The new song covers thread

[C0ckney]

a couple of madonna covers

first sonic youth side project, ciccone youth doing into the groove(y)



ciccone youth - into the groovey

teenage fan club doing like a virgin



teenage fanclub - like a virgin

[C0ckney]

orchestral manoeuvres in the dark covering the velvet underground.



orchestral manoeuvres in the dark - waiting for the man



the velvet underground - i'm waiting for the man

the beta band with a weird and amazing take on bonnie tyler



the beta band - the hard one



bonnie tyler - total eclipse of the heart

[self biased]

[Heart's Barracuda]


[Rasputina's Barracuda]


[John Lennon's Imagine]


[A Perfect Circle's Imagine]

[-Jrabbit]

I'm by no means a huge bluegrass fan, but I love the way these guys go after cover tunes.

The first one is specifically to offend Alby...



Hayseed Dixie - Walk This Way

But the one I really dig is their version of the Queen classic, "Bohemian Rhapsody"...



Oh, and here's their live version of Green Day's "Holiday" - performed on Top of The Pops, it appears...



They cover a lot of heavy metal, too. What's weird is that they are far more popular in the UK than in the US.

[-Jrabbit]

Stairway to Heaven in the style of the early Beatles... pretty amusing, and only 2:40.

[C0ckney]

hayseed dixie are awesome. i was due to go and see them a couple of years back at the pontardawe arts centre, but they had to cancel for some reason and i never got to the see them play.

did you see the bluegrass cover of iggy pop i posted earlier jrabbit?

nina gordon covering NWA.



nina gordon - straight outta compton



n.w.a. - straight outta compton

[Cort Haus]

David Watts

Kinks



Jam

[Cort Haus]

Heatwave

Martha & the Vandellas



The Jam



Obviously there are lots of others who have done it. Cracking song.

[Spaced Cowboy]

David Bowie: The man who sold the world

Nirvana: The man who sold the world

[C0ckney]

time to dig this one up.

the fall covering the other half



the fall - mr pharmacist



the other half - mr pharmacist

and here's a charming version of as i went out one morning by bob dylan from mira billotte



mira billotte - as i went out one morning

and dirty projectors' take on the same



dirty projectors - as i went out one morning

[Darius871]

16 Horsepower covering Creedence Clearwater Revival




16 Horsepower covering Bob Dylan

[C0ckney]

damn server

[C0ckney]

this isn't really a cover, but it's so obviously inspired by anne clark's sleeper in metropolis that i think it qualifies. it's like having a version to play in a dirty, sweaty, drug fuelled warehouse party. take a listen and see for yourselves.



phantasia - inner light

http://youtu.be/jS-xpIhcfpE

anne clark - sleeper in metropolis (for some reason the embed appears to be broken on this vid)

[C0ckney]

the song louie louie is universally known. it's a rock and roll standard and has been done literally hundreds of times, by everyone from the kinks, to the beach boys, to motorhead, to frank zappa. everybody knows the kingsmen's version from the early 60s, but the original by richard berry and the pharaohs is less well known. as this is the covers thread i will post my favourite version, a lovely and very different take from julie london.



julie london - louie louie



richard berry & the pharaohs - louie louie

[C0ckney]

here's the flaming lips doing a kylie cover.



the flaming lips - can't get you out of my head