I really like this cover of Take On Me
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`````Perpetuum Jazzile's Acapella cover of Toto's` Africa' is pretty neat. It's with it for the simulated rain sound at the start alone (and the beatboxing):
Oh I absolutely love covers. My favorite weird cover is probably Tiny Tim's cover of The Doors song People Are Strange https://youtu.be/kzoH88GFqK0
half my votes for the triple j like a version top 100 fit this criteria, here were a few of my personal favs:
in hearts wake cover billie eilish
The Interrupters - Bad Guy
Goldfinger covering Just Like Heaven by The Cure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t0jI1K6HYQ
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UMC are doing metal cover versions of quite some songs, Captain Jack as an example.
Van Canto are an a capella band (with drums) doing also a lot of covers. Battery by Metallica
Thanks. I never heard of this band before. Their cover of Ashes To Ashes sent me down a rabbit hole.
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Billie Jean - Chris Cornell
Hauntingly beautiful.
the Gourd's cover of Gin and Juice by Snoop Dogg
(Apparently many people thought it was Phish who performed this cover, it was shared and torrented a lot as a Phish cover)
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Amber Mark's cover of Heart Shaped Box.
I'm a die hard nirvana fan. I think she took what Kurt wrote and made it totally her own and so, so beautiful.
The Hu playing “Sad but True” by Metallica (in Mongolian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxA_ZxGX_M
The Heimatdamisch: Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI&list=PLgenTP7XacTNR9mfGFwZd3pjYoHxA7cIi&index=37
I'm currently re-ripping my entire CD collection, and when I came to Revelations by Fields of the Nephilim, I realized that one of the tracks is their cover of "In the Year 2525" 🤣 It's not even that bad, either!
I just started the rip of Dimmu Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant... And the next disk in the stack is Hanson. Yes, that Hanson. I'm not entirely sure if the correct term for my taste is "eclectic" or "insane" 😅
That's a good reason to alphabetize by artist (chronological by release).
Clams casino’s version of Imogen heaps “I’m god” is great. It got tied up in legal limbo for a really long time.
Pretty much anything by Leo https://youtube.com/@leolego
Imho, Leo is so overrated. All he does is change the instruments used to play the song, and everything else remains the same, including his voice, tempo, lyrics, style, etc.
Now this guy here, is actually impressive, and delivers the cover in different styles.
Don't know about creative. Sometimes a minor change makes a big difference.
- Sturgill Simpson's version of In Bloom is pretty cool.
- The Once's cover of Can't help falling in love has a great build-up that deserves to be heard.
I can't find my other favs right now
The Persuasions - Anyway the Wind Blows by Frank Zappa
Kind of a pretty straight cover, but I think by stripping it down to just melody and vocals shows just how good and faithful to the genre the original was.
The whole Persuasions album of Zappa songs is terrific. Definitely recommend.
Nirvana - Love Buzz
It's kind of amazing that they're the same song, but when you listen to the original, you can hear what Kurt was picking up on. Two totally different songs but ... not.