What's your favourite al*** of cover versions?

Fair point Lloydy, I just prefer the zest of These foolish things.

Chris

Cat Power - Jukebox

Deadicated - grate covers by Los Lobos, Suzanne Vega, Warren Zevon et al.

Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation 'Dreamland'
I forgot about this album of covers, plus a couple of original tracks, my favourite post Zeppelin album by Plant.

"Tim Rose (Morning Dew), Tim Buckley (Song to the Siren), Moby Grape's Skip Spence (Skip's Song), and the Youngbloods' Jesse Colin Young (Darkness, Darkness), Bob Dylan (Desire's One More Cup of Coffee) and – on a spooky, jagged cover of Hey Joe – to both Hendrix and Love's Arthur Lee." (Amazon)

Only the Dylan cover disappoints, but the rest is outstanding. None of the stadium rock of his 80's bands, but much more back to the sound of Led Zeppelin III adn IV. The band taken from members of Portishead, Jah Wobble, and Cast.

Worth adding to your Christmas lists if you don't already have it.

Just confirm with Stu that the album was...



...and he has now bought it

Another vote for Kate Walsh, but it may be the only album of covers that I have, so it is an easy choice.

Some great covers of fellow Canadian artists on this one from KD Lang,


And likewise some great versions of Elton tunes on this compilation - I love the almost reggae version of 'Rocket Man' by Kate Bush! And an excellent cover of 'Saturday Nights alright for Fighting' from The Who.

How can y'all forget the Detroit Cobras

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Originally posted by lutyens:
I am very fond of this.



james

+1.

If you enjoyed "One Cool Remove", there is a whole CD of female singers doing Greg Brown covers called: "Going Driftless - Tribute To Greg Brown" (Red House Records 145). Colvin sings "Say a Little Prayer".

FYI, royalties from the sale of this album go to a breast cancer awareness fund. What an easy way to help out a good cause!

Hook

quote:

Originally posted by DenisA:
A favourite of mine is...



Fire In The Hole - Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist Sing Steely Dan

An interview & some videos are here

The original forum recommendation from Gunnar Jansson in 2006 is here

Hi!

Hope all is well.

Many moons since I posted here. Saw this by chance and surprised that You remembered me.


Fire In The Hole still a favourite here too.

Another good cover album IMO is:
Tori Amos "Strange Little Girls".

All the best
Gunnar

Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris

Best,
BBM

This is one of those areas where the more you dig the more you find...and quite surprisingly the artists involved as well. Interestingly enough a lot of these are "tributes" to songs that influenced the covering artist.

OBesides some of the previously mentioned artists, off the top of my head the following are also worth checking out:
Nick Cave - Kicking against the Pricks (Takes his Dark Carny approach to some sixties songs)

Grant Lee Phillips (ex Grant Lee Buffalo) - Nineteen eighties (Interesting versions of alt-rock classics)

Hot Rats (2/3 of Supergrass) - Hot Rats (ranges from the note perfect cover Big Sky to the very different Up the junction)

Sid and Susie (or Matthew sweet and Susanna Hoffs) - Under the Covers (vol 1 focuses on the 60s and is the stronger of the two, Vol 2 the 70s)

The Bird and the Bee - Interpreting the Masters Hall and Oates (a sly set of covers that outclasses the originals)

And the two masterpieces of this genre...

Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (the 12 minute version of walk on by and the 18 minute version of By the Time I get to Phoenix are the non-pareil of twisting a song so very far away from its roots)

This Mortal Coil - the 3 4AD albums again twist the originals into something often greater than the original (Song to the Siren is awfully close to my favourite cover0

When i look through the collection tonight I'll probably find some more...

regards,

Giles