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How do!

Sorry I couldn’t think of a better title. There’s definitely a better title out there, but sadly Mr Brain is in a big old huff after spending 4-5 hours riddling out the errors of others today, and has hence nicked off to his fart sack, refusing to properly contribute. Poor Mr Brain.

Anyways. We have music threads, but I don’t think we have a thread covering truly worthy Cover Versions.

Now….how to define a Cover? I personally don’t count remixes, because I consider them creatively bankrupt. But this thread isn’t about my musical taste, it’s about everyone’s, so remixes count and are allowed.

Then?…..how to define “worthy” songs. Again I’ll let you, Dear Dakkanauts decide that for yourself. It could be a cover or remix you enjoy of an original you have no taste for. It could be something you find highly amusing (such as Weird Al), or the only way you can tolerate the original song, or one which in its way fundamentally changes the meaning of the song (except Diddy’s “missing you” which is crap, and will not be allowed, on account it was a low rent cash in on his mate’s tragic death)

Anyways. Enough whimbriling. Yeah, whimbriling from your’s truly? I’ll kick off.

Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence, remixed by, I believe (do correct me if I’m wrong) Linkin Park. The heavier sound just suits the lyrics. Perhaps a good chunk is me as a wee Grot and my unstable emotional position at the time. But it still kicks arse!


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Alien Ant Farm’s Smooth Criminal was worthy, I feel.

Pearl Jam’s The Last Kiss is superior to the original in every way.

So is Juice Newton’s Angel of the Morning.

The cover of Zombie that came out two years ago was a respectful update.


Whoever covered Toto’s Africa last year…I’m just kidding. That was awful.

   
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Some easy one's:

Metallica's cover of Thin Lizzy's version of Whiskey in the Jar (even though I don't like the change to the story)

Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is pretty great.

Five Finger Death Punch did a great version of Blue on Black.

Most versions of House of the Rising Sun are pretty good. In the Air Tonight also has several great covers.

Penatonix and Straight No Chaser have a bunch of great covers in general.

Beyond Last Kiss, Pearl Jam has tons and tons of great covers. They like to slip them in the outro of Daughter, but there's tons of them. Rockin' in the Free World probably gets the most separate play. Way back when there's a great version of Dock of the Bay.

   
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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Whoever covered Toto’s Africa last year…I’m just kidding. That was awful.


Weezer! No idea what they were thinking with that one. It's not as good as the original, and not different enough to be interesting.

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Frankie goes to hollywood's power of Love by Gabrielle Aplin. Used for John Lewis a few years back and hauntingly beautiful. I used it as a lullaby for my kids for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpeK7sDLzE

Helden by Apocalyptica, covering David Bowie's Heroes in German

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Lv9xGZcDo

Its a cliche, but Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is an awesome cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

Hit me Baby One More Time by Travis is significantly better than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKT75m2AiM

And anything ever by Frog Leap Studios, but in particular Sia's Chandelier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsT-IlaG5Qo

Seriously, I could watch Leo's cover versions forever!

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 LunarSol wrote:

Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is pretty great.


Ha! Glad I’m not the only one. I like how the tone of the Disturbed cover seems to convey a sense of frustrated desperation, instead of trying to replicate the haunting quiet from the original. It’s like the Shining, in which both emphasize different aspects to be unique to each other.

Also, goodness gracious. I did not know the band’s vocalist had that kind of range.

 Flinty wrote:

And anything ever by Frog Leap Studios, but in particular Sia's Chandelier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsT-IlaG5Qo

Seriously, I could watch Leo's cover versions forever!


Glad to see Leo getting some respect too. I quite enjoyed his Feel Good Inc and Never Gonna Give You Up covers.

 gorgon wrote:
 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Whoever covered Toto’s Africa last year…I’m just kidding. That was awful.


Weezer! No idea what they were thinking with that one. It's not as good as the original, and not different enough to be interesting.


That was last year?!? Could have sworn I remembered hearing that cover almost a decade ago. Has that same boy band kind of sound to it. I agree though, it was... not the best cover I’ve heard.

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 Flinty wrote:

Hit me Baby One More Time by Travis is significantly better than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKT75m2AiM


Generally speaking, a lot of terrible pop tunes are mostly marred by overly produced performances. They're largely written by extremely talented people and are pretty fantastic when covered by other musicians. Even some of the original artists do them better later on when they're no longer bogged down by produces trying to "perfect" things.

The best example of this in my mind is probably the Local H cover of Toxic. That song, on a real guitar, is pretty killer.
   
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 Dysartes wrote:
Hurt - Johnny Cash

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Goodness, right. Didn't know until years later that it was originally a Nine Inch Nails song of all things. Usually the covers seem to go the other way around!

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Speaking of people doing justice to NIN


   
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https://youtu.be/yuVmjv22Nqc

Original

https://youtu.be/ceJ9TVi3KQU

Cover

https://youtu.be/C3PB1jWO3_E

Original

https://youtu.be/uahhNPiwcs4

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Amigo the Devil covers Tom Jones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpLEZ-U7ifY
   
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Veldrain wrote:
Speaking of people doing justice to NIN




Of all things, this was the last song I expected a band like Linkin Park to cover from NIN.

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This guy has covered an awful lot of songs on his YouTube channel and they're all pretty damn good, but this one knocks it out of the park...




I also always liked the GnR version of Sympathy For The Devil:




   
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For me, the other big name when it comes to covers - especially covers with a twist - is Postmodern Jukebox...

Firstly, we have the evolution of the Friends theme...



Life on Mars, by David Bowie



Don't Stop Believing, by Journey (bonus points for the one take video)



Mad World



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Ooh, the jazz versions just reminded me of this final countdown cover. Its great fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mURRS5zYCb8

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Spizzenergi covering one of my favourite songs.



   
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