Best cover versions

[unapologetic pedant]

23 minutes ago, Derwent said:

 

Goes even better with Pan`s People in voluminous dresses. Cherry Gillespie`s first performance on TOTP.

[Derwent]

1 hour ago, Johnoco said:

Neil (Young Ones) also did a version of My White Bicycle. I saw The Skids a couple of years back, some great new stuff as well as the old faves. I told RJ that I was a fan but he talked too much b’locks on Twitter. He laughed 

Stuart Adamson was a superb musician. I loved the stuff he did with Big Country.

[Jeff Stein]

 

[my missus]

 

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

On 11/08/2021 at 15:28, my missus said:

 

Anyone who does a version of that song is alright by me

[Leeds Wire]

On 11/08/2021 at 15:28, my missus said:

 

Weird. 

Na Na Na etc is awful, yet it could have been really cool. 

The bit where she pushes her top away to reveal more shoulder gave it away and should have been edited out. It's about the image for her above the music.

[my missus]

she does a version of "comfortably numb" which she aborts halfway through because her fans didn't know it.

[Leeds Wire]

 

[Leeds Wire]

This is a lovely rendition of one of my favourite ever songs. Massive goosebumps.

 

[Leeds Wire]

oh my word

 

[Josef K]

Tin Tin Out did a horrendous cover version of “The Sundays - Here’s Where The Story End’s”. I cringe every time i hear that cover, i don’t know how they were allowed to get away with it.
The Sundays were a fantastic band and Harriet Wheeler had a beautiful voice, she may still have as well. 

[gingerjon]

 

[Leeds Wire]

 

[The Future is League]

Rollin and Tumblin. Canned Heat

 

[Ullman]

On 06/08/2021 at 18:12, Derwent said:

Stuart Adamson was a superb musician. I loved the stuff he did with Big Country.

 

On 06/08/2021 at 18:30, Johnoco said:

He was an incredibly talented guitarist but sadly had serious personal issues which got the better of him. 

I find Chance  a very moving song, especially in light of what happened to him.

[Futtocks]

A balm for troubled minds in worrying times.

 

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

Not a cover version as such, more of a re-write, but possibly quite apt in the current times, especially as it has the blessing of the remaining members of The Clash

 

[Oxford]

I was thinking about what makes a great version: different voice, arrangement the change from acoustic to electric and vice versa, up or down in tempo?

I was listening to the several versions I have of a couple of Richard Thompson's the Dimming of the Day and Beeswing and in these hardly anything changes except the voice.

I also have an album of covers of Van the Angry Man songs and some of those are a complete disaster in almost every respect.

The post above with He'll Have to Go is probably the best version of that because all the others I've heard have been just syrup in the studio.

 

Talking Ry Cooder and Chickenskin, his version of I Got Mine rates with people like Pink Anderson And Bourgois Blues is a gem!

And, on the whole, I prefer Half the World Away slowed down and acoustic and always the Holiday interpretation to the Fitzgerald renditions though I'm happy to listen to both.

And I think I'm no clearer on this issue than when I started typing.

But how do you even approach this ? (and it's been tried!)

 

Edited March 24, 2022 by Oxford

[Oxford]

 

[Oxford]

 

[Oxford]

 

[Leeds Wire]

Curtis Mayfield cover by the legendary Fishbone

 

[Leeds Wire]

Probably a repeat on this thread, but worth it nonetheless

 

[Leeds Wire]

Anyone recognise this talented young woman?

 

[Leeds Wire]

I didn't realise that Neil Diamond wrote this