Thread: Song Cover Versions

That song is off one of my favourite Bowie albums. Very obscure. It was a bit of a surprise to hear Nirvana cover it, let alone have even heard of it.

Originally Posted by silentC

let alone have even heard of it.

Its on the MTV accustic album and a great cover. Like all good and bad music its on utube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=209ArurxVG4

I used to hear people talking about it and none of them seemed to realise it was a Bowie song...

It's funny when you hear a song you really like and then find out years later that it was a cover. Bowie did a cover of Across The Universe (Beatles) on Young Americans. I got that album in 1983 when I was doing a bit of a David Bowie retrospective thing. I really liked this song. It's relatively rare for Bowie to do covers and I didn't realise this was one. Then one day about 15 years later I discovered it in a Beatles music book. Since then I've heard The Beatles version a number of times.

And the Bowie produced All the youg dudes by Mott the Hoople. Not sure what version i like best as they are both fantastic

Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle - Don Mclean

Original has it's charms (mainly nostalgic), but sounds flat compared to the cover.

I like Paul Kelly - Reckless - Oz Crawl too, it's on the Paul Kelly album "Hidden Things"

Love Metallica's - Turn the Page - Bob Seger ?

Prefer Mary J Bligh & Bono - One - U2 to the original now.

Robbie Williams & Frank Sinatra - It was a very good year - Frank Sinatra


Cheers..................Sean

Sorry, Scooter. I am significantly sure the original Cats in the Cradle was by the late Harry Chapin.

What was the show on ABC that ended with a different version of Stairway to Heaven? Some amazingly different versions and interpretations and the ABC had the nous to put out a Cd. Contrast Led Zeppelin and Rolf Harris.

The converse is when a song is re-released in a cover and is a pale imitation of the first,
eg Otis Redding's Dock of the Bay, an absolute classic;
Credence Clearwater's Pale Moon Rising;
the cover in Four Weddings and a Funeral of Love is all Around Me (but who did the first)

What was the show on ABC that ended with a different version of Stairway to Heaven?

That was one of Andrew Denton's shows I think. Money or the Gun? Something like that...

[quote=sea dragon;523053]What was the show on ABC that ended with a different version of Stairway to Heaven? Some amazingly different versions and interpretations and the ABC had the nous to put out a Cd. Contrast Led Zeppelin and Rolf Harris.

I have been collecting covers of Stairway to Heaven for a while and we have

Dave Mathews Band, Dire Straits, Dolly Parton, The Eagles, Frank Zappa, Guns n Roses, Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Metallica, Pink Floyd & Led Zepplin together, Rolf Harris......this is just a few I know there are a lot more.


Ross

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah - Leonard - This is the version from Shrek and I enjoy it more than the Jeff Buckley version.

ACDC - Baby Please Dont Go - I love this largely because of the look on Malcoms face when Bon starts rolling around the Countdown stage

Psycho Killer - Velvet Revolver - SWMBO introduced me to this a couple of days ago. This may be sacrilegious, but these guys (a morphed group of ex Bums and Noses people and a few other ring ins) do a fantastic job. The song is really based up, and you can you tube it here, even the mp3 of it is pretty easy to find

Like a Version JJJ they have some great stuff, but at the moment I think the Triple MMM Musical Challenge has them beat

Originally Posted by namtrak

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah - Leonard - This is the version from Shrek and I enjoy it more than the Jeff Buckley version.

Great to see someone give the best version by miles (Rufus Wainwright) over the ordinary and overated Jeff Buckley version

Not exactly a cover song as such... but never the less a good cover! HERE

Phil Collins - Loyal - Dave Dobbyn

I can barely think of anything at the moment, I am half asleep!

Rolling Stones -Satisfaction - Devo

Check out the covers project

Welcome to The Covers Project

We're building a database of cover songs (songs RECORDED by an artist other than the original ARTIST) with the intention of creating cover "chains." A cover chain is a set of songs in which each RECORDING is a cover of a RECORDING by the ARTIST who covered the preceding song. For example:

The The Drifters song "On Broadway" was covered by Gary Numan
The Gary Numan song "I Die, You Die" was covered by Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields song "Falling In Love With The Wolfboy" was covered by Dead Dog
The Dead Dog song "The Optimist" was covered by Love, Execution Style