Big Yellow Taxi
Op ...are you lost, you tasteless cunt? Fucketh offeth.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 5, 2020 3:54 AM |
This was a decent Joni cover. I'll just pretend it's OP.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 5, 2020 4:00 AM |
Britney Spears -- [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 5, 2020 4:02 AM |
There are a lot of covers that are more than decent by Linda Ronstadt. She pretty much built her career on covers but I think I can come up with a few of my favorites so view my multiple posts with patience, please.
I'll start off with my favorite cover of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 5, 2020 4:02 AM |
Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 5, 2020 4:05 AM |
Dylan's tunes sound so much better when they are coming out of the mouth of someone else.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 5, 2020 4:06 AM |
Another Dylan tune turned into something far beyond the original.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 5, 2020 4:09 AM |
John Hiatt's Have a Little Faith In Me.
She does a fab job.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 5, 2020 4:09 AM |
Best cover of this 1932 Cole Porter song I've heard. Terrifying.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 5, 2020 4:10 AM |
Angel From Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt (originally by the late, great John Prine who just died of Covid because of Donald fucking Trump)
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 5, 2020 4:16 AM |
"Gimme Shelter". An iconic tune turned into something a bit more urgent and personal. Besides, he looks damn good in shades.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 5, 2020 4:17 AM |
Bruno Mars 2014 Kennedy Center Honors Police tribute. Bruno performs So Lonely and Message In a Bottle.
Excellent! Bruno hits notes Sting can no longer hit!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 5, 2020 4:21 AM |
More than decent; when I'm feeling sacrilegious I prefer it to Jimmy Cliff's original. He shredded his voice making the album but it gives it such a desperate quality.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 5, 2020 4:21 AM |
Wing is a fucking genius
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 5, 2020 4:25 AM |
Lambada by Kaoma
the true original is "Llorando se fue" from Bolivia
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 5, 2020 4:25 AM |
Weirdly, Kid Rock's cover of "Ramble On" by Led Zep. He did it at the Kennedy Center honors and tore it up. It's so good that I really wish they hadn't cut it for the broadcast or had released a long version (I've looked and I can't fine one anywhere).
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 5, 2020 4:31 AM |
R27 My all-time favorite cover by Eva Cassidy. When I first heard her voice it was on this song, and I was transfixed. That hasn't happened but a few times in my life.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 5, 2020 5:42 AM |
Until this absolutely sublime cover came about, I always preferred the first-released "Wildflowers" version by Judy Collins.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 5, 2020 5:48 AM |
Santana's "Well Alright" (a total reimagining of Buddy Holly's original).
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 5, 2020 5:57 AM |
Shawn Colvin - Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic
I like this version even better than the original song by The Police.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 5, 2020 6:02 AM |
There are so many version of "Money" but I love the one by The Flying Lizards.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 5, 2020 6:33 AM |
R27 good one! I love her version too.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 5, 2020 6:41 AM |
War by Bruce Springsteen(although I was getting distracted by his tight jeans).
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 5, 2020 6:43 AM |
Elvis Costello - I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself. I love his emotional interpretation.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 5, 2020 6:49 AM |
Tainted Love covered by Soft Cell, so innovative and 80s iconic that it’s hard to believe it from the 1960s.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 5, 2020 6:52 AM |
X's version of the Jerry Lee Lewis hit "Breathless".
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 5, 2020 9:22 AM |
Disturbed's cover of "Sound Of Silence" is one of the greatest things I've ever heard and just became of aware of it recently. It's the #1 most-watched Conan clip ever, they did an incredible live version.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 5, 2020 9:41 AM |
That Counting Crows song has the worst overproduced and saccharine female vocals.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 5, 2020 10:55 AM |
Taiwanese American singer Joanna Wang Ruolin doing a cover of the Teresa Teng classic, ‘I only care about you’
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 5, 2020 11:39 AM |
"Party Girl" - Linda Ronstadt renders Elvis Costello listenable.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 5, 2020 11:47 AM |
op's pic looks a human version of a dog.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 5, 2020 11:48 AM |
A hip-hop version of Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 5, 2020 12:04 PM |
Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’ covered by Mr Hudson
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 5, 2020 12:10 PM |
First The Flamingos and then Art Garfunkel vastly improved this old 1930s song from a movie.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 5, 2020 12:31 PM |
Your southern can is mine by The White Stripes
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 5, 2020 2:29 PM |
I really like Harry Style's cover of Juice by Lizzo
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 5, 2020 3:56 PM |
I like Giorgio Moroder's "reimaging" of Tom's Diner, with Britney Spears. The fan video for the lyric version is beautiful, too.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 5, 2020 9:17 PM |
The Pretenders cover "Stop Your Sobbing" by The Kinks.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 6, 2020 7:11 AM |
In these cover threads posters usually mention Siouxsie & The Banshees' Beatles cover of Dear Prudence. But the band did so many amazing covers and even released a whole cover album called Through The Looking Glass. This is their cover of Kraftwerk's Hall of Mirrors.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 6, 2020 8:52 AM |
There are scores, if not hundreds, of recorded versions of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
Cohen, before he died, said he was most impressed with the k.d. lang cover.
No insult to Kathy Dawn, but me? I'll take Jeff Buckley's.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 6, 2020 9:13 AM |
Iggy Pop & Deborah Harry covering, "Well, Did You Evah!
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 6, 2020 9:49 AM |
"(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" - Rita Coolidge
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 6, 2020 10:40 AM |
Jimmy Sommerville kicked life into Comment te dire adieu
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 6, 2020 10:54 AM |
Sinéad O'Connor - I Don't Know How to Love Him
by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 6, 2020 12:54 PM |
counting crows????? u have to be kidding.....NO
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 6, 2020 1:01 PM |
Fiona Apple - Modern Don Juan (erroneously described as "Just a Man in Love" on YouTube). Never released as a single, hence the crummy audio quality (not sure where this was recorded, I assume at Largo). Still enjoyable!
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 6, 2020 1:08 PM |
A new recent phenomenal male cover of I Don’t Know How to Love Him comes from Norbert Leo Butz as part of the most recent Miscast fundraiser for MCC Theatre where they gender swap songs. Performance begins at 1:10.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 6, 2020 1:11 PM |
As much as I revere Donna Summer, I think this is better.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 6, 2020 1:27 PM |
Thanks R69. THAT is one of the best things I have ever heard.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 6, 2020 1:28 PM |
Tina Turner. Let's Stay Together (Al Green cover).
