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Good-ass cover songs

Johndicezx9 said:
English Beat cover of an Andy Williams classic....
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Speaking of ska, the Specials first album was like 90% dance hall covers, didn't realize that until later in life

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You stop your messing around! :laughing

But yes, there were a lot songs that came out of the Jamaican migration to England that never made it here, but were held in reverence by the ska bands 20 years later. :thumbup
 
yeah pretty much any imagine dragons song done by anyone else but this is ultimate

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Disturbed always gets a ton of love for their Sounds of Silence cover, but I think their version of Land of Confusion takes the cake for me.

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PMJ came to town a few weeks ago and we got to see the show. Fun night of music. Their cover of Bad Guy was outstanding but I was especially charmed by their medley of Super Mario themes. "this tap dancing was next level" is a weird phrase to say, but This Tap Dancing Is Next Level.

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Major Tom is pretty pale in comparison to Space Oddity, but that didn't stop Shiny Toy Guns from making it into this masterpiece.

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Oops. Forgot a couple faves.

This cover of I Want You Back is awesome. Rachael Price gots pipes!

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The Gourds covering Snoop Dogg

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Laibach did a cover of the album Let It Be and I like it better than the Beatles. :laughing

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And speaking of Laibach...

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Jane's Addiction did a respectable job covering Sympathy as well

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Don't make me start posting death metal covers of popular music :laughing
 
I almost posted up that Major Tom cover. Good stuff!

Bones UK is a fun band!

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And now we'll just go off the deep end!

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I prefer the Michael Jackson cover of Come Together over the original.

Fight me

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What a fun thread this turned out to be..!

Lots to listen too at work. :cool

The Alien Ant Farm was hugely fun.

Weird Al done good. :wow

Distrubed.. of course. ROCK!

Agree on FFDP - nice cover, but all their work does not hit my beltway.
 
Abacinator said:
Don't make me start posting death metal covers of popular music :laughing
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Well now you have to.

Saw these guys open up a show last weekend in Cleveland. This is the song they kicked it off with. Took me until the chorus to even figure out what I was listening to.

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I wasn't quite prepared to hear The Hu singing in english so that was a pleasant surprise. :)
 
Oh man! Can't believe we seem to have collectively neglected this one!

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Subscribed!
 
Small town Titans.. Mr. Grinch.

How the hell you run across that Charles??

Dude can sing!
 
I see the cover of Radiohead's Creep, and the cover of Prince... and immediately think of...

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Uhh, huh, huh... and of course I get a special feeling in my Woody Allen huh, huh...

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For reals, I stumbled upon this the other day and very much approved

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budman said:
Small town Titans.. Mr. Grinch.

How the hell you run across that Charles??

Dude can sing!
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I derive a guilty pleasure from terrible Christmas songs!
Sometimes good ones slip through! Haha!

This is not a good one though! Muahahaha!
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But really, I do find a lot of stuff on YouTube just because I often do click on cover versions of songs while watching/listening to bands I do know. In the case of Small Town Titans, it was like, "who the heck does a cover of grinch!?!" (And I don't think I was even looking at Christmas stuff at that moment) then, "holy crap!?! This is great!"

Great way to find new artists!

Samantha Fish is another one I found one day from this cover.

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She's great! Been touring since her teens. Here's a couple more covers bundled into one video. (Youtube recently jacked this video up with a commercial right in the middle of the first song!)
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Diving in on the 2Cello guys... great for work music. :thumbup

Brass attack or whatever was great.

Dig Frog Leap Studios shit... at least most of it.

And if you like Chicago.. this is the band.

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Just saw Chicago two months ago.. these guys are better. :laughing
 
Kurosaki said:
I prefer the Michael Jackson cover of Come Together over the original.

Fight me

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Aerosmith, in their alcohol and drug addled haze, in the late 70's, for a super crappy movie based on Beatles songs, for the win!

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Can't find a decent video from the movie, thankfully.
 
I am not a huge Beatles fan, but "Here Comes the Sun" has a special place in my heart, and I didn't realize it til later in life, and then it was when I heard it on ukulele... :dunno

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