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Ive not seen either of those "Workin" clips. Very cool!
Ike and Tina do the best rock band the United States ever produced.
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Huh. Made this post before realizing that this was a thread. So here it is. :)
The fact that this cover of this song exists amuses the hell out of me.Technically I'm cheating because I'm not, in fact, currently listening to it, but the cover you shared made me need to share this one.
So much hilarity and awesome in a single cover. I didn't know a George Michael song could be done that way... and done better. Happy Sigh. :)
The Casual Dots do LaVern Baker
Then they do Etta James, but I don't see that on youtube.
Woops. They do this one: "I'll Dry My Tears" not "I'll Drown In My Own Tears."
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Within Temptation doing Adele's Skyfall
Nightwish doing Gary Moore's Over the Hills and Far Away
Iron Maiden doing Jethro Tull Cross Eyed Mary
Pagans Mind doing David Bowie Halo Spaceboy
Dream Theater doing Pantera's
Cemetary Gates
Anthrax doing Rush's Anthem
Anthrax doing AC/DC's TNT
Anthrax doing Thin Lizzy's Jail Break
Blackmores Night doing Joan Baez's Diamonds and Rust
Judas Priest doing Joan Baez's Diamonds and Rust
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Greatest cover band of all time (IMO) - Laibach
They've done plenty of original stuff as well, but their covers are inspired.
Sympathy for the Devil
They actually did an entire album just deconstructing this song once.
The entire Beatles album, Let It Be
Life is Life, originally was Live is Life, an arena rock song about performing live music.
Ohne Mich
Not sure how intentional it was, but Laibach is an influence on Rammstein, musically. The original song part of it translate "without you I am nothing", the cover makes it a duet with one singer saying "without me you are nothing".
I think it takes a certain kind of genius to change one word in a song, or just use different instruments, to completely change the tone and feel of it, almost as if revealing some hidden meaning within it.
Geburt Einer Nation
Queen's song "One Vision" sung in German and given the title "Birth of a Nation"
The Protomen Cover Queen (I just linked the whole playlist instead of a specific song.)
All of these are from a very early 90's Australian comedy show called the Money or the Gun, each week a band would cover Stairway to Heaven...
This is the Beatles cover Band the Beatnix covering Stairway To Heaven.
Vegimite Reggae - Stairway To Heaven .
Kate Ceberano and The Ministry of Fun - Stairway to Heaven .
B52s Cover band the Rock Lobsters covering Stairway to Heaven.
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Deadlands covers Dio's Last in Line. The link is to the band's website, not music. Not sure there is a video or mp3 of it, but some of their other stuff is available on YouTube, including concert clips.
Greatest cover band of all time (IMO) - Laibach
Oh shiznit, I forgot to listen to this post...
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I get a real kick every time I hear anything off of what has to be one of the oddest album of covers, Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood. A few examples:
Pat Boone sings Dio
Pat Boone sings GnR
Pat Boone sings Alice Cooper
Pat Boone sings Metallica
Pat sings Stairway
Pat sings Judas Priest
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Deadlands covers Dio's Last in Line. The link is to the band's website, not music. Not sure there is a video or mp3 of it, but some of their other stuff is available on YouTube, including concert clips.
Found a YouTube link for this. Deadlands playing Dio's Last in Line.
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house of the rising sun(The animals)...
Which itself is not an original. The oldest known recording is from 1934. It's thought that the song might be based on this on, a 17th century english ballad.
I love House of the Rising Sun, I'm a horrible musician, but it's an easy song to riff off of, just changing a little here and there you can do a lot of things with it.
According to Dave Van Ronk in Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home, the Animals got their version from Bob Dylan who got it from Van Ronk, who learned it as part of the sixties folk-boom and the unearthing of traditional Americana.
Greatest cover band of all time (IMO) - Laibach
They've done plenty of original stuff as well, but their covers are inspired.
It's hard to believe that they helped overthrow communism...
house of the rising sun(The animals)...Which itself is not an original. The oldest known recording is from 1934. It's thought that the song might be based on this on, a 17th century english ballad.
I love House of the Rising Sun, I'm a horrible musician, but it's an easy song to riff off of, just changing a little here and there you can do a lot of things with it.
Didn't realize you were linking "Matty Groves". I had never heard about the connection to "House" though.
I can't choose between Apocalyptica's cover of Fade to Black or Nothing Else Matters.
And then there is, of course, van Canto's epic a cappella take on Manowar's Kings of Metal.
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I love David Bowie, but I like people covering his stuff more...
Nirvana does The Man Who Sold the World.
And, unrelated to Bowie, Manfred Mann covers Grace Jones' Demolition Man.
If you're super brave, here's Grace Jones version...
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Halestorm covered a few good ones---
All I wanna do is make love to you-by Heart
Bad Romance- Lady Gaga
Slave to the Grind- Skid Row
Hunger Strike- Temple of the Dog
All of which I consider good covers especially with Lizzy Hale's frickin' rock-goddess voice.
Edit: just remembered a few more by Halestorm
- Out to get me- by Guns and Roses
Crazy on you- Heart
I want you (she's so heavy)- Beatles
Sweet child of mine- GnR again
Livin' on a Prayer- Bon Jovi
I love David Bowie, but I like people covering his stuff more...
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Bowie does The StonesI love David Bowie, but I like people covering his stuff more...
Phew, I was afraid that was a link to Bowies wife talking about how she caught him in bed with Mick Jagger, with a setup line like 'Bowie *does* the Stones...'
Why didn't I think of that?
I can't choose between Apocalyptica's cover of Fade to Black or Nothing Else Matters.
I just wish they wouldn't up the tempo on everything.
FtB is both the superior song and better rendition IMO. NEM is good, but FtB is just a much more layered song musically. The long, slow crescendo, the weaving nature of the various parts. Their cover really highlights Cliff Burton's writing in that song IMO.
I'm addicted to Igor Presnyakov's covers in youtube.
Here's one of my favourites, Thunderstruck
In all seriousness, A Perfect Circle does plenty of good covers. I particularly like their rendition of "Imagine" by the Beatles, as well as their "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye.
Also, there's Saul Williams' version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2.
NIN's cover of "Metal" by Gary Numan is another great.
Gotta love it when the covers are so good that no one realizes that they're actually remakes. Someone already mentioned Hendix playing Dillon's "All Along the Watchtower" -- a couple more:
Who knew that Santana's classic "Black Magic Woman" was originally by Fleetwood Mac?
Or that Janis Joplin's signature "Me and Bobby McGee" was an old Kris Kirstofferson song?
Or that CSN's anthem to the Summer of Love, "Woodstock," was written by Joni Mitchell?
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Pfft. I knew all of that, Kirth.
When I said "no one," I meant "no one with a life." ;P
Also, Steve Albini is pretty awesome in general IMO.
Still cooler than Irontruth, too.
I'm too cool to comb 4 pages to see what else has been linked :P
Doodlebug Anklebiter is the coolest in the land and all you other fools better recognize.
I'm too cool to comb 4 pages to see what else has been linked :P
Okay, that's pretty cool.
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Jimmy Fallon does Neil Young doing LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" featuring Bruce Springsteen.
I didn't want to like this, but, shiznit, it was pretty funny.
Kermit sings Needle in the Hay
This was actually on my ipod before I broke it. I can vividly remember listening to it while canoeing near the Canadian border on a trip where I didn't see another human for 6 1/2 days.