covers you love, covers you hate

[emef]

while not being overly fond of cover versions, there are some you just can`t argue with.
what cover version do you love and what cover version really get on your wick...or worse still , spoil your enjoyment of the original

i really love the cover that marilyn manson did of "tubeway army - down in the park"
completely different from the original...love it

but i cant stand what tom jones did to prince`s "kiss"
every time i hear the original now, all i hear in my head is awful tom jones screeching over the top... pity

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

The Senor Coconut covers of Kraftwerk tunes are superb, as are those of the Balanscu Quartet.

[$eye]

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[Hiro]

I recently woke up to Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt (NIN)- It was pretty damn beautiful... Got really intense at parts... affected my morning.

The Sundays did a beautiful cover of Wild Horses (Rolling Stones).

Jacob Fairley covers Iggy and the Stooges - I Wanna be Your Dog... Started out as a subtle cover.. really slick (I freaked the hell out)- The last time I saw it performed his voice was much more abraisive- throaty... pure gold! I highly recommend this one!

[phil]

Ever heardL

Yipee kay yay ki-mu-sabi by bruce willis in Die hard, that was good.

[$eye]

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[Lady E]

those johnny cash albums are amazing. cristian alerted us to the wondrousness of his cover of 'one' by U2. if it doesnt touch you, you need to check your pulse.

other faves:

'eight miles high' (the byrds) - husker du
'just like heaven' (the cure) - dinosaur jr
'i am a rock' (simon and garfunkel) - red house painters
'brass buttons' (gram parsons) - the lemonheads
'brand new love' (superchunk) - sebadoh
'pink moon'(nick drake) - sebadoh
'downtown' (petula clark) - the hardons
'shes a model' (kraftwerk) - big black
'get into the groove' (madonna) - ciconne youth
'heard it through the grapevine (marv) - the slits
'i want that man' (B-52s) - chicks on speed

[wheezer]

I like the nine inch nails cover of physical and their legend of zelda theme song cover...

[emef]

looks like a download mission is at hand

[guignol dangereux]

KMFDM made great covers of Nancy Sinatra's "Boots" and of Queen's "We will rock you"...
By the way, check this:
http://4trak.net/dsico/download.html
"Smells like electro" is pure dope!

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Originally posted by phil
Ever heardL

Yipee kay yay ki-mu-sabi by bruce willis in Die hard, that was good.

That was the best. The ITV film on a Monday night with some quality dubbing. Robocop and Lethal Weapon provided such gems as

Just give me my funny phonecall

not me, not me not me

ladies leave

and not forgetting

I'm too old for this this

[grobelaar]

Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal, makes me laugh... possibly because of my house mate's reaction at the time - she was a big RnB fan and as far as she was concerned it was total heresy - as far as I was concerned the only thing I had a problem with was the lead singer of Alien Ant Farm so badly wants to be the new Henry Rollins and he's gonna have to try a lot lot lot harder...

A1s cover of A-ha's "Take On Me" was funny too - because it was actually a rehash of Morten Harket's 'techno' remix of his own track...

(ahem) Grobs reveals his disgraceful fetish for pop music and retires to a safe distance for the afternoon...

[phil]

in Robocop

forget you...forget you...forget you...

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

The Die Hard was probably the best as the voice was completely different, as in not even making the effort to be different. Well remembered....

[phil]

cant forget "workshed" from evil dead 2

[mr franks]

...or "melonfarmer" in repo man

[pille'ocheoni]

i like cotton covers, and i hate silk covers

[deccard]

NIN cover of johnny cash - hurt
has the same power as the original
one of my NIN favs

[aleks]

queen of japan-bobby brown

[piscaries]

prince's "1999" covered by dump (yo la tengo keyboardist)

[gunjack]

rage against the machine covered eric b and rakim - mic fiend with some serious style...........

[big raff]

rahzel's version of new order's blue monday
well.........we can but dream

[big raff]

ok - if it has to be real, rebekah del rio's version if crying. (from mulholland drive) it made me cry

[JE:5]

Opus - Live is life ,the Laibach cover version is great!!

[MUX]

Rage against the machine - Renegades of Funk was brilliant....
hmm...

Manic Street Preachers - Pennyroyal Tea (nirvana)
dave matthews band - all along the watchtower (hendrix)
Radiohead - Nobody does it better (carly simon)
Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls ( joy division )
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (nirvana)


Wow, Didnt know that track was a NIN cover , thought is was brilliant anyhow....

