Home      Artist Signup       Station Mash      Login        Songs       Feedback Factory       COMMUNITY      Add New Topic          
kurtkurtley
Views for this Topic: 1425
Topics

12/15/2011 9:28:27 PM
New Tune - My Other Life

12/13/2011 9:45:58 PM
Threat of new music from Lars Mars coming soon.

5/1/2010 5:07:44 PM
New song - "Take Me Away"

4/27/2009 5:08:24 PM
Of Live Horns, Dead friends and the mortality of the musician ....Will his music live on?

4/21/2009 6:40:35 AM
Is the "New" front page killing the pipeline?

3/17/2009 11:05:23 PM
Good God! I've Been Mortalized In Song...(HAHAHAHA!!!)

3/8/2009 10:41:29 AM
A new station - Pipeline People

2/2/2009 8:57:18 PM
In The Last Year at IAC....

1/15/2009 5:03:48 PM
Going back to the USA for two weeks....

1/11/2009 4:02:32 AM
For those of you old enough to remember....

1/9/2009 9:33:30 PM
Feb, Oh Feb, where have you gone???

1/1/2009 5:04:06 PM
NewYear....New Song....

12/22/2008 8:45:12 PM
New Tune Up....She Makes Me Smile!

12/16/2008 3:49:28 PM
In the True Spirit of the Season...

12/6/2008 11:32:55 PM
Could this be the Greatest Cover of a Great Song?

12/5/2008 8:18:54 PM
Doing Damage to a Christmas Carol to avoid the IAC Police

12/3/2008 5:48:27 AM
First new song since going "Prime"....

11/30/2008 7:13:44 PM
Call a Priest! (or Rabbi!)...it's the Death of the "Two Song Guy"

11/25/2008 7:39:16 PM
Com'm...the Frauds have been Artists of the Day so long....

11/7/2008 8:36:56 PM
IN Defense of Indie Music and Misc. Ramblings.....

9/3/2008 1:52:05 AM
Can You Believe They're Dragging the Poor SOB Boyfriend of Bristol Palin to the Convention?

7/7/2008 3:08:58 PM
Cover Another IAC Artist....win a prize!

3/17/2008 11:25:18 AM
All-time Favorite "Space" songs....

2/17/2008 9:58:01 AM
Can a 2-song guy get respect here?



IndieMusicPeople.com

IAC Prime Member

   

kurtkurtley

12/6/2008 11:32:55 PM

Could this be the Greatest Cover of a Great Song?
I was just listening to the YES version of the Simon & Garfunkel classic "America"....WOW!

Hadn't heard it in a long time....The original is great, but listening to the YES version blew me away...

How 'bout it out there....contenders, pretenders, your fav, whatever....

This one is GREAT!!!

What rivals it in the Great Cover category??


Add Comment

the perfect banana

12/6/2008 11:56:39 PM


Watchtower by Hendrix is #1 I think.


Add Comment

Nigels

12/7/2008 12:29:23 AM ---- Updated 12/7/2008 2:36:37 AM


I would have to say James Taylor cover of

Karen Daltons
song

How Sweet It Is
(to be loved by you).


Dalton herself did a great cover of Percy Sledges

When a Man Loves a Woman
which has been covered by many and is also the inspiration for a "Whiter Shade of Pale".

Dalton was a brilliant claw hammer style banjo player, her violinist Scarlet Rivera later played on Dylans Rolling Thunder tour and its her sound that was the heart of "Desire"


Add Comment

No Rhythm

12/7/2008 12:43:52 AM


I would have to throw two more into the mix

Joe Cocker with "With A Little Help From My Friends" and

Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" Love them both.

Cheers Mark


Add Comment

Steve Ison

12/7/2008 3:22:40 AM


I'm with the Banana on this one..

I love Bowie's version of 'Fill Your Heart' off Hunky Dory-but since i've never heard the original i dunno if that counts..

Your version of Girl On The Train is pretty damn brill too Kurt-tho to suggest Girl On The Train is a 'great' song-like America or Watchtower- rather than merely a good one would be monsterously egotistical (and patently not true lol)


Add Comment

Steve Ison

12/7/2008 3:26:03 AM


Jeff Buckleys 'Lilac Wine' is fantastic too...


Add Comment

kurtkurtley

12/7/2008 4:00:01 AM


Steve,

Thanks for the plug on the "Girl on the Train" cover....but I have to disagree with you on the original's relative greatness. It was great enough to inspire me :>)

And I'm loving all the thoughts and selections here, some of the songs I hadn't thought of or heard in a long time. "Watch Tower" is certainly one of the best, and I think Joe Cocker took a pretty good Beatle's tune up a notch.

Keep 'em comin' folks, there's more gems to unearth here!


Add Comment

Hop On Pop

12/7/2008 8:35:09 AM


Hendrix' "Watchtower" is a given, just like saying that The Beatles are the best band.
Except maybe Aretha Franklin - "Respect" (which most people don't even realize is an Otis Reddng song).

But, aside from that, I nominate:
The Bangles - "Hazy Shade of Winter"
(that song always needed to rock!)

Sly & The Family Stone - "Que Sera, Sera"
(gives new meaning to the words "poingiant" and "soulful".


Add Comment

srm

12/7/2008 9:46:18 AM


How about Devo's (NOT Il Divo) version of NiN's "Head Like a Hole"?


Add Comment

JOHN FRY

12/7/2008 10:00:55 AM


I think this one takes the cake.
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Devil With A Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly


Add Comment

JOHN FRY

12/7/2008 10:04:56 AM


This is a good one too,
Janis Joplin, Me And Bobby McGee


Add Comment

Richard Scotti

12/7/2008 10:40:36 AM


I agree with Banana. Even Dylan who hates almost every cover done of his songs loved this one by Jimi.


