I think they just meant that Eruption contains some rapid arpeggiated chords that (if you squint aurally a bit) sound vaguely reminiscient of Bach?
Wonderful stuff. And the drummer, Simon Phillips, was something like nineteen years old at the time, if I’m not mistaken.
I think I did the link right 
The Proclaimers cover of 500 Miles is much, much different than the original Peter, Paul & Mary folk song.
Bad news, they are different songs with similar titles.
Extreme’s “Play With Me” also has a similar vibe in the solo.
As an added bonus, the opening notes are the same as the opening for “Rondo Alla Turca,” note for note, only with an electric guitar as opposed to a piano.
fart I should have listened to the original first.
Happens. I love the Proclaimers song, I don’t love the Peter, Paul and Mary version of 500 Miles. But I’m not sure there is a version I love.
They elevated it by changing everything about it. Tempo, genre, key, lyrics, melody, you name it.
The mashup of Every Breath You Take/Peter Gunn.
Ahem. Tony Tribe did the heavy lifting on that one. It is said that UB40 didn’t even know that it was a Neil Diamond song.
j
interesting take:
I was going to suggest this, but We_re_wolves_not_werewolves beat me to it.
Not a cover that elevates the original, but one that is one the same level but different is Jeff Beck’s version of “A Day in the Life.”
There are a few interesting covers by John Cale where he dramatically slows down the tempo. I particularly like this one - I swear I can smell the earth.
j
And while I think of it, this Captain Beefheart cover by Magazine - hmmm - adds a bit of pep. I always thought that the crescendo kinda illustrates what it would feel like to be the clapper of a bell.
BTW NSFW - language
And the original:
j
Iron and Wine’s downtempo acoustic version of New Order’s “Love Vigilantes”
A wonderful song made wonderfuller. Originally (? Maybe “famously” is more accurate) performed by Johnny Cash.
Burton Cummings (formerly of The Guess Who) performing the Bachman Turner Overdrive song “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ yet,” written by Randy Bachman (formerly of The Guess Who.) It’s… interesting.
Not for nothing, but I’m struggling to figure out how you would change the time signature of a song and still call it the same song. You’d be cutting out notes or adding some in; the lyrics wouldn’t fit the meter anymore. It would be like re-creating a Model-T by only giving it two wheels.
I think Clapton’s upbeat version of “Layla” is a better song than his original with Derek and the Dominos.