Covers Appreciate Thread

#1

Covers can get a bit of stick. But for every bad covers band or pop cash-in remake, there is at least one fantastic cover. Some ridiculous. Some sublime. My favourites all tend to be taking the original source material and going wild with it. Changing style and genre. This can even make the song “feel” different. A happy song to a sad one for example.

I could make covers lists for days and days, but I will try to keep this fairly short.

  1. Quantic Soul Orchestra - Hold It Down. Cover of 4 Hero’s track of the same name from Creating Patterns. This is one of my favourite tracks period. Three odd minutes of heaven. Alice Russell’s voice is a powerhouse and Quantic’s big band sound is peerless. The original was a killer, but this one is iller.
  1. Dub Pistols - Peaches. Cover of The Stranglers. All the swagger of the Dub Pistols on show for this. Rodney P in full flow is always a winner in my book. Wonderful live band to boot, Uncle Barry always brings the party.
  1. CUD - You Sexy Thing. Covering Hot Chocolate. I did mention ridiculous. There’s looooaads of punk covers. Many of them very good. Lots utterly terrible. But this is just perfect for me. All screaming attitude. My wife hates this track.
  1. Easy All Stars - Money. Cover of Pink Floyd. A bit like punk, reggae does a good trade in covers. It’s hard pressed to choose just one by the Easy All Stars. And an honourable mention should go to Little Roy for his incredible Battle For Seatle album. But this must just pip it for the bong at the beginning replacing the cash register

Think that should do for a start. No doubt I’ll be back for once my memory banks start firing at me and more come flooding back.

#2

I think any late 90s hardcore kidddddd has a soft spot for the OTT hardcore/v earnest emo cover version.

Shai Hulud covering ‘Linoleum’ by NOFX:

Get Up Kids covering ‘Harvest of Maturity’ by Coalesce (and changing the song title in the process)

++ videos don’t really do it justice, but every time Cap’n Jazz make a complete shambles of ‘Take on Me’

#3

@bigspoon

#4

@irritatingsteppa speaking of Terry Hall, I always loved Tricky’s “Bubbles”, which isn’t technically a cover but it’s on an album of mostly covers from an artist generally known for his liberal interpolations of other people’s songs.

#5

Still a favourite.

#6

Shai Hulud do a good job of that cover, Linoleum is one of the best songs from that era and the best song NOFX ever made.
The Get Up Kids cover of Alec Eiffel is worth a mention. It has a bit more energy than the original.


Memory is vague but I think The Get Up Kids and Coalesce both had members play with Reggie and the Full Effect.
#7

The Cybertronic Spree are a band that do covers from the soundtrack to the greatest movie ever made.

#8

Yeah James Dewees (drummer in Coalesce and keyboards in GUK) is the main man in Reggie and then various others did bits and pieces as well… on a Coalesce tip - here’s them taking Boysetsfire’s best song and making it infinitely better:

#9

@POLY I’d say 95% of that Pixies cover record outperform the originals…plus, whenever one of these songs get stuck in my head, it’s almost always the cover version…

#10

More of that smooth cake.

#11

another great cover (and possibly better than the original)