Covers

[stax on the mull]

St. Elmo's Fire - Brian Eno / Portastatic

Remember hearing this once on radio back in the day without having any reference to the original by Brian Eno. Had to rack my brains to remember the name of the band...actually had to go to Discogs, knew it was Mac from Superchunk - another 90's indie band I've barely listened to. Sounds like Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo who is listed in the credit notes might be playing the guitar solos.

 

[Spearman]

The original from the Fabs
(terrible mime)


and a much better version


BTW Stones kicked off a new tour this week. 60 years after the debut of their first LP

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Joe Cocker's very first record. I'll Cry For You, originally by the Beatles.
Jimmy Page on guitar.

 

[1990crow]

 

[Plugger35]

 

[CD Xbow]

The Residents did many cover versions including whole albums of interpretations of artists' work
including amongst others, John Phillip Sousa, Hank Williams and Elvis Presley. Here's a live version
of The Residents performing Elvis' 'Burning Love'. Great dancing!

Goodness, a Residents cover, makes me feel at home.

There has been a lot of covers of Heroes



The Boss did a tribute cover of this Aussie anthem in Sydney



Devo deconstructing the famous Stones song on SNL

 

[zill]

Goodness, a Residents cover, makes me feel at home.

Here is Thrones covering Easter Woman.

 

[CD Xbow]

Here is Thrones covering Easter Woman.

Residentesque that one.
if you'd told me in 1977 the Residents would still be going after 50 years I would have fallen down laughing. Thanks for the post.

 

[Plugger35]

Another great Devo cover.

 

[zill]

Residentesque that one.
if you'd told me in 1977 the Residents would still be going after 50 years I would have fallen down laughing. Thanks for the post.

Since you posted the Devo cover, here's the Residents doing Satisfaction. They may have changed a few words but still quite respectful of the original.

 

[CD Xbow]

X nailing John Lennon's Mother and Roy Orbison's Dream Baby

I love X doing Dream Baby. I saw then a couple of times in the mid 80's and I fell in love with Cathy Green (drummer) Cathy, Cathy were art thou? Do you post on BF? Are you divorced?

I like Broken Peach, who do some great covers. They put out a lot of stuff over Covid lock down and provided me some entertainment. Good visuals and performance's, sort of Spanish death goth. Often a few versions of songs can be found on Youtube. Here's three crackers, Tainted Love, Personal Jesus and I Put a Spell on You