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Title: Cover songs...
Post by: Vash on August 15, 2008, 05:42:14 AM
I, personally love cover versions (i know, I know, guilty pleasure, right?) of many songs. Be it an acoustic version by the original artist, or some retelling of a song by another artist, I generally find that the "cover" of almost any given piece of modern music is usually BETTER than the original.

Am I alone in this? Here is one of may favorite covers: The song "I alone" originally by Live, as covered by K's Choice ("not an addict", 1996) w/ Anouk ( in the baseball cap, a Dutch singer doing most of the leads):

http://www.youtube.com/v/V0TJcSNVB7s&hl

Anyone else got any good "covers" to share?  ^-^
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: MagmaBabe on August 15, 2008, 06:11:37 AM
Cover versions can be pretty hit or miss.. and normally I think they're a miss... like Champ said in
another post the Scissor Sisters murdered Pink Floyds Comfortably numb.
Saying that.. some are truly amazing.. and this is the best cover I've ever heard.. in fact
I think it has the edge on the original.

The Stereophonics cover

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=4xkPJNgvWL8&feature=related
 (http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=4xkPJNgvWL8&feature=related)

and here's the original.

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZJtBWgdWs&feature=related (http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZJtBWgdWs&feature=related)


Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: schro on August 15, 2008, 06:46:05 AM
Without a doubt, the best cover ever was Van Halen's cover of the Kinks "Girl, You Really Got Me"

Worst?
Rod Stewart's cover of Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately". Stewart butchered a beautiful song.

Hey, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: herronm on August 15, 2008, 06:51:34 AM
Michael McDonald’s version of Halleluiah.  Oh what the hell, I’ll admit that I’m a Michael McDonald fanboy.  He could sing the phone book and I’d like it.

Max
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: schro on August 15, 2008, 06:55:35 AM
Michael McDonald’s version of Halleluiah.  Oh what the hell, I’ll admit that I’m a Michael McDonald fanboy.  He could sing the phone book and I’d like it.

Max

:*))

McDonald has some good pipes.
One of my favorite McDonald tunes is the song "Sweet Freedom" from the movie with Gregory Hines & Billy Crystal ("Running Scared").
Great Tune!
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: Robmeister on August 15, 2008, 07:13:34 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOR_jq9M53c
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: StumpyDave on August 15, 2008, 10:35:25 AM
Kirsty MacColl's cover of the Kinks' "Days"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOKWqtocXWs&feature=related

or Kirsty MacColl's cover of Billy Bragg's "New England"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fwtFSEovro

I find that often if I've heard the cover before the original I remember the cover most and prefer that version.
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: FR8TRAIN on August 15, 2008, 11:16:22 AM
One of my favorite Acoustic versions...love it so much I play it on my guitar all the time. O0 :@`

http://www.youtube.com/v/G0X8udBKO7E&hl=en&fs=1
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: Hook'Em on August 15, 2008, 11:34:24 AM
There's one distinct advantage to making a cover, You can take the best of the original and put in some ad-lib stuff. Saying that if you listen to live versions of songs by the original band they have themselves usually make some little adjustments to the original recorded versions. Music is made to lose yourself in and when a good song is played by a good band sometimes they lose themselves in the music and it takes on a life of its own.
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: Mikekoz13 on August 15, 2008, 10:56:12 PM
Michael McDonald’s version of Halleluiah.  Oh what the hell, I’ll admit that I’m a Michael McDonald fanboy.  He could sing the phone book and I’d like it.

Max



Jeff Buckley's cover of The Leonard Cohen original is the best in my opinion. Check it out. It's from a great album named "Grace".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: MagmaBabe on August 16, 2008, 02:49:31 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOR_jq9M53c


ah, nice choice Robmeister..  Mariah Carey when she was a lovely girl  :)
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: Zeekev on August 16, 2008, 07:35:39 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WtavVdBCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af6PeBpUu3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axdBNCovYBc

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=mmceSj07_fs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Ki2DJfhns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmYys-ZjNrg
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: zzaapp on August 28, 2008, 05:50:15 PM
Listen to Meatloaf sing "Read 'em and Weep", then listen to the lame cover by Barry Manilow.  They are both on youtube.
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: Razor X on December 28, 2008, 10:41:37 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/z4gsbBDyfvo&hl=en&fs=1
Title: Re: Cover songs...
Post by: The Scottish Ambassador on December 28, 2008, 01:01:00 PM
I HATE Leona Lewis singing Run by Snow Patrol. It is just horrendous  :Xo!