Following our successful flaming of the boy Ronson yesterday and other questionable efforts from the Manics and Cocker/Ditto it's time to find a few diamonds in the dust, artists taking songs and truly making them their own
A couple spring to mind, Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley and Hurt by Johnny Cash, both absolutely gut-wrenching in their brilliance
And for pure lolz I give you Nouvelle Vague's version of Too Drunk To Fuck
as said in erasure thread
PSB you were always on my mind is better than any other version i've heard (including pie-scoffing wankstain presleys')
*Presley's
And that's *MR* pie-scoffing, wankstain Presley, to you...
i apologise
for my increasingly poor grammar and spelling
I concur.
London girl, Willis
reinvents Cameo's slightly hyperactive disco-funk classic, Word Up, as a slinky, jazz-blues come-on. Superb.
apparently Willis' drummer is my doppelganger
i've never seen a picture to work out if this is true
Mark Ronson > Radiohead
*joke*
mark ronson feat amy winehouse>>>>>>>the zutons
taking a shit >mark ronson > zutons
To be fair though
taking a shit > most things
Arab Strap
doing You Shook Me All Night Long is another one for the pure lolz category.
Hard rain's gonna fall
Brian ferry.
Controversial!
agree with there mate
Dolly
Parton's bluegrass version of Stairway To Heaven knocks Zep's into a cock-rocked hat...
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/losninosdelparque/aguidetodis.jpg
NO
Talking Heads version of Take Me To The River
is amazing. So is Al Green's original though.
The Animals version of Rising Sun
Is cool. Even though they stole the revamped chord progression.
Hot Water Music's Bleeder is much better than the Alk3 version.
Obviously, All Along the Watchtower.
Other songs.
All Along The Watch Tower
Jimi hendrix version rules. Glad some ones mentioned it already.
I have a recording
of Dylan playing it live the way Jimi played it.
Which I prefer to the Hendrix version.
Am I ill?
Dylan
always plays it like this now. He likes Jimi's version better than his own.
Don't particularly agree about Bleeder
but don't you think that Alk3's cover of Rooftops is better than the HWM version? It's faster and generally sounds more rocking.
Beautiful by Clem Snide.
I say the same in every thread about cover versions ever
BUT Oneida's Every Day Is A Child With Teeth kicks the crap out of Liars' tardy original.
How about
Atlas Sound version of Liars Pure Unevil? I think Atlas Sound's version does it for me.
Link me up if you can!
I've not heard of Atlas Sound.
But Pure Unevil was one of the few songs I really enjoyed from that last Liars album.
found it for you
http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com/2007/08/atlas-sound-pure-unevil-liars-cover.html
I hope the mp3 is still up it is from a while ago now
yeah
the mp3 is still up I just checked. I havent herd the Liars version very much. But the Atlas Sound version has something about it I just love.
YOU ARE GOOD PEOPLE
no problem
not better than
but still a damn fine stab at it to
David Ford- there is a light that never goes out
Thunder Road
by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Tortoise.
Goosebumps.
^
I must hear this.
its good
but the end gets right on my tits. I love the way the end of the original is just "There is a light that never goes out" said all at once over and over in a very understated manner. It has a particularly soothing lilt to it.
Every bleedin' cover (and indeed Moz himself recently) seems to need to change it to:
"There is a light (pause) never goes out" or someother variation. Breaks the rhythm of it right up.
Make Out FallOut Make Up
Love Is All / of Montreal
Mr Tambourine Man
The Byrds > Bob Dylan.
eels
get your freak on.........."whos that butch!!!...people you know!!!"
Schneider TM > The Smiths
Thus-
The Light 3000 > There is a light that never goes out.
Venetian Snares 'Abomination Street'
Waaaay better than the Coronation theme tune.
Heartbeats
I prefer the Jose Gonzalez version over the version by the Knife
^ wrong
nope
Noooo! It's good, but listen to the synths!
I can see why people like the cover more
Purely because they are two completely different song. Only they're not.
the Knife vocals grate
after a while and I prefer the fingerpicking and bass notes of the Gonzalez version.
Bob Dylan loses
Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower is clearly an improvement on the original, and also PJ Harvey's Highway 61 Revisited is better (though that's less clear-cut).
unrelated to Bob Dylan
I prefer the Breeders' version of Happiness is a Warm Gun, though that could just be because it's the version I heard first.
TaTu > The Smiths
yeah?
I'm not agreeing to THAT
But I prefer Hundred Reasons' cover of How Soon Is Now? to The Smiths version.
Ben Folds' cover of Get Your Hands Off Of My Woman
Shits all over The Darkness.
Oh and also his cover of Bitches Ain't Shit.
