Best Cover Version ever

Thin Lizzy's cover of the Bob Segar song


Rosalie



SJB

quote:

Originally posted by rupert bear:
Robert Wyatt - 'I'm A Believer'

Absolutely - he made Neil Diamond palatable to the sensitive man and woman too (a John Peel quote).

Close call between these two:

Tom Jones singing "Kiss" by Prince.

Richard Thompson doing "Oops I did it again" by Britney Spears.

Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold".

Christy Baron "Stepping" is a cd of rock covers done in a jazz style by a great female vocalist. One of my favorites.

Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies

All Tomorrow's Parties - June Tabor and the Oysterband.

Both Nouvelle Vague's album, excellent collaborations by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux.

Nouvelle Vague Vol.1 & Bande A Part

Yeah the Nouvelle Vague records are good. Nice cover of Killing Moon.

Ryan

Catch them live if you can. I saw them few weeks ago in Bloomsbury Ballroom, London and my jaw dropped to the floor of how bloody good they sounded live.

It makes listening to them on CD rather pants after that. I put it down to recording lossness of details.

Slightly off topic; not the best, but some great covers. Sorry, tried to keep it down, but I couldn't help myself.

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes - Beck
Down By The Seaside - Tori Amos ( does it still count if Percys actually on it?)
I Misunderstood - Dinosaur Jr.
Rainy Day Woman 12 & 35 - Black Crowes
Fade To Black - Evan Dando ( Lemonheads ? )
Summer In The City - Butthole Surfers
The Omen (Ave Satani) - Fantomas
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Goops
..Baby One More Time - Dweezil Zappa
Nobody Told Me - The Flaming Lips
Jump (V.H.) - Kid Carpet
Straight Out Of Compton - Nina Gordon
Where Is My Mind - Placebo
Straight To Hell - Josh Rouse
Up Around The Bend - Hanoi Rocks
Danny Says - Foo Fighters

For the comedy...

I Will Survive - Tony Clifton ( Andy Kaufman )
Star Wars; The Throne Room - Thom / Lionsclub TV (Williams goes ska/reggae )
Hong Kong Phooey - Sublime
Sink The Bismark - The Blues Brothers

And for all the Carpenters fans..

Goodbye To Love - American Music Club
Superstar - Sonic Youth
Yesterday Once More - Redd Cross
We've Only Just Begun - Grant Lee Buffalo

As an aside Frizzlefry, would your user name be related to a Primus record??

Ryan

Yep

That's why I didn't mention...

Making Plans For Nigel
Have A cigar
Hello Skinny/Constantinople
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Jack Irons

God i'd forgotten they covered that. I have had to look out some of my old primus stuff. i don't care for their new stuff so much. was really put off by pork soda, but their earlier stuff was magnificant. Claypool was a virtuoso bass player if ever there was one.

Ryan

A clear winner for me (although not readily available) is Built To Spills cover of the Neil Young classic "Cortez The Killer" on their live album. This is 18 minutes long.
If anyone is interested I have a spare copy of the album in a card sleeve. It went missing in my recent house move so I ordered another copy.
My second favourite is Sorrow by Bowie and then Song To the Siren by This Mortal Coil.
Gerry

A Perfect Circles cover of Imagine is really good, and i hate the original.

Ryan

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Originally posted by ryan_d:
I've just got ist 3 of the American Recordings of Johnny Cash's last lps. He covers:

Soundgarden- Rusty Cage

Ryan

Now this I have to hear.
My own fave covers, better than the originals, include the BBC's fab-cheesy version of Lou Reed's Perfect Day, and also White Lion's cover of Golden Earring's Radar Love - ooh, go on let's stick another drum solo in

Trust me the Cash covers are sublime.

Ryan

Like lots of these.

One other comes to mind. I used to have this on 12inch vinyl but not heard it for years.

Bahaus: Ziggy Stardust

Regards T.C

Generally I don´t like covers as the hardly come close to the original. E.g. Lucy Silvas Version of "Nothing else matters" is a nightmare.

Pretty good is Paul Anka´s "Rock Swings" with "Wonderwall" or "Smells like Teen Spirit".

My alltime favourite: Weird Al Yankovic "Which Backstreet Boy is Gay?".

Aint nothin but a butt-ache
Aint nothin but a fruitcake
I never wanna hear you say:
"Which Backstreet Boy is gay?"

All tracks from Jennifer Warnes' Famous Blue Raincoat are an improvement on the Leonard Cohen originals.

Come to think of it - any cover of a Leonard Cohen song is an improvement !

I sometimes think that the value of a cover version is that it allows you to evaluate a song from an artist that you may otherwise dislike.

As an example the Manic Street Preachers featured Last Christmas by Wham in their encore a few years back. With my rock snob hat on I would happily diss anything by George Michael. And yet, James Dean Bradfield on acoustic guitar made a haunting sound.

The "maybe Wham weren't terrible after all" thread starts here.....

regards
Richard S

Say about him what you will, but George Michael has always been a sensational songwriter. Wham songs also featured some remarkable basslines, most ably rendered by Sir Deon of Estus

"Thrill is gone" Stan Webb from the album Stan the Man Live. An absolute must for any blues fan and probably one of the best live blues albums in years.