Cover Songs

[Kennyb]

Many people say that it is a big no-no, to do a cover version of somebody else's songs. However I believe there are some people who have done a good job to it. For example Paul Anka and Michael Buble.

However, I want to be more specific as in which artist, or group, did a good cover to which songs.

Here are some of the artist, and group, that I think did a good job (you may be able to find it about on the web if you're lucky):

Roni Size - Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg)
Kosheen - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie Minogue)
Elbow - One Thing (Amerie)
Elbow - Independent Woman (Destiny Child)
KT Tunstall - Get UR Freak On (Missy Elliot)
Jamie Callum - Frontin (Pharrell Williama)
Arctic Monkeys - Love Machine (Girls Aloud)
Embrace - How Come (D12)
Will Young - Hey Ya! (Outcast)
Will Young - Don't Cha (Pussycat Dolls)
Lee Ryan - Best Of You (Foo Fighers)

Share your thoughts and what cover songs you heard that you think is well done. :smile:

[eos]

bizarre love triangle by frente...this was a while back but she did a nice job. it was an acoustic version.
the one i can't stand is 311's cover of the cure's love song.

[Faithless]

On the Crystal Method's CSII recordings, they do a cool version of the Doors' song Roadhouse Blues.

BT does a neat version of the Doors' Break On Through.

[Faithless]

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Sheryl Crow doing Sweet Child O' Mine.

[SunWuKong]

bizarre love triangle by frente...this was a while back but she did a nice job. it was an acoustic version.
the one i can't stand is 311's cover of the cure's love song.

i can strum the chords for that song and sing it at the same time. i used to like Frente a lot back in high school.

one of my favourite covers is probably Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated by Shonen Knife. another one is an acoustic version of Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out Of My Head by At17.

one interesting thing i've noticed is that if done right, ballads by 80s hair bands can sound pretty good acoustic and with a quicker pace.

[Hiroshi2]

Mariah Carey - cover of Prince's "Beautiful Ones"

Mary J. Blige - cover of Rose Royce's "I'm Going Down" (though I admit it's nothing like the original)



Hmmmm.....................that's all I can think off the top of my head. I don't know enough about rock/alternative types of music to comment on that, and in the R&B/hip-hop world there are a lot more samples of songs than actual covers.

[Kennyb]

Last night on the Radio was quite unreal... I heard Jack Johnson doing a cover to White Stripe's "Doorbell"... It just sounded really weird.....

Was surfing around the web couple of days ago and I found a nice compliation of all these artist, primarily British, doing cover songs. Here is the link for you lot to have a look at - cover songs (http://takeyourownlife.typepad.com/fox_in_the_city/mixtapes/).

It's in the entry called 'Cover Lounge'. Here are the tracklisting to it:

Vertigo (U2 cover) - Lemar
Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover) - The Arcade Fire
Push The Button (Sugababes cover) - Starsailor
The Scientist (Coldplay cover) - Natasha Bedingfield
Somebody Told Me (The Killers cover) - Daniel Bedingfield
Love Machine (Girls Aloud cover) - Arctic Monkeys
If I Ain't Got You (Alicia Keys cover) - Athlete
Frontin' (Pharrell cover) - Jamie Cullum
Shiver (Natalie Imbruglia cover) - Maximo Park
Crazy In Love (Beyonce cover) - The Magic Numbers
Smile Like You Mean It (The Killers cover) - David Gray
I Believe In A Thing Called Love (The Darkness cover) - Lemar
Best of You (Foo Fighters cover) - Lee Ryan
Somewhere Only We Know (Keane cover) - Natasha Bedingfield
Take Your Mama Out (Scissor Sisters cover) - The Zutons
Get Ur Freak On (Missy Elliott cover) - KT Tunstall
Don't Cha (Pussycat Dolls cover) - Will Young
Numb (Linkin Park cover) - Jamelia
Cry Me A River (Justin Timberlake cover) - Lost Prophets
How Come (D12 Cover) - Embrace
Teardrop (Massive Attack cover) - Elbow
Bonus: Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand cover) - Scissor Sisters

[Boy_Hong]

not too big on covers, i'm more of a remix kind of guy. but here's a cover of baby got back (sir mix alot) by jonathan coultan (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2005/10/14/thing-a-week-5-baby-got-back/)

[sinisterpanda]

Rasputina - Barracuda! WHOO, LOVE CELLOS!!! YAY!

[Pookie_gal]

Hey Kenny,
Have you heard the Sugababes' cover of Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor? Ok, it's not such a great cover...

Btw, do you have mp3s of the songs you mentioned in your 1st post? :biggrin:

[Kennyb]

Hey Kenny,
Have you heard the Sugababes' cover of Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor? Ok, it's not such a great cover...

Btw, do you have mp3s of the songs you mentioned in your 1st post? :biggrin:

Yes, I have heard Sugababes' cover and I wasn't really convinced by it to be honest...

I realised I have a cover song to the original theme tune of Spiderman by Michael Buble. Kinda funny to hear the swing version of it. :tongue:

Oh, Goldie Lookin Chain's cover to James Blunt "You're Beautiful" is a funny one too.

Which ones are you looking at in particular from the list on my 1st post, P_g?

[Faithless]

Korn - Word Up!

Ozzy Osbourne & Miss Piggy - Born to be Wild.

[Broomer]

There's some good ones, there's an Aussie bunch that's covered Alphaville that's going around - there are others, sort of escapes me right now. Need to go through collection.

I'm more interested in the ones where the artists just does it ad hoc; a good one is when Evanescence did a cover of Nivrana's Heart shaped box. There are others.

[Faithless]

Stereophonics and Tom Jones - Mama Told me not to Come (a Three Dog Night tune on the Las Vegas soundtrack).

[Kennyb]

Good choice there Faithless - I remember that song too. It was first played at the Brit Awards (late 90s) before being used as a soundtrack if i'm not mistaken.

As usual, I have been looking about on the web, for you people to hear some cover songs that was done on British BBC Radio 1 in the Jo Whiley's Live Lounge session and by luck I found one so enjoy, although you may not know some of the artist, as majority of them are British - Jo Whiley's Live Lounge sessions (http://home.mattford.net/~matt/specialmusic/).

[Fireblade]

eve cassidy - time after time

very very nice take on this song.

[s1eve]

Good thread Kenny. Now gotto find some time to check out those mixtapes.

[ares]

bizarre love triangle by frente...this was a while back but she did a nice job. it was an acoustic version.

I really like Frente's song too.

Some others I like

Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Avril Lavigne
Wonderful World - Terence Trent D'Arby (Greatest Hits)
I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone
Something - Joe Cocker
I Am Sam soundtrack for Beatles covers
Amsterdam (a french song) - David Bowie - not too bad - I really like the one from Isabelle Boulay

For some Asian covers, there's

The Cranberries - Dreams - Faye Wong (not too into)
Depeche Mode - Somebody - Faith Yang - really like it
Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love of All - Shunza - really like it

[tapestrybabe]

one last cry (brian mcknight)- sung by kim bum soo :smile:
man, i think his version is better than the origional...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqgWkOBLIH4&search=kim%20bum%20soo

[ares]

one last cry (brian mcknight)- sung by kim bum soo :smile:
man, i think his version is better than the origional...


I'll have to check it out. I'm not sure why I like asian covers. There's a mando-pop version of Big Yellow Taxi. I heard it once in a cafe; it wasn't too great but I would like to hear it again. :)

eve cassidy - time after time

very very nice take on this song.

ah yes. I also like her People Get Ready. U2 and Axelle Red also do a nice People Get Ready.

[Faithless]

The Cure -- Purple Haze.
Pearl Jam - Baba O'Riley.
Hang on the Box -- Foxy Lady.
Elton John -- Pinbal Wizard.

[Gaki]

Here's a few others:

A Perfect Circle - People Are People (originally Depeche Mode)
The Postal Service - Against Alll Odds (Phil Collins)
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Sheryl Crow - The Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog)

[amietron]

The Counting Crows' cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi."

