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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: betarhoalphadelta on December 11, 2023, 04:15:07 PM
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Okay, so I think we've played out the previous OT topic. Time for a new one.
I want to know what you consider to be the best, or just your favorite, cover songs. Offering reasoning is optional, but appreciated.
Goal for this is not just to name cover songs. It's a musical journey. So I suggest posting links (hopefully which support embedding) to the cover, followed by the original, from YouTube.
So I'll start with an easy one. One of the most remarkable covers I think I've ever heard. It's Nine Inch Nails' song Hurt, performed by Johnny Cash.
Why do I choose it? I grew up with Nine Inch Nails. It was part of my high school listening. I had pretty much all their available albums at the time. I saw them live in HS at the Rosemont Horizon. It was perfect "angry teenage boy" music. And I was shocked when I heard Johnny Cash, of all people, was going to cover NIN. Because I couldn't even imagine what a country/rock singer like Cash would do to an industrial song. Nine Inch Nails' version is heavily synthesized and sampled.
And yet... He blew it out of the water. It's a tremendously powerful song either way, but Cash did it in a way that was completely different but yet equally, or probably more, moving.
So here you go:
Johnny Cash - Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42V6ho11NSw
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That is a very deep and dark song, and it describes Cash as he was.
It's a great rendition, no doubt.
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I'll go.
Helter Skelter (2021- Remaster) - Bing video (https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=motley crue helter skelter)
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Ignoring the classics Joe Cocker's With A Little Help; Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You; Jimi Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower, I think the Fugees Killing Me Softly and Amy Winehouse's Valerie
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Hurt is such a great example of this.
Allegedly, Bono said of Johnny's cover, that "Trent Reznor was born to write that song, but Jonny Cash was born to sing it."
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I pulled up a list to see if I was missing any. I had no idea Me and Bobby McGee was a cover. I think the more interesting debate is a song that was known, and then became a great cover as well. If I didn't know it was a cover, I have a hard time counting it, as much as I love that song.
But one that does count, that I forgot about until I read this list was Take Me To The River, originally by Al Green, and covered by the Talking Heads. And then speaking of Motown/Motown adjacent, that reminded me of the CCR cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine.
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I pulled up a list to see if I was missing any. I had no idea Me and Bobby McGee was a cover. I think the more interesting debate is a song that was known, and then became a great cover as well. If I didn't know it was a cover, I have a hard time counting it, as much as I love that song.
But one that does count, that I forgot about until I read this list was Take Me To The River, originally by Al Green, and covered by the Talking Heads. And then speaking of Motown/Motown adjacent, that reminded me of the CCR cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine.
Me and Bobby McGee is kind of a cover. Technically it is, since it's true that Janis Joplin didn't write it, but she is the one who made it famous. Kris Kristofferson wrote it but really, any fame his version has, stems from the popularity it gained from Janis singing it. And don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Kristofferson at all, he's absolutely one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters.
But this sort of thing is pretty common in the world of country, where singers are quite often not the songwriter. Another high profile example is Patsy Cline's "Crazy" which was of course written by Willie Nelson, but her version is what made it famous. I still do love Willie's original version of it too, though.
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One of my favorite covers, is Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing." The original is great, but SRV was able to put so much soul into his, and having seen him perform it live on more than one occasion, it's gotta be in my top 10 favorite songs of all time.
SRV's cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6G53BMgugo
Jimi's original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eSBnrlCCsA
And a bonus, I also really like Sting's version from his second solo album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t73ZTRCdIc
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Why do I choose it? I grew up with Nine Inch Nails. It was part of my high school listening. I had pretty much all their available albums at the time. I saw them live in HS at the Rosemont Horizon. It was perfect "angry teenage boy" music. And I was shocked when I heard Johnny Cash, of all people, was going to cover NIN. Because I couldn't even imagine what a country/rock singer like Cash would do to an industrial song. Nine Inch Nails' version is heavily synthesized and sampled.
And yet... He blew it out of the water. It's a tremendously powerful song either way, but Cash did it in a way that was completely different but yet equally, or probably more, moving.
Think it was Reznor said "the song belongs to him now" or sum such.They formed in Cleveland though I never saw them.Some older friends went to see them at the Phantasy Theatre and were prolly closer to Cash fans than alternative/electronic sound but a swarm of hotties were going so enter they did.The next Browns Game i saw them they're telling me about this great show Nine Inch Heels puts on. Thought they went to the Roxy or Crazy Horse
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One of my favorite covers, is Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing." The original is great, but SRV was able to put so much soul into his, and having seen him perform it live on more than one occasion, it's gotta be in my top 10 favorite songs of all time.
He did "Superstition" pretty damn good also
https://youtu.be/JL9eO4-aDMs
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Me and Bobby McGee is kind of a cover. Technically it is, since it's true that Janis Joplin didn't write it, but she is the one who made it famous. Kris Kristofferson wrote it but really, any fame his version has, stems from the popularity it gained from Janis singing it. And don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Kristofferson at all, he's absolutely one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters.
But this sort of thing is pretty common in the world of country, where singers are quite often not the songwriter. Another high profile example is Patsy Cline's "Crazy" which was of course written by Willie Nelson, but her version is what made it famous. I still do love Willie's original version of it too, though.
I think if someone else recorded and released it, their version is the original and the more famous version is the cover.
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 there's room in here for "covers that you didn't even realize they were covers because they completely overshadowed the original"...
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But this sort of thing is pretty common in the world of country, where singers are quite often not the songwriter. Another high profile example is Patsy Cline's "Crazy" which was of course written by Willie Nelson, but her version is what made it famous. I still do love Willie's original version of it too, though.
Mac Davis,Jerry Reed and as you point out Willie.
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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.
My Ding-a-ling by Chuck Berry?
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I think if someone else recorded and released it, their version is the original and the more famous version is the cover.
Maybe, but what about songwriters who specifically write songs with the intent that they will get bought and recorded by bigger artists? I mean, they ALWAYS record a version of their own, but making it famous on their own, wasn't really ever the intent.
Willie effectively gave away so many great songs early on, because he was a songwriter first, and needed the money. Crazy, Hello Walls, Three Days, Funny How Time Slips Away, Night Life, and a host of others. All made famous by artists like Faron Young, Patsy Cline, Billy Walker, etc.
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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 there's room in here for "covers that you didn't even realize they were covers because they completely overshadowed the original"...
https://youtu.be/nCYK4Di8lhs?si=ZawkdLSLX1dYZud_
And speaking of 'ol Shotgun Willie...
https://youtu.be/HXMtClc844s?si=-GmYZ7YCXxXk5_Hg
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Here's one, since Little Wing came up, that's really interesting. Both songs were apparently inspired by Little Wing. And are pretty much identical. Yet somehow neither artist has accused the other of copying it...
Pearl Jam: Yellow Ledbetter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtBMgLfqKQ
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - While We Cry (off the album Ledbetter Heights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vATTSpDZIM
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Jerry Jeff Walker is one of my favorite all-time artists. He's another singer/songwriter, lived in Austin most of his adult life, and hung out with Willie quite a bit.
He originally wrote this song, but Sammy Davis Junior recorded it and made it famous. I like the Candyman's version, of course, but something about the emotion that Jerry Jeff puts into it, as the songwriter, really speaks to me. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band also had a popular version of it.
Jerry Jeff Walker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5u7ijJ4xfg
Sammy Davis Junior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fju4UajL7g
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Maybe, but what about songwriters who specifically write songs with the intent that they will get bought and recorded by bigger artists? I mean, they ALWAYS record a version of their own, but making it famous on their own, wasn't really ever the intent.
Willie effectively gave away so many great songs early on, because he was a songwriter first, and needed the money. Crazy, Hello Walls, Three Days, Funny How Time Slips Away, Night Life, and a host of others. All made famous by artists like Faron Young, Patsy Cline, Billy Walker, etc.
I could see that. I don't think this was the case with the song I'm talking about, because the original song was recorded by Prince, and he wasn't exactly some unknown writer at the time.
Cover (most recent): Nothing Compares 2 U by Chris Cornell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk
Cover (most famous): Nothing Compares 2 U by cueball Sinead O'Conner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
Original: Nothing Compares 2 U by Prince
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGA0azFdCs
I think both Sinead and Cornell's version is far superior to Prince's actually...
