Cover Songs and Alternative Versions

[Avago-Earo]

Put your favourite covers and alternative/twisted/comical versions of songs here.

[Avago-Earo]

http://youtube.com/v/4nTo8rjo-lM

[Neillm]

Got to be this one for me...

http://youtube.com/v/3aF9AJm0RFc

Err...or this one...

http://youtube.com/v/CGrR-7_OBpA

[Avago-Earo]

Absolutely. If anyone can make a song his own like that it's Johnny Cash. Nice one!

[Avago-Earo]

http://youtube.com/v/ZGGSTiDOjKU

[Neillm]

Bloody love that one too...

[Neillm]

From the wiki page...so very, very true...

When Trent Reznor was asked if Cash could cover his song, Reznor said he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." He became a fan of Cash's version, however, once he saw the music video.

“ I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.[7]

[Brixmis]

David Gilmour "The Dimming Of The Day"

http://youtube.com/v/EK2N3S0lr4c

while we're at it - Hushabye Mountain:

http://youtube.com/v/ucgY2DbahOE

That image is tosh, though - I was at the Royal Albert Hall concerts and he didn't sing it there (he sung it at the Acoustic Meltdown - that's the one shown in the first video)

[Brixmis]

This was my fave cover during my young, headbanging years:

http://youtube.com/v/i2A6ItHeFus

[Nemetos]

What a great thread !

Here is a little number from a band, introduced to me by a mate from over the pond ...

http://youtube.com/v/cYJUywl7CFw

And get your air cello's out for this one ... !

http://youtube.com/v/0hRmwMs-sM0