That Nothing Else Matters on the Heroes Reborn promo is lol.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 5 October 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhVydgvuAc
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 5 October 2015 11:31 (eight years ago) link
or if you prefer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESmNtanLOc8
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 5 October 2015 11:32 (eight years ago) link
i liked this back when it came out, before this thing was such a thing, but listening now it's certainly lost a lot of its shine in the interim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxQ9bvdZgU
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 5 October 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
i'm not even sure how exactly it's distinguishing itself from the rest of the dreck but the first cat power covers album still really holds up for me
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 5 October 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link
nina simone -vs- red house painters
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
I'll take RHP any time
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 5 October 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
Duds: that St. Etienne one
The Neil Young cover? It's considerably louder and faster than the original!
This one is dire:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnCmIcLwx6U
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
Cowboy Junkies remain one of the few to do right by this strategy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XVJj4jER4
Same idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YthRnraF-s
And of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3qRVqJmKfo
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
A cousin to this thread is the trend of taking upbeat songs and turning them slow and evil, a la:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ixNnsGYdc
Or, I dunno, M. Manson's "Sweet Dreams" cover.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
it was all downhill after tainted love/where did our love go. or maybe after jump. jump was cool.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
FWIW, I think I'm one of the few people on earth who can't fucking stand Jeff Buckley doing Hallelujah.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
DON'T ALL RUSH AT ONCE!!
― Mark G, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
xpost Well, it's not like the original was upbeat and zippy or anything. Though it is pretty big, for what it is.
tainted love/where did our love go
Yeah, this is an early peak!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Speaking of John Cale (implied), there's this early example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHF7b326ydg
Though I guess this is a rare example of a song that started out naked, intimate and slowed-down and was turned into a scary rock song.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
I knew someone in school who used to do a slow acoustic cover of "Freebird," and then when he got to the "Lord knows, I can't change" part he would just keep going until someone got the joke and kicked him off the stage.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
lol
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
I want to come up with the stupidest possible song to do this with and make a youtube video. Maybe "Cotton-Eye Joe"?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
i would love to hear cat power do a slow feline crawl through "they're coming to take me away ha-haa!".
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Buy Me a Condo by Weird Al
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
"Smell Yo Dick"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
cotton-eye joe would be good though. also "I Eat Cannibals".
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
"Smell Yo Dick" would be great except it's probably been done as one of those lol-white-people-covering-rap things.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
true
maybe
"Earache My Eye"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=smell+yo+dick+cover
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
re: cotton eyed joe, ahem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl1T-4tld6U
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
The epitome of the white people mock hip hop/R&B song: Alanis Morissette - My Humps
― gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
The Flying Lizards version of Summertime Blues is my favourite slowed down/stripped down cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9CRGKYXjCA
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
the enervated Telex cover of Rock Around the Clock is good one where someone is not going for intimate/earnest whatever
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGXHDMIJw4
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPclCrqOFic
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
I guess there are lots of bonus demo tracks on reissued albums that function as unofficial versions of this type of cover?
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
I want to come up with the stupidest possible song to do this with and make a youtube video.
La Macarena?
― MarkoP, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqhobdcYUE
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
^(In defense, this was by request, for charity)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
Steve Allen did something like that with rock and roll lyrics back in the day
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpxhEoV5IsE
― MarkoP, Monday, 5 October 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
I've a soft spot for this slide guitar cover of "Modern Love".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAypnmdiCEk
― gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Monday, 5 October 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
We had a whole thread and stuff about that Nina Gordon cover:
nina gordon - "straight outta compton"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 5 October 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
so scary...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRPWs4V97YI
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Then there's maturing artists doing this, cf. "Layla" unplugged and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PzSSQtnp8
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 5 October 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWgA3PI7VQ
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 08:45 (eight years ago) link
Tori Amos has a lot of these.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 08:51 (eight years ago) link
Heavy Vegetable covering The Rez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1XT0TOAboA
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 09:13 (eight years ago) link
surprised this hasn't been here yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsC_SARyPzk
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 11:47 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gsorRstTs
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Thursday, 8 October 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
i was watching this sad movie starring Happy Gilmore about white people who are sad because they have cell phones and because they masturbate too much and they played this really groovy and dreamy cover of "I Feel Love" and I really liked it! don't know who it was by though. the movie was like American Beauty 2.0. and the song would not have been out of place in Donnie Darko II - The Darkening.
