Favorite covers.

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

is there a track listing yet? This could be a good album depending on what songs they chose.

Yep. Let me ask my wife where to find it. It's somewhere on their website, but she's the expert there, not me. It's sort of like her version of ENWorld.

 

[Wyn A'rienh]

"Ruby Tuesday" by Over The Rhine, originally by The Rolling Stones

Somebody that knows Over the Rhine! I loooove Over the Rhine.

Their Let it Be is incredible too.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

Heh. The Dan Band covering anything originally done by a female artist. We just saw them in concert last week and they were hilarious. Their claim to fame is as the band in the movie "Old School."


DM

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

is there a track listing yet? This could be a good album depending on what songs they chose.

Here's what I could find. If I find out anything different from my wife, I'll correct the track listing:

Def Leppard-Yeah!

1. - 10538 Overture :: ELO (1971 UK #9)
2. - 20th Century Boy :: T. Rex (1973 UK #3)
3. - Don't Believe a Word :: Thin Lizzy (1976 UK #12)
4. - Drive-In Saturday :: David Bowie (1973 UK #3)
5. - Hanging On The Telephone :: Blondie (1978 UK #5)
6. - Hell Raiser :: Sweet (1973 UK #2)
7. - He's Gonna Step On You Again :: John Kongos (1971 UK #4)
8. - No Matter What :: Badfinger (1970 UK #5)
9. - A Little Bit Of Love :: Free (1972 UK #13)
10. - Rock On :: David Essex (1973 UK #3)
11. - Stay With Me :: The Faces (1971 UK #6)
12. - Street Life :: Roxy Music (1973 UK #9)
13. - The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll :: Mott The Hoople (1974 UK #16)
14. - Waterloo Sunset :: The Kinks (1967 UK #2)
15. - American Girl :: Tom Petty & The Heartbrakers (1977 UK #40)
16. - Heartbeat :: Jobriath (1974)
17. - How Does It Feel :: Slade (1975 UK #15)
18. - Kick Out The Jams :: MC5 (1969 US #82)
19. - Roxanne :: The Police (1978/79 UK #12)
20. - Dear Friends :: Queen (1974)
21. - When I'm Dead And Gone :: McGuinness Flint (1970 UK #2).
22. - Winter Song :: Lindisfarne (1970).


The cover of No Matter What is on the new US version of their Greatest Hits, the UK version has the cover of waterloo Sunset.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Actually, it's a surprisingly good cover.

At this point I'll mention Duran Duran's Thank You, an entire album of covers that include 911 is a Joke, Ball of Confusion, and Lay Lady Lay.

I didn't say it was a bad cover, having not heard it.... it just sounded wrong with who was doing it.... *if that made sense....

 

[Torm]

Prince wrote it, she sang it.

No, he's got it right - Prince wrote it AND sang it. It just didn't chart for The Purple One like it did for Sinead. As a matter of fact, I find the Prince version to be downright painful to listen to.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

No, he's got it right - Prince wrote it AND sang it. It just didn't chart for The Purple One like it did for Sinead. As a matter of fact, I find the Prince version to be downright painful to listen to.

I didn't know he sang it as well. But I did know he wrote it and she sang it.

 

[Thunderfoot]

My favorite covers?...My flannel ones with the plaid print...

Oh, you meant songs.

"Winter Wonderland" by Stryper - Heavy Metal Christmas caroles are awesome!
"Stayin' Alive" by Ozzy Osbourne
"Ballroom Blitz" by Krokus

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Or "Mr. Sandman" by Blind Guardian. Funny stuff!

 

[Desdichado]

Woah! Flashback time! I saw them when I was in highschool, along with a bunch of other Euro Death Metal bands. haven't heard that name in a LONG time. (Sorry to go off on a tangent)

Did they play "School's Out"? I was mildly annoyed when I played that at a party not long ago for a bunch of people my age (late twenties to middle-to-late thirties) and nobody remembered it beside me.

As for covers; I don't particularly pay attention to them, but here's a few off the top of my head that I like:

• "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell (originally Gloria Jones)
• "Route 66" by Depeche Mode (originally by... I dunno)
• "The Picture" by Iris (originally by Hubert KaH)
• "Stripped" by Rammstein (original by Depeche Mode)
• "Where the Streets Have No Name" by the Pet Shop Boys (original by U2)
• "You Were Always On My Mind" by the Pet Shop Boys (original by Brenda Lee not Willie Nelson and not Elvis--both of those versions were covers themselves)
• "Love My Way" by Assemblage 23 (original by the Psychedelic Furs)
• "Born to by Wild" by the Cult (original by Steppenwolf)
• "Sound of the Crowd" by Kelly Osbourne (original by the Human League)
• "Like a Virgin" by Lords of the New Church (original by Madonna) (by the way, I once sang a karaoke version of this to my wife--fun stuff!)

I don't like covers for their own sake, but covers that take a song from one genre and move it into another are much more likely to work for me. If I like the original and the cover is more or less faithful in sound to the original, I usually tend to wonder what the point is.