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MUSIC - What is the deepest cover song you know? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking 'all along the watch tower' but things like Fever Ray's cover of Vashti Bunyan's song Here before

Fever Ray is relatively well known while Bunyan had very limited success

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dax Riggs covering Bonnie Prince Billy's Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness

https://youtu.be/obnh0-NOjZg?feature=shared

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Two that are not at all obscure to but often overshadowed by their covers... i love the Four Seasons version of Beggin - https://youtu.be/d5AfvOk57bE?feature=shared

Same for the Everly Brothers doing Love Hurts - https://youtu.be/hFE2SnliiV0?feature=shared

Edit to add - i didn't know Peace, Love, and Understanding was Nick Lowe's.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Hard to pick one, but murder by death has quite the number of them... But them covering the 90s rnb classic 'creep' was a shock

https://youtu.be/eaMj2l-iif4

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bizarre Love Triangle. The original is some very bad pop music. New Years Day brought it not only to rock, but into being really good too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Taste aside, some of y'all really need to learn the definition of obscure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Meh, I saw this as an excuse to talk about something I wanted to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The Breeders "Drivin' on 9" was a cover of song by an obscure band called Ed's Redeeming Qualities. The Breeders version is IMO sweet and meloncholy but the original is rather weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This remix of a cover is pretty good

RIP Jeff Beck

The remix:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2fMtXRKJDPtT8Xs4EJkBQh?si=LpUh_H7vT7mlp8vneGCJUA

The cover:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4FsNksWJRgmQvclcW6lbrZ?si=ni3Qw7PsSqqU225zIA4wew

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"House of the Rising Sun" has been covered numerous times. The most known version is from The Animals. I was today years old when I learned that this is the original version of the song. However, my personal favourite cover version is from BTO.

Another well-executed cover version is of the song "Johnny B. Goode", covered by Peter Tosh, beause it is tranferred into a different music genre.