People, I Love You. A contender for best cover ever.
Five years, 280 posts, and nobody’s mentioned “Roll Over Beethoven” as done by ELO? FOR SHAME!!!
Earth, Wind and Fire’s cover of “Got To Get You Into My Life” by the Beatles.
One of the best covers I ever heard is not available anywhere any longer, I think. It was a cover of “The Wanderer” by Dion and the Belmonts done for the Commodore 64’s SID chip. It had a bouncy goodness to it that the original lacked. I’ve searched for it on Youtube and Google but no joy, in large part because there was a C64 cracking group called “The Wanderers” and a popular C64 game called “Sonic Wanderer” that creates a huge amount of false leads when you do a search.
Any chance it’s this? Was just posted in January.
You know, I’m not sure. I remember it being a much livelier interpretation. But it’s been so long since I heard it I wonder if my memory has embellished it. Thanks!
There was a CD that came out in 1988 called Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. My two favorite tracks are Heigh Ho by Tom Waits and Some Day My Prince Will Come by Sinéad O’Connor.
You know, I listened to the song again with the sound turned up, and … that’s it! Thanks!
Since McKinnett wrote the song, I’m not sure I get why this counts. If you think it’s a revived folk song, a better example is Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die.
Or Simon & Garfunkel’s “Scarborough Fair/Canticle,” which will always be the definitive version for everybody of my generation.
Damn, you’re right. I thought for sure it was a medieval tune she had dressed up for modern consumption. But it is in fact ineligible for this thread. I still like it, though! Not a fan of John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic, though.
I would agree with that.
I will nominate Bobby Gentry’s cover of the Beatles’ Here There and Everywhere as being better than the original, largely because Gentry had a much better singing voice than McCartney, who sounds kinda weak compared with Gentry. Gentry’s arrangement is also very different and better than the original Beatles’ arrangement. Of course, the Beatles get enormous cred for having written the tune in the first place.
this would also be better with immediate embedded videos
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Correction My Way was performed by Sid Vicious, with musical arrangement by Simon Jeffes for the The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle soundtrack after the Pistols had split.
Speaking if Joni, Nazareth’s interpretation of This Flight Tonight" turns the song on it’s head.
Two that come to mind:
Christina Aguilera - “Beautiful”
Clem Snide - “Beautiful”
… I really like this one, and I think its much different.
I also really like Ben Taylor’s cover of “Nothing Compares to You”.
Not saying its better - but its different … and good.
Noah Guthrie posted his arrangement of LMFAO’s Sexy and I Know It on YouTube back in 2012. Noah has the song totally reimagined, and IMHO better version.
This was probably his single YouTube video that brought the spotlight on him. And he rode that to a part of the final season of Glee.
I recently discovered Antony and the Johnsons. Lots of great original stuff, but the first song I heard was thrown into a Decemberists based radio station on Rhapsody and stopped me in my tracks. It was Knocking on Heaven’s Door.
Then I found another cover, this time Beyonce’s Crazy in Love that goes someplace the original never did or could.
I remember Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” as a bouncy pop song, with Bruce and Courtney Cox bopping happily on the stage.
Then you hear John Legend play it and it becomes something else entirely.