• Cover Versions

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:05 pm**

Just heard Frank Sinatras version of Yesterday by the Beatles. Incredible with full orchestra backing.

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:42 pm**

Don’t let anyone ever say this board doesn’t have its finger on the pulse of the latest new music.

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:38 pm**

Prefer this version of Yesterday

https://youtu.be/yhxbvb6Ve9Y?si=u2qoYlV5frp9RuyL

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:42 pm**

Placebo - Big Mouth Strikes Again - Smiths Cover

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:47 pm**

If we’re talking banging Smiths covers….

https://youtu.be/TmJ_hGOVebs?feature=shared

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:05 pm**

Bow wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:42 pm
Don’t let anyone ever say this board doesn’t have its finger on the pulse of the latest new music.

You'll have to forgive the OP, he was in a 1984 film.

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:30 pm**

The best one has to be Mike Flowers? Who did the cover of Wonderwall.

A lot of people at the time thought Oasis had done the cover version, not him.

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:36 pm**

If any one likes cover versions,there is an Australian band called Hindlley Street Country Club,who are absolutely outstanding.Their Fleetwood Macs covers...well what can I say!!I will see if I can put a link up!

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:40 pm**

oswyclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:36 pm
If any one likes cover versions,there is an Australian band called Hindlley Street Country Club,who are absolutely outstanding.Their Fleetwood Macs covers...well what can I say!!I will see if I can put a link up!

https://youtu.be/-XJnSH7HYcw?si=UEZ0nYi57aqRAmyf

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:31 pm**

Just discovered a band called Start to End. They are a Scottish collective who take a classic album and play it from start to end.

Their most recent effort was Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout.

Unfortunately, they only play in Scotland at the moment.

I believe they have also done
Court & Spark … Joni Mitchell
Hats … Blue Nile
Heaven & Las Vegas … Cocteau Twins

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 9:00 pm**

The Clash absolutely nailed "I fought the law".

David Gray did a great job of "say hello, wave goodbye".

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:22 pm**

Over the uptheclarets years this thread has been covered often and the one song that gets mentioned every time is a thread ender.
Heart covering Stairway To Heaven.
Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08?si=Eu8SL6g0z1WfI565

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:28 pm**

If you're taking about groups covering Beatles songs then the Marvelletes cover of Please Mr Postman has to be up there with the best of them

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:43 pm**

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:30 pm
The best one has to be Mike Flowers? Who did the cover of Wonderwall.

A lot of people at the time thought Oasis had done the cover version, not him.

I literally know zero people who think that

Posted: **Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:47 pm**

I'd like to nominate Hush by Deep Purple

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:30 am**

And I'd like to nominate Elton John's ' Your Song' covered by Billy Paul. Absolutely magnificent rendition of an already classic track.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:35 am**

Roosterbooster wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:43 pm
I literally know zero people who think that

I said at the time, I was at college in the mid 90s and there was plenty of discussions about it. Before mobile phones had come popular with easy access to Google.

Big music hits were coming out all the time and they must have released them pretty close to each other.

It was 30 years ago.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:18 pm**

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:28 pm
If you're taking about groups covering Beatles songs then the Marvelletes cover of Please Mr Postman has to be up there with the best of them

You taking the pee, or just stupid?

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:04 pm**

there are so many good cover version

the obvious ones that spring to my mind are jealous guy by roxy music and sound of silence by distrubed,

although falling in reverse do an amazing cover of papa roach's last resort

and i just discovered family man by hall and oates is actually a mike oldfield song !!! who knew

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:10 pm**

Counting Crows do a good version of Big Yellow Taxi.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:35 pm**

Red Hot Chili Peppers' version of the Ramones' Havana Affair

The whole of Metallica's cover album Garage Inc. is very good too

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:45 pm**

Eddie Vedder - One (U2 cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl-bdTXxbx8

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:53 pm**

Happy Mondays version of John Kongos Step On

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:22 pm**

Read this somewhere last week:

'What a genius Davis Bowie was, he manged to cover Nirvana's 'Man Who Sold the World' 25 years before they wrote it'.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:35 pm**

I think this thread is a cover of the other 573 versions.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:34 pm**

I think the best cover of a Beatles song is Joe Cockers version of 'With s little help from my friends'.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:36 pm**

The Fall did more excellent cover versions than every other artist combined.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:51 pm**

IrkthePurists wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:36 pm
The Fall did more excellent cover versions than every other artist combined.

