June 11, 201313 yr What about Chet Baker doing Elvis Costello's Almost Blue?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alUSx_X_za8
June 11, 201313 yr I think it counts quite well, and indeed is awesome; wasn't it written and performed originally by Ewan MacColl (Kirsty's father)? I believe that's so. Keeping on with the celtic theme, I also liked the Lick the Tins version of "Can't Help Falling in Love" much more than Elvis's version.
June 11, 201313 yr Yeah, that Hurt cover by Johnny Cash is great. Johnny was never shy about doing others; music if he liked it, but late in life he seemed to go on a binge. I love this cover of U2's One ... Johnny seems 100 years old, but was shortly before his death at 71. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8d_8fM6PQc And speaking of All Along The Watchtower, Neil Young loves that song, and has done it a lot. Here is at Farm Aid 1994 with Willie. Funny, but first time I heard Neil do it I was like, "Wow, Neil is covering Jimi". Then, "Noi, even better, Neil covering Jimi covering Dylan" ...
June 11, 201313 yr I know I'm in the minority here, but I don't see that he really did anything with it (other than one lyric change). This always had the feel to me of going thru the motions for a CD to make some bux... As much as I respect Johnny Cash, it just never did anything for me. Wait, what? He took out all of Trent Reznor's highly stylized production...er...thingies, he took out that little discordancy or dissonance or whatever you want to call it in the opening riff, he played it straight, but most importantly, he lent his voice to it. He made it a Johnny Cash song -- even people that had heard of Nine Inch Nails didn't realize it was a Nine Inch Nails song. Oh, and he took out that huge metal climax like a sucker punch and that insanely long trailing drone. I mean, just play the first couple seconds of both versions.
June 11, 201313 yr yah, cash's version was definitely not striking out on it's own, but it took a great, powerful song, and made it trascendent
June 11, 201313 yr Cash's version of Hurt is prob my favorite cover ever. That Stairway vid is from the annual 'Kennedy Center Honors...' show, lots of good covers from those. This one is probably my favorite: Paul Simon covering 'Surfer Girls' at Beach Boys tribute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmjj5Orjnl0
September 22, 201312 yr Caught this at the end of an episode of Californication and was like WTF. Kinda grows on you though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBe53ruE1g
September 22, 201312 yr Watching the show it took me a while to figure out what that song was. Very good cover...
January 28, 201412 yr Not so much a cover as it is sampling. Anyway, as a huge fan of spaghetti western soundtracks, I really liked this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhxb00ONI_A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w
September 17, 201411 yr I don't get the spinning plates one, but that Boxer is just fantastic. Spot the headphones, electrostatic speakers and amp:
September 17, 201411 yr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-B8k0n_3cs Been stuck in my head since watching the season 1 finale of The Leftovers. Scene---------> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8aoB5ylCjI
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