cotton-eye joe would be good though. also "I Eat Cannibals".
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
"Smell Yo Dick" would be great except it's probably been done as one of those lol-white-people-covering-rap things.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
true
maybe
"Earache My Eye"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=smell+yo+dick+cover
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
re: cotton eyed joe, ahem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl1T-4tld6U
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
The epitome of the white people mock hip hop/R&B song: Alanis Morissette - My Humps
― gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
The Flying Lizards version of Summertime Blues is my favourite slowed down/stripped down cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9CRGKYXjCA
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
the enervated Telex cover of Rock Around the Clock is good one where someone is not going for intimate/earnest whatever
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGXHDMIJw4
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPclCrqOFic
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
I guess there are lots of bonus demo tracks on reissued albums that function as unofficial versions of this type of cover?
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
I want to come up with the stupidest possible song to do this with and make a youtube video.
La Macarena?
― MarkoP, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqhobdcYUE
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
^(In defense, this was by request, for charity)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
Steve Allen did something like that with rock and roll lyrics back in the day
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpxhEoV5IsE
― MarkoP, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
I've a soft spot for this slide guitar cover of "Modern Love".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAypnmdiCEk
― gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
We had a whole thread and stuff about that Nina Gordon cover:
nina gordon - "straight outta compton"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
so scary...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRPWs4V97YI
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Then there's maturing artists doing this, cf. "Layla" unplugged and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PzSSQtnp8
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 5 October 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWgA3PI7VQ
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 08:45 (eight years ago) link
Tori Amos has a lot of these.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 08:51 (eight years ago) link
Heavy Vegetable covering The Rez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1XT0TOAboA
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 09:13 (eight years ago) link
surprised this hasn't been here yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsC_SARyPzk
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 11:47 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gsorRstTs
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Thursday, 8 October 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
i was watching this sad movie starring Happy Gilmore about white people who are sad because they have cell phones and because they masturbate too much and they played this really groovy and dreamy cover of "I Feel Love" and I really liked it! don't know who it was by though. the movie was like American Beauty 2.0. and the song would not have been out of place in Donnie Darko II - The Darkening.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 October 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
okay, I found it. don't know the band. I think it's really pretty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DomLXOiLRCY
― scott seward, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
that's awesome!
― Lee626, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Cat Power, when she sings:
"Then suddenly I got that old time feelingI can't help it if I'm still in love with you." - from "still in love"
or
"can't you see, I'm on a losing streak..." - from "satisfaction"
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
Really liking this Bedhead cover of "Disorder," partly because I love the song so much, partly because this is such a perfect distillation of the sound of every show I went to in 1995 and 1996. Now I want to hear Vehicle Flips cover "Warsaw."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Fountains of Wayne's slow version of "Baby One More Time" is exactly what this thread consensus-hates and yet I feel deep affection for it. Maybe because, instead of the usual "acoustic singer-songwriter" goof, they play it as a pop song, just a different kind of pop song. The organ!
https://youtu.be/C6g4t93uuus
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Crap, let me try that again?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
the slowcore bands were best at this. bedhead, RHP, Low. did Codeine ever do any good covers?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Forget it, eephus, it's YouTubeTown.
This Mortal Coil still kinda my gold standard after all these years. though they didn't exactly do "pop" covers.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
i was totally listening to fountains of wayne last night. they sounded great. i gave the cd to cyrus. he's been playing the same damn green day cd for weeks at bedtime. thought he could switch things up a bit.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
did Codeine ever do any good covers?
They did a cover of Atmosphere for the Joy Division tribute album, but the original wasn't particularly upbeat to begin with.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
Nice, torchy jazz-lounge interpretation of what I'd never guess started life as a KISS disco-metal hit if I didn't know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KdInR0z5U
― Lee626, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
RHP did a good Kiss cover too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixwyr4NSHLI
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
did i hear a slowed down version of the pixies' Where Is My Mind? on a facebook advert?
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
(yes - http://jettemplates.com/video-detail.php?videoid=4NZdggNUvq0&title=Maxence-Cyrin---Where-Is-My-Mind-%28The-Pixies-Piano-Cover%29 )
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
I'm sticking with Animotion's version.
Karen O / Obsession:
https://youtu.be/g4n_VpzBQIA
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Hmmm, maybe this will work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4n_VpzBQIA
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Norma Winstone - Live to Tell (Madonna cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkO9t2MR2s
really feeling this, even though it doesn't take much imagination to turn a somber pop ballad into a slightly more somber jazz ballad
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Friday, 6 November 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 November 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Was going to say I detest when artists fall back on this move, like they're the first people to ever think of it, but I actually like some of the versions posted here. Not this though, this is garbage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8asRWe5XNw8
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 December 2015 10:26 (eight years ago) link
there was a particularly bad episode of The Leftovers recently where one scene ended with a ghost ominously singing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" and the next scene was scored with a slow gloomy cover of "You're The One That I Want" from Grease
― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Saturday, 26 December 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
What are the categories for these covers?- Sexy ("Whatever You Like" "Crazy in Love")- Mournful ("Satisfaction")- Pretty ("Sweet Jane")- Strung Out- Heavy
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Saturday, 26 December 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
just heard a naked, intimate version of 'i wanna be sedated', covered by esthero. :/
― nomar, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
^ which puts it at the intersection of old and new modes. appropriate, i suppose, for a song released in y2k.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
with that subversive meaning gone, the practice has taken on a schlocky, talent show sort of quality.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 7 July 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
That ILX dude's cover of GG Allin's "I Kill Everything I Fuck" was the best example of this.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 July 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
heh I thought of that also
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 7 July 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
"I'm really, really bed"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv6Rt2x6kPg
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3S6hXmX1UY
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
Because obviously Daniel Johnston needed this treatment.
https://youtu.be/_d3DkoA1LUk
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3SxNtbPu2I
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
Hmm well posting the url was supposed to work. Version of The Stallion Pt. 3 which I like.
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
this stuff is insufferable and by now past the point of saturation. if it isn't a superhero movie with a slowed down Leonard Cohen song it's a new TV show with a Pixies cover or something. it's like the sincere form of muzak.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
you're nothing these days without a quavery voice and a ukulele
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
Every time a white girl does an acoustic version of a trap song, a rapper has to do this 😠pic.twitter.com/QboULucNiw— i know dennis 🇳🇬 (@shOoObz) March 9, 2018
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link