Awesome Cover Versions . . .
I thought that a thread like this could turn out to be interesting.
I will start with a young Danish lad who just won the Danish version of X Factor.
Chresten is a very talented singer who presented himself by being totally unimpressed by the whole situation and was performing like he had done nothing else in his entire life.
I have chosen his coverversion of Lead Belly's Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, probably best known from the Nirvana version.
Chresten - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Lead Belly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (1944)
I will start with a young Danish lad who just won the Danish version of X Factor.
Chresten is a very talented singer who presented himself by being totally unimpressed by the whole situation and was performing like he had done nothing else in his entire life.
I have chosen his coverversion of Lead Belly's Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, probably best known from the Nirvana version.
Chresten - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Lead Belly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (1944)
Comments
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From Crooked Fingers' most excellent covers EP, "Reservoir Songs." All covers are so good, I had a hard time picking one for this thread. The River is my favorite, but all tracks are worth checking out. Includes awesome versions of Queen/Bowie's "The Pressure," Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man," Prince's "When You Were Mine," and Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down."
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If the idea of animated gifs ever catches on they'll be all over the web.
It's funny to remember some of the reactions to "punk" now...How it seemed to be tearing something or somebody down, even if you can't quite put your finger on who or what. In college, I recall some honest-to-God outrage over the Saturday Night Live appearance of those terrible punks, the B-52s.
Carry on.
Joey Ramone, What A Wonderful World
Ditto.
Craig
Rockaway Beach (General Johnson & Joey Ramone)
Of course, my favorite cover song ever is XTC's version of "All Along the Watchtower," needless to say.
Kurt Hoffman's Band of Weeds - The Ocean
- I say it's awesome:
- From 1968.
The Slowdive version is my favorite, but I'm hopelessly biased because Slowdive is one of my favorite bands ever.
There's another thing that song that's always bothered me. The lyric to the Lee Hazlewood part goes like this:
It would make a lot more sense if the last line is "and how she made it end." If you go to the original version, it does sound more like "in," but my guess is that it started out as "end" and someone told him that made the song too much of a downer. I'm thinking the Primal Scream folks probably thought this too, which led them to leave that part out of their electro-trance version completely.
Last but not least, fans of both disco and English-eccentric guitar pop will probably want to hear Robyn Hitchcock's version of "Funkytown" at some point or other.
Are Slowdive Reuniting?
Craig
And just to stay somewhat on-topic, this is a nice cover of "Alison" by a band-person called Fotoshop, which apparently is just one guy and a high-end VST reverb plugin.
The Stereogum page (for the Slowdive reunion rumor) linked to a newer version of "Alison" by the Beach Fossils, but I think I like the Fotoshop version better, and in fact I liked it so much I'm probably going to invest in a copy of the same reverb plugin for my own personal use when talking to my colleagues at work!