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

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage_(Beastie_Boys_song) (1994)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys

Beastie Boys Perform "Sabotage" | Letterman (1994)

Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Official Music Video)
- https://www.spin.com/2018/10/beastie-boys-book-sabotage-story/

---

Voice of Baceprot: https://voiceofbaceprot.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Baceprot

The word baceprot means "noisy" in Sundanese.

- BBC 100 Women 2024: search for Kurnia

Firda Marsya Kurnia, Indonesia
Heavy metal musician

Challenging gender and religious norms is something Firda Marsya Kurnia is comfortable with, as lead vocalist and guitarist in the all-female, hijab-wearing heavy metal band Voice of Baceprot.

Singing in English and Sundanese, one of the most widely spoken languages in Indonesia, the trio’s lyrics express their frustrations with patriarchy.

There has been pushback from more conservative Muslims, who did not respond well when the band ventured into heavy metal.

But the band have come a long way since they started 10 years ago at their village school in Garut, West Java. This year they performed at Glastonbury, the first Indonesian band in the music festival’s 54-year history.

VOB Live at Head In The Clouds, LA, USA (2023)
Sabotage &t=4m10s (solos and break &t=7m00s)


V.O.B "SABOTAGE || COVER" Live in Chicago (2023)


(VOB covered Killing in the Name in
#673 and Enter Sandman in #547 .)


Great Big Story: Playing Heavy Metal in a Hijab (interview in 2018)

 

[Hornbein]

 

[robphy]

So, he weathered he controversy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Tamplin#Lip-syncing_controversy

 

[robphy]

#1551
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage_(Beastie_Boys_song) (1994)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys

Sabotage | ‪@BeastieBoys‬ cover | ft. Sophia Urista (Brass Against)


See also the "Brass Against Ft. Sophia Urista" cover of #673 Killing in the Name.

 

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_Evil? (1980)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Head_(British_band)

Diamond Head - Am I Evil? (Live in 1979)
"Diamond Head performing 'Am I Evil?' at West Bromwich College in 1979. This was the first ever filmed performance by Diamond Head."

- Am I Evil (1982 audio) - Diamond Head Official
- Diamond Head - Am I Evil (Official Video) (1982) Remastered HQ Audio
- Diamond Head - Am I Evil? (Official Video) - 2020 version

---

Metallica: Am I Evil? (Oslo, Norway - June 26, 2024)
"Filmed at Tons of Rock at Ekebergsletta in Oslo, Norway, on June 26, 2024, and featuring Brian Tatler on guitar." (Tatler formed Diamond Head.)

- Metallica- Am I Evil? (Studio Version) (1984 audio)
- Am I Evil? - Band Switch Lars on Vocals, James on Drums Rare Live Performance! 1992.02.13 Metallica

METALLICA - AM I EVIL? ( Acoustic Guitar Cover ) (2021)


Metallica - Am I Evil? | Vkgoeswild piano cover


Soy maligno? ( Cover Am I Evil? en español ) ESPACIO ROCK CHILLAN. (2015)


Diamond Head - Am I Evil? cover (ft. Simone van Straten & Nishant Hagjer) (2024) ( vocals: Laura Guldemond )
(solo &t=4m20s)

 

[morrobay]

Love that Motown style ebass.



This ebass player is growlin' it out too.

Well as you and pinball1970 have advanced technical music knowledge. I suppose you can say this is a Motown sounding ebass?.But this is not Motown. So seems like what is being called Jazz, Motown lately actually is sounding suspiciously like pop.So for the sake of purity: let's call pop pop.

 

[Hornbein]

So, he weathered he controversy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Tamplin#Lip-syncing_controversy

I can't get interested.

