Subject: really different covers
Date: Mon Oct 4 08:48:12 2010
User: malr
Message:Okay - prize here is for song that does something *really different* to the original - and to kick off, one my daughter showed me
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Link: Marina Starstrukk
Date: Mon Oct 4 17:05:12 2010
User: FilthyMcNasty
Message:Ok, I'll play.
Here's the original: http://tiny.cc/f8mlo (excellent!)
And the cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o ... which still makes me smile.
Date: Mon Oct 4 17:16:57 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:On a different note:
The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc
A bit less-than-serious cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_WxXpDeBaw
And a cover that takes the original further in the original direction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xX6ZE16PI
Date: Thu Oct 7 21:43:23 2010
User: luxfero
Message:Here's a pair for you:
Janis Joplin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfKglyNjyA
Faith Hill
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=faith+hill+piece+of+my+heart&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
The Faith Hill version is way too sweet and upbeat for my taste. It doesn't begin to have the emotional impact of Janis' version.
I csn't remember the source of this song, think both are covers. Guess I'll have to did out my old "Cheap Thrills" vinyl and check the credits.
Date: Thu Oct 7 22:23:06 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Make it stop!
Sweet jeebus, that was awful. That makes "Rick Roll" seem like hard-edged.
(Janis would find it amusing.)
The original was by Erma Franklin in 1967. Her version is similar to Joplin's, but Big Brother and the Holding Company sent it through the roof. Joplin's interpretation was edgier and more soulful than the original. I found it on Rhapsody; you can also listen to a lower quality reproduction on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAErTuWXG6U
Link: Erma Franklin "Piece of My Heart"
Date: Thu Oct 7 23:54:01 2010
User: luxfero
Message:Tnx, Buzz, saves me digging through some dusty boxes. I like the Erma Franklin version, but I agree - Janis is edgier and there's a lot more anguish in it.
Speaking of covers -
Here's another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSe2mYOlbE&feature=related
In the same vein as Franklin. Probably #2 spot, IMO.
And another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlyWO-jEjhw&feature=related I think she may be trying too hard to sound like Janis. I sort of like it though.
And another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_4NR_Oee8&feature=related
And another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljawxIsM8Rs&feature=watch_response
Any Pink fans? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55OPeF3vyN8&feature=related
Another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcnYOXhpzwI&feature=related
No comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkr2jzkoIE&feature=related
and many more....
I think Faith Hill's is the worst of the lot, or at least next to last.
Date: Fri Oct 8 00:12:00 2010
User: mrbuck
Message:How about this one?
Link: Tenacious D
Date: Fri Oct 8 07:36:21 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:This one, luxfero, was kinda sad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkr2jzkoIE&feature=related I hope she has some good, honest friends.
mr buck -- that link isn't working for me.
Date: Fri Oct 8 14:13:51 2010
User: Barometer
Message:Here's my favorite: Donny Osmond singing Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees cover) with Dweezil Zappa. G'Night Everybody!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXrAel0kK8
Date: Fri Oct 8 14:14:58 2010
User: mrbuck
Message:Hmmmn, worked last night, but not today, let me try again, Buzz.
mrbuck
Link: second try
Date: Fri Oct 8 14:35:12 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:It's working now.
My son (a musician) loved Tenacious D when he was around 14 years old. I'll have to ask him what he thinks now.
Jack Black's wide-eyed goofiness in that video is very much the same character he played in Shallow Hal. Maybe that's the real Jack Black.
Date: Fri Oct 8 23:00:08 2010
User: luxfero
Message:Yes, Buzz, quite sad indeed.
Date: Sat Oct 9 03:06:34 2010
User: RingoStarr
Message:The first version, close to what the composer intended, is performed by Orquesta Sinfonica R.T.V. Espanola. Narcisco Yepes, using his 10 string guitar, is the soloist. One can see an obvious advantage to this guitar around 7:15.
Link: Concierto de Aranjuez Adagio
Date: Sat Oct 9 03:16:01 2010
User: RingoStarr
Message:The second version is Miles Davis interpretation of the Concierto. My first experience with this piece of music was by the MJQ. I didn't realize that it was originally written for quitar until I heard it at our local symphony in 1992 or 1993.
Link: Miles Davis Concierto de Aranjuez Adagio
Date: Sat Oct 9 22:08:04 2010
User: luxfero
Message:Many thanks for the Yepes link. ¡Fantastico!
Date: Sun Oct 10 02:54:47 2010
User: RingoStarr
Message:Close enough mrbuck, how did you do that in less than 3 minutes from my post?
Date: Sun Oct 10 03:05:29 2010
User: mrbuck
Message:I was inspired.
mrbuck
Date: Sun Oct 10 09:43:02 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:Hm. So, an Aussie band called the Rock Lobsters is some sort of tribute for the B52s, and they do a cover of Stairway to Heaven in the style they assume the B52s would have use had they covered Stairway to Heaven. Alrighty then.
