Your best cover songs

[BanannaMan]

I enjoy listening to covers on youtube.
Most are not so good and some are so bad you wonder why there are not laws against people with so little talent posting music on the web.
However, every now and then you find a real diamond amidst the stones.
Just found this one last night. Very good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6OpzdPniyM&feature=related


Post your favorite cover!

[rictus01]

not very current I know, but then I never claimed to be trendy

original by Lori Lieberman in 72

Made her own the following year by Roberta Flack

and finally by Lauryn Hill of the Fugees in 1996

oKOtzIo-uYw

not sure that's what you ment Bill, but I enjoyed comparing them just now and it is a cover twice over.

Cheers Mark.

[BanannaMan]

not sure that's what you ment Bill, but I enjoyed comparing them just now and it is a cover twice over.



Can't play your vid in the US Mark, but yes any cover played well whether it's in the same style as the original or not.

I'm not that trendy either but here's one I like that someone (?) posted on the org a while back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9AFMVMl9qE&feature=related

[rictus01]

My apologies Bill hadn't realised that as the youtube tabs allow us to shortcode them, here's the full link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKOtzIo-uYw&feature=player_embedded

to be honest as I love the 50's & 60's I could post up all day as at that time just about all the major recording stars covered everyone else's work.

Cheers Mark.

[dizzyblonde]

Landslide. I prefer it to the original Fleetwood Mac. Reason, because I seriously heard the Pumpkins version before I ever heard the original!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkL6Aq58Jls

QkL6Aq58Jls

[dizzyblonde]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE&ob=av2e

CDl9ZMfj6aE&ob

oh and this!!!!! :lol: Last time I posted it up I hadthe org in stitches :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU

XAg5KjnAhuU

[carelesschucca]

Satisfaction (I can't get me no) - Devo.

I just love that tune it's wrong but so right. its so different from the Rolling Stones version. Dunno if there's a you-tube video of it out there can't check at work.

Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash.

Harrowing, just harrowing, but lovely for it.

[Jabba]

The Passenger by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Better than Iggy's original IMHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAON-MwUPY&ob=av2e

[Amadeus]

Radiohead - Spy who loved me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMybHtbUeq4

[timwilky]

I enjoy listening to covers on youtube.
Most are not so good and some are so bad you wonder why there are not laws against people with so little talent posting music on the web.
However, every now and then you find a real diamond amidst the stones.
Just found this one last night. Very good.

Post your favorite cover!

Aggh bill you want cover versions, well there is always this diamond from the stones. Dont blame me.
B2FCAu79pTE

[Bibio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XCgcxsvTg

[rictus01]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XCgcxsvTg

good, but this suits her voice better...;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86wME5d_yZM&feature=related

Cheers Mark.

[Messie]

[QUOTE=carelesschucca;2616773]Satisfaction (I can't get me no) - Devo.

I just love that tune it's wrong but so right. its so different from the Rolling Stones version. Dunno if there's a you-tube video of it out there can't check at work.

=QUOTE]


I thought I was the only person who knew that version, so much so that I even wondered if I imagined it! Now you've reminded me again and I've looked it up on YouTube and it is STILL one of the very best covers ever!

I feel young again - :p

[gruntygiggles]

This is always one that I love to listen to...I love his voice yes, but this song is just a beautiful, beautiful piece of music IMO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6am8V5KNJ4A

Then there is this. Eva did so many covers and so many are much better known than this, but it's the one I always sing to myself when I think of her...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkIadp3cno

Not everyones taste, but hey ho :-)

[Dave20046]

Echo Rictus' fugees +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdPQp6Jcdk

& that birdy who's deservedly getting a bit of fame right now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzCDt2eidg etc. etc


Found a cracker the other day but I've completely forgotten what it was :(

[Bibio]

i would class Eva Cassidy as one of the greatest female singers of all time. she was pitch perfect.

[squirrel_hunter]

Johnny Cash - Hurt

o22eIJDtKho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

I prefer his version to the Nine Inch Nails original or even Kermit's version (which is still very good). For me its the performance unlike some 'singers' who are really just glorified Karaokeists, he is singing the song and meaning every word. Listening to this got me listing to some of Cash's other work and Live at Folsom Prison is a must listen to album.

[andrewsmith]

Goddammit

I think Itunes may get a bashing next week.

Anyways, this is one of my personal faves
http://youtu.be/qrgF2HgDzBg

qrgF2HgDzBg


or this one which good few will know

http://youtu.be/YV4oYkIeGJc

YV4oYkIeGJc

and this (I'm done now) one that only fully surfaced in the last 2 or 3 years

http://youtu.be/lH5SFemG8CI

lH5SFemG8CI

[timwilky]

Bill, I have decided to question your parentage. This thread has got me going all over the place listening to covers. Hearing Lemmy kill "jumping jack flash" was bad.

[thefallenangel]

http://youtu.be/WlhbgHMYAFM

http://youtu.be/-zNjXZioMU4

[thulfi]

ABS1I_jaJKY

xzqlvfM7c3k

Really fussy with covers for the latter, but I love the way Etheral have done it.

