Octopus Overlords

Posted: **Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:07 pm**

This is a crappy recording of my favorite version of Born to be Wild. You can listen to the studio version here.

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:02 am**

Cool cover of Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans"

Posted: **Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:36 pm**

Tangerine Dream covering the "Stranger Things" main theme

yes, Edgar Froese is dead, but yes, full circle...

Posted: **Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:45 pm**

Tom Jones and the Cardigans covering Talking Heads "Burning Down the House".

Posted: **Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:49 pm**

mori wrote:Tom Jones and the Cardigans covering Talking Heads "Burning Down the House".

Tom Jones is not only still alive but can still sing and looks younger than me.

MIND BLOWN!

Posted: **Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:24 pm**

mori wrote:Tom Jones and the Cardigans covering Talking Heads "Burning Down the House".

I liked the cover. The video - not so much. Very interesting.

Posted: **Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:11 pm**

Rip wrote:
mori wrote:Tom Jones and the Cardigans covering Talking Heads "Burning Down the House".
Tom Jones is not only still alive but can still sing and looks younger than me.

MIND BLOWN!

Not sure if you saw the date on the video, it was from almost 15 years ago. I do not think Tom or Nina look that good anymore. The cover was re-released or something this last year and gained popularity. The video is odd but I think it shows the contrast between the two singers. The contrast works in the song.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2017 11:40 am**

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Depeche Mode Cover David Bowie's Heroes For the song's 40th anniversary

The story goes that David Bowie wrote "Heroes," with Brian Eno, after spotting a couple kissing at the Berlin Wall. The couple was Bowie's producer and engineer Tony Visconti and his girlfriend Antonia Maass:

Visconti went for a walk by the adjacent Berlin Wall with backing singer Antonia Maass, and this couple then unwittingly aided the songwriting process by indulging in what they thought was a spot of covert smooching. "David could see us, and we quickly got written into the lyrics as the lovers who kissed by the wall," Visconti admits. "He wrote the entire lyrics looking out through the windows of Hansa Studios, and when I returned after a couple of hours and asked him how it was going, he said 'Oh, I've finished.' His assistant, Coco Schwab, then took me aside and said 'I think you and Antonia are in the song.' I was married at the time, so this story was never allowed to be made public, but I don't mind now.

Bowie's performance at the wall in 1987 is said to have had a role in its destruction.

Now, for the 40th anniversary of the song's release on September 23, 1977, "Heroes" is being performed by Depeche Mode both in concert and in the studio.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:19 pm**

Gahan's voice just doesn't fit that song at all. He sounds like a bad Elvis impersonator trying to cover a Bowie song.

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:47 pm**

Happy 82nd, Killer

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:15 pm**

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:29 pm**

That doesn’t even sound like a cover so much as a completely different song with the same lyrics and some wailing here and there.

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:58 pm**

Posted: **Tue May 29, 2018 11:37 am**

After months of pestering, Weezer finally does a cover of Toto's Africa, released today. Last week they released a cover of Rosanna so it was probably inevitable. Both are solid.

Posted: **Tue May 29, 2018 2:54 pm**

Ry Cooder covers Woody Guthrie

Posted: **Tue May 29, 2018 3:01 pm**

...BAMmed...

Posted: **Tue May 29, 2018 3:07 pm**

BAM (3 hours ago)

You're going to need to get up earlier than that to out-Weezer Smoove_B.

Posted: **Tue May 29, 2018 9:34 pm**

I just came in here to post the Weezer Toto covers...and now its ruined. Ruined.

Posted: **Tue May 29, 2018 10:48 pm**

Smoove_B wrote:BAM (3 hours ago)

You're going to need to get up earlier than that to out-Weezer Smoove_B.

We’ve found his weakness! Initiate Operation Smoove Obviator!

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2018 3:55 pm**

Just came across this one in my feed: Sweet Child 'O Mine done in a Bluegrass style by Thunder & Rain. Singer has a great voice!

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2018 6:25 pm**

If you like heavier stuff, buddy of mine in a band called Little Green Men has a couple of covers. This one is of The Cars "Let the Good Times Roll"

://www.reverbnation.com/lgmarea51/song/235 ... times-roll

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2018 8:54 am**

While on the 'Sweet Child O' Mine' kick, here's Metalachi covering it:

No drums, no electronics, only instruments used in a traditional mariachi band (and yes, they cover many other 'metal' songs)

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:49 pm**

Someone in some thread here posted a video of Tom Jones and The Cardigans covering The Talking Heads Burning Down the House and I cant stop listening to it. I love TTH and I really like The Cardis since the 90s but I never cared for Tom Jones. But he nails this song. its from 2003.

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2018 2:23 pm**

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:49 pm Someone in some thread here posted a video of Tom Jones and The Cardigans covering The Talking Heads Burning Down the House and I cant stop listening to it. I love TTH and I really like The Cardis since the 90s but I never cared for Tom Jones. But he nails this song. its from 2003.

Like the top of this page.

