Goo Goo Dolls "I could never take the place of your man". fun cover....though it doesn't beat Prince at all.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
# Less famous covers that you knew before the more famous originals [Started by The Reverend, last updated 6 minutes ago] 29 new answers # i don't want to listen to massive attack anymore [Started by ethan, last updated 7 minutes ago] 30 new answers
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Two by Faith No More! "War Pigs" and "Easy".
― Neil S, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
R.E.M., "Femme Fatale"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 12 November 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
greenhorn - "50 ways to leave your lover"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
la bamba soundtrack, pretty much.
― tremendoid, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
me too...I remember thinking the Los Lobos version was the original when I was a kid
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard the Blues Magoos version of "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" before I heard the original by The Move. Not a very famous song, either version. but still...
― Trip Maker, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I just had a friend ask me if I had a copy of "this really great R.E.M. song, 'All I Have To Do Is Dream.'"
― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Various songs appearing on The Residents Present the Third Reich 'n' Roll including "Double Shot of My Baby's Love"
― eatandoph, Monday, 12 November 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody that grew up in the 80s will be shortly naming a Bananarama song
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Psuedo Echo's cover of "Funky Town", originally by Lipps Inc.
― snoball, Monday, 12 November 2007 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Several Beatles' covers of mainly Chuck Berry numbers.
― snoball, Monday, 12 November 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Beatles cover >>>>>>more famous>>>>>>> Chuck Berry original
― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 12 November 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Embarassingly (because based on Chairs Missing and Pink Flag and even the Dome albums I always considered myself a huge Wire fan) I heard the Fisherspooner version of "The 15th" first
Also Souled American's version of Little Feat's "Six Feet Of Snow," which by the way is one of the best cover songs ever
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 12 November 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
REM's cover o' "Superman" Nazareth's cover of "This Flight Tonight" (it took fukken decades before I heard the 'riginal:)
― t**t, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I know the Monroe recording is not the "original", but it's certainly at least one of the best versions of the song:
I heard my parents and various friends and relatives sing "Happy Birthday" to me & my sister long before I heard the recording of Marilyn Monroe singing to JFK.
― Herb Levy, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh, make that best known
― Herb Levy, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
loads of Spacemen 3 covers - "Will the Circle Be Unbroken", "Che", "MaryAnne", "Rollercoaster", "Starship"
altho I guess most of those aren't "famous" really
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Bill Medley: "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Love & Rockets - "Ball of Confusion"
― o. nate, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Elton John "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" before The Beatles
Hall & Oates' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" before The Righteous Brothers
― Joe, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Elton John "Pinball Wizard" before The Who.
― snoball, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Talking Heads - "Take Me To the River"
― o. nate, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Many, many Bob Dylan songs. I didn't even start listening to Dylan until I was 22 or 23.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Snuff - I Think We're Alone Now
― Øystein, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Testament - Nobody's Fault I had no idea that this was a cover until I mentioned to someone that I couldn't understand why that song was so horribly much worse than the rest of the album. Fellow looked at me and asked if I'd heard of Aerosmith. Pfft! (Hmm, I don't actually know if it -is- a famous Aerosmith song. For all I know it might be a b-side. I've never heard the original, thankfully.)
― Øystein, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Phil Collins - "Tomorrow Never Knows"
― Bocken Social Scene, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the fall - victoria mirage - tomorrow never knows bangles - live
― electricsound, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
superchunk - train from kansas city
― electricsound, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Given my age, I think I'm allowed to not be embarrassed by knowing Paul Young's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" before encountering Joy Division.
― ailsa, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
rainy day - holocaust rail - back of a car this mortal coil - kangaroo teenage fanclub - free again
clearly i was a late arrival to big star
― electricsound, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd claim that most famous cover versions of Dylan songs are actually more famous than the originals.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Such as?
― t**t, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
All Along the Watchtower Mr. Tambourine Man
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeh.
― t**t, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Camper Van Beethoven's "Insterstallar Overdrive" - not IO but, for me: "Pictures of Matchstick Men" Love & Rockets - "Ball of Confusion" - yes
also: "Tower of Song" - Jesus & Mary Chain "People are Strange" - Echo & the Bunnymen "Rawhide" - Dead Kennedys "Radar Love" - White Lion
― Pillbox, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
that was me that told you that Oystein. and that song doesn't suck.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Kristin Hersh - Trouble
― Mr. Goodman, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Joe, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:57 (1 hour ago) Link
-- snoball, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:59 (1 hour ago) Link
Oh yes, my mom was/is an Elton fan, so these. In fact, I've still never heard the original "Pinball Wizard".
― The Reverend, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Al Kooper's version of "Season of the Witch" Blood, Sweat & Tears "40,000 Headmen" Patti Smith "Gloria"
― The guy who just votes in polls, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
In fact, I've still never heard the original "Pinball Wizard".
Lucky boy.
― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, come to mention it...
