Best (Unheralded) Cover Songs

[TimmyClutch]

Since there is a bunch of serious muzak fans here, I thought this would be a good place to post covers you like that are not well known (i.e. not Luke Combs singing Fast Cars).

Inaugural post, Mandolin Orange playing Boots of Spanish Leather.

 

[bym051d]

So not 10,000 Manics covering "Because the Night?"

 

[DeacInVermont]

 

[DeacInVermont]

I will add that if you like covers, there are some great ones to be found on this Australian radio "Like a Version" channel as well as BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

I think I posted this in some other thread, but Bob covered Van the Man a couple of weeks ago.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

It's Charlie Louvin's birthday so here's a grizzled older Charlie in a fantastic Nudie suit covering "We Had It All" which was first recorded by Waylon, but Charlie speeds it up a bit here (and it's noted here as "When I Was Your Man" which is not the real title) and I love the fiddle and bass player boppin in the background.

 

[TownieDeac]

But won’t we be heralding them here?

 

[ImTheCaptain]

But won’t we be heralding them here?

we destroy the very things we love

 

[WakeBored]

The OGB uncertainty principle

 

[birdman]

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

I don't know if this one is heralded or not. Maybe it is.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

Two of my favorite Sabbath covers.

 

[deaconson]

Since there is a bunch of serious muzak fans here, I thought this would be a good place to post covers you like that are not well known (i.e. not Luke Combs singing Fast Cars).

Inaugural post, Mandolin Orange playing Boots of Spanish Leather.

Sorry Timmy, Luke combs can take his shitty, low energy, lifeless version of fast car and f+ck right off.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

Oops, forgot another favorite Sabbath cover.

 

[birdman]

I don't know if this one is heralded or not. Maybe it is.

Sprial Staris of Pavement did an interview where he said hearing this cover changed his musical world.

 

[wakelaw13]

 

[leftcoastdeac]

Oh man, I love a well done cover, so here's my entry into the thread:

The Get Up Kids covering "Close to Me" originally done by the Cure

 

[TownieDeac]

 

[DeacHead]

While we're talking Sabbath





For not-Sabbath

 

[WakeBored]

They don't really qualify as unheralded, but Seu Jorge's Bowie covers are too good to pass up. My current favorite is Starman, but they are all great: