Re-worked Songs

[backwoodsman]

I'll back the OPs choice of Runrig's version of Loch Lomond.

And offer Delilah, by Sensational Alex Harvey Band, and Brittany Murphy's version of Somebody To Love (done for the film Happy Feet)

 

[Slab]

I'd never heard this before, thanks for posting... I so wish you had just posted the audio though. That is just about the most cringe worthy music video edit I've ever seen. How do i unsee so many random audience shots of nodding/shaking heads

 

[SatchFan]

I'd never heard this before, thanks for posting... I so wish you had just posted the audio though. That is just about the most cringe worthy music video edit I've ever seen. How do i unsee so many random audience shots of nodding/shaking heads

I agree, not my taste either but Americans do seem to like that sort of thing.

 

[Blue in Munich]

I'd never heard this before, thanks for posting... I so wish you had just posted the audio though. That is just about the most cringe worthy music video edit I've ever seen. How do i unsee so many random audience shots of nodding/shaking heads

The choices of audience shot are anything but random, and I'd suggest are relevant to the event.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Kula Shaker-Ballad of a thin man.
Oasis-I am the walrus.
White Stripes-I just don’t know what to do with myself.

 

[Slab]

The choices of audience shot are anything but random, and I'd suggest are relevant to the event.

Random prob the wrong word, I didn't mean who they were, more that it was like watching a celebrity event with lots of 'dad dancing' going on (I think I skipped quickly past one women doing the 'agodoo' hand motion!)

 

[Wolf]

Tainted Love - Marilyn Manson
Mad World - Gary Jules
You really got me - Van Halen
Nothing compares - Sinead O Conner
The man who sold the world - Nirvana
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz

 

[Blue in Munich]

Random prob the wrong word, I didn't mean who they were, more that it was like watching a celebrity event with lots of 'dad dancing' going on (I think I skipped quickly past one women doing the 'agodoo' hand motion!)

Which is exactly what it was.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...star-tribute-at-kennedy-center-honors-203387/

 

[Orikoru]

Sounds decent and all but I wouldn't really say it's re-worked. Sounds a lot like the original to me. Just with added choir and a few violins.

 

[SatchFan]

Sounds decent and all but I wouldn't really say it's re-worked. Sounds a lot like the original to me. Just with added choir and a few violins.

True, but how much would you really want to rework such a classic? Having said that I did come across reggae versions by Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa the other day.

 

[Foxholer]

Jeff Buckley’ version of Hallelujah
...

Sorry, good version but Cohen's version is untouchable! Saw him at O2 and he was magnificent! Through my tears listening to that song, I noticed several others on either side in the same state!

However, The Ten Tenors do a great, if slightly less emotive, take on it!

For a Cohen song 'improved' (aka sung as opposed to spoken to music!) though....Neil diamond's version of Suzanne is pretty good. But that concert's version eclipses even that!

 

[USER1999]

Sounds decent and all but I wouldn't really say it's re-worked. Sounds a lot like the original to me. Just with added choir and a few violins.

A bit like Alien Ant Farms Smooth Criminal mentioned above. It's pretty much exactly the original, except not performed by a deviant.

 

[Orikoru]

A bit like Alien Ant Farms Smooth Criminal mentioned above. It's pretty much exactly the original, except not performed by a deviant.

I think Smooth Criminal is a lot more different, with the way they played the guitars, made it a lot heavier, sang the 'Annie are you ok' part a bit differently. I really liked their version actually.

 

[SatchFan]

I give you Crowd Chant by Joe Satriani - based on Faure's Pavane. The chords and melody are in there somewhere.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Oh and White stripes-I just don’t know what to do with myself as THE BEST music video

 

[Norrin Radd]

Rolf Harris ,,,,,stairway to heaven great version wobble board included

 

[Grizzly]

There are so many - obviously Johnny Cash's Hurt is the greatest of the great, but I would also recommend:
1. Sixteen Horsepower doing Dylan's Nobody 'Cept You
2. Tori Amos covering Lloyd Cole's Rattlesnakes
3. Chris Cornell's version of Billy Jean
4. Suzanna & The Magic Orchestra's version of Its A Long Way To The Top

 

[backwoodsman]

QUOTE="Norrin Radd, post: 2159716, member: 21012"]Rolf Harris ,,,,,stairway to heaven great version wobble board included[/QUOTE]

Hmmm ... I think I'll allow you "entertaining" rather than "great".

 

[jim8flog]

Tim Hardins
How can we hang on to a dream

I had to look on Youtube to remind myself how many have covered this record

There have been a lot of covers to this record
Moody Blues
The Nice and Emerson Lake and Palmer
Gandalf
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green days)
Marianne Faithful
Peter Frampton
and many others

but my favourite has to be Roger Chapman, his voice is so suited the feelings of the lyrics. I wash actually in tears the first time I heard this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fepc8z1Wqcs

 

[Orikoru]

There are so many - obviously Johnny Cash's Hurt is the greatest of the great

That cover is so overrated for me, I don't understand it. The Nine Inch Nails original is so powerful, but Cash just made it drab and dull-sounding. I don't get why people like it so much, and I've seen people say that Cash's version is better, which is outrageous. He just plays four chords on a guitar and sings in a deep voice. So what?