I downloaded a couple of tracks from Patti Smith’s covers album and it put more in the mood for a bit of the same: that is, cover versions. So I thought I’d bung a few up. Add your favourites.
Also, I’m trying to finish another project at the moment so will be a bit pre-occupied with that over the next few weeks. I’ll keep posting, but not quite as frequently as usual. I’ll still be lurking around comments, so feel free to drop in with suggestions, comments or any other music-related observations.
So here’s Patti Smith doing ‘Soul Kitchen’ by the Doors.
Hard to believe Steve Hillage was once under consideration to join the Rolling Stones. Here he is doing Donovan’s ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’.
For something completely different, here’s Carly Simon doing Kris Kristofferson’s ‘I’ve Got to Have You’. Really nice slow guitar solo in this. (Wasn’t available on YouTube).
And one more. Again, no YouTube. A surprisingly straight version of ‘Kiss’, the Prince song, by English folky, Richard Thompson
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Richard Thompson’s Oops I Did It Again works really well. A lot of covers like this from a TV show were classics. And Elizabeth Fraser singing Song To The Siren is beautiful.
The Fraser one is v. nice. Love a good cover version, I must say…
An excellent source of cover versions is the Coverville podcast. If you haven’t listened, start making your way through the 600+ back episodes – the end-of-year Coverville Countdown episodes are a good starting point, or search for a “cover story” of an artist you like.
And I’ll throw in a link to Jonathan Coulton doing TMBG’s “Birdhouse in Your Soul”.
Zappa does the Allmans Whipping Post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TItmXT8DkM
Lambchop covering The Sisters of Mercy’s ‘This Corrosion’- wonderful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWdvXBa_o5s
I like how “The Wire” used the same Tom Waits song as its theme but used a different version each season and the original in season 2. The covers of “way down in the hole” were done by The Blind Boys of Alabama, Waits, The Neville Brothers, DoMaJe(hip hop children) and Steve Earle.
Interesting lyrics represented in different ways.
Also the Weeds tv show has a new version of the song little boxes per week!
moira – if you liked The Equalizer – don’t get a series of Callan – you may well think you are in the Rapture and sproing off into heaven.
The Equalizer is to Callan like Nescafe is to a good coffee or Corio Whiskey (do they still sell it?) is to a Single malt.