I like the various Type O Negative covers like summer breeze, day tripper medley, & Hey Peter (Joe). Dimmu Borgir's cover of Burn in hell is good too.
Fiona Apple singing Pure Imagination (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, with Gene Wilder).
The Yardbirds' "Still I'm Sad" covered by Blackmore's Rainbow on "On Stage".
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andType-O version of Hey Joe is pure awesome!
The story behind their "live album", Origin of the Feces, is hilarious!
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In This Moment covering Blondie's "Call Me".
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Can't link it at the moment since I'm at work, and I don't have internet at home right now, but on the topic of Blondie's "Call Me", I highly recommend checking out the cover by Gothic/Sleaze Rock band The 69 Eyes.
Face To Face - "Chesterfield King" (Jawbreaker cover)
The Birthday Party - "Loose" (Iggy & The Stooges cover)
No Use For A Name - "Fairytale of New York" (Pogues cover)
Rollins Band - "Ex Lion Tamer" (Wire cover)
Stick and Poke - "Corpse Grinding (Wo)Man" (Harley Poe cover)
Shonen Knife - "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" (Ramones cover)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better" (The Byrds cover)
A Radio With Guts - "Kiss The Bottle" (Jawbreaker cover)
Bad Astronaut - "Linoleum" (NOFX cover)
Against Me! - "Wagon Wheel" (Old Crow Medicine Show / Bob Dylan cover)
Bouncing Souls - "Lean On Sheena" (Avoid One Thing cover)
Tim Minchin - "Feel Like Going Home" (Charlie Rich cover)
Peter Mulvey - "Bank Robber" (The Clash cover)
Social Distortion - "Making Believe" (Kitty Wells cover)
Agent Orange - "Miserlou" (Dick Dale cover)
TNX - "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me" (No Use For A Name cover)
Bad Astronaut - "Needle in the Hay" (Elliott Smith cover)
Bad Brains, featuring Henry Rollins - "Kick Out The Jams" (MC5 cover)
Dave Hause - "Trusty Chords" (Hot Water Music cover)
I am way behind on WPZO, but the renewed activity in this thread gives me a chance to highlight one of the odder covers that's been playing on my car's tape player laterly:
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee do Randy Newman
Which has been done by a lot of black artists, actually, but they almost always follow Linda Rondstadt's lead and drop the slur.
And while we're at it: Sonny and Terry do, um, Sam Cooke I think?
Monophonics do Terry Reid (live) do Uma Thurman do Cher which, I believe, is the original.
"Honey Hush" by Junkyard Preachers.
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Monophonics do Terry Reid (live) do Uma Thurman do Cher which, I believe, is the original.
They used Nancy's version for the movie I believe. Which was recorded the same year as the original (1966).
The song was written by Sonny, Cher's version is the original.
Stevie Wonder has a nice cover of it too.
I'm guessing there's more than a hundred versions of this song floating around, not that that's a bad thing IMO.
More Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) covers...
Niia Bertino - I like this one a lot. A lot of people really go for that super tender vocal style like Nancy, this is more forceful and jazzy.
Murder By Death - very nice old-school country style to it. Again, he sings it well enough that it feels like him doing him, not him doing someone else.
Coil - other than the background it's a fairly typical version. Evidently it was a staple at their live concerts, so there are a lot of variations just from Coil, floating around.
Raconteurs - a livelier version, plays with the tempo (up and down) more than everything else I've found, also rocks out quite a bit more.
Charlotte Church - very skilled singer and it sounds like she's backed up by quite the arrangement (not sure if full orchestra, but it sounds like quite a bit of one). Very big sound to it.
I like the covers, but there were quite a few I skipped that really just felt like copies of Nancy's. I'm not a huge fan of reproduction covers, I prefer it when artists give their own twist/spin to the song, even if it's just changing the genre of music.
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How about this Aaron O'Keffe school of rock cover of 46 & 2 by Tool? The girl is like 11 and does a damn fine Maynard.
Great rendition of Number of the Beast but the same director.
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As much as I like to rag on Morrissey, his cover of Magazine's "A Song From Under The Floorboards" is pretty damn good.
Nazareth's "Please Don't Judas Me" covered by Foose.
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And I'm green with envy.
Here's covers of a few newer songs that I enjoy.
CHVRCHES - Do I Wanna Know (Arctic Monkeys Cover)
TEEMID & Joie Tan - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)
The Kite String Tangle - Tennis Court (Lorde Cover)
And who could forget,
Postmodern Jukebox (feat. Puddles) - Royals (Lorde Cover)
edit: Okay one more,
July Child - C O O L (Le Youth Cover)
Shameless plug: My cover of "Brackish Waters," originally by the Gin Blossoms.
AC/DC’s Thunderstruk is great track. So are these two covers of that nice tune.
Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls.
2CELLOS - Thunderstruck. Important: Play this Loud. The actual cover starts aproximatly at 1:10.
Their name, 2CELLOS is cool, but in this case slightly misleading since there are at least 3 cellos involved at times.
Speaking of AD/CD covers.
2CELLOS and Steve vai has made a nice cover of highway to hell. 2CELLOS - Highway To Hell feat. Steve Vai. Although it is not as good as Thunderstruck, they have made a very good live cover version of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit
2CELLOS - Smells Like Teen Spirit.
And who could forget,
Postmodern Jukebox (feat. Puddles) - Royals (Lorde Cover)
I hadn't heard of Puddles before, he's amazing.
I hadn't heard of Puddles before, he's amazing.
And who could forget,
Postmodern Jukebox (feat. Puddles) - Royals (Lorde Cover)
Agree. Cool
Watched the trailer for Assassin's Creed: Unity recently. Was shocked and pleased by Lourdes' cover of Tears for Fears' 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' more the thematic appropriateness than anything else.
I have a secret list of songs by Tears for Fears that I want covered by specific bands. I won't post it here, but I will admit that Fitz and the Tantrums are who I would love to have do Bad man's Song...and Panic! At the Disco could do marvelous things with Mother's Talk.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival have made some really great covers. I personally think that covers I Heard It Through The Grapevine is their far best cover.
Creedence Clearwater Revival covers I Heard It Through The Grapevine, by Marvin Gaye
Creedence Clearwater Revival covers Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner.
More 60’s stuff
The Studio version Joe Cocker’s cover of With a little help from my friends, by the Beatles. I would say that the studio version is almost as famous as Beatles own version. And his classic Woodstock version of the same songis also nice.
"Proud Mary" was originally by CCR, who were the greatest rock'n'roll band that these United States of America ever produced.
And then, for good measure, they do Van Halen
Came across it while listening to the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol 1.
Also reminded me of one of my favourite songs, not a cover, but posting a link anyway cause I love it so much.
Emily Browning - Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams
Oh gods I love that cover. So sweet and creepy at the same time.
Her cover of The Smiths' Asleep is amazing as well.
And for the gobbo
2Cellos - Smooth Criminal
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Paul Blake and the BloodFire Posse covering Henri Mancini
Homer Simpson kind of covering The Police
and I watched this film again recently...
Rebekah Del Rio covering Roy Orbison
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Blondie does Randy and the Rainbows
Ooohw-fa-fa!
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Nina Simone covers Exuma's 'Damballa'
How to make an already strange and creepy song even stranger and creepier, in a thoroughly good way.
