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Old 17-05-2003, 07:21
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looking for any cover/remix versions of songs that i should be made aware of - preferably where the artist has taken the original and really made it work.

some of the best finds i've had so far :

johnny cash - hurt (NIN)
counting crows - crossing muddy waters (john hiatt)
dave matthews band - all along the watchtower (dylan)
eva cassidy - fields of gold (sting)
garbage - milk [the wicked mix] (remix of the original by tricky)
jewel - smells like teen spirit (nirvana)
k's choice - weak (skunk anansie)
matchbox 20 - time after time (cyndi lauper)
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Old 17-05-2003, 13:53
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The only one I can think of at the moment...

The Flaming Lips - I Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie)
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Old 17-05-2003, 14:38
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When I heard Johnny Cash's brilliant version of Hurt, it was near the end when I realised it was a cover of NIN's. I think that is what a cover version should sound like ie. unrecognizable from the original, otherwise, what's the point?
There are probably loads I could think of but for now all I got is;
Theme From M*A*S*H by Manic Street Preachers
Eloise by The Damned.
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Old 17-05-2003, 15:07
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Killer - Taul Paul's version is amazing. I'm not sure who did the original as there's quite a few versions around
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Old 17-05-2003, 15:35
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Originally posted by freneticvirus
looking for any cover/remix versions of songs that i should be made aware of - preferably where the artist has taken the original and really made it work.

some of the best finds i've had so far :

johnny cash - hurt (NIN)
counting crows - crossing muddy waters (john hiatt)
dave matthews band - all along the watchtower (dylan)
eva cassidy - fields of gold (sting)
garbage - milk [the wicked mix] (remix of the original by tricky)
jewel - smells like teen spirit (nirvana)
k's choice - weak (skunk anansie)
matchbox 20 - time after time (cyndi lauper)
Are you sure that Jewel cover isn't Tori Amos? I know she covered Teen Spirit, with just the piano. She also did a stunning cover of Led Zeppelins "Thank You".

Surely Hendrix's take on All Along The Watchtower is now the definitive version. Even Dylan started playing it like that.

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help... Greatest Beatles Cover? Or maybe Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by William Shatner?

Roberta Flack has covered a lot songs. I like her version of Suzanne by Leonard Cohen. No one get's inside a song like her imo.

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness. Has also done great covers of Stones and Beatles songs.

Clapton - Crossroads.

I think what Thin Lizzy did with Whisky In The Jar was just fab.

Could go on forever really.
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Old 17-05-2003, 16:00
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Originally posted by dodgygeeza
Killer - Taul Paul's version is amazing. I'm not sure who did the original as there's quite a few versions around
Adamski?

A few great covers spring to mind:

either Amy Grant or Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
Nikki French - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Presidents... - Video Killed The Radio Star
Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
Boyzone - Baby, Can I Hold You Tonight (seriously. People might scoff at Boyzone but to take a song once sang by a person of the opposite sex and make it another brilliant song does actually take some skill)
Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
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Old 17-05-2003, 16:07
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it was tori amos - i deleted the jewel cover i listed and forgot to remove the name

thanks muchly for the tracks.
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Old 17-05-2003, 16:48
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Originally posted by freneticvirus
jewel - smells like teen spirit (nirvana)
do you mean tori amos, or did jewel cover it too? tori's is excellent.

how about *hallelujah* by jeff buckley (originally leonard cohen)
FGTH - *war*

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Old 17-05-2003, 17:29
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Originally posted by freneticvirus
looking for any cover/remix versions of songs that i should be made aware of - preferably where the artist has taken the original and really made it work.

Have you heard Ben Harper's acoustic version of The Drugs Don't Work
I strongly recommend it
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Old 17-05-2003, 18:13
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One of Roy Harpers songs - Another Day

Done very well by This Mortal Coil (Cocteau Twins et al)
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Old 17-05-2003, 18:49
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This Mortal Coil also did a great cover of Song To The Siren.
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Old 17-05-2003, 21:25
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how about *hallelujah* by jeff buckley (originally leonard cohen)
Oh, what about Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine? Awesome song. Original by Nina Simone... ?
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Old 18-05-2003, 01:59
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Originally posted by pi r squared
Adamski?

