Covers

[LeakyValve]

And a late Christmas tune.

 

[stax on the mull]

This Antietam cover of "Graveyard" led me to discover the band Dead Moon.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

A couple of country takes on Springsteen's I'm On Fire

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Rachel Price from Lake Street Dive. Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Cover plus dub version by reggae artist Jimmy Riley:





Original by Bobby Womack:

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

You Can Have It All

Original by George McCrae from 1974





Cover by Yo La Tengo from 2000

 

[catscratchfever]

It's probably been posted already, but this is the greatest cover version of any song ever:

 

[adammania9]

This metal cover of Black Fingernails, Red Wine lives in my head rent free. Outstanding band.

 

[PoopingHindi]

the drummer from Polaris features in this.
skip to 3:15 for a cool cover of Linkin Park - Bleed It Out. the verse from the female singer is *en ace.

 

[dumb]

donald duck all over run to the hills

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I've always liked this song.
The original by Julie London.

The cover by Diana Krall. I actually like this version better than the original

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Original:




Cover:

 

[Plugger35]

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Please Mr Postman.
The Marveletts from 1961.
This was the very first No.1 song for Motown. With the "Funk Brothers" who played as the session band on almost every Motown backing recording from 1959 until 1972. This song has Marvin Gaye on drums.

In 1963 it was covered by none other than the Beatles.

In 1975 it again became a number 1 hit, this time for the Carpenters. With Karen's vocals and Richard's arrangement this is my favourite, but all of them are terrific to listen to.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

While I'm on the Carpenters have a listen to this cover by Tori Holub.
Carpenters

Tori Holub with a remarkably similar voice. Have a listen to both and compare.

 

[stax on the mull]

The Flamin' Groovies - maybe the ultimate 60's style retro band trying to emulate their idols (mostly the Beatles and Stones), but here they recorded a fairly contemporaneous version of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London"

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Duran Duran give Dylan a whirl

 

[stax on the mull]

Under Skys - Lazy Smoke. 1968.

The collector dudes that complied the encyclopedia of obscure 1960's music (I forget the name of it) list the Lazy Smoke album "Corridor of Faces" as one of the great lost psych albums of the era. There's a bit of Lennon in the vocals without anything matching the lyrical content of late period Beatles. A pleasant listen all the same.




Recently covered by Dean Wareham (ex Luna, Galaxie 500) from his album "I Have Nothing To Say To The Mayor of L.A."

 

[LeakyValve]

Two girls having fun with one covering a classic and the other, a Readers Digest mainstay:

 

[stax on the mull]

Couple of alternative Motown versions of the Jackson 5 hit: "I Want You Back"

David Ruffin's Version:



and Martha Reeves & The Vandellas:

 

[mellowyellow]

Covered it then made it his own

 

[Spearman]

Maybe not exactly a cover Tom Petty wrote it for Lone Justice and never released his own version. Mike Campbell co-wrote it and is playing it live these days.



This just popped into the suggestions scroll. I listened to it a lot back in the day. Cute chick, everyone thought they would be big. Stevie Ray played with them. But flared out. Kind of fun seeing all the 80s rock in the scroll.

 

[stax on the mull]

Two Ohio punk bands from the 1990's

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - "Cheater's Heaven"




and covered by Gaunt. (upload to youtube has some sound suppression)

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

1970s British Blues/Rock band Medicine Head have a crack at Dylan's Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Finding You - original by the reformed Go-Betweens in 2005




Covered by Ed Kuepper