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Strat wrote:Glorious debauchery. It certainly captures something....

I'll raise you....

One of the best covers ever.

Or is this it

Iron and Wine - Love Vigilantes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnepZfBO-D8





This is me covering KOL California Waiting, but its more like "holy shit this sucks!" I did it in one take on some hazy afternoon. The two photos in the clip are from a trip to Kauai this past August.

verb_to_trust wrote:

Strat wrote:Glorious debauchery. It certainly captures something....

I'll raise you....

I fucking love that though. That also kind of stung a bit when I found out it was a cover :\

It's almost the perfect westerberg song lyric wise..

LetMeSleep wrote:One of the best covers ever.

Or is this it

That version of "Wonderwall" completely eclipses the original for me--I was never much of an Oasis fan anyway, but I think of it more as a Ryan Adams song than I do one of their tunes.

When he did that "Wasted Years" cover it immediately made me want to dig out my Iron Maiden records and see if they stand up to scrutiny (I don't think I've listened to any of them since I was 15). I still haven't gotten around to it.

Here's another one I dig:

Tom Wait and Bob Dylan's songs seem to always work well for other artists.

- Waits -
Jersey Girl (Bruce Springsteen)
Long Way Home (Nora Jones)
Way Down In The Hole (Steve Earle)
Downtown Train (Rod Stewart)
Goin' Out West (Queens of the Stone Age)
Step Right Up (Violent Femmes)

- Dylan -
All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
When I Paint My Masterpiece (Grateful Dead)
Buckets Of Rain (Beth Orton & M. Ward)
Goin' To Acapulco (Jim James & Calexico)
Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show)

This kid.

elliseamos wrote:- Dylan -
All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
When I Paint My Masterpiece (Grateful Dead)
Buckets Of Rain (Beth Orton & M. Ward)
Goin' To Acapulco (Jim James & Calexico)
Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show)

You left out the best one...

Lament wrote:

elliseamos wrote:- Dylan -
All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
When I Paint My Masterpiece (Grateful Dead)
Buckets Of Rain (Beth Orton & M. Ward)
Goin' To Acapulco (Jim James & Calexico)
Wagon Wheel (Old Crow Medicine Show)

You left out the best one...

I know nothing of PJ Harvey. However, that was pretty good. I also considered RATM's version of Maggie's Farm.

elliseamos wrote:I also considered RATM's version of Maggie's Farm.

I haven't played that whole record in a long time, but I remember that being a good one.

This remains one of my favourite records of the last few years.

Birds in Hell wrote:This remains one of my favourite records of the last few years.

Oooooooh, thanks for the reminder that this existed.

Lukin cover

This is still excellent. ACDC - Baby Please Don't Go

some people dont like this cover. some people can go and fuck themselves.

I think Scott Weiland is pretty terrible (no matter what the context), but this cover of one of my all-time favorite Depeche Mode songs really got to me the first time I heard it back in 2001. Still tugs at the ol' heartstrings. I wouldn't place it above the original, but it hits me in a different way.

Rafa's gonna hate me... but Jack White's cover of Love Is Blindess is maybe my favorite cover of all time. Sorry, Raf.