[Faithless]

Motley Crue - Street Fighting Man.
Guns 'n' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil.
Otis Redding - I can't get no satisfaction.
Aretha Franklin - I can't get no satisfaction.

[Faithless]

What is it about "Eleanor Rigby" that has inspired so many different takes?
Stanley Jordan, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, Oscar Peterson, Aretha Franklin.

That and Chain of Fools - Jimmy Smith, Joe Cocker, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Clint Black and The Pointer Sisters.

:cool:

[Kennyb]

The Counting Crows' cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi."

I remember that version, it was very upbeat compared to the original.

Was listening to the radio today and they replayed one of the live lounges and I can't believe I forgot this one: Franz Ferdinand - 'What You Waiting For?' (Gwen Stefani). If you are going to try and find this, pm me instead - it took me absolutely ages.

It's quite funny hearing Scottish guys singing this ultra-high pitch song.

[Kennyb]

*THREAD REVIVAL*

Can't believe I forgot about these two:

Alien Ant Farm - 'Smooth Criminal' (Michael Jackson)
Ryan Adam - 'Wonderwall' (Oasis)

I really like what Alien Ant Farm did MJ's song and it works really well. As for Ryan Adam's cover, it has a really nice acoustic sound to it and his voice really helps mellow it out.

[Faithless]

*THREAD REVIVAL*

Can't believe I forgot about these two:

Alien Ant Farm - 'Smooth Criminal' (Michael Jackson)
Ryan Adam - 'Wonderwall' (Oasis)

I really like what Alien Ant Farm did MJ's song and it works really well. As for Ryan Adam's cover, it has a really nice acoustic sound to it and his voice really helps mellow it out.
Some group called Alpha Kenny One has a dance version of Smooth Criminal. Why rehash a uninspiring MJ song?

[Kennyb]

Why not? I think it was the bass riff to Smooth Criminal which blew me away - it's not easy to play that part.

Found a nice website for you music lovers to look at - elbo.ws (http://elbo.ws/)

This website has full of music - covers and one of acoustic sets and so. It's literally like a independent music store that holds rare album collection. Enjoy!

[Faithless]

Did you hear those American Idol contestants hacking up the Elvis cover songs?

Been listening to some remixes of his stuff, and I like how they layered up beats around his voice.

[returntosender]

diana krall-a case of you(joni mitchell)

[Kennyb]

Did you hear those American Idol contestants hacking up the Elvis cover songs?

No, I don't follow it up that much as it's shown on Sunday - that day being my sports day. In general, most contestants in pop idol are just killing the original version. Only a pinchful of them can pull it off in my opininon...

[Kennyb]

My my.... It's been a long time since I posted in here... Guess people has loss the hype on sharing cover songs.

Here are more that I found and heard on the radio:

Kano & Leo - 'Feel Good Inc'
Editors - 'Feel Good Inc'
Mylo - 'Sweet Child Of Mine'
We Are Scientists - 'Hoppipolla'
Nelly Furtado - 'Crazy'
The Kooks - 'Crazy'
The Automatic - 'Gold Digger'

I have to say that the last cover is a gem. I couldn't stop laughing with amazement when a rock band did a hip hop song. Just genuis!!!

[Powerful T]

4*tune did a pretty good cover of "Be Your Emotion".

[Pookie_gal]

Everyone is doing covers of Crazy - enough already!! :tongue:

Just found out that Jo Whiley is releasing an album of those cover versions. It's called Live Lounge album and will be out on September 18. Track listing at the mo includes a lot of the mainstream stuff...Jamie Cullum's Frontin', Lemar's I Believe In A thing Called Love etc...

[Kennyb]

Everyone is doing covers of Crazy - enough already!! :tongue:

Just found out that Jo Whiley is releasing an album of those cover versions. It's called Live Lounge album and will be out on September 18. Track listing at the mo includes a lot of the mainstream stuff...Jamie Cullum's Frontin', Lemar's I Believe In A thing Called Love etc...

If Jo Whiley put all the cover songs made in at Maide Vale, there is no doubt that it would be a 3 disc collection, minimum!! That would be something that I would like to have.

