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Myself and my other music mad mate are compiling a Spotify playlist of great cover versions. Any input to be had.
Dissapointlingly there are some songs noit available such as Arcade Fire doing 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' and Teenage Fanclub covering Like a Virgin and Bright Eyes doing Elliott Smiths The Biggest Lie (my all time favourite)
Off the top of my head:
Belle and Sebastian - Here Comes The Sun, Boys are Back in Town, I'm Waitin' For The Man.
Ben Folds-Tiny Dancer
The Flaming Lips- Bohemian Rhapsody, The Golden Age, Knives Out, Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Happy Mondays-Step On
Jeff Buckley-Hallalujah
Johnny Cash-One, Hurt, Bridge Over Troubled Water, In My Life, We'll Meet Again, I Won't Back Down
Bellowhead-I Want To See Bright Lights Tonight
The White Stripes-Jolene, I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
The Clash-I fought the Law, Police & Thieves
Oasis-I Am The Walrus
Tricky-Black Steel
The Housemartins-Caravan Of Love
Aretha Franklin-Respect
Jimi Hendrix-All Along The Watchtower
Merry Clayton-Gimme Shelter
Blondie-Hanging On The Telephone
Discuss.
ben folds- such great heights
Couple of obvious ones:
Pogues - Dirty Old Town
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
One of my favourites:
China Girl-Bowie
Laibach - Across the Universe
William Shatner - Common People
Age of Chance - Kiss
Nina Gordon - Straight out of Compton
Van Halen - You really got me
Oooh, Didn't know VH had covered that!!!
Frazier Chrous - Anarchy in the UK
Aztec Camera - Jump
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane.
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover) - Ray Lamontagne
Can't beat the Hoff's cover of Hooked on a Feeling.
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Anything by Oasis.
Nirvana - The man who sold the world
Already mentioned, but its ace. Miles better than the original
And this is utter genius...
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Anything by Oasis.
I'm sure the Ruttles appreciate the royalty cheques 🙂 I think they get 20% of 'Whatever'.
Obvz
Family - My Friend The Witch Doctor
Julie and Buddy Miller - Keep Your Distance
Rolling Stones - Just My Imagination
The Stranglers - Walk On By
Richard Thompson - Oops I Did It Again
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
Townes van Zandt - Dead Flowers
Frank Zappa - Whipping Post, Ring Of Fire, Stairway To Heaven
Guy Garvey did an acoustic cover of Bowies Lets Dance, live, when he died and its [url= http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-01-25/guy-garvey-pays-tribute-to-bowie-with-moving-acoustic-version-of-lets-dance ]utterly gorgeous[/url]
I find it utterly mesmerising.
Actuually there's a load of interesting ones on here:
Billy Bragg does disco? When his guitar comes in at 2:19 it's great.
Guy Garvey did an acoustic cover of Bowies Lets Dance, live, when he died and its utterly gorgeous
Guy Garvey, dead?
Black Crowes - Hard to handle
Happy mondays - Step on
Joss Stone - Fell in love with a boy
Jimi Hendrix - All along the Watchtower
He can't die. He's pickled! 😉
Chk chk chk - Take Ecstacy With Me
Lemonheads- Different Drum (best cover ever (probably))
Sex Pistols - Stepping Stone & No Fun
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy & Fools Rush In (oh yes!)
The Slits - Heard it through the Grapevine
Killing Joke's excellent time-travel cover of Nirvana's 'Come As You Are'
Ooh hang on, just remembered Futureheads - Hounds of Love.
Eels - Get Ur Freak On
Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
Suzanna and the Magical Orchestra's version of Love will tear us apart is quite haunting
Waiting around to die by Lemonheads
Dead Flowers by Townes Van Zandt
Beastie Boys-Benny and the jets. Genius if you're just the right level of drunk.
Low - Blue Christmas (Elvis et. al.)
Porky Pig - Blue Christmas 🙂
Worth a fortune if you were ever to find a copy on vinyl! Super rare. I sent a copy on CDR out with christmas cards one year and a mate though it was a recording of me and my girlfriend.
reel big fish : take on me.
me first and the gimme-gimmes : rocketman
Can't see the videos as I am at work, did anyone say Gun - Word Up yet?
Hope not 😉
Rolling Stones-I Wanna Be Your Man
Related to above (cos that's what we do 🙂 ) - Viet Cong - "Dark Entries"
Otis Redding - Satisfaction.
Apparently the horns are the sound Keith Richards was trying to get on his guitar.
Gnarls Barkley - Reckoner (Radiohead)
Hybrid - Enjoy the Silence
Devo - Satisfaction !
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - Erasure. A guilty pleasure, takes me back to Teesside Poly SU in 1986....
And this one of Travis doing Joni Mitchell. Lovely, and a nice story too, but probably not recorded anywhere other than the VH1 Youtube clip -
Jesus & Mary Chain - Little Red Rooster (brilliant)(where is it? I wanna listen to it now!)
MarkBrewer
Nirvana - The man who sold the world
For me, this is the definitive cover
Anything from Easy Star All Stars Radiodread?
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Limp Biscuit-Faith (George Michael)
Pink-Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
Alien Ant Farm-Smooth Criminal (Wacko Jacko)
Cake-I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
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[url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r74--H-jXP8 ]The One That Got Away - Future Idiots[/url]
[url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xwXOj55nIY ]Toxic - A Static Lullaby[/url]
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In fact everything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
Incubus, Prince "Let's go crazy"
What's the name of that french group who do 70's/80's punk new wave classics in the style of french colonial cafe or cabaret type music?
I liked their version of Guns of Brixton
^ Nouvelle Vague? Remember liking their version of XTC's 'Making Plans For Nigel'.
On vaguely (ha!) related note - 'Iron Man' by Stereolab
My coma song
Lemonheads .. Mrs Robinson
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Nick Cave - In the Ghetto
Newton Faulkner - Teardrop