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Hmmm, EDE. I'll give it 10% brilliant and 90% bizarre.


Madonna's birthday? How about Madonna covering Peggy Lee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyFJ3lAo-qc


And then, Tori covering Madonna:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ivuoyKTxnY

I love them both!

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.

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]

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vnLLsifm8

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.

Any talk of Tina Turner and 'covers' is not complete without including this absolutely AMAZING performance of a classic CCR song -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0&feature=related

What a talent she is!

I also quite like this version she did of one of my favourite songs ever, 'Save the Last Dance for Me' -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvvf8chEj8M&feature=PlayList&p=D75AA33CE170B111&index=20

Though I think the original is still better.

And though it's been covered many times, Tina's is still the best version of this fantastic song -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULw1RHHPv5g&feature=related

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) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlULkwhgrc

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2oPJVaM35U

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.

Midnight Oil covers Lennon. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xG-h7ypUw&feature=related

Since I'm on a Carla Bozulich kick, here's another of her old outfits, Ethyl Meatplow, doing a number on " Close To You ."

Personally, I think it's hilarious, but YMMV.

Ethyl Meatplow?!? LOL

A couple of nice Yoko Ono covers:

From Rosanne Cash,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRxmU0Xovqw

and Roberta Flack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naw8kCELyXo&feature=related

Both have a special place in my in life.

Am I the only one who thinks that Seu Jorge's Bowie covers were the best thing about The Life Aquatic?

Meanwhile, back in the States, Those Darn Accordions present the only Rod Stewart cover you\'ll ever need...

In my opinion the only gem from Peter Gabriel's otherwise disappointing all-covers album, here's his version of Neil Young's "Philadelphia":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kicERnTrpPQ

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUJGlI13KdE

Glad you like Gabriel's Young cover, Jerry.

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."

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.

Ah, the same answer in two different styles.

Which do YOU prefer, EDE or FLo?

Lucky to have both !!

two of my favorite covers of all times

johnny cash & joe strummer covering 'redemption song'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGVSTsgcCvw

moby covering the bad brains classic 'sailin' on'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CRhWliovcs

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.

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.

Either way, the S&tB version is my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTOzu_hGs1Q

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.

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.