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Title: Your favourite cover songs Post by: KarmaDope on December 07, 2015, 09:27:42 PM I know there was a thread about this many, many years ago but I couldn't find it going back to 2010 so thought I'd make a new one, plus we seem to have a distinct lack of music threads on here which kinda surprises me.
Anyway, two great covers I discovered recently: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6rIks03cdM YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tHQ-T4fMNE Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: Marky147 on December 07, 2015, 10:11:18 PM Getting quite into Boyce Avenue lately, and enjoy a lot of their stuff.
Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: hhyftrftdr on December 07, 2015, 10:29:20 PM Cash, Hurt
Youth Group Music, Forever Young Shed Seven, Jumping Jack Flash Manics, Suicide Is Painless Jeff Buckley, Hallelujah Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: Longines on December 07, 2015, 11:16:12 PM YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GWb08RtuDc.
Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: DMorgan on December 08, 2015, 10:11:15 AM I definitely posted this one in the last thread but I haven't heard a better cover since
Smashing Pumpkins covering Fleetwood Mac YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U4opbXoMss Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: Simon Galloway on December 08, 2015, 11:12:49 AM This one might be a bit contentious ~ there are certainly a lot of bad covers of this song out there, but I like Lemmy's version.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP7_h4wkgw Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: AlunB on December 08, 2015, 11:32:50 AM Ryan Adams did a cover version of Taylor Swift's 1989 album. It's all worth a listen, but this is the standout.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i65kX8cnswg Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: AlunB on December 08, 2015, 11:34:03 AM I know there was a thread about this many, many years ago but I couldn't find it going back to 2010 so thought I'd make a new one, plus we seem to have a distinct lack of music threads on here which kinda surprises me. Anyway, two great covers I discovered recently: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6rIks03cdM Assume you've heard this classic :) YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOjx01zwrE Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: teddybloat on December 08, 2015, 11:50:10 AM i think i've posted this before but cash's version of hurt, coupled with the video and the backstory isnt just a decent cover - its one of the most moving pieces of art i've experienced.
for those uninitiated trent reznor wrote the orginal version of hurt and would close his Nine Inch Nails concerts with it. its a very personal account of addiction, loss, and generally fucking life up. its a raw song personal to him. so when an aging, dying, ex country star decided he wanted to cover it reznor wasnt sure at all. when he did hear the finished version he said 'i feel like i've lost a girlfriend as that song's not mine anymore'. compliments dont come more heartfelt than that. the video only adds to the pathos. cash is decrepit, his wife appear in the video - the pain looks very real. the montage sweeps his life before you. its a song and video that you experience as opposed to passively enjoy. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc june tabor is a beautiful woman - anyone with a voice like that cant be described in any other way. the oysterband are a fantastic folk band. love will tear us apart is, at heart, a quintessentially english plaintive love song. put em together and you get this: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-pWSHTQOFs picture the scene. you are a sound engineer / record producer in the early sixties. most of the artists you record use session musicians, trained in the proper traditional playing techniques of the fifties. the drums and basslines are in synch. the performers look like this: (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f0/fc/24/f0fc24e7b264af3828ccbf0a7f2d4278.jpg) they sing nice songs that mums and dads can listen to with their children. its nice and safe. then 4 scousers come in and record this: this was recorded as the last song of an album recording session. lennon's voice at this point is red raw and close to breaking. they have been recording a mix of covers and, revolutionary at the time, their own numbers - pop stars then, like today, didnt write their own garb. they have one, maybe two, shots at this before lennons voice completely gives way. the lads by this time are sweating, shirtless and slapping and shouting to each other so as to hype each other up for the last take. you have never seen anything like this in your time in a british recording studio. it is perfect. lennon rides his voice to breaking point [you can hear just how close to the edge he is] and the band push him every inch of the way. the sound of beatlemania captured on record. listen carefully at the end and you can hear an ecstatic mccarteny shout 'YEAH!' as the last cymbals crash - he knows they have utterly nailed it you as a sound engineer have never seen or heard anything like it. you have just witnessed the early stages of a cultural revolution. wp gg. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ypq6_5bsg Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: Kev B on December 08, 2015, 12:35:48 PM YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A44GOlZrlVs
Tainted love also covered by Marilyn Manson. The original was sung by Gloria Jones who's other unfortunate claim to fame was she was Marc Bolans girlfriend and was driving the car that crashed and killed him. Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: AdamM on December 08, 2015, 12:51:31 PM Everything by ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES :)
Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: The Wycher on December 08, 2015, 12:57:54 PM The Jonny Cash cover of Hurt is one of the all time great covers.
