister album of other artists (including many of the ones whose songs Gabriel covered) doing covers of Gabriel songs. Unfortunately, the sister album has been delayed indefinitely, so it's ended up looking like an ordinary covers album.
I also suspect it all started out as something of a stopgap because, after almost 10 years, Gabriel still hasn't completed the official follow-up to "Up."
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by Jerry: What is the world is he doing releasing a cover album, though?
That's what a legion of Peter Gabriel fans have been asking for the past year, as well.
He hasn't released a full-fledged studio album in 8 years (with 10 years between that and his previous release), despite supposedly having written hundreds of songs in the meantime, and he suddenly comes out with a covers album. Which is, incidentally, going to be followed up by an album of re-arrangements of his own material in the same style.
Posted by Fanfic Lass on :
Ah, the same answer in two different styles.
Which do YOU prefer, EDE or FLo?
Posted by Jerry on :
Lucky to have both !!
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Posted by jab on :
two of my favorite covers of all times
johnny cash & joe strummer covering 'redemption song'
quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: Ah, the same answer in two different styles.
I'm sure there's something deeply significant in the fact that you went for mentioning the follow-up with other artists' covering Gabriel's work, while I went for the mention of Gabriel's follow-up covering his own work.
Meat for the future cyber-archeologists, no doubt.
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Posted by Fanfic Lass on :
Siouxsie & the Banshees cover Bob Dylan & the Band??
Actually, it's more likely they knew the song from the hit psychedelic-pop version by Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger.
Fun one. I haven't listened to any Siouxsie in years. I forgot how wonderful she is.
Jab, thanks for posting your picks. Both are very nice. Cash and Strummer covering Marley... Can it get any more real than that? I was driving home from work with my carpool buddy the evening of the 9/11 attacks. The local dj played "Redemption Song" to mark the event. My buddy cried. It's a moment I'll always remember.
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Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: Siouxsie & the Banshees cover Bob Dylan & the Band??
Actually, it's more likely they knew the song from the hit psychedelic-pop version by Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger.
I'm pretty sure I read an interview with her where she said that was the case. I believe she also said that they didn't know it was a Dylan song when they recorded it.
Posted by Jerry on :
Wasn't this the theme song for "Aboslutely Fabulous"? Whose version was that?
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
Yes.
The version in AbFab was a new recording featuirng Driscoll and comic Adrian Edmondson.
Posted by Jerry on :
The Talking Heads cover Al Green. God, I miss these guys!!
quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: Siouxsie & the Banshees cover Bob Dylan & the Band??
Actually, it's more likely they knew the song from the hit psychedelic-pop version by Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger.
I'm pretty sure I read an interview with her where she said that was the case. I believe she also said that they didn't know it was a Dylan song when they recorded it.
If that's the case, I'm not entirely surprised. Somehow I just can't imagine the teenage Susan Dallion listening to Dylan and/or the Band as she dreams of being a world-conquering pop star. That's not a slam against Dylan or the Band, it's just that Siouxsie's generation was much more into the unholy trinity of Iggy-Bowie-Reed.
Posted by Jerry on :
Cyndi Lauper again. Does she ever stop? This time featuring Jonny Lang on a BB King cover. I've seen lots of live performances in my life. Jonny Lang was one of the best. If you ever get a chance to see him, don't pass it up.
Tori usually includes random covers in her concerts. She puts her unique spin on everything she touches. My favorite is her cover of Lloyd Cole's Rattlesnakes .
The Power Station did two covers on their 1985 debut album first they did a cover of T-Rex'sGet it on (bang a a gong)here and they did a cover of The Isley Brothers song Harvest for the worldhere Posted by Jerry on :
The Power Station was a crazy - in a good way - idea. Great finds, John.
Posted by Fanfic Lady on :
The great Joni Mitchell, in a refreshingly playful mood that permeates what I believe to be her most underrated album, "Wild Things Run Fast", covers a favorite oldie of hers:
(Uh, I think I caught mr_cleome rocking out to Kylie Minogue once. Should I worry?) Posted by cleome on :
quote:Originally posted by profh0011: I knew someone at work who get VERY OFFENDED when I put on some Chipmunks music years back. (what made it "worse" was, it was Christmastime!)
Ross Jr.'s early albums were quite good, I think (as a fan of his father's work since the early 60's). Of course, that's me...
