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

[robphy]

You Really Got Me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Really_Got_MeThe Kinks (1964):


Van Halen (1978) (start at 00:50s):

 

[pinball1970]

A cover band which does covers of instrumental surf rock music is called "Huevos Rancheros".
I am not posting links to videos on YouTube; one may do a search on YouTube and find them.

Better? Worse? Good representations? My feel is that although maybe slightly different than the originals, they are good.

I'll check thanks.

 

[robphy]

Godzilla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(Blue_Öyster_Cult_song)

Blue Oyster Cult (1977)
Racer X (with Paul Gilbert) (2000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racer_X_(band)

 

[BWV]

Trve Norwegian Black Surf Music

 

[pinball1970]

Wow. CSN one of my favourite bands. I loved that version thanks.

 

[pinball1970]

Reminded me of these guys.

 

[Hornbein]

Racer X (with Paul Gilbert) (2000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racer_X_(band)

SO over the top. Love it. Reminds me of this. Type O Negative does Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl. I like the extreme electronics on the guitar solo.



Here's a feature of that drenched guitar solo.

 

[Hornbein]

 

[Hornbein]

A whole playlist of bluegrass covers of rock tunes.

 

[pinball1970]

Foxes and Fossils…wow. You have opened up a whole new world to me!
I absolutely love the dynamic, older guys and the young gals but what a beautiful sound?
I have checked all the live stuff too, amazing.
CSN had a unique sound, hard to pick out one line because the voices blended so perfectly but these guys do it.
Notice how the girl on the left has a constant smile on her face?
That is music is supposed to be for me, joy.
The French family I posted who do all the Beatles stuff are fantastic also, young kids with their dad, just brilliant.
Check out the drummer he looks all of ten!

 

[Hornbein]

How beautiful can music get? The Wailing Jennys with Gillian Welch's One More Dollar.

I'm going home.

 

[pinball1970]

This one makes me a little sad now he has gone. It is more of a demo of what his guitar can do by changing pick ups.
A great player covering part of a classic track by the most influential guitarist of all time probably.

 

[Hornbein]

A great player covering part of a classic track by the most influential guitarist of all time probably.

This is gonna be off topic but I can't resist. Jimi was the kind of guy where your first thought is Wow! and your second thought is "I couldn't do that in a million years." So he isn't that influential. Tommy Iommi, now that's influence. Anyone can play guitar like that, and millions have.

 

[Hornbein]

A work of genius.

 

[pinball1970]

This is gonna be off topic but I can't resist. Jimi was the kind of guy where your first thought is Wow! and your second thought is "I couldn't do that in a million years." So he isn't that influential. Tommy Iommi, now that's influence. Anyone can play guitar like that, and millions have.

Yes I get that, I suppose Buddy Rich and Keith Moon were similar animals.
Buddy, impossible technique, outrageous today let alone in the 40s-80s.
Keith Moon a truly awful drummer. All arms, lots of unnecessary drums, one dimensional, he went out of time but....captured the imagination.
Perfect for the Who.

Anyway this post is Jimi again, a demonstration as much as a cover. Nice to see how all the parts are played.
The solo is not a collection of licks, it is a combination of little tunes to make one story. He was unique in a lot of ways but that was one of them.

 

[Hornbein]

 

[Hornbein]

Steve Lukather -- Third Stone From The Sun.

 

[Hornbein]

Depends on whom you influence.

I'm going with quantity, not quality.

 

[Hornbein]

The Chicago Harp Twins ply Bon Jovi's It's My Life

 

[Hornbein]

Kevin Gilbert -- Kashmir. Kevin plays all the instruments.

It is pretty rare that someone is sure to make it big. But Kevin died young so it didn't happen.

 

[fresh_42]

Original:



Cover:

 

[Hornbein]

Original
Cover.


Robert Plant, better than ever say I.

 

[pinball1970]

Original:



Cover:

I prefer the dance version. As more of a purist I should prefer the acoustic version but I like the synth sounds and her voice.

 

[jack action]

The Chicago Harp Twins ply Bon Jovi's It's My Life

Wasn't really impressed with this cover and I was sure something more impressive could have been done with harps. They did:

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[Hornbein]

The return of the rock star. Dig the wah wah guitar solo.

 

[Hornbein]

Wasn't really impressed with this cover and I was sure something more impressive could have been done with harps. They did:

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I used their Iron Man for this.

 

[Hornbein]

Remarkably accurate Beatles cover. Paperback Writer.

