Awesome covers

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:07 pm

Came across this beautiful cover of Civ 4's theme song. It gave me chills. Liked it so much I bought it on iTunes.

Baba Yetu - Peter Hollens featuring Makulah

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:00 pm

Self's cover of The Doobie Bros. "What A Fool Believes" (performed entirely on toy instruments) #betterthantheoriginal

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 3:50 pm

That is awesome. It's fun to see how toy instruments could be used in music production

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:10 pm

So I downloaded this album :

from Spin a while ago (looks like it was 2011) and have just gotten around to listening to it. The link it the page is http://www.spin.com/articles/free-album ... nevermind/. Apparently it is no longer available for download but there is a cover of Stay Away by Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band that is really great. I have not heard anything else by this band but will go looking after listening to this.

The rest of the album is also good with most of the bands doing reinterpretations of the songs rather than straight covers. While the album is no longer available from Spin, it is on SoundCloud for your listening pleasure. I did not look hard but I imagine that a resourceful internet user in 2015 would not have a hard time finding a copy.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:31 pm

I have heard a bunch of covers by Titus Andronicus and they've all sucked pretty bad. "Birdhouse in Your Soul" was downright painful to listen to.

So it comes a total surprise that their cover of "Breed" is actually really good.

I'm going to have to give the rest of the album a listen later.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:41 pm

Jesus, what happened to the Meat Puppets? That was horrible.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:33 pm

I actually bought a Postmodern Jukebox album, the one that both has We Can't Stop and Sweet Child 'O Mine on it, and as a result I've been really liking this cover of One Direction's Story of My Life, again a New Orleans style cover. There's just something about the transformation that makes it so suitable to the style.

Story of My Life - Postmodern Jukebox

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:10 pm

jimbo wrote: there is a cover of Stay Away by Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band that is really great. I have not heard anything else by this band but will go looking after listening to this.

yes, it's a good one. check out his solo records. great performer live (used to be a James Brown tribute act, before being 'discovered' and putting out music under his own name).

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:38 pm

As a former citizen of the 80's, I really like Robyn Hitchcock's recent cover of The Psychedelic Furs' The Ghost in You.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 8:33 pm

Violent Femmes' version of Culture Club's "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:41 pm

Came across a cover of Sgt Pepper's/Little Help that blew my mind. Really good. It's by The Art of Time Ensemble. Not a band per say, and more of a collaboration among pop musicians with an orchestra backing covering many genres and maybe a little more focus on the music itself.

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends - Art of Time Ensemble.

They've recently recorded an entire remake of the Beatles album that way.

Here's their version of Lovely Rita with Steven Page as lead.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 8:45 pm

https://youtu.be/UIPL1NwQAY0?list=FLLvF ... WdON5HTsaw

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:09 pm

Warmen's cover of Somebody's Watching Me.

I think they are a Finnish metal band.

cheeba · Post by **cheeba** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:40 pm

Sofia Karlberg's cover of Crazy in Love that was used for the 50 Shades of Gray movie is far, far superior to Beyonce's original.

rshetts2 · Post by **rshetts2** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:10 am

Tim Akers and The Smoking Section excells at taking those mundane pop tunes and tearing them up. Heres their version of Taylor Swifts Shake it Off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv39xT8L0dA

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:37 pm

I love Bowie's cover of The Pixies' Cactus.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:05 am

Trying to keep myself entertained and from doing real work on the day before a holiday

http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/feature ... zmer-style

Zork · Post by **Zork** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:20 pm

Disturbed does S&G's The Sound of Silence

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 4:33 am

And now for something completely different:
1970's glam rock band Angel, doing their cover of Walk Away Renee.

Angel was an acquired taste for me, even as a glam rock fan in the 1970's. The strained vocals of Frank Dimino is a high barrier to entry for this band. It took me about a year of repeated listenings to my first album purchase of theirs, which was "On Earth As It Is In Heaven" (1977), before I grew to actually enjoy his vocal delivery. Always pushing his limit, with varying results.

Toe · Post by **Toe** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:39 pm

Allen Stone - Sex & Candy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkZrTMD5cw

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:18 pm

I absolutely loath Unchained Melody - except for this one arrangement.

silverjon · Post by **silverjon** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:29 pm

tgb wrote:I absolutely loath Unchained Melody - except for this one arrangement.