As pups, my pals and I would amuse ourselves by "borrowing" our older sisters' records by the Osmonds and their ilk-- and playing them on the 78 rpm setting.
So would that count as "DIY" Chipmunks?
(Jimmy Osmond's cover of "Tweedlee Dee" was particularly awesome after undergoing this treatment.) Posted by cleome on :
(WARNING:If you cringe at the mere mention of the word "Theremin" or the phrase "free jazz," this is not the cover you've been looking for. You could at least skip to 5:05, where the Cantina Theme begins, though. That's cute and bouncy, kinda'...)
Click Here For A SpoilerUnless it's their cover of the music from Star Trek. Posted by Jerry on :
I was fortunate to see him perform live in a small club in the midwest in the early 90s. Such an odd and interesting musician. Thanks for sharing FL!
Posted by Fanfic Lady on :
You're very welcome, Jerry.
I love Todd. He makes me proud to be a Philadelphian.
Posted by Jerry on :
Patti Smith covers Prince. Well, why not? Love it.
Continuing the soul/R&B theme: There have been so many covers of "Bring It On Home To Me." Good as Sam Cooke's original was, I honestly think Z.Z. Hill's* version surpasses it.
So FK made a post in the worst 90's songs thread with a link to Aqua's Barbie Girl. Which reminded me of this cover by the kings of industrial metal - Rammstein covers Barbie Girl Posted by cleome45 on :
Calexico gives its ever-wonderful "Southwest" treatment to what's probably Joy Division's most famous song.
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I stumbled on Beverly McClellan's original stuff totally by accident a week or so ago. I love this snippet of her singing the Who's "Teenage Wasteland," and giving it some pretty bluesy overtones.
Ray Davies of the Kinks is, in my opinion, one of those great songwriters whose singing voice puts me off. Thus, I present my five favorite Kinks covers, in chronological order:
My thanks to Harbi, as well.
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This won't get me any points for hipness, but I don't care. And it's worth noting that the Martha & the Vandellas original not only missed the pop Top 40, but didn't even make the R&B Top Five. So I thank Phil for introducing me to a beautiful song I might otherwise have never heard.
Barbara Lynn brings her awesomeness to "Don't Be Cruel." Posted by Dave Hackett on :
Never liked Houston, and I've not really listened much to the Parton version, but Soundgarden was the later I worshipped at in the '90s and Chris Cornell really nails this version of "I Will Always Love You"
Brazil's Pato Fu introduces kids to "Bohemian Rhapsody," via toy instruments. (I believe the CD name, Musica de Brinquedo translates as "Toy Music.")
Unfortunately, I can't translate the puppet banter for you all, because I don't speak Portuguese. But the music part begins around 1:45.
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Posted by Jerry on :
Bonnie Raitt covers the late Gerry Rafferty's biggest hit on her latest album. It's hard to beat the smooth vocals of Rafferty's original. Never the less, Bonnie is as classy as ever, the song deserves a revival, and the album is excellent.
Set reminded me in another thread (ironically, the Worst Song Ever thread) how many good David Bowie covers are out there. Links to Def Leppard's "Drive In Saturday" and Nirvana's "The Man Who Sold the World" were already posted earlier in this thread, but here's a couple more.
Cibo Matto: "About A Girl". The cheesy lounge-Latin arrangement and their deadpan intro never fails to make me giggle.
Laura Love: "Come As You Are". I mostly know Love from her later work in bluegrass groups, but I like the ultra-simple stylings of this cover.
Posted by Viridis Lament on :
I know most of you aren't into this style of music, but this is really worth checking out!!
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There's no connection or theme here but these are simply some random covers that I always enjoy:
We had some Lou Reed love early in the thread; here's a cover of one of his songs from the Velvet Undergound days. It's from The Feelies "Only Life" album (one of my all-time faves)
Husker Du released a few covers during their time together (including a version of "Sunshine Superman") but Bob Mould's howling semi-incoherence on this Byrds track makes it their best:
I have to be honest I had to look up the original artist behind this Madness number, so here's to you Mr. Labi Siffre. This version has sort of supplanted the original - it was recently used in a Volkswagen commercial:
This one I found through random youtube searching for The Clash but I've gone back to it quite often. The original is one of my favortie Clash songs - this band features a female lead singer and they added horns to the arrangement as well:
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