# Wow, that's a great cover of that song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [April 12, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596 "2020-04-12T02:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/362 "2020-11-20T02:52:48Z")
I know I’ve been pushing this artist a lot. I honestly think she’s pretty good. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/A3DzeutUStg/maxresdefault.jpg "MY CRAZIEST PERFORMANCE EVER BEFORE POLICE STOPPED IT | Valerie - Amy Winehouse | Allie Sherlock") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3DzeutUStg) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/363 "2020-11-20T04:27:50Z")
Wicked Game. Yeah, I love this song, always looking for interesting covers. London Grammar. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Wo80bXyEbkE/hqdefault.jpg "London Grammar Wicked Game") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo80bXyEbkE) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/364 "2020-11-20T04:46:57Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Wicked Game. Yeah, I love this song, always looking for interesting covers. Ah, but I’m always looking for covers that are different AND better than the original… And the original (from Twin Peaks, written by whoever that musical genius was, and performed by Chris Isaak) is so haunting. Not sure you can improve on it. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/365 "2020-11-20T05:02:55Z")
Nope. doesn’t have to be “better”, just a different take. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/366 "2020-11-20T11:06:38Z")
I like the industrial supergroup Pigface a lot. I also like fiddler Gaelynn Lea ever since the youtube algorithm pointed me to her Tiny Desk concert. Helpfully, the youtube algorithm also pointed me to her on stage with Pigface. Not sure if you can call this a _cover_, exactly, since she’s performing it at a Pigface concert. But it’s [quite different](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlTFm7i4dU) instrumentally from the original. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/axoq0Vnfpss/maxresdefault.jpg "Pigface - Point Blank featuring the amazing Gaelynn Lea") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axoq0Vnfpss) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/367 "2020-11-21T00:18:40Z")
Liked the MonaLisa Twins, Jadyn has some seasoning to do yet. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/368 "2020-11-21T00:22:15Z")
I listen to NPR a lot so I was familiar with Gaelynn Lea since her Tiny Desk appearance and have checked out some of her other stuff. Haven’t seen the Pigface performance but I like it. Thanks for posting. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/369 "2020-11-21T00:27:24Z")
I’d like to reword my earlier post and say it doesn’t have to be a better take on the original, for me, it needs to be an _interesting_ take on it. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/370 "2020-11-22T06:11:05Z")
I like Kathy Mattea and Susy Bogguss’s [cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3p823jCoGY) of CSN&Y’s “Teach Your Children” much better than the original. ---
**Author:** ![doverpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@doverpro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doverpro)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/371 "2020-11-23T15:57:43Z")
How about this one? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8oYodfK4DkE/hqdefault.jpg "HIM Wicked Game Official Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oYodfK4DkE) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/372 "2020-11-26T01:00:04Z")
Hah!..interesting. Can’t say it’s my favorite version but I did save it to my favorites file. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/373 "2020-11-26T01:39:07Z")
Can we do reworking of songs? Here’s Roy Zimmerman reworking Dylan’s Highway 61. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvfiNU-lFU) ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/374 "2020-11-26T15:29:30Z")
Harry Styles doing a live version of Sledgehammer: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Tqm7-zN5s8k/maxresdefault.jpg "Harry Styles Covers Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” Live on the Howard Stern Show") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqm7-zN5s8k) ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/375 "2020-11-26T15:45:43Z")
Since my previous posst doesn’t meet the “different from the original” standard, how about: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tk4_SMI0jVc/maxresdefault.jpg "Video Killed the Radio Star - Pomplamoose") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk4_SMI0jVc) ---
**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:** [November 26, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/376 "2020-11-26T17:37:53Z")
I can understand why someone would want to say that one is covering the first singer who recorded the song, not the singer who later recorded the song and made a more famous version. But there are lots of cases where people don’t even know about the earlier version and think they are covering an original song by the singer. That’s what is mostly true about people who say that they are covering Whitney Houston when they sing “I Will Always Love You”, not Dolly Parton or Linda Ronstadt. Like it or not, that’s what most people seem to say. I have many times seen videos on YouTube where people say that they’re covering Eva Cassidy, even though she did almost no original songs, just cover versions. There are even more famous examples. How many singers would say that they are covering Big Mama Thornton, not Elvis Presley, when they sing “It Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog”? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/377 "2020-11-27T01:31:07Z")
That’s pretty cool! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/378 "2020-11-27T04:24:19Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/POeeTmtKLWs/hqdefault.jpg "The Lion King - Stand By Me") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POeeTmtKLWs) ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/379 "2020-11-27T14:50:11Z")
Bluegrass fans, and maybe guitar geeks, will know who Molly Tuttle is. Probably nobody else. Here she is covering Mick and Keith’s _She’s a Rainbow_: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnopVR3x04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnopVR3x04) ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/380 "2020-11-27T14:52:32Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > How many singers would say that they are covering Big Mama Thornton, not Elvis Presley, when they sing “It Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog”? Or that they’re covering Carl Perkins, not Elvis, when they sing _Blue Suede Shoes_? ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/381 "2020-12-03T21:04:31Z")
Here are two covers that not only do a good rendition of two songs you might not have thought of as similar in style, but mashing them up in a creative way: Neon Trees - “Baby” (Justin Bieber) and “Stand By Me” (Ben E. King) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JCNS3mR-pho/maxresdefault.jpg "Neon Trees Performs 'Baby' (Justin Bieber) | Billboard Live Studio Session") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNS3mR-pho) Pomplamoose (f. Sarah Dugas) - “Seven Nation Army” (White Stripes) and “Sweet Dreams” (Eurythmics) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hmLBSCiEoas/maxresdefault.jpg "Sweet Dreams + White Stripes Mashup | Pomplamoose ft. Sarah Dugas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLBSCiEoas) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596.md?page=20)