There's an LP called Before the Fall with all the original songs and absolute must buy

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:59 pm**

Northern Kings did some pretty decent rock covers of non rock songs. Lionel Ritchies Hello being a good one.

https://youtu.be/UQV3iiIG69E?si=9sxBPWj-xx7ztahW

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:18 pm**

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:51 pm
There's an LP called Before the Fall with all the original songs and absolute must buy

I don’t suppose it’s meant to be definitive but I Can Hear the Grass Grow is missing from that album I see.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:25 pm**

RMutt wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:18 pm
I don’t suppose it’s meant to be definitive but I Can Hear the Grass Grow is missing from that album I see.

I'm not 100% but I think it was released before they covered that track

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:27 pm**

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:25 pm
I'm not 100% but I think it was released before they covered that track

Ahh,that would make sense.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:35 pm**

RMutt wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:27 pm
Ahh,that would make sense.

……or not, because Funnel of Love is on a later album.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:42 pm**

RMutt wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:35 pm
……or not, because Funnel of Love is on a later album.

Yes I checked dates of releases maybe it was a copyright thing

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:55 pm**

Simon and Garfunkel AMERICA covered by YES

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:32 pm**

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:25 pm
I'm not 100% but I think it was released before they covered that track

Can always rely on Ptangyandkipperbang to jump on a mention of The Fall

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:32 pm**

Nirvana cover of Bowies Man who sold the world is one of my favourites

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:40 pm**

Sex Pistols No Lip and No Fun both better than the originals even though they were just rehearsals.

Posted: **Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:59 pm**

Jumping Jack Flash Johnny Winter.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:16 am**

I think the best cover of all time is Elvis’s version of Hound Dog. He wasn’t even covering Big Mama Thornton’s original but was inspired by the version Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys performed in Las Vegas. It was Elvis’s rendition of Hound Dog on the Milton Berle show (before he had even recorded it) that propelled him to infamy as Elvis the Pelvis.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:30 am**

Ptangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:42 pm
Yes I checked dates of releases maybe it was a copyright thing

I assume this was why The Beatles' A Day in the Life was omitted as well.

But thanks for the heads up about this album.

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:54 am**

Cover version of Tainted Love not a patch on the original

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:28 pm**

It may be sacrilege to some but I think this is better than the original....
As it says, if she takes a song..it's hers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5xvcNr ... Zlcg%3D%3D

(Tina Turner..Come Together)

Posted: **Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:36 pm**

Spike wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:54 am
Cover version of Tainted Love not a patch on the original

Who covered it as love this song but I only know the Soft Cell version? I can't imagine another band doing it anywhere near as good as they do on the original

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:34 pm**

Just listening to Elkie Brooks on BBC1.
Singing - Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)

She had a hit with her cover, which is excellent.

Distinctive voice.

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:37 pm**

karatekid wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:59 pm
Northern Kings did some pretty decent rock covers of non rock songs. Lionel Ritchies Hello being a good one.

https://youtu.be/UQV3iiIG69E?si=9sxBPWj-xx7ztahW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt6Obe4tk3s

I should be so lucky. The version the twisted lyrics actually deserves!

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:41 pm**

I like Pink;'s cover of Led Zep's version of "Babe, I'm gonna leave you"

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:51 pm**

The future heads - hounds of love

Massive kate bush fan but it's a great cover

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2025 10:07 pm**

Ben Folds' piano ballad cover of Bitches aint Sh*t by Dr Dre

Hilarious / Genius / Not meant to be taken too seriously but somehow hypnotic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFRy8jQ_0U

He promised fans he would cover whatever was top of the Apple charts when he announced his tour and play it live each night

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:49 pm**

basil6345789 wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:18 pm
You taking the pee, or just stupid?

He’s taking the P, always. Full credit for knowing the original is by the Marvelettes though

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