General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: homersipes on February 21, 2015, 10:37:44 AM
Title: favorite song cover or cover artist
Post by: homersipes on February 21, 2015, 10:37:44 AM
so I am sure most of you are like I am with youtube, start looking at one thing and end up looking at something totally off the wall. Well I end up watching covers to songs, some are really good others well not so good. I found this guy a bit back, I think he is pretty damn good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxkcdyX7Rs I love the 3:30 point :rock so what are some of the better covers you have found and maybe the worst?
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Post by: Masherbrum on February 21, 2015, 10:57:28 AM
Richard Thompson cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2N3S0lr4c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2N3S0lr4c)
Two great Dylan covers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZphtG5koFlo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZphtG5koFlo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sMSSm0x2A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sMSSm0x2A)
Hendrix cover recorded just days after his death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsW_DPS9Hc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsW_DPS9Hc)
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Post by: ridley1 on February 21, 2015, 01:05:36 PM
Johnny Cash doing Nine Inch Nails "Hurt"
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Post by: flight17 on February 21, 2015, 02:11:21 PM
The other night an older cousin (second cousin actually) posted on Facebook a Nancy Sinatra song. I eventually listened to her version of Bang Bang (My baby shot me down) which is a cover to Cher's. But after that, I saw Lady Gaga had done a cover as well.
I think Lady gaga's was my favorite for vocals, but it was a little bit slower in pace than either Cher's or Nancy's.
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Post by: Latrobe on February 21, 2015, 02:33:38 PM
Blind Guardian covering Dio's "Don't Talk To Strangers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3DlQi9YCXg
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Post by: Yankee67 on February 22, 2015, 12:08:15 AM
Not a favorite, I suppose, but one I recently found on Youtube.
A very young looking Seth Avett (of the Avett Brothers) doing Billy Joel's 'Moving Out'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AY8Iekd1Hc
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Post by: morfiend on February 22, 2015, 01:16:18 AM
This is an ok cover!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-B8k0n_3cs
:salute
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Post by: Sol75 on February 22, 2015, 08:23:47 AM
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Post by: mike8318 on February 22, 2015, 08:31:35 AM
Rare Earth covering a great Temptations tune. This is one of the few tunes that gets my foot tapping. Love the 20 minute version the best. I played the long version in a corporate band no too many years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgymXNmEzjk
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Post by: icepac on February 22, 2015, 09:21:09 AM
Great White and Heart do amazing covers of Zeppelin songs.
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Post by: icepac on February 22, 2015, 11:36:47 PM
Heart doing Stairway to Heaven while the members of Led Zeppelin fully enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk
Great white doing Ramble On.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYK0hDtBZ5s
Some random dude coming up with a totally different way to get the "how soon is now" sound.
Love that rickenbacker 12 string when you crank up the gain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeE4mjS1BKM
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Post by: SilverZ06 on February 23, 2015, 08:40:36 AM
Favorite cover artist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdIThSgUjc
She's great even on mute! :rock
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Post by: Curval on February 23, 2015, 08:46:41 AM
Great White and Heart do amazing covers of Zeppelin songs.
Best Zeppelin covers are done by the ultimate Zeppelin cover band - Dred Zeppelin:
(Give the sound a chance it corrects after 30 seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZu6BQCW9U
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Post by: Larokkit on February 26, 2015, 08:57:35 AM
one of my favorites is 'Bluebirds" ( a cover band around shreveport la. ) doing" no more cane on the brazos" by Lightning Hopkins
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Post by: Coalcat1 on March 19, 2015, 07:51:36 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q02ewL00LE (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q02ewL00LE) Slash's current band, saw them live 2 weeks before their most recent album, seeing em again in May. Loved when they did this song live opening for Aerosmith.
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Post by: ink on March 19, 2015, 08:09:17 PM
Whole lotta love? That was my fav song in HS, don't know if I've ever heard it covered.
IIRC Heart used to do Whole Lotta Love at every concert they did... :headscratch:
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Post by: jeep00 on March 20, 2015, 04:15:58 AM
I will link some later, not easy on my phone, but Gary Hoey does a slew of outstanding covers like Money and Hocus Pocus, also Linus and Lucy (his name for the Peanuts classic). All instrumental covers. Also outstanding was the Jeff Healy cover of Stuck in the Middle. It was on an album he did called "Covers" iirc. All of those were geat. And a various artist collection, two actually,the first being "Dragon Attack", a collection of Queen covers, and "Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell", a collection of covers to pay homage to artists whose time came too soon due to alcohol of chemical related issues, from a concert I think was the "Make a Difference Foundation". Even had Gorky Park doing a cover on that one.
