Music thread- Post cover versions

by **ManBungalow** on Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:04 pm

pancakemix wrote:Johnny Cash did some pretty awesome covers near the end of his life. Some of them surprised me.

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails, The Cash version is a massive improvement)

The Cash cover is emotionally striking and all, but something doesn't seem quite right in that track. I much prefer 'Hurt' done by Nine Inch Nails with all that much more energy and what I can only really describe as frustration, but not so much the regret in Johnny Cash's version. I know part of making a cover is trying to make it different, better and interesting, but in this case:
NIN Hurt > Johnny Cash Hurt
However, Johnny Cash is/was still incredibly awesome, no doubt.

by **oVo** on Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:00 pm

pancakemix wrote:The Kinks' You Really Got Me is classic, as is Van Halen's famous cover, but here's an interesting take by Robert Palmer, best known for songs such as Addicted to Love.

The Kinks had a big impact on rock music and inspired a lot people. The combination of Ray Davies song writing and Dave Davies lead guitar were huge and I've always been a fan. Cover songs can be a curious thing as many people never consider where songs originate and I've heard so many references made to "Van Halen's song" You Really Got Me. The story of the Kinks is told on the Ray Davies album The Storyteller.

more covers:
Small Faces
Bruce Springsteen
Toots & the Maytals (ska)
Willy covering the Van Halen cover

Oh, Pretty Woman, by Roy Orbison in the mid sixties
performed thirty years or so later by Roy and a lot of talented friends 30 yrs later =D>

the Van Halen cover

by **pancakemix** on Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:30 pm

ManBungalow wrote:
pancakemix wrote:Johnny Cash did some pretty awesome covers near the end of his life. Some of them surprised me.

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails, The Cash version is a massive improvement)

The Cash cover is emotionally striking and all, but something doesn't seem quite right in that track. I much prefer 'Hurt' done by Nine Inch Nails with all that much more energy and what I can only really describe as frustration, but not so much the regret in Johnny Cash's version. I know part of making a cover is trying to make it different, better and interesting, but in this case:
NIN Hurt > Johnny Cash Hurt
However, Johnny Cash is/was still incredibly awesome, no doubt.

It's all opinion, of course. Although the music video adds a whole lot of punch to the Cash recording.

Since we're back on the subject of Cash covers, here's one I just kinda find hilarious: Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode, later covered by Marilyn Manson (Sorry about the ad. And the Marilyn Manson)).

As far as I can tell, Cash did not do a cover of "You Really Got Me".

by **Symmetry** on Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:46 pm

I'll throw his cover of One by U2 in the mix-

Johnny Cash- One

I heard the Cash cover of Hurt before I heard NIN, so I probably have a different perespective- it kind of seemed like NIN were covering him (just in terms of how familiar I was with the song- I knew NIN did it originally). I've got a huge amount of respect for Trent Reznor, but listening to that after the Cash version, he sounded whiny, immature, angsty, basically he sounded like he didn't know what he was singing about. It sounded like an act, and Cash sounded authentic.

I didn't see the video 'till long after, but it's pretty moving especially if, like me, you didn't know much about the guy, but read a bit about him following the album. Sorry to say, but Hurt is done better by Cash for me. Can't fault Reznor for the lyrics, but he doesn't have the voice that Cash had to add depth.

by **Chariot of Fire** on Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:51 pm

Never in my life thought I'd be recommending a track by Pink, but her cover here of Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You has given me a new-found respect for her ability:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tQubiPhhV0&feature=related

At least give it a chance and get to 2:14 on the track.

by **oVo** on Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:12 am

Pink does that song justice in a big way and that is one rocking band behind her.
Here's another Led Zeppelin cover, Battle of Evermore by Heart.
and done recently by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss.

by **pancakemix** on Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:03 pm

So I love a capella. And I like Toto's Africa a lot too. But when you combine them, you get something truly amazing.

by **oVo** on Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:43 am

Walk Away by The James Gang
The Eagles with Joe Walsh

covers by Van Halen and Sheryl Crow

by **Aradhus** on Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:07 pm

Chariot of Fire wrote:Never in my life thought I'd be recommending a track by Pink, but her cover here of Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You has given me a new-found respect for her ability:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tQubiPhhV0&feature=related

At least give it a chance and get to 2:14 on the track.

I like it more than the original. *ducks*

oVo wrote:The Beatles: A Day in the Life

covers:

Jeff Beck

Awesome.

I'm sure everybody has heard this, Eva Cassidy - Songbird, but I'm not cool like you guys with knowledge of little heard of covers.

