OT: Favorite Cover's of Classic or Iconic Songs

[Bigboote]

Here's Tom Waits doing Leonard Bernstein. Don't just ignore it out of hand -- it's the best version of Somewhere I've heard. The guy's a genius.

 

[Bigboote]

Cortez the Killer, Neil Young. Love the version with Warren Haynes and Dave Matthews at Central Park.

That's absolutely amazing! I was expecting something a lot Dave Matthew-y, but Warren Haynes and Tim Reynolds pretty much steal the show in this one.

 

[Scud49]

What a great voice she has - doing this cover of the Beatles "I Need You":

 

[Scud49]

Elise - Girl From Ipanema:

 

[MSGRET]

Another Sina collaboration with Victory K and Andrei Cerbu, Alannah Myles "Black Velvet". Andrei is playing both the lead and bass guitar portions and Sina does some back-up singing.



Enjoy

 

[MSGRET]

I was just surfing You Tube and came across this video, first time ever seeing someone trying to do Meat Loaf's "I Would Do Anything for Love". I give Caleb Johnson and The Neverland band, 4.5 stars out of 5 on it. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

 

[Gabbyfan]

 

[meyers7]

I was just surfing You Tube and came across this video, first time ever seeing someone trying to do Meat Loaf's "I Would Do Anything for Love". I give Caleb Johnson and The Neverland band, 4.5 stars out of 5 on it. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Caleb Johnson won American Idol a few years ago. Always had a pretty good "rock voice".

 

[64Zcode]

Some hardcore Metallica fans don't care for 'Atlas Rise'...to each his own.
3 tiny (but fierce) teenagers (18,16, & 13) close out an almost 2 hour set of 21 original songs with this cover as a surprise for a fan.
Basically the last time they performed a cover.
The Warning - Atlas Rise.

 

[Bigboote]

Here's a great cover of Welcome to the Machine.

 

[Bigboote]

Last one, I promise. This is a metal cover of All I ask of You from Phantom of the Opera. It's by Adrienne Cowan, a spectacular vocalist trained in pretty much every type of singing except metal. She sings both Christine's and the Phantom's parts. Toward the end when the Phantom becomes angry she begins growling his parts. Not everyone's cuppa, but I find it absolutely wonderful.

 

[quavik]

The story goes Quicksilver was invited to Woodstock, but had to turn it down - issues in the band. Jefferson Airplane, another San Francisco band went in their stead. The rest is history, the Airplane wnet from relative obscurity to...(who hasn't heard of White Rabbit) and Quicksilver faded into obscurity. I like Cipollina's guitar work, i think he has a unique style.

 

[YoDore]

Sensational.

 

[Aluminny69]

Just stumbled across this cover of a Buddy Holly classic. Judith had such a beautiful voice.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Okay, I kept not jumping in while this thread has been going, so better late than never.

This is one of Dylan's latter songs. Been covered A LOT. This is BY FAR my favorite version.

 

[nwhoopfan]

This is an old song, there are countless versions of it. Known as both In the Pines and Where Did You Sleep Last Night. Nirvana did it among many others. I dig this version, only discovered it fairly recently.

 

[nwhoopfan]

The Sundays doing a Stones song, I much prefer the cover to the original.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

She hasn't recorded this song, but frequently plays it live. At least when she was coming to the U.S. It's been forever, doesn't seem like she's going to leave Australia anymore.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

[nwhoopfan]

She has a series of these she calls the Diamond Covers. All big songs from the 80s and 90s, all with rotoscoped videos. They're all good, hard to pick which one to go with.

 

[nwhoopfan]

How about dueling versions of a classic Journey song? Have to admit I haven't followed Daughtry's career at all, but just heard this on Sirius XM the other day. He's got some pipes. And collabing with Lizzy Hale never hurts. This is pretty killer.

 

[nwhoopfan]

The first time I heard this version I actually thought it was Lizzy, they have somewhat similar voices.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Here's Lizzy with her band, taking a Gaga song in a totally different direction.