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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:07 am
by sgt.null
i have her version of Brixton, is quite good. really want to hear her Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:40 pm
by deewilldo
Favorite covers,
Incubus--turning japanese
Perfect circle--Imagine
Mxpx-Take on me
Tori Amos-smells like teen spirit
Faith no more-Easy
Save ferris-Come on eileen
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:51 pm
by dANdeLION
Catherine McPhee's version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:40 pm
by Cail
Rainbow's version of the theme from The Snowman.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:28 pm
by lucimay
dANdeLION wrote:Catherine McPhee's version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
stop your toolery dAN. tom WAITS does it better.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:31 pm
by dANdeLION
Lord Mhoram wrote:8. Making Plans for Nigel (XTC)
I have a Primus cover of this...very fun to listen to!
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 12:34 am
by sgt.null
Eva Cassidy did a fantastic version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:01 am
by Spring
Nirvana's cover of David Bowe's song The Man Who Sold The World is excellent, IMHO.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:48 pm
by cheeseman
ah man theres loads!
johnny cash - hurt
faith no more - easy
cake - i will survive
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:30 pm
by Warmark
cake - i will survive
Good song!
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:35 am
by sgt.null
Pearl Jam: Crazy Mary
Remakes and covers
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:13 am
by taraswizard
Consider, Mony, Mony done by one of the best known bubblegum groups of the 1960s, Tommy James and the Shondells. Let's all agree TJs and the Ss are bubblegum (along with the Archies, Cowsills, Partridge Family, etc.). So in 1983 Billy Idol covers the song, and while we might say the song when done by TJ and Ss it's mildly suggestive; however, the Billy Idol cover is much more than merely suggestive. Comments?
Any other covers that might fit into this category? Would anything from David Bowie's Pin Ups maybe?
Sorry if this sounds like a completely off the wall topic, but since I heard Billy Idol's cover earlier this evening through my digital cable service, these thoughts came to mind.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:43 pm
by wayfriend
What's the category? Covers that are improvements on the original?
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:52 pm
by A Gunslinger
If so...I'd like to submit that Rufus Wainwright's cover of the Beatles "Across the Universe" is superior to the original.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:06 pm
by Menolly
I would say The Animals version of
House of the Rising Sun qualifies as well, if you compare their lyrics to the original, which were sung from a female POV.
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl
And me, Oh Lord! was one
My mother was a tailor,
She sewed them new blue jeans.
My lover he was a gambler, Oh Lord,
Gambled down in New Orleans.
My lover, he was a gambling man
He went from town to town;
And the only time he was satisfied
Was when he drank his liquor down.
Now the only thing a gambling man needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk;
And the only time he's ever satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk.
If I only list'nd when my dear mother said:
Beware, my child, when you roam,
Keep away from drunkards and all those gambling men,
It's best by far to come home.
Go and tell my baby sister
Never do like I have done,
But to shun that house in New Orleans
That they call the Rising Sun.
With one foot on the platform,
And one foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear the ball and chain.
I'm going back to New Orleans
My race is almost run;
I'm going back to spend the rest of my life
Beneath that Rising Sun.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:54 pm
by The Dreaming
Rufus Wainwright - Across the Universe
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:03 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
I can tell you a cover I hate/loathe/abhor. Faith Hill should have been drawn and quartered and tarred and feathered and maggots and rotting meat stuffed up her nose while staked out in the hot sun of the desert for such sacrilege of turning "Piece of My Heart" into some fluffy country crap. If I even catch a slight whiff of that while channel surfing on the radio I feel as though I must go out and club a couple dozen baby seals to assuage my rage.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:38 pm
by bloodguard bob
I like Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's
Somwhere Over the Rainbow.
But
favorite cover would have to be John Coltrane's
Favorite Things.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:40 pm
by A Gunslinger
Holy crap Jenn.... baby seals even. eep.
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:04 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
