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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 |
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Here's Vapeur Mauve a cover Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze done in French by the fantastic but little known 60s Canadian band The Haunted
Pardon quand j'embrasse le ciel ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GvrLcQaRa8 |
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Wire's Map Ref 41°N 93°W was covered by My Bloody Valentine. That's fairly obscure.
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Go here to listen to my most favorite singer James Otto covering "Into The Mystic" from Van Morrison.
![]() God bless you and James always!!! ![]() Holly |
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Nothing can top the original, but I really like The Flamin' Groovies take on River Deep Mountain High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nElDEDRR0xQ |
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The Amazing Rabbis
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 |
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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 Although I've seen him do it better
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Allison Williams of "Girls" fame hung out with Youtube stars Sam Tsui and Kurt Hugo Schneider whilst studying at Yale. One of her more unusual covers is Tik Tok sung Disney style!
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 |
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the violent femmes doing culture club's do you really want to hurt me
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 |
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Happy Mondays covered Staying alive by the Bee Gees. A great version, but i'd say quite obscure. It was recorded for Malcolm McClaren's 'The Ghosts Of Oxford Street' film.
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. |
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The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun, by Swedish rock/metal band Ghost BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OUWgxu7xng |
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Straight Outta Compton - Nina Gordon (Veruca Salt)
NSFW Obviously contains liberal swearing and n-word. http://youtu.be/NG2EGOB9-lc |
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Cloudbusting - Gemma Hayes cover.
Is That All There Is - PJ Harvey cover. Eight Miles High - Leo Kotke cover. |
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80's French band Polyphonic Size's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IK1_d-mPGc |
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Ben Folds - Bitches aint Sh*t (originally by Dr Dre) - Contains very bad language!
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 |
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I always enjoy strange covers.
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) |
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Suzanne - Françoise Hardy. She sounds like your big sister warning you to be careful who you go with.
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Shy Guy by Diana King was covered by Aswad and Easther Bennett from Eternal in 2002. Fell way below the radar.
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