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Post by: FLOOB on March 20, 2015, 04:39:13 AM
Hurdy Gurdy Man by Butthole Surfers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8
The original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8
Oh and then there's Jello Biafra doing We Got to Get Out of This Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-AeyJLwHxw
The Offspring doing that Buzznoodles song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMJCgbvXjQ
And Faith no More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzDTfIb0DU
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Post by: FLOOB on March 20, 2015, 04:57:34 AM
Oh and this one Fu Manchu covering Freedom of Choice by Devo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzDTfIb0DU
Two great bands.
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Post by: -ammo- on March 20, 2015, 06:03:34 AM
I will link some later, not easy on my phone, but Gary Hoey does a slew of outstanding covers like Money and Hocus Pocus, also Linus and Lucy (his name for the Peanuts classic). All instrumental covers.
YES! :rock :rock :rock :rock
Hoey is my favorite guitarist, both his original material and covers are amazing.
Here's some of his best covers not listed above.
Peter Gunn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2euF-qNAic Lowrider - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0O057Z3jD4 Black Magic Woman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5n_19DFDNk California Dreamin' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uXbz_p5K1U Wipeout - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaChbz_XEI
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Post by: ink on March 20, 2015, 05:00:18 PM
one of my favs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOA6USLxSsw
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Post by: Dace on March 20, 2015, 08:09:39 PM
The Black Keys - Do the Rump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnNMundCwOc
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Post by: Masherbrum on March 21, 2015, 08:40:18 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q02ewL00LE (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q02ewL00LE) Slash's current band, saw them live 2 weeks before their most recent album, seeing em again in May. Loved when they did this song live opening for Aerosmith.
Seems Myles Kennedy toned down his inner ethyl merman because he sounds really good on the recent "world on fire" album with slash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfJNXrEjL1U
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Post by: Muzzy on March 22, 2015, 09:34:42 AM
Everybody has a cover of "Creep", but I'm partial to this one:
And leave it to Tori Amos to strip down an Eminem tune to reveal just how disturbing it really is:
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Post by: USRanger on March 22, 2015, 09:40:33 AM
Jason Aldean singing acoustic "Heaven" with Brian Adams playing guitar and some backup vocals.
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Post by: Swoop on March 22, 2015, 09:41:09 AM
The only Snoop Dogg track I will ever like, done by a Texas band called The Gourds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOCXYQgT5z0
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Post by: Sombra on March 22, 2015, 12:20:14 PM
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Post by: Masherbrum on March 22, 2015, 06:56:26 PM
But one of my all time favorites, done to a different genre and to perfection:
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Post by: M1A1 on March 23, 2015, 11:53:44 AM
The Police, Message in a Bottle, The Cars, Moving in Stereo, and last but not least The Who, Behind Blue eyes..
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Post by: -ammo- on March 23, 2015, 12:49:13 PM
Forgot - Tool's version of No Quarter was much better than Zepplin's
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Post by: ink on March 23, 2015, 02:44:33 PM
I certainly do not believe that's the truth...personally I think "tool" is not a very good band.
which is my opinion and yours differs....nether is right or wrong nether is "truth" both are opinions.
I prefer A Perfect Circle over Tool. Although Tool has some good songs with the same singer and a few other members, I think APC has deeper lyrics and much stronger feeling in there songs.
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Post by: Devil 505 on March 23, 2015, 09:54:20 PM
Punk Rock Edition:
Dropkick Murphys - It's a Long Way to the Top, If You Wanna Rock and Roll (AC/DC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y31UGptxxYw Dropkick Murphys - Fortunate Son (CCR) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG3tp0wpIg Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Detroit Rock City (KISS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXyVmC-Za_E Slapshot - Big Mouth Strikes Again (The Smiths) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InoEsBupTt8 The Bruisers - Lunatic (Billy Joel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu8E7cDVBLo Ducky Boys - Stand By Me (Ben E. King) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShVNe4-bRF4
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Post by: -ammo- on March 24, 2015, 12:21:10 AM