I love this version!
also I think my contribution will be Van Canto performing Fear of the Dark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyHcIHssdHA&list=PL9E5C51EC1FE14052&index=9&feature=plpp_video
gotta love how full a sound they get with it just being 5 vocalists, and a drummer.
It would have to be The Fratellis' cover of Red Headed Woman by Bruce Springsteen, they didn't cover it officially, they were recorded playing with toy instruments and sounds even better then the original
+1 Turisas
Alestorm's cover of I Am A Cider Drinker by the Wurzels
Marilyn Manson's cover of You're So Vain from the new album
Emily Browning's version of Sweet Dreams from Sucker Punch
It really is great. I was going to post kd lang's version of this too, but I was searching around for a good video of her singing it at the Vancouver Olympics.
I always thought the Streetlight Manifesto cover of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service was superior. That might be because I vehemently dislike Ben Gibbard, though. <_<
Also, I was always much more fond of Mumford and Sons' cover of Unfinished Business by White Lies.
This post is full of so much blasphemy. You shall burn heretic!
I mean, I love Mumford and Sons as much as anyone else, but White Lies are just incredible at what they do!
Okay, I'll admit that I had a certain bias towards the Mumford and Sons cover, because I heard that first. The White Lies fell kinda flat for me in comparison. <_<
Also Ben Gibbard is a god. He had to be, to marry Zooey Deschanel, however briefly.
But that's WHY I hate him. The fact that he took away my [small](albeit low)[/small] chances to woo Zooey Deschanel for even a small period of time makes him my enemy.
[small]Also the fact that he sounds so unenthusiastic and disinterested when he sings to the point where it brings down the rest of the song in Deathcab for Cutie and Postal Service and that he's setting a horrible example for indie music singers to sound so very bored and uninterested to sound "cool" but really doesn't let artists give their all and bring down an underground music scene from it's fantastic potential. [/small]
I always thought the Streetlight Manifesto cover of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service was superior. That might be because I vehemently dislike Ben Gibbard, though. <_<
Also, I was always much more fond of Mumford and Sons' cover of Unfinished Business by White Lies.
This post is full of so much blasphemy. You shall burn heretic!
I mean, I love Mumford and Sons as much as anyone else, but White Lies are just incredible at what they do!
Okay, I'll admit that I had a certain bias towards the Mumford and Sons cover, because I heard that first. The White Lies fell kinda flat for me in comparison. <_<
Also Ben Gibbard is a god. He had to be, to marry Zooey Deschanel, however briefly.
But that's WHY I hate him. The fact that he took away my [small](albeit low)[/small] chances to woo Zooey Deschanel for even a small period of time makes him my enemy.
[small]Also the fact that he sounds so unenthusiastic and disinterested when he sings to the point where it brings down the rest of the song in Deathcab for Cutie and Postal Service and that he's setting a horrible example for indie music singers to sound so very bored and uninterested to sound "cool" but really doesn't let artists give their all and bring down an underground music scene from it's fantastic potential. [/small]
I'm just a massive White Lies fan to be fair, mostly down to their lead singer's own talents as a singer. Also having seen them live 3 times, I can assure you that they are <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBMeb1sWGiQ>brilliant live.
I find Ben Gibbard's style of singing polarising actually. As a sort of a melancholy, disconnected sound it works really well on their good tracks, such as 'I Will Possess Your Heart' or 'You Are A Tourist', but I also find it really dull on a lot of their other stuff.
But hey, him and Zooey are divorced now. So that's something, I guess?
Johnny Cash's version of Hurt is a work of sublime beauty that needs to be heard by every single person in the entire world.
All Along the Watchtower is one for me. Hendrix's version is better than Dylan's, and I'm very sorry for saying it.
A lot of Aerosmith's covers off the Honking On Bobo album I think are, while maybe not 'better', certainly very very good versions of the original blues numbers.
The Black Crowes version of Hard to Handle I prefer to the original, Tom Petty's version of Oh Well.
Also, and this is the one people are likely to scoff at me for, I do prefer some of the songs that Glee does over the originals. Probably the most obvious one I can think of is Rolling in the Deep. Just better than Adele.
I don't like Nirvana very much, but it doesn't take a musical genius to see that David Bowie should have made "The Man Who Sold the World" more melancholy. It's brilliant.
For some reason, I've always preferred the bluegrass version of Gin and Juice. It's pretty rare for me to prefer country over hip-hop... I usually detest both.
Always drink your juice from a Gourd.
Not a goddamn PHISH.
Smoke Two Joints by the Toyes has been covered a few times, and most attribute the song to Sublime (ah, such lovely ignorance)... but my Favorite version of it is by Richard Cheese.
seriously, Lounge Against the Machine actually put it to some good instrumentals.
Or maybe I just don't like super-slow reggae.
Now for a controversial one. Depeche Mode. I've always thought they had a great songwriter at the helm, but I absolutely cannot stand their lead singer's voice. It's probably an issue with me, but anything he sings comes out sounding like pretentious douchebaggery. So I prefer pretty much any cover of any Depeche Mode song.
These are the first two that sprang to mind
Speaking of Between the Buried and Me's cover album...
They have a tendency of taking great songs and making them even greater... and a little more metal.
Well okay, there's no way to make Sepultura more metal, but I do still prefer this cover.
Wow, that was pretty fuckin' metal, actually. Never heard Terra's theme like that before.
But if we're doing Terra's theme...
I'd be remiss not to include thisand this
...I could go on all day about OCRemix, but most of 'em are recut enough that they couldn't be considered covers. Most of my favorites incorporate multiple songs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT2LJTr_A6s].
There are also quite a few way back in the thread that I prefer... such as any punk song that Metallica turned into shock-metal on Garage, inc.
I prefer the disturbed cover of Shout by Tears for Fears, partly because I'm a metal fan but mostly because I really disliked the backing track of the original.
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