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 6, 2020 2:37 PM |
Devo successfully reworking The Rolling Stones "Satisfaction"
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 6, 2020 9:06 PM |
Not quite a full video, but it features imitating Kate Bush and Pumpkin Spice Coffee, two DL faves
by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 7, 2020 5:29 AM |
Pet Shop Boys cover "Go West" (Village People)
by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 7, 2020 9:57 AM |
I love Kim Weston, I love the Isley Brothers....but The Doobie Brothers' version SOARS!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 7, 2020 10:32 AM |
Inspired by the Trump gasping for breath thread -
by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 7, 2020 10:36 AM |
Another great Joni Mitchell cover here that shits all over that horrific Counting Crows one.
Tori Amos - A Case of You.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 7, 2020 10:47 AM |
Olivia Newton-John's first hit single was a cover of Bob Dylan's "If Not For You"
by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 7, 2020 10:56 AM |
Not nearly as good as the original, but I've got a certain fondness for it.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 7, 2020 11:02 AM |
Talking Heads do "Take Me to the River" (Al Green)
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 7, 2020 8:56 PM |
Matt Alber does "I Wanna Dance with Somebody."
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 7, 2020 9:07 PM |
Cowboy Junkies do "Sweet Jane" (The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed)
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 7, 2020 9:21 PM |
[quote] Village Voice hated it, OP.
[quote] it wouldn't be surprising if Adam Durwitz's pea-sized brain wasn't 85% dreadlocks, 10% water, and 5% actress phone numbers.
[quote] Let's speak into whichever of Durwitz's ears doesn't have a cockily tipped wool hat over it.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that Counting Crows lead singer was the most annoying, pretentious poser who ever posed. And young Courtney Cox fell for it!
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 7, 2020 9:36 PM |
Foo Fighters' cover of Prince's Darling Nikki is awesome.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 7, 2020 9:52 PM |
Another great Zeppelin cover by the Wilson sisters, "Battle of Evermore"
by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 7, 2020 10:12 PM |
^ Posh was actually half way decent in that clip.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 8, 2020 9:50 AM |
[quote]Another great Zeppelin cover by the Wilson sisters, "Battle of Evermore"
An official version of the Wilson sisters doing this song is much better. I have it on a UK import CD EP, I bought it at Tower years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 8, 2020 9:22 PM |
"I Don't Know How To Love Him" - Helen Reddy
by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 9, 2020 10:36 AM |
R93 Wouldn’t all the others be considered covers and this is the original? This was released as a single before Yvonne’s was even if it was on the concept album first.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 9, 2020 10:40 AM |
r94, Wikipedia calls Yvonne Elliman's version the original, and Helen Reddy's version a cover. The Jesus Christ Superstar album was released in May 1970. Helen Reddy's single was released in January 1971.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | October 9, 2020 10:48 AM |
Olivia Newton-John did a good cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" in 1976.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | October 9, 2020 10:50 AM |
My favorite version of "I Will Always Love You" is the one by Linda Ronstadt.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | October 9, 2020 10:53 AM |
I love Cyndi Lauper's version of What's Going On. I like the original as well.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | October 9, 2020 1:17 PM |
I love obscure records. Whitney really killed the Curtis Mayfield song "Look into your Heart".
by Anonymous | reply 99 | October 9, 2020 1:39 PM |
Listen to this live version of Aretha's "Baby I Love You" by Whitney Houston. Easily better than the original.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | October 9, 2020 1:43 PM |
It's great to see Whitney let her hair down, so to speak, but that in no way is better than Franklin's.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 9, 2020 1:47 PM |
R11 looks like a Kristen Wiig parody.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | October 9, 2020 1:54 PM |
R.E.M. covers "Summertime."
This was released as the B-side of a 7" single in 1990 as a Holiday Single sent out to members of the band's fan club at Christmas. The A-side was "Ghost Reindeer in the Sky."
by Anonymous | reply 103 | October 11, 2020 8:04 AM |
I love Trijntje's version of This House is Empty Now
by Anonymous | reply 105 | October 23, 2020 10:26 AM |
Fuck r106 's trump loving bitch
by Anonymous | reply 108 | November 10, 2020 10:15 PM |
This is probably closer to a remake than a cover, it’s so close to the original. But the Jackson 5 “ABC” isn’t a great recording and this fixes that — plus it keeps the bubble gum pop alive and kicking. And whoever this girl is, what a phenomenal voice.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | November 10, 2020 11:09 PM |
A classic Motown recording isn't a great recording? Do you smoke crack?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | November 10, 2020 11:13 PM |
The quality of the recording isn’t great, no. And no, I don’t smoke crack. Love the song though.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | November 10, 2020 11:18 PM |
I love Joan Osborne's take on Dolly's "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"
by Anonymous | reply 112 | November 10, 2020 11:19 PM |
What exactly is wrong with the recording?
by Anonymous | reply 114 | November 10, 2020 11:29 PM |
Dave Hause (love him!) plays Patty Griffin (love her!) on a 5-song EP. Really love this one.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | November 11, 2020 12:08 AM |
Kudos to R77. Great pick, I love what the Doobies do with that song.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | November 11, 2020 1:15 AM |
Kudos to R77. Great pick, I love what the Doobies do with that song.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | November 11, 2020 1:15 AM |
Two totally different covers, but both great:
Carpenters doing a ballad version of the Beatles "Ticket To Ride"
Donna Summers disco version of Manilow's "Could It Be Magic?"
by Anonymous | reply 120 | November 11, 2020 1:42 AM |
I really love the Roxy Music, Brian Ferry version of "Like A Hurricane" (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
by Anonymous | reply 122 | November 11, 2020 7:17 AM |
Oleta Adams has done some fantastic covers.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | November 11, 2020 7:50 AM |
I love Tom Moulton's production and arrangement. But the song is not suited to Grace Jones' very limited voice. It was meant to be fronted by a singer called Teresa Wiater (not Waiter).
by Anonymous | reply 125 | November 11, 2020 2:59 PM |
Britney Spears, Kid Rock...? What are you people smoking?
