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« Reply #50 on: 09 Sep 2006, 13:13 »
If you can play m4a files (i.e. have iTunes) then I suggest you go here for Biz Markie singing "Bennie And The Jets," originally by Elton John. It is a good decision.
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« Reply #51 on: 09 Sep 2006, 13:23 »
I can't believe I forgot one of my personal favorite covers; The Deftones version of Sade's "No Ordinary Love."  Simply brilliant, so 'twas.

/likes a lot of the Deftones covers.
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« Reply #52 on: 09 Sep 2006, 14:18 »
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Shatner doing Common People is classic.


seconded. seconded SO HARD.

The Ditty Bops covering The Everly Brothers' "Bye-Bye Love" may be the happiest breakup song ever recorded. I didn't think they could outdo my love of all things Simon & Garfunkel, but I cannot resist it.

I'm not crazy about Imogen Heap or Footloose, but I really enjoy Frou Frou's version of "Holding Out For A Hero."

brilliance:  Ted Leo singing "Since U Been Gone"
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« Reply #53 on: 10 Sep 2006, 19:26 »
Ted Leo - Dirty Old Town
Apocalypse Hoboken - Pop Goes the World
The Vindictives - Rubber Bullets
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash - Redemption Song
Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
Richard Cheese - Yellow
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« Reply #54 on: 10 Sep 2006, 20:22 »
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Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat


While we're talking about Nick Cave covers, the cover of "God Is In The House" by the Paperchase is pretty excellent...I don't know how, but somehow that band manages to make everything they do sound creepy.  Nick Cave's version of this song was pretty cynical and all, but the Paperchase cover just makes me want to curl myself into the fetal position and whimper for my mother...
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« Reply #55 on: 10 Sep 2006, 20:36 »
Steel Pole Bathtub doing "What I Need" by The Cars because I love noise-rock bands doing covers that completly wreck the original.
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« Reply #56 on: 10 Sep 2006, 22:56 »
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i'm going to commit indie suicide and admit my love of Bodyjar's beer-swilling on-every-snowboarding-game-soundtrack-ever cover of Simon and Garfunkles Hazy Shade of Winter. It was on a compilation I bought when I was 14 and it was the height of the whole Xtreme thing and i still love it. sigh...i miss 1998


I still like Bodyjar. They also covered Coolidge by Descendents and Rascist Friend by They Might Be Giants which were both pretty cool.
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« Reply #57 on: 14 Sep 2006, 17:14 »
Dynamitekid, Live & Let Die is Paul & Linda McCartny.........I'm like 99.99% sure, i never actually heard the original

I actually like quite a few covers GNR did...........Knocking on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan), Since I Don't Have You (some 50's band, never heard the original) and Sympathy For The Devil (The Rolling Stones) are all excellent

Oh, and I like some punk covers of shit pop songs like Presidents of the USA's Video Killed The Radio Star and Me First and the Gimme Gimme's I Believe I Can Fly.........(shut up, I'm 14)
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« Reply #58 on: 22 Sep 2006, 07:20 »
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Apoptygma Berzerk - Fade To Black. Should be sacrilege, but sounds ace.
Their live cover of Enjoy the Silence is actually pretty good, too, not counting the pointlessly long intro.

The Shroud's cover of Sister of Mercy's Alice is amazingly good, and this is coming from someone who really cannot stand the "violin, cello, and a weak female vocalist" style goth bands. I guess it also falls in the "should be sacriledge, comes out good" catagory.

I'd say Grendel's Zombie Nation 2k5 wins in comparison to the original, but I don't know if the original counts as music to begin with.
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« Reply #59 on: 22 Sep 2006, 12:10 »
Metallica's cover of "Stone Cold Crazy" by Queen is freaking kick ass, both versions of the song are.
that song was written to be covered by Metallica, i swear.

i also enjoy NoFX's cover of Don Mclean's "Vincent." i like NoFX, i like Don Mclean, i like Vincet Van Gogh......what's not to like?
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« Reply #60 on: 23 Sep 2006, 04:20 »
I heard a good cover of Sweet Child O' Mine.  Luna did it, methinks.
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« Reply #61 on: 23 Sep 2006, 08:53 »
Luna did a good version of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's 'Bonnie & Clyde', with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier guesting.  It's the bonus track at the end of 'Penthouse', unless I'm too drunk to think... big ups New Zealand ex-Chills band members.
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« Reply #62 on: 23 Sep 2006, 10:54 »
Man, there's too many good covers for me to really go through. My favourite sort of cover is the way covers are used by the better industrial artists, totally skewing the song to give it new meaning, either by changing the lyrics, adding samples, or simple vastly altering the style of delivery. Prime examples might be Coil taking Tainted Love and, with a funerary pace, soul-piercing synth stabs and an incredible video turning it into a song about the tragedy of AIDS, and pretty much everything Laibach have ever touched, for example, their version of War, where after the line 'War! What is it good for...' a choir starts singing the names of big American corporations over bitching industrial beats.
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« Reply #63 on: 23 Sep 2006, 16:28 »
Coil's cover of Tainted Love is an example of someone sounding like they're covering a cover... or at least I can't imagine they would have covered the disco number directly had they not heard Soft Cell's version.

Pure supposition, of course...

Either way, both Coil and Soft Cell have done quite phenomenal, re-defining versions of Tainted Love.

Ah, days laughing out loud at Laibach's One Vision... awesomeness.

There's a reggae version of The Spinners' I'll Be Around by a guy called Otis Gayle which I love as much as the original.
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« Reply #64 on: 23 Sep 2006, 18:09 »
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Dynamitekid, Live & Let Die is Paul & Linda McCartny.........I'm like 99.99% sure, i never actually heard the original

No, it's definitely by Paul McCartney and Wings.

LIVE AND LET DIE-I!
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« Reply #65 on: 26 Sep 2006, 16:18 »
Oops, my bad. The writing credits went to Paul & Linda, so I only assumed
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« Reply #66 on: 30 Sep 2006, 17:47 »
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine version of Down With the Sickness blew me away.


Also Cash's Hurt was much better than the originial.
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« Reply #67 on: 30 Sep 2006, 20:29 »
C-Drone Defect manages to make "It's a Sin" into a rather heavy, very angry aggrotech song. Also, Ministry doing "Lay Lady Lay" is at least laughable, if not very enjoyable.
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« Reply #68 on: 30 Sep 2006, 22:35 »
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Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine version of Down With the Sickness blew me away.

I do love me some Richard Cheese, although I may prefer his version of "Smoke Two Joints".
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« Reply #69 on: 01 Oct 2006, 02:53 »
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Coil's cover of Tainted Love is an example of someone sounding like they're covering a cover... or at least I can't imagine they would have covered the disco number directly had they not heard Soft Cell's version.

Pure supposition, of course...

Well, Marc Almond is in the video...
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