Music Covers

[Killick]

The beautiful Leslie Grace, lately of “In the Heights,” does a nice English/Spanish mashup on “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”



Edit: She does “Be My Baby,” too.

 

[mpcincal]

I dig Prince, but didn't really care for "Kiss" because I thought the exageratted falsetto he sung it in sounded unnatural.
Then the Art of Noise got Tom Jones to cover it, and I really enjoyed that:

 

[garrow]

 

[Starman]

The original



A couple of bar bands take their shots

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Cowboy Junkies version of Sweet Jane is stunning

Here’s a version of “Sweet Jane” that mixes in bits of Joan Armatrading's “Love and Affection.

 

[Slacker]

Here's a cover that turns the original inside out:

I've posted this one a couple of times
over the years for the same reason. Never gets old.

Two more scorchers from the same great album:





Full album here: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOOBGm41XSwVvtq5jimfhT-2HcCEHoriW

 

[Songbird]

Les Gams did their version of "He's Got the Power" by The Exciters.




The Exciters ...

 

[Slacker]

We once caught this obscure San Francisco band, Spot 1019, on a cross-country tour, and that night they impressed with the theme song from "Gilligan's Island" ... ... ... wait for it ... ... ... sung to the pace and tune of "Born to Run." It came off well. Crowd loved it.

Little hope of finding that on the Magic Electric Internet,
but I did find the band with another catchy, eclectic cover ...

 

[Jake from State Farm]

We once caught this obscure San Francisco band, Spot 1019, on a cross-country tour, and that night they impressed with the theme song from "Gilligan's Island" ... ... ... wait for it ... ... ... sung to the pace and tune of "Born to Run." It came off well. Crowd loved it.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I don’t know if this counts but ...

 

[Starman]

Here's a cover that turns the original inside out:

For those who may not be familiar-- which in this discussion is probably nobody -- Hindu Love Gods is R.E.M. with Warren Zevon on lead vocals instead of Michael Stipe.

 

[Starman]

Try this on for size

 

[heyabbott]

For those who may not be familiar-- which in this discussion is probably nobody -- Hindu Love Gods is R.E.M. with Warren Zevon on lead vocals instead of Michael Stipe.

I didn’t know who they were on your first post but the singer sounded like Warren Zevon. So I googled them.

 

[Slacker]

Try this on for size

This might be one of the harder songs to cover well, and pardon me but <coughcough> this attempt suck-iddly-ucks.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Here's a different one. Hot Leg, which is Justin Hawkins from The Darkness doing Pointer Sisters:

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Here’s one of the stranger ones
The Wonder Who, which was the Four Seasons with Frankie Valli singing falsetto, covering Dylan

 

[garrow]

One of the greatest covers ever:

 

[heyabbott]

One of the greatest covers ever:

Definitely. The remake of the Thomas Crown Affair, one the beat remakes of a movie, featured this cover. Fell in love with it and became a huge Nina Simone fan.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Damn, this thread blew up quick.

Re the Jason and the Scorcher's cover of "Absolutely Sweet Marie", I caught Warner Hodges (lead guitarist) at a house concert here a few years back. His daughter and more importantly his granddaughter live here, and once in a while he plays a small show at her house. They charge like $20 a head. Everyone brings a twelve pack and a covered dish/dessert and he rocks out solo in the living room for 20-30 people.

He was talking about when they went on tour with Dylan after that video hit MTV. They were too intimidated to play their cover in front of the man, and the first couple of nights they did not. Third night, Dylan came back to their dressing room. (You gotta just imagine Warner doing a halfass Dylan impersonation through here.) "Why aren't you playing my song? I loved the way you did it, and you're not playing it. What the hell? I hired you guys because I liked the way you did that song." LOL.

To bring it full circle, Warner was also talking about Dan Baird, who was the lead singer for the Georgia Satellites. They're old friends and Warner plays with him in a band called Homemade Sin. Anyhow, this song was written by Terry Anderson and his band, The Woods. It was first covered by the Satellites. It rocks.

 

[heyabbott]