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Topic: Songs and Covers, YouTube version. (Read 23446 times)
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Fabricated
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lamaros
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No links myself... but that Hey Ya cover is pretty sweet, and the Wonderwall one is ok too.. But good golly.. if you're going to cover Wicked Game then you could do a lot better that that. The original is worlds apart (this goes for the Poison cover too).
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« Last Edit: September 18, 2007, 01:02:18 AM by lamaros »
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I love playing "Who Wore it Best" on the music tip.
I prefer the Zombies' version of 'Summertime' to Ella Fitzgerald's. I also really love Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version, which is classic imo.
Hell, I prefer the Zombies' version of 'You Really Got a Hold On Me', too, even though Smoky Robinson is the shizzle. That song totally makes my panties wet.
I like Crazy World of Arthur Brown's version of 'I Put a Spell on You' to others' (although Nina Simone's is pretty significant).
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Endie
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I love cover versions.. I have many hundreds of them, and my levels of taste plummet around them. Youtube makes it a bit more challenging, though. Imagine, which I hate in the original, but love in A Perfect Circle's cover version. Dear Prudence, by the Beatles, Siouxsie and the Banshees (with a young Robert Smith) Heads, Shoulders Knees and Toes/I'm a Little Teapot medley covered by the Cure covered by Rob Newman. OK, that one isn't real. Richard Cheese would, I suppose, be cheating. I love the Nina Gordon cover, NowhereMan, and couldn't remember that it was her. Sweet, thanks! |
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voodoolily
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Speaking of the Beatles, I think Booker Rt and the MGs' version of the White Album is way better.
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Endie
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Oh, and are we allowed remixes if they're on youtube? If so, Ian Brown's FEAR, before and after Unkle got to it. |
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Sky
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I completely disagree with Endie's statement about APC. I love the band, but thought that cover was horrid (and that album very weak).
I have a whole playlist dedicated to 'same songs', lots of great stuff in there. Unfortunately, most of the originals were done before the advent of moving pictures :)
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Endie
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That album does seem to really divide APC fans. I agree that it was their weakest, and yet it contains three of my favourite tracks of theirs: Pet, Imagine and another cover, The Fiddle and the Drum.
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voodoolily
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I have a whole playlist dedicated to 'same songs', lots of great stuff in there. Unfortunately, most of the originals were done before the advent of moving pictures :)
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Sky
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Forgot an obvious one, maybe the best cover song ever done (that wasn't Dylan). The original Little Wing by Hendrix. One of my favorite songs of all time when I was a kid, I was a total Hendrix freak. My fiancee's favorite song. This Albert Hall video is awful, you can't see a thing. You don't need to. Close your eyes and enjoy the master. The cover by SRV. Maybe the best guitar song ever recorded. Then...there's what I don't like about technically proficient guitarists: the G3 version. Awful. Well, I can definitely appreciate the guitar playing from a technical standpoint, especially Vai's stuff, it's amazing. But musically it completely misses the feel, except for Joe's solo, which is actually spot-on. And Yngwie...I remember a great scene from a Pantera videotape where they're busting his balls trying to give him a donut. "I don't like no fucking donut!" Apparently he like some fucking donut. Also stumbled across this version by Pearl Jam with RHCP's drummer, tacking the great tune Maggot Brain onto the end. I've always loved PJ's guitarists, they are phenomenal imo, some of the best modern blues-rock guitarists around. Eddy delivers a mediocre at best vocal, though. Some other versions, a cool but kind of odd hand-tapping version, and of course on by a korean girl, because what youtube post is complete without a korean girl? |
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Thank you for not linking the other version of Heroes.