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2018 2:26 pm**

mori wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 2:23 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:49 pm Someone in some thread here posted a video of Tom Jones and The Cardigans covering The Talking Heads Burning Down the House and I cant stop listening to it. I love TTH and I really like The Cardis since the 90s but I never cared for Tom Jones. But he nails this song. its from 2003.
Like the top of this page.

No thats not it.

I keed thats totally it.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:15 am**

Toe wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2016 9:24 pm Nothing Compares 2 U - covered by the incomparable Chris Cornell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk

I am more than a little surprised that no one responded to this. After Johnny Cash stealing "Hurt" from Nine Inch Nails, I think this is probably my second favorite cover. Usually for me to enjoy a cover, it has to depart pretty significantly from the original (think Disturbed covering Genesis, or Marilyn Manson covering the Eurythmics), but in this case, staying so close to Sinead's version works spectacularly well with his voice.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:41 am**

RunningMn9 wrote:
Toe wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2016 9:24 pm Nothing Compares 2 U - covered by the incomparable Chris Cornell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk
I am more than a little surprised that no one responded to this. After Johnny Cash stealing "Hurt" from Nine Inch Nails, I think this is probably my second favorite cover. Usually for me to enjoy a cover, it has to depart pretty significantly from the original (think Disturbed covering Genesis, or Marilyn Manson covering the Eurythmics), but in this case, staying so close to Sinead's version works spectacularly well with his voice.

Sinead’s version was also a cover.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:55 am**

Fretmute wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:41 amSinead’s version was also a cover.

That's technically true (the best kind). But her version is the standard, not Prince's (in the same way that "Hurt" is no longer a NiN song, even by Trent Reznor's own admission). And Cornell is covering her version.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:13 am**

Didn't want to start a separate thread, but Joe Cocker's cover of the Boxtop's "The Letter" may actually be the worst cover version of any song in history.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:17 am**

Apollo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:13 am Didn't want to start a separate thread, but Joe Cocker's cover of the Boxtop's "The Letter" may actually be the worst cover version of any song in history.

He gets a pass because of She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:20 am**

Fretmute wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:17 am
Apollo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:13 am Didn't want to start a separate thread, but Joe Cocker's cover of the Boxtop's "The Letter" may actually be the worst cover version of any song in history.
He gets a pass because of She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.

Have you actually heard his cover of "The Letter"? Even the Beatles couldn't get a pass on that...

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:36 am**

Apollo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:20 am
Fretmute wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:17 am
Apollo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:13 am Didn't want to start a separate thread, but Joe Cocker's cover of the Boxtop's "The Letter" may actually be the worst cover version of any song in history.
He gets a pass because of She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.
Have you actually heard his cover of "The Letter"? Even the Beatles couldn't get a pass on that...

I don't think it's that bad, myself.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 11:40 am**

I really enjoy Ty Segall's cover of "Every 1's a Winner" by Hot Chocolate

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:43 pm**

Fretmute wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:36 am
Apollo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:20 am
Fretmute wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:17 am
Apollo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:13 am Didn't want to start a separate thread, but Joe Cocker's cover of the Boxtop's "The Letter" may actually be the worst cover version of any song in history.
He gets a pass because of She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.
Have you actually heard his cover of "The Letter"? Even the Beatles couldn't get a pass on that...
I don't think it's that bad, myself.

Let's be clear now: I'm not saying it's the worst song ever, though I don't care for it. What I'm saying is that it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the original song, which was vastly superior IMHO.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:26 pm**

Speaking of Talking Heads, why not their cover of Al Green's 'Take Me to the River'?

edit = also, Pointer Sisters covering Springsteen's 'Fire'.

edit2 = Costello'w version of 'Peace, Love and Understanding'.

Posted: **Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:48 am**

Ill post the ones Ive been sitting on other than the Mickey Avalon The Stroke cover mix. Used to like it but relistening to it I dont care for it now.

Love The Ramones and this is just Joey

This one makes me want to play an RPG

Ill post both bands cover of this and you decide. I like Boba a bit more because its rocking it and the other is more somber.

Posted: **Sat Oct 27, 2018 5:50 pm**

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 11:37 am After months of pestering, Weezer finally does a cover of Toto's Africa, released today.

the new video for this is so meta

Posted: **Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:14 pm**

The first time I saw that I thought it was Weezer before realizing its Al.

Posted: **Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:00 am**

Amazing. It even looks like a classic Weezer video. Weird Al is so multifaceted.

So much better than Postmodern Jukebox's cover of the same song which is supposedly done in a 50's style that doesn't even feel much like 50's style. Doesn't really work, IMHO. And what's with the nonsensical skit? I think that song would work better as a New Orleans style jazz song.

Oh, this latest cover from Postmodern Jukebox is killer, pun intended. Their cover of Video Killed the Radio Star (Queen Style)

Posted: **Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:42 am**

Rumpy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:00 am
Oh, this latest cover from Postmodern Jukebox is killer, pun intended. Their cover of Video Killed the Radio Star (Queen Style)

Guy had a killer voice but I thought that rendition was a train wreck on the whole.

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