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  • fish357
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    If anyone listens, what do you think?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJpNzJiA3Gg

    Kind of liked it. Guitar sound is reminiscent of Alice In Chains.
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  • PSOVLSK
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    aiconn wrote: »
    My favorite is The Black Crowes covering Otis Redding's Hard To Handle.

    I never knew that was a cover. I love the Crowes version.
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  • xsmi
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    Luther Vandross - Superstar

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  • WLDock
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    xsmi wrote: »
    Luther Vandross - Superstar

    Simply Red- If You Don't Know Me By Now
    Those are two good ones right there. Luther really made Superstar his own. Also, there is no way a UK group was supposed to touch a Philadelphia soul track by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, but Simply Red did a great job on it.

    Funny this post about covers comes up. Just yesterday on FB I saw a video of a young group called Infinity Song cover Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams." I guess ever since the guy that went viral on TikTok riding a skateboard, drinking cranberry juice to 'Dreams,' the cut has been getting popular with the younger crowd. Great job by this young and gifted family. I guess three are siblings and the other members are distant family members.
    https://youtu.be/75WSlTJ6jM4
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  • joecoulson
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    Tool - No Quarter
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  • erniejade
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    The green manalishi Judas Priest was actually Fleetwood Mac.

    Once bitten twice shy Great White was Ian Hunter.
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    I forgot one Heart Alone was i-Ten
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  • charley96
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    Texas Flood - SRV Larry Davis original - 1958
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  • fish357
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    https://youtu.be/8Rn7YZWtZEo
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  • mhardy6647
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    Rick88 wrote: »
    Asleep At The Wheel's cover of Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. A very rare case where I like the cover even better than the original.

    The good Cdr's version was itself a cover of the original, by Charley Ryan (1955)
    https://youtu.be/e58NJU5B3v8
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  • xsmi
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    WLDock wrote: »
    xsmi wrote: »
    Luther Vandross - Superstar

    Simply Red- If You Don't Know Me By Now
    Those are two good ones right there. Luther really made Superstar his own. Also, there is no way a UK group was supposed to touch a Philadelphia soul track by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, but Simply Red did a great job on it.

    Funny this post about covers comes up. Just yesterday on FB I saw a video of a young group called Infinity Song cover Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams." I guess ever since the guy that went viral on TikTok riding a skateboard, drinking cranberry juice to 'Dreams,' the cut has been getting popular with the younger crowd. Great job by this young and gifted family. I guess three are siblings and the other members are distant family members.
    https://youtu.be/75WSlTJ6jM4

    What a beautiful way to end the song.
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  • charley96
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    Not about covers but, I just read that Charlie Baty formerly of Little Charlie and the Nightcats died back in March. Any guitar fans from the left coast who was into swing/jump blues knows who he is. Heart attack at 66. He was a total badazz of blues guitar. One of my idols. R.I.P.
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  • SIHAB
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    The Dickies are the greatest cover band of all time full stop.
    Here is one the wrote for LZ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy6D12UiCCs
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  • SIHAB
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    Unconvinced?
    They invented heavy metal but gave away the song to Black Sabbath!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c37GdAzgQo
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  • Emlyn
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    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    Disturbed "The Sound Of Silence"

    Live...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk7RVw3I8eg
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  • afterburnt
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    https://youtu.be/cLGlDQRYJ9M
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  • mhardy6647
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    Jimmy Hendrix?

    Never heard of him -- is he a Jimi Hendrix tribute guy?

    :#

    on-ish-topic:

    I won't say "best cover" but this is pretty dandy.

    https://youtu.be/r83JQ0n02f4

    as seen on Steve Simels' blog:
    http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2021/01/when-irish-eyes-etc.html

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  • marvda1
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    Dimash does Queen's The Show Must Go On.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul3kpE1qcow
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,327
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmfQRMLjmxE
    Originally Jayhawks
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  • erniejade
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxsP8ED_cM Joan Jett Cover
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  • erniejade
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    Just in case you dont know the original

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJzPLhDf3-8
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
    edited February 2021
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    gudnoyez wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/_4W7TVaFc6c
    April Wines version of King Crimsons 21st Century Schizoid Man

    When I was a young boy, and I like to rock came out, I was hooked, had to run out and get the LP, and as hard as I like to rock was, and the album title was Harder Faster, I was expecting good things, only to get home, and the album was a snooze fest for this 13 year old, I was so disappointed, it was what I would call a horrible buy at the time, it mainly collected dust till I think I gave it away..

    https://youtu.be/YlcY_enzwmI

    https://youtu.be/AKORP6ENyFw

    Great Groove, Great Hook!! This song is still underrated to this day IMO... LOVE IT... It needed a better album around it.. Nature Of The Beast was better well rounded as a whole LP IMO..

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  • afterburnt
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    I don't much like this one but I was doing a Pretenders marathon, a short one so I figured I would put this up.

    https://youtu.be/EU4QE_HIDck
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  • nooshinjohn
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    Nobody mentioned Whitney Houston and "I Will Always Love You"... Would her version of "Star-Spangled Banner" also be a cover?
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  • mhardy6647
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    I don't much like this one but I was doing a Pretenders marathon, a short one so I figured I would put this up.

    https://youtu.be/EU4QE_HIDck

    Their version of the Kinks' Stop your Sobbing was/is one for the ages.
    Chrissie was married to/shacked up with Ray Davies for, what was it?, like 45 minutes back in the olden days.

    https://youtu.be/RTVqZNObw5o

    What a tragic band, though, the Pretenders. :(

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  • BlueMDPicker
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    Laura Cox - Heart-Shaped Box
    https://youtu.be/6v-N3HJvFIg
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  • mhardy6647
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    PS @afterburnt -- I hope on your mini-Pretenders-binge you listened to Precious.
    Not a cover, but a great song. I like the live version on Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. Perhaps the best thing on that album :|
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  • afterburnt
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    PS @afterburnt -- I hope on your mini-Pretenders-binge you listened to Precious.
    Not a cover, but a great song. I like the live version on Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. Perhaps the best thing on that album :|

    I have like 5 or 6 of their rekkids (are there any more?) so that's why it was a short marathon. My typical marathons are like 20 plus albums from an artist. Precious is on their first or second album, those are my favorites.
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  • pitdogg2
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    BlueMDPicker wrote: »
    Laura Cox - Heart-Shaped Box
    https://youtu.be/6v-N3HJvFIg

    I really like this!
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  • afterburnt
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    BlueMDPicker wrote: »
    Laura Box - Heart-Shaped Cox
    https://youtu.be/6v-N3HJvFIg

    Decent.

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