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http://youtube.com/watch?v=ep2lzX2EG58&feature=related , perhaps? Can't quite make up my mind if this is brilliant or corny as fuck.
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Heh, my wife knows that guy.Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=ep2lzX2EG58&feature=related , perhaps? Can't quite make up my mind if this is brilliant or corny as fuck.
He's great.
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The version of the song is so-so, but I think the video is actually quite clever.Nick wrote:This is about the worst cover ever made. Absolute muck. Mark Ronson is an embarrasment to British music.Tyek wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQwB_-PTNs
Just - Mark Ronson and Alex Greenwald (from Phantom Planet)
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I really like Michael Buble, he has a good voice, great stagepresence and his phrasing is awesome. It's mostly this song I'm on the fence about in a rather odd way. On one hand it really lifts a song that's a little hampered by Cohen's extremely deadpan delivery in the original, on the other hand it's a little weird and Cesar's Palace-y in his version. I dunno.miir wrote:Heh, my wife knows that guy.Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=ep2lzX2EG58&feature=related , perhaps? Can't quite make up my mind if this is brilliant or corny as fuck.
He's great.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=-6uyZ4jKTdgNick wrote:For me, I think Damien Rice's cover of Radiohead's "creep" is pretty exceptional.
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Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:I really like Michael Buble, he has a good voice, great stagepresence and his phrasing is awesome. It's mostly this song I'm on the fence about in a rather odd way. On one hand it really lifts a song that's a little hampered by Cohen's extremely deadpan delivery in the original, on the other hand it's a little weird and Cesar's Palace-y in his version. I dunno.miir wrote:Heh, my wife knows that guy.Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=ep2lzX2EG58&feature=related , perhaps? Can't quite make up my mind if this is brilliant or corny as fuck.
He's great.
Hmmm, I am not sure myself. Early on in the song I was only so-so but as he got into it more as the song went on I thought it worked better. I'll have to listen to it some more.
I think Cohen's version of the song on Cohen Live is better than the studio version. Still pretty deadpan, but a little more life to it.
Have you heard the Elton John version of it? It was one that I wasn't too sure of originally but I like it now, but definitely a different take.
Elton John - I'm Your Man
And speaking of Leonard Cohen covers. I LOVE this version of The Future by Teddy Thompson off the I'm Your Man soundtrack.
Teddy Thomspon - The Future
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Those Rodrigo y Gabriela covers are fucking fantastic
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Since I put one of Toby's originals in the other thread I figured I would post her cover of Mary J Blige's Real Love here.
Toby Lightman - Real Love
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Covers
To expand on the "Add a cool song" thread, I thought I'd start a "Add a Cool Cover/Version" thread. I was making a covers playlist and thought it'd be interesting to hear some covers I hadn't heard of yet.
Here are my first contributions:
White Lies covering Kanye West's Love Lockdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7v5f54u2lw
M. Ward doing Let's Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgYQ90prZ4M
Here are my first contributions:
White Lies covering Kanye West's Love Lockdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7v5f54u2lw
M. Ward doing Let's Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgYQ90prZ4M
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Black Sheep (14 years old I believe) covering "Gold Lion" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKeukwrP0_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKeukwrP0_A
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On the subject of Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
Ted Leo doing Since U Been Gone/Maps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBr5FPIL8UU
Ted Leo doing Since U Been Gone/Maps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBr5FPIL8UU
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Amazing cover of Danny Elfman's Town Meeting from Nightmare Before Christmas By the Polyphonic Spree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9KaMasr ... re=related
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I found a lot of cool covers in this thread: http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/view ... 12&t=21753 (Add a cool Cover)
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Oh snap! I posted on that thread and don't remember it in the slightest. I do agree with myself wholeheartedly that Eva Cassidy's Fields of Gold is fucking brilliant.
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Jorge Calderon and Jennifer Warnes doing Warren Zevon's "Keep Me in Your Heart for a While", from the "Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ tribute album
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One of the best covers ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekta6EKhb2g
Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends" by The Beatles. Not many voices out there carry as much emotion as Joe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekta6EKhb2g
Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends" by The Beatles. Not many voices out there carry as much emotion as Joe.
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I can't take Joe Cocker's cover seriously. The first time I heard (of) it was as the theme song to Wonder Years (when I was like 10 or 11) and that's how I relate to it. Nothing about a theme song says "take me seriously" to me... =\
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He recorded it about 20 years before The Wonder Years, but I can see how most people of a certain age would relate the two that way. I'm a bit older, and I never realized that Joe Cocker was anything other than a singer of movie theme songs for the longest time, thanks to Officer and a Gentleman heh. I'm not a huge fan of his, but this is one of maybe a handful of his songs that I like. He did a cover of "Let it Be" that's decent also.
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Besides.. The Wonder Years rocks! At least the first couple seasons.
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Everyone always says it was a great show, but I have to take their word for it since I never watched it. I don't think I've ever seen more than a few minutes of it. I wasn't watching a lot of TV at that time in my life, at least not prime-time network TV.Aslanna wrote:Besides.. The Wonder Years rocks! At least the first couple seasons.
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Lettuce - Express Yourself
You should be able to listen to the song here.
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Oh, I know that *now*. But as I said, I was 10 or 11 when Wonder Years came out in the late 80's, and at that age, I wasn't listening to much Joe Cocker. =P At that age, I hadn't even heard the original.Xatrei wrote:He recorded it about 20 years before The Wonder Years, but I can see how most people of a certain age would relate the two that way. I'm a bit older, and I never realized that Joe Cocker was anything other than a singer of movie theme songs for the longest time, thanks to Officer and a Gentleman heh. I'm not a huge fan of his, but this is one of maybe a handful of his songs that I like. He did a cover of "Let it Be" that's decent also.
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Yeah, I'm the same way. I was mainly commenting on how I thought it was funny that at ~9 years older, I thought he was a douchey movie theme singer until I got older and exposed to more music heh. This was much in the same way that I didn't realize Kenny Loggins had ever done anything but crappy movie soundtracks.
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Great cover - but I like this one even more: Joe Cocker doing "Feelin' Alright"Keverian FireCry wrote:One of the best covers ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekta6EKhb2g
Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends" by The Beatles. Not many voices out there carry as much emotion as Joe.
Here's a video I blundered into while watching some Cramps videos. I don't know this band at all (I guess they're from Argentina), but I was blown away by their sound - especially the pipes on the lead singer: Taboo - "These Boots Were Made for Walking"
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Bunch of mellow songs here:
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall , easily my favorite rendition of this song
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
Ben Harper - The Drugs Don't Work
Damien Rice - Hallelujah
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall , easily my favorite rendition of this song
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
Ben Harper - The Drugs Don't Work
Damien Rice - Hallelujah
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Too lazy to dig up the links atm (maybe later) but:
Be Your Own Pet doing Queen's Bicycle Race
Stone Temple Pilots doing a cover of Zeplin's Dancing Days
Mindless Self Indulgence doing Rush's Tom Sawyer
Leibach's cover of the Beatle's Across the Universe
DaVinci's Notebook's cover of Steeler's Wheel's Stuck in the Middle with You
Be Your Own Pet doing Queen's Bicycle Race
Stone Temple Pilots doing a cover of Zeplin's Dancing Days
Mindless Self Indulgence doing Rush's Tom Sawyer
Leibach's cover of the Beatle's Across the Universe
DaVinci's Notebook's cover of Steeler's Wheel's Stuck in the Middle with You
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