i kinda prefer Boss Hoss’s version of Hey Yeah
I’d have to vote for three, and in no particular order:
“Bring the Pain” - Mindless Self Indulgence, originally by Method Man
“Get Down Make Love” - Nine Inch Nails, originally by Queen, and
“The Fiddle And The Drum” - A Perfect Circle, originally by Joni Mitchell.
All three are very, very different in genre compared to the original. And they work.
Mike Flowers Pops did a successful re-invention of said Oasis standard back in 1995:
Beaten to the UK number one by Earth Song? There is no God.
Worth a watch, if only to check out that barnet…
[Great thread BTW]
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s tinpan alley-styled cover of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights.
How about a country cover of Raspberry Beret (by the Derailers)?
I’d always wondered what that was. I flipped by the video one time and couldn’t figure out the rhyme or reason. Thanks for pointing it out.
I liked the cover of “I want to hold your hand,” from the film Across the Universe. I like the use of a female vocalist, and I like that they slowed it down and turned it from a happy little song into a song of longing.
That reminds me of this Australian Beatles tribute band, The Beatnix, performing Stairway to Heaven as done by the 1962-64 Beatles:
I didn’t see Marianne Faithfuls version of Working Class Hero yet.
Zombie music thread anyone?
Scala & Kolacny Brothers is a Belgian girls’ choir that cover rock and pop songs.
Their cover of Teenage Dirt Bag
There’s dozens of other covers done by them that you can link to from that video.
You mean this version? This was actually the first version released to the general public. Good album it came from, too.
Nevertheless, I agree that Sinead’s is the absolute best version, by a country mile.
The Isham Jones version of Stardust is a good example. Hoagy Carmichael wrote the the original (and gets all the credit these days), but it was Jones’s version that really made the song famous.
Just heard this on the radio and was reminded of this thread. Isley Brother’s Summer Breeze.
I think they’re almost all dead. Maybe one or two Isleys left.
DeVotchKa’s cover of Venus in Fursis a fairly radical departure from the original, and I’d say that I prefer it to the original.
(The above link is a live version; I recall it being pretty damn good, but I can’t actually listen right now. So, here’s the studio as well.)
I don’t think anyone has mentioned the Blanks covering Somewhere over the rainbow as an acapella group.
Also, back in the late 90’s / early 2000’s Barenaked ladies used to do an accoustic version of Prince’s “When doves cry” on tour that i thought was pretty awesome. Not sure if you can find it on the internet but i can’t really search while i’m at work.
For any Aussie Dopers out there, Boy and Bear did a cover of Crowded House’s Fall at You Feet which I really like, and which seems to have been generally well received:
You can hear it here:
amazing - I was just thinking APC when I came in here! You can almost add that entire album - their reinterpretation of When the Levee Breaks is just wonderful.
What about Klaus Nomi’s version of “The Twist”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBLKUvyIR0o
You can’t get much whiter than Gilbert and Sullivan.
Ryan Adams’ version of Oasis’s “Wonderwall” is hauntingly elegant. Or elegantly haunting. I much prefer it to the original.