“(I can’t get no) Satisfaction” as covered by Cat Power. It completely omits the guitar riff and chorus, and lays bare the song for the empty life that it portrays. You wouldn’t even recognize it for The Rolling Stones.
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I'll give it a listen,
I've always been a fan of Devo's cover of it too.
A-ha's acoustic version of Take On Me is wonderful and very different from the original.
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Her style is a super stripped-down one with almost all instrumentation just being her voice through a vocoder. This cover includes a bit more traditional instrumentation than usual for her work, but it's still quite stark next to the original. It comes across as very pensive, which I think works nicely with the lyrics
The Z-Trip remix of I Want You Back, which is more of a demix than a remix or cover. It strips away a lot of the production and emphasizes the subtle guitar riff really nicely
Gonna go retro with this one: Madness' cover of Labi Siffre's It Must Be Love
If I remember rightly, Siffre appears in Madness' music video for the song, so it had his seal of approval too. (I mean, yeah, they wouldn't have done a cover if he hadn't agreed to it, but appearing in the video is a force multiplier on that.)
Ninja Sex Party's cover of "The Last Unicorn." I think the original is lovely, but their version just clicks with me.
~~Shrek 2's version of "I need a hero."~~
A Perfect Circle - When the levee breaks.
Extremely far away from Led Zeppelin. But it's just so nice and soothing.
Also, "Peace love and understanding" from the same album, for the same reasons.
Love roller coaster covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, originally by the Ohio players I think, unsure because there’s been a few covers, but RHCPs is the best. The problem is they did it for the movie Bevis and Butthead do America, and I’m now there are weird license rights so you can’t stream it, but can be found on you tube.
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Small town boy by Paradise Lost. https://open.spotify.com/track/0jfNgP8sP2tnOloYDw0HoM?context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1lvVqodR4aT3R8WemeIgDN
The original is iconic, and there are almost too many covers of it to take it in. But Paradise Lost takes it in a different direction.
Same as Wicked Game by HIM. https://open.spotify.com/track/5XenUjG7cRnTkUe8AVuuMX
Erasure - Take A Chance On Me
That whole "Abba-esque" EP of Abba covers by Erasure is a real treasure. Any of the tracks on there qualify for this thread.
For as long as I've known it I've preferred the version of Ghost's Cerice done by Saint Raven, a much less known band out of Utah.
How about a whole album? Billie Joe Armstrong: No Fun Mondays He recorded these and released them on several Mondays back in early lockdown. I love the hell out of this album.
Funny that Manic Monday is the first song on there, when there's an old mashup remix album of American Idiot, and Whatsername is mashed with Manic Monday. The album is called Dean Gray, American Edit.
Elbow's cover of Peter Gabriel's 'Mercy Street'
MC 900 Ft Jesus' cover of Curtis Mayfield's 'Stare And Stare'
Gypsy Kings' Spanish cover of Frank Sinatra's 'My Way'
Elbow are so good!
The Lovemongers version of Battle of Evermore catches me the right way sometimes. I prefer the original, but their version is excellent as well
Nobody's said Me and Bobby McGee yet?
The Protomen's cover of Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) is a slower burn than the original, but I feel like the emotions intented by the song are so much clearer.
It's off their album The Cover Up, which is an entire album of well done covers. It also tells a strong story through the tracks and the transistions between them. I love this band, and the last third of this album from Hunted (a transistion piece) onward is fucking amazing.
Now if only they could count to three better than Valve. Been at least a decade waiting for the ending of the story/universe they created. Act III when?
Alabama 3's (A3 in some places) cover of John Prine's "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness". This is the song before "Woke up this Morning" on the album "Exile on Cold Harbour Lane", and the two together tell a story.
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