Originally by Led Zeppelin
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
I remember seeing the band after Jupiter came out, and they played this live. They played a 15 to 20-minute version. It sounded so huge and epic.
This covers fits perfectly in the time frame they recorded it. So spacey and prog.
Originally by Oasis
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
I know this was a HUGE hit for Oasis, but this cover is so perfect that, at least for me, it has completely crushed the original out of existence.
Originally by Kelly Clarkson/Yeah Yeah Yeahs
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
This starts as Since You Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson, then breaks into a chorus of Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Good luck not having this stuck in your head for a week.
How I’ve avoided posting JTE before now is beyond me.
The time I heard of Justin Townes Earl, he was opening for Lucero. He was great live, and I bought his first record, “The Good Life,” that night. A year or two later, “Midnight At The Movies” came out, and I wasn’t thrilled with it. It lacked the old-timey/honky-tonkness of the first record. But it slowly won me over, and eventually eclipsed “The Good Life."
The same thing happened when "Harlem River Blues” came out. I heard a few songs and immediately dismissed them. And now I’m on my fifth or sixth listen through the entire album in as many hours.
Originally by Black Sabbath
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
How do you make this song sound more evil and badass? Mix in some Imperial March (Darth Vader’s theme song) and slow the bastard down.
This is probably my favorite Black Sabbath song.
Originally by Danzig
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
Full on balls to the wall rock. So good.
This was taken from a split Coliseum did with Doomriders called “Not Of This World,” in which both bands covered Danzig songs. Hunt it down, it's worth it.
Originally by Jimmy Cliff
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
This one is actually a cover of a cover and probably requires some backstory.
The song is originally by Jimmy Cliff and was released in 1969. In 1974, Harry Nilsson and John Lennon recorded an album called Pussy Cats, in which they covered Jimmy Cliff, as well as several others, like Bob Dylan and Jimmy DeKnight. Wikipedia tells me this was Lennon’s “Lost Weekend period,” which explains the rowdy feeling the album has.
Turns out, The Walkmen are huge fans of the Pussy Cats album and joked about covering it. Then, as all good jokes do, it went way too far, and they actually recorded a song-for-song cover of the album. Releasing it only 5 months after their last “proper” full-length album.
So, cover of a cover.
There are several decent songs on the album, but for me Many Rivers To Cross, is hands down the best.
The Plague Sermon - IV
This band is great when they’re not growling or screaming like they’re being murdered. When they are, it's just ok.
Originally by Marilyn Manson
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
“It's not your fault that you’re maximuuuuuuuuuum. ”
I’ve never been into Manson, not even during those early years. The music, for me, was always so-so, but the fans were only second in shittiness to Juggalos. Just giant black pants wearing cartoons with “ironic” look at me but don’t look at me t-shirts. It's hard not to write off a band that inspires these dregs.
As much as I do enjoy this cover, it inspires no interest in me whatsoever to go back and give Manson another go.
Originally by Carl Orff from Carmina Burana
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
From the Botch 061502 DVD: “What’s your favorite Botch song?”Rock Lobster.”What’s your second favorite Botch song?”O Fortuna.“What’s your third favorite Botch song?”You have more songs?"
Originally by Bruce Springsteen
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
Atlantic City is easily one of my favorite songs of all time, if not the favorite. Hell, it was the first song posted here. So it's no easy task to make a version of this song I’m going to like, but The Hold Steady did.
The piano intro is a great melancholy intro, exactly what you would expect for this song, then the balls kick in. It's such a perfect ape of the “big Springsteen” sound.
End Measured Mile is the album I’ve been waiting for Small Brown Bike to make for the last ten years.