 

[Hornbein]

Shawn Lane plays Let It Be.

 

[Hornbein]

Robert Plant and his Band of Joy cover Porter Waggoner's A Satisfied Mind

 

[Hornbein]

Cover of "U.N. Owen Was Her"

 

[bagasme]

And my favorite song, Firework!

Original (upstream):



My preferred covers:





On Madilyn's cover, she just titled the cover as if it is the official upstream title designation (Firework - Katy Perry). The upstream then add distinguishing identifier ((Official Music Video)).

I like the last one's cover, for it closely match the pace and setting theme of the upstream, even though her hand kinesic on the coda feels odd to me.

 

[pinball1970]

Shawn Lane plays Let It Be.

Let it Be shredded! Wow!

 

[Hornbein]

Emmylou Harris with Gram Parson's Hickory Wind

 

[Hornbein]

Crash Test Dummies -- Peter Pumpkinhead (orig by XTC)

 

[fresh_42]

Original (Die Toten Hosen, 2012):



Cover (Anastacia, 2023):



Her European fanbase is larger and more faithful anyway.

 

[DennisN]

I hated prince when he came out. Everything I detested about the 80s in one artist.

A great song by Prince coming up here, and a cover of it.
Probably my favorite song by him, really dark, but still with a positive twist at the end.
I favor the original. And the lyrics are timeless, I think.

Cover by Muse (UK), a rock version:


Original: Prince - Sign O' The Times

 

[Hornbein]

That ebass player is really good.

 

[Hornbein]

A cover of Earth Wind and Fire that's better than the original. Something I would have thought scarcely possible. From Russia.

 

[Hornbein]

 

[bryantcl]

Cover: No Quarter, by Tool


Original: by Led Zeppelin

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[geordief]

Dylan's "To Ramona" by Sinead Lohan et al


Also Cream did a version of Spoonful that was originally (if he was the actual original) by Howling Wolf and completely changed it ,for better or worse.

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[Hornbein]

Also Cream did a version of Spoonful that was originally (if he was the actual original) by Howling Wolf and completely changed it ,for better or worse.

Spoonful was written by bass viol player Willie Dixon. Howling Wolf is hard to beat. The Doors made a good effort with Back Door Man. Here's Captain Beefheart using his Howling Wolf voice.

 

[Hornbein]

Alyona Yarushina covering Big Brother And The Holding Company covering Erma Franklin's Piece Of My Heart.

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I never noticed how good Dave Getz's drum part is.​

Here's Erma. Man those backup singers are good.



There are many covers of this. It's a favorite of those idol TV shows.


Even Steve Tyler gave it a shot.

People forget how small time the rock scene was. When Big Brother and Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd played in my hometown it was in clubs that seated maybe a hundred people. I saw Little Feat as a member of an audience of three. That circuit has passed away.

 

[Hornbein]

Covering Queen. Melody Cristea has got to be one of the best melodramatic hard rock singers ever. It's a family band, a rare thing in this day of limited offspring.

 

[pinball1970]

Alyona Yarushina covering Big Brother And The Holding Company covering Erma Franklin's Piece Of My Heart.

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I never noticed how good Dave Getz's drum part is.​

Here's Erma. Man those backup singers are good.



There are many covers of this. It's a favorite of those idol TV shows.


Even Steve Tyler gave it a shot.

People forget how small time the rock scene was. When Big Brother and Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd played in my hometown it was in clubs that seated maybe a hundred people. I saw Little Feat as a member of an audience of three. That circuit has passed away.

Alyona is absolutely amazing.

 

[pinball1970]

Cover: No Quarter, by Tool


Original: by Led Zeppelin

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The drums on the live version, "Song remains the same" are epic.

 

[pinball1970]

This popped up in my alerts


Does he do it justice? @hutchphd

 

[Hornbein]

Cover of Ratt's Loving You Is A Dirty Job. From The Iron Cross, the pride of eastern Romania.

 

[Hornbein]

This popped up in my alerts


Does he do it justice? @hutchphd

Their fingerpicking and vocal harmonies can't be beat. And they do it all with such feeling.

I can attest that losing idols and friends on your twilight years is not a pleasant experience. Money and such can come and go. But no traveler to the undiscovered country has yet to return.

At 0:42 and in the thumbnail may be seen a photo of a bearded gentleman. That is of the ebass fossil stalwart who recently passed away. Gone, gone, but not forgotten.

 

[hutchphd]

Does he do it justice?

Vey nice. Of course the one that rattles around my head is from Peter Paul and Mary