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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #125 on: December 04, 2018, 04:40:28 PM »

Also, Tool's live version of "No Quarter" kicks serious ass.

It sure does.
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #126 on: December 04, 2018, 04:47:24 PM »

To cross-post from a similar thread...

"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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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #127 on: December 04, 2018, 05:01:19 PM »

Another 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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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #128 on: December 04, 2018, 05:06:01 PM »

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


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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #129 on: December 04, 2018, 06:43:16 PM »

Another 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.
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #130 on: December 04, 2018, 08:08:45 PM »

Another 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.
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #131 on: December 05, 2018, 12:00:15 PM »

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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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #132 on: December 05, 2018, 12:37:44 PM »

I 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.
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #133 on: April 14, 2021, 11:23:54 AM »

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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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #134 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.
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #135 on: April 14, 2021, 11:57:54 AM »

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.



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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #136 on: June 09, 2022, 12:50:45 PM »

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:
 
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #137 on: June 09, 2022, 01:06:57 PM »

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.

As one comment puts it, they made an 80s song sound even more 80s than the original.
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« Reply #138 on: June 09, 2022, 01:29:29 PM »

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

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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #139 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.
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« Reply #140 on: June 09, 2022, 02:51:38 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".
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #141 on: June 09, 2022, 09:07:40 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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« Reply #142 on: June 13, 2022, 01:32:41 PM »

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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« Reply #143 on: June 14, 2022, 08:39:09 PM »

Hey you could look at the reimagined hits of PopSugar.
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« Reply #144 on: June 14, 2022, 09:59:12 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
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #145 on: May 03, 2023, 05:13:50 PM »

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:

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« Reply #146 on: May 03, 2023, 06:43:11 PM »

Here's the best Yes cover I've ever heard. All four musicians are pretty well respected in prog circles.

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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« Reply #147 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?
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Re: Cover Songs in Music
« Reply #148 on: May 04, 2023, 10:30:47 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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« Reply #149 on: May 04, 2023, 11:54:30 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.

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