I didn’t recognize the original til I heard the lyrics, but even then, that was great!
Faith No More - Easy and Johnny Cash - Hurt already posted. Others I like are:
Tricky covers Plastic Bertrand
Rita Jean Bodine covers James Brown
Yes cover Simon & Garfunkel
Tom Waits does Disney:
I guess this is a cover? But here are 2 very talented young musicians who should totally start a band…
Well, technically the Cylons did it first. Lol
So I’ve been following these specific cover bands for a while:
Stories - Ryan of Scary Pockets recently started a new channel doing acoustic stuffs:
They put really fun twist to the music & the fact that they’ve grown and really improved on their recording quality (most of the time) makes their music really fun to listen to on repeat.
Oof. Don’t get me started.
Too late. Here’s my list so far, mostly covers reworked in the adopting artist’s own style, or just in a very different style than the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzfNU76f2V8&list=PL28281DB9AA45212A
Just did a little more digging on that song… Had no idea that the original came out all the way back in 1963.
Which song?
I only wanna be with you.
Original:
Oh right. The cover by Volbeat. Volbeat tuned their guitars with a 1K peak (I think, I’m not a producer) on that one and it sounds killer.
Just because lead singer looks like she could give 0 f’s.
this might be my favourite cover, of any song:
and the original:
Cover:
Original:
this… only this