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Cool Covers !!

Posted by harleyblues • 9/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: artists, covers, guitars, music, musicians, songs

~ Is there a cool cover of a song or riff that you dig being performed by another artist? post em here with explanation :)I'll start off
ta
hb~
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2350060998191631571

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9/21/08

drjay1966

Eight Miles High--Husker Du transforming the Byrds' mellow psychedelia into a terrifying freak-out

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1. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  where is the link for a listen?
  hb
2. 9/21/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  Dunno--I'm old school, have it on CD.
3. 9/21/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  Though there's live youtube version, except it isn't nearly as good as the studio one.
4. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  I'll look for it Dr Jay
  hb
9/21/08

annaswan

I'm on dial up - so I can't even listen myself... but I love the cover version of the Eurhythmic’s "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These" that Marilyn Manson did To me it's 10 times more haunting than the original... which was just sort of psychologically scary. LOL

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1. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  Hiya Anna
  
  you know I have never heard one song from M. Manson I might have night mares:)
  hb~
2. 9/21/08
  
  annaswan
  
  I wouldn't suggest making that one the first you ever listen to then! LOL His voice is so ... so... well, he just sounds like what I'd expect a dead person to sound like. Hollow, cold, unemotional, unattached.
  
  But... at the same time, I love it! There's a word for this...
3. 9/21/08
  
  Friday13
  
  Ah, I've heard that cover. It perfectly suited the movie it was used on.
4. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  lol Anna I'll keep that in mind
  hb~
5. 9/22/08
  
  legbamel
  
  I think it was him that did a really, really bad cover of Personal Jesus, too. I find him too screamo and to be trying too hard to shock to be a good musician.
9/21/08

Jeunelle

Grace Jones...Slave to the Rythum
www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1056830

Grace Jones....Nightclubbing
www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1056812

Grace Jones...Island Life
www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1056822

Accept....Balls to the wall album....no explanation necessary.
www.cduniverse.com/images.asp?pid=2039538&cart=776037547&style=music&image=...

Wendy O Williams....The Metal Priestess
www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=2981550

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1. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  OK, Juenelle
  
  I got it you like Grace Jones but who is she covering, just asking?:)
  hb~
2. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  attempting to listen now but.....
9/21/08

acousticguitarist

Yeah

Tim OBrien doing Dylans Senor

Psychograss with Tim Obrien on one track doing Whiter Shade of Pale

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1. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  Guitar dude
  well I thought of you when I posted this lil ditty :):)
  hb~
2. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  now I'll have to listen to that!
  hb~
3. 9/21/08
  
  polybore
  
  acoustic You might like this Dylan cover by KT Tunsall uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bQa-AFoXEdY&feature=related
4. 9/21/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  thanks pol, i like the electric guitar sound in that song
9/21/08

Jeunelle

Grace Covered the song "Slave to the Rhythm"
Accept covered the song "Ball to the Wall"
Wendy covered the song "It's my Life"

Yeah I like Grace...she had some really cool album covers back in da day.

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9/21/08

drjay1966

John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" is a true classic (in fact, any other jazz musician covering it is covering Coltrane's version of the Rogers and Hammerstein original--something that can also be said of "All Along the Watchtower"--even Dylan himself says he plays Hendrix's version in concert).

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9/21/08

annaswan

By Far - far - far the most outrageous cover I've ever heard in my life was of Snoop Dog's "Gin and Juice" - and for the life of me I don't know for sure who does it, some people have said Phish, some say Gossip Rag. But it's country! Has a mandolin and the whole bit - and it's sang in this real back woods country voice. Hillarious!!!

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1. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  Anna
  
  you can't be serious Gin & Juice is a cover? I thought Snoop Dogg & Doc Dre wrote & produced it?.,.,. that song rawks~ that's some urban culture there
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=czyfws7OLCs
  hb~
2. 9/21/08
  
  annaswan
  
  I'm totally serious - someone redone it - COUNTRY... I laughed so hard I hurt myself!!!! My copy came from a friend who burned a Mix CD and it said it was Phish... but I read on a forum that it's a group called Gossip Rag... so I have no clue who it actually is.
3. 9/21/08
  
  Friday13
  
  Perhaps it's the one by The Gourds?
  (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_and_Juice#Covers.2FAlternate_Versions )
4. 9/21/08
  
  annaswan
  
  I bet so Friday!! It say's that version is bluegrass - and it certainly is - has a mandolin and the whole bit. I can't believe Snoop didn't FREAK over it... I would have. LOL
9/21/08

drjay1966

Then, I once made a mix for somebody of mostly covers of the Gershwin's Bros. "Summertime." My favorites are Big Brother and the Holding Company's (feat. Janis Joplin) and Miles Davis with Gil Evans' versions, though there are lots of other good ones.

