That’s brilliant and so are his other linked covers. Awesome!
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:
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 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.” 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 am gaffa, and I have no problem with it in any way. I really like the cover.
The Cardigans cover “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”. Yes those Cardigans.
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.
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
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.
I agree with this:
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.
That’s a relief, hearing it right from the source. Glad to hear you liked it!
I always liked The Puppini Sisters’ cover of Wuthering Heights.
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.
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.
Two that I’m particularly partial to, probably because I heard them before the originals:
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”.
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.
I like Mark Eitzel’s version of Move on Up
He did a whole album of covers a few years ago…
“Ring of Fire” by Wall of Voodoo.
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