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Topic: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances

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utee94

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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #56 on: December 12, 2023, 12:59:49 PM »
I love "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"-- definitely among my all-time favorite Beatles songs.

A few years back, Regina Spektor did a really cool cover of it, that was used in the animated movie "Kubo and the Two Strings."  It's more Asian-influenced in instrumentation, but I think it does a great job of retaining the ethereal and haunting feel of the original.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJe3WSGo49M

And just for fun, here's a version with all-time greats Steve Winwood, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne, who all get upstaged by Prince's bad-ass drop-the-mic kind of guitar outro at the end.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRCooFKk3c



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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #57 on: December 12, 2023, 02:01:45 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on December 11, 2023, 05:14:00 PM

I've got one I'll post (if nobody beats me to it) that's a cover of a VERY famous version, but it wasn't until looking it up that I realized the famous version is ALSO a cover.



I think this happens a lot now. Or maybe just to me.

I'd heard Jimi's All Along The Watchtower for years before someone told me Bob Dylan wrote it.

I'd heard the Byrd's Tambourine Man for years before learning Bob Dylan wrote that as well.

At some point I started guessing Bob Dylan wrote a number of songs that I liked that ended up not being by him but, given the lyrical style, definitely could've been written by Bob Dylan.

My favorite example of this is Green Day's Good Riddance (Time of Your Life). For the longest time I believed Bob Dylan must've written the original lyrics:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bTdLi0YUVM





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utee94

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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #58 on: December 12, 2023, 02:38:54 PM »
But, Green Day wrote that.  So what you just posted is in fact NOT a cover and therefore NOT appropriate for this thread.


(just kidding.  mostly ;) )
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #59 on: December 12, 2023, 02:47:33 PM »
But it's funny, in another thread I expressed a similar sentiment in a slightly different way.  I said, "I didn't realize how many Bob Dylan songs I liked, until I heard someone other than Bob Dylan sing them." :)

And the exact same thing is true for the Doors.  I really can't stand them, but when I heard others cover their works, I found out it's not the Doors' songs I don't like, it's the Doors themselves.

This cover I really like...

Billy Idol LA Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3mFZzGM4M

The Doors LA Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXjcdNIN-Q





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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #60 on: December 12, 2023, 03:12:30 PM »
Speaking of The Doors, I always liked their cover of Van Morrison's Gloria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlWiQ69DGE0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7BwNQ8n5tE
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #61 on: December 12, 2023, 03:32:13 PM »
You posted the wrong cover version.


https://youtu.be/xis84YBN5F0?si=Iyjys4PenKJnQNCj
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #62 on: December 12, 2023, 03:36:47 PM »
Quote from: GopherRock on December 12, 2023, 03:32:13 PM
You posted the wrong cover version.


https://youtu.be/xis84YBN5F0?si=Iyjys4PenKJnQNCj
LOL well it is a family board wouldn't want to offend the Badgers
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #63 on: December 12, 2023, 03:41:04 PM »
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #64 on: December 12, 2023, 03:52:39 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 12, 2023, 12:59:49 PM
I love "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"-- definitely among my all-time favorite Beatles songs.

A few years back, Regina Spektor did a really cool cover of it, that was used in the animated movie "Kubo and the Two Strings."  It's more Asian-influenced in instrumentation, but I think it does a great job of retaining the ethereal and haunting feel of the original. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJe3WSGo49M

And just for fun, here's a version with all-time greats Steve Winwood, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne, who all get upstaged by Prince's bad-ass drop-the-mic kind of guitar outro at the end.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRCooFKk3c
I was amazed by this at the time and I still am. I had never been a Prince fan. I always thought of him as a pop guy and I was mostly a fan of classic rock, hair metal, and country. I never thought of Prince as a musician, more of a showman for pop.

That mindset made me appreciate his performance in this clip even more. When it opened I thought "WTF is Prince doing on that stage with those all time guitar greats?" He sure proved me wrong.
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #65 on: December 12, 2023, 03:54:59 PM »
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #66 on: December 12, 2023, 04:26:11 PM »
Quote from: GopherRock on December 12, 2023, 03:54:59 PM
Every time I hear the opening of that, I expect this to happen.



https://youtu.be/x6ifY1UV3CM?si=-QH2Mb6egXEK46AV
I love the Joshua Tree album, but I hate that specific song with the white-hot passion of a thousand burning suns.  When I bought the CD, I had a CD player that you could program to play and skip specific tracks.  I always programmed it to skip just that track.  When I copied that CD to cassette tape to play in my car, I gleefully skipped that song. 
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #67 on: December 12, 2023, 06:11:07 PM »
No "cover" of a Bob Dylan song is really a cover.  It's the first time someone's recorded it singing it well.  
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #68 on: December 12, 2023, 07:52:25 PM »
I always got a kick out of the one hit wonders where their one hit was a cover, like Orgy or Alien Ant Farm. 
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Re: OT: Best/Favorite Cover Song Performances
« Reply #69 on: December 12, 2023, 08:12:19 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 12, 2023, 06:11:07 PM
No "cover" of a Bob Dylan song is really a cover.  It's the first time someone's recorded it singing it well. 
What about the case of Gn'Fn'R with Axl singing covering Knocking on Heaven's Door?
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