Obscure cover versions of famous songs!!!
This is an interesting thread of obscure cover versions of famous and well-known songs.
I will start us off;
"How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston covered in 1986 by Turkish singer Arzu Ece who was famous in the 80s and 90s and represented Turkey twice in Eurovision (1989 and 1995) and tried for them God knows how many times before, and after her tries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1m53BUexg
I will start us off;
"How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston covered in 1986 by Turkish singer Arzu Ece who was famous in the 80s and 90s and represented Turkey twice in Eurovision (1989 and 1995) and tried for them God knows how many times before, and after her tries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1m53BUexg
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Pardon quand j'embrasse le ciel :cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvrLcQaRa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tap5nf3GQEY
God bless you and James always!!!
Holly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nElDEDRR0xQ
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUKmG0TBN8
Hotel California!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaIgyVqUGIE
John Otway:
House of the Rising Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7m4hlLPv4
I will survive (sung in the style of Bob Dylan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cE6I5V-bY
Mariachi Cabos
Beat it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCM1X8YgZLE
The Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOwf3TDygkM
http://youtu.be/d9DJkopkDOg
Not forgetting www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPm7CVP6Bk
Although I've seen him do it better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al9FOtZcadQ
Talking of Sam Tsui, here are a couple of his covers:
Hold it Against Me
Just a Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmsj67QpYZI
US 80s new wave inde band The Swans doing Love Will Tear us Apart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp017Crrx7I
billy joel's the longest time by novelty band me first and the gimme gimmes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xFkcjMamU
half man half biscuit;s take on bob dylan's with god on our side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAuiWmVHd8M
Also, anything from the Acid Brass album - brass band covers of old rave hits like What Time Is Love.
And, an album called Acoustica, which is a chamber group called Alarm Will Sound performing aoustic, classical versions of Aphex Twin tunes.
My favourite obscure cover has to be Philip Glass' cover of Icct Hedral by Aphex Twin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OUWgxu7xng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZwxBf5EL8
NSFW Obviously contains liberal swearing and n-word.
http://youtu.be/NG2EGOB9-lc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBNYaCUhhU#t=208
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKn5lydAZ6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHCKtPafA0A&index=6&list=PLB51C97ADB8ED0B89
Is That All There Is - PJ Harvey cover.
Eight Miles High - Leo Kotke cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ShrpDN5JF0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IK1_d-mPGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C4N6p78io
Eels - Get Your Freak On (originally by Missy Elliott)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIeqZ3qPFWs
Yellow Melodies - The Sun Always Shines on TV (originally by Aha)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBKQUh7CZzs
The Yellow Melodies have actually done three albums of cover versions, called Fan #1, 2 and 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4e0RtIz9zk
Here are some of the more interesting ones in my collection, each from a different genre:
Hi-STANDARD - California Dreamin; (hilarious cover by a japanese punk band)
Los Pericos - Darkness (amazing reggae cover of the Police song)
Long Beach Dub Allstars - Take Warning (ska cover of Operation Ivy)
The Cure - World in My Eyes (The Cure covering Depeche Mode? Yes!)
Bjorn Again - Girls on Film (an ABBA tribute band covering Duran Duran... that 80s synthbass is amazing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFQOLZlfGU
Hurts version of Locked out of heaven. Beautiful version which is so different from Bruno Mars version. It would have been even better if Theo hadn't had a cold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOlI8qBLSw