Add Comment

Steve April

12/7/2008 11:24:22 AM


"cross roads," eric clapton covering a robert johnson song. eric also merges a verse from a 2nd robert johnson song about rosedale.

"blinded by the light," manfred mann covering bruce s.

"a change is gonna come," by sam cook, covered by the band, on "moondog matinee." a rich, evocative gospel-y song, kinda obscure. btw, a worthy list overall lol...


Add Comment

JOHN FRY

12/7/2008 12:09:30 PM


Sorry Ringo! Joe Cocker , With a little help from my friends


Add Comment

Steve April

12/7/2008 12:23:41 PM


a few more...

"Whiter shade of pale" by procal harem, covered by annie lennox.

"woodstock" by joni mitchell, covered by csny. (?? well ya had to be there)


Add Comment

Vartan

12/7/2008 1:12:34 PM


What about Faith No More's cover of "Easy"? I love that version.

I have seen Soundgarden do an amazing live cover of "Helter Skelter". It sounded a lot like the slow version that appears on the Beatles' Anthology #2. Oh and they recorded a cover of Black Sabbath's "Into The Void" on the SOMMS EP. So awesome.

Gnarls Barkley did a really cool cover of The Violent Femmes "Gone Daddy Gone" though sadly they omitted the xylophone solo. Tragic.

One of my most recent fav covers is Tom Waits doing "Sea of Love" by Phil Phillips. He turns that 50s wistful doo-wop-ish song into a dark seedy back alley rumba. AMAZING!!!


Add Comment

Gremislav Iakovich

12/7/2008 2:20:01 PM


Some notable covers:

Sepultura covering Symptom of the Universe.
John Frusciante's cover of Big Takeover.
Yakuza did an amazing cover of Lucifer Sam on the Syd Barrett tribute album, "Like Black Holes in the Sky".
Anthrax's version of Got the Time.
Qui did a couple of unexpected covers, with great results, on "Love's Miracle": Willie the Pimp and Pink Floyd's Echoes.

....and no list of great cover songs would be complete without mention of Antler Tree's cover of ZZ Top's Tush(y).....

Also:



Love always,
Gremislav



Add Comment

Chris Hance

12/7/2008 3:40:21 PM


Heres a cover of Herbie


Add Comment

Stegor

12/8/2008 8:05:43 AM


XTC did a real unusual cover of All Along the Watchtower. It's loved by some hated by others. Here's a live rendition, which is quite different from the studio version. I believe it might be considered, how you say in England, a "piss-take"?


Add Comment

never never band

12/8/2008 10:23:14 AM


I'm with Kurt on this one...the YES version of America is just magnificent, I've seen YES perform that piece twice and both times it choked me up...

I love Dream Theaters version of "funeral for a friend/love lies bleeding"
Jimis watchtower..of course, ,

And Bonnie Rait and John Prine covering David Grays "silver lining" is one of the greatest covers I ever heard as well, that was an austin city limits performance..


Add Comment

Hop On Pop

12/8/2008 10:36:33 AM


Okay, so I found a list (a mix) that I made of most of my favorite covers. At least of the ones that I have on my iTunes.
Here:
The Jam - Batman Theme
The Bangles - Live (Emmitt Rhodes)
Big Black - He's a Whore (Cheap Trick)
Cheap Trick - California Man (The Move)
Toots & The Maytalls - Take Me Home Country Roads (John Denver)
The Clash - Pressure Drop (Toots & The Maytalls)
Butthole Surfers - Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan)
Hüsker Dü - Eight Miles High (The Byrds)
Linus Of Hollywood - Goodbye To Romance (Ozzy Osbourne)
Linus Of Hollywood - Need You Around (Smoking Popes)
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul, Not Constantinople (?)
Richard Hell - All the Way (Frank Sinatra)
Sid Vicious - My Way (Frank Sinatra)
Happy Ashtray - Smothered In Hugs (Guided By Voices)
The Clash - I Fought the Law (Bobby Fuller)

Oh, and these do NOT include the ones that I already stated earlier in this thread.


Add Comment

12/8/2008 10:52:41 AM ---- Updated 12/8/2008 10:53:48 AM


2 of my favorite cover songs there aren't many people who would agree with me. I agree All Along the Watchtower is the best. But I really like the Carpenters version of Ticket to Ride and Elton's version of Lucy in the Sky.

Also did anybody mention the Byrds Mr. Tamborine Man?

CSNY - Woodstock
Sex Pistols of the Monkees' I'm Not Your Steppin Stone
The Monkees of Neil Diamond's I'm a Believer
The Talking Heads' version of Al Green's Take Me To the River
Jeff Beck's version of Stevie Wonder's Cause We Ended as Lovers
Aretha's version of Stevie's Until You Come Back to Me
Grand Funk's version of Carole King's Locomotion

Here's the Carpenters' Ticket to Ride. Cheesy? yes but Karen's voice has this great melancholy tone, it moves me.


Add Comment

12/8/2008 12:03:27 PM


I think the Dixie Chicks did a good rendition of Landslide.

Fleedwood Mac version is amazing too, but I had actually heard the Dixie Chicks version first.


Add Comment

Black Velvet Lace

12/8/2008 1:45:42 PM


Scott, thanks for posting the Carpenter cover, never heard it before. I love Karen's vocal..

another excellent cover? Handy man covered by James taylor

~Lace~


Add Comment
 

        �2015-16 IndieMusicPeople.com      All Rights Reserved

 
Statcounter