The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Tue Aug 15, 2017 2:32 am

The Guitaraculas - Love's Secret Domain This should really be off limits, the original is fully empowered by the mightiest forest gods but it's a fair effort, let down by pretty poor phoned in phrasing. Full marks for having the nuts to try though.

Coil - Love's Secret Domain This is mad love...this is mad love... :-*

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Post by danbind » Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:59 pm

Terrific version of The Troggs' "With A Girl Like You" by Yo La Tengo--demonstrating that less is more. Coupled in the vid with their own beautiful "Our Way to Fall".

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Post by shadowplay » Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:38 am

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:04 am

i dunno if we should count this as a cover since j. robbins is singing/playing guitar but i want to say this is a great version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x9NzzQyjpI
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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:14 am

Schleimer K - On The Road Again

and the 'original' ;) to compare and contrast -Canned Heat - On The Road Again. I didn't even know it was a cover when I bought the Schleimer K album, i'm sure my cousin had to tell me.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by Larry Mal » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:48 am

How about Big Star covering the Kinks?

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by scottT » Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:57 am

shadowplay wrote:
Tue Aug 15, 2017 2:32 am
The Guitaraculas - Love's Secret Domain This should really be off limits, the original is fully empowered by the mightiest forest gods but it's a fair effort, let down by pretty poor phoned in phrasing. Full marks for having the nuts to try though.

Coil - Love's Secret Domain This is mad love...this is mad love... :-*

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Could Coil's version itself be considered a cover of Roy Orbison's In Dreams?

"In dreams I walk with you, in dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine, all of the time"

OK, not a cover, but a hip borrowing, which I'm a fan of.

What I like about Canned Heat's original is that it really sounds hot and humid---like a summer day in the south. That droning buzz all throughout like rural telephone lines or insects. The shimmer of heat waves off the distant highway.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Sat Dec 23, 2017 4:03 am

scottT wrote:
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Could Coil's version itself be considered a cover of Roy Orbison's In Dreams?

"In dreams I walk with you, in dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine, all of the time"

OK, not a cover, but a hip borrowing, which I'm a fan of.
I'd say no, it also borrows from The Sick Rose by William Blake.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by NICQ » Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:54 am

Just discovered that Cover of TLC's "Scrubs" from Scout Niblett : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjRJrx7PPs

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by NICQ » Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:01 am

also Wye Oak covering Kate Bush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FtaFSY7X6U

Bassline is so awesome

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by nanamour » Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:37 pm

Spell - Stone is Very Very Cold

The original by Priscilla Paris is a classic too, but Rose McDowall's voice winds through the source material with frosty tendrils like few others can...Very Very Cold indeed!

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by shadowplay » Sat Jan 13, 2018 2:31 am

nanamour wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:37 pm
Spell - Stone is Very Very Cold

That's a top album.

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Re: The 'Great Cover' Official Thread

Post by Trout » Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:08 am

Joel RL Phelps covering Joy Division. Good stuff!

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