― Jeff W, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― michael, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― phil, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"proud mary" - ike and tina turner (orig. credence clearwater revival)
― eclectomaniac, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Damian, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
its credited as a Costello composition but i'll take your word for the Wyatt one being the original. But can you really consider the Costello one to be a cover? Is Prince's version of Nothing Compares 2 U a cover? i dunno.
'Cattle and Cane' ~ The Wedding Present (which I actually prefer to the original, which will get me into trouble I know)
more perplexed than anything else. Gedge is a terrible singer so why he thought he should ruin so many of other peoples songs is beyond me. okay i guess he did a good version of Falling.
some other good covers: Alastair Galbraith - Getting Older Dead C - Light my Fire Gastr del Sol - Dry Bones in the Valley Sonic Youth - I wanna be your dog Minus Two - High Tension House Six Volts - Black Dog Axemen - Pulsing Jesus & Mary Chain - Mushroom Head Puddle - Lacsydaisical Cat Power - Fate of the Human Carbine
Worst cover songs:the entire Jandek tribute CD Roy Montgomery - Its Cold Outside Push Push - I Love my Leather Jacket PumpkinHead - Adults and Children Frank Black - Hang on to Your Ego Muttonbirds - Nature
― hamish, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
other bad ones: 10,000 maniacs more than this (the orig., roxy music, is one of my favourite songs) hole - gold dust woman r.e.m. - pale blue eyes ub40 - \red, red, wine + everything else they've ever done urge overkill - girl you'll be a woman soon
good: bryan ferry - help me make it through the night by kris kristofferson. and i saw daniel mancini do a good version of it live a few years ago too. Actually i like quite a lot of Ferry covers, especially two from his recent-ish covers album "As Time Goes By": I'm In the Mood For Love, and Where and When. Louis Armstrong Mack the Knife Chris Knox S.O.S. also quite like The Shaggs doing the Carpenters' Yesterday Once More though it's not that remarkable. Einsturzende Neubauten doing Lee Hazlewood's Sand even though I like the Nancy & Lee much more. hmmm maybe "funky Town" by Psuedo Echo [they were my first concert]
that's all i can think of whilst away from my records.
― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Lord Custos, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dan, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Mo-dettes "Paint It Black" Ben Watt "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" Sally Timms "Half Past France" Marisa Monte "Pale Blue Eyes" Marianne Faithfull "Working Class Hero"
A further question: what makes some songs especially cover-able? Are there particular formal qualities that inspire interesting reimaginings
― Marcel Post, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kris England., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave225, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Best covers: Soft Cell's version of "Tainted Love" (specially the Club 69 Remix). Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Helter Skelter" (Beatles), "Dear Prudence" (Beatles) and "Hall of Mirrors" (Kraftwerk). The Creatures: "Venus In Furs" (Velvet) Matmos: "Disco Hospital" (Coil) (Is it a cover or should I call it a remix?) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "Black Betty" (Leadbelly) Pachuco Cadaver: "I Am The Fly" (Wire) Suarez: "EXplosión Madonna" (cover version of Madonna's "I Rather Be Your Love") Ciccone Youth: "Into The Groove" (Madonna) Gus Gus: "Monument" (Depeche Mode) This Mortal Coil: "Holocaust" (Big Star) Spiritualized: "Born Never Asked" (Laurie Anderson)
― carlos, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― AP, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
worst: ian brown murders billie jean.
― dbini, Friday, 15 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― carlos, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― OleM, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Cass, Saturday, 30 November 2002 20:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 30 November 2002 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 30 November 2002 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Duncan Myers, Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 13 February 2003 07:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Did anyone mention Joy Division's "Disorder" as covered by Bedhead?
― Kenan Hebert, Thursday, 13 February 2003 07:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 February 2003 07:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 February 2003 07:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is it worse than Braid's or Death Cab For Cutie's covers? Because those are pretty bad too.
Good:
Quicksand covering the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?"The Ramones covering Tom Waits' "I Don't Want To Grow Up"A bunch of Japanese bands covering the PixiesErasure covering ABBA's "Take A Chance On Me" (still haunts me to this day, errgghh)
Bad:
Wasn't Limp Bizkit thinking about covering Fugazi's "Waiting Room" on their next album?The entire output of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
worst-clapton covering his own layla unplugged comes to mind..
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― russ t, Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Isn't that everything they've done?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 February 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
Except they jack up the self-pity while abandoning the drama.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 14 February 2003 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brando, Friday, 14 February 2003 06:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 14 February 2003 07:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 14 February 2003 07:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Worst:Simple Minds - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"Kate Bush - "Rocket Man"Billy Idol - "Heroin"
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 14 February 2003 08:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
^ ugh...at a certain time that Diana Ross rendition was unavoidable.
Bardcore - creep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiIjMIlRw
― meisenfek, Friday, 27 August 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Thalia Zedek's "Dance Me to the End of Love" (L Cohen)
― keen reverberations of twee (collardio gelatinous), Friday, 27 August 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jF0aK5b90
― xzanfar, Friday, 27 August 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBQcCf-gn4
― xzanfar, Friday, 27 August 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
The Main Ingredient - summer breeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXlaMJVOQw
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
Sigourney Weaver - back in the USSR(undecided)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUWhlqItgus
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
worst:
Eydie Gorme - the look of love [Bacharach / David]
(obscenely loud vocals)
― meisenfek, Saturday, 26 August 2023 14:43 (ten months ago) link