China Drum - Wuthering Heights
The Wedding Present - Make Me Smile (Come UP & See Me)
The Wedding Present - Theme From Shaft
ooh, forgot this
Leatherface - Message In A Bottle
Solex covering Shady Lane
Is BRILLIANT!
..yep!
no way in hell is china drum>kate bush
will seek out that shaft cover tho
Brakes
Jackson
hmmm
Wedding Present - Theme From Cheers
Mark Kozalek - Rock n Roll Singer
Boysetsfire - Rocket Man
Silversun Pickups - Big Time Sensuality
Helmet - Army Of Me (keeping a theme there!)
Elliott Smith - Waterloo Sunset
I also have a small fondness for the Manic's version of Stay With Me (the version with bernard butler playing on it, their version of The Drowners on the same record was atrocious!)
Yes!
Finally turns out that I'm not the only person alive who thinks Elliott Smith's version is better than the original.
Other favourites include:
Johnny Cash - If You Could Read My Mind
Hurt
One
Solitary Man
Morrissey - No One Can Hold A Candle To You
Elvis Costello - Brilliant Disguise
^^ This ^^
That is all.
it's on Hit Parade 2
don't forget
The Wedding Present - Step Into Christmas
and...
The Wedding Present - Pleasant Valley Sunday
Firestarter
Jimmy Eat World.
GREAT cover.
ruddy hell!
its soft cell: tainted love - a perfect car boot sale of a pop song.
desert city soundtrack
covering the appleseed cast.
pure genius.
cat power
I found a reason.
Amazing.
(though what happened to her??? Gone rubbish)
muse
feeling good
you are taking the piss surely
Vitalic - Who is it
the vitalic version of Bjork's track is truly fantastic!
I'm gona have to find that
Vitalic is ace.
the video is on youtube too, worth a look
sorry no link...
this is wicked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsaiv4BZvWw found it. I love the sounds Vitalic uses.
this surely is THE best one?
yeah?
It is
damn sweet. but is it more of a remix than a cover version? who cares its ace hehe ;)
so so true
incredible track. And that's from someone who doesn't reeeeallllly like much dance music.
MBV > Wire
The Valentines' version of Map Ref 41N 93W is fucking incredible. Layers and layers of shimmering aceness.
And I love Wire. So it must be true.
Oh, and...
The Breeders' version of Happiness is a Warm Gun is just better than the Beatles.
Wrong to the point of inanity.
Inanely wrong
A new one on me. Care to illuminate?
Not true
It just takes out all the excitement of the original. Ones I like that are at least as good as the original 'Mr Grieves' - TV on the radio, 'Winterlong' - Pixies, 'One more time' - Fiery Furnaces.
Worst cover ever: 'Teardrop' - Newton Faulkener, total shite.
Futureheads - Hounds of Love
this
plus nothing compares 2 u by sinead o'connor
I'm In Love With A German Filmstar
Kish Mauve > The Passions
...
Guano Apes - Big in Japan
The Divine Comedy - Party Fears Two
Manics - Suicide is Painless, Umbrella, Take the Skinheads Bowling, Velocity Girl, Out of Time
Feeder - Can't Stand Losing You
Plus any Smiths cover is usually better because most singers who attempt them are better than Morrissey!
i cannot even find the energy to comment on this
Low's cover of 'last night i dreamt..'
is better than the original, for sure
Redd Kross
doing "Yesterday Once More" by the Carpenters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zogq9L1EknY
I prefer
Cobain's Man Who Fell to Earth.
NIN's Dead Souls.
Faith No More's Easy.
Sublime's Rivers of Babylon (Although live).
Revolting Cocks' Do Ya Think I'm Sexy.
contraversial but
alec eiffel by the get up kids > alec eiffel by the pixies
The Four Tops
Cover version of Left Banke's "Walk Away Renee"
Forgot to mention
Little Richard's cover of "Hound Dog" much better than old Elvish.
Two pop covers
Hazy Shady of Winter, covered by the Bangles and originally by Simon and Garfunkel. I like both versions but prefer the Bangles one.
Could it be Magic - perfect pop version by Take That. Was it Barry Manilow originally?
Yep
Why I know that, I know not
All Saints
Under The Bridge!
The Mercy Seat
Cash>Cave
* strokes chin *
oh god I can't put a fagpaper between those
Xiu Xiu
Their version of "Under Pressure" totally rules. I hate the original.
As much as I love GbV
the Breeders' hi-octane interpretation of "Shocker and Gloomtown" whizzes on the original from a great height.
Biffy Clyro
Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand Cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLvUsSLWTRc
ahhhh. I remember when biffy were good...