Thanks for the infor there! :)

[Kennyb]

Found this website which has a large archives of covers:

Jo Whiley's Radio 1 Live Lounge (http://www.european-dream.com/music/threads/2006-Jun-17/14654/14676.html)

[Faithless]

The Ultramagnetic MC's and The Prodigy have a song called "Smack My Bitch Up".

But is one really doing a cover of the other?

The Prodigy remixed (http://www.prodigyremixed.com/tracklist.html).

Tomorrow Never Knows - Stereo MC's
Pinball Wizard - Elton John

[Kennyb]

Just found out that Jo Whiley is releasing an album of those cover versions. It's called Live Lounge album and will be out on September 18. Track listing at the mo includes a lot of the mainstream stuff...Jamie Cullum's Frontin', Lemar's I Believe In A thing Called Love etc...

I finally saw this CD out on the street and in honesty I was very disappointed with the tracklisting. Only a few artist on there did a cover, whilst the other tracks were them performing it live.

Anyway.... The usual of what I do best:

Boy Kill Boy - Maneater (Nelly Furtado)
Fall Out Boy - So Sick (Ne*Yo)
James Morrison - Valerie (The Zuton)
José González - Hand On Your Heart (Kylie Minogue)
Zebrahead - Wannabe (Spice Girls)
Kasabian - Out Of Space (The Prodigy)
Lil Chris - Sexy Back (Justin Timberlake)

[Faithless]

There's this new album out on iTunes called, "This is Metal's Most Covered Moments of the 80's", and it features Motorhead doing "It's a Long Way to the Top".

I think there's a better version by Lemmy on an album called "Remixed to Hell: AC/DC Tribute".

But I like the way Motorhead does "Jumpin' Jack Flash" on an album called Bastards.

[Faithless]

Those Cheetah Girls recorded Route 66.

It certainly is a pop spin on the Bobby Troup lyrics imortalized by Nat King Cole.

But there are so many good variations. Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, etc. But it seems best in a jazz tempo.

Jazzy Nelson Riddle version can be found here (http://www.nelsonriddlemusic.com/nr_tv_rt66.htm).

I hate the Depeche Mode version.

[mercuria]

bizarre love triangle by frente...this was a while back but she did a nice job. it was an acoustic version.
the one i can't stand is 311's cover of the cure's love song.

what can't you stand about it?
just curious. i like both versions of the song.

i love lemar's cover of the darkness' "i believe in a thing called love", also recorded with jo whiley, i'm pretty sure

[Kennyb]

i love lemar's cover of the darkness' "i believe in a thing called love", also recorded with jo whiley, i'm pretty sure

Not also.... It was recorded with Jo Whiley during the live lounge on Radio 1.

[mercuria]

Not also.... It was recorded with Jo Whiley during the live lounge on Radio 1.

I wrote also because you guys were talking about other songs recorded with Jo Whiley. I meant to say that this is another cover that was recorded with Jo Whiley, not because it was something he recorded on his own and then did with her again.

[Kennyb]

For all The Beatles' fan out there, two weeks ago was the 40th anniversary of their album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'. The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) made a special documentary, where they got various artists to cover every song in the album. Here is the track listing:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – Bryan Adams
With A Little Help From My Friends – Razorlight

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Athlete
Getting Better – Kaiser Chiefs

Fixing A Hole – The Fray
She’s Leaving Home – Magic Numbers

Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite - Jamie Cullum
Within You Without You - Oasis

When I'm Sixty Four - Russell Brand
Lovely Rita – Travis

Good Morning Good Morning - The Zutons
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) – Stereophonics

There are digital recording of all these songs floating around the web. For more information and to watch or hear the documentary go here: - BBC RADIO 2 - 60s SEASON - SERGEANT PEPPER'S 40th ANNIVERSARY (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/60sseason/documentaries/sgtpeppers.shtml)

Extract:
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' legendary album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, multi award-winning engineer Geoff Emerick heads back into the studio to demonstrate the innovative techniques employed for the recording at Abbey Road studios back in 1967.