― scott seward, Monday, 12 October 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
okay, I found it. don't know the band. I think it's really pretty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DomLXOiLRCY
― scott seward, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
that's awesome!
― Lee626, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
did Codeine ever do any good covers?
They did a cover of Atmosphere for the Joy Division tribute album, but the original wasn't particularly upbeat to begin with.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
Nice, torchy jazz-lounge interpretation of what I'd never guess started life as a KISS disco-metal hit if I didn't know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KdInR0z5U
― Lee626, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
RHP did a good Kiss cover too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixwyr4NSHLI
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
did i hear a slowed down version of the pixies' Where Is My Mind? on a facebook advert?
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
(yes - http://jettemplates.com/video-detail.php?videoid=4NZdggNUvq0&title=Maxence-Cyrin---Where-Is-My-Mind-%28The-Pixies-Piano-Cover%29 )
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
I'm sticking with Animotion's version.
Karen O / Obsession:
https://youtu.be/g4n_VpzBQIA
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Hmmm, maybe this will work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4n_VpzBQIA
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Norma Winstone - Live to Tell (Madonna cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkO9t2MR2s
really feeling this, even though it doesn't take much imagination to turn a somber pop ballad into a slightly more somber jazz ballad
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Friday, 6 November 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 November 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Was going to say I detest when artists fall back on this move, like they're the first people to ever think of it, but I actually like some of the versions posted here. Not this though, this is garbage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8asRWe5XNw8
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 December 2015 10:26 (eight years ago) link
there was a particularly bad episode of The Leftovers recently where one scene ended with a ghost ominously singing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" and the next scene was scored with a slow gloomy cover of "You're The One That I Want" from Grease
― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Saturday, 26 December 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
What are the categories for these covers?- Sexy ("Whatever You Like" "Crazy in Love")- Mournful ("Satisfaction")- Pretty ("Sweet Jane")- Strung Out- Heavy
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Saturday, 26 December 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
just heard a naked, intimate version of 'i wanna be sedated', covered by esthero. :/
― nomar, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
*is already sedated*
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
*woozy morricone guitar & strings**muffled breakbeat*
lana del rey, singing:
"when you're sliding in to fiiirst, and you're feeling something buuurst..."
― goole, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Madder Rose did one of my favorites in this genre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHrg2_cmgvc
― Dan is a #VegetablePuppet, he is NOT REAL. #flatearth (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Also, belated lol at "sliding into first..." just registered with me.
― Dan is a #VegetablePuppet, he is NOT REAL. #flatearth (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
lol goole
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 7 July 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah that madder rose cover is nice. The original is so frenzied, so slowing it down actually reveals something new.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 7 July 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
goole i need to hear that immediately
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 July 2016 09:51 (seven years ago) link
bedhead were mentioned a couple times upthread. their cover, with macha, of cher's "believe" is my ur-NISVOPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZYkrY9yxC0
it's important that it arrived during the height of the napster era, when music blogs were coming into their own, as this sort of thing is so emblematic of the internet era. and i can't think of a clearer example of "indie" artists subversively reinterpreting a "mainstream" pop song to expose something (supposedly) hidden within. that implied underground vs. overground narrative seems a bit archaic now.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link
^ which puts it at the intersection of old and new modes. appropriate, i suppose, for a song released in y2k.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
with that subversive meaning gone, the practice has taken on a schlocky, talent show sort of quality.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 7 July 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
That ILX dude's cover of GG Allin's "I Kill Everything I Fuck" was the best example of this.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 July 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
heh I thought of that also
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 7 July 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
"I'm really, really bed"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv6Rt2x6kPg
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3S6hXmX1UY
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
Because obviously Daniel Johnston needed this treatment.
https://youtu.be/_d3DkoA1LUk
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3SxNtbPu2I
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
Hmm well posting the url was supposed to work. Version of The Stallion Pt. 3 which I like.
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
this stuff is insufferable and by now past the point of saturation. if it isn't a superhero movie with a slowed down Leonard Cohen song it's a new TV show with a Pixies cover or something. it's like the sincere form of muzak.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
you're nothing these days without a quavery voice and a ukulele
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
Every time a white girl does an acoustic version of a trap song, a rapper has to do this 😭 pic.twitter.com/QboULucNiw— i know dennis 🇳🇬 (@shOoObz) March 9, 2018
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link