cover songs that really murder the original

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Leona Lewis cover of NIN’s Hurt
All Saints cover of RHCP’s Under the Bridge

[witteringon]

Desiderata said:

Musically, I think that Johnny Cash absolutely murdered Roberta Flack's beautiful "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", but somehow , in spite of his tuneless grumble, he managed to pull it off and produce something even more stirring...so it shouldn't really be on this thread.

Except that Roberta Flack's was not the original, by a long way.

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I nominate You're The One That I Want by Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard.

[Louis Balfour]

Nickp82 said:

Florence + The Machine doing ‘You Got The Love’

The Candi Staton original is an absolutely classic vocal which is sung with soul, subtlety and feeling - Florence just goes ahead and shouts all over it.

Ah, she wasn't the original though really, it was lifted from elsewhere.

Nor was Frankie Knuckles, who first popularised it. It was Jamie Principle, who was too young to get into clubs when he first wrote it. It would have been the first House record, but for the fact that the very first iteration was on tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTz4ELe4vvA

[/boring bd]

[bristolracer]

Simply Reds cover of Talking heads brilliant Heaven
In fact most stuff the ginger crooner has touched has turned into schmaltz

[Tim330]

tribalsurfer said:

DJ Sammy - The Boys of Summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abvDHvNzaI&ab...

I quite like the car in the video

[Tim330]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8S1TxCihvk

A Whole New World. Peter Andre and Katie Price

[Desiderata]

witteringon said:

Desiderata said:

Musically, I think that Johnny Cash absolutely murdered Roberta Flack's beautiful "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", but somehow , in spite of his tuneless grumble, he managed to pull it off and produce something even more stirring...so it shouldn't really be on this thread.

Except that Roberta Flack's was not the original, by a long way.

A great deal of well known versions are not "the original", performed by the writer or someone they specifically wrote for.

[Tim330]

Desiderata said:

witteringon said:

Desiderata said:

Musically, I think that Johnny Cash absolutely murdered Roberta Flack's beautiful "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", but somehow , in spite of his tuneless grumble, he managed to pull it off and produce something even more stirring...so it shouldn't really be on this thread.

Except that Roberta Flack's was not the original, by a long way.

A great deal of well known versions are not "the original", performed by the writer or someone they specifically wrote for.

All Along The Watch Tower being a well known example.

[President Merkin]

Half of the output in the 1970's can be called Bee Gees covers, given the number of songs they wrote for other people. Going by Wiki, at one stage in 1978, 9 out of the top 100 Billboard hits were written by the Bee Gees & their songs have been recorded by 2,500 artists.

[Nickp82]

Louis Balfour said:

Ah, she wasn't the original though really, it was lifted from elsewhere.

Nor was Frankie Knuckles, who first popularised it. It was Jamie Principle, who was too young to get into clubs when he first wrote it. It would have been the first House record, but for the fact that the very first iteration was on tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTz4ELe4vvA

[/boring bd]

All great tracks, I think the vocal/lyrics were created by Candi Staton though , no?

[Legacywr]

Apart from Red Red Wine, all of UB40’s cover versions were dire.

[Castrol for a knave]

Zombie, the Adam feat Amy version.

Quite how a visceral anti war song becomes knocking one out in a car wash is beyond me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44q6dS39ag

[boyse7en]

Tin Tin Out need to face charges for crimes against music for trashing The Sunday's Here's Where the Story Ends, and what is worse is that they had a hit with it so loads of people think it is the original.

[Stuart70]

All Saints, Under the Bridge.

I think that completes the topic

[Robmarriott]

Tim330 said:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8S1TxCihvk

A Whole New World. Peter Andre and Katie Price

Ahahahahaha I’d forgotten about that. It’s absolutely incredible.

[craigjm]

Stuart70 said:

All Saints, Under the Bridge.

I think that completes the topic

Far too late in the topic to be so smug about that

[Louis Balfour]

Nickp82 said:

Louis Balfour said:

Ah, she wasn't the original though really, it was lifted from elsewhere.

Nor was Frankie Knuckles, who first popularised it. It was Jamie Principle, who was too young to get into clubs when he first wrote it. It would have been the first House record, but for the fact that the very first iteration was on tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTz4ELe4vvA

[/boring bd]

All great tracks, I think the vocal/lyrics were created by Candi Staton though , no?

Sort of.

[Stuart70]

craigjm said:

Stuart70 said:

All Saints, Under the Bridge.

I think that completes the topic

Far too late in the topic to be so smug about that

[S100HP]

Britney - I love rock and roll

https://youtu.be/ITuOddPeYoc

The video however.....she was smoking hot wasn't she?

[cashewnut]

Tim330 said:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8S1TxCihvk

A Whole New World. Peter Andre and Katie Price

OMG this is horrendous absolute cringe fest......How did Peter Andre keep a straight face!

We are absolutely crying with laughter.....

Edited by cashewnut on Friday 16th December 13:09