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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: Jack the Stripper on March 06, 2018, 04:38:49 AM
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I'll kick it off with Spooky Tooth's Better By You, Better Than Me which became more famous in more ways than one by Judas Priest
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCDYLWJaYs
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An obvious one for this board:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwlcq8_EuEc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFm3u2e-N8A
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNogZplQ4vc
Other "More famous covers" by Hoyt Axton:
- Never Been To Spain (Three Dog Night)
- The Pusher (Steppenwolf)
- Snowblind Friend (Steppenwolf)
Also worth noting is that it was Hoyt's mother, Mae Axton who wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"!
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Some good choices so far.
Skyhooks were quite big in Australia and this song was a top ten hit but outside of Australia most people, particularly in metal only know Iron Maiden's version.
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^^^ Wow, didn't know that was a cover!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFkYJPKccew
Krokus actually did a few Randy Bachman tunes (American Woman, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet), but this one was never a hit.
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Wow... Mars Bonfire's "Born to be Wild" is so... mellow... That song just isn't convincing when it's sung in a Flower Power style.
So how about this guy that got covered pretty convincingly by the Led Zeppelin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc
Jake Holmes' version almost anticipates Goth, 20 years before it was a thing. Sparse instrumentation, edgy vocals, acidic delivery, it's all there.
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Metallica have made quite a lot of songs more famous but I'm gonna pluck this one out as one of the more obscure covers they've done.
The original is still bad ass I must say.
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^^^ I never heard that Jake Holmes original before! Just goes to show that another artist (Jimmy Page in this case) can take a song to whole different place than the original.
Metallica have made quite a lot of songs more famous but I'm gonna pluck this one out as one of the more obscure covers they've done.
The original is still bad ass I must say.
That Garage Days album really shed some light on some bands that were for all intent and purposes, forgotten. So good on Metallica for doing that! They gave those bands a showcase for newer fans and a bit of dough in their pockets for the writing.
Not a Joni Mitchell fan, but I like what Nazareth did to this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTfB8Q6DpZ0
This thread got me thinking of Beatles tunes as well, and even though the songs weren't made "more famous", I thought in a lot of cases, they were improved. such as: Deep Purple's "Help", and Joe Cocker's "A Little Help From My Friends" (Which Jimmy Page plays on!), to name a couple. Streetheart's version of The Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb" is another example IMO.
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I would dare say that Cocker's "A Little Help From My Friends" is more famous, particularly the Woodstock version.
Here's an Isley Bros. song that The Beatles ran to town with. The Bros. were very happy that The Beatles liked their song enough to perform it, resulting in cross-interest between one fanbase and the other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTaqn8_gMR0
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Meanwhile, the Isley Brothers' version of *this* song eclipsed the popularity of the original. Again, though, the original artist was happy for the success of the song, even with another act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTv0K2SUlCY
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Here's an Isley Bros. song that The Beatles ran to town with. The Bros. were very happy that The Beatles liked their song enough to perform it, resulting in cross-interest between one fanbase and the other.
Must have been (and probably still is!) a hell of a payday for the Isly Bros!
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Here's an Isley Bros. song that The Beatles ran to town with. The Bros. were very happy that The Beatles liked their song enough to perform it, resulting in cross-interest between one fanbase and the other.
Must have been (and probably still is!) a hell of a payday for the Isly Bros!
Indeed. :smug:
And if you go through The Beatles' BBC sessions and match them up with originals and play them back to back, it's quite an interesting musical landscape.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zWw0Ru28w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_ozjAu_vM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPS0ETuUYE
You could throw almost any "Elvis" tune on this thread since, he never wrote any of his own tunes!
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Judas Priest's cover is probably my favourite cover by anyone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j81Vx-0uM0k
Also "Call Me The Breeze" and "Cocaine", as well as many others.
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Not always you can catch a band doing its own covers, but Whitesnake is one of those bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S83G_GW6Kr0
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^^^ Indeed! Purple covered themselves too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hypGtXxz5Sc
Not a patch on the original IMO.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZxN9iQM7OY
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Never actually heard the original (so I assume this is the right recording), and I'm not much of a Quo fan either but I think their cover is definitely more well known than the original.
