favorite covers

mike_l

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RTOLMbKjLeY

 

one of mine, post yours.

breakstuff

This, (probably to howls of protest from Dio fans)

Great vid too

ICBM

Still probably my favourite ever.

Bucket

I've been listening to "eMOTIVe" by A Perfect Circle a fair bit recently, most of the songs on it are covers and they're very good. Often bear little relation to the originals but they're really cool arrangements that give a totally different feel to the songs.

Bucket

I also really like this - featuring the amazing Ollie Halsall on guitar and (I think) vocals.

HAL9000

This Mortal Coil (Cocteau Twins) - Song to the Siren...

Aynsley Lister - All Along The Watchtower

richardhomer

This:

Phil_aka_Pip

Wishbone Ash - Get Ready
Pat Benatar - Wuthering Heights
James Taylor - Up On The Roof (there's a live version of this from a few years back that's pure brilliance)

plus the usual:
Joe Cocker - Little help From My Friends
Jimi Hendrix - any of his Dylan covers, especially Watchtower

PolarityMan

Love the lacuna coil one, the APC version of Imagine is one of the shittest things Maynard has ever been involved with on the other hand. 

dogload

HAL9000 said:

This Mortal Coil (Cocteau Twins) - Song to the Siren...

I am of such age that this IS the definitive version of that song. It's just so gorgeous.

RocknRollDave

Johnny Cash - Hurt has to be up there, surely?

Most recent cover I heard that I liked was Ghost's version of Waiting For The Night by Depeche Mode.


Heard a couple of absolute stinkers recently too - Machine Head doing Message In A Bottle, and Halestorm doing Get Lucky, which is a textbook example of how taking a non Rock song and "Rocking it up" is the last refuge of the terminally untalented.

RocknRollDave

This is just great, IMO:

spark240

RocknRollDave said:

This is just great, IMO:

Coooollll !    Just added to our set !

mike_l

breakstuff said:

This, (probably to howls of protest from Dio fans)

Great vid too

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7dG_m3MsI

IMO the best KSE have released.

Bidley

The most annoying thing about KSE's Dio cover is so many kids think it's originally their song. I do prefer the original (due to myself being a big Dio fan and very much not a fan of KSE) but at least it's fairly faithful to the original.

Bidley

RocknRollDave said:

which is a textbook example of how taking a non Rock song and "Rocking it up" is the last refuge of the terminally untalented.

Being in a band who has done this, would you care to elaborate?

EricTheWeary

ICBM;237428" said:

Still probably my favourite ever.

works better live than the over produced studio version. One of those I want to start a band just to play this song songs.
I would counter with Take Me Home Country Roads by Toots and The Maytalls if I knew how to do YouTube links from my phone.

Can I make a leap to Please Don't Touch by Headgirl? Not sure Tosh would have approved but it's another good reworking of a rock n roll song.

RocknRollDave

Bidley said:

RocknRollDave said:

which is a textbook example of how taking a non Rock song and "Rocking it up" is the last refuge of the terminally untalented.

Being in a band who has done this, would you care to elaborate?

I've seen many - and indeed been IN - bands that have "rocked up" songs because they simply weren't capable of replicating the subtleties/ dynamics of the original, and over-compensate by whacking up the gain and heading at it full pelt, hoping some kind of comedy value would make up for what was lost.

Now..I'm not saying ALL rocked up versions are guilty of this, but I definitely think the Halestorm version fits that description, and there's definitely a certain type of pub band that lends itself to this kind of bludgeoning approach and it's just been done to death, IMO.

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Bidley

I see. I agree, it doesn't always work (just listened to that Machine Head cover and it is complete shite) but when it does it's lots of fun.

I'd also argue that more often than not the aim isn't to replicate the "subtleties/dynamics" of the original. It's to play the song in a new light, if that makes sense? My band do a cover of Hungry Like The Wolf, and it always goes down well and is loads of fun live. It lends itself well to riffy Metal as well.

d8m

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On a more serious note this is epic!

RocknRollDave

Bidley said:

I see. I agree, it doesn't always work (just listened to that Machine Head cover and it is complete shite) but when it does it's lots of fun.

I'd also argue that more often than not the aim isn't to replicate the "subtleties/dynamics" of the original. It's to play the song in a new light, if that makes sense? My band do a cover of Hungry Like The Wolf, and it always goes down well and is loads of fun live. It lends itself well to riffy Metal as well.

Yep, good choice of a song that does lend itself to a heavier approach