# The "Ha! What the...wow! Nice cover of that song" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070 "2014-02-11T17:39:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/41 "2014-02-12T03:15:00Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > This is a little unfair since this is basically Richard Cheese’s whole shtick but here it is: > > [Richard Cheese: Gin and Juice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=draifMpM5ck) That’s brilliant and so are his other linked covers. Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/42 "2014-02-12T04:08:44Z")
I realize that I am about to commit a sacrilege that will get me not only suspended in gaffa, but probably expelled from gaffa, but I have discovered an awesome cover of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. It is by Faroese artist Eivor (don’t worry, it’s in English). It brings a whole new energy to the song, starting relaxed and building to a great climax while still respecting many of the elements of the original. Please take a moment to listen: [Eivør - Hounds Of Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVimRZ3jScU) No, I don’t understand what all the melting goop in the video is supposed to be about. By the way, here is [Kate Bush’s original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VerK4zwMRQw) if you want to compare. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/43 "2014-02-12T04:56:21Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > I realize that I am about to commit a sacrilege that will get me not only suspended in gaffa, but probably expelled from gaffa, but I have discovered an awesome cover of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. > > It is by Faroese artist Eivor (don’t worry, it’s in English). It brings a whole new energy to the song, starting relaxed and building to a great climax while still respecting many of the elements of the original. Please take a moment to listen: > > [Eivør - Hounds Of Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVimRZ3jScU) > > No, I don’t understand what all the melting goop in the video is supposed to be about. > > By the way, here is [Kate Bush’s original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VerK4zwMRQw) if you want to compare. That’s pretty cool! But not weird enough to rescind your gaffa card. I’ll see your Eivor and raise you Jah Werzel’s [“Wuthering Heights.”](http://youtu.be/So2SGCMztf8) From the description: “From the 1979 album ‘1’ by the Hybrid Kids (aka Morgan Fisher of Mott The Hoople).” We own this album. No kidding. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/44 "2014-02-12T05:09:28Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > I realize that I am about to commit a sacrilege that will get me not only suspended in gaffa, but probably expelled from gaffa, but I have discovered an awesome cover of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. I _am_ gaffa, and I have no problem with it in any way. I really like the cover. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/45 "2014-02-12T05:49:30Z")
[Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau’s version of “Hey Joe”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9PDHj0JmaI) ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/46 "2014-02-12T05:52:23Z")
[The Cardigans cover “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKxgOIg2_CA). Yes those Cardigans. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/47 "2014-02-12T05:58:03Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > [Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau’s version of “Hey Joe”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9PDHj0JmaI) Funny enough, I’m doing a Murder Ballad show for Valentine’s wherein I’ll be doing a spoken-word/jazz version of “Hey Joe”. Think Shatner crossed with Leonard Cohen. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/48 "2014-02-12T06:57:07Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > [The Civil Wars take on Billie Jean.](https://boards.straightdope.com/watch?v=441mR2zsQbg) Even the Michael Jackson fans like this one. Do you know when they covered it? Because Chris Cornell has a very similar cover that he released in 2007. I like that one better [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R0uWF-37DAM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDFBQYjPqEy34Pr7Z0wlwT66VrZrg "Chris Cornell - Billie Jean") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0uWF-37DAM) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/49 "2014-02-12T07:06:45Z")
I know I’ll probably get my head bitten off but I think that SRV’s cover of Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) is better than Jimi’s original. IMHO Jimi was an amazing stylist but could be sloppy. SRV was better at playing like Jimi than Jimi was 😉 Also, while Creep has been covered by everyone (often IMHO poorly) I like Chrissie Hynde’s cover, which you can find on youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/50 "2014-02-12T07:16:09Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > [Relevant Cracked Article](http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-cover-songs-that-stole-show-from-originals/). I agree with most of what he said about both Johnny Cash’s _Hurt_ and William Shatner’s _Common People_. I agree with this: > [@](#): > > Holy shit. Turns out “Try a Little Tenderness” was a lot like a Kardashian: It’s only really happy with some black in it. It makes complete sense that Otis Redding would steal this song from generations of white people before him. The piece is about a poverty-stricken woman, and the only way to console her is through boning. That is not White Guy problem solving. Our pallid wangs only cause trouble. We whip 'em out and it warrants trials, injunctions and search warrants. No, boner-based healing is the exclusive realm of the black man. Which is why it took Otis Redding to truly understand this song, and he understood it so hard that it walked funny for days. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/51 "2014-02-12T08:56:50Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > That’s pretty cool! But not weird enough to rescind your gaffa card. I’ll see your Eivor and raise you Jah Werzel’s [“Wuthering Heights.”](http://youtu.be/So2SGCMztf8) From the description: “From the 1979 album ‘1’ by the Hybrid Kids (aka Morgan Fisher of Mott The Hoople).” We own this album. No kidding. I appreciate your leniency in letting me keep my gaffa card. Jah Werzel’s cover was kind of disturbing (or is that annoying?) at first, but as it went on, it became oddly mesmerizing and even blended in with the song. Thanks for that. > [@gaffa](#): > > I _am_ gaffa, and I have no problem with it in any way. I really like the cover. That’s a relief, hearing it right from the source. Glad to hear you liked it! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/52 "2014-02-12T09:13:48Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > That’s pretty cool! But not weird enough to rescind your gaffa card. I’ll see your Eivor and raise you Jah Werzel’s [“Wuthering Heights.”](http://youtu.be/So2SGCMztf8) From the description: “From the 1979 album ‘1’ by the Hybrid Kids (aka Morgan Fisher of Mott The Hoople).” We own this album. No kidding. I always liked [The Puppini Sisters’ cover of Wuthering Heights.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rYEiERfKqU) ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/53 "2014-02-12T09:19:15Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Johnny Cash - [Hurt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go) > [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > God, yes… Trent Reznor (who wrote the original) became a fan of Cash’s version once he saw the music video. “I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure" Cash reinterpreted the song superbly. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/54 "2014-02-12T10:11:16Z")
Ethelrist writes: \> Eva Cassidy’s version of Time After Time. For that matter, most of Cassidy’s entire body of work. She did some original songs, but mostly she was a cover artist, and nearly all of those covers were better than the originals. Look here up on YouTube and work your way through her songs. ---
**Author:** ![pseudograph](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pseudograph/32/19768_2.png) [@pseudograph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudograph)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/55 "2014-02-12T14:29:58Z")
Two that I’m particularly partial to, probably because I heard them before the originals: [Frente! - Bizarre Love Triangle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3AemDaZoEc) [Gary Jules - Mad World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa-ae6_okmg) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/56 "2014-02-12T14:47:52Z")
No link because I’m posting from my phone (one of these days I need to figure out how to do that) but when Richard Thompson put together his “1000 years of popular music” he did a pretty damned impressive cover of Britney Spears’ “Oops I Did It Again”. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/57 "2014-02-12T15:15:11Z")
Can’t link youtube from here, sorry. Google if you’re interested. The Cure’s “Lovesong” as covered by 311. Both are excellent. Different moods, but excellent too. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/58 "2014-02-12T16:13:15Z")
I like **Mark Eitzel** ’s version of [Move on Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUSM1s7RxY) He did a [whole album](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Courage_and_Confidence) of covers a few years ago… ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/59 "2014-02-12T16:33:32Z")
[“Ring of Fire”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEak9MG0Gns) by Wall of Voodoo. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ha-what-the-wow-nice-cover-of-that-song-thread/681070/60 "2014-02-12T17:16:42Z")
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