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Do you know of any cool or weird covers you want to share? I'm personally kind of a huge music nerd and I really love weird covers. Even bad ones! I thought I'd share some of the odder ones that I know of and see what other people might have. No worries about anything being "not weird enough" or something. Go wild! Here's a few from me: First is this cover of the Beatles hit Yellow Submarine by a Japanese traditional singer of Minyou. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMViTALj8g&t=65s This cover by Negativland pissed off BOTH U2 AND Casey Kasem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqse3vYcnaU I know it's a BIT early for Christmas but Butthole Surfers version of Good King Wenceslas is probably the best Christmas song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZGZwuuugM Let me welcome everybody to the middle of the west. A cover of California Love by Faxed Head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwTAX6XFeIM A grime take on The Equals classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpIFKKa1u-U Chicago on Chicago. Big Black covers Cheap Trick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF3zzFHItgk You guys got anything neat? Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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the Resident's did a cover of Jambalaya that's pretty far removed from the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBvavPrNFNw (the Resident's are basically cheating though because they have a ton of weird covers) Placebo's take on Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill has always been a high point for me, cover-wise. Has a weird air of quiet menace I really enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5GuBa4Bbnw My Bloody Valentine covered a wire song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUBcqs0Z9QA Not technically a cover as such, but I really like Ween's take on this old English Ballad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnPwcjp_Ass Bardo Pond's cover of Funkadelic's Maggot Brain distills the original song to a hypnotic minimalism:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIJJvxpz-0k&t=38s The Kills take on Fleetwood Mac's Dreams is an interesting experiment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7St2Gz3PTc Last but not least my favorite cover of all time, Bauhaus's goth-rock take on Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. I really like the guitar:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWCQBtRzNJQ
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Aug 10, 2019 19:56
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One more that I'm including because it absolutely owns but is not "weird" or "wild" as such: Built to Spill's cover of Neil Young's classic guitar workout Cortez the Killer. Fair warning this is a long jam, but it's so propulsive you won't even notice 20 minutes have gone by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNOvqFISxIc&t=94s
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Aug 10, 2019 19:59
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magic cactus posted:
Not a fan of Placebo's version, but this one by Candy Says is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wN8Eu9UjIo |
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Aug 10, 2019 21:54
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How's about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXLaNeyffzQ |
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Aug 10, 2019 22:09
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magic cactus posted:
Woah! I had no idea that Ween was doing a cover there. In retrospect I should have... No worries about a cover being weird or anything. If you think it's neat just post it. Swans two covers of Love Will Tear Us Apart are neat. https://youtu.be/dp017Crrx7I https://youtu.be/F062h9ePl4Q Queenadreena does a cover of Jolene I find really entertaining. https://youtu.be/tNqYsozeLk4 |
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Aug 10, 2019 22:36
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https://youtu.be/TCG1fWfp4mI (no idea why the opening sounds like you're about to fight a Zelda boss) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugS9YYRW9_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvvOkzRp1mg |
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Aug 10, 2019 22:57
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Finger Prince posted:Not a fan of Placebo's version, but this one by Candy Says is awesome. this is great. I really love the way the piano is reverbed to hell and back and hangs in the air like that. Lends it some weight. Great sonics/atmosphere on this cover. I'll bet 100% this has been or will be used in a movie trailer or prestige drama soundtrack
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Aug 10, 2019 23:03
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Melvin's covering The Butthole Surfers song Graveyard is fun. I saw them do it live a few years ago along with Goin Down To Florida when they toured with Jeff Pinkus. https://youtu.be/WAQGwf0Qb_E Dead Cross's cover of Bauhau's Bela Lugosi's Dead isn't that different but I like it for some reason. https://youtu.be/Vd26WCprkOM |
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Aug 10, 2019 23:12
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Farecoal posted:https://youtu.be/TCG1fWfp4mI (no idea why the opening sounds like you're about to fight a Zelda boss) Heck yes! More Jolene covers! Others too! |
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Aug 10, 2019 23:13
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I really like the Black Key's cover of Captain Beefheart's "Grown So Ugly". It's just raw as hell and gritty as gently caress. Should be played in dive bars at maximum volume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ll1vpyv8W0 Big Black's cover of Kraftwerk's the Model is another of my favorites and sounds nothing like the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9zcjhC_myo The Dirt Bombs cover of J.J. Barnes's Chains of Love is another great garage rock classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USuhLK_bn_Y For something completely different, check out this dub reggae cover of a Radiohead song. It works disturbingly well imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USuhLK_bn_Y same guys did a dub tribute to dark side of the moon. The opening of their take on "Money" always gets a chuckle out of me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aYli_1iqs Always had a fondness for Sonic Youth's cover of The Carpenter's Superstar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_aYli_1iqs Also really like Monster Magnet's take on Hawkwind's Brainstorm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmn6zZmy0c Ditto Hijokaidan's take on Silver Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBCWxjV_M64 Thin White Rope did a great cover of Marty Robbins They're Hanging Me Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgBIYoRJnhY Slowdive's Cover of Syd Barret's Golden Hair is shoegaze perfection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzWuok7EyjA I like Cathrine Wheel's take on Mission of Burma's That's When I Reach For My Revolver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-4_3Y_sNU Lastly, I'm not 100% sure this counts, but The Butthole Surfer's Sweat Loaf is a super pisstake version of Black Sabbath's Sweet Leaf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-fE5NbilMw
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Aug 10, 2019 23:40
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magic cactus posted:this is great. I really love the way the piano is reverbed to hell and back and hangs in the air like that. Lends it some weight. Great sonics/atmosphere on this cover. I'll bet 100% this has been or will be used in a movie trailer or prestige drama soundtrack Yep, from the movie "Close". Which is a good action flick with an interesting perspective. That's where I heard it and was like whoa. |
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Aug 10, 2019 23:47
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don't know whether this exactly counts as a cover, but it has absolutely outstanding use of the stereo field. put on your best headphones and sit in a dark room for with your eyes closed for seven and a half minutes. Ken Ishii's remix of Steve Reich's "Come Out" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAyJwJZU2es more weird: Cristina covering Prince "When You Were Mine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pIxfGEhM0&t=102s totally unhinged: Leon Redbone's version of "Sheik of Araby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0KphJ9CNs also don't know whether doing jazz standards counts as "covering" but the guitarist miles okazaki has a crazy 6 album thing where he covers every single thelonious monk song arranged for solo guitar and some of them are sort of "traditional" like this one, Bye-Ya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKq_s78--3k but some of them are really pretty peculiar, like this one of Pannonica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGBQY9GX3Js here's a differnt jazz genius doing something that's more definitely a cover:Jason Moran and his trio playing Afrika Bambaataa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSMfVth-jrg, he also does this solo on a prepared piano on his album "modernistic" but I like this version better because even though it's not quite as weird it cooks more and heres just a historical oddity: mike love of the beach boys singing merle haggard's "okie from muskogee" with the grateful dead backing him. somewhere i have a bootleg cassette of a different version which is just the grateful dead and is way better but i can't find it online and this one is weirder because of the beach boys thing. lol at "we don't take our trips on lsd" finally, k.d. lang put out a fantastic album of songs that are about/mention smoking called "drag"...thye're all fantastic. picked pretty much at random here's her cover of steve miller's the joker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18NVj_38Sz4 ---------------- |
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Aug 11, 2019 03:28
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also this is kind of in the reverse order but i recently found out that gladys knight's "midnight train to georgia" was actually a cover of a song by jim weatherly called "midnight plane to houston"... her version's better but the original has its charms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_JQr6RqWs
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Aug 11, 2019 03:33
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I am cool with a very loose interpretation of the word "cover" remixes and versions of old standards are absolutely welcome. I just used "cover" for lack of a better, more nebulous one. 
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Aug 11, 2019 03:48
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There's an extended mix of this on Spotify, but this gives you the idea of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXL6EN7kFf0 I like the male vocals for this song - Though I'm still not sure if it isn't just the Beyoncé vocal slowed and warped and I haven't got the tools with me to test that theory. |
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Aug 11, 2019 04:34
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Oh and then there's this absolute banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXzJpzxk-M8 |
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Aug 11, 2019 04:39
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Yes, this is a cover! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVECruSI3k (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBTSG_Tryhc |
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Aug 11, 2019 04:49
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Ok one more - this one has been covered quite a bit, but this is the best cover by far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ |
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Aug 11, 2019 04:56
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cda posted:also this is kind of in the reverse order but i recently found out that gladys knight's "midnight train to georgia" was actually a cover of a song by jim weatherly called "midnight plane to houston"... her version's better but the original has its charms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_JQr6RqWs That's always interesting. Like when I found out that Police On My Back wasn't a Clash original. E: AND that the writer was the guy who wrote Electric Avenue. Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 05:02
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This one sounds like it should be the original, weirdly enough, but it ain't! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XVyrioSV4 |
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Aug 11, 2019 05:24
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Arg! Of course my internet starts getting throttled right after I make this danged thread! Keep 'em coming though! Please enjoy Local H covering Brittney Spears https://youtu.be/ThjilYhKQNc |
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Aug 11, 2019 05:56
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Going for the geekiest submission award here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I2UHqT1G3U |
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Aug 11, 2019 06:05
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Oh drat. I haven't thought of Estradasphere for a second! I remember seeing them live in College with Secret Chiefs 3. E: Jesus Lizard's version of Damned For All Time https://youtu.be/VfdCXM6naDA Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 06:11
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Okay! I have Wi-Fi on this train to Kyoto so I have time AND internet to give these things a proper listen so in the words of Crazy Titch: It's on! It's on! It's ON! I have very fond memories of Kate Busy because of a former housemate and great friend in Seattle. We'd get high and watch Kate Bush videos and listen to mom jams like Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman. Speaking of Crazy Titch he did a cover of Dizzee Rascal's Just a Rascal but flipped it on him into a diss track. It's not super great lyrically or name wise but I get a kick out of it. https://youtu.be/K_7XipJGYWc E: I went through a big grime phase for some reason a while back. At the same time I happened to be listening to a lot of Slaves too so this was a neat coincidence: https://youtu.be/06vwuE2G53E Escape From Noise fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 06:37
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:Oh drat. I haven't thought of Estradasphere for a second! I remember seeing them live in College with Secret Chiefs 3. They came up in a Spotify radio playlist and I was like whoa poo poo, I had completely forgotten about these guys! I had at least one of their albums. Can't say most of their stuff held up to my present tastes, but it was an interesting blast from the past. |
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Aug 11, 2019 06:42
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i like this more than the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFKMar4x-w |
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Aug 12, 2019 22:29
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Tape Deck Mountain covers Daniel Johnston's True Love Will Find You In The End. I'm a sucker for any Dan Johnston cover but I absolutely adore the shoegaze take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9qtdLeRrlI |
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Aug 12, 2019 22:43
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Here's a cool chilled out version of Age Of Consent that i like https://youtu.be/I5pIIAwQQIs
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Aug 13, 2019 00:24
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Here's a bizarre swedish band that plays blues standards in like arab-esque instrumentations and sings kinda like captain beefheart, here they are playing rollin and tumblin https://youtu.be/dPjWe4vRoYI
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Aug 13, 2019 00:43
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are mashups "covers"? I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkbnUi1KRQY
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Aug 13, 2019 02:19
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If it feels good, post it. |
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Aug 13, 2019 02:21
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my best find in this category is an edit of Promise by Ciara done by the Range that turns it into a wildly powerful and timeless banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvYN4pH6ndY
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Aug 13, 2019 15:51
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drat now this is gon be on repeat all day
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Aug 13, 2019 15:52
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I like these extremely byob chill azz covers a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHK5o4t9js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhXx2ihRzD8
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Aug 13, 2019 17:45
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Here is what i can only describe as an ambient/drone metal cover of Norwegian Wood https://youtu.be/M-T_Fu5yFBk
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Aug 13, 2019 18:05
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:This cover by Negativland pissed off BOTH U2 AND Casey Kasem I love this, the original gets played on the local rock stations so much and I'm completely sick of it.
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Aug 13, 2019 19:08
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Here's a drone/doom cover of Elliot Smith's Needle in the Hay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-qWJaxd1U
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Aug 13, 2019 21:39
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Jimi Hendrix's version of "All along the Watchtower" originally by Bob Dylan had so much of that feel and soul that Jimi could put into a song that apparently Bob said something along the lines of "This isn't my song anymore. it's Jimi's" and even himself started playing it at shows more like the cover version because it was that good. How much of that is myth I don't know for sure but I have heard it from multiple places, and it's hard to deny Jimi tears it up either way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY
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Aug 14, 2019 00:50
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It's definitely an example of a cover being way better than the original and i say that as someone who likes bobby D a lot |
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Aug 14, 2019 00:59
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