Well as you and pinball1970 have advanced technical music knowledge. I suppose you can say this is a Motown sounding ebass?.But this is not Motown. So seems like what is being called Jazz, Motown lately actually is sounding suspiciously like pop.So for the sake of purity: let's call pop pop. View attachment 354397

Ha! I grew up 50 miles from Motown, listening to CKLW. I learned how to play in the Motown style. I know what the Motown sound is. I don't give a damn what Wikipedia says. And this song was even released under the Motown brand name!

 

[Hornbein]

The ebass player is great. Something no other instrument can do.

 

[pinball1970]

Brilliant

 

[robphy]

Stars (1986)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_'n_Aid#Track_1:_"Stars"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_'n_Aid

Hear 'n Aid - Stars (Dio, Dokken, Queensryche, Halford) [HQ]

- Hear N' Aid - Stars [The Lead Vocals] (LD MASTER) [BEST QUALITY] (1986)
- Hear'n Aid "Stars" - The Guitarist

---

mainly live covers

HEAR N' AID - STARS - ( guitar solos) Ulisses Miyazawa


[싱어게인 49호 가수 ]Hear & Aid - Stars EBS 스페이스 공감.G3 이현석, 조필성, 강인오 (Song by 김진웅,신원철)


Hear N' Aid - Stars by Dio Ken & KellySIMONZ [The Record] (2024)～二人で歌って弾いてみた。#dioken #kellysimonz

---

Honorable Mention [studio covers from around the world]'

• [South Korea] Hear N' Aid KOREA - Stars 2015 (Hear N' Aid tribute cover)
• [Mexico] Hear N’ Aid - We’re Stars, Saltillo Mexico Rock Honor
• [Germany] "STARS" - Hear 'n Aid Cover ...in Memory of Ronnie James Dio
• [Argentina] HEAR N' AID - WE'RE STARS ARGENTINA - VIDEO OFFICIAL 2019 #metal #rockstar #hardrock
• [Switzerland] STARS from Ronnie James Dio interpreted by CHAINER and brothers and sisters of Rock'n'Roll
• [Poland] Polish Metal Alliance - Stars (Hear N' Aid cover)
• [Chile] WE`RE STARS CHILE
• [Brazil] RIP DIO Stars "We´re Stars", 10 anos da morte (Brazil)/Special guest Dio´s guitarist Rowan Robertson
• [Iraq] Hear n` Aid - We're Stars- Iraqi Tribute

 

[Hornbein]

Norwegian Wood on an unusual instrument.

 

[pinball1970]

Norwegian Wood on an unusual instrument.

You just made my top twenty

 

[Hornbein]

 

[morrobay]

Here is the original, County and Western genre.

 

[morrobay]

. Supremes cover

 

[pinball1970]

This popped up in my suggested. I do not like Irish music, what I regard as Irish music but I like English folk music.
She describes her site as Irish music, either way her playing is sublime and singing as pretty as it gets.

 

[pinball1970]

This. Wow, check out her hybrid picking technique.

 

[pinball1970]

I assume this is the original. All I can say is this is what a musician sounds like.

 

[pinball1970]

That's not the original either. Lots of covers.

EDIT: It goes back to the 1800s.

 

[walrus_gumboot]

This thread made me discover this Supremes cover:

Roy Rogers:


Supremes:


(First post -- sorry if my formatting is off)

 

[geordief]

That's not the original either. Lots of covers.

EDIT: It goes back to the 1800s.

But Paul Brady is with few peers and that is one of his best.

Here is a cover that really imo "misses the mark" ( BD really is the closest to an (artistic) "Human God" that I have known in my limited existence )



(I think Dylan is a fan of Brady)

 

[pinball1970]

This thread made me discover this Supremes cover:

Roy Rogers:


Supremes:


(First post -- sorry if my formatting is off)

First time I heard that song was here.

 

[pinball1970]

But Paul Brady is with few peers and that is one of his best.