Since we're in the mood, follow the link to Amazon.com and listen to the samples of a variety of talent-free folks who have covered Stairway to Heaven. My favorite is the one who tries to channel William Shatner's talky-singy thing. Leave your musical taste at the door.
Link: Stairways to Heaven
Date: Sun Oct 10 10:31:33 2010
User: hotnurse
Message:Buck and Ringo, great clips! I had forgotten how much I like Huey, and I *loved* the Weird Al version just as much.
It's a beautiful day here and I have spent the last hour watching videos. You guys are bad influence. ;)
Now, I gotta check out what Buzz posted then I quit!!!
Date: Sun Oct 10 14:58:37 2010
User: luxfero
Message:Not only are they covering the song, but they're doing it as a Beatles imitation. Full version of one of Buzz's samples.
Link: Stairway to Heaven
Date: Mon Oct 11 04:01:10 2010
User: RingoStarr
Message:Here is a cover for the one above. This is from Șatra în Asfințit which literally means 'tribe into the sunset'. These people are the 'Țigani' that are largely in Romania but can be found in other FSU countries as well. And, Yes, they are same people known as the Roma in western Europe.
I enjoy this music very much BTW.
Link: Cover for cântec: muzică ţigănească
Date: Mon Oct 11 07:44:46 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:No idea what Ice Cream for Crow was supposed to be.
The Zappa link was merely another link to the Beatles imitators. Here's the link to Zappa's cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1vfGoy4-Rs
As for cântec: muzică ţigănească -- Borat might find this to be a real toe-tapper, but he prefers to hit gypsies "very hard" with an SUV.
Link: Zappa Stairway cover
Date: Mon Oct 11 11:03:53 2010
User: luxfero
Message:Sorry about the wrong link. Ice Cream for Crow is one of Captain Beefheart's (aka Don Van Vliet) original numbers. Very interesting and influential musician, always too edgy for most. There are some cover bands running around, again largely unknown. One name brand cover I know of is "Peon," a guitar solo number covered by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Link: To learn more about the Capt.
Date: Wed Oct 13 12:24:04 2010
User: olblue
Message:Ringo says: These people are the 'Țigani' that are largely in Romania but can be found in other FSU countries as well.
I have never, NEVER seen any Tigani in Tallahassee.
Date: Wed Oct 13 12:35:24 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:It's an easy bet: As one of the Țigani if they love Bobby, and they are gonna say, "Bobby who?"
Date: Wed Oct 13 13:15:11 2010
User: JoaquinRodrigo
Message:Are you sure blue? You may have seen them but just didn't realize it. Some of them sort of look like hippies.
Is Florida an FSU?
Thanks mrbuck for the memories.
Date: Wed Oct 13 15:11:35 2010
User: olblue
Message:Yes Buzz, if they don't know Bobby they ain't FSU.
Joaquin, the FSU I was refering to is Florida State University which is located in Tallahassee, Florida. Just thought I'd slip a little ACC humor in the thread.
Date: Wed Oct 13 15:30:58 2010
User: RingoStarr
Message:IALIIRDAHTAA
Date: Wed Oct 13 23:25:40 2010
User: mrbuck
Message:Good cover, granted the images are disturbing in the video but it is Marilyn Manson after all.
mrbuck
Date: Thu Oct 14 00:13:02 2010
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:Here's a song where most folks likely don't know that this version is the original.
Link: Original Version
Date: Thu Oct 14 00:20:36 2010
User: hotnurse
Message:Didn't know that Dr. B., but the link also gives other great versions of the same song, and many are just as good.
Date: Thu Oct 14 13:00:49 2010
User: BuzzClik
Message:Tip o'the hat to Dr. Bombay and luxfero getting us back on track.
One of my kids was totally into Marilyn Manson. ew. This video portrays him doing a fusion of Corpse Bride and Nightmare Before Christmas while apparently under the influence of opium or lysurgic acid diethylamide.
As for Neil Diamond, I was clueless that he wrote Red Red Wine. Two points for Neil, who seems to like singing about wine. His Cracklin' Rosie is my favorite song of his. (I am amused how some of the dorks posting responses to Diamond's Red Red Wine on YouTube are under the impression that the reggae version of Red Red Wine was performed by Bob Marley. snicker)
Date: Thu Oct 14 13:51:17 2010
User: quiddity
Message:The highly covered song "Blowin' in the Wind" was written by Bob Dylan of course, but how many know that he took the tune from a song called "No More Auction Block"?
Link: Paul Robeson - No More Auction Block
Date: Tue Oct 19 02:04:05 2010
User: RingoStarr
Message:That is an excellent version Quiddity!
Date: Tue Oct 19 13:01:31 2010
User: quiddity
Message:It makes me feel sorry for the other versions. They are nice, but seem so wimpy in comparison.
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