[debord]

This Mortal Coil's cover of Tim Buckley's 'Song to the Siren' is my total fave - and probably on me best ever list too.
Other covers of note in my book are: KLF : K Cera Cera / The War is Over , and Earthing's cover of 'Because the Night', totally awesome...
I agree with the NIN stuff above too, they are cracking and a bit 'under rated' maybe, athough his moaning gets annoying occasionally, but the music is ace.

[wheezer]

while we're on laibach, laibach's sympathy for the devil cover was pretty good too...

[Hiro]

Originally posted by debord
This Mortal Coil's cover of Tim Buckley's 'Song to the Siren' is my total fave - and probably on me best ever list too.

Wow- I had no idea it was a cover... That song has been close to me for a very long time... Gonna search for the original now.

Thanks-

[wheezer]

Originally posted by aleks
queen of japan-bobby brown

I liked their "I was made for lovin' you" cover better

[wheezer]

oh and now that I read emma's post

there's a lot of cool kraftwerk covers available, and two very covers of "the model" are

markus & kristian - hän malli on which was produced by one half of mr.velcro fastener and features the original with finnish vocals, and one a musically more serious tip, snakefinger of the residents did an awesome cover of the song as well - this is in fact the track that dj hell bootlegged for his clubvoices bootleg, only thing he added to snakefingers version was a electro loop and a crossfade sample...

there are like a ton more obscure kraftwerk covers floating around, for instance a friend of mine played me a lp of a russian ensemble that did russian folkmusic versions of most of their big hits.

[debord]

Hiro - Loads of the This Mortal Coil stuff is covers - if you are feeling flush you can buy a box set of the three LP's and you get an extra disc of original versions of the covers.

[tsr_tomas]

good: Schneider tm - The light. original version by the Smiths.

bad: Tomas nordström - Break in the law, my karaoke singing cover version from last night at Rabalder, sumpan... i´m still very ill in my trouth coz of all the screeming.
oj a, need a beer now.

[Hiro]

Thanks debord- I'm on it!

Morr recently put out their second compilation album - A tribute to Slowdive (one of my all time favourite bands)- Some pretty amazing covers done by some amazing artists...

[M H]

Dead Kennedys "Viva las vegas"

I'm still waiting for them to do an Elvis tribute album, they'd carry it off in fine style....

[piscaries]

björk's "all is full of love" done by death cab for cutie

[Mui]

hmm.....beck and thom yorkes cover of joy division's 'I'm set free'.....regurgitator's cover of 'the man who shot liberty valence'....johnny cash's cover of nick caves 'the mercy seat'....avalanches doing 'do you know the way to san jose' is also good

[zombie ritual]

baby jail's cover of "pretty vacant" (sex pistols) is pretty amusing. the residents doing elvis presley's "jailhouse rock". I also did what the cardigans made of black sabbath's "iron man". and of course some of the cover versions emma mentioned are extremely great, expecially "eight miles high" in the husker du version...

[phaedrus]

Culture Cruncher - Sloop Dee J (Beach Boys - Sloop John B)

[tsr_fredrik]

the best cover that I listen to right now must be FPU - Crocketts theme. nice melodic sensation or something...

Bad ones:
All those tracks on the radio that has ripped the house of god bongo loop. Just makes me pissed off everytime I hear any of them and there is just to many of them.

[zombie ritual]

talking bout the beach boys: check out the cover versions David Thomas (Pere Ubu) did of "sloop john B" and "surf's up".

[MUX]

i have that cardingans iron man. very sweet.
radiohead also do 'wish you were here' which is great

one of favorite alltime covers is White Zombie - children of the grave ( original black sabbath )

roots manuva does a yellow submarine that im looking for.. anyone got it?

[Weishaupt]

u like radiohead?
my roommate likes them alot.........i didnt understand that..........

[MUX]

well.........
radiohead are a touchy subject and let me thru some difficult times, they kinda grew with me music-wise & thom yorke views are sometimes radical but clever.

ever heard him spin a DJ set Weis?
he plays loads of Mosquito i heard once...

( he designed the erutufon hoodie top too i fink )

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by MUX
ever heard him spin a DJ set Weis?
he plays loads of Mosquito i heard once...


really?

no.....i didnt.............would be cool to hear that.