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1. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  Man Dr Jay I second that Summertime by Big Bro and the holding Co version is brill!
  HB~
2. 9/22/08
  
  legbamel
  
  What aboout Billy Stewart's cover? I love that song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDLDl0_pt_k
9/21/08

kat822

These days cov ered by griffin house

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9/21/08

polybore

"Tangled up in Blue" Bob Dylan covered by KT Tunstall. One for acousticguitarist maybe?
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bQa-AFoXEdY&feature=related

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1. 9/21/08
  
  annaswan
  
  Oooh dang this dial-up I want to hear that so bad
2. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  trying to listen now Polybore for me I like Dylons way better by a lonnng shot!
  
  hey Anna ever thought of upgrading?
3. 9/21/08
  
  annaswan
  
  I got all the stuff - all I'm waiting on is someone to come move this dang mountain out of the way so satellite can get a clear view of the Southern sky. LOL They keep taunting me with DSL - but the nearest hook up thingie is still 18 miles away. So I clug along at the spankin' fast speed of... 21.6 Kbps.
  
  If I don't visit a person's blog - it ain't cuz I didn't want to - I couldn't get there! LOL
9/21/08

katarokkar

Hot Chip - Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)
Jonah Matranga - Birthday (The Sugarcubes)
dredg - Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
Bjork - You Only Live Twice (Nancy Sinatra)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (NIN)
Deftones - Drive (The Cars)
Division Day - Every Shining Time You Arrive (Sunny Day Real Estate)
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Into The Mystic (Van Morrison)
Cat Power - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Bob Dylan)
Rage Against The Machine - Microphone Fiend (Eric B. & Rakim)

many more...

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1. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  I'm going to hafta listen to some of your list!
  hb~
2. 9/21/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  Cat Power--one of the best singers out there--her recent Jukebox album is all amazing covers...though a couple are covers of herself.....
9/21/08

harleyblues

for any guitar lover Laurence Juber covering anything Beatles

for those that donot know Laurence played with Wings

check out "while my guitar gentely weeps"

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xCSQn_Xbp-g

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9/21/08

harleyblues

Maybe I'm amazed by Laurence Juber

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YfbcpvTtBrs&feature=related

I hope the Accoustic Guitarist listens to the Juber covers

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1. 9/21/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  I have only one Juber album, it's not covers. One of the Bloggers that is a member of BC had Juber playing on his album that was recorded with the legendary (to me and people I grew up with in Autralia) John Batdorf from Batdorf and Rodney. Juber is the former McCartney guitarist who played with wings.
  
  When it comes to covers, you'll keep me busy for hours calling them up.
  
  Í still stand by Tim Obrien as a master of covers, based on the the two songs I mentioned
  
  You might like Angelique Kidjo doing Voodoo Child
2. 9/21/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  well I'll search them out AG, of course I know who Laurence is!
  
  dang I had another guitarist for yeah, but I'm not recalling his name at the moment dangit!! I have his cd will look it up
  hb~
3. 9/23/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  This is Grossman and Renbourn doing the song Round Midnight, you may be familiar with Wes Montgomery's version
  
  acousticguitarist.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/john-renbourn-and-stefan-grossma...
9/22/08

inmyredhead

Chrissie Hynde (from Pretenders) does a beautiful cover of Angel of the Morning originally by Juice Newton. If yer interested in listening you'll find it on my music player on my site. ( inmyredhead.blogspot.com/ on player #2)

I'm also a big fan of Cyndi Lauper and she did a beautiful version of Unchained Melody.( on my original player )

To turn it around a bit, how about a cover that is known as an 'original' but isn't, and the actual original is better? For anyone who's on the younger side and might only know the Celine Dione version of 'I drove all night', I love to point out that Cyndi Lauper did it first and waay more beautifully.. imho. She really does have an actual (non squeeky) voice when she wants to. (oringal player)

And who can forget Twisted Sisters version of 'Leader of the Pack' also done by the Shangri-las of the 50's era. Twisted Sister did their version from HIS point of view as a twist. (sorry, not on my players)

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1. 9/22/08
  
  harleyblues
  
  Chrissie Hynde also does a brillant CREEP!
9/22/08

legbamel

I've posted on a few of these so far on my blog. I'm a huge fan of versions (although I suppose I should use the term covers on my blog) and will likely have dozens more. Here are the five I've done so far: not-pop-jukebox.blogspot.com/search/label/versions .

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9/23/08

LGramlich

I like the Metallica cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page"; www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOibtqWo6z4

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1. 9 days ago
  
  ophase
  
  Agreed!
  also "whiskey in the jar"
9/23/08

PetLvr

Botch - Rock Lobster
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2350060998191631571

Aimee Mann - One Is The Loneliest Number
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O1Y8RhhAYc

Type O Negative - Light My Fire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjncGxnp-Yc

There's too many obvious and not so obvious...

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9/23/08

legbamel

There are bands that devote their whole career to covering songs in a certain style. Check out The Puppini Sisters, who've done Heart of Glass, I Will Survive, Walk Like an Egyptian, and others. Then there are Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, who take on just about anything and tranform it into their own sound. Then there's the lounge guy Richard something, whose name escapes me at the moment.

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9 days ago

sisterofmercy

Emmy the Great's cover of The Pixies' 'Where is My Mind' is brilliant, she really makes it her own. I also really love Lightspeed Champion's cover of Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black.'

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