Rock songs covered by non rock artists

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probably a better question than this sorry.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 20 November 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

undisputed truth - down by the river (neil young)

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 20 November 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

apollo 440- dont fear the reaper
ada- maps

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 20 November 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to cite my own loungecore cover of 'Orgasm Addict' by The Buzzcocks, except that it will open the floodgates for mentions of The Mike Flowers Pops and Tony Bennett and all the rest.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 20 November 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

doh!

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 20 November 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

can i add that loungecore versions are not acceptable (for this thread only)

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 20 November 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

nor are versions of smalls like teen spirit which display sensitivity

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 20 November 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Gil Evans was the first jazz artist I heard who really seemed to understand rock. His all-Hendrix album is supposed to be disappointing, although I haven't heard it. But the later Hendrix covers (and overall use of rock elements in an electric orchestra) are often damn good, like on THERE COMES A TIME. Cassandra Wilson has done good covers of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan songs. The best thing I've heard lately is NOT THE SAME, by the Benny Lasker Trio. Centered around keyboards: usually acoustic piano, but with fills punched in, played on vintage electrics like Hohner pianet, etc; kinda like Chick Corea or Larry Young, when they played with late 60s/early 70s Miles Davis. The bass and drums are really versatile and as out-front as the keyboards, without things ever seeming crowded. They mix Mingus and Monk with Jimi's "IF 6 Was Nine", and Nick Drake's "Riverman," and even Lena's "99 Luftballoons," which sounds great!

― don, Saturday, 20 November 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That should be the Benny Lackner Trio. I should know, Benny is my piano teacher. Agree with the description, though. Everyone should check 'em out. NYers look for them at Pianos or Tonic on the LES.

― Nuria Girona, Saturday, 20 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

More jazz:

Sex Mob: House of the Rising Sun, Live and Let Die, About a Girl, Ruby Tuesday, For What it's Worth, Don't Be Cruel

Josh Roseman: Don't Be Cruel, If I Fell, Kashmir, Smells Like Teen Spirit

― todd (todd), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody should do trashy house music covers of UK punk and American hardcore songs!

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Are Moog Cookbook too obvious?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Pat Boone to thread!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Wes Montgomery - "A Day in the Life"
Herbie Hancock - "All Apologies"
Billy Preston - "Girls on Film"
Kronos Quartet - "Marquee Moon"
Gipsy Kings - "Hotel California"
Nickel Creek - "Spit on a Stranger"

I stayed away from ska covers on this list.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost: sorry for the typo: Benny *Lackner*, yeah. He's also in a jazz-rock group, Maroon, with vocalist Hillary Maroon. They mix originals (great originals on the Trio disc too) with Ellington, Dylan, Lennon, Pretenders, even "Black Hole Sun"--it all fits together (check headfullabrains.com) Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" is great, and he did a lot of other effective rock covers. SHARP DRESSED MEN is a Z Z tribute album; country artists, mostly good (so much "mainstream country" is now based on Skynyrd and Top, it damn well better be good)

― don, Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Do The Ex Lion Tamers count?

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 20 November 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Jazz artists who cover Radiohead to ~~hell~~ thread!

I dimly remember a review of some orchestral work based on Bruce Springsteen tunes. The reviewer was not kind.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 20 November 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

So obvious: Run DMC - Walk this Way (Aerosmith)

― alex-w, Saturday, 20 November 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Nina Simone sang quite a few Bob Dylan songs.

Miles Davis did his own version of David Crosby's "Guinnevere" and Cindi Lauper's "Time After Time".

I'd like to hear that Kronus Quartet "Marquee Moon", I didn't know they had played that one.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 21 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It's on the Rubaiyat Elektra-covers-Elektra thingo.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 21 November 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to cite my own loungecore cover of 'Orgasm Addict' by The Buzzcocks, except that it will open the floodgates for mentions of The Mike Flowers Pops and Tony Bennett and all the rest.

-- Momus (nic...), November 20th, 2004.

funny, nick... i was gonna name your buzzcocks cover myself. also, Adult.'s cover of Dirtbombs' "Pray for Pills"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Sunday, 21 November 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Will the Thrill Shatner--"Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

― harmony money, Sunday, 21 November 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Britney Spears - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/I Love Rock n' Roll

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 21 November 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, Drew.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The other day while driving and changing radio stations I came across a chamber ensemble playing "Paint It Black" to which I might add sounded fricken incredible.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Stairway to Heaven -- Dolly Parton

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dixie Chicks - Landslide
Garth Brooks - Fever (originally by Aerosmith)
Mandy Moore - That one whole album

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Millie Jackson covers Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me."

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

in what world is "landslide" rock?

― todd swiss (eliti), Sunday, 21 November 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Fleetwood Mac not a rock band?

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Sunday, 21 November 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

George Benson covered the entire Abbey Road album.

― Steve Beans, Sunday, 21 November 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the orb did "no fun" on a peel session somewhere. it sucked.
herbie mann covered the beatles' "flying" on Stone Flute LP, but the original's not that rockin to begin with (tho the fab4 certainly count as a "rock" band")
barbi and the kens may best qualify as a rock band, i guess, but are thrown in here by me to celebrate Drew's desire for raunchy electro covers of garage punk - their cover of "i'm not your stepping stone" is ultra sleazy!

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 21 November 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Mountain: "Baby I Love Your Way"
UB40: "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You"

There's also an Europop cover of Kiss's "I Was Made for Loving You", but I can't remember who did it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 21 November 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, forgot an obvious one...

Soft Cell: "Tainted Love"

Frankie Goes to Hollywood weren't a rock band, but their cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" sounds quite rockish. Another Eurodance cover I just remembered was Bryan Adams' "Run to You", but I can't remember who is it by either. I think in the heyday of Europop there were a lot of dance covers of rock songs, I also remember versions of "The Power of Love" (the Laura Branigan one), "Fox on the Run", "Devil Gate Drive" (by Suzi Quatro), etc.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 21 November 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tainted Love" isn't a rock song.

Tiny Tim - Great Balls of Fire

― Den Dadaismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf... (Dada), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Boney M - Painter Man / My Friend Jack
George Benson - Along Comes Mary / Last Train to Clarksville / White Rabbit
Isley Brothers - Ohio / Machine Gun / Lay Lady Lay / Love the One You're With / Listen to the Music / Summer Breeze / Hello, It's Me

― Den Dadaismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf... (Dada), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 21 November 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Good one

Grant Green - I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Eddie Palmieri - You Never Give Me Your Money
(but he called it something else)

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 21 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I came across a chamber ensemble playing "Paint It Black"

Duhhhh...*bitchslaps self*...just about all the Kronos Quartet's repertory!

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 21 November 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Rap, hip-hop, soul, R&B, dance, disco, pop etc. are all rock. Get over it.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 November 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Non rock acts would be acts from music that existed pre rock'n'roll, i.e. jazz, classical, easy listening, big band etc.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 November 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, Philip Glass covering David Bowie would belong here.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 November 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really pleasantly surprised by Brad Meldhau's covers of Radiohead and other rock songs.

The Bad Plus, however, need to be smacked upside their heads.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I got over the Bad Plus pretty quickly once I heard the Benny Lackner Trio.Even the new album, GIVE seems too genteel and too ledfoot, except for the intentionally clownish "State Line"(,a nd maybe "Iron Man," but you already know how a piano trio version of that's gonna sound). Lackner studied with Meldau, come to think of it. Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy's ODYSSEY OF FUNK AND POPULAR MUSIC includes an outrageous winos-bumrushing-the-parade version of "Tha Bootiful PeePULL"

― don, Monday, 22 November 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

mariah carey butchered def leppards" bringing on the heartache" For revenge def leppard should do an uptempo, balls out,kick ass version of "vision of love".

― animal boy, Monday, 22 November 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i quite like that recent cover of the dead kennedy's too drunk to fuck. nouvelle vague i think

― gem (trisk), Monday, 22 November 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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