Ulythium
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 25, 2021 8:45:26 GMT
What are your favourite cover versions, fellow FGers?
Here are a few of mine:
Tool - No Quarter (original by Led Zeppelin)
Mastodon - Stairway to Heaven (original by... c'mon, you all know this one)
Melvins - Youth of America (original by Wipers)
Pinkish Black - New Dawn Fades (original by Joy Division)
Hot Snakes - Time to Escape (original by Government Issue)
Sleep - Snowblind (original by Black Sabbath)
Genghis Tron - Bad Penny (original by Big Black)
My Vitriol - Wait a Minute (original by Wipers)
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 25, 2021 9:20:39 GMT
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Post by H-alphaFox on Oct 25, 2021 10:04:11 GMT
I think we're done here.
But just in case Johnny Cash doing NiN Hurt has to be one of the best ones. Pretty much all of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are better than the originals.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2021 10:24:36 GMT
Sinead O'Connor will be along in a while, here's The Meteors in the meantime
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Post by brainbird on Oct 25, 2021 10:26:00 GMT
We are totally not done yet. I love me some covers.
Fudge Tunnel - Sunshine of your Love (original by Cream)
Type O Negative - Summer Breeze (original by Seals and Crofts)
Vanilla Fudge - You just keep me hanging on (original by The Supremes)
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Post by stixxuk on Oct 25, 2021 10:57:55 GMT
That Melvins cover of Youth of America *chef's kiss*
A couple more for the metal fans
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Post by elstoof on Oct 25, 2021 11:57:50 GMT
For my money I don’t think it gets any better than this
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Post by robthehermit on Oct 25, 2021 12:02:48 GMT
This is the greatest cover version ever recorded.
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Post by jellyhead on Oct 25, 2021 12:33:28 GMT
Smells a bit of Patchouli, nasal hair, cabbage and long lost crusty youth in here so let's change the tempo a bit.
I'll have more when i remember them but i was listening to PMJ for the first time in a few months so these sprang to mind. That Maps cover by Morgan James is a classic in my book.
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Post by jellyhead on Oct 25, 2021 12:36:19 GMT
If "parody" covers count then this is another great parody cover.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2021 12:46:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2021 13:44:15 GMT
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Post by crispyxuk on Oct 25, 2021 14:22:43 GMT
Video PreviewFiona Apple - Across The Universe
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Post by suicida on Oct 25, 2021 14:25:35 GMT
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Post by clemfandango on Oct 25, 2021 14:28:48 GMT
Vanilla Fudge - 'You keep me hanging on' is always the answer to this question
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Post by clemfandango on Oct 25, 2021 14:30:38 GMT
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These two are great too
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Post by suicida on Oct 25, 2021 14:31:55 GMT
Forgot this one, Big Black "The Model"
Prong doing "3rd From The Sun" (original by Chrome) is epic but the original is by a pretty obscure band so not really recognisable as a cover version
Also Soft Cell's version of "Tainted Love" is one of the best, IMO
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Post by Matt A on Oct 25, 2021 14:36:35 GMT
I really like this version of London Grammer Hey Now
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Post by 😎 on Oct 25, 2021 14:47:19 GMT
There was recently (in the past year or so) a folksy acoustic cover by some kid of some shitty 2010 pop song. I thought it was Call Me Maybe but doesn’t appear so (the cover above is from 2012), and now my brain hurts trying to think of what it was
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Post by hedben on Oct 25, 2021 14:47:52 GMT
Covers are such a sensitive subject because you're bound to piss off someone who absolutely adores the original and thinks any other version is a garbage imitation.
Anyway, here's a cover I actively avoided for decades, for that exact reason, and then finally heard a few weeks ago and I thought it was ok:
The main thing they got right was leaving the guitar solo pretty much unchanged
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Post by hedben on Oct 25, 2021 14:48:44 GMT
Comfortably Numb by the Scissor Sisters can fuck off though
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Post by 😎 on Oct 25, 2021 14:50:09 GMT
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Post by hedben on Oct 25, 2021 14:54:14 GMT
Sorry, not sorry
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Post by simple on Oct 25, 2021 14:55:08 GMT
On the subject of Pink Floyd
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Post by Matt A on Oct 25, 2021 14:56:54 GMT
haha man that's awful, the version of Faith. I really hated the Rohnan Keating version of Baby Can I Hold You Tonight because I think the Tracey Chapman version is a perfect song.
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Post by simple on Oct 25, 2021 14:58:22 GMT
haha man that's awful, the version of Faith. I really hated the Rohnan Keating version of Baby Can I Hold You Tonight because I think the Tracey Chapman version is a perfect song. At least that sort of makes sense for his audience. How many tweenage girls in 95 were into The Wall? |
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Post by Matt A on Oct 25, 2021 15:00:06 GMT
That's true
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2021 15:05:40 GMT
The Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Michael Jackson - Ain't No Sunshine
Madonna - I Want You
The Roots & John Legend - Hard Times
deftones - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
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Post by Matt A on Oct 25, 2021 15:06:47 GMT
Killing me softly is a good shout
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Post by simple on Oct 25, 2021 15:07:29 GMT
Serious answer in terms of improving on the original
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