by Anonymous | reply 126 | November 11, 2020 4:16 PM |
The Beatles' version of Buddy Hollly's "Words of Love." One of the best things they ever did.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | November 11, 2020 5:01 PM |
Should there be a thread of indecent covers?
by Anonymous | reply 130 | November 11, 2020 5:51 PM |
Barcelona's version of Taylor Swift's Love Story.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | November 11, 2020 5:54 PM |
I like Flying Picket's version of Only You more than Yazoo's original.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | November 11, 2020 6:05 PM |
Ane Brun does great covers. This is one of my favorites.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | November 11, 2020 6:24 PM |
Aaron Tveit's live version of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (here interspersed with "Boyfriend").
by Anonymous | reply 135 | November 11, 2020 6:33 PM |
"Che Gelida Manina" from La Boheme - Aaron Tveit (start at 4:44 if it doesn't do so automatically).
by Anonymous | reply 136 | November 11, 2020 6:50 PM |
Never heard of Amanda Cole, but she has a freaking amazing voice!!
Yet non-singers like Madonna and Taylor Swift are multi-millionaires. Life is sure not fair. Their success proves a ridiculous gimmick and artifice seems more important to the general public than actual talent and having a great voice.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | November 11, 2020 9:25 PM |
I think this is a tremendous version of a song I've loved since my teenage years.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | November 30, 2020 5:41 PM |
lordy mercy he is beyond fug
by Anonymous | reply 141 | November 30, 2020 5:51 PM |
Ugh..no...just NO
by Anonymous | reply 142 | November 30, 2020 6:29 PM |
This. It's a shame Lauryn Hill went downhill in the ensuing decades.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | November 30, 2020 6:51 PM |
Eye In The Sky by Parralox
by Anonymous | reply 144 | November 30, 2020 7:38 PM |
About OP's post: I will never understand the popularity of "Big Yellow Taxi," a cutesy song that gets cuter every single time I hear it, which is way, way too often. Joni's cutesy giggle at the end may be the worst moment in her recording career.
Adam Duritz has an obscene mouth. In OP's photo, what, exactly, is he about to do? Eat the microphone? Blow the microphone?
by Anonymous | reply 145 | November 30, 2020 8:56 PM |
What about the indecent song covers?
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 1, 2020 9:12 AM |
[quote]Eye In The Sky by Parralox
Nice one. I like their cover of "The Number One Song in Heaven" better than the original.
As good as Disturbed's version of "Sound of Silence" is, I'm most grateful for it inspiring the Pentatonix version.
Big thanks to whoever shared the Norbert Leo Butz cover. I'll be listening to that all day.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 1, 2020 12:34 PM |
Parralox... Pentatonix... are these, cameras?
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 1, 2020 12:51 PM |
Ask your doctor if Parralox is right for you!
I hated this song until I heard it sung by someone with a decent voice. Now I think it's good-cheesy and not annoying-cheesy.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 1, 2020 12:58 PM |
Pentatonix always seems so smug, overwrought, and humorless.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | December 1, 2020 12:59 PM |
↑ a new level of self-awareness ↑
by Anonymous | reply 155 | December 1, 2020 2:08 PM |
Robyn's cover of Hyperballad was nice but she didn't do anything new/different with the song. Björk's cover of Joni Mitchell's "Boho Dance" is more interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | December 1, 2020 2:58 PM |
Always liked a-ha's cover of The Everly Brothers' "Crying in the Rain" -- especially live with Anneli Drecker providing harmony.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | December 1, 2020 3:06 PM |
I love Peter Gabriel. In fact, I never heard any Harry Styles before this version of "Sledgehammer." Damn, this kid is good.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | December 3, 2020 1:00 PM |
I like his cover of "Juice" (he actually sings it whereas Lizzo's vocal is less driving). But nothing else I've heard from him has grabbed me.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | December 3, 2020 1:03 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 164 | December 3, 2020 5:44 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 165 | December 3, 2020 7:29 PM |
Ok going way back and to a different language with this one, but Luis Miguel's Alguien Como Tu, a Spanish version of Diane Warren's Someone In Your Life, is more enjoyable than Peabo Bryon's ballady version of it
by Anonymous | reply 166 | December 4, 2020 5:41 PM |
R165 good one
by Anonymous | reply 167 | December 5, 2020 1:21 AM |
[quote]lordy mercy he is beyond fug
Who the hell are you talking about?
by Anonymous | reply 169 | December 5, 2020 4:34 AM |
Why did I think this was John Mayer that did the cover of Big Yellow Taxi?
by Anonymous | reply 170 | December 5, 2020 4:43 AM |
[quote]I love Peter Gabriel. In fact, I never heard any Harry Styles before this version of "Sledgehammer." Damn, this kid is good.
Isn't a cover song supposed to bring something different to the original? Isn't a band, or singer, supposed do their own take on a cover version? Much in the same way the person upthread complained that Robyn's version of Bjork's Hyperballad "didn't do anything new/different with the song", neither did Harry. He even sounded a bit like Peter Gabriel! Next time he needs to pick a more difficult Peter Gabriel song.
Harry and his band basically performed the Peter Gabriel version note for note, like a cover band, what's the point?
Harry's band is excellent, I will give him that much.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | December 5, 2020 9:46 AM |
Such a depth of knowledge about midcentury rock music on here. Found a number of gems.
Speaking of midcentury musicians, Johnny Cash's cover on Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" is a classic
by Anonymous | reply 172 | December 5, 2020 11:47 AM |
Kyle Craft's take on Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel #2" - he has a great voice for this song
by Anonymous | reply 173 | December 5, 2020 11:48 AM |
Unexpected cover of Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" by Etta James, turns it into an almost-blues song
by Anonymous | reply 174 | December 5, 2020 11:50 AM |
And in a similar vein, Bettye Lavette covering The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me" with Daltrey and Townsend (and for some reason, Streisand) in the audience.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | December 5, 2020 11:52 AM |
Still baffled as to why some YouTube links show up with preview thumbnails on DL and others don't. I'm working on the theory that videos with ads on them don't show up as thumbnails.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | December 5, 2020 11:53 AM |
Nancy Wilson and Peabo Bryson cover Sondheim’s Loving You
by Anonymous | reply 177 | December 5, 2020 11:55 AM |
[Quote] Isn't a cover song supposed to bring something different to the original?
