Current car conversation. Can't decide personally atm.
In my opinion, if you're going to cover a song, make it your own. Some of my favourites in that respect. Therion - Summer Night City - Original by Abba The Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter - Original by the Rolling Stones Showing my goth roots here, but The Sisters of Mercy really, really, really know how to cover a song and make it their own. * Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil - Original by the Rolling Stones bear with me it's not all Abba and Rolling Stones covers... Snake River Conspiracy - Love Song - Original by The Cure Melvins - In Every Dream Home a Heartache - Original by Roxy Music Melvins - Goin' Blind - Original by KISS Cake - i will survive - Original by Gloria Gaynor Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground - Original by Stevie Wonder Spiderbait - Black Betty - Original by Ram Jam Iron Horse - Enter Sandman Fuck the Original Children Of Bodom - Oops I Did It Again! - Original by Britney Spears Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas - Original by Elvis Presley ________________________________________________________________ * Jolene by Dolly Parton - the 33rpm version because it's awesome
Ram Jam is actually doing a cover of Black Betty themselves, as it's an old American folk song. If you ever get the chance, check out Lomax and the work he did. The man had a huge passion for preserving culture.
wow, that's a new one for me! No idea that was a cover. I wonder if the original is as angular as their cover is - indeed, if it is it might explain its weird bar lengths and mood shifts.
You can find versions of Lomax's recordings in Youtube as well as Leadbelly's version. They're slower paced, but very good. Since you're a music major, you might like this. There's a group that's digitizing Lomax's non-Library of Congress recordings and putting them online.
I didn't realise Ram Jam was a cover too! It's weird how many songs are actually covers. I only found out a few weeks ago that Hanging On The Telephone was a cover
That's awesome. I had no idea that was a cover either. It reminds me a bit back when thenewgreen posted the original for "I Think We're Alone Now." I had no idea Tiffany's version was a cover. Another one you might enjoy knowing is pretty old is House of the Rising Sun. Read the origins in that link, it's pretty interesting.
I turned against them when they went on their suing rampage against Napster, universities and their own fans. After watching Some Kind of Monster I think some people find them more human or relatable but it just made me hate them more. Also, in my petty mind they stole a lot of fans that Slayer really deserved but that's just me projecting my bad taste on others.
I used to be friends with Kirk Hammett (via his first wife, who was a friend of mine), and knew the rest of the guys in the Dave Mustaine era. We used to hang at Kirk's first house over in the East Bay. That was long before the whole Napster thing. Now, if I ran into him, and if he even remembered me, I don't even know what I would say to him. Those guys live so far away from any kind of reality... I think I'd just sadly shake my head and walk the other way. Napster was definitely the first big chasm that opened up between me and them.
The press or media always portray Dave Mustaine as the untamable party animal the others tolerate (for the most part) until he takes it too far ... Knowing how they like to mould the truth to make a story I wonder how much truth there is to that. Being famous must seriously suck. Some manage not to surround themselves with fawning, servile drudges and yes-machines but many also seem to fall foul of the celebrity machine. I'd fall apart if people recognised me wherever I went. the rest of the guys in the Dave Mustaine era
Those guys live so far away from any kind of reality
Dude. We proles have absolutely NO IDEA what the life of a famous person is like. The only place I would hang out with any of them was at Kirk's house. Anywhere else and it was impossible to even carry on a conversation. And this was BEFORE Ride The Lightning. They can't do anything they want to do because they are constantly getting interrupted. Constantly. I just wanted to punch people after about 20 minutes, but they just smiled a tired smile for yet another picture, or another dude yelling from across the street, or car honking, or whatever. I never wanna be famous.
Never mind. It's a perennial favourite question and opinions change over time as new covers are released or discovered or re-discovered.
The Original, recorded in 1964. Imelda May, IMO wins this one. Then again, Imelda May is freaking amazing and you should listen to some other stuff she does. Soft Cell made it famous. Marylin Manson took it in a different direction. The Cure is the version that was in a few commercials.
Of course I can't let Marylin Manson pass without pointing out another cover by a much better Orlando shock rock band from the same scene. Though as far as Blondie covers go, I prefer Cadaveria's cover of Call Me.
Chet Faker - No Diggity perhaps That's not to say that the Dre and Blackstreet version isn't also great
Leonard Cohen says it is k.d. lang performing his Hallelujah. I was blown away by Heart performing Stairway to Heaven at the Lincoln Center awards. Or the Scala & Kolacny Brother choir cover of Radiohead's Creep.
the live burlesque band I'm in is doing Creep this sunday. We're doing it sort of in the style of Postmodern Jukebox. I get to solo during the "She's running out again" part. :)
Can you record and stick it on soundcloud or something? I'd like to have a listen.
Bonus covers of creep Carrie Manolako because what a voice and the performance by the backing singer gets me.
yeah, she's great. That dress is a life goal of mine, too :)
The Lemonheads did a brilliant cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" The Cowboy Junkies did a haunting rendition of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" The Dead Kennedys version of Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas" is a total classic, of course: Motorhead did a complete scorcher of a cover of The Ramones' R.A.M.O.N.E.S.: Then again, you could just go to The Covers Project which is just a repository for all kinds of covers...
Sky Eats Airplane's cover for Limp Bizkit's Nookie. The original is fine, but I only made out quite some big chunks of lyrics in the cover. Apocalyptica's magnificent cover for Rammstein's Seemann. Rammstein's and The Cardigans covers for Kraftwerk's Das Model. Couldn't find a single YouTube video of Rammstein's cover that isn't an amateur cover of the cover or the rare live version. The Pretty Reckless' censored-version cover for Cee-Lo Green's Fuck You. Halestorm and their wonderful covers for Pharell Williams' Get Lucky (original) and Lady Gaga's Bad Romance (original). Fancy's cover for Roy Orbinson's timeless Pretty Woman. Not "better" but "in a different direction". Brick + Mortar's cover for Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child.
I'm a huge Ike and Tina fan. I saddens me that this is the "signature" song which will always come to peoples minds when they are thought of. Almost half of their albums are covers, half of those halves are probably better than the original. A long time ago I was a student of jazz saxophone. One of my teachers was generally regarded as the 2nd best saxophonist in Detroit. He arranged for and played in one of the highest priced wedding bands in the city. One time I head him mutter under his breath "If I ever gotta play one more chorus of Proud Fucking Mary." I'll never forget it, don't know why it's always seemed so funny to me. He was jammin out to Proud Mary a few times a month. Anyway... If you haven't listened to much Ike and Tina, do yourself a favor and pick up any album, it will probably be fantastic. Working Together is my favorite album, sadly Proud Marry is also on it, which means I've played Proud Mary for myself at least 100 times. Ike Turner, as an artist, is underappreciated. He secured his seat in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1951, when Tina was twelve years old with Rocket 88, the best selling rock single up to that date. He was an amazing guitar player influencing luminaries like Jimi Hendrix as well as being a masterful arranger and producer. Outside of the his art he seems to have been a dark, mean and troubled man. Ike and Tina have to be one of the greatest male female producer and singer partners of all time. They are up there with Gram and Emmylou, Nancy and Lee, Tammy and George for me. Might be a good music post, greatest duet, producer singer partners of all time.