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Started by roadman65, October 20, 2012, 10:11:32 PM

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kevinb1994

Quote from: Mark68 on December 04, 2018, 04:24:25 PM
Also, Tool's live version of "No Quarter" kicks serious ass.

It sure does.


kphoger

To cross-post from a similar thread...

Quote from: kphoger on October 11, 2017, 04:14:14 PM
"Cry" by Faith Hill was originally by Angie Aparo (and not a country song).

And now I'll include the YouTubes.





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Mark68

Quote from: abefroman329 on December 04, 2018, 04:25:13 PM
Quote from: Mark68 on December 04, 2018, 04:14:05 PMAnother cover song (that I didn't realize at the time was a cover) that I loved was Nirvana's unplugged cover of Bowie's "Man Who Sold the World".
I didn't either.  I also didn't know that The Wallflowers' cover of Heroes for the Godzilla soundtrack was a David Bowie cover.

That one I did know. They even left out an entire verse of the original.
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Mark68

Here is another really awesome cover, this one of the Cranberries' "Zombie" by Bad Wolves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ

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abefroman329

Quote from: Mark68 on December 04, 2018, 05:01:19 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on December 04, 2018, 04:25:13 PM
Quote from: Mark68 on December 04, 2018, 04:14:05 PMAnother cover song (that I didn't realize at the time was a cover) that I loved was Nirvana's unplugged cover of Bowie's "Man Who Sold the World".
I didn't either.  I also didn't know that The Wallflowers' cover of Heroes for the Godzilla soundtrack was a David Bowie cover.

That one I did know. They even left out an entire verse of the original.
I don't think they left out a verse, I think they just rearranged the order.

jon daly

Quote from: abefroman329 on December 04, 2018, 04:25:13 PM
Quote from: Mark68 on December 04, 2018, 04:14:05 PMAnother cover song (that I didn't realize at the time was a cover) that I loved was Nirvana's unplugged cover of Bowie's "Man Who Sold the World".
I didn't either.  I also didn't know that The Wallflowers' cover of Heroes for the Godzilla soundtrack was a David Bowie cover.

I knew of these as Bowie songs, but I'm older.  Nirvana's was from an episode of MTV's "Unplugged." Someone once explained to me why Nirvana used electric instruments on what was supposed to be an acoustic television show, but I forget the answer.

I didn't know that The Wallflowers did that cover for a soundtrack.

hbelkins

I really dig Dream Theater's full-album remakes of "Master of Puppets" and "The Number of the Beast."

I may have mentioned this before, but I'm generally a huge fan of cover version tribute albums, whether it's one artist doing a bunch of other artists' songs, or an album with a bunch of songs from one artist performed by different artists. Metallica is one of the best in the business at doing that. Tesla has a double-CD tribute set that I'm fond of, Chicago finally did a big-band cover album about 22 years ago, Styx has one as well that I've listened to a few times. That's just to name a handful.


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abefroman329

Quote from: jon daly on December 04, 2018, 08:08:45 PMI didn't know that The Wallflowers did that cover for a soundtrack.
It's a shame the movie was such a bomb, because there are some good songs on the soundtrack.  Air by Ben Folds Five is another one.

kphoger

Here are two covers I recently found that are very different from the originals.  Both are by the same band.

Billie Jean, originally by Michael Jackson

Disarm, originally by the Smashing Pumpkins
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roadman65

I like how Clapton covered his own Layla in the 1990s on Unplugged.

Then how McCartney covered the intro to You Never Give Me Your Money in the bridge to Carry That Weight on Abbey Road was also fascinating.

Also George Martin covered parts of Abbey Road with his own orchestra.
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If anyone really likes covers, there's a YouTube channel called 'Like a Version'.  It's an Australian radio show where bands come in and do one original and one cover and a lot of them are really stinking good.  Obviously they cover a lot of Australian based artists' songs, so I don't know them all, but I highly recommend a couple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7yRjD5yLv4

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

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kphoger

Kevin Ryan had always loved the Beatles.  In high school, he amused himself by attempting to recreate their sound on his dad's four-track recorder, and he eventually went into music production.  Fascinated by the technical aspect of the Beatles' recording career, he searched for a book on the topic but came up empty-handed.  So he set about writing it himself.

What member of the band played what instrument on what tracks?  What microphones were they using?  Who was on the soundboard?  How did they set the mix?  So, to that end, he figured out who the engineers had been and began writing letters and making phone calls, eventually making trips from Houston to London.  After two years of research, he learned that a music producer from Los Angeles had been undertaking the same sort of work, and the two joined forces as co-authors.  Their final product, the 540-page Recording the Beatles, was published in 2006 and is the definitive guide to the Beatles' studio work.

That book may be Kevin Ryan's official claim to fame, but he has another, less reputable but equally admirable claim to fame as well.