Actually, no. Cover versions were designed to eclipse the original and win a chart battle.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | December 5, 2020 11:57 AM |
Another one--- Killers do a fairly faithful rendition of Dire Straits while updating it, Brandon Flowers is almost rapping the lyrics (spoken word?) and they pick up the pace little too.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | December 5, 2020 12:03 PM |
Another unexpected one: Lemonheads Evan Dando covering Abba's "Knowing Me, Knowing You" --the acoustic guitar turns it into a completely different song.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | December 5, 2020 12:10 PM |
R178 I would totally watch a YouTube channel called Chart Battle, where a song and it’s covers and how they compete are discussed.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | December 5, 2020 1:12 PM |
WHET the YouTube previews?
Without them, threads like this look like long series of empty grey boxes.
Thanks to the posters who wrote in titles, original performers, and cover version performers.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | December 5, 2020 3:13 PM |
Boyce Avenue are the Cover Kings--that's all they do and they have a huge audience for it.
Their take on 1D's "What Makes You Beautiful" is one of their best, they slow it down to an acoustic ballad with just a few guitar chords as background to singer's voice.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | December 5, 2020 3:22 PM |
I think Muriel turns off YouTube previews periodically.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | December 5, 2020 3:25 PM |
[quote]Actually, no. Cover versions were designed to eclipse the original and win a chart battle.
That's a total load of bollocks.
A cover song, especially when being done by an already well known band or a famous singer, is basically supposed to bring something different to the original. A cover version can even be performed in a different style of music than the original, doing so, shows talent and vision.
A cover song should not necessarily "eclipse the original and win a chart battle", how silly and absurd. Are you 12?
by Anonymous | reply 189 | December 5, 2020 11:01 PM |
No, you twit. "Cover version" meant a version of the song to cover/render the original less successful in the charts.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | December 5, 2020 11:09 PM |
[Quote] A cover version can even be performed in a different style of music than the original, doing so, shows talent and vision. A cover song should not necessarily "eclipse the original and win a chart battle", how silly and absurd. Are you 12?
You have little sense of popular music history.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | December 5, 2020 11:09 PM |
For example. Here is "Eddie My Love" by The Teen Queens, a black group. It was released in Jan 1956.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | December 5, 2020 11:12 PM |
A cover version by the Fontane Sisters was rush released on the heels of the original.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | December 5, 2020 11:12 PM |
The intent by Dot Records was to cover not only the song but THE RECORD by the Teen Queens. The Fontane Sisters peaked at #11 on the Hot 100, while the Teen Queens rose to #14.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | December 5, 2020 11:15 PM |
Lorde - Silver Springs cover of Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac song. I don't know much about Lorde or her singing voice but, this live performance with the big soul singer women picking up the brunt of the song. i love the gospel back up singer women like Elvis had. You know? When I heard this rock and soul version I was blown away. Whether you like Stevie or not she's not an easy act to follow except for the country landslide. My favorites by her are the c/w After The Glitter Fades and Gypsy.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | December 5, 2020 11:20 PM |
[quote]You have little sense of popular music history.
This moron is even MORE clueless about cover versions: "No, you twit. "Cover version" meant a version of the song to cover/render the original less successful in the charts."
Wow, so many in this thread know so little about pop music in general. Most cover versions are usually never huge hits like the original artist's version of a song. Again, what totally clueless responses.
R191, you don't anything about me. People like R191 seem to love to argue about the things they know so little about. A cover version should always bring a new take on the original. The cover version need not improve or be 'better' than the original, just different and perhaps make clueless people seek out the original recording. End of discussion.
For example, ALL these versions of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood are EXCELLENT: The Animals, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity and Joe Cocker. ALL these versions are worth hearing. Nina Simone did the original version, in 1964. It goes without saying, Nina's version is amazing.
I've actually worked in the music biz, over 30 years. How old are you 20? A teen? I also have many working musicians in my family, an uncle was a record producer and there are currently in-demand session musicians in my family.
I reckon I know a hell of a lot about many genres of music than most people arguing here. I sure know more about what makes a record successful.
It's laughable to post that a cover version :"meant a version of the song to cover/render the original less successful in the charts."
Where the hell do some of you conjure up such utter bullshit? 😂 🤣😂 🤣
by Anonymous | reply 197 | December 5, 2020 11:51 PM |
[Quote] A cover version should always bring a new take on the original.
How are you going to enforce your little rule?
by Anonymous | reply 198 | December 5, 2020 11:54 PM |
[Quote] I've actually worked in the music biz, over 30 years.
Then you should know the origin of the term "cover version."
by Anonymous | reply 199 | December 5, 2020 11:55 PM |
Eurythmics - Something In The Air. One thing Annie didn't ruin.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | December 6, 2020 12:00 AM |
[quote]Dylan's tunes sound so much better when they are coming out of the mouth of someone else.
So true!
by Anonymous | reply 201 | December 6, 2020 1:07 AM |
[quote]Dylan's tunes sound so much better when they are coming out of the mouth of someone else.
Same with Joni Mitchell. Once someone else rid the song of her airy-fairy style, you realized she had some good songs.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | December 6, 2020 1:13 AM |
The first time I heard this, I thought it was brilliant. I interpreted it as a shy boy questioning his sexuality.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | December 6, 2020 1:17 AM |
Shawn Mendes' cover of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You".
by Anonymous | reply 204 | December 6, 2020 1:23 AM |
Sloop John B by Josh Lee Turner and the touring cast of Simon & Garfunkel. Live from the back of a tour bus. Very impressive.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | December 6, 2020 1:24 AM |
[quote]Aretha’s I say a little prayer for you
Yuck! Aretha makes the back up singers do all the heavy lifting. And the few bits she does "sing" she sounds like a screaming seal.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | December 6, 2020 2:24 AM |
Wow, R70! I'm a Donna Summer lover, and I'd never heard/seen that. Now I've listened to/watched it three times. Thank you!