Here is a cover that really imo "misses the mark" ( BD really is the closest to an (artistic) "Human God" that I have known in my limited existence )



(I think Dylan is a fan of Brady)

I only know "year of the cat" by Al Stewart. I was never a Dylan fan, not keen on his voice but I appreciate his writing. I like the odd track.
Same with Neil Young.
There are a couple of Dylan songs on here, "All along the watchtower" and "Mighty Quin."

 

[Hornbein]

He's good, if you dig 1950's crooner style.



The Roy Rogers version has a clarinet, possibly an alto. They don't make 'em the way they used to.

 

[Hornbein]

His intonation on this one is pretty bad.

 

[morrobay]

 

[Hornbein]

Way better than the orig. That's excellence in harmony singing.



The Fossils just keep getting grayer. That's how it goes. Doesn't hurt their play though. That's a big advantage musicians have over athletes.

 

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Rest_You_Merry,_Gentlemen

Annie Lennox - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Annie Lennox God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Live)

Pentatonix - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Official Video)

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Pentatonix live SiriusXM 2023 Christmas interview

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/O Holy Night Meets Metal (w/ PelleK)


God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Ronnie James Dio · Tony Iommi · Rudy Sarzo · Simon Wright

 

[pinball1970]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Rest_You_Merry,_Gentlemen

Annie Lennox - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Annie Lennox God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Live)

Pentatonix - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Official Video)

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Pentatonix live SiriusXM 2023 Christmas interview

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/O Holy Night Meets Metal (w/ PelleK)


God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Ronnie James Dio · Tony Iommi · Rudy Sarzo · Simon Wright

My favourite Xmas song. Not listened yet but I have put a wow. Dio and Iommi!?

 

[Frabjous]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Rest_You_Merry,_Gentlemen

Annie Lennox - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Pentatonix - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Officia


God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/O Holy Night Meets Metal
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Ronnie James Dio · Tony Iommi · Rudy Sarzo ·

The Lennox is amazing.

 

[jack action]

I'm posting this because this is what I'm getting on my Facebook feed due to all the videos you make me watch:

https://fb.watch/wFS9V-9NT0/​

And the complete song, which is actually pretty good:

​

 

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Is_Comin'_to_Town


Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town - Goldfinger version | Missioned Souls | Family band studio cover


Carpenters - Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Original 1974 single version)
&t=55s


Jackson 5 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Official Video)


Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - 2007
&t=1m20s


Alice Cooper - Santa Claws Is Coming To Town

 

[morrobay]

Shes Not There , instrumental cover

 

[DennisN]

A very nice, dreamy cover of "Don't Fear The Reaper" by the Greek chillwave duo Keep Shelly In Athens... I like it because it's very different from the original, and very dreamy sounding:

Keep Shelly In Athens - Don't Fear The Reaper


I really like Keep Shelly In Athens, they have done some nice songs.

 

[pinball1970]

A very nice, dreamy cover of "Don't Fear The Reaper" by the Greek chillwave duo Keep Shelly In Athens... I like it because it's very different from the original, and very dreamy sounding:

Keep Shelly In Athens - Don't Fear The Reaper


I really like Keep Shelly In Athens, they have done some nice songs.

Its very nice!

 

[Hornbein]

A cover of Kim Gun Mo's 1995 hit Wrongful Meeting. As far as I know this was one of the first big Kpop dance productions.

I think the ebass player is great. I like the explosion sound effects. All electric keyboards have them.



Today there are dozens of Kpop groups like this, but the industry has made music secondary. Today the dancing girls usually don't sing, they rap instead in a lame manner. Too bad.

 

[Hornbein]

I like Domi's playing but she's usually with a drummer I don't like. Here she is backing up an avaunt guard version of The Star Spangled Banner.

 

[Hornbein]

World's best ebass player.



Having the ebass strung backward seems like a big disadvantage but that don't stop him.

