Cover Versions

[emmelinemay]

There are few truly excellent cover versions. They're probably rarer than really good sequels.

But here are a few that I think are bordering on genius, and possibly actually better than the originals.

Elvis Costello covering Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful'

Snake River Conspiracy covering The Cure's 'Lovesong'¹

Queen Adreena covering Dolly Parton's 'Jolene'

The Futureheads covering Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love'

Apologies for the you tube links, but I can't give you links to MP3s for the following reasons:

a - I don't know how

b - I only own the last one linked to there

c - that's technically illegal, right?

If anyone can rectify this by sending me directions on how to legally obtain MP3s of the first 3, that'd be awesome. I've only ever heard 2 and 3 in clubs, and I only heard the Elvis Costello one about 5 minutes ago for the first time.

Do you have any favorite cover versions?² Or any contenders for the *worst* cover of all time?

[1] - SRC's cover of how soon is now is also pretty awesome
[2] - and can you link to somewhere I could listen to it?.

Comments

[greeba.livejournal.com]

I love that Disturbed cover too.

Have you seen Alanis Morrisette's cover of My Humps by Black Eyed Peas, complete with video? Bob showed me the Youtube the other week, it launches the ROFLcopter.

That Radio 1 Established 1967 album yielded a few good ones, like Foo Fighters doing Band on the Run by Wings and Editors doing Lullaby by The Cure.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I saw that Alanis video a while back, and had successfully removed it from my brain, until now :/