Music: Great Cover Versions

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Can't believe no one has mentioned Marlilyn Manson performing Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics

 
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Careface

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Only song i can play fully on the guitar Gink :p

To stay on topic;

Kate bush - Rocket man (Elton John)

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Not a cover but i cant get this fucking song out of me head.

WE DIDNT START THE FIRE
 
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Hom said:
The house of the rising sun: (Original was bob dylan I think?)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gDwK-Zir8 .... re=related I love joan baez, such a brilliant version
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It's a classic folksong, and the Joan Baez versions beats Dylan's recording by 2 years. :hi:

Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of "The House of the Rising Sun" is uncertain. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the Unfortunate Rake of the 18th century which were taken to America by early settlers. Many of these had the theme of "if only" and after a period of evolution, they emerge as American songs like "Streets of Laredo". The tradition of the blues combined with these in which the telling of a sad story has a therapeutic effect.

The oldest known existing recording is by versatile Smoky Mountain artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster and was made in 1933. Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Alger "Texas" Alexander's The Risin' Sun, which was recorded in 1928, is sometimes mentioned as the first recording, but this is a completely different song. The Callahan Brothers recorded the song in 1934.

The song might have been lost to posterity had it not been collected by folklorist Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father were curators of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress from 1932. They searched the country for songs. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesborough, Kentucky in the house of someone called Tilman Cable. On 15 Sept 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16 year-old daughter of a miner. He called it The Risin' Sun Blues. Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin. Lomax in his seminal 1941 songbook, Our Singing Country credited the lyrics to Georgia Turner, with reference to Bert Martin's version. The melody bears similarities to a traditional English ballad, Matty Groves [1][2].

Roy Acuff, who recorded the song commercially on November 3, 1938, may have learned the song from Clarence Ashley with whom he sometimes performed. In 1941, Woody Guthrie recorded a version. In late 1948 Lead Belly recorded a version called "In New Orleans" in the sessions that later became the album Lead Belly's Last Sessions (1994, Smithsonian Folkways). In 1957 Glenn Yarbrough recorded the song for Elektra Records. The song is also credited to Ronnie Gilbert on one of the old Weavers albums with Pete Seeger that was released in the late 40's or early 50's. Joan Baez recorded it in 1960 on her premier album.
In 1962 Bob Dylan recorded the song on his first and self-titled album, Bob Dylan. Dylan claims a writer's credit for the song. In an interview on the documentary No Direction Home, Dave Van Ronk said that he was intending to record it at that time, and that Bob Dylan copied his version of the song.
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Braque said:
Hom said:
The house of the rising sun: (Original was bob dylan I think?)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gDwK-Zir8 .... re=related I love joan baez, such a brilliant version
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It's a classic folksong, and the Joan Baez versions beats Dylan's recording by 2 years. :hi:

Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of "The House of the Rising Sun" is uncertain. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the Unfortunate Rake of the 18th century which were taken to America by early settlers. Many of these had the theme of "if only" and after a period of evolution, they emerge as American songs like "Streets of Laredo". The tradition of the blues combined with these in which the telling of a sad story has a therapeutic effect.

The oldest known existing recording is by versatile Smoky Mountain artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster and was made in 1933. Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Alger "Texas" Alexander's The Risin' Sun, which was recorded in 1928, is sometimes mentioned as the first recording, but this is a completely different song. The Callahan Brothers recorded the song in 1934.

The song might have been lost to posterity had it not been collected by folklorist Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father were curators of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress from 1932. They searched the country for songs. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesborough, Kentucky in the house of someone called Tilman Cable. On 15 Sept 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16 year-old daughter of a miner. He called it The Risin' Sun Blues. Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin. Lomax in his seminal 1941 songbook, Our Singing Country credited the lyrics to Georgia Turner, with reference to Bert Martin's version. The melody bears similarities to a traditional English ballad, Matty Groves [1][2].

Roy Acuff, who recorded the song commercially on November 3, 1938, may have learned the song from Clarence Ashley with whom he sometimes performed. In 1941, Woody Guthrie recorded a version. In late 1948 Lead Belly recorded a version called "In New Orleans" in the sessions that later became the album Lead Belly's Last Sessions (1994, Smithsonian Folkways). In 1957 Glenn Yarbrough recorded the song for Elektra Records. The song is also credited to Ronnie Gilbert on one of the old Weavers albums with Pete Seeger that was released in the late 40's or early 50's. Joan Baez recorded it in 1960 on her premier album.
In 1962 Bob Dylan recorded the song on his first and self-titled album, Bob Dylan. Dylan claims a writer's credit for the song. In an interview on the documentary No Direction Home, Dave Van Ronk said that he was intending to record it at that time, and that Bob Dylan copied his version of the song.
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Good stuff, I knew it was written before dylan / baez covered it but thought he did the first recorded version (Since it was the first I heard). Nice to see how they all covered it though. The animals version is the best still though
 
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Corey Taylor from Stone Sour performing Wicked Game by Chris Isaak (Possibly one of the most best make-out songs ever! (The original I mean))

edit: Might as well include the HIM version of it too.
 
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[youtube:eftjhvwf]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPE2zKbORF0[/youtube:eftjhvwf]

I saw this and started to like them a little again
 
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epic bump for an epic medley

[youtube:2cxanx9s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6EYrqIn0yI[/youtube:2cxanx9s]
 
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Grace Jones does a very cool cover of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire, I didn't find it on youtube, but it's worth it to look it up ^^
 
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Careface

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[youtube:1vjej7lo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6cEnqi-epU[/youtube:1vjej7lo]

Bon Iver covering The park by Feist

Edited to link this :eek:

[youtube:1vjej7lo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW0ulJ5QCcw[/youtube:1vjej7lo]
 
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Ill stop soon

[youtube:3rm42l38]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT6TLF4Gx7Q[/youtube:3rm42l38]

Justice remixing lovestoned by the JT


[youtube:3rm42l38]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGH_E03d6W4[/youtube:3rm42l38]

Les savy fav covering debaser, best live cover i think ive ever heard
 
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Braque

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that's not Bright Eyes, this is Bright Eyes:

[youtube:162gujg4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI[/youtube:162gujg4]

:cry:
 
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