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Best Cover Versions?

Non Terminator

Non Terminator

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Flapper said:
They may not be in all seriousness, but Richard Clapton's versions of "I'm Like A Bird" and "Gangsta's Paradise" off the Musical Challenge CD's are fantastic. James Reyne's two efforts ("Wuthering Heights" and "Delilah") are also superb.
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The same place where the Wiggles did theirs. Fantastic covers all round from those CDs.

sydraider said:
Have you heard Dream Theater playing the entire Master of Puppets Album live?
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Yeah. MOP was ok. NOTB was nothing compared to Maiden. They did Dark Side Of The Moon and Made In Japan well though.
 
Matt23

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I believe i can fly - Me first and the gimme gimmes
Boys of summer - The Atari's &
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Does the stuff Joaquin Phoenix did on the Walk The Line soundtrack count as a cover?
 
carcharias

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sarah blasko - flame trees
Paul Kelly - reckless
Paul Dempsey - truely
You Am I - Search and destroy.
Lemonheads - Luka
 
salivor

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Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Metallica - Turn the page
Tool - No Quarter
The White Stripes - Joeline
Bob Dylan - The House of the Rising Sun
 
Thomas

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Flapper said:
Redgum's version sh*ts all over this. Then again, I think The Herd only had one good song in them ("Scalops").
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I saw The Herd live on Friday night up here in Brisbane. Seriously one of the best live shows I have seen in a long while.

I was only 19 was a highlight. Great cover version. See if you can download the podcast from JJJ's Hack show where they interview the Herd about their version and how it came about and also for some history on Redgum's version.

Apparently word got out that Schuman had written a song about the Vietnam War and he was in a hotel minding his own business. A bunch of serious blokes turn up...demand he get in a car and they drive him for a few hours to a warehouse. In this warehouse are a bunch of even more serious dudes. All Vietnam War vets. They get him to play the song on his guitar.

Then they ask him to play it again.

Then they drive him back to the hotel...

Also a great bit in that podcast about War vets and post traumatic stress etc
 
sydraider

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Alex Krycek said:
They play it better than Metallica do! Also the cover of Number of the Beast is better than Iron Maiden do imo.
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I wouldnt go that far, the music is performed sublime but the vocals are utter shyte, although I wouldnt expect la Brie to be able to pull those vocals off.
 
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I'm going to throw one in from left field here:

Crowded House's cover of She's Not There. Not to mention their live renditions of Throw Your Arms Around Me
 
sydraider

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Dr Crane

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u2 - dancing barefoot and everlasting love
david bowie - across the universe

i know i like more than that, but i've got a mental block right now.
 
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Dr Crane said:
u2 - dancing barefoot and everlasting love
david bowie - across the universe

i know i like more than that, but i've got a mental block right now.
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Bowie did a entire album of covers called Pinups.
It is bloody fantastic.

song list

Track listing
  1. "Rosalyn" (Jimmy Duncan, Bill Farley) – 2:27
  2. "Here Comes the Night" (Bert Berns) – 3:09
  3. "I Wish You Would" (Billy Boy Arnold) – 2:40
  4. "See Emily Play" (Syd Barrett) – 4:03
  5. "Everything's Alright" (Nickey Crouch, John Konrad, Simon Stavely, Stuart James, Keith Karlson) – 2:26
  6. "I Can't Explain" (Pete Townshend) – 2:07
  7. "Friday on My Mind" (George Young, Harry Vanda) – 3:18
  8. "Sorrow" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer) – 2:48
  9. "Don't Bring Me Down" (Johnnie Dee) – 2:01
  10. "Shapes of Things" (Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf) – 2:47
  11. "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (Townshend, Roger Daltrey) – 3:04
  12. "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (Ray Davies) – 2:35
Track listing note: On the original LP album release, side one comprised tracks 1-6; side two, tracks 7-12. [5]

Bonus tracks (1990 Rykodisc/EMI)

  1. <LI value=13>"Growin' Up" (Bruce Springsteen) (previously unreleased; from the early Diamond Dogs sessions) – 3:26
  2. "Amsterdam" (Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman) (from "Sorrow" single B-side, 1973) – 3:19
Song notes

  • "Rosalyn" – cover of a song by The Pretty Things (1964)
  • "Here Comes the Night" – cover of a song by Them (1965)
  • "I Wish You Would" – cover of The Yardbirds' arrangement of a song by Billy Boy Arnold (1955)
  • "See Emily Play" – cover of a song by Pink Floyd (1967)
  • "Everything's Alright" – cover of a song by The Mojos (1964)
  • "I Can't Explain" – cover of a song by The Who (1965)
  • "Friday on My Mind" – cover of a song by The Easybeats (1966)
  • "Sorrow" – cover of a song by The Merseys (1966)
  • "Don't Bring Me Down" – cover of a song by The Pretty Things (1964)
  • "Shapes of Things" – cover of a song by The Yardbirds (1966)
  • "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" – cover of a song by The Who (1965)
  • "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" – cover of a song by The Kinks (1965)
  • "Growin' Up" – cover of a song by Bruce Springsteen (1973)
  • "Amsterdam" – cover of a song by Jacques Brel, English translation by Mort Shuman (1959)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Ups
 
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