Good Cover Versions

[acidbearboy]

Do we have a good cover versions thread? I could only find the bad one with a search.

Anyway, I needed an excuse to post this awesome version of "Cry me A River" by Candy Sylver from 1977. Smooth electronic lounge disco.

[Yasawas]

One of my favourite Pixies tracks done justice by a band I'm totally indifferent toward.

[spork]

[emjay2kay]

It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) by Ingrid Olava. I absolutely adore it.

Unfortunately, it's not the full song and gets interupted at times, but it's the only copy of the song I could find on Youtube.

[Poppalarge]

[88h88]

I'm sorry but I love the cut back tune and bassline on this...

And this:

And this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRruNsou1Y8

Basically I like the tweaks on all these. I expect these to get massively panned though as they're really not to everyone's taste.

[esar]

Seu Jorge does David Bowie:

George Benson does Donny Hathaway:

and Masters At Work remix it:

[NecroMorrius]

yeeeeeeeah

[boxoctosis]

Doesn't get much better than this. Sonic Youth covering The Fall.

[KRP]

I love the ramshackle feel and the male/female voices.

Normally Bjork covers bring me out in a rash but this one really resonates with me.

[Vaya.]

[Goldaline]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gKFbXb6Nr4

When Carina Round plays her song Let it Fall live, she often segues into covers of (parts of) Can't Let Go (Lucinda Williams), I've Been Tired (Pixies) & I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges). (Skip to 4m46s for covers.) It gives me goosebumps every time.

[bingowings]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcKfsfEurY8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIbsS8rEdFI

[Hello Goaty ♥]

Tell somebody what youre about to do, and play this LOUD

[hub2]

There should probably be another thread for bizarre cover versions but how about this...

Roots Manuva - Yellow Submarine

[FishyFish]

This will probably be treated as sacriledge, but I do like this: Soft Cell - Hendix Medley...

[mr_woo]

My favourite cover is Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Admittedly it's made a lot more poignant since he (and his wife) died relatively soon after but still a cracking version, one I prefer a lot more over the original.

[Goldaline]

My favourite is the stunning cover of Pet Shop Boys' 'It's a Sin' by Frankmusik, better then the original and really needs more exposure.

The only version of it I can find is online is not the (better) official recording but an MTV session: http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/frankmusik/video/its-a-sin-mtv-session

I am genuinely shocked that anyone could think that the cover is better than the original.

Considering the subject matter, i just can't imagine a heterosexual artist being able to imbue that song with the same kind of power. Despite the upbeat sound of the music, it manages to transcend its over-the-top 80s stylings & sound truly poignant thanks to the lyrics & the underlying desperation just about detectable in the vocals.

The Pet Shop Boys version is such a powerful anthem of shared isolation & alienation. The Frankmusik rendition is just a song.

Plus the original is waaaaay better to dance to

[RareBirds]

Can we put jazz things in here or is that breaking the rules? I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to Brad Mehldau - I prefer the version on his live in Tokyo CD but this is shorter (as it fades out in the middle):

[Mr Do 71]

Au Revoir Simone - Oh! You Pretty Things

This is fantastic from Mira Calix

[El Spatula]

Afghan Whigs covering TLCs Creep. Oldie but goodie.

[Plums]

I won't embed it, but I always thought that Death Cab for Cutie's version of All is Full of Love was way better than Bjork's original.

[zxcvbnm]

There should probably be another thread for bizarre cover versions but how about this...

Roots Manuva - Yellow Submarine

Do a search for Mellow Dubmarine on google - one of the best Beatle cover albums I've ever heard.

[Camel]

On the subject of Beatles covers:

And an old favourite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTDXhR857Q

[cerseis eyebrows]

This is the first thing i think of in these chats

Almost as great as the original.

[DeadRussian]

Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner

A traditional song that they completely made their own. One of my favourite tracks of all time.

And I go to some barroom

to drink with my friends

where the women they can't follow

to see what I spend

Woods - Military Madness

Doesn't stray from the original a great deal, but it's a bit more playful and a sexy little homage to the original.

I can't find them online, but A Sunny Day In Glasgow did an awesome cover of 'Game of Pricks' by Guided By Voices and Belle & Sebastian did a surprisingly good cover of 'Final Day' by Young Marble Giants.

Not really a cover, as Morrissey wrote this for Sandie Shaw, but technically Morrissey performed it before she did, so...

Sandie Shaw - Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness

The whole Crass cover album by Jeffrey Lewis is pretty awesome, as you can finally make out what the fuck Crass were singing about. Lovely anarcho-communism!

Jeffrey Lewis - Banned From The Roxy

A post of this length is asking for trouble. I'll stop here.

[DeadRussian]

Alright, one more.

I'm no Manics fan. I have never warn a feather boa or covered glitter on my eyelids, however, they've done a corker of a cover of this...

McCarthy - We Are All Bourgeois Now

McCarthy are one of those vintage indiepop bands from the 1980's (featuring Tim Gane from Stereolab) and there one of the only ones I still listen to. Amazing left-wing agit-pop.

[larrydavidsanger]

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

[ScouserInExile]

Has to be the best cover version of all time, surely?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhtafqZvy8

[cerseis eyebrows]

Has to be the best cover version of all time, surely?

Yeah probably. His version of Hey Joe ain't too shabby either.