Covers

[stax on the mull]

St. Elmo's Fire - Brian Eno / Portastatic

Remember hearing this once on radio back in the day without having any reference to the original by Brian Eno. Had to rack my brains to remember the name of the band...actually had to go to Discogs, knew it was Mac from Superchunk - another 90's indie band I've barely listened to. Sounds like Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo who is listed in the credit notes might be playing the guitar solos.

 

[Spearman]

The original from the Fabs
(terrible mime)


and a much better version


BTW Stones kicked off a new tour this week. 60 years after the debut of their first LP

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Joe Cocker's very first record. I'll Cry For You, originally by the Beatles.
Jimmy Page on guitar.

 

[1990crow]

 

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[CD Xbow]

The Residents did many cover versions including whole albums of interpretations of artists' work
including amongst others, John Phillip Sousa, Hank Williams and Elvis Presley. Here's a live version
of The Residents performing Elvis' 'Burning Love'. Great dancing!

Goodness, a Residents cover, makes me feel at home.

There has been a lot of covers of Heroes



The Boss did a tribute cover of this Aussie anthem in Sydney



Devo deconstructing the famous Stones song on SNL

 

[zill]

Goodness, a Residents cover, makes me feel at home.

Here is Thrones covering Easter Woman.

 

[CD Xbow]

Here is Thrones covering Easter Woman.

Residentesque that one.
if you'd told me in 1977 the Residents would still be going after 50 years I would have fallen down laughing. Thanks for the post.

 

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Another great Devo cover.

 

[zill]

Residentesque that one.
if you'd told me in 1977 the Residents would still be going after 50 years I would have fallen down laughing. Thanks for the post.

Since you posted the Devo cover, here's the Residents doing Satisfaction. They may have changed a few words but still quite respectful of the original.

 

[CD Xbow]

X nailing John Lennon's Mother and Roy Orbison's Dream Baby

I love X doing Dream Baby. I saw then a couple of times in the mid 80's and I fell in love with Cathy Green (drummer) Cathy, Cathy were art thou? Do you post on BF? Are you divorced?

I like Broken Peach, who do some great covers. They put out a lot of stuff over Covid lock down and provided me some entertainment. Good visuals and performance's, sort of Spanish death goth. Often a few versions of songs can be found on Youtube. Here's three crackers, Tainted Love, Personal Jesus and I Put a Spell on You

 

[stax on the mull]

The Golliwogs (pre-CCR), Creedence Clearwater Revival, Richard Hell & The Voidoids versions of "Walking On The Water"

 

[TheEscapeClub]

the YouTube algorithm suggested this to me.
I went into it fully expecting it to suck but holy heck this is good.

I've only just found this, it's about as a good a cover as you could find.

Another one that is different that I love is.

The original



This version was only done a couple of years later.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

I'm an unabashed fan of Ghost and I reckon this cover is fantastic. It's a cover of Simian Mobile Disco, an electronic band which I knew absolutely nothing about. Turning a techno-trance number into a gothic ballad is genius. BTW - I now love the original. I wouldn't even have been aware of them unless Ghost had covered them.

Ghost


Simian Mobile Disco

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Here's one you probably didn't expect. From their very first album.

 

[LeakyValve]

I've only just found this, it's about as a good a cover as you could find.

Another one that is different that I love is.

The original



This version was only done a couple of years later.

Alison in turn did a pretty fair job with this:

 

[TheEscapeClub]

Alison in turn did a pretty fair job with this:

One of my all time favourite voices.

 

[LeakyValve]

One of my all time favourite voices.

Like an earlier version of Adele in some respects.

 

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[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

1970s Moroccan funkster Fadoul covering Free's All Right Now

 

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[CliffMcTainshaw]

I'm A Man by the Spencer Davis Group. Written by music prodigy Steve Winwood at age 18. Winwood began playing guitar, keyboards and singing with the Spencer Davis Group aged 14. His older brother Muff is playing bass. One of my early 45 purchases.

Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago) with their much longer version. I love listening to both versions.