by Anonymous | reply 211 | December 6, 2020 6:40 AM |
Whitney always skipped out on singing the bridge to "I'm Every Woman" live. She didn't have the range.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | December 6, 2020 10:40 AM |
Now that the Christmas season is here, here's the only good cover of Fairytale Of New York, covered by by the Whistlin' Donkeys and Maria Connolly:
by Anonymous | reply 214 | December 6, 2020 11:24 AM |
Berlin Project's ska cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice"
by Anonymous | reply 215 | December 6, 2020 11:39 AM |
If ska is not your thing, The Gourds do a country/bluegrass cover of Gin and Juice
by Anonymous | reply 216 | December 6, 2020 11:41 AM |
Martin Gore - In a Manner of Speaking (Tuxedomoon)
by Anonymous | reply 219 | December 7, 2020 2:56 AM |
Morrissey doing Laura Nyro's classic "Wedding Bell Blues"
by Anonymous | reply 222 | December 9, 2020 8:02 AM |
“In the Morning” (Bee Gees cover live version from 1968) by Nina Simone.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | December 9, 2020 9:45 AM |
Toni Basil's "Mickey" (originally "Kitty" by Racey)
by Anonymous | reply 225 | December 11, 2020 1:57 AM |
Another one by Pet Shop Boys ... Always on My Mind.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | December 12, 2020 7:10 AM |
Orville Peck covers Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy, heartbreak, this time with a Country twang, ensues.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | December 12, 2020 7:26 AM |
I think Grace Jone’s version of “La Vie en Rose” is fantastic. She sings/interprets that song as though she wrote it herself.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | December 12, 2020 1:29 PM |
Funny you say that as Jones aped the singer for whom the track was intended.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | December 12, 2020 1:48 PM |
Push The Button - The Worst Cover Band Of The World
by Anonymous | reply 232 | December 12, 2020 11:30 PM |
Romeo Void's version of "Wrap It Up" (Sam & Dave)
by Anonymous | reply 233 | December 13, 2020 1:23 AM |
Jackie Trent's big, brassy ballad version of "It's Not Unusual"
by Anonymous | reply 235 | December 13, 2020 2:51 AM |
Dance/club versions of slower ballads can be hit or miss, usually more of the latter, but I really liked this upbeat version of Coldplay's Viva La Vida.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | December 13, 2020 4:18 AM |
R240 see r165
by Anonymous | reply 242 | December 13, 2020 6:36 AM |
The lounge version of Baby Got Back by Richard Cheese
by Anonymous | reply 243 | December 13, 2020 6:44 AM |
Just discovered this great cover/medley of The Royalettes/Deniece Williams' 'It's Gonna Take A Miracle' and Little Anthony & The Imperials' 'I'm On The Outside (Looking In)' done as a medley.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | December 13, 2020 6:47 AM |
I've always loved this Hi-NRG cover of The Monkees' '(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone' by Modern Rocketry.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | December 13, 2020 6:59 AM |
Love this cover of Velvet Underground's 'Femme Fatale' by Genevieve Waite (produced by John Phillips). Even better than the original!
by Anonymous | reply 248 | December 13, 2020 7:05 AM |
I've been listening to this soulful cover of 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' by (Aretha's sister) Erma Franklin for so many years that I have no idea who did the original. Glen Campbell? Who cares!
by Anonymous | reply 249 | December 13, 2020 7:13 AM |
The only version of 'New York State Of Mind' I've ever cared about was recorded by Johnny Mathis. Sorry Billy Joel!
by Anonymous | reply 250 | December 13, 2020 7:18 AM |
Karen really brings out the pathos of the song, but you also sense she is singing her own truth. “And as for fortune and as for fame, I never invited them in, though they seemed to the world they were all I desired.”
by Anonymous | reply 252 | December 13, 2020 7:34 AM |
Cher wasn’t the originator of Walking in Memphis? How can that possibly be?
by Anonymous | reply 254 | December 13, 2020 7:44 AM |
Favorite Cher cover #1: Her early 70s take on the Jazz standard 'By Myself'. Love her vocals here and Sonny Bono's arrangement.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | December 13, 2020 7:58 AM |
Sonny did arrangements? Like Richard Carpenter? Did not know that!
by Anonymous | reply 256 | December 13, 2020 8:01 AM |
Favorite Cher cover #2: Her Late 60s cover of Bonnie Bramlett's 'Groupie (Superstar)'. Bonnie's version will always be my favorite but Cher's is in my Top 5 versions of this song. Unlike Karen Carpenter, Cher (and her arranger) got it right. The song's about a tough Groupie Chick who fell in love after the one night stand. The Carpenters took it an entirely different place. I like the earlier versions more.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | December 13, 2020 8:05 AM |
Yes, 256. Sonny was never a singer. He was actually a talented musician/arranger who worked closely with Phil Spector early in his career. His arrangements all had a distinctive sound and were heavy on the drums. Here's a great example, an early Cher single 'Dream Baby'.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | December 13, 2020 8:11 AM |
Kim Gordon doing Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" karaoke-style as part of her side project Ciccone Youth. I'm sure Madonna had this video in mind when she performed Express Yourself in military drag on the Reinvention Tour
by Anonymous | reply 259 | December 13, 2020 5:01 PM |
Love this although I don't speak a word of French.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | December 13, 2020 10:36 PM |
The Sweet - Relections
by Anonymous | reply 261 | December 13, 2020 11:27 PM |
R263 I literally just heard this last night and had now clue who sang it. It is so awesome! Thanks!!
by Anonymous | reply 264 | December 14, 2020 1:35 AM |
Unfortunately, there is no long version of this available, but Katherine Ho does a great version of Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You in Mandarin for a Panda Express commercial.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | December 14, 2020 1:50 AM |
Aretha covers Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell
by Anonymous | reply 267 | December 14, 2020 5:15 AM |
Metallica performs Ennio Morricone's 'Ecstasy of Gold' from 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' film score.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | December 14, 2020 6:01 AM |
A bit OT, but I never understood the accolades given to The Carpenters. They were mediocre popsters at best. They produced bland music, they had no actual image. They made disposable pop music. I'd compare them with someone as dull as Taylor Swift, her success is also incomprehensible.
Karen's voice was so bland, there was nothing unique about it. Their music was incredibly MOR and extremely depressing. I cringe when I hear their music. It's amazing that so many talented and famous musicians seem to praise them. There have also been tribute albums. Weird.
They tortured the song Superstar. Karen couldn't be any more off in her interpretation of that song.
I'm totally baffled. I have actually working musicians in my family, session musicians and touring musicians, they are as baffled as I am.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | December 14, 2020 6:03 AM |
Carpenters - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (written and recorded by a band called Klaatu)
by Anonymous | reply 272 | December 14, 2020 6:32 AM |
[quote]Carpenters - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (written and recorded by a band called Klaatu)
Please, STOP!
by Anonymous | reply 273 | December 14, 2020 7:00 AM |
[Quote] They made disposable pop music.
And yet, their music has lasted.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | December 14, 2020 2:58 PM |
Blondie - "Denis"
(Clem on drums, one of the best.)
by Anonymous | reply 275 | December 15, 2020 9:27 AM |
Foo Fighters covering Drake's "Hotline Bling" as part of their Hanukkah Series
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by Anonymous | reply 276 | December 15, 2020 2:54 PM |
A bit more out there, from the same series
Foo Fighters cover Peaches' "Fuck The Pain Away"
by Anonymous | reply 277 | December 15, 2020 2:56 PM |
Two male singers dark reworkings of two different famous songs. Both are spine-tingling.
1. Lyle Lovett's version of 'Mack the Knife'
by Anonymous | reply 278 | December 15, 2020 3:17 PM |
2. Frank Ocean turns 'Hotel California' into 'American Wedding'. Banned because jealous Eagles don't understand what a hommage is.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | December 15, 2020 3:19 PM |
McFly, 'You're The One That I Want'.
Quite a sexy take, but still with all the campy fun of the original. There's two male vocalists, so it's pretty gay.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | December 15, 2020 7:16 PM |
Norman Connors (featuring Phyllis Hyman) 'Betcha By Golly Wow' - The recording that put Phyllis Hyman on the map. A lot of people think that the original version was by The Stylistics, who had the hit version, but it was actually first recorded years earlier by Connie Stevens as 'Keep Growing Stronger'.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | December 15, 2020 9:18 PM |
For reference here's Connie Stevens' 'Keep Growing Strong' aka 'Betcha By Golly Wow'.
by Anonymous | reply 282 | December 15, 2020 9:21 PM |
Lisa Stansfield covering Phyllis Hyman’s You know how to love me
by Anonymous | reply 283 | December 16, 2020 5:58 AM |
R281 Prince did the best version of, 'Betcha By Golly Wow!', on his EMANCIPATION record.
Just, ignore the ridiculous music video.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | December 16, 2020 9:21 AM |
Queens Of The Stone Age do some killer covers.
Their sultry and slinky take on 'Never Say Never', originally by the criminally-underrated Romeovoid, is up there.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | December 16, 2020 9:24 AM |
QOTSA also ably covered The Kinks 'Who'll Be The Next In Line?', giving it some raw raspy rockabilly flavour.
by Anonymous | reply 286 | December 16, 2020 9:26 AM |
I’m sorry but Phyllis Hyman may be the most talented person who ever existed, but with a name like that I can never get past it to actually listen to her.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | December 16, 2020 10:44 AM |
How silly of you.
by Anonymous | reply 288 | December 16, 2020 2:18 PM |
While The Captain and Tennille's breakout hit was a Neil Sedaka cover, here is Toni Tennille doing Smokey Robinson.
No, I cannot explain the dress.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | December 16, 2020 9:05 PM |
Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now
After the Psychedelic Furs went on "hiatus" lead singer Richard Butler formed a new band, Love Spit Love. They were asked to record this cover for the soundtrack of The Craft, and of course it was used as the theme song for Charmed.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | December 17, 2020 6:37 AM |
Shake from The Supremes' album: We Remember Sam Cooke
by Anonymous | reply 291 | December 17, 2020 6:39 AM |
Lola Falana adds a little soul to Peggy Lee (start at 4:30)
by Anonymous | reply 292 | December 17, 2020 6:51 AM |
I don’t know who this is or what show they are referencing, does London have a Britney Jukebox musical?, but this by far elevate the original.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | December 18, 2020 7:58 PM |
I think there's a Max Martin juke box musical.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | December 19, 2020 4:01 AM |
Bossa Nova Beatles - Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 - Daytripper (sung by Lani Hall and Bibi Vogel)
by Anonymous | reply 297 | December 19, 2020 5:02 AM |
Blondie + Philip Glass
Heart of Glass - Crabtree Remix
by Anonymous | reply 299 | December 19, 2020 7:04 AM |
This is becoming a hit this month - Ritt Momney's cover of Corinne Bailey Rae's "Put Your Records On"
by Anonymous | reply 302 | December 19, 2020 5:40 PM |
^^and to answer the inevitable question, Ritt is a 20 year old Mormon from SLC
by Anonymous | reply 303 | December 19, 2020 5:41 PM |
Bryan Adams played 'Wild Thing' at least a dozen times during his 1990s lives.
He and his band give it a space-rocky, bombastic resonance and a celebratory slant. It's pretty different.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | December 20, 2020 10:32 AM |
^^and to return that serve; Aurea does a fantastic cover of Bryan Adams' early forgotten disco cut, 'Don't Ya Say It'.
Love how she makes it kind of loungey and with a 50s-60s sound.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | December 20, 2020 10:34 AM |
Cathy Dennis reworks Fonda Rae's "Touch Me (All Night Long)"
by Anonymous | reply 308 | December 29, 2020 4:35 AM |
The same f***ing person is posting all these songs. Just stop already! Most of these covers you post are shit.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | December 29, 2020 4:42 AM |
R309 so simple, don’t listen to it.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | December 29, 2020 4:45 AM |
“The Immigrant Song” by Karen O, Trent Raznor and Atticus Ross
by Anonymous | reply 314 | December 30, 2020 9:37 PM |
Tori Amos - Whole Lotta Love/Thank You mash-up
by Anonymous | reply 315 | December 30, 2020 9:37 PM |
Bonnie Pointer's Disco remake of the Elgin's "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
by Anonymous | reply 320 | December 31, 2020 6:09 AM |
This would have been a great cover if Donna Summer didn't keep calling it MacArthur's Park.
by Anonymous | reply 321 | December 31, 2020 6:16 AM |
The Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" by the Communards
by Anonymous | reply 322 | December 31, 2020 6:17 AM |
Goin' Out of My Head - Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66
by Anonymous | reply 323 | December 31, 2020 6:19 AM |
Goin' Out of My Head - Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66
by Anonymous | reply 324 | December 31, 2020 6:19 AM |
Dead or Alive’s cover of ”That’s the Way I Like It” is one of the few covers that it better than the original IMO.
