Incredible Covers! (2 Viewers)

[hrussell]

This is one of my favorite covers

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I really like this one

 

[Bill]

Not sure if someone has posted it or not(I can't see the videos), but a band by the name of Shinedown does an AMAZING job at covering "Simple Man"

Yes, Shinedown does a good job on that song, but they put their own 'fingerprint' on the song by using lots of their own artistic variance. And there's NOTHING wrong with that. It's what most folks want to hear when they listen to music.


However, what is even more amazing (to me) is when a musician (or group) can make the song sound like the original in every aspect.

Here is a cover of that song that even has vocals that sound like the original song! Truly incredible reproduction!

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[Saints1257]

3 Good ONes here: Creep(radio head song) by Korn, Word Up (Cameo song) by Korn, Sweet Dream (Eurythmics song) by Marilyn Manson

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[Bill]

I've always like Annie Lennox's voice... so pure and powerful!

Personally I think Manson wasted his time trying to do that song justice.

I'm not much for gimmicky artists anyway. I know that groups like KISS laughed all the way to the bank during their popularity just like the multitude of no-talent groups do today.

But all I ever do is laugh at them all.

 

[Saints1257]

1 of my all time favorite covers
Johnny Cash doing Nine Inch Nails "hurt"

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[Saints1257]

One Most have Probably Never Seen and it isn't as bad as I thought it would Be
Terry Bradshaw doing Hank Williams

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[Bill]

One Most have Probably Never Seen and it isn't as bad as I thought it would Be
Terry Bradshaw doing Hank Williams

Wow. You're right. Terry was surprisingly tolerable doing that song.

 

[teampayton]

Not sure if someone has posted it or not(I can't see the videos), but a band by the name of Shinedown does an AMAZING job at covering "Simple Man"

Deftones cover is much better

 

[teampayton]

This is one of my favorite covers

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Great cover. Eddie Vedder's voice is incredible. I like their covers of Last Kiss and Won't Back Down.

 

[dtc]

Frankly, I never posted these videos because I necessarily thought the original artists were the greatest at what they do, but rather that there are such talented people in this world that can take such well known classic songs and reproduce the sound and style so perfectly that you could mistake it for the original (until it's time for the vocals to come in).

Example:

Listen to jun626 perfectly reproducing George Harrison's classic, "Here Comes The Sun"

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Yes Kat, I'd also do practically anything to play the guitar with this kind of skill,... possibly with the exception of practicing every day for about 20+ years like all the great guitarists.

Oh well,... "one day", right?!?

I've always loved playing the guitar and it's my opinion that practicing every day for 100 years will only make you very good at copying other people's art unless you're an artist and then it doesn't take time it just happens. It's like these videos and the argument itself. Exact duplication is not the same as art. it may take more talent or even the same skill, but it's not art. It's a song that any normal person can copy if they set their mind to it.

The genius is playing it the first time.

 

[Shockmo]

So with Youtube you can hear the original of just about every song ya want. Why in the world would you want to waste your time with a cover? Please explain. Unless maybe you know the people doing it.

 

[Galbreath34]

Incredible doesn't always mean good. And sometimes you watch a train wreck

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBiLAy7mDbw for the hand-fart version of the Star Wars Cantina song.

 

[TheBigEasy99]

Yes, Shinedown does a good job on that song, but they put their own 'fingerprint' on the song by using lots of their own artistic variance. And there's NOTHING wrong with that. It's what most folks want to hear when they listen to music.


However, what is even more amazing (to me) is when a musician (or group) can make the song sound like the original in every aspect.

Here is a cover of that song that even has vocals that sound like the original song! Truly incredible reproduction!

To each his/her own, but my thoughts on cover songs are the exact opposite. In my mind, the best cover songs or those were an artist takes a song and puts their own spin on it and makes it their own. Jimi Hendrix completely redid "All Along the Watchtower" in his own style to the point that it's barely recognizable from Dylan's original yet, somehow, the overall ambience and vibe of the two songs are exactly the same. That's what I find impressive.

Stevie Ray Vaughan covered "Voodoo Child" and "Little Wing" closer to Hendrix's versions but there's no doubt when listening to those songs that you're listening to the unique stylings of SRV.

I find the video you posted of "Simple Man" to be impressive from a technical standpoint, but if I'm going to listen to someone make a note-by-note reproduction that sounds almost exactly like Skynyrd, then why wouldn't I just listen to Skynyrd?

But as I said before, to each his own.

 

[TheBigEasy99]

That's a nice cover of Layla. I'd give half this forum's left nuts to be able to play guitar like that.

And while I'm here, I'm going to go ahead and take umbrage to this comment. Why is it that whenever someone mentions sacrificing their (or in your case, another's) testicle we all automatically make the proclamation that it's the left one that has to get the chop? My left nut is so much better than my right nut it's not even funny.

Lefty is exactly the right shape and size, never swells when the weather changes, hangs at precisely the right level and is basically anything and everything a man could ever want a testicle to be.

But Righty? I don't know what I'm going to do with that kid. He's misshapen and lumpy, when it's hot he hangs uncomfortably low, when it's cold he disappears to the point I can sometimes barely find him and whenever I'm sitting for a long period of time in a meeting or at a movie he always manages to find a way to stick to the side of my thigh and pinch me whenever I move (which probably has more to do with my ball skin than Righty himself but I just know he's the one convincing my skin to do it. Dude's a bad seed and bad influence and always has been). I keep thinking one day Righty's going to grow up, mature and quit being so much of a problem child, but truth be told, he's not getting better, he's getting worse!

So why is it that if I'm ever faced with a situation (unlikely as that ever may be) where one of baby-batter-boys has to be removed in exchange for something that I'm going to automatically be assumed to want to part with Lefty, who's never been anything but a perfect testicle, a loyal friend and, frankly, a role model for every other part on my body? Huh?

Look, I'd love to keep them both, but I decided long ago that if it ever came down to it I'm getting rid of Righty and not even so much as glancing back. I don't expect you, as a woman, to understand or sympathize with this sort of thing, all I'm asking is that you (and everyone else for that matter) be a little more cognizant of the issue in the future. Thank you.

 

[nigel]

Chris Cornell covering Billie Jean(acoustic). It sounds like a completely different song.

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