Covers

[MartyFunkhouser]

Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better
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[TripletDaddy]

Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better
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the sexiest song ever written!

I really enjoy this cover.

[creekster]

[QUOTE=mpfunk;40830]Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better


Nice call, MP, that's your second excellent cover in the thread.

[MarkGrace]

Ok, you can boo me for picking the most obvious and cliched response for this topic, but I'm doing it anyway.

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Buckley just owns this thing. You hear his version and completely forget that it's a Cohen song. In fact, all the covers on Grace are outstanding.

(It should also be noted that I tend to avoid listening to this song because it usually brings me to tears)

I'll throw this one out there since I'm listening to the album as we speak and think it is a nice cover:

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Conor Oberst sings Dylan's part on the album, but I couldn't find a clip with him in it. There was one with Ben Gibbard filling in for him, but the sound quality was horrible.

And of course my favorite artist collides with my father's favorite:

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[marsupial]

I feel ashamed to admit this for some reason, but I kind of liked the Ataris doing Boys of Summer:

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Seeing a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac would be cooler than a Deadhead one.

[TripletDaddy]

Seeing a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac would be cooler than a Deadhead one.

holy crap! you are insanely hot!

[TripletDaddy]

Ok, you can boo me for picking the most obvious and cliched response for this topic, but I'm doing it anyway.

Buckley just owns this thing. You hear his version and completely forget that it's a Cohen song. In fact, all the covers on Grace are outstanding.

Wasn't this song in Shrek? It is in some cartoon, but I can't remember which one.

I'll throw this one out there since I'm listening to the album as we speak and think it is a nice cover:

Hey, I just realized that it is called Spaceland because that is the stage at Spaceland in LA. duh.

[8BR]

Tricky – Black Steel (covering Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos)

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[creekster]

The Yorke cover of after the gold rush is pretty good. I was at that concert (and once I get to say that instead of Triplet; amazing) and it was pretty good. I try to get to all the bridge school concerts; they are almost always good shows.

[creekster]

The whole notion of covers is very interesting. I once read somebody analyze American culture. They said that in American culture we are always looking for the next new thing. Once something is old, we discard it. IN other cultures, they tend to try to perfect the old thing; they communicate with the past by learning what was unique, what was essential, about the thing the ancestors did and try to improve on it, but also to capture it again. So you do an old song again, and again, or a traditional dance over and over. I suppose covers, if you remove the crass attempts at simply selling records (and yes, as a matter of fact, I was thinking of the Ataris as an example here), are a version of trying to get the thing right, of trying to communicate across generational lines. So a new artist takes what another gnereation has done, and tries to find the the essence, or the groove, or the idea in the art and express it again.

So a great cover is likely to either take the essence and re-interpret it, without losing it, or to re-create it almost exactly being successful only if it captures the same emotion, or the same idea, as the original.

[RockyBalboa]

Sheryl Crow did the worst cover ever when she bastardized Sweet Child O' Mine.

Anyone who likes her version is a FLAMING homo.

[creekster]

Seeing a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac would be cooler than a Deadhead one.

Maybe. I think it undermines the point a little, but I suppose if you are of a certain age they say different things.

[creekster]

Sheryl Crow did the worst cover ever when she bastardized Sweet Child O' Mine.

Anyone who likes her version is a FLAMING homo.

I think Sheryl Crows version is not bad. It is a different feel but I guess I prefer to listen to her than a pudgy sour ball with a nappy on his head. It would have been nice to have some guitar work instead of the mighty Wurlitzer solo in the middle of the song, however.

I am not ashamed to say this because, although I can't recall why, I know you have already inducted me into the 'flaming' club before.

[TripletDaddy]

The Yorke cover of after the gold rush is pretty good. I was at that concert (and once I get to say that instead of Triplet; amazing) and it was pretty good. I try to get to all the bridge school concerts; they are almost always good shows.

you went to a radiohead concert? serious?

[Surfah]

Buckley's cover of Hallelujah is awesome. That song is amazing.

I also think Cash's version of Hurt is incredible as well.

I've posted this before but I love this cover:

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As far as punk covers, I don't think any of them can be taken seriously. That said, there's a place in my heart for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. I always liked their cover of One Tin Soldier.

Bruddah Iz did this one well:

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And I liked the arrangement here by Johansen:

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