[Music] 10 years of Cover versions that absolutely SPANK the originals .......... over to you

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Icy Gull]

The original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYKOtKkY3I

The version that absolutely SPANKS it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUV-QxwlRM

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Any one of those winsome lasses that covers a Robbie Williams song

 

[pearl]

Well fecking Sam Smith and I Feel Love is not one of them!

I heard a great cover of that recently, but unfortunately I have no idea who they are.

sounded like a female vocals and very instrumental

 

[studio150]

 

[pearl]

Ken Boothe - Speak Softly Love
https://youtu.be/r_2yI1Ys41U

Ken Boothe - Everything I Own
https://youtu.be/5aKCKssaLQ8

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just been radio channel hopping and stumbled across Running Up That Hill by Placebo. On KERRANG! of all places. Just seems that much more multi-layered and impressively depressive than the shrill Kate Bush original. It's a clear YES from me, Jeff

 

[pearl]

Just been radio channel hopping and stumbled across Running Up That Hill by Placebo. On KERRANG! of all places. Just seems that much more multi-layered and impressively depressive than the shrill Kate Bush original. It's a clear YES from me, Jeff

You want it darker?

Mad World covered by Jasmine Thompson, no idea who she is but this is blissfully bleak
https://youtu.be/ENJUB5thpB4


and one of my favorites .... Rage Against The Machine doing Maggie's Farm
https://youtu.be/mmceSj07_fs

 

[studio150]

 

[METALMICKY]

Going off at a slight tangent here's an example of a band performing a totally different version of a previous song. In this instance the ' spanking' is spectacular since the original version was an abomination from the abomination of an album that was St Anger.

 

[Binney on acid]

Rolf Harris - Stairway to heaven.

 

[Is it PotG?]

KTF

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[pearl]

Going off at a slight tangent here's an example of a band performing a totally different version of a previous song. In this instance the ' spanking' is spectacular since the original version was an abomination from the abomination of an album that was St Anger.

This thread is making me a fan of Metallica!

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Far better than the Wall Of Voodoo original

Wall of Voodoo have a very special place in my heart.
I see nothing in this version to imply it spanks the original... but glad to see someone covering a WoV song.
For a long while they had pretty much disappeared from view.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I shot the sheriff/ Marley, Clapton

 

[Mr Putdown]

Disturbed - Sound of Silence

 

[Barrow Boy]

Johnny Winter with a storming version of Jumpin' Jack Flash. I remember watching this when it was first broadcast in 1974 on The Old Grey Whistle Test, still sounds good today.

 

[Pintos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-l-c3rTlnE

 

[METALMICKY]

This thread is making me a fan of Metallica!

Well that's a good thing. Ignore the term thrash when applied to them. They are so much better than that. For your introduction may I suggest :

The Black Album (Metallica) - The best introduction by means of their most commercial album. It's in the top 20 selling albums of all time for a good reason.

Master of Puppets - Old school Metallica that's a little heavier but with a title track that is a metal classic.

Load - The album that took up a more bluesy guitar tone and they got their hair cut!

S&M1 - A brilliant collaboration with the San Francisco symphony orchestra that put a whole new spin on some of their classic tracks.

Avoid at all costs St Anger! The worst album ever by one of the world's biggest bands. An abomination borne of addiction recovery and navel gazing psycho babble therapy.