by Anonymous | reply 325 | December 31, 2020 6:22 AM |
You can always tell when someone who was young in the eighties has invaded the thread.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | December 31, 2020 6:29 AM |
R331 That shit is terrible. It's a sad folk love song. They've turned it into a fast tempo dance pop debacle
by Anonymous | reply 334 | December 31, 2020 7:09 AM |
BOY TOWN GANG - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
by Anonymous | reply 337 | December 31, 2020 7:47 AM |
I like this cover of Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
by Anonymous | reply 338 | December 31, 2020 7:52 AM |
Willie Hutch - California My Way
Willie wrote the song but it was first recorded by the 5th Dimension in 1967 and his version didn't come out until 1973.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | December 31, 2020 3:26 PM |
Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods - Who Do You Think You Are
by Anonymous | reply 343 | December 31, 2020 3:49 PM |
I still can't get over OP. That's literally one of the worst, most shiteous covers of a song ever recorded, and s/he started the thread with it?
SLAP!
by Anonymous | reply 345 | January 3, 2021 12:43 AM |
[quote] Ritt Momney's cover of Corinne Bailey Rae's "Put Your Records On"
A terrible, terrible version.
by Anonymous | reply 346 | January 3, 2021 12:44 AM |
Fine Young Cannibals takes on "Suspicious Minds" with backing vocals by Jimmy Sommerville.
by Anonymous | reply 347 | January 3, 2021 1:22 AM |
From the Jamiroquai thread.
Jay Kay and his amazing band's version of Bad Girls, live in Verona Italy, 2002. In the pouring rain no less.
It's amazing. It's also amazing no one in the band got electrocuted!
by Anonymous | reply 349 | January 9, 2021 11:01 PM |
Not that amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 350 | January 9, 2021 11:30 PM |
[quote]Not that amazing.
Really 'Miss Ross'?
Bad Girls was by Donna Summer not Diana Ross! It was actually Donna's most famous album. Give up your gay card kid.
If you posted that torturous Tori Amos shit upthread, no wonder you don't have a fucking clue.
by Anonymous | reply 351 | January 9, 2021 11:37 PM |
R349 Thanks for that. Loved it! R354 That's way better than the original or Chrissy Hynde version.
by Anonymous | reply 355 | January 13, 2021 12:42 PM |
Thanks R349, had never seen that!
by Anonymous | reply 356 | January 28, 2021 5:19 PM |
The screen cap at the top of this thread is unaccountably annoying. I think it’s the tongue.
by Anonymous | reply 358 | January 28, 2021 7:53 PM |
I'm still offended that some sad, demented soul thought the Counting Crows' version of Big Yellow Taxi was "decent."
It is AURAL RAPE!
by Anonymous | reply 360 | February 1, 2021 10:02 PM |
R359 Really? That's a terrible cover. But then again so is the original.
by Anonymous | reply 361 | February 2, 2021 12:18 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 362 | March 11, 2021 7:50 PM |
Rozalla - I Love Music (1994)
Head this recently and really like it
by Anonymous | reply 363 | March 12, 2021 9:40 AM |
[quote][R359] Really? That's a terrible cover. But then again so is the original.
You do know who did the original, don't you? It wasn't Soft Cell.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | March 14, 2021 3:23 AM |
r150, weren't they the original artists?
by Anonymous | reply 365 | March 14, 2021 3:34 AM |
I have a soft spot for Kim Basinger's version of Let's Do It from "The Marrying Man"
by Anonymous | reply 366 | March 14, 2021 3:39 AM |
^on second thoughts I guess standards don't count, disregard!
by Anonymous | reply 367 | March 14, 2021 3:45 AM |
R103 I'm so glad I found this thread. On my first night of college, I went to a frat party and the first song I heard was "Summertime" but I never knew who was performing it. That is the version I heard. I always thought it was appropriate since it was at the College of Charleston.
by Anonymous | reply 368 | March 14, 2021 3:53 AM |
R365 No. And CCR wasn’t even the first to cover the song.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | March 14, 2021 3:56 AM |
Marty Casey during the Rock Star INXS competition covering Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time"
by Anonymous | reply 370 | March 14, 2021 7:01 AM |
Did you ever think you'd hear a salsa version of a song by The Cure?
by Anonymous | reply 371 | March 14, 2021 7:28 AM |
No Doubt’s cover of It’s My Life was, is an abomination. My life long loathing of Geen Stefanik is justified.
by Anonymous | reply 372 | March 14, 2021 9:42 AM |
I’m loving many of these recommendations. Also feeling very old and slightly sad. Mary!
by Anonymous | reply 373 | March 14, 2021 9:51 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 375 | March 20, 2021 1:56 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 376 | March 21, 2021 12:23 AM |
The Staple Singers covering Talking Heads' "Slippery People"
by Anonymous | reply 377 | March 21, 2021 12:54 AM |
King of Pain by Alanis Morisette. Enjoy her vocals much better than Sting. Less poppy than the original.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | March 21, 2021 3:42 AM |
[quote] King of Pain by Alanis Morisette.
I prefer Alanis' cover of "My Humps."
by Anonymous | reply 379 | March 21, 2021 3:49 AM |
Wherever I lay my hat (That’s my Home). Paul Young Marvin Gaye’s original is jaunty and fun, but Young’s version is more how you would expect Gaye to ding the song.
by Anonymous | reply 380 | March 21, 2021 3:49 AM |
Blonde Twink Nipple Flash....2:27 mark....You're welcome...
by Anonymous | reply 382 | March 21, 2021 5:47 AM |
r96 I also like this version of Jolene from Goth-Pop group Strawberry Switchblade.
by Anonymous | reply 383 | March 21, 2021 5:54 AM |
This ....Must have been Love......A slow romantic version.....
by Anonymous | reply 384 | March 21, 2021 6:01 AM |
R378 Interesting. Thanks!
by Anonymous | reply 385 | March 21, 2021 10:48 PM |
Every time I see this I want to slap the OP.
by Anonymous | reply 387 | March 24, 2021 10:47 PM |
George Benson - The Other Side of Abbey Road
This entire album is astonishing from start to finish.
by Anonymous | reply 388 | March 24, 2021 10:49 PM |
R379
That video is more transcendental than anything Sting ever attempted.
by Anonymous | reply 391 | March 25, 2021 5:15 AM |
Nirvana does Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World"
by Anonymous | reply 392 | March 25, 2021 7:01 AM |
[quote][R150], weren't they the original artists?
