Alice Cooper's "Hello Hooray", original version by Judy Collins, they're almost like different songs though.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
Watching the Hair movie high af trying to figure out how Evan Dando could've written the song "Frank Mills" at the age of 2...
― BrianB, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
Ha ha
― Alba, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
Devo's "Satisfaction". my parents are from Akron so I was exposed to their music at a very young age.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
Soft Cell - Tainted Love. Didn’t know it was a cover until I started listening to more classic soul.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
I didn't realize "The Hammond Song" wasn't by The Colourfield until last year (when The Avalanches sampled it and credited The Roches, not Terry Hall)
― enochroot, Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
when I was 12 or 13 I got heavy into Big Beat and "electronica" (whatever that meant in 1998) and I for some reason assumed that all the sounds were originals outside of the obvious stuff. later in life it always threw me for a loop to hear something sampled on those CDs
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah, on that note, I think it was ILM that clued me in, quite recently, to Edwin Birdsong... I guess this was technically a sample, but it feels more like a cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AKrwna2C8
― enochroot, Thursday, 1 April 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
lol yeah I remember watching a video detailing the many many tunes DP lifted giant chunks of and almost showed it to my friends who were huge into them but it almost felt like telling a kid that Santa isn't real
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 April 2021 02:39 (three years ago) link
I was a bit surprised at how pretty much every Massive Attack song where Horace Andy sings is a cover of a song of his.
Also found Don’t You Evah by Spoon was a cover almost a decade later, but that one is way too obscure, noone outside of Austin had ever heard the original before.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 1 April 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link
It was only a couple of years ago that I found out Not So Manic Now by Dubstar was a cover. The original is by a band called Brick Supply who I'd never heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpKlwFNMI60
― kitchen person, Thursday, 1 April 2021 04:04 (three years ago) link
i thought "fly me to the moon" was a song written specifically for the end credits of neon genesis evangelion until i saw elvis costello perform it on an episode of third rock from the sun
― ✖, Thursday, 1 April 2021 05:54 (three years ago) link
I never knew Not So Manic Now was a cover!
― kinder, Thursday, 1 April 2021 07:20 (three years ago) link
my most recent realisation was Minnie Riperton, Les Fleurs. I think maybe I thought it might be a small sample or reworking in there but the 4 Hero version is a direct cover.
― kinder, Thursday, 1 April 2021 07:27 (three years ago) link
Recently discovered that Ha Ha This A Way is by Lead Belly and not a Paul Daniels original.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 April 2021 07:28 (three years ago) link
When I was a naive 20y old, I was allowed backstage at a Primal Scream gig and told Bobby Gillespie that I thought 'Slip Inside This House' was my favourite song of theirs. He was the one who then informed me that it was a cover of 13th Floor Elevators. I felt pretty embarrassed but he was really nice about it, he wrote down the name of the album for me.
― Valentijn, Thursday, 1 April 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
Well I just heard a version of 'Sinnerman' recorded a full decade before Nina Simone's version so add that to the list I guess.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 April 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Wait what?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
I know, right?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinner_Man
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
i had extreme cognitive dissonance when i first heard wire's version of 'strange' because I didn't understand how they covered an REM song from ten years in the future
― joygoat, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
Not exactly a very different artist but Henry Thomas' "Bull Doze Blues" surprised the hell out of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bO0kp4lAPo
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
not exactly a cover but anyway, first heard this one yesterdayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRnFmHm_ANg
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem's "Jump Into the Fire", which I assumed was just a really great B-side ("of COURSE this fucking hipster would save the best track for the back of some single") - when I heard Nilsson's version I kept bouncing between "this is 30 years ahead of its time" and "LCD really based their entire career on this, huh?"
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
"LCD really based their entire career on this, huh?"lol I felt kinda the same when I first heard this old Chuck Prophet track:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvRu3_d50U
― brimstead, Friday, 2 April 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
glee cover of rebecca black’s friday
― scanner darkly, Friday, 2 April 2021 02:11 (three years ago) link
That "Turning Black" track, wow. Had never heard that. Pretty strong stuff!
― Josefa, Friday, 2 April 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link
Frank Mills on Hair got me too
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 2 April 2021 03:58 (three years ago) link
This Mortal Coil's three albums, didn't realize they were largely covers until after _Blood_ and discovering The Apartments.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 2 April 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link
My wife didn't realize that Through the Looking Glass by Siouxsie and the Banshees was all covers, I got to surprise her a lot.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 April 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
many years ago i worked with one of the BS blokes.he was very angry and bitter re the whole thing re that track (and everything else in life to be fair).
― mark e, Friday, 2 April 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeY7J9kjg0
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
I know we download and stream everything nowadays so this is now probably the norm.Back in the day I always read liner notes and credits on LPs and CDs, maybe no one else did idk.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
“This flight tonight” a genius choice for Nazareth to cover Joni Mitchell
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
Reading liner notes wouldn’t always tell you if it was a cover. Eg: Led Zepellin
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link