What do you think the best cover ever is?
In my opinion it is Superstar by Sonic Youth.
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"Hallelujah" by John Cale
If anyone suggests Jeff Buckley's version I will rape them with a spade.
never would have guessed!
you wrote that ;-)
Obsessed? Moi?
I'm getting counselling. It's a slow process, but I'm hopeful. Soon I will be a well adjusted member of indie-muso society again, able to rub my chin and say "Hmmm. Of course, that's your opinion. Let's listen to the Bono version."
Until then: the spade!
I don't want to be raped!
I will obtain the John Cale version before passing true judgement (freely admit I haven't heard it so I'll get hold of it now), but the Jeff Buckley version is astonishing. Wainright's version is ok, but not as good as Jeff's. So, so beautiful
The spade is waiting ...
I prefer John Cale's version as well
Rufus Wainwright's version tries to copy this, poorly. And you really don't want to hear Bob Dylan's live version of it from the 80's.
That is truly shocking
Have you heard Bono's version? he does some weird spoken word thing over a cheap Euro-synth beat, with some waily woman doing the chorus.
Fucking dreadful, but should be heard once for sheer "WTF?" factor.
I'd forgotten about that
That was on a Leonard Cohen tribute album right? Think I listened to a minute of it in a Tower Records once and then tore off the headphones in disgust.
There's a one-take live video of Jef Buckley doing Hallelujah floating around, appeared on my Virgin Media on-demand of all places the other week.
Excellent
Another reason to hate Richard Branson.
It's horrendous.
Truly, truly horrendous. Some of the other stuff on that tribute album is pretty good though, Famous Blue Raincoat by Tori Amos for one.
Yeah
But there was a better cover album - "I'm Your Fan" - which has got John Cale on it. It's also got REM doing "First We Take Manhattan", which is bloody brilliant, and Nick Cave and Bad Seeds doing "Tower of Song", which is funny.
And a weird Frenchman whose name I forget.
And the Pixies!
'tis the best.
ever ever?
my sharona by number 12 looks like you.no joking but its good
Heard it through the grapevine
The Slits
Maybe this actually
Oh Yeah!
Amazing version...
that song
but by Creedence Clearwater Revival
yeah,
very possibly this. a total tune.
Obvious but true
Jimi Hendrix - All along the Watchtower or pixies - winterlong
The former is the correct answer
yes..
i agree hendrix's all along the watchtower
WRONG
XTC's version does a wee-wee all over Hendrix.
I'd agree with the first one.
Sisters Of Mercy's cover of Hot Chocolate's 'Emma' for me.
or tATu's How Soon Is Now? for sheer 'irk the purists' value.
Tricky's cover of Black Steel
(in the Hour of Chaos) by Public Enemy was good. Probably not the best ever, but outstanding because musically it was absolutely nothing like the original.
Botch's cover
of Rock lobster
or the mountain goats' cover of the boys are back in town/Ignition remix
the raincoats
lola gets my vote.
sonic youth
no part 2
ummm
maybe Galaxie 500's cover of 'Ceremony', thats pretty decent
^
Yes, that is a beauty.
Oh yes
That is an absolute cracker. Although it's not slow enough.
I've always thought that Ceremony should be the slowest song ever. Nobody's done it justice yet ;)
Feeling Good by Muse
Love it, so good live as well. Anyone seen that video of this on youtube when they performed it drunk on German Radio? Matt just crouches behind the piano repeating the word "fucking" over and over again... Very, very funny.
pffft
Feeling Good - By Quantic Soul Orchestra!
Kiss Kiss - Holly Valance
Elouise - THE DAMNED
Lay Lady Lay - MINISTRY
The Coma Lilies covering '4' by Aphex Twin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfr_kHkuqk
AHHHHHHHHH
Kiss kiss
is a very very good shout.
I hope it was meant with deep-founded sincerity.
"blue monday"
as covered by swan lee
I think you mean Blue Monday
as covered by ORGY!
FUCK YEAH!
hahaha
you totally figured me out! ;)
Blue Monday
as covered by HangedUp.
Just insane drumming and a viola playing the melody. Superb track.
Gin and Juice
By the Gourds
or
To Love Somebody by Gallon Drunk
or
If you think I'm sexy by Revolting Cocks
Not take pisses, but genuine love for the songs. Except the Revolting Cocks.
cap'n jazz - take on me
though the original amazing as well
possibly best song of all time
The answer is
'Satisfaction' by Devo.
Get Into The Groovy
by Ciccone Youth. Or Mr Pharmacist by The Fall. Or Tainted Love by Soft Cell. Hound of Love by Futureheads is surprisingly decent too. Controversially, I really like Wonderwall by Mike Flowers Pops.
The worst cover version by a long way for me, even worse than Love Will Tear Us Apart by Paul Young was Feel The Need In Me by Shaky. Jesus.
Wonderwall
Ryan Adams makes it bearable. Great cover
Brown Sugar
He does a really good piano led version of the Stones' Brown Sugar too. totally different from the original, quite melancholy.
Seconding the Ryan Adams cover
and adding "Nobody Does It Better" by Radiohead and "Wicked Game" by Giant Drag
Come to Daddy
Dillinger Escape Plan.
Interesting fact: DEP have done an EP of (very faithful) cover versions of 'mainstream' songs that is availble only on itunes.
hang on
has no-one mentioned any Cat Power yet? She's done fab versions of so many songs. Personal highlights: Satisfaction and Bathysphere
fucked up
do good versions of justice's "stress" and kelly clarkson's "since you've been gone".
nick cave's cover of "in the ghetto" is howling and heart-wrenching. and his cover of leonard cohen's "avalanche" is pretty fucking creepy.
LITHIUM
As covered by The Polyphonic Spree. Like all great covers, it sounds nothing like the original but you still know what song it is.
and one of the best covers ever must be
blondie's "hanging on the telephone".
Thats a cover? :S
the nerves did the original
educate yo'self!
Throwdown
Baby's Got Back!
Elliott Smith
Because
hahahahaha
I've heard that, it's erm...interesting.
Spacemen 3
When Tomorrow Hits
Otis Redding - Change Gonna Come
The Cramps - Green Fuzz
Lost in Music
By the Fall - a NW reworking of the Sister Sledge classic
and if this is sacrelidge I do apologise but I think Bryan Ferry's version of jealous Guy knocks Lennon's into a tin hat.
That's because Lennon was a nob
dinosaur jr - just like heaven
my favourite covers would be:
Ciccone Youth - Into the Groovey
Big Black - The Model
Yo La Tengo - You can Have it All
the postal service - against all odds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjlivsCBcM
soft cell- tainted love?
The Model by Big Black
One of those rare occasions where I kind of prefer it to the original. Sacriledge, I know..sorry Kraftwerk
Otis Redding sings "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
It's on the just-reissued Otis Blue, and it is sodding AMAZING!