[Shawthing]

Taking dawn's version of the fleetwood mac favorite 'The Chain'

iqxF9DagATc

[Jordy]

Another vote for eva Cassidy but I really like fields of gold.

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

Is she dead? :( What a gorgeous voice.

[Treacle]

Honeyroot done a fantastic cover of Joy Division's Love will tear us apart.
One of my best covers, I think. :-k

[DJFridge]

squirrel_hunter is spot on with Johnny Cash's version of Hurt - one of the most emotional pieces of music ever recorded.

For sheer stupidity, I love Lawnmower Death's cover of Up The Junction.

Anything written by Bob Dylan is usually better recorded by anybody else.

Can't remember who wrote the original of Ain't No Love (In The Heart Of The City) but the Whitesnake Choir in full song is pretty hard to beat.

[maviczap]

squirrel_hunter is spot on with Johnny Cash's version of Hurt - one of the most emotional pieces of music ever recorded.
.

Yep a fantastic version.

Here's one of my favourite covers

px__SsVXX_0

Only bettered by Bruce singing live

[gruntygiggles]

Another vote for eva Cassidy but I really like fields of gold.

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

Is she dead? :( What a gorgeous voice.

She died in 1996. She only really became well known in the UK after someone sent Terry Wogan her recording of Over the Rainbow. He played it and the radio station was inundated with enquiries about who that amazing singer was.

Apart from bringing me to tears most of the time I listen to her, I do believe she had one of the very best female voices ever.

[Biker Biggles]

Like a Rolling Stone
Another Bob Dylan song as covered by the Stones

[tinpants]

Another vote for eva Cassidy but I really like fields of gold.

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

Is she dead? :( What a gorgeous voice.

She died in 1996. She only really became well known in the UK after someone sent Terry Wogan her recording of Over the Rainbow. He played it and the radio station was inundated with enquiries about who that amazing singer was.

Apart from bringing me to tears most of the time I listen to her, I do believe she had one of the very best female voices ever.

+1 for Fields of Gold. It was played at the funeral of a guy I served with and still makes me cry every time I hear it. He was one of my best mates and we got into some right scrapes! Association of ideas I suppose.

Also a major +1 for Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Its just superb. Made all the more poignant by the fact that he apparently recorded it just weeks before his death.

For my own choice - ie not piggy-backing onto someone elses choice - it would have to be Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit. Every bit as good as The Who's version. Wonder what Pete Townsend thought of Fred Durst's take on it?

[The Idle Biker]

Here's my two that I actually like better than the originals. The originals were classics but well, I just prefer these.

6a_YQXFs7Ts

51GuG6N2qHE&ob=av2n

[xXBADGERXx]

t1WAMNIunKc&ob=av2n

[Binky]

;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2n0cd2kUVQ :D

[lukemillar]

Here are some favs:

8-8nkkOA_AM

H4hGSR5njZE

m6VojYGrnpg

[thulfi]

More of a remix than a cover, but hey it's all the same.

xG_GdzH4AlU

Brilliant, had to share.

[Matted79]

THIS is a cover, doesnt need to sing....just feel the groove and check out his supreme gutar skills!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVvfFtb3Y9s

[Dave20046]

1V0xQkk9kbc .

[Jordy]

She died in 1996. She only really became well known in the UK after someone sent Terry Wogan her recording of Over the Rainbow. He played it and the radio station was inundated with enquiries about who that amazing singer was.

Apart from bringing me to tears most of the time I listen to her, I do believe she had one of the very best female voices ever.

Aw that's a big loss RIP, I agree. :(

[TamSV]

The Saw Doctors covering The Sugababes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVGnLdhh8ms

[ant-g]

aOo_U32qjKE

Brilliant cover!
Two amazing bands - saw Metallica at Sonisphere and I'm seeing Machine Head at the GMEX in December :)
Can't wait!

[Sid Squid]

8h6tj2cEMvE

[JamesMio]

Always thought the 'phonics did a really good job with this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=AnJZVUCwHzA

AnJZVUCwHzA

And, no harm in giving a local band on the rise a wee bit more exposure, I also really like their version of this:

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

QRPoxMVBKlI

[myfirstsv]

Life's a Long Song by Jetbro Tull

I likr to think I can play the guitar but this guy get's my respect cos I can't even get close to making it sound right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwlEDEHxHw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[wyrdness]

Life's a Long Song by Jetbro Tull

I likr to think I can play the guitar but this guy get's my respect cos I can't even get close to making it sound right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwlEDEHxHw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting it.

[wyrdness]

Now this is how to do a cover version. Familiar yet utterly different.

Michael Kiwanuka - Whole Lotta Love in session

PkOZxHsgsv4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkOZxHsgsv4

[xXBADGERXx]

This is something I came across recently , I love the use of a Loop pedal and a Kaoss Pad ....... and this guys abilities :)

JhjA2nvVD7U

At 2:50 it gets even more impressive