Great Cover Versions

doesnt make me smile, it makes me right mardy.

Beatles Tomorrow Never knows performed by Our Lady Peace.

I suppose that a) I agree, because if it came on now I would be angry. but b) I disagree, because if it came on in a bar when I was with someone who hadn't heard it before, then their reaction would make me smile. That's not the same as liking it, is it?

If it came on now I would be more than mardy, because I am currently listening to allegri's misere mei for the tenth time on repeat (kids are chuffed). I think I prefer Joe Dolce to that Shatner thing... but I suppose I am biased because I also want to kick the TV in when I see him going "yoe-gurty?" on that advert. Horrible, smarmy, plasticy, bewigged, round table - lions club type man. Go away.

We'll have to disagree. We laugh at Shatner whenever he appears in anything. Habit I suppose. I love that Allegri piece. It was one of the first solos I ever sung and we sang it at my dad's funeral too.

Well I've listened to the Shatner album twice today out of choice and I like it. Tomorrow Never Knows by Our Lady Peace is rubbish though. but Letter To Cleo cover of Dangerous Type (by the Cars) on the same record (Craft Soundtrack) is ace.

Common People by William Shatner is fantastic. Other covers I like are Always on my Mind by the Pet Shop Boys and Nirvana's The Man who Stole The World. The worst are any rock covers of Mrs Robinson, and the version of The Smiths How Soon is Now that I keep hearing.

I have a few covers of How Soon Is Now, none of them are any good.

can't believe I forgot all about this

Hallelujah-by Jeff Buckley Tainted love -Inspiral Carpets Suspicious Minds-Dwight Yoakham All or Nothing- Starsailor Paranoid-Inspiral Carpets Girls Talk-Dave Edmunds Lilac Wine-Jeff Buckley Baby I Love You-Ramones More to follow.

Willie Nelson's cover of Artie Shaw's 'Stardust' ranks as my favourite.

Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Elvis Presley A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall - Bryan Ferry Endless Sleep - Marty Wilde Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Elvis Presley Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin Key To The Highway - Eric Clapton That's Alright Mama - Elvis Presley First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - You Win Again - Jerry Lee Lewis Footprints In The Snow - Johnny Duncan The Big Grand Coulee Dam - Lonnie Donegan

There's a great cover of There is a Light that Never Goes Out by a German band called Schneider TM.

I liked that recent cover of a Kate Bush song, but I have no idea who/what it was.

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Ewan McColl or Roberta Flack?

ooh, Roberta Flack, definitely.

oops pressed the post button by mistake! To continue... I forgot to type Roberta Flack's name after 'The First Time Ever..' (yes it WAS a cover version) That's When Your Heartaches Begin - Elvis Presley (just for a change) Sea Of Love - Marty Wilde I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival The First Cut Is The Deepest - PP Arnold Fields Of Gold - Eva Cassidy

Oh, they're called The Future-something...Futurists? Doing Hounds of Love. Google it.

Futureheads... that was it.

George, you like a song written by Sting?!

Vanilla Fudge did some great covers...

I've got a great electronic cover version of Sweet Child of Mine by Schmoof. And there's a cool band called Oizone who covered Boyzone songs in a punk rock stylee.

I have a cover of Jesus Christ Superstar by a Solvakian industrial metal band called Laibach, that's quite something.

I'd like to see Kate Bush do a cover of Sweet Child of Mine, actually.

Swan Lake by Madness Seriously, Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy Killing me Softly - Fugees Lauryn Hill - Can't Take My Eyes Off You A House is Not A Home - Luther Vandrossw Love Won't Let Me Wait - Luther Vandross You Are My Starship - name escapes me

Well I didn't say I particularly 'liked' it, I just think it's a superior version to his, that IS what the thread is about surely?

Yeah you are right, I despise Sting though. Eva does turn and twist the song to make it her own I guess.

I have the Balanescu (string) Quartet's album of Kraftwork songs somewhere, that's very good.

futureheads - dont buy the album its poor poor poor. that track is great tho.

Yeah, as is often the way. Never buy an album because you like one song. - I haven't bought an album for about a year due to cash flow. As soon as I'm minted I will buy the latest Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds one, which I haven't even heard yet, but am sure is magnificent.

Me & Bobby McGee Janis Joplin

arguably their best yet fergal, you'll love it.

I'm sure I will. The best gig I ever saw in my life was them at Brixton a few years back. really sublime and moving and exhillarating. God, I sound like a right w*nker now.

We are the champions-----Chelski

Satisfaction Devo

Ooh, I might have been there. Nick Cave gigs are always good. I'm off to see Einsturzende Neubauten tonight (third mention in the forums today, and probably ever), head man of which (Blixa Bargeld) used to be a bad seed, and am as excited as a puppy fed on sunny delight.

Give a sway for me Dan.

Shut up Flash - if you get 10 points deducted for your club's disgraceful behaviour you'll be singing I was Born a Loser - Delroy Wilson

Queens of the Stone Age have done a couple of Kinks covers, Who'll be the Next in Line and Everybody's Gonna be Happy; they're not so hot, but they also did a kickass cover of ZZTop's Precious and Grace with Billy Gibbons. Oh and Never Say Never by Romeo Void. All good. Mmmm. Usually with early covers bands try too hard to imitate the original, but they really make the songs their own. All you illegal downloaders, I demand you sample.

Someone has (quite by coincidence) just given me The Royal Gigolo's cover of California Dreaming, it's quite something to behold.

Jimi Hendrix's version of Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower". Mindblowing - well, it was when I was 13 and still is. Scissor Sisters "Comfortably Numb" impresses me too. And Jeff Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is stunning - I've only just heard it recently, and was ... er, stunned.

Hey Ralph - I heard he'd recorded a version and posted it to the band... where can I hear it? I love Sleeper, love Senor Costello... he's appearing this year at Hay!

'futureheads - dont buy the album its poor poor poor. that track is great tho' Ha! Liana, you loser... Your taste in music is usually very good, but your Cool Detector must be temporarily bust. I went to see them in Camden. The album is superb. It utterly kicks heiney.

hrmmm do you think so? Have only listened once, but the first three tracks really hacked me off. I was trying to write an essay at the time though, so may have been easily annoyed... going to see a band always joins you to them in some strange way I find. I'm currently in love with a Latvian band I saw in Belgrade a couple of months ago, and they send everyone else who listens to them in my cat, into a frenzy of hatred. I love them though, and I especially love singing along in a faux latvian accent. Actually, maybe thats what causes the frenzy.

How soon is now... T.a.t.u *whistles nonchalently*

It's on the extended version of 'All This Useless Beauty' Rocky. It's beautiful.

By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Isaac Hayes By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Long Time Man - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Muddy Water - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Long Black Veil - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Long Black Veil - The Chieftans with Mick Jagger (thanks missi) Long Black Veil - Joan Baez Hurt - Johnny Cash Love Vigilantes - The Oysterband Satisfied Mind - The Walkabouts Sand - Einsturzende Neubauten

It's quite abrasive at first... not an 'easy' album to get into, I grant you, but well worth the effort. A real grower, trust me.

Honeyroot's cover of the Joy Division's 'Love will Tear us Apart http://www.justmusic.co.uk/store/TAOS003/ Sorry I still can't get this to be highlighted so you can click on it!

Ooh nearly forgot, Common People by William Shatner, it's really really good.