I love cover versions of songs. It's really interesting to hear other people's interpretations of stuff. I do a bit of it myself (may post something one of these days), and I usually start by checking out what other people have done.
This is one of my favourite versions of Sympathy For The Devil. The recording itself isn't brilliant but the energy and talent shines through #CoSoMusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C16z-DBJvPU
@66ALW99 I have always been a fan of when a group will punk out a pop song; or a super group in this case. Here is one of my favs
@JackSprack If you're liking punky versions of songs, here's one you might like. I first heard this in college, years ago on a friend's dodgy underground CD. It was only about 20 years later that I found the same version again, thankfully on YouTube, so it can be shared - Stiff Little Fingers covering Bob Marley's Johnny Was:
#CoSoMusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcI6Mot4tHk
@66ALW99 The live covers are always a welcome treat!!
@JackSprack Did you see the Chris Cornell covers of Billy Jean and nothing Compares 2U posted earlier? Not punky, but live and pretty darn good, imo!
#CoSoMusic
Nothing Compares 2 U: https://counter.social/@66ALW99/109325828310609247
Billy Jean: https://counter.social/@66ALW99/109325891196110749
@66ALW99 Seen them and love them both. A talent that had so much more to give to this world and he left us too soon.
Here is another one of my fav's from the Foo Fighters
@JackSprack had to look up the original first, I don't know Prince's stuffthat well, but yeah, the cover's pretty great!
Thing I've noticed with a lot of Prince's music is, it's like there's some potentially great out and out rock stuff there, but it's like there's sort've 'musical bondage' element - there where it feels like it's deliberately kept a bit restrained
That probably sounds weirder than I would've liked 😂
@JackSprack I respect Prince's music, but tbh, from what I've heard, it sounds like the man himself was kind've a dick.
@66ALW99 😂 For sure - but, he was an artist dick, very much engrossed in his art and music; those kind of folks get a pass.
Couple of things I highly recommend you check out. 2 of them are clips from Dave Chappelle show of him doing Prince. Quick google will get you there
The last was an episode of Mike Judge Tales from the Tour Bus - Morris Day and the Time
@JackSprack thanks, I'll take a look later. Though Chappelle seems to be another one that turns out to have been a bit of a dick 😂
@66ALW99 Prince didn't like that cover, as Dave explained. So much so, that it was agreed that when the Foo album came out, that cover track was not allowed on the US release.