More generic shit, cuz I is uncoo.

Some kids playing Angie by the Rolling Stones

Gnarls Barkley - Reckoner

Girl singing nude..uh, the Radiohead song Nude. Typical. I see where your mind went

James Houston - Nude

by **Symmetry** on Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:13 am

Thought I'd share- Michael Winslow (the guy who did the noises in Police Academy)-

Michael Winslow - Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

by **Genghis Khant** on Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:40 pm

Nina Gordon's version of NWA's Straight Outta Compton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc

Mary Queenie Lyon's version of Fever by Peggy Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHOnM4yDOrc

Peggy Lee's version of Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8si-biUftjQ

King Tubby's version of Take 5 by the Dave Brubeck Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYsVC4IzqYs

by **Symmetry** on Sat Oct 29, 2011 4:20 am

Genghis Khant wrote:Nina Gordon's version of NWA's Straight Outta Compton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc

Reminded me of Jonathan Coulton covering Baby Got Back-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJeC99QO8A

by **Symmetry** on Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:56 pm

No surprises by Thom Yorke and the Radioheads:
Original
Acoustic

Covered by:
Amanda Palmer
A string quartet
Regina Spektor

Symmetry finds himself in a melancholy mood this evening.

by **oVo** on Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:27 pm

a brief intermission from music covers...
Jim Carrey as Conan O'Brien

by **Symmetry** on Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:32 pm

oVo wrote:a brief intermission from music covers...

Fair enough- I was perhaps a little too vague with the thread title.

by **oVo** on Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:48 pm

Symmetry wrote:I was perhaps a little too vague with the thread title.

No no no.... it's a great thread and perfectly titled.
I just bumped into that clip and figured it was an ok fit in here.
Sitting on Top of the World by Chester Burnett (aka Howlin' Wolf)
covers by...
Johnny Shines or Chet Atkins or Doc Watson or Jerry Reed or Harry Manx or Cream (1968)
or Jack White or Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys or Cream (2005)

Spoonful by Willie Dixon
covered by...
Harry Manx and Cream and Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

by **Symmetry** on Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:51 pm

oVo wrote:
Symmetry wrote:I was perhaps a little too vague with the thread title.
No no no.... it's a great thread and perfectly titled.
I just bumped into that clip and figured it was an ok fit in here.
Sitting on Top of the World by Chester Burnett (aka Howlin' Wolf)
covers by...
Johnny Shines or Chet Atkins or Doc Watson or Jerry Reed or Harry Manx or Cream (1968)
or Jack White or Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys or Cream (2005)

Spoonful by Willie Dixon
covered by...
Harry Manx and Cream and Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

Damnit oVo, how do you know all this stuff? Now I've got to listen to them. Good calls btw, I'm in the mood for blues.

by **oVo** on Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:24 pm

I'm a big fan of Willie Dixon and the impact he had on the music that followed
and "Sitting on Top of the World" has been covered by nearly everyone
who plays guitar as well as a many who don't, in all genres.

Also... Cream's Wheels of Fire has always been one of my favorite albums.

by **Symmetry** on Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:31 pm

May as well post one of my favourite songs, and one of the most covered, Mack the Knife.

The original May as well be a cover given how different it sounds to what people know.

Bobby Darin Obviously.

And the rest- Late Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy.

Louis Armstrong

by **pancakemix** on Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:24 pm

Symmetry wrote:May as well post one of my favourite songs, and one of the most covered, Mack the Knife.

The original May as well be a cover given how different it sounds to what people know.

Bobby Darin Obviously.

And the rest- Late Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy.

Louis Armstrong

Classic stuff. My favorite version of this one was featured at the end of Un Prophète, and pretty much made the film.

by **Symmetry** on Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:30 pm

pancakemix wrote:
Symmetry wrote:May as well post one of my favourite songs, and one of the most covered, Mack the Knife.

The original May as well be a cover given how different it sounds to what people know.

Bobby Darin Obviously.

And the rest- Late Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy.

Louis Armstrong

Classic stuff. My favorite version of this one was featured at the end of Un Prophète, and pretty much made the film.

That was a great movie, it's not my favourite version, but it fit the film perfectly, better than the other covers I've heard.

by **oVo** on Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:36 am

I had a fabulous octogenarian friend who loved Mack the Knife
and would dance anytime it was playing.

Layla by Derek and the Dominoes (1970)
covered by Larry Carlton

Minute By Minute by the Doobie Brothers (1978) 1996 and 2003
covered by Larry Carlton

Pick Up The Pieces by the Average White Band (1974) 1977 and 1988
covered by Jeff Golub