okay, maybe not.
― hstencil, Monday, 17 November 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― dan jonze, Monday, 17 November 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Monday, 17 November 2003 01:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Xii (Xii), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:34 (twenty years ago) link
plus that album where Luther Wright & The Wrongs re-do "The Wall"
― peepee (peepee), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link
is this real?and is it the eighties time after time?
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean M (Sean M), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:50 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:53 (twenty years ago) link
Lord no.
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 17 November 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
― newnumbertwo, Monday, 17 November 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Monday, 17 November 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link
The Fall own this thread. - 'Lost in Music' etc.
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:40 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 17 November 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 17 November 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 17 November 2003 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 17 November 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 17 November 2003 13:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:31 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
FSA's "drowners" rocks. What's 'this corrosion' a cover of?
― Shmuel (shmuel), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 17 November 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Shmuel (shmuel), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
OK, howzabout
The Vines - "Ms Jackson", I know you're all bored of it. But it still deserves mention.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
Buck Owen's "Save the Last Dance For Me"
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul R (paul R), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link
The Meat Purveyors - "What Goes On" by the Velvet Underground, bluegrass style
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
Also, most of the songs cited here now are not in different genre's from the original.
― nickn (nickn), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
The Flaming Lips - "If I Only Had A Brain" (Wayne Coyne for President!)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
― bakhtin, Sunday, 30 November 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 30 November 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 30 November 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
― mei (mei), Sunday, 30 November 2003 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― bakhtin, Friday, 5 December 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnny Jojo, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― no opinion, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GQAmTznY2ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgHqbJr3NFI
― oder doch?, Monday, 18 March 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link
Jess Reimer - People Have the Power
https://open.spotify.com/track/17xPrfDV9EdM448vgs68VA?si=amycsCv_Qbantc9sAZholg
― whalemusic, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
Agree that a lot of these aren't from one genre to another, usually one subgenre of rock to another (at most). Dylan's Gospel is something else though---some (pre 80s Jesus tours) selections you might possibly expect, but I hadn't thought of, say, "Lay Lady Lay" or "The Mighty Quinn"(even though "all the pigeons gonna run to him." or mebbe "Him.") It all fits though: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/1007-dylan-s-gospel Reminds me, Buddy Guy covered "LLL" with Anthony Hamilton and Robert Randolph, who came out of that Pentacostal sacred steel scene (see also the electrified documentary Sacred Steel.)Lots of r&b-blues-gospel etc. Dylan covers---I especially like the Persuasions' a capella "The Man in Me," from '71 or so, usually on YouTube (much later, they did a whole album of Dylan).Dylan's cover of Cy "Fuck pop-rock, I'm Broadway!" Coleman's "Why Try To Change Me Now?" is pretty frisky, not that far from the feel of his own "If Dogs Run Free."
― dow, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
Lou Reed's different takes on "September Song"(from both those Hal Willner-produced Weill tribute comps---most rock versions of Weill, good as they can be, are mostly just a little rougher and louder), T. Heads' "Take Me To The River," Otis Redding's "Satisfaction."
― dow, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
i love this topic but unfortunately it's one of those that's too broad for me to address in any meaningful way, there are _so many_ cross-genre jams, i mean where do you start? aunto molly urso's disco version of "somewhere over the rainbow"? well, sure, but where do you go from there?
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
I approve of reviving this. Here's a Spotify playlist I maintain of metal covers of non-metal songs:
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5ELFqIEIGDt9qkd96WgdMq?si=KzJDOQzkTiiaM6co3glYEQ
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:59 (five years ago) link
Birthday party Cayman, Loose. Mercury Rev I Only Have Eyes For You, If You Want Me To Stay.Grateful Dead Turn On Your Lovelight, Spanish Jam(almost straight lifts from Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain in some versions).Feedtime Cooper S duntoid covers of various pop.Leather Nun ABBA covers. Sleazy heavy rock versions of pop by one time Industrial records associate Danes. Henry Cow I'm Not Marching Any More.John Coltrane My Favourite Things, Chim Chim Cheree,
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 06:10 (five years ago) link
Birthday Party was Catman
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 06:11 (five years ago) link
Train Kept A rolling. Starts as jump blues with Tiny Bradshaw becomes better known as a rock'n'roll number by Johnny Burnette Trio. Then gets picked up as hard rock by Led Zeppelin and others including Motorhead. Louie Louie starts as a Latin number by Richard Berry is turned into a garage staple by the Kingsmen and then picked up variously as hard rock, punk etc by later covers.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 08:21 (five years ago) link
I should have added teh Flamingoes I Only Have Eyes For yOu since it started in the late 20s as a showtune.
MY Little Red Book which goes from being a Bacharach tune played by Mannfred Mann to a garage classic by Love.
That's No Way tO Say Goodbye goes from being leonard cohen song to folk-jazz with great breakbeats by Roberta Flack
Good Shepherd trad folk song gets psychedelicised by Jefferson Airplane on Volunteers.
Alabama Bound by the Charlatans turns from a old timey song to a gossamer workout
GUn Club Preaching the Blues, A Love Supreme (is taht Introduction, first track in the suite?) Black Hole
Cabaret Voltaire There She Goes Again
Pentangle Sally Go Round the Roses
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
THat Gun Club A love Supreme cover may be Acknowledgment, played as a garage cover.Santana/Mclaughlin similarly pick up one section of the suite and refer to it as A Love Supreme which is pretty great..
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:04 (five years ago) link
Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme ShelterPet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind, Where The Streets Have No Name (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)Ladytron - Oops Oh My
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCX9X9FJXXA
― mick signals, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
The Flamingos turning “I Only Have Eyes for You” from a novelty showtune into a grand doo-wop ballad is probably the ultimate example of this.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Spice Girls reimagined by Lester Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUkthLDHvsM
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
I fell in a Spotify clickhole recently and landed on those Shovels & Rope "Busted Jukebox" albums, so I'd like to shout out their Caroline Rose-led reimagining of Nine Inch Nails' "Last" as a hoedown.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
Mars KIng CrimsonAmerica YesVoodoo Chile The Membranes
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
Mark Stewart I can't Help Thinking About MeMC5 Upper & lower Egypt, It's A Man's Man's Man's World
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
"It's a man's... world" owns this, see also The Residents, and Brilliant.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
"Heaven" - DJ Sammy and Yanou ft. Do (2001)
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 04:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJWxkYu8WgU
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 05:29 (five years ago) link
Spanky Wilson doing ‘light my fire’ and ‘sunshine of your love’ are pretty classic. Soft Cell doing ‘ Tainted Love’ although does it count when the cover can make an argument for being the definitive version.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 07:20 (five years ago) link
I've got a soft spot for this versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn5B1FE3fU
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 07:22 (five years ago) link
Xpost I will always direct people to Ruth Swann's version of "Tainted Love" from 1974 or so, vry similar arrangement to Soft Cell.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCLUiGi_r0
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 21 March 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvOVJn0i6k
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 21 March 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdK3obFasYk
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Saturday, 23 March 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link