Best cover versions

[gingerjon]

Have I put this one on here before?

[Severus]

I really do like The Band Perry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tje63_DA0Tc

Not sure why a band with two guitarists and a bassist need a couple of guitarists playing backing.

[Severus]

Have I put this one on here before?

I like that.

[Severus]

One Dime Blues by The Travelling Band

[gingerjon]

Not sure why a band with two guitarists and a bassist need a couple of guitarists playing backing.

I think we can all think of situations where what appears to be a perfectly fine set-up can be made infinitely better by a reduction of two in the playing staff.

Good observation.

[Wolford6]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTIBHTAlccQ

[Futtocks]

Wow, the Kane Gang! I'm sure I've still got my 12" single of 'Closest Thing to Heaven' somewhere.

[gingerjon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzur3nM0k0w

[gingerjon]

We're not exactly flooded with Dream Academy covers but this is the leader in that group for mine

[Mistress_Marlowe]

This...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/j8e4kla7Hd0

as a cover of this...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/n3Io_5CEMiI

Edited March 1, 2013 by Mistress_Marlowe

[Leeds Wire]

Not sure if I've posted this before, but here's a link to a fantastic, suprising range of cover versions. The AV Club website invited the public to nominate songs for bands to cover, then a load of bands were invited into the studio to choose which one they wanted to cover. Each time a song was performed it was crossed off the list. The project is now in its fourth season and all the covers are free to view and listen to.

Some of the covers are brilliantly done and some are just bobbins, but they are all interesting. See what you think... here's 2012's tunes:

http://www.avclub.com/features/av-undercover-2012

[gingerjon]

The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness done by a northern 'folk' singer

 

[Leeds Wire]

Reggae "Professor" covers Culture's They Never Love" live. What a talent he is.

 

[Leeds Wire]

The ultimate cover version: Taking a legendary Jimmy Cliff song and transforming it into something so completely different. Brilliant stuff by a truly great band.

 

[Trojan]

This

 

or this

Edited May 26, 2013 by Trojan

[gingerjon]

The world needs Twisted Sister doing the Shangri-Las

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO_brEreGLw

Edited July 3, 2013 by gingerjon

[gingerjon]

Anne Nightingale used to play that every week on her Sunday night show about 1984.

If you can be arsed, there is also some excellent footage of their lead singer facing the PMRC panel and absolutely tearing their arguments to pieces. Dee Snyder v PMRC or similar.

 

I saw the links, I'll have a look later.

[Phil]

The ultimate cover version: Taking a legendary Jimmy Cliff song and transforming it into something so completely different. Brilliant stuff by a truly great band.

 

 

 

Johnny Nash actually 

[Ullman]

Monster Magnet's version of Donovan's Three Kingfishers

 

[Trojan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp9zefnOoDY

[Ullman]

[WearyRhino]

I'd forgotten about this thread. Here's one I love and contend is better than the original!

 

Edited August 8, 2014 by WearyRhino

[l'angelo mysterioso]

the best cover version of anything ever FACT, you might as well close the thread

 

[Ullman]

the best cover version of anything ever FACT, you might as well close the thread

 

I was aware of its existence.

 

Nothing had prepared me for its magnificence.

[Futtocks]

I was aware of its existence.

 

Nothing had prepared me for its magnificence.

Not a cover version (as far as I know) but just wait 'til you experience Leonard Nimoy singing 'The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins'. YouTube is your friend....