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Song Covers You Have To Hear
Sometimes musicians cover a song and it kills...other times they slaughter it. I love a cover song that is unexpected or totally different - whether it is better, worse or just funny. When they push a song into a whole other genre, it is a risk which sometimes pays off. There are many covers that you just have to hear to believe!
The Gourds - "Gin & Juice"
Cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin & Juice"
The Gourds - Gin & Juice (Snoop Dogg cover) - Part I of II
This is the Gourds covering Snoop Dogg's "Gin & Juice". Recorded at Bumbershoot in Seattle, WA on September 1st 2007. It gets muffly on the louder parts, I was pretty close to the speakers, but all in all a nice capture of the performance. I had to split it for Youtube as the song is a staggering 12 minutes long (shaking towards the end of the video = my arm getting tired). The Gourds are incredible. I love this cover of classic Snoop D Oh Double Gee.
The Gourds
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Shinebox
Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 12/05/2008)
Featuring Gin & Juice
If you prefer downloading music, you can get the mp3 of Gin & Juice.
Japanese Traditional Orchastra - Smoke on the water
Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker - "Hey Ya"
Cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya"
Second Hand Songs Database
- Second Hand Songs Database
- Database of covered songs - their original writers and origial preformers, and those thereafter.
Alanis Morissette - "My Humps"
Cover of Fergie's "My Humps"
Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video
Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video
Runtime: 4:09
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Covers of "Get Ur Freak On"
KT Tunstall- Get Ur Freak On
EELS Get Ur Freak On LIVE
Missy Vs George Michael - Get Ur FAITH On
Who Does the best "Get Your Freak On"?
More Great Covers
'Straight Outta Compton' (NWA) Cover by Nina Gordon
Ted Leo - Since U Been Gone / Maps
Milkshake Kelis/Goodnight Nurse
Magic Numbers cantando Beyoncé!!!
Ben Kweller - Ice Ice Baby
Jenny Owen Youngs "Hot In Herre"
Ukulele Orchestra - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Gregorian - "Tears in Heaven"
Cover of Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven"
Gregorian
Masters of Chant
Masters of Chant
Amazon Price: $18.98 (as of 12/05/2008)
1. Brothers In Arms
2. Scarborough Fair
3. Tears In Heaven
4. Still I'm Sad
5. When A Man loves A Woman
6. Nothing Else Matters
7. Fade To Grey
8. Losing My Religion
9. Vienna
10. The Sound Of Silence
11. Sebastian
12. Don't Give Up
13. Save A Prayer
14. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Rockapella - "Papa was a Rollin' Stone"
Cover of The Temptations - "Papa was a Rollin' Stone"
Rockapella - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Rockapella Live in Indiana. 25/08/2007
Runtime: 4:35
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More about Rockapella
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Rockapella
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Rockapella is the biggest name in a cappella music. They are the sensational a cappella group with smooth sounds and harmonies that has taken a cappella music to another level altogether. These five guys with just five mics can do it all - pop, balla...
Jonathan Coulton - "Baby Got Back"
Cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back"
Jonathan Coulton - Baby Got Back (live)
Jonathan Coulton Live at The Cutting Room in NYC 03/30/07. Paul and Storm - Back-up Vocals
Runtime: 3:52
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The Up and Comers
What is a cover version?
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded, commercially released song.
In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all others are merely lesser competitors, alternatives or tributes (no matter how popular). However, Billboard — and other magazines recording the popularity of the musical artists and hit tunes — originally measured the sales success of the published tune, not just recordings of it, or later the airplay that it also managed to achieve. In that context, the greater the number of cover versions, the more successful the song.http://museum.woolworths.co.uk/1950s-embassyrecords.htm
Typically, artists and record companies are not compensated when other musicians perform covers, revivals or contemporary versions. Contemporizes versions are particularly popular among nascent musical acts as they are often used to strategically position well-known music between less popular "originals" by the artist(s).
Paolo Nutini - "Cry Me a River"
Cover of Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River"
Paolo Nutini - Cry Me a River (live, 2004)
Paolo Nutini - Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake cover, live, 2004)
Runtime: 4:01
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Eva Cassidy - over the rainbow
Jeff Beck - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
IZ - Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes ~ Somewhere over the rainbow
The Kooks - "Crazy"
Cover of Gnarls Barkley "Craxy"
Richard Cheese
More Amazing Covers
Song Covers Guestbook
What was your favorite cover? Is there a great cover I should check out?
Not-Pop wrote...
What a fantastic lens! I'm a cover junkie myself (as you can tell from my lenses). I've lensrolled you to my cover song lenses.
Posted October 10, 2008
The_Homeopath wrote...
Awesome choices! Masters of Chant does an incredible "Wish You Were Here" from Pink Floyd too.
Posted October 02, 2008
chefkeem wrote...
Great lens idea! And it starts off with my hometown band - the Gourds play all the time here, in a neighborhood TexMex restaurant/music venue (Jovita's) just down the road from my house. 5*s
Posted July 08, 2008
KimGiancaterino wrote...
Loved "I Will Survive" on violin. The short pants were a hit too!
Posted June 12, 2008
