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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby JamesMuenchen » April 28th, 2021, 8:29 pm

Lootman wrote:I hesitate to suggest that anyone can do Dylan better than Dylan, but "Mister Tambourine Man by The Byrds"

You've never heard the Shatner version?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCi_-9Shhg
Worth listening right through, once.

He also does an awesome Pulp.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby AleisterCrowley » April 28th, 2021, 8:59 pm

Yep, that's my fave version of Common People - and I'm not being 'ironic'. It's got Joe Jackson on it as well

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby JamesMuenchen » April 29th, 2021, 9:56 am

Johnny Cash already got a mention for Hurt, but I love his cover of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYW3qng78E

And at the other end of the scale, how about an uplifting Norwegian electropop version of Metallica's Fade To Black?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kr2VAWlJUs
(edit: think it's also a mash-up with New Year's Day?)

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby redsturgeon » April 29th, 2021, 10:32 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwKp6QhIvE

America by First Aid Kit.

You need to watch the video which is them singing live with Paul Simon in the audience. Very touching.

Trivia point, this song shows that if you are no good at rhyming (The Goes Rhymin' Simon) it should not prevent you from writing a classic. :D

John

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby servodude » April 29th, 2021, 10:36 am

redsturgeon wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwKp6QhIvE

America by First Aid Kit.

You need to watch the video which is them singing live with Paul Simon in the audience. Very touching.

Trivia point, this song shows that if you are no good at rhyming (The Goes Rhymin' Simon) it should prevent you from writing a classic. :D

John


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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby Mike4 » April 29th, 2021, 10:55 am

I'm surprised no-one has posted the most stand-out example of a cover WAY better than the original...

My Way, by Sid Vicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_al ... LuisAsenjo

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby redsturgeon » April 29th, 2021, 11:01 am

Mike4 wrote:I'm surprised no-one has posted the most stand-out example of a cover WAY better than the original...

My Way, by Sid Vicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_al ... LuisAsenjo



Who even sang the original "My Way" or "Comme D'habitude"

John

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby moorfield » May 8th, 2021, 12:15 am

Suspicious Minds. Fine Young Cannibals.
Always On My Mind. Pet Shop Boys.

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby sloth » May 8th, 2021, 2:29 am

Here's an excellent version of John Prine's Angel From Montgomery by Bonnie Raitt and Ruthie Foster:

https://youtu.be/HnCX5OvBfD8?t=23

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby monabri » May 8th, 2021, 9:13 am

"Walk on by" by The Stranglers.

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby JamesMuenchen » May 26th, 2021, 2:55 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzL5fYyptdI

Gimme Shelter all done on a guitar and loop pedal.

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby servodude » May 27th, 2021, 11:43 am

JamesMuenchen wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzL5fYyptdI

Gimme Shelter all done on a guitar and loop pedal.


That was almost pornographic
I love Dues'y gear ( Starplayers especially - and I've fitted one of their Les Trems on one of my guitars)
But I thought after seeing that I'd have to sell the Gretsch.... or one of the kids... but it turns out they're not real gold foil pickups - just covers on their usual pups
- that's cheeky!
- still sounded awesome though

-sd

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby nmdhqbc » April 27th, 2022, 9:21 pm

dolly & kenny - islands in the stream

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby RockRabbit » April 27th, 2022, 10:01 pm

Thunderstruck (AC/DC) covered by Steve'n'Seagulls (if you like Finnish Hillbillies :))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby CliffEdge » April 27th, 2022, 10:52 pm

Sorcery wrote:
bungeejumper wrote:
Mike4 wrote:
Sorcery wrote:Got to admit I am a Paschelbel fan, such a simple tune yet amazing how long it was written (440 years ago). This is a more modern orchestral version that goes on for 2 hours and never gets boring : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRgl-2EOyTI

Never gets boring? I've had it on for 20 minutes and it feels just like waiting to get through to BT!

We cellists have a special place in hell for Pachelbel. The same bloody eight notes, over and over and over and over again, while everybody else gets a go at the variations. Two hours of that, and we'd be like Gerard Hoffnung's oboeists, getting quietly sozzled while nobody noticed.

BJ


Ok Ok I get it. As a bit of background while trying to find a deep bug in C code that you just know is going to cause you have to write x * 100 printf statements in a dozen different sourcefiles to have a chance of working out what is going wrong and then delete them all once you find the bug, it's pretty good temper moderating stuff.
Only 8 notes for the Cello? Have you thought of writing a variation for the cellists? ;)

Never heard of assert?

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby monabri » April 27th, 2022, 11:19 pm

Hazy Shade of Winter ( Gerard Way...My Chemical Romance, The Umbrella Academy).

https://youtu.be/l2cXXdCIClI

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby servodude » April 27th, 2022, 11:20 pm

CliffEdge wrote:
Sorcery wrote:
bungeejumper wrote:
Mike4 wrote:
Sorcery wrote:Got to admit I am a Paschelbel fan, such a simple tune yet amazing how long it was written (440 years ago). This is a more modern orchestral version that goes on for 2 hours and never gets boring : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRgl-2EOyTI

Never gets boring? I've had it on for 20 minutes and it feels just like waiting to get through to BT!

We cellists have a special place in hell for Pachelbel. The same bloody eight notes, over and over and over and over again, while everybody else gets a go at the variations. Two hours of that, and we'd be like Gerard Hoffnung's oboeists, getting quietly sozzled while nobody noticed.

BJ


Ok Ok I get it. As a bit of background while trying to find a deep bug in C code that you just know is going to cause you have to write x * 100 printf statements in a dozen different sourcefiles to have a chance of working out what is going wrong and then delete them all once you find the bug, it's pretty good temper moderating stuff.
Only 8 notes for the Cello? Have you thought of writing a variation for the cellists? ;)

Never heard of assert?


Here's one of those weird bits of coincidence; thread necromancy relating to a discussion I was having with a junior colleague yesterday (lovely Iranian lass who's not long out of her EE PhD)
Understandibly given programming isn't a core discipline of Electronics Engineering they skip a lot of the stuff that I'd consider essential in the real world "asserts" being one of those things...
- that said I've known plenty of "professional" programmers who are frightened to check stuff because "it works" :roll:

Anyways here's a bit of fun I picked up a long time ago for when your compiler doesn't have static asserts

Code: Select all

#define _STR_CAT(a, b) a##b
#define _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, line, file) \
    typedef char _STR_CAT(assertion_failed_##file##_, line)[(2 * !!(predicate)) - 1];
#define STATIC_ASSERT(predicate, file) _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, __LINE__, file)

- yes... it's using the predicate failing to crash the compiler by defining an array of length -1
- can't fail faster than before it's been run

and to bring it round on topic:
Nathaniel Murphy's Crazy Arrangement of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BJ6Qficleo
- which wasn't posted when this thread was first doing the rounds

- sd

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby monabri » April 27th, 2022, 11:23 pm

Mike4 wrote:I'm surprised no-one has posted the most stand-out example of a cover WAY better than the original...

My Way, by Sid Vicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_al ... LuisAsenjo


I was just going to suggest this but by The Sex Pistols.

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby Sorcery » April 28th, 2022, 3:58 pm

servodude wrote:
CliffEdge wrote:
Sorcery wrote:
bungeejumper wrote:
Mike4 wrote:Never gets boring? I've had it on for 20 minutes and it feels just like waiting to get through to BT!

We cellists have a special place in hell for Pachelbel. The same bloody eight notes, over and over and over and over again, while everybody else gets a go at the variations. Two hours of that, and we'd be like Gerard Hoffnung's oboeists, getting quietly sozzled while nobody noticed.

BJ


Ok Ok I get it. As a bit of background while trying to find a deep bug in C code that you just know is going to cause you have to write x * 100 printf statements in a dozen different sourcefiles to have a chance of working out what is going wrong and then delete them all once you find the bug, it's pretty good temper moderating stuff.
Only 8 notes for the Cello? Have you thought of writing a variation for the cellists? ;)

Never heard of assert?


Here's one of those weird bits of coincidence; thread necromancy relating to a discussion I was having with a junior colleague yesterday (lovely Iranian lass who's not long out of her EE PhD)
Understandibly given programming isn't a core discipline of Electronics Engineering they skip a lot of the stuff that I'd consider essential in the real world "asserts" being one of those things...
- that said I've known plenty of "professional" programmers who are frightened to check stuff because "it works" :roll:

Anyways here's a bit of fun I picked up a long time ago for when your compiler doesn't have static asserts

Code: Select all

#define _STR_CAT(a, b) a##b
#define _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, line, file) \
    typedef char _STR_CAT(assertion_failed_##file##_, line)[(2 * !!(predicate)) - 1];
#define STATIC_ASSERT(predicate, file) _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, __LINE__, file)

- yes... it's using the predicate failing to crash the compiler by defining an array of length -1
- can't fail faster than before it's been run

and to bring it round on topic:
Nathaniel Murphy's Crazy Arrangement of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BJ6Qficleo
- which wasn't posted when this thread was first doing the rounds

- sd


And in another bit of necromancy, I had never seen the reply to my comment by CliffEdge "Never heard of assert?", until now. The answer is no, I haven't, I will rectify that :-) Looks like I will need some simple examples going by sd' s snippet.

On-topic, the Byrds version of Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man.

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Re: Cover versions better than the originals

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Postby pje16 » April 28th, 2022, 4:01 pm

MrFoolish wrote:1. Born to run - Frankie goes to Hollywood

Really :roll:


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