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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

Laibach: "God is God" (the original is by Juno Reactor). My friend played this to me: it's the only time I've heard a trance track covered by a metal band. In fact, it's probably the only time I've heard any instrumental electronic track being covered by any rock band.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

celtic frost - mexican radio

― brains (cerybut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

Butthole Surfers - Hurdy Gurdy Man

― don, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

Rasputina has done some prime covers. what i really want to hear someday, however, is their cover of "Baby Got Back." which they apparently have only done live, thus far.

― janni (janni), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

biz markie - bennie and the jets!

― kjfsd, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

Dolly Parton- Stairway to Heaven

― earlnash, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

where does Cabaret Voltaire cover the Beatles? I have like 100 Cabaret Voltaire records and I've never heard of this, or I have it and just never noticed it?

Their covers of the Velvet's Here She Comes Now and the Seeds No Escape are classic of their catalog, and Theme From Shaft and Touch of Evil...

My fave cover is Robert Wyatt's I'm a Believer...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Tricky has done some stange covers in his time... Noticably The Cure's "Lovecats".

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

Big Black's version of James Brown's "The Payback."

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

us maple covering dion's "the wanderer".

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

Supersuckers are issuing a cover of Hey Ya

― Brando_T., Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

Jawbox - "Cornflake Girl"

― jaymatter, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

I really would like to see the Pixies making a cover of Hey Ya.

― Elvis is Dead, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

Will Oldham - "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina"

― cws (cws), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:20 (twenty years ago) link

I heard the Paul Young "Love Will Tear Us Apart" yesterday ... downloaded it from slsk ... WHAT AN ABOMINATION.

I had to tell somebody.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

weird covers. joy division. grace jones. she's lost control. 8 minutes 12 seconds. it it amazing.

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 9 April 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

I recorded this cover of gay bar by the electric 6 last night for a laugh.

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/gaybarcover.mp3

It's pretty weird.

― papa november (papa november), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link

nice : )

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Kronos Quartet - "Purple Haze," "Marquee Moon" (the latter from Elektra's 'Rubaiyat' 40th anniversary album, a treasure trove of great/offbeat covers)

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 8 November 2004 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link

where does Cabaret Voltaire cover the Beatles? I have like 100 Cabaret Voltaire records and I've never heard of this, or I have it and just never noticed it? - Dan Selzer

Sorry for not answering you months ago, Dan!

If you still care, "She Loved You" is on cabaret Voltaire 1974-1976. It's nearly 9 minutes long, slower than death, and features an extremely creepy, near-inaudible whisper of a "vocal".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

Just gettin' it all kinds of wrong in more than one case here.

― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Thursday, 16 August 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link

good picks, a lot of them new to me! glass candy's cover of "rise", wow, that's a nice one. nothing coming to mind right now - maja ratkje doing prince's "solo"? but that's a weird one to start with. how about dead horse's version of "rock lobster"?

― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 August 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link

four years pass...

Somehow my wife found this 2007 comp on Tidal… it features the likes of Luna doing Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up,” and Superchunk doing “Say My Name” (seems like peak something-or-other)!

― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Thursday, 20 April 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link

Peak Gen X sell-out shaming

― Josefa, Thursday, 20 April 2023 01:54 (one year ago) link

Jim O’Rourke’s take on a Spice Girls song is pretty good…

― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Thursday, 20 April 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OrLR8J-1bA

Intense!

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:44 (one month ago) link

Intensely "unavailable"(?)

― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:16 (one month ago) link

Staple Singers covering Talking Heads. I heard this for the first time today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S656JfwjPk

― bbq, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:41 (one month ago) link

^^^ secret weapon when I used to dj.

― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 02:19 (one month ago) link

Intensely "unavailable"(?)

― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:16 (nine hours ago) link

Oops. The link was to a beautiful, intense and odd reading of "Moonlight Sonata" by Glenn Miller. Also here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK5BBl7VE6A

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 10:06 (one month ago) link

I'll just play this in the opposite direction cos I think the better known version is a much changed cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF64tTw9nDE
is Jerry Lee Lewis's original.

The MC5 picked it up from this cover which does show traces of the original and revved it up further
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_-B-83Lb0

― Stevo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 10:43 (one month ago) link

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