Interesting or unusual cover versions

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[Hooli]

The Wurzels - a much better version of Rock DJ than nobbie manages

The Wurzels again, tubthumping

[minimoog]

The Magic Numbers - There is a Light That Never Goes Out

[DI Burnside]

Xentrix - Ghostbusters

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Tubeway Army's 'Are Friends Electric?' on ukelele and synth
Same guys doing Fade to Grey

[JonRB]

Marilyn Manson's "Tainted Love", with added hot Goth chick bare boobage in the uncut video. Mmmmmmmmmmm

Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal"

Mark Ronson's "Self" (Radiohead cover)

[Charlie Foxtrot]

Mark Ronson's "Self" (Radiohead cover)

Isn't is "just"?

I can't think of any cover versions I like more than the original.

[minimoog]

I can't think of any cover versions I like more than the original.

I can

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
Tainted Love - Soft Cell - (Gloria Jones)
Nothing Compares 2 U - Skinhead O'Connor (The Family/Prince)
Emma - Sisters of Mercy (Hot Chocolate - but love their original too)

Loads more too probably that I can't remember right now.

[Dirk]

And in how many of those cases did you hear the cover version first minimog?

[JonRB]

Isn't is "just"?

Ooops. Yes, you're quite right. Bit of a brain fart there on my part.

[JonRB]

And in how many of those cases did you hear the cover version first minimog?

Well I definitely heard Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" before Marilyn Manson's, and I prefer the latter.

[minimoog]

And in how many of those cases did you hear the cover version first minimog?

Two. Let me guess - your point was going to be the one you hear first gets ingrained as your favourite, never to be usurped in your affections, right?

[Dirk]

And in how many of those cases did you hear the cover version first minimog?

One. Let me guess - your point is the one you hear first gets ingrained as your favourite, never to be usurped in your affections, right?

I think that is what often happens, not universal though

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I think that is what often happens, not universal though

Evidently But yeah overall you're probably right.

[GingerNinja]

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

I'm not much of a fan normally, but really like the Ting Tings - Standing On The Edge Of Control

[Disastrous]

Couldn't believe this one when i first heard it:

Lovefool

Done by teeny punk poppers New Found Glory.

Oddly, the original is a bit of a guilty pleasure and I'm amazed at how they've managed to turn it into a sanitised, American high school anthem (which even more oddly, I hate less the more I hear it). Bro.

[GingerNinja]

Couldn't believe this one when i first heard it:

Lovefool

Done by teeny punk poppers New Found Glory.

Oddly, the original is a bit of a guilty pleasure and I'm amazed at how they've managed to turn it into a sanitised, American high school anthem (which even more oddly, I hate less the more I hear it). Bro.

Dude, that's frikkin awful man.

Made even more so by the very obvious fact that ALL the songs from then that also come up on that YouTube page are dire cover versions.

[Amyris]

Couldn't believe this one when i first heard it:

Lovefool

Done by teeny punk poppers New Found Glory.

Oddly, the original is a bit of a guilty pleasure and I'm amazed at how they've managed to turn it into a sanitised, American high school anthem (which even more oddly, I hate less the more I hear it). Bro.

I didn't think I would, but I quite like that.

[Disastrous]

Couldn't believe this one when i first heard it:

Lovefool

Done by teeny punk poppers New Found Glory.

Oddly, the original is a bit of a guilty pleasure and I'm amazed at how they've managed to turn it into a sanitised, American high school anthem (which even more oddly, I hate less the more I hear it). Bro.

I didn't think I would, but I quite like that.

All I can confidently say is that I don't hate it. I really like the original though and thought I would loathe this...

[OEJ]

Skinhead O'Connor

[Love Machine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc

Odd take on NWA's Straight outta Compton.

[CJ+]

Gorv'll like this lot for when he's hitting things:

Dispatched covering Europe's The Final Countdown.
Type O Negative covering Black Sabbath's Paranoid.
Megadeth covering Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made For Walking.
The Young Gods covering Kurt Weill's Alabama Song.
Coil covering Gloria Jones' Tainted Love.
Snake River Conspiracy covering The Smiths' How Soon Is Now.
Lawnmower Deth covering Kim Wilde's Kids In America.

[One MoreDonkey]

Guns N Roses with Elton John - Bohemian Rhapsody

you dont get more unusual than Axl Rose, Queen & Elton John on the same stage

[Cloggy]

I can't think of any cover versions I like more than the original.

I can

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
Tainted Love - Soft Cell - (Gloria Jones)
Nothing Compares 2 U - Skinhead O'Connor (The Family/Prince)
Emma - Sisters of Mercy (Hot Chocolate - but love their original too)

Loads more too probably that I can't remember right now.

Jealous Guy - Brian Ferry (John Lennon)

[satchbot]

Iron Maiden - My generation http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wECK_MEbfGA

Helloween - Lay all your love on me http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XseLGzmqa7c

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - I believe I can fly http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vV3XQcCyyPc

Gamma Ray - It's a sin http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IsfHFy30C ... re=related

[thekungfury]

Jamie Cullum - Frontin'

Keane - With Or Without You

Arctic Monkeys - Love Machine

All from Radio One's Live Lounge


An odd one this, a cover of a Public Enemy track
Tricky - Black Steel

[Bodhi]

I don't know if this counts as a cover version. It's whatever the young kids call it when two songs are seamlessly blended:
GnR and Jackson 5

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[onomatopoeia]

I can't think of any cover versions I like more than the original.

I can think of several, original artist / title in parentheses:

Strawberry Switchblade - Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground)
Madness - It must be love (Labi Siffre)
Lick the tins - Can't help falling in love (Elvis ?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDGevgo_E1U
Jennifer Warnes - First we take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen)
Mary Coughlan - A thrill's a thrill (Long John Baldry)
Mike Oldfield - Platinum IV (Philip Glass, original title North Star)
Mark Shreeve - Assassin (John Carpenter, originally the theme music to Assault on Precinct 13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s54kYAVdVjc
and Soft Cell as previously mentioned. I really never got Northern Soul.

If it had been anyone other than Dionne Warwick singing the original then The stranglers would have managed it as well.

[Careless Whisperer]

Mike Flowers' Pops - Wonderwall

Unusual and errr.... 'interesting'.