The Glade 4.0

We've discussed them quite a bit, posted them in the 'earbug' thread, created separate threads for individual performances and even have a thread for covers we'd like to see, but I don't believe this incarnation of the Glade has a thread devoted to cover songs we enjoy.

To start it off - a pretty good cover of Rock the Casbah performed by Algerian singer Rachid Taha:


Bohemian Rhapsody as covered by The Braids:


and Hey Ya as covered by Matt Weddle:

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

That last one is rather good sir.

Edit...just because I love these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycnv87N_BU

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Raell Kromwell

really... you started both threads and did not include it?

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

SoaD's version of "The Metro" by Berlin.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

I like Chris Cornell's cover of Billie Jean.

I'm saddened by the fact that I didn't know about this cover until about 15 minutes ago.
Always loved the original, and this rendition is just really damn good.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

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(Lead singer is creepy-lookin' but dancing kids has sick moves)
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Welp, Johnny Cash time:

"Hurt" (orig. by Nine Inch Nails)


"Redemption Song (orig. by Bob Marley)


"Rusty Cage" (orig. by Soundgarden)


"Heart of Gold" (orig. by Neil Young)


"Devil's Right Hand" (orig. by Steve Earle)


"I Hung My Head" (orig. by Sting)


"Solitary Man" (orig. by Neil Young)


"Personal Jesus" (orig. by Depeche Mode)

Shel,

That cover of Cry Little Sister is awesome. I like this one too:

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Wow, I never realized just how . . . what's the word? . . . receptive Johnny Cash was to modern music.

On that subject, here's one of my favorite covers of Johnny Cash:

Melissa Kaplan* (Universal Hall Pass) covers "Ring of Fire":


Adam Lambert horribly butchered this arrangement a couple years ago(?) on American Idol.

* If you have no idea who she is, she did a bunch of vocals on Assassin's Creed.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Yes, Johnny Cash was a lot more than just an old country artist. Several of the artists he covered were awed and humbled by his interpretations of their work. To me that reflected very well on both the original artists and the Man in Black.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Here is a cover that impressed me a great deal. Why? Because it's done by a pretty heavy band (some would classify as death metal, but I don't know if I'd go that far) and they were extremely conservative with the cover. No cookie monster vocals or death growls, etc. In fact, they do the original so much justice, that I'd go so far to say that I haven't heard of many covers sticking this true to the original outside of karaoke bars. If you listen to a few of their other songs, you'll see just how reigned-in they were on this one.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

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Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds covering Johnny Cash's Long Black Veil.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I think we're missing an opportunity for a competition here.





And I should probably stop here, because I've gone straight down a rathole. But what the hell.

And now I'm done.

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He spent his final several years on a 4 (or 5?) CD project doing nothing but paying tribute to the works of others with his own interpretations. Quite excellent listening, that I would argue transcends genre.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

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Never saw the Neil Diamond Hannukah cover. That's pretty cool.

Forgot about UB40. What's interesting about that one is, that it's a cover of a cover. UB40 never knew about Neil Diamond's version until much later.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I find that a bit hard to believe. They would have at least known that Neil Diamond was the songwriter. Even if they had not heard the Neil Diamond version, as soon as they saw his name as the songwriter, I feel sure they would have at least said amongst themselves "Hey, I wonder if he's recorded it himself". It would be kind of like if you heard the Stones perform "Like a Rolling Stone", and then went to cover that, and then saw Bob Dylan as the songwriter.

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Can we all at least agree that the members of Limp Bizkit should be shot for their horrible cover of "Behind Blue Eyes"?

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I think you might be smokin' something. They did a pretty decent cover of "Behind Blue Eyes"; the song they utterly trashed was George Michael's "Faith".

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Agreed on both counts.

In fact, Behind Blue Eyes is the only Limp Bizkit song I can stand, and it's not even theirs . . .