[MUX]

WEBCAST #3 [24-03-00]
tracklist...

:THOM
: Schizm - Track #2 Mix
: Squarepusher
: Christian Vogel - Mosquito 10
: This Is Mike Ink - Polka Trax 4
: Christoph De Babalon - On The Block (Meet Him)
: Le Tigre - Hot Topic
: Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me
: Ad Vans vs. Gescom - Viral
: Andrea Parker - Unconnected
: Wevie Stonder - Questionable ( how ironic!)
: Autechre - Various Artists 8.5 (fat cat)
: Talking Heads - Cross Eyed and Painless
: Alder & Elins - Digital Toddler
: Autechre - 777
: Justin Berkon - The Juice
: Autechre - Rae
: Can - ?
: Funkstorung rmx of Wu Tang Clan
: Faust - Skinhead
: autechre - tortoise rmx


some respect...see.. the man really knows his music :)

[Weishaupt]

wow....cool :-)

[MUX]

excellent to know..it kinda looks like my winamp playlist.

[Marolo]

Good> Grace Jones - love is the drug
Tricky/Nearly god - black coffee
Nirvana - where did you sleep last night?

Bad> Duran Duran - white lines

[Lady E]

a pedant writes:

1. re: thom yorkes playlist
mosquito 010 is si begg 'working on the frontline', not a CV EP

2. stanley donwood and white chocolate farm designed the classic no future X tshirt
(that's radiohead's designer dan rickwood and thom yorke) because stanley is mat consume's best mate.

3. thom apparently likes cristian's music, we used to send him mosquitos but havent for several years due to my total slackness

4. 'all along the watchtower' is a cover by jimi hendrix of a bob dylan song

[actionjetzon]

some Radiohead stuff really is the bomb

[Mui]

@MUX - Roots Manuva's yellow submarine is on Soulseek a fair bit, otherwise, check out the compilation "bad meaning good" mixed by roots himself

[V Knid esq]

I love cover versions of all kinds. I have quite a big collection of easy listening versions of Fool On The Hill by the Beatles, including some shit hot bossanova versions.

My current favourite is Dani Siciliano (Matthew Herbert's usual vocallist) doing a downtempo jazz / breaks cover of Nirvana's Come As You Are - it's on the Gilles Peterson mix CD that was on the front of last month's Muzik mag.

Mux - Yellow Submarine is on the Bad Meaning Good mix CD that Roots M did a few months back.

[content]

i'm set free is a velvet underground song on the vu album. r.e.m. does a real good version of eight miles high. and cristian covering one? where can one obtain this masterpiece?

[Lady E]

content - i meant cristian told me about johnny cash's cover of 'one'. which is awesome.

i havent heard the REM version of 8 miles high...im sure id like it...

[tsr_tomas]

old swedish Synth group S.P.O.C.K. made a awesome cover on Twisted sisters - we´re not gonna take it.

can only be found from the live gig at Arvika (don´t remeber the year, hihi).

[JE:5]

Maybe Autechre should remix some Captain Beefheart stuff, now that would be intersting!

[namshub]

i agree husker du - eight miles high....wow
age of chance - kiss
does tha jams count???- any thing by them
flying lizards-money and purple haze
afx twin - pac man theme
hell interface - midas touch (duran duran)
lassique benthaus - ashes to ashes

[Sheridan]

tori amos covering slayer's raining blood. an odd yet cool rendition.

[MUX]

emma: (watchtower) really?? didnt know he was the original, thought he did a cover of it as well.. Damn, hendrix really showed off at woodstock.. he was at his best...
& slackness from who's side? thom seemed to be more mentally flippy nowadays.. but the albums just got better..

namshub.....hell interface - midas touch (duran duran) ( that's board of canada subproject ) excellent track send shivers down your spin.... i assume you dont own it on vinyl...keep it close to your heart even mp3 wise cause it's rare..

thanx for roots single info ...re:beatles are the perfect cover templates, they can be put in any style and still sound amazing... musical prodigy's pushed by jealousy.. 100% effort songwriting...

[Lady E]

mux - i clearly wrote "due to my total slackness". so we stopped sending thom yorke mosquitos because i am too slack to send them to him, but im sure he's not bothered.

im pretty sure watchtower is a dylan penned song. but could be wrong.

