A Community to talk about Music from the Australian perspective.
Telling stories of Australia through music.
With few exceptions, Australian acts are permitted to have one hit in the US charts, then fall out of the international limelight.
Those acts however often have lots of other cool songs!
There are also several Australian acts that just aren't famous globally.
This Community is not affiliated with the ABC, yet. Please don't sue us, Auntie. We love you!
Paul Kelly / AB Original - Dumb things
Bit of rappy bits over Paul Kelly's original, and featuring the man himself makes for a tops performance
LDRU / Paces feat Guy Sebastian - Keeping Score
Turns out Guy Sebastian is actually a great singer, its just the songs he normally does that suck
I'll go first: mine is King Stingrays version of Yellow by Coldplay
Not really a full blown cover, but I'm a fan of Illy's Ausmusic medley which covers Silverchair, Hilltop Hoods, Paul Kelly, Flume. No LaV list is complete without it.
Great for Australia day!
Wow. I'd never heard this before. It's fantastic 👏
San Cisco - Get Lukcy Probably peak LaV for me.
I wasn't familiar with this one. This is marvellous! I love his voice!
They're kids! When did I get so old? Haha
Omg what a great cover! Not sure how I've never seen it before....
Ooh! Tough question! I'm hyper critical of covers in general. To me if you're going to to a cover, I want to see something different to the original. And then, it needs to be good.
I love The Herd doing I was only 19 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns82tHhJOr0
I don't think I prefer it to Redgum's version, but it speaks to a new generation about stuff that should never fall out of our consciousness. So I really appreciate it for that alone.
The Wiggles doing Elephant is awesome! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a13WnqsRc5g
People obviously dismiss them as a gimmick or kids entertainment, but that was so well done. I actually prefer their version to Tame Impala.
But then here comes Tame Impala doing A Girl Like You - and it's next-level stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt5DwYAu1ao
Definitely better than the original, even if it is a similar interpretation of Edwyn Collins.
Aurora doing Teardrop is definately up there - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPTY6l_PX5k
I don't know her from anything else, which I really should fix as her voice is mesmorising.
It turns out that Sarah Blasko's Flame Trees wasn't actually Like a version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cArtp8NSp0g
Which is a shame! It's a wonderful cover and would be a contender for better than the original. She has a few Like a Version covers, though! Her rendition of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wR0OgzYreU
So is her Life On Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnZtVY6Lu5U
Maybe she just does songs of my generation, which is why I love them all.
If I'm allowed to cheat, the best cover of all time goes to John Farnham with Help - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv54giOSRKs
That's probably the best cover of any song ever made. I literally grew up on the Beatles, and John totally made the definitive version of this song.
Oh wow! I totally forgot about Missy Higgins doing Hearts a mess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmTkXr9Ssg
(I may have a Like a Version playlist playing in the background now thanks to this thread)
It’s gotta be the Arctic Monkeys cover of “Feels like we only go backwards”. His voice man. God damn..