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I love this post. This is a very weird cover of a song that was already weird. The video is also disturbing, which kinda did it for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdDTz8wL30
The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mR6zmSTDNE
Cake - I will survive
They have other great covers too
I normally go for parodies, but this would be the place to post the Devil Went Down to Georgia (Washing Machine Cover)
More seriously, 2CELLOS' rendition of Thunderstruck is incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
They have a ton of really good ones on their channel, but that one will always be my favorite for how into it they get
A band on TikTok did an emo cover of Rascal Flatts' What Hurts the Most that is pretty good.
It ended up on a compilation album Country Goes Hardcore that has some interesting ones. I like Ever Since Eve's emo cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads.
Holding Out for a Hero - Frou Frou.
Viagra Boys and Amy Taylor's cover of In Spite of Ourselves is an interesting take on the original by John Prine and Iris Dement.
I love seeing Viagra Boys mentioned here.
Love them! This song in particular is pretty meaningful for me. My dad has always had a bit of a narrow conception of what "good" music is, so while we could bond over stuff he liked, he's never been particularly receptive when I've shown him new stuff. John Prine was his favourite artist, though, and this cover got him to open up a little.
Funnel Of Love by Wanda Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt7PPidlIvg
Cover by Boris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4T_XNdeRTs
Polysics covering My Sharona by The Knack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXHEVcYTZYQ
Goddamn it why am I just learning about Japanese DEVO today? Why has no one told me? Thanks for sharing, this cover is a banger and I must listen to Polysics' entire discography now!
You're welcome! And have you heard of Servotron? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gS4nzSWmCs
I hadn't but I'm adding to my playlists! I first got really into music via prog rock so this type of high-concept silliness is well-aligned with my preferences :P
Postmodern Jukebox ft. Haley Reinhart - Creep (original by Radiohead), jazz/big band style
Novena - Bury a Friend, progressive metal Billie Eilish. Starts out like the original and gets progressively heavier.
So many of the Postmodern Jukebox covers are fantastic.
Surprised how far down I had to look for Postmodern Jukebox to show up!
Bantamweight's haunting cover of Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box is sorely underrated in my opinion.
ERRA's versions of Audioslave's Light My Way and Muse's Stockholm Syndrome.
Art vs Science's psychedelic-funk cover of Enter Sandman featuring a sweet as keytar solo.
Sleep Token's heartwrenching unplugged version of Hey Ya!.
And finally, Denzel Curry's supercharged version of Bulls on Parade. I didn't think the track could sound angrier but he's gone and done it.
Bonus: Andrew Hulshult's Hell March, featuring chainguns as percussion, Master Boot Record's Doom E1M1 metal chiptune remix, and GeoffPlaysGuitar's argent-metalized Halo Overture.
Holy Holy's cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Clams casino’s version of Imogen heaps “I’m god” is great. It got tied up in legal limbo for a really long time.
The Heimatdamisch: Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI&list=PLgenTP7XacTNR9mfGFwZd3pjYoHxA7cIi&index=37
I'm sorry, why has nobody mentioned the Jeff Buckley cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah yet? Bunch of heathens 🙂
Don't know about creative. Sometimes a minor change makes a big difference.
- Sturgill Simpson's version of In Bloom is pretty cool.
- The Once's cover of Can't help falling in love has a great build-up that deserves to be heard.
I can't find my other favs right now
I do adore a cover version that brings something new to the song;
Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday
Gotye - Somebody that I used to know - Dutch choir
Not quite a cover, but more of inspiration taken from Paper Planes - 'Paper Plates' by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer
Umbrella - Manic Street Preachers
Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Passenger and Dear Prudence
Cornershop perform Norwegian Wood
I could go on for ages. Might add some more later. Hope somebody enjoys at least some of these?
The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Pure Imagination - Fiona Apple
Hotel California - The Cat Empire
Dolph Lundgren – A Little Less Conversation
Snuff - I think we're alone now
China Drum - Wuthering Heights
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Sweet Dreams
Hayseed Dixie - Bohemian Rhapsody
Richard Cheese - Gin And Juice
The Rock Orchestra - Chop Suey
Prime Orchestra - The Prodigy Medley
Pretty much anything by Leo https://youtube.com/@leolego
Imho, Leo is so overrated. All he does is change the instruments used to play the song, and everything else remains the same, including his voice, tempo, lyrics, style, etc.
Now this guy here, is actually impressive, and delivers the cover in different styles.
half my votes for the triple j like a version top 100 fit this criteria, here were a few of my personal favs:
in hearts wake cover billie eilish
I'm surprised nobody's put up The Wiggles cover of Tame Impala's Elephant
Yes, those Wiggles. It's good.
Did anyone already mention Johnny Cash's version of Hurt, original by Nine Inch Nails? A marvelous reimagined version, maybe, the best cover ever.
I'm currently re-ripping my entire CD collection, and when I came to Revelations by Fields of the Nephilim, I realized that one of the tracks is their cover of "In the Year 2525" 🤣 It's not even that bad, either!
I just started the rip of Dimmu Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant... And the next disk in the stack is Hanson. Yes, that Hanson. I'm not entirely sure if the correct term for my taste is "eclectic" or "insane" 😅
That's a good reason to alphabetize by artist (chronological by release).
I made a playlist of Nina Hagen's covers of religious songs, and the originals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdiTFj0WDWc&list=PLgy7PolPvs21T7VgK9vUviZGZrZknVadp
Goddamn Jerboa won't let me copy the link. I don't want to open the shit YouTube app, i want to open it in vimusic!
I do all my youtube viewing via yt-dlp.
Pipilotti Rist covering Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game: I’m a Victim of this Song
The screaming starts somewhere around 3 minutes.
The Hu playing “Sad but True” by Metallica (in Mongolian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxA_ZxGX_M
STRFKR - Girls Just Want To Have Fun, synthy goodness
Kishi Bashi - This Must Be the Place - more orchestral version of the Talking Heads song
Gorillaz - Crystalized - somber cover of the XX song
Placebo - Running Up That Hill - Running Up That Hill but... a Placebo song. Exactly what it says on the tin
UMC are doing metal cover versions of quite some songs, Captain Jack as an example.
Van Canto are an a capella band (with drums) doing also a lot of covers. Battery by Metallica
The Persuasions - Anyway the Wind Blows by Frank Zappa
Kind of a pretty straight cover, but I think by stripping it down to just melody and vocals shows just how good and faithful to the genre the original was.
The whole Persuasions album of Zappa songs is terrific. Definitely recommend.
Nirvana - Love Buzz
It's kind of amazing that they're the same song, but when you listen to the original, you can hear what Kurt was picking up on. Two totally different songs but ... not.