And via the YouTube rabbit hole, might as well throw P!nk in there--just cause I dig her and just bought tickets to see her in Sep 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHGc1lO7_A
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Well, yeah, Prince was definitely well known when Sinead covered that song. I absolutely consider that one to be a cover, and I too like it better than Prince's original.
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Jerry Jeff Walker is one of my favorite all-time artists. He's another singer/songwriter, lived in Austin most of his adult life, and hung out with Willie quite a bit.
He originally wrote this song, but Sammy Davis Junior recorded it and made it famous. I like the Candyman's version, of course, but something about the emotion that Jerry Jeff puts into it, as the songwriter, really speaks to me. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band also had a popular version of it.
Jerry Jeff Walker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5u7ijJ4xfg
Sammy Davis Junior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fju4UajL7g
JJW was great. And he took Jimmy Buffett to Key West. Spent a lot of time 'down in Belize' later in life (good song, too).
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Well, yeah, Prince was definitely well known when Sinead covered that song. I absolutely consider that one to be a cover, and I too like it better than Prince's original.
I was originally going to open the thread with that one (Cornell covering Sinead) which is when I realized that it wasn't original for Sinead.
My reasoning is that it's a truly phenomenal song, but I never really listened to it and realized how well-written that song is until I heard the Cornell version. Partly because when Sinead recorded it I was aware of it but too young to truly understand it, but also because I never really would have considered myself a Sinead O'Connor fan so I didn't really listen to the song until the Cornell cover.
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I was originally going to open the thread with that one (Cornell covering Sinead) which is when I realized that it wasn't original for Sinead.
My reasoning is that it's a truly phenomenal song, but I never really listened to it and realized how well-written that song is until I heard the Cornell version. Partly because when Sinead recorded it I was aware of it but too young to truly understand it, but also because I never really would have considered myself a Sinead O'Connor fan so I didn't really listen to the song until the Cornell cover.
It came out when I was a senior in high school, so smack dab in the middle of my teenage angsty years. I don't think I'd consider myself a Sinead fan (because I don't think I can name another song she ever sang), but I absolutely loved that one.
And I like the Chris Cornell one as well--as already established on the other thread, I'm a pretty big fan of Soundgarden and most other grunge bands. Except for Nirvana, of course.
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I'm a big Eagles fan and a big Don Henley fan. The original for this one came out when I was in junior high, and then this cover many years later. I still prefer the original, there's just something so forlorn and haunting about it, but the cover is pretty catchy as well.
The Ataris cover of Boys of Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt6Lkgs0kiU
Don Henley original Boys of Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUIeX6UCT8
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Enjoy it. Love how they change "Grateful Dead" sticker to "Black Flag" sticker, but Cadillac is still the fuddy-duddy car...
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmhSGaOH-A
I unapologetically like pop music as a grown man in his late 40s. If you don’t then you might not even know the original. This is Written by Wolves’ cover of “Elastic Heart” originally performed by Sia.
I think it’s terrific.
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Where an artist played the first commercially successful version, and the songwriter later re-recorded it (i.e., Aretha's Natural Woman, written, then recorded by Carol King, who is a fine singer, but ain't Aretha), I don't really consider the first one a cover. With that in mind...
Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You." I like Dolly better, but Whitney did that song better.
Presidents of the United States of America: Video Killed the Radio Star.
My Chemical Romance: Desolation Row
Van Halen: You Really Got Me
Joan Jett: I Love Rock-n-Roll (this one may not count--don't know that anyone had heard of this song before she did it)
Joe Cocker: I get By With a Little Help From My Friends
Jimmy Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower
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Roll over Beethoven by ELO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJRZcbqcYkY&list=WL&index=4
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Dirty Deeds Joan Jett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sky1tt8vLA
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Not sure this one needs much explanation, neither the original nor the cover. I like 'em both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQRDI7mTyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk
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A musical journey. So as a kid, my family listened almost completely to bluegrass music over anything else. Our favorites were Jimmy Martin and Ralph Stanley, who my uncle and I saw many times. They both recorded versions of "In the Pines," a very old folk song of uncertain origin but popularized by versions recorded by Leadbelly and Bill Monroe. Jimmy Martin loved songs about trains, so his version focused on that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U79oSUPO9M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U79oSUPO9M)
Of course, I also became a teenager in the early 90's, so I loved the grunge, too. Pearl Jam and Nirvana were my favorites by a pretty fair margin. So Nirvana doing a version of In the Pines, though with the alternative title, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, hit me in some sort of way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMm7gxBYSc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMm7gxBYSc)
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Me and Bobby McGee is kind of a cover. Technically it is, since it's true that Janis Joplin didn't write it, but she is the one who made it famous. Kris Kristofferson wrote it but really, any fame his version has, stems from the popularity it gained from Janis singing it. And don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Kristofferson at all, he's absolutely one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters.
