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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:01:53 GMT
These are some of my favourite cover songs. They are great songs in their own right, but some gain a new lease of life by being covered by someone else, and sometimes, the cover is better than the original.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:03:50 GMT
Hendrix doing All Along The Watchtower. For years I thought it was a Hendrix song. It's from an early Dylan album, can't remember which one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:05:30 GMT
Wings' original is still pretty good but I love this version. Also love G'n'R's other great cover "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:10:10 GMT
There's 2 or 3 covers that Johnny Cash did on his "American Recordings" series of albums that I love. In an interview I saw, Tom Petty said he preferred Cash's version of "I Won't Back Down" to his own! My favourite is "Desperado", with Henley on backing vocals.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:15:51 GMT
Most people know and love Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and rightly so, but I think k.d. Lang's version is every bit as good, so I've included hers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:17:28 GMT
Soft Cell's brilliant cover of'Tainted Love', the first time I realised that a cover could be better than the original.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:22:24 GMT
Chris Rea's original is good, but Elkie Brooks's vocals brings a world-weary sadness that a young Rea can't manage.
The original is from his first album "Whatever Happened to Benny Santini" which is a reference to his record company trying to push his Italian heritage by renaming him Benny Santini! Of course he was having none of it - hence the cheeky title of the album.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:28:40 GMT
I've got Trent Reznor's original of 'Hurt' from the album 'The Downward Spiral', but Cash's version is completely stunning.
His wife was ill in the video and died a short while later. Cash himself, as it's plain to see, was very ill, and at the end of his life. His voice in places is weak and cracking, and it just somehow sounds all the better for it. This is a man who knew he was dying. He passed away a few months later.
The video is brilliant, full of imagery concerning life and death, growing old etc. This is one of my very favourite songs. And videos.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 21:32:21 GMT
After starting with Hendrix doing a cover, I'm going to finish with Sting doing a cover of a Hendrix song, the gorgeous 'Little Wing'.
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