Other personal favs are Cake - I will survive (Just very plainly done but makes me smile everytime), The Damned - Help (rather fast but just what you would expect), The The - Hanky Panky (complete album of Hank Williams covers). And there was an album of Leonard Cohen covers called I'm your fan which had some great cover versions including First we take Manhattan by REM. and two different versions of Tower of Strength. Just looked at it on Amazon and came out in 1991 (damn that is a long time ago as I had it on tape!) bands featured include Pixies, That Petrol Emotion, House of Love, Lloyd Cole, Fatima Mansions, Nick Cave and of course John Cale doing Hallelujah. Sorry no links as just useless at that bit Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: AlunB on December 08, 2015, 02:46:28 PM i think i've posted this before but cash's version of hurt, coupled with the video and the backstory isnt just a decent cover - its one of the most moving pieces of art i've experienced. for those uninitiated trent reznor wrote the orginal version of hurt and would close his Nine Inch Nails concerts with it. its a very personal account of addiction, loss, and generally fucking life up. its a raw song personal to him. so when an aging, dying, ex country star decided he wanted to cover it reznor wasnt sure at all. when he did hear the finished version he said 'i feel like i've lost a girlfriend as that song's not mine anymore'. compliments dont come more heartfelt than that. the video only adds to the pathos. cash is decrepit, his wife appear in the video - the pain looks very real. the montage sweeps his life before you. its a song and video that you experience as opposed to passively enjoy. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc june tabor is a beautiful woman - anyone with a voice like that cant be described in any other way. the oysterband are a fantastic folk band. love will tear us apart is, at heart, a quintessentially english plaintive love song. put em together and you get this: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-pWSHTQOFs picture the scene. you are a sound engineer / record producer in the early sixties. most of the artists you record use session musicians, trained in the proper traditional playing techniques of the fifties. the drums and basslines are in synch. the performers look like this: (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f0/fc/24/f0fc24e7b264af3828ccbf0a7f2d4278.jpg) they sing nice songs that mums and dads can listen to with their children. its nice and safe. then 4 scousers come in and record this: this was recorded as the last song of an album recording session. lennon's voice at this point is red raw and close to breaking. they have been recording a mix of covers and, revolutionary at the time, their own numbers - pop stars then, like today, didnt write their own garb. they have one, maybe two, shots at this before lennons voice completely gives way. the lads by this time are sweating, shirtless and slapping and shouting to each other so as to hype each other up for the last take. you have never seen anything like this in your time in a british recording studio. it is perfect. lennon rides his voice to breaking point [you can hear just how close to the edge he is] and the band push him every inch of the way. the sound of beatlemania captured on record. listen carefully at the end and you can hear an ecstatic mccarteny shout 'YEAH!' as the last cymbals crash - he knows they have utterly nailed it you as a sound engineer have never seen or heard anything like it. you have just witnessed the early stages of a cultural revolution. wp gg. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ypq6_5bsg GREAT post Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: buzzharvey22 on December 08, 2015, 05:36:33 PM teddybloat - take a bow son. One of my favourite posts on blonde. WP.
Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: nirvana on December 08, 2015, 06:06:33 PM I know it's ridiculous to think of a single favourite song but if I was pressed hard then Love will tear us apart would be it for me. Couldn't imagine enjoying a cover but enjoyed that, thanks and I'll look up some more of their stuff.
My over offering is one I came across quite recently YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQIKPxiUe6M Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: Geo the Sarge on December 08, 2015, 07:21:03 PM teddybloat - take a bow son. One of my favourite posts on blonde. WP. Big +1 from me too. As i finished reading your post and watching the clips I was about to post more or less the same and seen Buzz had already posted. Also One of my favourite posts on here, well done sir. Geo Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: hhyftrftdr on December 08, 2015, 09:19:19 PM Am I right in thinking that Trent was dead against anyone covering Hurt? And refused to listen to JC's cover for ages? Then when he eventually heard it it blew him away....
Read an article on the video recently; can't remember the exact details but there is no lighting, or make up or anything like that, as Cash just wanted it all to be natural. And sadly they had to rush it, as his health was slipping away pretty quickly. Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: teddybloat on December 08, 2015, 09:54:18 PM yeah i think he listened to it with the band and then gave the famous 'girlfriend' quote
here it is in the original interview: Quote Geoff Rickly: How did you feel the first time you heard Johnny' Cash's rendition of "Hurt"'? How did you feel when you realized it would be his last will as a musician? Trent Reznor: Rick Rubin has been a friend for a long time, and he called me asking how I felt about Johnny covering "Hurt." I was flattered, but frankly, the idea sounded a bit gimmicky to me. I really didn't put much thought into it, as I was working on something at the time and was distracted. A few weeks later, a CD shows up with the track. Again, I'm in the middle of something and put it on and give it a cursory listen. It sounded... weird to me. That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else. Or something like that. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on lack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore. Then it all made sense to me. It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. Some-fucking-how that winds up reinter-preted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning-dif-ferent, but every bit as pure. Things felt even stranger when he passed away. The song's pur-pose shifted again. It's incredibly flattering as a writer to have your song chosen by someone who�s a great writer and a great artist. cash and his wife died not long after the video was finished up. Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: KarmaDope on December 08, 2015, 10:16:23 PM YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N3QL8fOwWg Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: TightEnd on December 09, 2015, 02:13:10 PM bbc music
Greatest Cover Versions: Top 50 Selected by BBC DJ's and Music experts, here is your shortlist of the Top 50 Cover Versions. an interesting playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/playlists/zzzzcm Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: DMorgan on December 09, 2015, 03:14:52 PM First We Take Manhattan
All Along The Watchtower Hallelujah Tainted Love Nothing Compares 2 U I Will Always Love You I Heard It Through The Grapevine I Fought The Law Respect Songbird When The Levee Breaks A Message To You Rudy Killing Me Softly With His Song I didn't know that the most recognisable version (to me at least) of any of these songs were covers - the things you learn eh? Title: Re: Your favourite cover songs Post by: AlunB on December 09, 2015, 04:03:33 PM First We Take Manhattan All Along The Watchtower Hallelujah Tainted Love Nothing Compares 2 U I Will Always Love You I Heard It Through The Grapevine I Fought The Law Respect Songbird When The Levee Breaks A Message To You Rudy Killing Me Softly With His Song I didn't know that the most recognisable version (to me at least) of any of these songs were covers - the things you learn eh? I knew most of those, but those ones were news to me! Speaking of All Along the Watchtower, I wonder if there has been an artist who's been covered more than Bob Dylan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artists_who_have_covered_Bob_Dylan_songs |