The New Seekers "Pinball Wizard" before The Who.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Add the following to the list by Shakey of Dylan covers more famous than the originals:
All I Ever Want To Do - The Byrds My Back Pages - The Byrds If You Gotta Go Go Now - Manfred Mann The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann If Not For You - Olivia Newton-John I Shall Be Released - The Band
Arguably also "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (Clapton, GnR) although Dylan's own version of that song has become quite famous too.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
number one cup - the monkey song
(haha 'famous')
― electricsound, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Bad News- Bohemian Rhapsody Minutemen- Dr. Wu
― mulla atari, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link
All of the Minutemen's covers except the Creedence ones. Most of them I've heard the originals since hearing the covers, but I still haven't ever heard the original "Ack Ack Ack." And I only heard the Meat Puppets' original "Lost" for the first time in the last couple of months.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably a lot of Jesus and Mary Chain songs, including:
Vegetable Man (Pink Floyd) Mushroom (Can)
Also:
"On Tape" by Teenage Gang Debs (Pooh Sticks) "Mobo" by The Dustdevils (Hose, see Rick Rubin) "Heartbeat" by Big Black (Wire) "I Love Her All the Time" Camper Van (Sonic Youth) a bunch of Feelies covers, inluding Dancing Barefoot, Sedan Delivery, etc. "A Fifth of Beethoven" (I was young) "Black Diamond" by The Replacements (Kiss) "Citadel" by Red Kross (Stones)
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's add the Wedding Present's version of "Box Elder" RIGHT HERE...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
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― Tape Store, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Earlier in the thread I posted Puff Daddy’s interpolation of The Police, they were both #1 hits but I wouldn’t think for a second that Puff Daddy’s version is more popular. Maybe in the late 90’s it was but I don’t think I’ve overheard it anywhere in the past 20 years.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
Lol, Neanderthal.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:20 (three years ago) link
What audience does TATU cater to (actual question)? Fwiw, the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?' has over 128M plays on Spotify (their third-highest, which is mind-blowing to me). TATU's cover has a little over 10M plays.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link
or the Bryan Ferry cover of the Smiths song, but with a different title?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
Now that I look at the Apple Music list more closely, though, "How Soon Is Now" is listed three separate times since it appears on multiple releases, so that probably makes a difference.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDS6i3j11jUheard a demo version of this: pretty good!played the game much later: pretty bad!finally saw the movie even later than that: pretty bad!then found the lauper/captain lou video: pretty good!
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 5 March 2021 04:49 (three years ago) link
What audience does TATU cater to (actual question)?
― to party with our demons (Sund4r)
Compared to The Smiths? I’d say rockist vs popist. Nowadays the lines are blurred but it didn’t feel that way in the early 00s.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 04:52 (three years ago) link
As I said, I suspected The Smiths original was the most popular version but in my experience I don’t know many Smiths or TATU fans, I’m just going by the reaction whenever that song is played. Usually friends born 88-onwards know it by the cover.
I don’t care about that song in particular, but I do get frustrated when I play “Running up that hill” in a social gathering and I hear someone telling me “oh good one! The Placebo song!”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
Interesting. The Smiths song was even used in car commercials here in the early 00s. The only TATU song I've heard (and the only one that charted in Canada, based on Wikipedia) is "All The Things She Said". If I expected people to know a cover of "How Soon Is Now", it would probably the one that was used for Charmed (Love Spit Love?).
However, the first version of "How Soon Is Now" that I heard was the Meatmen's, which is definitely a candidate for this thread.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
Anyhoo to expand on the TATU vs The Smiths audience: I think people who were listening to TATU were very most likely not into indie/jangle rock from the 80’s or even aware of who The Smiths were.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:13 (three years ago) link
Maybe in England the experience was different, maybe the Smiths were still a popular band in the teenage demographic in the early 00s.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:15 (three years ago) link
I thought they were big in Mexico?
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
They are, but they’re actually more popular in the mexican communities in California, not in Mexico per se. Also not for my particular demographic. Everyone I’ve spoken to born after 1990 don’t seem to be aware or have a strong opinion on them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah, they're not a band I find cross over that great with younger people here either ime. I've never known a non-ilxor who listens to TATU, though.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link
Again, this is pretty much my isolated experience so take it with a grain of salt. In the late 90s/early 00s internet was pretty much a luxury in Mexico and there wasn’t much outsider influence. Older, legacy bands were only shared either by older siblings and friends or via MTV or VH1 and I don’t think I ever watched a The Smiths video on either. I think I became aware of The Smiths until my mid 20’s and it was via internet. It wasn’t until my late 20’s that I actually overheard them in a social context - via “This Charming Man” - and it was actually in Spain not in Mexico.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:40 (three years ago) link
I don’t know anyone who still listens to TATU but “all the things she said” and “how is soon is now?” were extremely popular in my demographic when they came out. Nowadays they’re more of a “hey remember this band?” sort of thing.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:44 (three years ago) link
I can see “all the things she said” was pretty much a top 10 hit everywhere except the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Things_She_Said
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:47 (three years ago) link
The cover of “How soon is now” was only a top 10 hit in Chile, Mexico, Sweden, Russia and Greece. Might explain why I perceive it as a more popular song than what it actually was.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:53 (three years ago) link
The Residents, "Good Lovin'" / The Rascals, "Good Lovin'".
There's bound to be other Residents' tracks because they often covered songs that were 60s US hits but did nothing in the UK.
― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Friday, 5 March 2021 09:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtuUpoiKQtQ
― Stevolende, Friday, 5 March 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link
Great, didn't look at th evideo playing since it started with a record label picture.Oh well .mainly posted because it would be teh opposite of the thread.Covers of odd choices by artists well known for other stuffTHihk this should be sharablehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QV8KN9fDaE.
― Stevolende, Friday, 5 March 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfnOaLQHKh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-QT3AWtcjI
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link