You seriously thought Creedence Clearwater Revival made the original version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"?
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. The first recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys Knight & the Pips and released as a single in September 1967. It went to number one on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single to date.
The Miracles were the first to record the song in 1966, but their version wasn't released until August 1968 when it was included on their album Special Occasion.
The Marvin Gaye version was the second to be recorded, in the beginning of 1967, but only the third to be released. It was placed on his 1968 album In the Groove, a year and a half later, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys, and Motown founder Berry Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single in October 1968, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969 and overtook the Gladys Knight & the Pips' version of being the biggest hit single on the Motown label (Tamla).
The Gaye recording has since become an acclaimed soul classic.
In 1998 the song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In 2004, it was placed 81 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. And on the commemorative fortieth anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008, Marvin Gaye's "Grapevine" was ranked sixty-fifth.
In addition to being released several times by Motown artists, the song has been recorded by a range of musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival, who made an eleven-minute interpretation for their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory."
by Anonymous | reply 393 | March 26, 2021 12:35 AM |
Queens of the Stone Age do Romeo Void's "Never Say Never" (I might like you better if we slept together).
by Anonymous | reply 394 | April 6, 2021 2:41 AM |
The Slits version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine is my favorite.
by Anonymous | reply 395 | April 7, 2021 9:17 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 396 | April 26, 2021 6:51 PM |
The Cure's "Friday I'm in Love" ... Spencer's in love with Alistair on Glee.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | April 27, 2021 1:03 AM |
Couple of British boys do Martha and the Vandellas.
God, Mick Jagger has a large mouth.. lol
by Anonymous | reply 400 | April 30, 2021 6:50 AM |
“Reach out, I’ll be there” - what was left of Sweet with Paul Mario Day of Iron Maiden on vocals.
by Anonymous | reply 401 | May 6, 2021 11:13 PM |
“Reach out, I’ll be there” - what was left of Sweet with Paul Mario Day of Iron Maiden on lead vocals.
by Anonymous | reply 402 | May 7, 2021 12:43 AM |
Culture Club’s cover of David Bowie’s ‘Starman’
by Anonymous | reply 404 | June 19, 2021 1:39 PM |
Here's one that's cool, a little bizarre, and certainly a different arrangement.
Peggy Lee does Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People"
Sly's version came out November 1968; Peggy did this May 1969.
by Anonymous | reply 406 | July 27, 2021 6:44 AM |
Peter Gabriel’s cover of ‘The Book of Love’, originally written and performed by the gay singer-songwriter, Stephen Merritt
by Anonymous | reply 407 | July 27, 2021 7:18 AM |
^ StephIn
by Anonymous | reply 408 | July 27, 2021 7:19 AM |
Garbage & Screaming Females do "Because The Night"
by Anonymous | reply 409 | July 28, 2021 9:37 AM |
R.E.M. does The Troggs' "Love is All Around Me"
by Anonymous | reply 412 | August 5, 2021 5:46 AM |
Phil Everly's version of "The Air I Breathe", which was released in between the original version, written and sung by Albert Hammond, and the more famous version released by The Hollies.
Everly's version was produced by Duane Eddy, arranged by Warren Zevon, and had James Burton on guitar. It's said to be the version that inspired The Hollies to record the song.
by Anonymous | reply 414 | August 15, 2021 8:53 PM |
French chanteuse Imany’s rendition, with 8 cellos, of this Madge classic does take it to a whole different level
by Anonymous | reply 417 | September 20, 2021 2:39 PM |
George Michael's cover of Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me
by Anonymous | reply 419 | December 1, 2021 3:12 AM |
Siouxsie and the Banshees doing Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire" - Top of the Pops - 1987
by Anonymous | reply 420 | December 2, 2021 6:12 AM |
Teenage Michael Jackson did a decent job on the original, but it's a great song that was crying out for an interpretation by an actual adult who had some clue as to what the song was about. Chaka tore it up and made the MJ version seem like a corny novelty.
by Anonymous | reply 423 | February 3, 2022 10:05 PM |
R225 Another cover of that cover is Zebrahead's version of "Mickey" - which took Basil's version, yet left lyrics as she sang them, so it's actually a guy singing about another guy.
I always thought it would be fun to see a version of Basil's video with a male cheerleader singing about his downlow relationship with the closeted captain of the football team ..lol.
It's quite a bit faster with more of a pop punk spin.
by Anonymous | reply 424 | February 7, 2022 2:14 AM |
Cyndi's Prince cover should have been a hit:
by Anonymous | reply 425 | February 7, 2022 3:16 AM |
Did Laura Branigan ever say no to covering someone else's hit?
by Anonymous | reply 427 | February 7, 2022 3:23 AM |
George Harrison did a cute version of the old Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly duet, "True Love"
by Anonymous | reply 429 | February 7, 2022 3:51 AM |
Pretenders' cover of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young."
by Anonymous | reply 432 | February 7, 2022 6:11 AM |
Pet Shop Boys "It's A Sin" done by Elton and Years & Years (Olly Alexander).
by Anonymous | reply 433 | February 12, 2022 12:00 AM |
Dolores O’Riordan covering Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way. I get goosebumps listening to this.
by Anonymous | reply 434 | April 24, 2022 3:07 AM |
Carly Simon & James Taylor do Inez & Charlie Foxx's rendering of "Mockingbird"
by Anonymous | reply 437 | June 28, 2022 8:58 AM |
Aretha Franklin's Bridge Over Troubled Water
Ry Cooder's cover of Johnny Cash's Get Rhythm
by Anonymous | reply 439 | June 28, 2022 10:18 AM |
Nillson's cover of Badfinger's "Without You". Don't even get me started on Mariah Carey's version. Blech!
by Anonymous | reply 440 | June 28, 2022 11:46 AM |
swipe your nose like a credit card on Steve & Eydie singing Black Hole Sun
by Anonymous | reply 450 | January 5, 2023 6:27 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 453 | February 28, 2023 12:38 AM |