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Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Symmetry on Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:39 pm

Post your favourite cover versions:

Give the original, and the cover preferably, but whatever floats your goat.

To start, something easy:

Bette Davis Eyes

Original: Jackie DeShannon (1974)



Cover: Kim Carnes (1981)
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:55 pm

Wasn't there already a music covers thread? I remember it had a bunch of good stuff oVo had posted.

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Symmetry on Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:12 am

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Wasn't there already a music covers thread? I remember it had a bunch of good stuff oVo had posted.

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Yeah- it was one of my old ones. A lot of the links are broken now though- hence the new one. oVo was practically an encyclopedia for them. Plus now we can link youtube vids.
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:39 am

So it can bog down my connection? No thanks!

While My Guitar Gently Weeps--Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne

Prince is so badass (suppose I should say was).

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Symmetry on Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:58 am

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:So it can bog down my connection? No thanks!

While My Guitar Gently Weeps--Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne

Prince is so badass (suppose I should say was).

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Good call, and Prince still is a badass, except for that batman one. I'd actually be interested to hear a cover of it if it's possible to make it good.

On the subject of Prince:

Nothing compares 2U

Original: The Family (1985)


Cover: Sinead O'Connor (1990)
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:06 am

Uh, you know he died, right?

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Symmetry on Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:21 am

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Uh, you know he died, right?

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby jfm10 on Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:25 am

sorry I don't know how to post but the rolling stones "bittersweet symphony" was done better by the verve in my opinion.If someone could post the 2 of them I would greatly appreciate it...Thank You. :)
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Symmetry on Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:44 am

jfm10 wrote:sorry I don't know how to post but the rolling stones "bittersweet symphony" was done better by the verve in my opinion.If someone could post the 2 of them I would greatly appreciate it...Thank You. :)


Did a bit of research, and they're not exactly covers,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony

If you want to post a youtube vid, click the youtube button in CC and copy/paste the string of numbers and letters at the end of the youtube url after the = sign between the sets of brackets.

I think this what you were looking for:

Original 2: The Last Time Andrew Oldham Orchestra (1965)



Itself an orchestral cover of:

Original 1: The Last Time by the Rolling Stones (1965)



Final, sort of, but not really, cover: The Verve (1997)

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby jfm10 on Fri Jan 13, 2017 2:16 am

Thank You Symmetry
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Symmetry on Fri Jan 13, 2017 2:22 am

jfm10 wrote:Thank You Symmetry


No problem, I bought Urban Hymns when it came out, and I had no idea that Bittersweet Symphony was related to a Stone's track till you posted.

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby KoolBak on Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:02 am

Nice thread...thank you ;o)

Slam dunk IMHO...Disturbed doing Simon & Garfinkle's Sound O' Silence...as a side note, David Draiman, lead singer, was voted #42 of top 100 metal vocalists of all time....dude has a phenomenal range of abilities. Bought the song the first time I heard it...





Metallica (one of my fave bands) does a bunch of covers I like better than the original (Skynyrd Tuesday's Gone, Seeger Turn the Page...) but this has to be may fave based on my personal history.

Whiskey in the Jar ...the song cannot be pinned down to an original author as apparently it dates to the 1700's :lol: . Growing up as a kid, my folks always had on artists like the Limelighters, Kingston Trio and Irish Rovers (all of whom I have seen live, fyi ;o). I recall the Irish Rovers singing this in my earliest years. Then Thin Lizzy did it which brought it to the attention o9f the rock world, then Metallica did it. LOVE Metallica's version



"Gypsy told my fortune...she said that nothin showed...."

Neil Young....Like An Inca

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby mookiemcgee on Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:00 pm





NIN vs CASH

Both are great, but it's such a perfect song for Johnny Cash's voice. Plus how often do you hear old school covering new school?
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby mookiemcgee on Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:03 pm

I thought of another similar one, where the old guys cover newer bands:

Original:


Cover:
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby owenshooter on Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:57 am

wonderwall... oddly enough, Noel Gallagher changed the way he played it after hearing Ryan Adams version. Ryan Adams hated the song and a now deceased friend would call his answering machine drunk and sing it to him... So, when he heard she had died, he covered it on his next album... original and then RA's cover...-Jn

oasis...



ryan adams..

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby owenshooter on Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:01 am

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen... Leonard said that when he heard Jeff's cover, it was what was in his head when he wrote the song. he called it the greatest song ever recorded (jeff's version, not his)... anyway, everyone does jeff's version now vs. leonard's, that is a clear sign that he surpassed the original...-Jn

Cohen...


Jeff Buckley...
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby KoolBak on Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:56 am

so far, besides mine (lol) I've dug the Kim Carnes post the most so far....classic tune that I've always loved....
"Gypsy told my fortune...she said that nothin showed...."

Neil Young....Like An Inca

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby owenshooter on Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:31 pm

KoolBak wrote:so far, besides mine (lol) I've dug the Kim Carnes post the most so far....classic tune that I've always loved....


sacrilege... that statement is sacrilege... here is one for the kids!!!

dolly parton, throwing down



who even remembered dolly's version after this came out? it turned into, "why is dolly parton doing a whitney song?"

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:51 pm

Symmetry wrote:
TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Uh, you know he died, right?

-TG


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Symmetry wrote:
TA1LGUNN3R wrote:So it can bog down my connection? No thanks!

While My Guitar Gently Weeps--Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne

Prince is so badass (suppose I should say was).

-TG


Good call, and Prince still is a badass, except for that batman one. I'd actually be interested to hear a cover of it if it's possible to make it good.

On the subject of Prince:


:roll:

On topic:

I like Otis Redding's cover of "A Change is Gonna Come" better than Sam's. Sam's is great, he's got that silky smooth voice, but Otis just has the ultimate ability in emotive singing. Plus the horn section really adds something to it.

A Change is Gonna Come-Otis Redding

A Change is Gonna Come-Sam Cooke

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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Dukasaur on Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:56 pm

from another thread, just for those who didn't see it.
Dukasaur wrote:Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus

First release, Nina Simone, 1964
If you've never heard this version before, it's worth a listen


Most famous version, Animals, 1965


The master of cover versions, Joe Cocker, 1969


Santa Esmerelda, an offbeat disco band very reminscent of Boney M, managed to make this into an unexpected hit in 1977


Moving to the opposite end of the spectrum, the metal band Place of Skulls, 2001


Eric Burdon revisits his hit and skats it up a bit, 1998



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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby Bentelbow on Sun Jan 15, 2017 3:07 am

I was thinking of Mr. Cash and his covers when I first looked at this thread.. I also like both versions of Rusty Cage..
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Re: Music Thread- Covers better than the original

Postby owenshooter on Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:23 am

Bentelbow wrote:I was thinking of Mr. Cash and his covers when I first looked at this thread.. I also like both versions of Rusty Cage..


don't be lazy... links/videos... also, the RUSTY CAGE covers slays it, and that is tom petty and the heartbreakers playing backup, by the way... now go post your videos...-Jn
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