I really like that.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 7:14 am

silverjon wrote:
tgb wrote:I absolutely loath Unchained Melody - except for this one arrangement.
I really like that.

Than you should love this cover by The Marcels. This cut holds a spot in my list of the 10 greatest vocal performances ever.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 7:16 am

Sometimes when covering a song, you can be so awesome you don't even have to know the lyrics.

silverjon · Post by **silverjon** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:47 am

tgb wrote:
silverjon wrote:
tgb wrote:I absolutely loath Unchained Melody - except for this one arrangement.
I really like that.
Than you should love this cover by The Marcels. This cut holds a spot in my list of the 10 greatest vocal performances ever.

I do like it, though it's not new to me. I'm sort of peripherally aware of the song as a ballad, but the truly familiar version of the song for me is by The Marcels.

Toe · Post by **Toe** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:34 am

Lilian Ximenes covering Pink Floyd's The Great Gig in the Sky (or the sounds she made when she got that tongue piercing

)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xc5H_N8ds

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:43 pm

Take on Me, Reel Big Fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpU0Zf ... fXZ_g#t=10

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:46 pm

Rumpy wrote:Came across this beautiful cover of Civ 4's theme song. It gave me chills. Liked it so much I bought it on iTunes.

Baba Yetu - Peter Hollens featuring Makulah

I learned from Mrs. Skinypupy over the weekend that the lyrics to Baba Yetu are The Lords Prayer in Swahili. Wikipedia confirms this.

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Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 2:23 pm

Skinypupy wrote:
Rumpy wrote:Came across this beautiful cover of Civ 4's theme song. It gave me chills. Liked it so much I bought it on iTunes.

Baba Yetu - Peter Hollens featuring Makulah
I learned from Mrs. Skinypupy over the weekend that the lyrics to Baba Yetu are The Lords Prayer in Swahili. Wikipedia confirms this.

[themoreyouknow.gif]

Yes, I realized this as I came to research it after hearing the cover. Quite powerful and moving, even without knowing it, but I think it adds to the feeling once you know what they're singing. It's very neat.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:33 pm

Probably only for REM/Michael Stipe fans, but I love this - modern day Stipe (full grey beard like Santa, and nose rings) covers Bowie's Man Who Sold the World. It's just Stipe and a piano, so again, probably only for fans.

https://youtu.be/hF2ed7ouU3o

Toe · Post by **Toe** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 9:24 pm

Nothing Compares 2 U - covered by the incomparable Chris Cornell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:35 pm

PMJ strikes again! Their cover of Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' is amazing!

Don't Stop Me Now - Tina Turner style Queen cover

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 11:06 am

tgb wrote:I absolutely loath Unchained Melody - except for this one arrangement.

I missed this the first time around. You and I are truly musical appreciation opposites. You probably love that "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" song, don't you.

Gryndyl · Post by **Gryndyl** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:22 am

I'm a big fan of metal covers. One of my 'go to' guys for covers is Leo Moracchioli. Here's his California Dreamin' cover.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Nov 24, 2016 8:09 am

i just remembered i had this from years back... full disclosure - i know this guy, but i really do like his electro-metal rendition of Q Lazzarus' "Goodbye Horses"

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Sun Nov 27, 2016 1:49 am

Lucky Chops brass band cover of Adele's "Hello"

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 2:29 am

for the Yes fans,

Happy Rhodes, "Soon"

also, her interpretations of old Peter Gabriel songs with The Security Project are pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVOVFV9DXgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBvUtMgltZc

(my review of The Security Project show from last year here)

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:16 pm

I don't know why he didn't come to me sooner, but few people record better covers than Ry Cooder.

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MonkeyFinger · Post by **MonkeyFinger** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:09 pm

hitbyambulance wrote:for the Yes fans,

Happy Rhodes, "Soon"

rshetts2 · Post by **rshetts2** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:46 pm

hitbyambulance wrote:for the Yes fans,

Happy Rhodes, "Soon"

also, her interpretations of old Peter Gabriel songs with The Security Project are pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVOVFV9DXgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBvUtMgltZc

(my review of The Security Project show from last year here)

Thanks for this. I found her version of Mercy Street haunting. Would have loved to seen them do that string of songs from Lamb Lies Down. Ill have to watch for them next time they head to the Detroit area.