This one is self explanatory. The Priest cover would no doubt be more well known in metal circles, but the original is no slouch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0
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True, the Purple revisited both "Bloodsucker" and "Hush". Maybe it's something that's in the water they drink?
I was waiting for "Green Manalishi" to pop up, love the Fleetwood Mac version and the Judas Priest version equally.
But I do like the Joan Jett version of that song best.
Now for my addition to the thread, let's see here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGvux7w1Ea4
Don't recognize it? Maybe because the later version was called "Hotel California" and had different lyrics. The Eagles opened for Tull on a US tour and Anderson figures the song must have gotten stuck in their heads. He was rather pleasantly surprised to recognize his old work in "Hotel California". But, yeah, there's a very interesting similarity in the two songs.
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Gotta post the obvious one...
And i'm a Guns fan...
I heard both of these before the originals, and what i love about Knockin' is the backstory to why they played it. But it's gotta be live with the reggae part.
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Ok, so maybe not more known, but as a huge Bowie fan, this've never been amongst my faves. This version, though...
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^^ Man Who Sold The World too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XiYUYcpsT4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgQO6sILug
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^^ Man Who Sold The World too!
More known than the original? Hmm....
And strictly it's Clapton who's covering I Shot The Sheriff...
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More known than the original? Hmm....
Definitely!
And strictly it's Clapton who's covering I Shot The Sheriff...
Yep, and there's ^^^ Marley's original version. Cheers!
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More known than the original? Hmm....
Definitely!
Ok then. But Bowies' better.
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Carl Perkins did this song first, had a huge hit with it... and then had a car wreck and was out of commission for a good long while. When he had recovered, Elvis had already had an even bigger hit with it and, because he couldn't record a follow-up while he was recuperating, Perkins was always in Elvis' shadow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRNyvO4QouY
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Ok then. But Bowies' better.
Oh, without a doubt!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWv03Wgz0PQ
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I've brainfarted at some point during this thread and started posting the covers instead...
So:
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Not sure if the Kiss version was more famous, but I like it better.
Here's the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLKoOs3IpU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBEBV1wkq4
Love both Buck Owens' "Bakersfield Country" version and Ringo-voiced Beatles version, although most folks know The Beatles' cover of the tune.
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Another one that Nazareth streamlined and made more popular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JhZqWCqKs8
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Another one that Nazareth streamlined and made more popular:
And another one where the original is better...
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Don't know how I forgot about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iaca30QbOo
I'll be very surprised if you like this version better than Manfred Mann's Billy!
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For rockers, we all know the ZZ Top version of the song better than the Sam & Dave original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKiyo48VJI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPBOXOtBUE0
A year later, Wilson Pickett (The writer), covered himself and had an even bigger hit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg
The Cyndi Lauper version is a *cover* of this early 80s power pop single.
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one of the best examples
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HCgVgmEgUY
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Before there was Metallica, there was Budgie...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54H3EUAzpVg
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...and Diamondhead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjnwOVaI7V8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3PMYzXL8JM
Before some guys hip-hopped it up...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3PMYzXL8JM
Before some guys hip-hopped it up...
wow !! I didn't know that! I just tried to watch this hip hop cover video for less than an minute. How did they dare? horrible, atrocious, outrageous, vulgar, uninspired, cheap, ______ (you could add another synonym for bad).
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Yeah... only reason I knew about it was from riding with my wife, who listens to Top 40 radio and that track came on. Had no idea that the Supertramp got sampled like that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFBuYHldeY
Hands up if you heard the Krokus version first... and the Wayne's World version next...
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^^^ The first version i heard was by a Norwegian comedy a cappella group who write Norwegian lyrics for different more or less known songs, this became (translated) "Ball On Blitz" (Blitz was an Punk squat/youth club in Oslo in the 80's & 90's).
The second version i heard was the Tia Carrere/Wayne's World one, which both movie and soundtrack helped shape a very young Billy Underpuppy.
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Both Bill Haley's and Elvis' versions are more well known, but it's Big Joe Turner that got things rollin'... like a wheel in a Georgia cottonfield!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhELpSeeipg
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THREE! FOUR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJzcS-mEfOg
Yeah, this here's the originator! Ian Hunter! :headbanger: