Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

[Hornbein]

 

[Hornbein]

Van Halen covers Little Feat's Apolitical Blues

 

[Hornbein]

 

[Hornbein]

I mostly listen to music from Japan, but I must say that Caucasians have something the others can't quite duplicate. (Though the Van Halen brothers had an Asian grandmother.)

 

[pinball1970]

These guys are great, thanks again @Hornbein

 

[jack action]

I love Holly Cole. Her voice just melts my heart every time. She made a lot of covers, here are a few of my favorites:

Original (I want you):

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Cover:

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Original (Calling you):

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Cover:

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Original (If I were a bell):

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Cover:

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Original (Jersey girl):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBQPchkmGCo​

Cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVgBhfD5Xo​

Original (Falling down):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbaPmRDa60​

Cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyqGbPp8Jls​

Original (The Tennesee Waltz):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwI5KEd8D0​

Cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9iGZ038MZc​

 

[Hornbein]

These guys are great, thanks again @Hornbein

That two-guitar intro is SO cool.

 

[Hornbein]

I love Holly Cole. Her voice just melts my heart every time. She made a lot of covers, here are a few of my favorites:

Original (I want you):

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Cover:

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Original (Calling you):

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Cover:

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Original (If I were a bell):

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Cover:

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Original (Jersey girl):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBQPchkmGCo​

Cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVgBhfD5Xo​

Original (Falling down):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbaPmRDa60​

Cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyqGbPp8Jls​

Original (The Tennesee Waltz):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwI5KEd8D0​

Cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9iGZ038MZc​

My that's a beautiful arrangement. 3K views a year? Tough business, music. Can swing her tushy off too. Can't hate that. It's always a pleasure to welcome such a fine artist into one's musical life.

Tom Waits later became a disciple of Captain Beefheart. I'm not so sure it was an influence beneficial for him. Maybe it unleashed something that had better been kept in confinement.

 

[Hornbein]

Trap drummer Anika Niiles covers the Mahavishnu Orchestra's You Know You Know. It made my hair stand on end. That hardly ever happens.

 

[pinball1970]

This guy records buskers in Cardiff centre.

 

[Hornbein]

This guy records buskers in Cardiff centre.

Anyone who can wear a little black dress like that has won my approval.

I'll see your Wales and raise you Northern Ireland. In the winter yet.



Too bad that Mariel Hemingway is no longer drumming for them.

 

[Hornbein]

Orig



Today

 

[pinball1970]

Orig



Today

I have complimented Walter on his Jazz playing before.

 

[Hornbein]

How can he do that with only a pick? I see it but I can't believe it. From Romania.

 

[morrobay]

 

[Hornbein]

 

[pinball1970]

Wow she is good. I found this

 

[pinball1970]

How can he do that with only a pick? I see it but I can't believe it. From Romania.

It's a recording over the video but I don't think it's impossible with a pick.
This girl is amazing btw. Her voice is perfect for Plant.

 

[Hornbein]

Kevin Gilbert recorded this solo in one night for a LZ tribute album but somehow it was rejected! An LA radio station got a copy and it became a local hit. Kevin Gilbert had it all and seemed destined for stardom but died young under sordid circumstances you would rather not know about.

Then there's Ofra Haza of Yemen, who also died young.

 

[Hornbein]

Foxes and Fossils, California Dreaming. For me the high point is the doubled eguitar solo. I hear that a lot from Japan, it appears to be making it to the States. Or maybe it's electronics, I can't tell.

 

[Hornbein]

Wow she is good. I found this

Dang, better than the orig.

 

[Hornbein]

Amazing. I think the drummer is a 13-year-old Chinese girl who appears in another of their videos packing an extremely authoritative sound.

Those images at 0:17 were in Life magazine. I liked them so much I cut them out and put them on my walls. They might still be in storage somewhere.

I checked out one of those basses in a used goods store in Kashiwa. Some sleazeball had stolen the bridge, which isn't attached. I somehow took another bass home without paying for it. (Maybe the checkout got confused.) The Kashiwa police knocked on my door and drove me back to the place to make restitution.

Ellen A sings too,.

 

[pinball1970]

Foxes and Fossils, California Dreaming. For me the high point is the doubled eguitar solo. I hear that a lot from Japan, it appears to be making it to the States. Or maybe it's electronics, I can't tell.

You know what I think of F&F, just great you posted "Carry on" and I have been watching them ever since.
If I would have had girls we would have a band now! Certainly growing up.
My son is an ok guitar player, nothing fiddly though.

 

[Hornbein]

Orig. (Superhuman style)



Cover on Guzheng



Here's a translation of the artist's comments.

Let me replay Conny Berghäll's Fingerstyle Divine Comedy. After playing it, I want to publish an article called "About the things I was abused to crack when I played the 6-string guitar with a 21-string guzheng". Cry, family! Some phrases of this song can be said to be anti-human on the guzheng, so the original speed of 190 is really not up, and 186 is really trying. Special thanks to Teacher Xiaoxiao for the detailed scores and tutorials!

Hope you like it! Remember to subscribe to this channel!
Please subscribe to my channel!
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SONG
【Fingerstyle Guzheng】Revolution —— Touch Porcelain
ARTIST
ink rhyme

 

[Hornbein]

This is the original of California Dreaming. I sure didn't know that.



Here's the peculiar story of Eve Of Destruction. It was done in one take as a rough cut. Barry McQuire didn't really know the song. They were going to do it again. This demo leaked to a radio station and was a massive hit. So they released it that way.

Often times the first take is the best. Drummer Dennis Chambers says he never plans anything out.

 

[pinball1970]

This is the original of California Dreaming. I sure didn't know that.



Here's the peculiar story of Eve Of Destruction. It was done in one take as a rough cut. Barry McQuire didn't really know the song. They were going to do it again. This demo leaked to a radio station and was a massive hit. So they released it that way.

Often times the first take is the best. Drummer Dennis Chambers says he never plans anything out.

Ok, so that is a story I did not know. First, thank heavens they gave it back to the Mamas and Papas!
McGuire can be heard left pan at the beginning, they just taped over his vocal.
You are supposed to be able to hear the harmonica solo too under the flute but my ear cannot pick it out (loss of some higher frequencies I think)
Not mentioned is Mamas and Papas backing on first recording can be heard.
"I passed along the way."

 

[pinball1970]

Here it is, nice story of the recording.

 

[pinball1970]

I never knew this was about Lord of the Rings till fairly recently!?

Only criticism of this is the drums, it Bonham crying out loud! PLAY with power! You cannot tippy tappy the chorus like that.

 

[Hornbein]

I never knew this was about Lord of the Rings till fairly recently!?

Only criticism of this is the drums, it Bonham crying out loud! PLAY with power! You cannot tippy tappy the chorus like that.

And you gotta sing "do doot do dodo ya do yeah" over the fadeout.

 

[Hornbein]

The Allman Brothers' Little Martha. Leo Kottke said this was the best guitar piece ever written. I guess he oughta know.

 

[Hornbein]

A two-man band. That guy has the Robert Plant-style hyper nature. I believe he's German.

 

[Hornbein]

 

[Hornbein]

The images she sings of appear in my mind's eye. It's like magic.

 

[pinball1970]

Walters girl. Not an easy tune for a kid, a lot of the phrases end on the maj 7th.
Be interesting to see what happens as her voice matures.
I love the high five with dad at the end.

 

[Hornbein]

 

[Vanadium 50]

Sometimes a true artist can make even a crappy song sound good:



Ene without a young Toni Wine.

 

[Hornbein]

There's a reason Emmylou Harris is famous. Singing The Beatle's Here There and Everywhere.

Emmylou broke into country music as a proud hippy but didn't keep that image for long.

 

[Hornbein]

The REO Brothers do The Beach Boys



That bass player needs to work on his posture though. You can't get any power singing like that.

 

[pinball1970]

 

[Hornbein]

Ha, I already posted that one.

 

[pinball1970]

Ha, I already posted that one.

Oh no! I think said I would ask for the thread to be closed if I did that!

 

[Hornbein]

Lexington Lab Band covers Travis Tritt.

I thought their vocal lacked pizazz so called up Travis to give 'em some hep. His phrasing is unorthodox. But good.

 

[morrobay]

 

[Hornbein]

The guitar soloist is the star for me.

 

[BWV]

In a Silent Way trip hop remix

 

[Hornbein]

Yoyoka -- Summertime Blues

 

[morrobay]

 

[morrobay]

 

[fresh_42]

And now for something completely different ...

Spoiler: Consider yourself warned!

 

[Hornbein]

And now for something completely different ...

Spoiler: Consider yourself warned!

I was a small boy in Germany. I can still sing some of the comic songs of 1963, which were oompah stuff pretty similar to this. At the time film and TV was black and white so this was nostalgia for me. It's a lot like the movie The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls,.

Here's the orig (which I knew nothing about).

Dance is a lot more important in eastern Asia than in the West. In the Bali religion dance is at least as important as singing. Japan has great dance, so much so that they are exporting ballerinas to Europe. Tokyo has dozens of dance schools. Ballet, hiphop, tango, hula, and more. Dance groups are among the biggest stars. South Korean pop is all about dance (and clothes and makeup), the music is secondary. This has caught on in China. All in all east Asians have an ability for synchronized movement that in the West only pros might have, and not always even then. Even little kids can do it. I've never really gotten used to it. It still impresses.

So why all this? The big exception is Michael Jackson. I thought, this guy is good but why number one? Later I found out. It was the way he moves. Magic. It was a big part of Elvis's appeal as well. But as far as dance goes that's pretty much it.