FNDP: Galleries of Covers 🎨🖼💿💽📻🎧🎶

submitted by MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸 from self.WayOfTheBern

What bands do covers such that you enjoy more than one cover from that band?

Bonus if they have some twist they put into it, like switching genres from the original song.

Or, who does a one-off cover where they just nail it (and ever-after they own that song...)?

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[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Blinded By The Light

Mad World

Nothing Compares 2 U

HALLELUJAH!

Boots of Spanish Leather

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

A belated addition in honor of Senator Menendez:

I guess my race is run

[–]bucetao6969Im a guest here. Do not take my opinion as of a community member 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Great offtopic thread! Have some saidit gold slides imaginary saidit gold

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome!

You seem new. Dance parties on Friday nights have been going on for centuries of internet time, wrt the regulars of this sub & the Reddit version.

Got any cover songs you like?

[–]ageingrockstar 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I'm going to limit myself to covers by members of the "Melbourne Mafia" (musical associates of Nick Cave)

First off, a menacing cover of Billy Idol's

  • White Wedding by Rowland S. Howard, off his brilliant album Teenage Snuff Film

(alternate link if the above doesn't work)

Then two by Mick Harvey from his album Intoxicated Man that is all (English lyrics) covers of Serge Gainsbourg songs :

Next, an instrumental cover of the Greek song Mia phora thymamai (hat-tip to Caelian's Miss Piggy selection) by the Dirty Three :

Finally, a bit of a cheat. Certainly a musical associate of Nick Cave, but not from Melbourne. Nevertheless, here is PJ Harvey covering Bob Dylan's

(Hope none of the links are geoblocked; they all work from Australia)

[–]Orochiwe don't need no water let the mother[honk] burn 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Frente! - Bizarre Love Triangle (New Order cover)

Amber Asylum - Cardinal Sin (Dead Can Dance cover)

Dark Sanctuary - Summoning of the Muse (Dead Can Dance cover)

Tapping the Vein - Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos cover)

Lord Belial - The Trooper (Iron Maiden cover)

Oh, and as a bonus, a musician that does a spot-on impression of System of a Down did Britney Spears' Toxic as a SoaD song.

If System Of A Down wrote 'Toxic'

[–]stickdog 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Cake - I Will Survive

Cake - War Pigs

Cake - Mahna Mahna

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The Minibosses. This shit slaps

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Another favorite: Miss Piggy sings Never on Sunday. Hilarious imitation of Melina Mercouri from the superb 1960 movie.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

My favorite genre twist: The Muppets perform George Gershwin's Swanee with a pig oom-pah band.

Has anyone tried it with the lyrics "Vi... vek, Rama-swamy Rama-swamy, my Rama-swamy"?

H/T MAD magazine for twisting Swanee into Swami 😺

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Chico Marx's wonderful cover of Victor Herbert's Gypsy Love Song in The Cocoanuts (1929)

The video has high-quality Chico covers from ten Marxist films 🎹

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Roy Scheider and Ben Vereen sing Bye Bye Life in All That Jazz (1979). Brilliant!

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Leon Redbone -- Champagne Charlie

I've posted Champagne Charlie before, but it's one of my favorite covers. The song began as an English music hall number in 1866 and was very popular. Leon Redbone sings Blind Blake's 1932 blues version which is quite different from the original.

[–]Promyka5When in the course of human events... 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Woody Veneman -- I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Don't tell anyone, but I used to be a big Olivia Newton-John fan.

What can I say. I was young. Of course my tastes have changed a little over the years.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Your taste used to be so much better 😄

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Again, what can I say. Listening to Olivia Newton-John won't help me get through a boring day of work, or help me stay awake on the drive home.

You have to imagine it like the sonic equivalent of a Michael Bay Transformers movie. The non-stop in-your-face noise and violence becomes poetic at a certain point.

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Now I don't hardly know her

But I think I could love her

[–]prevail2020 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Love Is All Around Love her voice. This is the theme from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[–]mzyps 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

[The Minutemen] - "Dr. Wu" Steely Dan cover.

[The Minutemen] - "Green River" Creedence Clearwater Revival cover.

[The Minutemen] - "Ain't talkin' 'bout love" Van Halen cover.

RIP D. Boon.

[–]prevail2020 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

don't ever do that again