Best Cover Version

[GreiginFife]

Old but gold

 

[backwoodsman]

Definitely agree with this. If you are going to do a cover, do it differently. I love some of the ukelele / Hawaiian covers. Hallelujah and Somewhere Over the Rainbow have been done this way, they work brilliantly.

Someone earlier mentioned Harry Nilsson's 'Without you'. Best ever cover version I heard of that was by an Oompah band who were wandering around the streets of Lucerne.

 

[The Squirrel]

As we’re talking Beatles covers…

I’ve already suggested a 2 minute cover. Here’s a 30 minute cover . The brilliant Transatlantic melding their own song with most of the anwesome Abbey Road side 2 suite.

I saw them live on this tour (and a couple of times since) and they were mindblowingly good - such a treat when they dropped this in.

 

[IanMcC]

Ive got 2. This one is to listen to........

 

[IanMcC]

.......and this one is to watch. You cant interpret a song with more intensity than this.

 

[Fromtherough]

I’ve got two. The Lemonheads’ version of Mrs Robinson and Leaving on a Jet Plane by Me First and the Gimme Gimme’s.

The WORST cover version is clearly All Saints murdering Under the Bridge.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

There's so many covers that you don't know they're covers.
Then there's the remixes....

For example, the Nina Simone I got life Groovefinder remix

 

[Slime]

 

[Slime]

 

[Slime]

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Has anyone been to see the London Symphonic Rock Orchestra?

 

[irip]

Has anyone been to see the London Symphonic Rock Orchestra?

I went to see them last year.
Great night out.
There are actually 2 singers so it’s not just orchestral.
Highly recommend

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I went to see them last year.
Great night out.
There are actually 2 singers so it’s not just orchestral.
Highly recommend

Glad you said that.
I'm going in March

 

[irip]

Glad you said that.
I'm going in March

Went with my son and we played guess the song first.
Great bit of fun and even the bloke next to me joined in with us.

 

[kp17]

DMA’s cover of cher believe

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

"The first time ever I saw your face".
Made famous by Roberta Flack.
Written by Ewan McColl for Peggy Seeger.
Now listen to Kelly Jones sing it.
Beautiful.

 

[ExRabbit]

I don't think it was better than the original, but I always thought that 'Here comes the sun' by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel was an original and interesting cover of the Beatles (Harrison) classic.

 

[Voyager EMH]

I make no apology for having posted this before on another thread.
There was a lass from Uzbekistan called Nargiz Zakirova who went on The Voice (Russia) and absolutely smashed the Scorpions' "Still Loving You".

 

[Doon frae Troon]

"The first time ever I saw your face".
Made famous by Roberta Flack.
Written by Ewan McColl for Peggy Seeger.
Now listen to Kelly Jones sing it.
Beautiful.

Used to watch Ewan on the 1960 folk scene.............father of the much loved Kirsty
Shoals of Herring was his big song.

 

[Orikoru]

The WORST cover version is clearly All Saints murdering Under the Bridge.

I don't know - Scissor Sisters' Comfortably Numb gives it a run for its money.