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Music and Covers

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32	chinook

4 months ago

I started this thread so there is a place for Plimates to post a song they like and its cover(s)/original and discuss their opinions.

I love listening to music. I like listening to covers of songs. Sometimes I think the newer version is much worse than the original, or much better, or so unique that it seems as though they are different songs.

The song that made me start this thread is Big Hard Sun.

While I enjoy Eddie Vedder's cover, I prefer Indio/Peterson's original. The first time I heard the song it gave me shivers, even though it was just sung by a few people around a campfire with a guitar. Vedder changed a few lyrics for his cover, and IMO it kind of changes the meaning of the song. Either version is still excellent, IMHO.

Indio/Gordon Peterson's original:

Eddie Vedder's cover (for Into the Wild):

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32	chinook

4 months ago

Way back just before I made my debut on Planet Earth, this fellow Peter Schilling made a song called Major Tom (Coming Home).

Recently, Shiny Toy Guns covered this song, and I definitely prefer the cover, though it could be because I love Shiny Toy Guns :)
The cover is so upbeat that it makes me want to dance, and I love dancing!

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10	dingbat

4 months ago

Original by NIN

Cover by Mr Cash

First time I saw the video for the cover it scared me how old and frail he looked. Quiet reminder that it will come to us all.

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35	icepigs

4 months ago

I have an entire CD I burned with nothing but remakes: (the ones in BOLD I think the remake is better than the original)

Feel Like Making Love (originally by Bad Company) as recorded by Dangerous Toys.
Video Killed the Radio Star (org by the Buggles) as recorded by Presidents of the USA
Mama Said Knock You Out (org by LL Cool J) as recorded by Scatterbrain
Mama We're All Crazy Now (org by Slade) as recorded by Mama's Boys
Up Around the Bend (org by CCR) as recorded by Hanoi Rocks
Sweet Dream (org by Eurythmics) as recorded by Marilyn Manson
Low Rider (org by War) as recorded by Exodus
Summer Breeze (org by Seals and Crofts) as recorded by Type O Negative
You Spin Me Round (org by Dead or Alive) as recorded by Dope
Cinnamon Girl (org by Neil Young) as recorded by Type O Negative
Shout 2000 (org by Tears for Fears) as recorded by Disturbed
Good Times Roll (org by Cars) as recorded by Powermain 2000
Turn the Page (org by Bob Seger) as recorded by Metallica
New York Grove (org by Hello) as recorded by Ace Frehley

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55	pocksuck...

4 months ago

Jung was right.

There have been several instances recently where I've thought of starting a thread, not got round to in and then in a couple of days someone else does.

This is just one more example of that synching feeling.

So to join in I'll start off with this from The Ronettes:

Brief history lesson for those who care about such things. Even without knowing I think most people would realise this is a Phil Spector production. Some people might think it's Mark Ronson but those people need beating with a stick marked "Musical History". For my money it's the pinnacle of this trademark "Wall Of Sound". It has a poignancy to those who know its meaning. Phil Spector could be summed up with the following words - "One time musical genius, full time ass-hole". He wife Ronnie led and gave her name to The Ronettes. Towards the end of their marriage in a moment of epiphany he wrote IWINSTS to try and express how he felt about the rest of his life being inevitably without her. It was his own fault, and if you want to know what kind of monster Phil was then I'm sure the internet will tell you. Sometimes something beautiful can come out of something so brutal.

And on to the cover.

Beth Orton, proponent of the minority genre folktronica took this song and stripped it back to it's barest possible bones in this - both versions send shivers down my spine, but for different reasons.

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55	pocksuck...

4 months ago

Following on thematically from Beth Orton, long time collaborators The Chemical Brothers took The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows

And turned it into Let Forever Be

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18	soreen

4 months ago

Awesome idea for a thread.

I expect I'll be adding a bunch ove time, but for now, one of my favorites..

not necessarily because either song sticks out on it's own, but the contrast between the 2 different versions,

Tears for Fears - Mad World

Of course embedding is disabled

and Gary Jules

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32	chinook

4 months ago

I love Gene Kelly's performance of Singin' in the Rain. It makes me smile and want to sing along and dance:

Mint Royale grabbed hold of the song, and turned it into something so different that it is almost a completely different song. I like it, too, not as a cover but as a new song.

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18	soreen

4 months ago

And on to...

Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

This cover doesn't do much for me, not too different from the original, but fairly well known.
Marilyn Manson

Of course embedding is disabled

And on to my more favored cover.
Johnny Cash

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23	Subobisi...

4 months ago

I can't access youtube, so I can't post a video, but Kat Edmonson does an amazing deconstructed jazz cover of The Cure's famous "Just Like Heaven":

streaming here!

EDIT by Meggysue
The Cure

Free mp3 download of Kat's version

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chez

4 months ago

Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You

Muse - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You

I heard this cover on my friend's mp3 player and loved it. I love Muse, they do a good job covering this song.

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chez

4 months ago

Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl

Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl

I love how type o got this happy feel good song and turned into a depressing song. Peter Steele amuses me to no end.

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chez

4 months ago

Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze

Type O Negative - Summer Girl

edit: I can keep going with the type o covers, they're well done, even the cover of 'Angry Inch' from Hedwig and the Angry Inch is hilariously awesome.

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chez

4 months ago