Something Completely Different

Post covers of songs nobody would expect the artist to cover. Like this one. Christopher Cross must be rolling in his grave. What's that you say? Not dead? Oh dear: I do hope I left enough airholes in the... umn, never mind. Just watch the video. Clever little story and some very sexy women too.

"Ride Like the Wind" - Saxon (heavy metal band) cover Christopher Cross (Yacht/Soft rock)

i guess you can call it a crazy cover  :D

The Green Groves of Erin / The Flowers of Red Hill
by Sinta Quartet


Inspired by the brilliant versions of this from the Bothy Band

Pat Boone covering hard rock and heavy metal is about the craziest example I can think of and he didn't just do one cover or two but an entire album's worth of hard rock and heavy metal covers!

I couldn't find a thread on "normal covers" so I opted for TH's "Crazy Covers!" which in fact is quite appropriate as both the Ronnie Laws original and the Incognito cover are remarkable in their own way.

I've always loved the Britfunk band Incognito (some will argue as to their actual genre but I've always known them as a British funky outfit from the 90s onwards). Led by Jean-Paul "Bluey" Maunick who was born in Mauritius, the band has a core of half a dozen band members but also regularly bring in session musicians for larger concerts. I reckon that Bluey knows and is known by many music greats in the latin and jazz world, he's one of those producers who is constantly working away behind the scenes, and he also plays the rhythm guitar on all their songs like a funky metronomic god.

Who doesn't remember "Always There" which featured regularly in clubs in the 90s. I almost posted this in the quintessential 90s thread such was its influence.

Incognito have just released a new album with their familiar sounds and riffs. I hope they have a CD version so I can play it loud and proud in the car: https://incognitomusic.bandcamp.com/album/into-you

Ronnie Laws - Always There (1975)

Incognito - Always There ft. Jocelyn Brown (1991)

Pere Ubu recently reinterpreted the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses."  Not only did they legitimise it, they also made it theirs.  No Youtube due to my current boycotting of them until they drop the adblocker thing. 

There's a delightfully batty compilation of oddball cover songs called, When Pigs Fly (Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear). I found the CD in a Media Play store in the 90s. I'll share two fond favorites from the album.

First up, here's the bafflingly unlikely duet of Ani DiFranco & Jackie Chan performing, "Unforgettable."


And here's my other favorite track from the same album - Don Ho doing a Pacific islander cover of Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey."

So weird! :)

Quote from: larsvsnapster on Nov 08, 2023, 02:11 AMPere Ubu recently reinterpreted the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses."  Not only did they legitimise it, they also made it theirs.  No Youtube due to my current boycotting of them until they drop the adblocker thing.

I guess they're fighting adblockers from working on YouTube? That would certainly make sense from a business perspective.

We eliminate the ads through a YouTube premium subscription.

Not the most bizarre one out there but I do remember this quite well. Its as if someone told this guy to take Oasis' Wonderwall and create a song that could be featured on an Austin Powers soundtrack or used as elevator music in a 60's themed apartment.  :laughing:

The Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall

Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 11, 2023, 10:33 AMI guess they're fighting adblockers from working on YouTube? That would certainly make sense from a business perspective.

We eliminate the ads through a YouTube premium subscription.

I'm not sure why I should do any different than I've been doing for 18 years.  Dailymotion has been throwing up "no adblockers" for some time and that's why nobody uses it. 

Quote from: larsvsnapster on Nov 11, 2023, 05:07 PMI'm not sure why I should do any different than I've been doing for 18 years.  Dailymotion has been throwing up "no adblockers" for some time and that's why nobody uses it. 

I think something like roughly a billion hours of video is watched on youtube every day, so I don't think they're at risk.

It costs money to keep those servers running. It requires enough electricity to power a sizeable country for one thing.

Every user watching something demands processing power. They might not mind so much if a few leave because they don't wanna pay to get rid of ads.

Quote from: Guybrush on Nov 11, 2023, 06:42 PMI think something like roughly a billion hours of video is watched on youtube every day, so I don't think they're at risk.

It costs money to keep those servers running. It requires enough electricity to power a sizeable country for one thing.

Every user watching something demands processing power. They might not mind so much if a few leave because they don't wanna pay to get rid of ads.

There's this thing that you have to have in retail:  loss.  Now while I can understand wanting to minimise that, there are always going to be crafty people who will get around it, especially on the internet.  You tell people to do things one way on the internet, they're going to do the opposite out of sheer spite.  I look on this as an online equivalent to that.  My boycott is centered around the idea that if that's the deal, I'll just be the ones that leave and someone will replace me as the bane of their existence, as I don't have enough patience to stare at a box of light passively for longer than about 10 minutes (I don't watch TV or movies straight through because of this -- I watch them a scene at a time, like reading a book).  I stayed off of Youtube for an entire week and the ability to watch (without the adblocker blurb intrusion) came back.  Either the backlash was that strong or zero changed in that loss measurement.  For me, the cost of the internet is the internet provider and they've already got the money.  Since that's been the only price of admission, and they can fool enough people into paying a subscription, again, why should I change?

love the Artist so would say I am biased....

Bob Dylan a Legend but this is a beaut version, full of such passion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri55qy-2kTI

https://youtu.be/6jlLBs6YawM?si=V-nuETKJc7aMxQxY   Original Song



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https://youtu.be/NQkSJiROcFY?si=SGdC65I-Ndt9lJKQ  Original Song

So such a different feel to these two...love them both though as depends on mood really..

The Who...would you believe it. :D


Original form the very old Film Wizard of Oz. 8)

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MMmm.....Nice One

Makes a change for sure...The Bee Gees they have the edge of course, if your judging

A really nice cover of Cherish the Day. Casey Benjamin (RIP) does cra-zy stuff on the sax 💪.


Their full set was at WWOZ Piano Night in New Orleans in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52Z1yMz2WY&t=318s

0:00 No Church in the Wild - Kanye West
1:27 Cherish the Day
11:02 Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead
13:26 How Much A Dollar Cost - Kendrick Lamar
15:54 Get Lucky - Daft Punk
29:58 Let It Ride
40:28 Lift Off
41:01  Never Catch Me - Flying Lotus
49:13 I Stand Alone
56:54 Lovely Day - Bill Withers
1:02:39 A Love Supreme/Afro Blue - John Coltrane
1:06:00 Ah Yeah
1:11:01 All Matter (1:17:19 is the real beginning) - Bilal

When I hear about New Orleans, I can't help thinking about one of the birth places of jazz. Or probably it was the birth place of jazz.

Faith No More - I Started a Joke

Quote from: Meatwad on Jul 11, 2024, 01:58 PMFaith No More - I Started a Joke

I think the best part about Faith No More's covers is how decidenly not crazy they are. They're subversive because they play those songs totally straight instead of doing what you'd expect from a band that sounds like they do normally.

Late, great shamboic band called The Country Teasers from Scotland who briefly had a Yankee drummer, a friend of mine, who plays on this track,did an inexplicable cover of New Order's Blue Monday:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV2Y-MqbFHE

Perhaps more enjoyable than The Residents' version? 🤔

The song itself is quite true to the original but it's crazy that it's all done by one guy.

I was reminded of this the other day; Beastie Boys and Biz Markie covering Benny and the Jets.


I love the continuous sound of the excited audience 😄

^^Benny and the Jets is a good one. Need to listen to that further.

Here is a three-piece Ludivine Issambourg / Hubert Laws / Dvorzak medley, in strict chronological order:

Ludivine Issambourg - Going Home (2020)

Hubert Laws - Going Home (1975)

Dvořák: Symphony №9, "From The New World" - II - Largo

A couple of my favorites from the Alvin Lives In Leeds anti-poll tax compilation in 1990, a selection of "classic" covers by some great British indie bands.  How can you go wrong?


And...

I like Tristan's best!  :laughing:

Quote from: costa_oscura on Feb 22, 2025, 12:37 PMA couple of my favorites from the Alvin Lives In Leeds anti-poll tax compilation in 1990, a selection of "classic" covers by some great British indie bands.  How can you go wrong?

Robyn Hitchcock is really good, his band The Soft Boys are totally underrated.

Here is one that struck me as odd but I do like it.

top level cover

^ To the extent that the Elton John has been taken out of his own song, yes, this cover is a real improvement on the original, which I always found to be a difficult fabrication to swallow:-

"I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owls
Hunting the horny back toad"

Reginald Dwight, aka Elton John, grew up on a residential estate in London, and I find it impossible to imagine him going back to his plough: (https://people.com/thmb/W9mHFKa-HKKsQoiq1jQEz2xAK7A=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(219x492:221x494)/elton-john-11-2000-a8a10ee2c9ce475e85889080644a2530.jpg)

Quote from: Buckeye Randy on Feb 23, 2025, 01:43 PMHere is one that struck me as odd but I do like it.

^ Alas, I'm not familiar with the Suspicious Mind song, so the oddness of the cover was lost on me- and tbh, I was expecting to hear a cover of Texas Radio & The Big Beat. It's a great name for a band, even though I was confused at first. :laughing:

Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 20, 2025, 03:33 PM^ Alas, I'm not familiar with the Suspicious Mind song, so the oddness of the cover was lost on me

The funny thing here is I thought that the original was by Elvis Presley and just found out minutes ago he was covering a song I never heard.  A cover of a cover!

I'm always surprised when I learn that the version I hear first is actually a cover.
Tainted Love - Gloria Jones/Soft Cell
I Love Rock and Roll - Arrows/Joan Jett
Cum On Feel The Noize - Slade/Quiet Riot
God Gave Rock and Roll to You - Argent/KISS
Take Me To The River - Al Green/Talking Heads

I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of others

Try this one on for size...

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I'll play by the rules too

Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 20, 2025, 03:33 PM^ To the extent that the Elton John has been taken out of his own song, yes, this cover is a real improvement on the original, which I always found to be a difficult fabrication to swallow:-

"I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owls
Hunting the horny back toad"

Reginald Dwight, aka Elton John, grew up on a residential estate in London, and I find it impossible to imagine him going back to his plough: (https://people.com/thmb/W9mHFKa-HKKsQoiq1jQEz2xAK7A=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(219x492:221x494)/elton-john-11-2000-a8a10ee2c9ce475e85889080644a2530.jpg)

^ Alas, I'm not familiar with the Suspicious Mind song, so the oddness of the cover was lost on me- and tbh, I was expecting to hear a cover of Texas Radio & The Big Beat. It's a great name for a band, even though I was confused at first. :laughing:

I will tell her you said this

she has a bunch of great covers

Elton John's tiny dancer song was on repeat today for me

^ You know this singer ?!? Good for you :thumb:

Quote from: QuantumSync on Mar 20, 2025, 11:36 AM

top level cover

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Quote from: tristan_geoff on Mar 20, 2025, 05:21 PMI'll play by the rules too

^ This is surely some kind of award-winner in terms of covers, tristan  :clap:
Here's the original to show just how clever Coil have been in their selection of an obscure, sitcom theme from the early 70s:
 

@Lisnaholic yeah lol I basically just reply and give fire emojis to her hot photos on instagram. she'll reply about my comment and thats about it  :laughing:

we did chat a bit way back last year about her song beyond, and about putting her songs onto forums and discords..

(I created her a MB thread over there)

https://www.musicbanter.com/general-music/100571-zazz-sings.html