A few great covers spring to mind:

Nikki French - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Noooooooooooooooooooo. I loathed her cover with a passion, what was with her singing her own maky-up words for one of the verses that didn't even scan or ryhme?

Speaking of Killer, I always loved George Michael's cover of that. Plus he did the cracking Somebody To Love (Queen) on the Five Live ep.
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Old 18-05-2003, 03:22
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Originally posted by ikkleosu
Noooooooooooooooooooo. I loathed her cover with a passion, what was with her singing her own maky-up words for one of the verses that didn't even scan or ryhme?
She didn't make those words up, they're actually part of the full version of the original song - as you know, Jim Steinman has a tendancy to write songs that go on forever! There are three verses in total, the first one everyone knows from the original, ie. the one that begins "Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never comin' round". Then there's also:

Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit restless and I dream of somethin' wild
Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms
Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I gotta get out and cry
Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes

And then verse 3, the lines you recognise from the Nikki French remake:

Ev'ry now and then I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
But ev'ry now and then I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Ev'ry now and then I know there's noone in the universe as magical and wond'rous as you
Ev'ry now and then I know there's nothing any better; there's nothing that I just wouldn't do.

As you rightly say, the words in verse 3 don't seem to "fit", but the blame for that lies in the hands of the same guy who wrote this otherwise brilliant song, not with Nikki French!
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Old 18-05-2003, 13:06
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Kirsty McColls version of Billy Bragg's 'A New England'
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Old 18-05-2003, 13:52
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Originally posted by pi r squared
She didn't make those words up, they're actually part of the full version of the original song - as you know, Jim Steinman has a tendancy to write songs that go on forever! There are three verses in total, the first one everyone knows from the original, ie. the one that begins "Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never comin' round". Then there's also:

Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit restless and I dream of somethin' wild
Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms
Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I gotta get out and cry
Ev'ry now and then I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes

And then verse 3, the lines you recognise from the Nikki French remake:

Ev'ry now and then I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
But ev'ry now and then I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Ev'ry now and then I know there's noone in the universe as magical and wond'rous as you
Ev'ry now and then I know there's nothing any better; there's nothing that I just wouldn't do.

As you rightly say, the words in verse 3 don't seem to "fit", but the blame for that lies in the hands of the same guy who wrote this otherwise brilliant song, not with Nikki French!
LOL in that case I take it back...I love Jim Steinman but he is a nut! Still don't like her singing it but I'll stop going on about the words now I know better.
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Old 18-05-2003, 15:21
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Originally posted by gazza71
This Mortal Coil also did a great cover of Song To The Siren.
officially the the most beautiful piece of music ever recorded. (well, one of them anyway).

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Old 18-05-2003, 19:28
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some of these really have been quite superb.

forgot to list -
gary jules - mad world (originally tears for fears, best known for being in donnie darko)



i didn't know the jeff bucky track was a cover - either way it's very good.
k's choice - i alone (live)
travis - baby one more time (britney spears)
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Old 18-05-2003, 21:08
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gary jules - mad world (originally tears for fears, best known for being in donnie darko)
Oh i love this! Never heard the original before, nor heard anything else by Gary Jules, but it's a superb song.
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Old 18-05-2003, 21:28
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Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds - best Dylan cover IMO
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Old 18-05-2003, 22:00
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One of the best Beatles covers IMHO - Shirley Bassey's version of Something
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Old 18-05-2003, 22:22
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What I can think of at the moment

Metallica "Whisky in the Jar" and Thin Lizzys version

Heir Apparent "Sound of Silence" (Simon & Garfunkel)

Patty Smyth "Downtown Train" - was covered by Rod Stewart who I thought was killing it until I heard Tom Waits original version!
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Old 18-05-2003, 22:54
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This is going back a few years .. but Bryan Ferry has produced far and away the best modern cover of 'Smoke gets in your eyes'.
Rod Steward's recent attempt was just embarrasing IMO
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Old 18-05-2003, 23:23
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Easy - Faith No More. Brilliant.

I wish Coldplay would record their cover of You Only Live Twice for a b-side. Thats another great cover.
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Old 19-05-2003, 10:56
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I am of the opinion that you should never cover other artiists music.
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