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Nope, it is a Bob Dylan song. It is just that Hendrix gave it the life it required rather than Dylan giving it the scruffy, drunken busker touch.

[Lady E]

oh dear, revisiting my lemonheads past after remembering their Gram cover...they also did 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega and 'Mrs Robinson' by simon and garfunkel. Luka is cool actually...

no-one has mentioned snuff and the adverts / tv theme tunes they did - excellent. bran flakes, shake n vac, til death us do part, blankety blank, kwik fit. does anyone remember if they actually did a cover of 'especially for you' by kylie and jason?

[platinumray]

some one should do some electronic covers of leonard coen. i would myself but i'd probably fuck it up. there's a great cover of "my sweet lord" by george harrison done by some reggae dude. i don't know the name. i hate that new liberty x thing of chakka chan.

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Originally posted by platinumray
i hate that new liberty x thing of chakka chan.

I found the Mantronix cover bad enough, but this really takes the biscuit!

[r_v]

no-one has mentioned snuff and the adverts / tv theme tunes they did - excellent

yeah, I remember these. They also did a great cover of wuthering heights by kate bush.

I have this CD at home with a load of punk bands doing adverts and tv themes. cheers, mary tyler moore, stingray, mission impossible, cops...

my faves:

the slits - heard it through the grapevine.
hi standard - california dreamin'
nirvana - turnaround

my least faves:

every trance remix ever (especially that cover of smells like teen spirit that came out just after cobain died, bad taste man)

[debord]

The Ragga mix on the B-side of the Liberty X made me smile , but yes it is basically 'a piece of shit' - however it is better than most of the other pop music available in the UK at the moment. Blue anyone?

just off to stab needles in my ears...

(bad covers - DJ Sammy - Boys of Summer / Madonna - American Pie , although the original wasn't all that!)

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Yeah, I heard the Slits version last week on some sort of bootleg 12"

[Yer_Maw]

the bis version of love will tear us apart is brilliant in my opinion.

[Yer_Maw]

Originally posted by tsr_fredrik
the best cover that I listen to right now must be FPU - Crocketts theme. nice melodic sensation or something...



yeah thats good too. it used to be the music for a holiday programme in britain. I love holidays.

[decadnids]

have to say, not keen AT all of square pushers cover of "love will tare us apart" by joy division,
ones I like... nature and organisations version of one of the songs from the wicker man

[Yer_Maw]

yeah the squarepusher vershion is crap, but this one keeps the feel of the original but still in another style. check it out, i was really surprised at it.

[decadnids]

Yer_Maw, what version are you talking about?

[Yer_Maw]

it's by a band called Bis. its a electro version with vocoder vocals and its really good IMHO.

[decadnids]

I'll have to check that out then.
cheers

[MUX]

got an mp3 of that bis one? is this the same bis we mentioned last week.. the 'dirty hostpital' bis?

damn i really love that track but it really reminds me of suicide

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

That is them....

[MUX]

hahaha 1 minute difference....
get off my back buddy!
unless u got that bis mp3.. that is...
http://images.bravenet.com/brpics/smilie/bouncy.gif

[JE:5]

Originally posted by namshub
i agree husker du - eight miles high....wow
age of chance - kiss
does tha jams count???- any thing by them
flying lizards-money and purple haze
afx twin - pac man theme
hell interface - midas touch (duran duran)
lassique benthaus - ashes to ashes

Have you heard the flying Lizards cover of "Sex Machine"?
that can go on my list. :D

[splitrmx]

The original of Midas Touch is by Midnight Star, not Duran Duran. And Hell Interface (alias Boards of Canada) didn't really cover it, they just put an acapella over some music of their own. It's a really good track though.

-splitrmx

[wheezer]

@je:5

oh yes, that is a fine fine cover, forget about that one! it was recently rereleased on kauko lampi's (of op:l bastards fame) label totally...

[@m.]

...definitely johnny cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails "Hurt".

Cure remixes of anything are usually on my 'dope' list too. :)

anyone heard the new breaks version of LFO's "LFO"?

@m.

[Sheridan]

cure's cover of purple haze, super slick.
tool's cover of led zeplin's no quarter is also really good.

I saw the video for johhny cash doing hurt.
that was some intense stuff. not as fucked up scary as NIN version.
but to see johnny so old and tired and to see him singing those words fits so perfect.