Just one year after the book's publication, in 2007, Ryan decided to move on to two of his other favorite artists:  Bob Dylan and Dr Seuss.  He went into his Houston recording studio and produced a mash-up of two artists who go together like green eggs and ham.  Ryan composed the music himself, played all the instruments and sang all the vocals, Photoshopped an album cover, registered an internet domain name, and uploaded the songs.  He didn't really expect it to generate much traffic.

He was wrong.

Contrary to Ryan's expectations, his work went viral.  Hundreds of thousands of (presumably) folk music and/or poetry fans visited his website.  And that attention presented a problem, for Ryan had not bothered to get permission from anyone at Dr Seuss Enterprises before producing what was obviously a copyright- and trademark-infringing work.  Two weeks later, that firm sent him a cease-and-desist order, and Ryan–in no mood for an expensive legal battle against a well-prepared firm–took the songs down.  And that was the end of that.

Except, of course, it wasn't.  This, after all, was the internet.  The phrase 'Facebook is forever' hadn't yet been coined, but the gist of its message was already true.  People everywhere had already downloaded the songs.  And fortunately for us, copyright-dodging uploads of most of them can still be found.

There were seven original songs uploaded by Ryan:
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Green Eggs and Ham
Miss Gertrude McFuzz
McElligot's Pool
Too Many Daves
The Zax
The Cat in the Hat

Of those seven, I've been able to hunt down five for your enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURf3BePHiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhuWipIDhwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHIWNwVKWbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtGAh_0dBrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KToLnK7GSFA
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Takumi

I enjoy Phil Collins as much as the next person, but this is the only song of his where I prefer the cover to the original.
https://youtu.be/uiXc1klH0jw

As one comment puts it, they made an 80s song sound even more 80s than the original.
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NWI_Irish96

Ereasure (Other People's Songs) and Weezer (Teal Album) did entire albums of covers.

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TheHighwayMan3561

I wouldn't say I like it better than the original, but I like Ozzy Osbourne's cover of John Lennon's "Woman" sometimes, as well as his cover of "How?" on the same Osbourne covers album.
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SectorZ

Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 09, 2022, 02:10:13 PM
I wouldn't say I like it better than the original, but I like Ozzy Osbourne's cover of John Lennon's "Woman" sometimes, as well as his cover of "How?" on the same Osbourne covers album.

The highlight on that one to me is the cover of "Fire" by Arthur Brown. He gave that song a lot more oomph then it had.

I'm a fan of both versions of "Woman".

hbelkins

Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on June 09, 2022, 01:29:29 PM
Ereasure (Other People's Songs) and Weezer (Teal Album) did entire albums of covers.

That's become a pretty common thing. Metallica's "Garage, Inc." comes immediately to mind. So, too, does Rush's "Feedback."


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bwana39

I am going to play devil's advocate. ANY song not performed by the writer or at least the demo, is technically a cover.
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Stephane Dumas

Quote from: SectorZ on June 09, 2022, 02:51:38 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on June 09, 2022, 02:10:13 PM
I wouldn't say I like it better than the original, but I like Ozzy Osbourne's cover of John Lennon's "Woman" sometimes, as well as his cover of "How?" on the same Osbourne covers album.

The highlight on that one to me is the cover of "Fire" by Arthur Brown. He gave that song a lot more oomph then it had.

I'm a fan of both versions of "Woman".

Barry Manilow and Paul Anka did some cover albums as well covering the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Songs_of_the_Fifties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Songs_of_the_Seventies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Songs,_My_Way

bugo

Quote from: abefroman329 on December 02, 2018, 06:34:16 AM
The only U2 song I've heard covered was Bullet the Blue Sky by Richard Cheese, unless you count the time someone assembled a bunch of GWB soundbites to form Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Here are a couple:



kurumi

Here's the best Yes cover I've ever heard. All four musicians are pretty well respected in prog circles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azlchsTqc_U

The original has a passage starting about 3 minutes in including Wakeman noodling on the harpsichord; Stanley Snail basically decided "naw, we're gonna skip that part"
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Is it just me, or when there's a popular song in an ad, it's always the worst cover of it?
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Quote from: roadman65 on April 14, 2021, 11:41:04 AM
I like how Clapton covered his own Layla in the 1990s on Unplugged.

Then how McCartney covered the intro to You Never Give Me Your Money in the bridge to Carry That Weight on Abbey Road was also fascinating.

Also George Martin covered parts of Abbey Road with his own orchestra.
Another great cover of a song by the original artist is the live version of Elton John's Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me. In this version, the late George Michael sings the first verse, then hands it off to Elton for the second amid the applause. I remember when the live version got far more airplay than the studio recording, especially on AC stations like WLIT.
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Quote from: LilianaUwU on May 04, 2023, 01:44:45 AM
Is it just me, or when there's a popular song in an ad, it's always the worst cover of it?

Even worse is when it's the original artist.
https://youtu.be/LW91niMh-so

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Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
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