guitar dog Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 How about these two... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaxson50 Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 This is going back....I used to watch this show every week... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUc9W7K-mi0&feature=related And who could forget? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmhyc_QynE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRgcwT9X2J8 [confused] You're funny. Almost had me believing that you're serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellen Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ikxLNaAYu5k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Tf9lhev1qwA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> sorry that was wrong, man i haven't learned how to get that player in the post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantha Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 [confused] You're funny. Almost had me believing that you're serious. ... I do crack a lot of jokes, but that wasn't one of them. There's something about the background vocals on the original that I just don't care for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantha Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxLNaAYu5k&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf9lhev1qwA&feature=player_embedded sorry that was wrong, man i haven't learned how to get that player in the post *fixed* Hey sellen.. just hit the "Insert Media" button and paste in your link. It's the button that looks like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dROK83 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Van Morrison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8Ect3Xn7w Reel Big Fish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0OaF-4X6GA Not saying the RBF version is better, but I enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dROK83 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 A-Ha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOzMR6J08w Reel Big Fish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpU0ZfXZ_g&ob=av2n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 *fixed* Hey sellen.. just hit the "Insert Media" button and paste in your link. It's the button that looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxLNaAYu5k&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf9lhev1qwA&feature=player_embedded Now that one seems like a joke. ...Nah, I know better than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Now that one seems like a joke. ...Nah, I know better than that. I have been pondering what artist did the best cover and it made me think back over my 60 years and remember all the great artist that have done covers. Think about it, Elvis, Sinatra, Martin, Torme and Andy Williams would all be on that list as would Nat King Cole. They all did songs that had been previously been recorded, Feliciano and has mentioned is another great artist who did great covers...But one name stuck out in my mind because when he did a cover, no matter how big the hit had been, he made it his own. He is so closely associated with so many songs that most of us take it for granted they were his songs.....anyone want to guess who I am thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 I have been pondering what artist did the best cover and it made me think back over my 60 years and remember all the great artist that have done covers. Think about it, Elvis, Sinatra, Martin, Torme and Andy Williams would all be on that list as would Nat King Cole. They all did songs that had been previously been recorded, Feliciano and has mentioned is another great artist who did great covers...But one name stuck out in my mind because when he did a cover, no matter how big the hit had been, he made it his own. He is so closely associated with so many songs that most of us take it for granted they were his songs.....anyone want to guess who I am thinking of? My guess would be Elvis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 My guess would be Elvis. That is not who I have in mind...Ray Charles! All of his hits were covers..Georgia was a old Hoagy Carmichael song, Hit the Road Jack was a Pearcy Mayfield hit, I Can't Stop Loving You was a Hank Williams song, I think one of the few songs Charles wrote was "What I Say".. In biographical movie "Ray" (which is one of my favorite movies) it brings up how when he started out he struggled to find his on "sound" because he was so good at copying Nat King Cole.. Of course the other guy who could do a cover and forever be associated with his version was Johnny Cash... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enmitygauged Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Pearl Jams Cover of rockin in the free world Pearl Jams Cover of Baba O'reilly Pearl Jams Cover of Love Reign o'vr me Frente Bizzare Love Triangle Shades Apart Tainted Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellen Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Now that one seems like a joke. ...Nah, I know better than that. Well it wasn't meant like a joke I love the version AC/DC made of this great blues song. JANTHA thanks for the help on how to post the videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 I am going to be the wet blanket here and say that I cannot think of any cover better than the original. There are some I would put on par with the originals and I dig a reinterpretation of an original (The Cardigans doing Sabbath Bloody Sabbath? Ace!), but most covers are so/so at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Pearl Jams Cover of Baba O'reilly Pearl Jams Cover of Love Reign o'vr me While I'll concede the Love Reign O'er Me is on par with the original there is just no beating the original Baba O'Riley IMHO. But hey, you've got your opinion and I've got mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Hey, thanks for the Big Joe Williams piece. I got to see him at a college folk festival back in '64. As for Ray Charles, etc... Really, I think there should be some other term used more nowadays than "cover" in the sense that a cover is doing the song as closely as possible to the original whereas a "version" is one making a tune and lyric one's own. Heavens, back in the swing era that was part of the game. One band would have a hit and virtually every other band would reorchestrate it and do their own. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl M Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Here's a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 OK, for covers that I would consider on par with the original? That's not as difficult. I can think of two, and they're both covers of Judas Priest songs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUXdWCq5kk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 I have been pondering what artist did the best cover and it made me think back over my 60 years and remember all the great artist that have done covers. Think about it, Elvis, Sinatra, Martin, Torme and Andy Williams would all be on that list as would Nat King Cole. They all did songs that had been previously been recorded, Feliciano and has mentioned is another great artist who did great covers...But one name stuck out in my mind because when he did a cover, no matter how big the hit had been, he made it his own. He is so closely associated with so many songs that most of us take it for granted they were his songs.....anyone want to guess who I am thinking of? Cash, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 I think it would be a tie between Cash and Charles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fl00dsm0k3 Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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