Tasty Cover Versions

DesVegas · February 2017

Can't find one better than this

tone1 · February 2017

Still my favourite cover version

ICBM · February 2017

I know I always post this, but I don't think I've ever heard one which tops it.

vasselmeyer · February 2017

My favourite cover varies all the time, but my current one is Imelda May's rockabilly version of "Tainted Love".

Moss · February 2017

DesVegas said:

Can't find one better than this

Just can't feel that that version does the original any justice (that may just be because it's my favourite song of all time, though)

This, however...

d8m · February 2017

mudslide73 · February 2017

I know I've posted this before but it's lovely.

EricTheWeary · February 2017

ICBM said:

I know I always post this, but I don't think I've ever heard one which tops it.

The studio version has Al Anderson on the solos, I saw him live about ten years ago and he was truly wonderful. He used to be Paul Kossoff's flat mate and got the Bob Marley (and then the Peter Tosh) gig on Kossoff's suggestion.

Moominpapa · February 2017

John Martyn's version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow": first of all for having the balls to try and cover it in the first place and secondly for doing something new with it - which is what a cover is all about, isn't it?

EricTheWeary · February 2017

Been loving this lately.

Bucket · February 2017

SikTh covering Nick Cave. A marriage that sounds as though it was forged in the fires of hell. God it's good.

Mikee Goodman is one of the best metal vocalists in history. A force of nature.

RocknRollDave · February 2017

lasermonkey · February 2017

Teenage Fanclub covering The Bevis Frond's He'd Be A Diamond:

and The Posies covering Chris Bell's I Am The Cosmos:

olafgarten · February 2017

Better than the original, although the guitar is a little muddy in the chorus.

olafgarten · February 2017

This is also amazing.

Fallon does an amazing Neil Young.

EricTheWeary · February 2017

I've posted this before in other contexts but, for me, a cover that gets the balance between obvious respect of the original material and successful reinterpretation.

fob · February 2017

EricTheWeary · February 2017

@fob I've posted the Country Roads one in another Discussion about a thousand years ago, it's brilliant. I've suggested it to my band but it turns out to be something of a Marmite thing.

funkyfraz · February 2017

Not exactly a cover but more 'singing to a bk' but this boy can sing!

https://youtu.be/0w0RTkWO4XQ

fob · February 2017

I first heard Country Roads on one of my mum's Toots records; when I heard John Denver's version I initially assumed it was a rather pointless cover. Denver's studio release seems a little sterile to me but live versions are much better.

dindude · March 2017

This has surely got to be up there.

This one will will be controversial but I love this performance.

And I quite like this.

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