 

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_New_Year_(song)

(1980) ABBA - Happy New Year (Video) -103M views

(1980) ABBA - Felicidad (Video)

---

(2023) ABBA - Happy New Year (Harp Twins)


(2024) ABBA - Happy New Year (Piano) - Gamazda


(2019) Happy New Year - ABBA (Alyona cover)


(2013) ABBA - HAPPY NEW YEAR (Metal Cover) -pellekofficial


(2020) ABBA - HAPPY NEW YEAR (Metal Cover) - Laura Guldemond

 

[Hornbein]

Japanese policemen play Uptown Funk. But what's with the clarinets wrapped in blankets?

As you can see, J police have a very different mien than those in the USA. The Otakanomori-Nagarayama Metro station has a video of the local firemen dancing. In general dance is a much bigger deal in Asia than in the West.

 

[Hornbein]

Meanwhile in the Department of Bad Covers...



They can't get the title right. It's Give Up The Funk.

 

[Hornbein]

 

[pinball1970]

Meanwhile in the Department of Bad Covers...



They can't get the title right. It's Give Up The Funk.

Cmon. Not the easiest, see how many players? Should have one drummer to make it tighter. Snare, cut through.

 

[Hornbein]

Cmon. Not the easiest, see how many players? Should have one drummer to make it tighter. Snare, cut through.

I'm used to Japanese marching bands. A Japanese middle school band is about as good as a USA music college band. This is a nation where millions of people have been playing music diligently since age three.



Last time I was in Tokyo I attended a concert by the high school orchestra that is attached to the number one music college. It was just as good as the pros.

 

[robphy]

I have always liked Satsuma3042's videos showing how to play songs by Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc...
usually filmed in his restaurant.

Here's a recent video:
(2024) VAN HALEN TRIBUTE BAND from Japan / PON HALEN feat SATSUMA3042
Panama, Running With The Devil, ...


(2011) Mean Street/VAN HALEN ( SATSUMA3042 )


and my current favorite song
(2021) Ozzy Osbourne - Over the mountain / YOYOKA's 12th Birthday Session (with SATSUMA3042 )


(older references to SATSUMA3042 in this thread)

 

[pinball1970]

Gram Parsons and Emmy Lou.

 

[jack action]

This made me look up "Love Hurts", which I didn't know was an Everly Brothers original. I like it:

​

But the Nazareth version is unbeatable. The raspy voice seems necessary to render the emotion of that song. Lots of covers which just render hommage to Nazareth's version. Notable is this female version with Gabriela Gunčíková's voice:

​

Having both male and female raspy voices with Tom Keifer (from Cinderella) & Joanna Dean:

​

On the softer side, Joan Jett's softer voice with a somewhat heavier guitar gives a nice result:

​

On the acoustic side, the very soft - yet powerful - voice of Emily Linge is just great:

​

Finally, Dee Snider gives his cover version which is at least different and interesting:

​

 

[Hornbein]

 

[Hornbein]

Doesn't she seem like the nicest person in the world?



This is a cover of the theme song for the anime A Certain Scientific Railgun, which is about neither science nor railguns. (Who ever said art has to make sense?) It's about middle school girls who use their superpowers to preserve order, protecting the good from evil by taking down street criminals. I would trust that singer to protect me with superpower. She seems suffused with incorruptible goodness.

She also covers Demon Slayer, which a few years ago was a big fad. You saw it everywhere. One of the characters is a girl who is transformed into demon with an overwhelming desire to consume human flesh. Her brother goes to great lengths to help her with the unprecedented achievement of resisting this hunger and using her new demon powers for goodness instead of evil. Among these measures is wearing a gag. This was during COVID so I think this hooked into the mass wearing of medical masks.

Something tells me that not far below the very polite surface in the hearts of Japan lurk warriors most fierce. The USA wants the Japanese to rearm. I think that's a really bad idea. Once you get a powerful army you are tempted to use it. It wasn't long ago that they did that. Stick with anime. As someone once said to me of Bali,

That’s why they have such an orderly society. If not, all hell would break loose.

 

[Hornbein]