Song covers

[i_ateallthepies]

I am one of those who finds most cover versions don't appeal as much to me as the original or at least the version I have become most accustomed to but just occasionally one pops up which is just outstanding.  Whitney Houston's cover of I Will Always Love You being one example, although for many years I hadn't known it was a cover until I heard Dolly Parton's original which itself blew me away with the simplicity of the arrangement and the emotion Dolly put into it - as good as it is, I still can't bring myself to say Whitney's version is the better one.


Yesterday I heard a cover of a song which must be up there as one of the most covered of all time (Unchained Melody) and 'til yesterday I haven't heard one that I could say comes close to the Righteous Brothers' version (itself a cover).  But take a listen to this and see what you think.


https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=benedetta+caretta+unchained+melody&mid=5534A10951E8FB88DB965534A10951E8FB88DB96&FORM=VIRE

[belton rover]

I am one of those who finds most cover versions don't appeal as much to me as the original or at least the version I have become most accustomed to but just occasionally one pops up which is just outstanding.  Whitney Houston's cover of I Will Always Love You being one example, although for many years I hadn't known it was a cover until I heard Dolly Parton's original which itself blew me away with the simplicity of the arrangement and the emotion Dolly put into it - as good as it is, I still can't bring myself to say Whitney's version is the better one.


Yesterday I heard a cover of a song which must be up there as one of the most covered of all time (Unchained Melody) and 'til yesterday I haven't heard one that I could say comes close to the Righteous Brothers' version (itself a cover).  But take a listen to this and see what you think.


https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=benedetta+caretta+unchained+melody&mid=5534A10951E8FB88DB965534A10951E8FB88DB96&

I am one of those who finds most cover versions don't appeal as much to me as the original or at least the version I have become most accustomed to but just occasionally one pops up which is just outstanding.  Whitney Houston's cover of I Will Always Love You being one example, although for many years I hadn't known it was a cover until I heard Dolly Parton's original which itself blew me away with the simplicity of the arrangement and the emotion Dolly put into it - as good as it is, I still can't bring myself to say Whitney's version is the better one.


Yesterday I heard a cover of a song which must be up there as one of the most covered of all time (Unchained Melody) and 'til yesterday I haven't heard one that I could say comes close to the Righteous Brothers' version (itself a cover).  But take a listen to this and see what you think.


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Before I click on the link - it’s not Robson and Jerome, is it?

[i_ateallthepies]

Christ, belton, no!.  Benedetta Caretta is the name and until yesterday I had never heard of her.

[Reg of the Rovers]

There's a few lists of 'song covers you didn't know were song covers' out there. I'll never enjoy Mambo No. 5 quite the same now!

#20: “Got My Mind Set on You” George Harrison, original by James Ray
#19: “Hanging on the Telephone” Blondie, original by The Nerves
#18: “Torn” Natalie Imbruglia, original by Ednaswap
#17: “I Fought the Law” The Clash, original by The Bobby Fuller Four
#16: “Crazy” Patsy Cline, original by Willie Nelson
#15: “Me and Bobby McGee” Janis Joplin, original by Roger Miller
#14: “Evil Woman” Black Sabbath, original by Crow
#13: “Mambo No. 5” Lou Bega, original by Perez Prado
#12: “The First Cut is the Deepest” Rod Stewart, original by P.P. Arnold
#11: “It’s My Life” No Doubt, original by Talk Talk
#10: “All Along the Watchtower” The Jimi Hendrix Experience, original, by Bob Dylan
#9: “Don’t Turn Around” Ace of Base, original by Tina Turner
#8: “Hush” Deep Purple, original by Billy Joe Royal
#7: “Nothing Compares 2 U” Sinead O’Connor, original by The Family
#6: “Tainted Love” Soft Cell, original by Gloria Jones
#5: “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, original by The Arrows
#4: “Twist and Shout” The Beatles, original by The Top Notes
#3: “I Will Always Love You” Whitney Houston, original by Dolly Parton
#2: “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” Cyndi Lauper, original by Robert Hazard
#1: “Respect” Aretha Franklin, original by Otis Redding

[mugnapper]

Johnny Cash's version of Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt' is a cracker.

[belton rover]

I think a lot depends on which you heard first.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I've said before on a similar thread that the very best and very worst ever cover versions are both takes on the exquisite Just Like Heaven by The Cure.

The worst is the vomit inducing saccharine-bland Katie Melua version.

The best is this gem.

https://youtu.be/UT7IpRx08tE?si=EIOrJ6yRH17GsZgv

Dinosaur Jr would have been bigger than Nirvana if they'd not been so laid back they were almost catatonic. I've never heard a band combine grungy distortion, with utterly spellbinding bits of beauty like they did in their "look how f**king brill we are without even trying" style.

