Feists version of Secret Heart by Ron Sexsmith.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Marc Martel

Joseph Arthur w/Reni Lane - Coney Island Baby [Lou Reed]

I TOTALLY FORGOT

"Toxic"
Melanie Martinez >>>>>> Britney Spears

Buck Owens & Susan Raye - Love Is Strange

They're better at everything

Metric is gunna be pissed

That is going wayyyy back. I haven't seen [MERIT] for such a long time. That is if you don't count the time last week when he was flying in a pyramid shape UFO over a Navy ship.

[MERIT]'s conspiracies > his taste

I like this one better than the YB's:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky486ZZmZ6k

I've been slowly realizing just how incredible 10cc was too. I feel like I've been living under a planet sized rock.

:bowdown:10cc yes incredibly incredible....

Not so much a cover, but just playing about for fun...



Marvin Gaye now the real ma coy...

Now that I've been posting just a bit, I'll do a couple.

In >90% of cases, I think covers are redundant or worse than the original. However, there are occasional exceptions.

One of those exceptions is Loudon Wainwright III's version of Daughter. The original is by Peter Blegvad. Loudon dresses it up in a more country style and it fits the song really well. It gives it a stronger identity and makes it a little more fun. Loudon also seems like such a warm character and adds a lot of heart to most of the stuff he plays, this included.




Then I also adore this song which may or may not be a Bo Diddley cover. I'm unsure, but the track listing has it as "A Modern Lesson [Bo Diddley]" so I've assumed that it is indeed a cover. Now, I'll admit I don't know the original in this case, but I am pretty sure that it doesn't sound anything like Aksak Maboul's take on this.

It's got cash registers and a parrot in it and it is one of my favourite bits of avant-garde music ever recorded.

as worthy as the original is
 

I don't think any cover of Tom Waits is better than the original, but this cover at least measures up to the ethos:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ce7uDRo28

Fairly certain the guitar isn't plugged into anything
Singer missing the appropriate amount of teeth
The words are mostly there, and when they aren't it's close enough
Fret buzz doesn't even phase the guy

This is the true cover of Waits because the songs are supposed to come from unfiltered humanity. There are so many covers of his that feel like they can improve on the original with slick production, funky arrangements, **** that. Unless it's a hobo singing with a missing limb, it ain't Waits.

happy with this version...

Prince versus

Foo Fighters

which version do you prefer...:wavey:

Fleetwood Mac


The Smashing Pumpkins




Any preference? :wavey:

I'm now trying to think of a song Foo Fighters covered that was better than the original (It's certainly not Darling Nikki). Probably "Carry on Wayward Son."

Think this is better than the original which without doubt is a goodun anyway....but listen when its quiet around you....


think also depends on your mood as the Chris Isaak's is a beaut..music is superior of course....

dixie chicks >>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw1KAlQSYjw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEoowY9hXuM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLDXEwTYucc

Here's another band from Boston playin' that song...

Who knew punk and prog work together so well...

Nirvana / Man who sold the world

Status Quo / In the army now

Laibach "Opus Dei"

Fight me. Oh, and youtube doesn't like artistic tiddy.

Very ill-advised: the kind of people who actually like the original will absolutely fight you. Hope you're prepared for hand combat against fiftysomething bodybuilders and boxing trainers from the former Soviet republics.

Ok so my second entry in thread is again RATM related but via Bruce Springsteen (it's a Bruce day for me). I just heard the original for the first time and it's a beautiful song. Rage's version is just (obviously) much more powerful. They really took it to another dimension.






Also, are rock bands that kick this much ass a thing of the past now? Sigh.

Sadly yes

Two covers that take pop classics to a more abstract plain, successfully

Damn

That Beatles cover is amazing

Yep, top 10 ever in my book

This was around the time of her first album, which was great, and then things kinda got less interesting as they so often do

Take/2 on Youtube has some great covers. This is one of my favorites

I think any cover of any Bob Dylan song sounds better than the original...

:shycouch: