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The Hu playing “Sad but True” by Metallica (in Mongolian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxA_ZxGX_M
i'm going to suggest john cale's terrifying cover of heartbreak hotel
Pretty much anything by Leo https://youtube.com/@leolego
Imho, Leo is so overrated. All he does is change the instruments used to play the song, and everything else remains the same, including his voice, tempo, lyrics, style, etc.
Now this guy here, is actually impressive, and delivers the cover in different styles.
Oh I absolutely love covers. My favorite weird cover is probably Tiny Tim's cover of The Doors song People Are Strange https://youtu.be/kzoH88GFqK0
Thanks. I never heard of this band before. Their cover of Ashes To Ashes sent me down a rabbit hole.
Had a huge Northern Kings phase a couple years ago. Damn good stuff.
The Heimatdamisch: Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI&list=PLgenTP7XacTNR9mfGFwZd3pjYoHxA7cIi&index=37
Clams casino’s version of Imogen heaps “I’m god” is great. It got tied up in legal limbo for a really long time.
UMC are doing metal cover versions of quite some songs, Captain Jack as an example.
Van Canto are an a capella band (with drums) doing also a lot of covers. Battery by Metallica
I'm sorry, why has nobody mentioned the Jeff Buckley cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah yet? Bunch of heathens 🙂
Billie Jean - Chris Cornell
Hauntingly beautiful.
I love Thank You Scientist’s cover of Party All the Time, they’re such a cool band!
I love this post. This is a very weird cover of a song that was already weird. The video is also disturbing, which kinda did it for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdDTz8wL30
The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mR6zmSTDNE
Amber Mark's cover of Heart Shaped Box.
I'm a die hard nirvana fan. I think she took what Kurt wrote and made it totally her own and so, so beautiful.
I'm currently re-ripping my entire CD collection, and when I came to Revelations by Fields of the Nephilim, I realized that one of the tracks is their cover of "In the Year 2525" 🤣 It's not even that bad, either!
I just started the rip of Dimmu Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant... And the next disk in the stack is Hanson. Yes, that Hanson. I'm not entirely sure if the correct term for my taste is "eclectic" or "insane" 😅
That's a good reason to alphabetize by artist (chronological by release).
Avail covering Pink Houses by John Cougar Mellancamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tpeMPew3M
Melt-Banana - Monkey Man
`````Perpetuum Jazzile's Acapella cover of Toto's` Africa' is pretty neat. It's with it for the simulated rain sound at the start alone (and the beatboxing):
The Persuasions - Anyway the Wind Blows by Frank Zappa
Kind of a pretty straight cover, but I think by stripping it down to just melody and vocals shows just how good and faithful to the genre the original was.
The whole Persuasions album of Zappa songs is terrific. Definitely recommend.
Nirvana - Love Buzz
It's kind of amazing that they're the same song, but when you listen to the original, you can hear what Kurt was picking up on. Two totally different songs but ... not.
The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye
Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye
Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen
Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson
My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion
My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion
Durch den Monsun by Tokio Hotel
Durch den Monsun by Tokio Hotel
That first one alone, sensational. Also, Hildegard von Blingin'? Love that stuff!
The Interrupters - Bad Guy
Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights feels like an entire different song when sung by Cécile McLorin Salvant
I'm also very fond of Oingo Boingo's version of I'm the Walrus, I like how they do the laughs with the guitars.
the Gourd's cover of Gin and Juice by Snoop Dogg
(Apparently many people thought it was Phish who performed this cover, it was shared and torrented a lot as a Phish cover)
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