[ncRover]

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats

The original is an average electro-pop song by a band called The Knife but the stunning acoustic cover is instantly recognisable.

https://youtu.be/ik_BQYbbZ5U?si=iGMWN4X6J9iuV5Wn

[nightporter]

Annie Lennox - No more I love you's was a cover, originally by The Lover Speaks.  I love the original but I bet the cover pays their bills.

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

[ravenrover]

Just like a woman Manfred Mann
But if you gotta go Manfred Mann
Mighty Quinn  Manfred Mann
Blowin in the wind Peter Paul n Mary
If not for you Olivia Newton John
Mr Tambourine Man The Byrds
Knocking on Heavens Door Guns n Roses
To make you feel my love Adel
My Back Pages The Byrds
Al I really want to do The Byrds
Just a few off the top of my head all originals written by.....................

[i_ateallthepies]

Dylan.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Somebody mentioned Adele?

I can't abide her stuff. But THIS!

https://youtu.be/s24fLEYaeEk?si=6VaOhO7wNesZMOXD

One review of I'm With Her said "Now I know how Odysseus felt when he heard the Sirens." Amen to that. Just like something from another world.

[Petche]

Annie Lennox - No more I love you's was a cover, originally by The Lover Speaks.  I love the original but I bet the cover pays their bills.

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

I've got the original on 12" single - late 80's

[DonnyOsmond]

Panic at the Discos cover of Bohemian Rhapsody is decent.

[Ldr]

Cum on feel the noize - oasis

[Bentley Bullet]

Always on my mind - Pet Shop Boys

[Bentley Bullet]

Wild World  - Maxi Priest

[scawsby steve]

Dancing in the Street-Martha and the Vandellas- fantastic.

Dancing in the Street-David Bowie and Mick Jagger-diabolical.

[Glyn_Wigley]

I absolutely hate Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You. It's fingernails down a blackboard for me. I have to say I don't like any of her other stuff either.

One bad cover version, not through bad singing but changing the mood of a song that really jars for me is The Carpenters awful version of Ticket To Ride, it completely sucks all the feeling out of it.

[Bentley Bullet]

Sung with passion!

https://youtu.be/rDyb_alTkMQ?si=CU8tznkrOcwrEGE2

[Dutch Uncle]

I was knocked out by this cover in 1973 when I went to see Ralph McTell and Prelude were the warm up act - I wasn't expecting to be blown away by one of my Neil Young favourites sung Acapella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Taxuott5s

[scawsby steve]

Sung with passion!

https://youtu.be/rDyb_alTkMQ?si=CU8tznkrOcwrEGE2

Apparently, Paul Anka, who wrote it, and Frank Sinatra, both loved it.

[normal rules]

Bruce Springsteens recent cover of a Northern Soul Classic was a crime against music. Deplorable.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I've said before on a similar thread that the very best and very worst ever cover versions are both takes on the exquisite Just Like Heaven by The Cure.

The worst is the vomit inducing saccharine-bland Katie Melua version.

The best is this gem.

https://youtu.be/UT7IpRx08tE?si=EIOrJ6yRH17GsZgv

Dinosaur Jr would have been bigger than Nirvana if they'd not been so laid back they were almost catatonic. I've never heard a band combine grungy distortion, with utterly spellbinding bits of beauty like they did in their "look how f**king brill we are without even trying" style.

Actually, I've had a brain freeze here.

THE most reprehensibly disgusting cover version ever was, of course, Tin Tin Out's f**king appalling version of The Sundays' Here's Where The Story Ends.

[Colin C No.3]

Handbags & Gladrags by The Stereophonics originally written by Mike D’Abo lead singer of Manfred Mann.

[ravenrover]

Originally tecorded by Chris Farlowe

[scawsby steve]

Originally tecorded by Chris Farlowe

I saw him and his band in 1990 at the Jug(the old Toby Jug), Raven. Fantastic.

I went that night with my old mate, Pilk, who I'm sure you're well acquainted with.

[Filo]

Motorhead’s cover of Heroes is pretty decent

https://youtu.be/J06yQb4lbPk?si=8xhIbhpDb3cdoNrr

[idler]

Handbags & Gladrags by The Stereophonics originally written by Mike D’Abo lead singer of Manfred Mann.

Mike D’Abo also said on stage that he made loads of money writing a finger of fudge ditty that was written for and  used in the advert by Cadbury’s.

[Bentley Bullet]

All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople