Hope you enjoy it. Of course, if you’re already familiar with the original, your take on this may be different to mine, but I have a soft spot for the Cowboy Junkies, and this is on probably my favourite album of theirs.
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Lovely vocals. Long time since I listened to the Cowboy Junkies. Very gentle.
(Also, you’ve never really lived if you haven’t heard Snuff’s mighty cover of I Think We’re Alone Now…)
There have been a couple of mentions of This Mortal Coil’s cover of Song to the Siren, which is superb, but I also love the version by The Czars, with John Grant on lead vocal.
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I love John Grant and I’d never heard his version. Wow! Imagine if he could be persuaded to re-do that now, with his slightly more gravelly voice…
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Television do a cracker live cover of Knockin On Heavens Door.
Album is ‘The Blow Up’
Also Cold Chisel cover it live on ‘Swingshift’
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Eva Cassidy’s cover of Sting’s Fields of Gold is exceptional…
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David
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The Jungle Line - Herbie Hancock/Leonard Cohen (Original Joni Mitchell)
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As is her version of “Over the rainbow”.
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This is also rather good
A Day In The Life
I can believe it. It is unlistenable. Like nails on a chalk-board.
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Eva Cassidy - Fields Of Gold.
Although Stings original is OK in it’s own right, Eva adds something special to it.
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I really like Mary Black’s cover of Fields of Gold as well, would have loved to have heard her and Eva doing it as a duet.
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The sound of Silence - Disturbed
Definitely, perhaps even defiantly, one I would support. In the context of the rest of the album it is, indeed, almost the sound of silence. The underlying menace is quite palpable.
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Talking Heads/Take me to the river cover of the Al Green song. I think this is such a clever cover song and even though there is only 4-5 years between versions (IIRC) it sounds more like decades and the TH version still sounds fresh.
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
From Nine Inch Nails version to his was incredible. His period in life, emotion captured. Gotta be the best cover no?
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Twice
A little obscure perhaps, but the Swedish group Little Dragon’s “Twice” has been covered many times, (and rightly so, it’s lovely). Here’s the original:
And here is a quite splendid cover by the New York piano trio (that @BertBird introduced me to) PLS.Trio (from an album that’s just magical if you like EST style jazz):
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
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The original was great, but I was always a fan of this too.
Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi featuring Vanessa Carlton.
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