But this sort of thing is pretty common in the world of country, where singers are quite often not the songwriter. Another high profile example is Patsy Cline's "Crazy" which was of course written by Willie Nelson, but her version is what made it famous. I still do love Willie's original version of it too, though.
I mean, just because they didn't write it, I don't think makes it a cover. If the writer actually released a version of it, then I guess it counts, but again, I don't love that use of that for here. Certainly didn't know that about Crazy either
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One of my favorite covers, is Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing." The original is great, but SRV was able to put so much soul into his, and having seen him perform it live on more than one occasion, it's gotta be in my top 10 favorite songs of all time.
SRV's cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6G53BMgugo
Jimi's original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eSBnrlCCsA
And a bonus, I also really like Sting's version from his second solo album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t73ZTRCdIc
Damn, great call. SRV's version is certainly a top 5-10 song for me. Never realized Sting covered it. I enjoyed it, but I think I would have liked it way more as a first cover
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Not a big Springsteen fan, but I heard his Santa Claus is Coming to Town on the radio today, and is it weird that it might be my favorite Springsteen song?
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I always find it funny that 4 guys recorded a song at the music department at UGa (Last Kiss), and yet it was Pearl Jam, not REM, who did a good cover of it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQRDI7mTyw
Not gonna comment on the song as a cover.
The video was... Disturbing. That did not age well.
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Not gonna comment on the song as a cover.
The video was... Disturbing. That did not age well.
Not even sure it was the David Lee Roth cover video that aged the worst
https://youtu.be/cmbhfI8f_Ek?si=SJmt3qslfkf-vbVP
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Eh, I'm okay with the videos. Stope being so sensative.
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OG version one of the better written songs by a Band with many great songs.
https://youtu.be/tAGnKpE4NCI?si=1ggQDdXsBsxkAY50
Then....amidst an entire LP of covers of this song, emerges this one as my favorite, by Chris Stapleton.
https://youtu.be/jzN9rdvXmS4?si=ARD4FQSyQe6mAo0c
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q08kDgsquOc&pp=ygULd2FyIG1hY2hpbmU%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOzdslhdLM
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In the 80s Billy Idol and Tiffany both topped the charts with covers of songs by Tommy James and the Shondells from the 1050s. Mony Mony and I Think We're Alone Now, specifically.
So the guy had two songs topping the charts 30 years after they were originally recorded, and both were also redone as parodies on the same Weird Al album; Alimony and I Think I'm a Clone Now.
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Speaking of Weird Al, man, what a musician. Not a cover, but what he calls a "pastiche" which is basically a song he invents that is a lot like what the band he is parodying would make. For example, he did "Craigslist," which is a made up Doors song. The upfront keyboard and rambling nonsense into something that kind of rocks - it's all there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sALru9IJk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sALru9IJk)
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Speaking of Weird Al, man, what a musician. Not a cover, but what he calls a "pastiche" which is basically a song he invents that is a lot like what the band he is parodying would make. For example, he did "Craigslist," which is a made up Doors song. The upfront keyboard and rambling nonsense into something that kind of rocks - it's all there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sALru9IJk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sALru9IJk)
The man is a mix of a guy with a PhD in music composition who is also in an improv group. His biggest "hits" are unfunny parodies, but he has songs like these that show how musically talented he is. But it's way funnier if Coolio was Amish I guess
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Not a big Springsteen fan, but I heard his Santa Claus is Coming to Town on the radio today, and is it weird that it might be my favorite Springsteen song?
That reminds me
https://youtu.be/Rzk3x3HZbJI
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That reminds me
https://youtu.be/Rzk3x3HZbJI
That's the rare one where the cover is way more famous, but I think the original is way better
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I really miss Chris Cornell.
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Some of my favorites:
https://youtu.be/EqVxuBoAafY?si=Klc9CJFB3PEz0gVr (https://youtu.be/EqVxuBoAafY?si=Klc9CJFB3PEz0gVr)
https://youtu.be/hTaOSaEU9cc?si=-j0HjtKVsf_TcAcV (https://youtu.be/hTaOSaEU9cc?si=-j0HjtKVsf_TcAcV)
https://youtu.be/N0kDuZ2mcyg?si=Ok8G1vs7ecMmFQI9 (https://youtu.be/N0kDuZ2mcyg?si=Ok8G1vs7ecMmFQI9)
https://youtu.be/H1u3y2cO3Rg?si=_Y1B_HwaWTwtC01j (https://youtu.be/H1u3y2cO3Rg?si=_Y1B_HwaWTwtC01j)
https://youtu.be/B0abrfe6upM?si=wDFgT7azY2CG68_y (https://youtu.be/B0abrfe6upM?si=wDFgT7azY2CG68_y)
Smith & Myers have a lot of really good covers.
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https://youtu.be/RywqQ_AKB9M
(https://i.imgur.com/8Rww9pW.jpg)
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Lots of interesting covers of Wicked Game over the years.
I liked this really quirky one by Giant Drag, which was used in the opening credits for the kooky little drama "Nip/Tuck" that aired on FX in the early 2000s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smgLC2rUlV8
The original by Chris Isaak, and I still love this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-qI62gNJM
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Since I already talked about it, here's Willie's version of Crazy, and then Patsy Cline's. I'll leave it up to the listener to decide which they view as the original, and which is the cover. :)
Willie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnYEQbEHNZE
Patsy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTOvHw8qFM
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This beautiful song has been covered by a lot of performers
Clint Black is my favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdUkef8c5w
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One of my favorite covers, is Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing." The original is great, but SRV was able to put so much soul into his, and having seen him perform it live on more than one occasion, it's gotta be in my top 10 favorite songs of all time.
SRV's cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6G53BMgugo
Jimi's original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eSBnrlCCsA
And a bonus, I also really like Sting's version from his second solo album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t73ZTRCdIc
Don't think I've ever heard a version of that song I didn't like.
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Damn, great call. SRV's version is certainly a top 5-10 song for me. Never realized Sting covered it. I enjoyed it, but I think I would have liked it way more as a first cover
Oddly, Sting's version is the first version I heard. But I guess that's not overly surprising since I've been into him for years.
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You don't grow up in Austin, Texas in the 80s and not hear SRV on... well, every radio station. Including the country ones. :)
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Then....amidst an entire LP of covers of this song, emerges this one as my favorite, by Chris Stapleton.
https://youtu.be/jzN9rdvXmS4?si=ARD4FQSyQe6mAo0c
That's outstanding. I had no idea that this existed.
Thanks!
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I never loved the Beatles as much as I probably should for a guy who used to play music, but I always liked the George Harrison song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Here's the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFDg-pgE0Hk
I'm a bit surprised I haven't run across more covers of it like some other Beatle's tunes, but in '02ish Toto covered it and did a good job of keeping the haunting feel of the song, the general vibe, but also updating it and putting their own spin on it, which is the sweet spot a cover song usually needs to sit in for me to like it. They left out like half the lyrics for some reason, but here's a live version of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt94nXinWqs
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Then there's PMJ's cover of "Sweet Child O' Mine." Their whole thing is covers, converting songs of other genres into NOLA-tinged jazz songs. So I don't know if this fits the topic, given that maybe the point is artists who do their own thing but also the occasional cover. They're just a cover novelty act. I'd still rather listen to this than Sheryl Crow's version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ3BAF_15yQ
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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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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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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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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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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=VlWiQ69DGE0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7BwNQ8n5tE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7BwNQ8n5tE)
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You posted the wrong cover version.