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Selby
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The cover by SRV. Maybe the best guitar song ever recorded. I must concur. I was almost disappointed with Hendrix for not writing an original song that cool, but then SRV was inspired by it so I forgave him ;-) It's a VERY big rarity when the cover version beats the original version. |
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Endie
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The cover by SRV. Maybe the best guitar song ever recorded. I must concur. I was almost disappointed with Hendrix for not writing an original song that cool, but then SRV was inspired by it so I forgave him ;-) It's a VERY big rarity when the cover version beats the original version. Oh, I could waste a morning disagreeing and looking up some of the more unarguable examples, but I have a deadline tomorrow  However: Girls Aloud Love Machine: original and cover version. Also, while I love Nine Inch Nails, their original version of Hurt is just somehow less than what Cash did with it. There would be a bunch of easy wins for Cash in this category, too. I can hardly bring myself to link to professional-wannabe-Jocko Rod Stewart's version, so I won't, but I like the way that the Revolting Cocks reveal that the song itself is actually rather good (though I don't like the brass spikes in that one). Up for debate but realistic claims would be Hendrix doing Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, The Happy Mondays' version of Step On (by Kongos originally, I think?), numerous covers of Parton's Jolene, but especially the one by Queen Adreena. Also the Clash's version of the Crickets' I Fought the Law.. and so on for many, many others, without even starting to consider the first great era of cover versions in the 60s (Franklin ni particular would yield several improved versions). But I gotta work. What I like is when I hear a great song covered in a completely different, but still brilliant way: Public Enemy's masterpiece Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos for example, covered by Tricky completely differently. |
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Selby
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Sorry, I never liked Hurt and I really don't like Cash, so the two just did nothing for me. I listened to it once and was bored to death and never cared to hear it again. I can concur that one group does a better job of covering a song than another, but there are some songs that are just out of the league of the original or take the original and go such a drastic step in a good direction that stand above the rest. |
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Sky
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Ah, the Cash covers. That man showed he was an ultimate badass taking on that material and kicking it out. Hurt was far better than the original (I prefer the remix version I have, the original had some odd processing effects, scratching and dropouts, that I found annoying). His version of Rusty Cage is totally Cashified and great.
My father wanted badly to name me Cash, my mother resolutely refused. I intend to change my name to Cash one day.
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Lakov_Sanite
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It's been a while since I've seen that hurt video, still hits me hard. I love nine inch nails to death but even trent has to accept that cash did the song right. Something about knowing he died shortly after, and having led an entire life and no doubt his share of regrets just adds weight to the song that you cant get out of nin.
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Well I like the Segar version alot better then Metallica.. but I'm pretty much anti-Metallica on anything they've done since the Black album. Here's a couple more. Black Eye Peas - My Humps Allannis Morisette - My Humps - Cover Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy Metallica - Astronomy - Cover |
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Sky
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It's been a while since I've seen that hurt video, still hits me hard. I love nine inch nails to death but even trent has to accept that cash did the song right. Something about knowing he died shortly after, and having led an entire life and no doubt his share of regrets just adds weight to the song that you cant get out of nin.
Yeah, that's the thing. Not only is it a phenomenal version, if you know much about Cash, you can really feel it. It's a painful video to watch. Here's that version of Rusty Cage I mentioned. On Folds doing Bitches Ain't Shit...my boss is a huge fan of Ben Folds and we call her the feminazi...she got livid when she heard him play that song live. |
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Righ: Leonard Cohen is the man. I also liked Don Henley's version of Everybody Knows, but I can't find it on youtube. Also, Peter Gabriel did a great version of Suzanne. Not on youtube either :/
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I remember when I was real young, there was this old freak who used to broadcast slideshows of photos from Playboy on public access TV. He'd do some narrating with Cohen/Everybody Knows in the background. That was my first introduction...The 80's stuff.
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Sky
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Not rally a cover thing, but a comparison. I was a massive Metallica fan in the 80s. Cliff was my icon. I was pretty upset by the addition of Newsted, who simply is not of the same calibre as Cliff, who was not just a virtuoso on bass, but a hell of a songwriter. Image and Napster issues aside, I haven't really been into Metallica through the 90s, and now they have Trujillo from Suicidal and I actually like them again. Sure, it's goddamned Bob Rock on St Anger (a good album imo), but the DVD has them playing it with Trujillo, and it's tight. So I present three clips. Cliff. Newsted. Trujillo. Cliff is just amazing with groove and technique. Newsted is mediocre and stiff, and the coolest part of that vid (To Live Is To Die) is a Cliff-penned tune. Trujillo has great groove and technique. Also, one of these players plays with a pick. This post is brought to you by the Jason Newsted Sucks Campaign. Sorry Jason. |
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Linked the same clip three times, chief.  |
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Righ
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Righ: Leonard Cohen is the man. I also liked Don Henley's version of Everybody Knows, but I can't find it on youtube. Also, Peter Gabriel did a great version of Suzanne. Not on youtube either :/
He is indeed. Youtube somewhat limits things - there's a whole slew of interesting Cohen covers on this 90s tribute album too: http://www.amazon.com/Im-Your-Fan-Various-Artists/dp/B000002ISXJeff Buckley did a great version of Hallelujah too. |
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I can only find one really bad quality video that isn't worth posting but if you can listen to the sample on iTunes I really liked Natalie Merchant's cover of Space Oddity. And I probably just have really pedestrian taste in music but I do enjoy Orgy's cover of New Order's Blue Monday. |
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