https://youtu.be/xis84YBN5F0?si=Iyjys4PenKJnQNCj
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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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STAR SPANGLED BANNER - Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock: The Anthem of a Generation - The Official Jimi Hendrix Site (https://www.jimihendrix.com/editorial/star-spangled-banner-jimi-hendrix-at-woodstock-the-anthem-of-a-generation/)
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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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STAR SPANGLED BANNER - Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock: The Anthem of a Generation - The Official Jimi Hendrix Site (https://www.jimihendrix.com/editorial/star-spangled-banner-jimi-hendrix-at-woodstock-the-anthem-of-a-generation/)
Every time I hear the opening of that, I expect this to happen.
https://youtu.be/x6ifY1UV3CM?si=-QH2Mb6egXEK46AV
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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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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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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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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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BTW, I absolutely love the Roger Waters/Van Morrison/The Band version of Comfortably Numb. One of my favorite songs, and ably used by Martin Scorsese in The Departed. But does it qualify as a cover?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RToUtgbSDdY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RToUtgbSDdY)
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What about the case of Gn'Fn'R with Axl singing covering Knocking on Heaven's Door?
Nope
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What about the case of Gn'Fn'R with Axl singing covering Knocking on Heaven's Door?
Far better than the original.
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Far better than the original.
word
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Far better than the original.
(https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b4a9e10aed9c5a590647536b2e2ae3ed)
cat in a fan belt - Axel screams eyehi,ji,ji,ji, knock,knock,knocking on haven's do-owa-wa-wa-wa.
Turrible just Turrible
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GnR good
Bob Dylan sucks ass
I have spoken
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YOU ARE WRONG ~ WHATEVER ~ OLE'
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YOU ARE WRONG ~ WHATEVER ~ OLE'
He is not wrong.
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Maybe Nubbz prefers the Charles Manson song G'N'Fn'R covered on The Spaghetti Incident.
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OK let's get this thread back on track.
Here's a version of the Commodores' Easy, as performed by Alternative Metal band, Faith No More. I first saw them open for Billy Idol in Austin in 1991. They were really good, very enjoyable show. They performed this as their encore, the crowd went nuts and they extended it for about 10 minutes. Lots of fun. I don't think this one is better than the original, I think that's probably impossible. The cover is just nostalgic and fun for me.
The cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItIb_-pP9yY
And the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saaLW0jiiUE
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Saw FNM a few times at small venues in Chicago. Excellent band - never did see that song performed. Wish I did.
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Was a huge fan of Epic when I was in 7th grade... That was when the video was getting tons of airtime on MTV...
(For the young'uns, MTV used to show music videos.)
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Was a huge fan of Epic when I was in 7th grade... That was when the video was getting tons of airtime on MTV...
(For the young'uns, MTV used to show music videos.)
Young'uns? On this board?
That would probably be you...
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For the hip hop lovers out there... Here's another nostalgic one. Not even what I'd call a "good" cover... Just a funny take on a song.
Dynamite Hack - Boyz In The Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNFo5lL4iw
NWA - Boyz N The Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIU07K_28ck
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For the hip hop lovers out there... Here's another nostalgic one. Not even what I'd call a "good" cover... Just a funny take on a song.
Dynamite Hack - Boyz In The Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNFo5lL4iw
Yes! This is my go-to at Karaoke. I've even done it without the lyrics on the screen a couple of times when the local dive bar was having technical difficulties.
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Yeah I love that Dynamite Hack cover. Agree I'm not sure I'd call it "good" but I definitely think it's fun.
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He is not wrong.
That's the laxative talking - have a sammich
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https://youtu.be/72ZP1lZy2zY
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Forgot about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rCUQjmkxU
I suppose I don't need to post the original... Y'all know it.
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https://youtu.be/RYu5YbdRKL0?si=70BbxPP3EkhYHGQJ
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https://youtu.be/-EfrjYJ9nTM
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not a cover
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Nubbz is a rebel 😎
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I dunno about best, but certainly the creepiest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvVdTlA23w
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https://youtu.be/h_D3VFfhvs4?si=ZTmfPHxwpYXy1v5d
https://youtu.be/CDl9ZMfj6aE?si=wrFOaM2MY-Qmz0PP
Alien Ant Farm remake of Micheal Jackson's Smooth Criminal
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https://youtu.be/S6InAX5IAQM?si=L9gtXyLIdM0FAarK
https://youtu.be/CRAkXUNIfRU?si=LbyGs1ITtWOGtbD9
https://youtu.be/pPqQ-TQw9F8?si=ycO7bL3pdDMoCkos
One of my favorite covers ever was the Soup Dragons remake of an old Rolling Stones song called I'm free. The Soup Dragons cover is probably the more famous version called I'm free to do what I want any old Time. Dua Lipa tried to remake it recently but it's just not the same.
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I didn't know this existed before today... But it's an interesting musical experiment that I never would have considered but it's really cool...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGvuE-Wb2k
Was it a cover of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjEcrrf7r0
Or this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw
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One of the worst covers that I've ever heard was this very 90s techno version of Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChsXOr0zw6Q
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Thanks for the contribution
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q08kDgsquOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOzdslhdLM
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https://youtu.be/EzACZW65rpE
https://youtu.be/O2vHbXI2p4k
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Here's one that's pretty good. My wife (and oldest son) are country fans and so I hear this one a LOT.
I always liked the original song, and this is a really solid take on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq6yGtEQlpU
Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOAlaACuv4
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For the hip hop lovers out there... Here's another nostalgic one. Not even what I'd call a "good" cover... Just a funny take on a song.
Dynamite Hack - Boyz In The Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNFo5lL4iw
NWA - Boyz N The Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIU07K_28ck
Thank you for posting this, because it reminded me of a cover I forgot existed.
Same vein; not "good" but a fun drinking song in the college days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE
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Melissa and Blue Sky - unbelievable - takes one to a different place - you get a Yuengling CD
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https://youtu.be/1T2w2HiG4cE
https://youtu.be/7M9E7BsbHd0
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One of my favorite bands from my long ago childhood was Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence - best cover of that, I believe is Disturbed's version.
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https://youtu.be/kYaCb0ZGu3Q
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https://youtu.be/6T7cyHwlfFQ?si=Vk_v7a7bs4pXOMfH
https://youtu.be/CmlnO1EwCT4?si=44WPBln4bZ9XQFia
Never really heard of this Beatles song called Across the Universe until the movie Pleasantville came out and Fiona Apple did a cover for the movie.
Pleasantville also ended up being a deeper movie than it was advertised. Which is another subject.
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One of my favorite bands from my long ago childhood was Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence - best cover of that, I believe is Disturbed's version.
I love the Disturbed version. Apparently a lot of folks don't, but it takes all kinds I suppose.
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I love the Disturbed version. Apparently a lot of folks don't, but it takes all kinds I suppose.
actually Ive hear a lot of good things about it
havent listened to it yet
need to do that
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Took a Peloton ride a couple weeks ago and the theme (from an instructor who likes Motown / soul) was remakes of popular rock by those artists... I'll post a couple that I found cool...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLEpr-25A0Q
Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzg_iPAU9hE
Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHvXhWJ0oHU
Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os
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This song has been covered by probably every pop, rock, country, or R&B singer ever. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Depeche Mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVE2oDSAOPo
Asleep At The Wheel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vifUaZQL8pc
And the original by Nat King Cole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCYApJtsyd0
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And here's one of my favorite local alt-country/rockabilly bands, Two Tons of Steel, covering The Cure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SfmqWIAhtg
And the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3nPiBai66M
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Here's another version... First heard it back in the day when Pandora Radio was a thing and you'd get fed all sorts of obscure artists because the rights were cheap lol...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rmil_raUtU
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I like Katie
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T-Swizzle likes to do covers in concert. I ran across this one recently when my daughter was skimming though music on Youtube, and it reminded me that I actually saw her sing this one in concert at Circuit of the Americas back in 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JFcRRftxzM&t=115s
The original by Train:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc
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I love the Disturbed version. Apparently a lot of folks don't, but it takes all kinds I suppose.
I have to admit that I also like the Pentatonix cover. Both are excellent, IMO
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I like Pentatonix alright. I will say that after a while, all of their stuff just sort of sounds the same to me.
And I say that as a huge marching band and choir nerd going way back.
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I like Pentatonix alright. I will say that after a while, all of their stuff just sort of sounds the same to me.
And I say that as a huge marching band and choir nerd going way back.
I agree with you there. For an acapella group, I think I prefer Home Free (which does an excellent cover of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire, btw). They at least seem to bounce around from country to rock to hillbilly rock, etc. Never know what they will come up with next.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZQAJ1Q-ZTY