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Anonymous wrote:I can't make you love me - Bon Iver

Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine

Oh and...

Enjoy the Silence - Tori Amos

never heard this. amazing.

I agree. It's off of her album "Strange Little Girls" - all covers.

I have to question some the PPs, though. I think anyone who covers a Beatles song is just way top big for their britches. "Yeah, the Beatles did it OK, but I can make it better." No. No, you cannot.

I'm the Beatles PP. I don't think the point of a cover is to do it better than the original. It's to do it well, and do it differently, and put your own spin on it. It's not like Beatles songs are sacred -- they have a big catalog of great songs, and it's natural that other people are going to have different takes on them. (Do you also think no one should cover Bob Dylan songs? We'd be missing a bunch, then, including that lovely Adele version of "Make You Feel My Love.")

Sure, there are lots of crap Beatles covers out there. In the 60s, everybody covered them. But there are some that are great. Listen to Help by Tina Turner (on her "Live in Europe" album, recorded in London). It's slow and soulful and amazing, and nothing like the Beatles version. It brings a whole new take to Lennon's and McCartney's words.

And Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude" was a soul phenomenon in its own right, elevating his career, and also getting session guitarist Duane Allman noticed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't make you love me - Bon Iver

Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine

Oh and...

Enjoy the Silence - Tori Amos

never heard this. amazing.

Ani Difranco - Hurricane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6On-ywDr-GU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS-Wz8SH8Nw

govt mule - war pigs

Higher Ground - RHCP
Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead, and others.

Anonymous wrote:I can't make you love me - Bon Iver

Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine

Oh and...

Enjoy the Silence - Tori Amos

I can't make you love me - Bon Iver

Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine

Great thread ... Just asking this makes me want to meet you.

Grateful Dead - Good Lovin

Gone Daddy Gone - Gnarls Barkley
The Ghost in You - Robyn Hitchcock

Anonymous wrote:Cake, I Will Survive
Rhiannon Giddons, Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind and Black is the Color
Johnny Cash, Hurt
The Clash, I Fought the Law
Aretha Franklin, Respect

Beat me to it.

I have to question some the PPs, though. I think anyone who covers a Beatles song is just way top big for their britches. "Yeah, the Beatles did it OK, but I can make it better." No. No, you cannot.

Two covers of Smiths songs

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Anonymous wrote:When I Was Your Man -- Thomas Rhett

Can't Stop a Loving You -- Keith Urban

Did you see Keith's live "Its a mans world" performance? For some reason I never really love his stuff (my mom LOOOOOOVES him) but he's so damn talented that its hard to not notice.

Also your post kind of reminds me how closely r&b songs and country songs can be- all those Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers collaborations back in the day make so much sense.

Oh I forgot that one. It's A Man's World was outstanding. There's a great video of it on YouTube (from CMT I think). For all his awards, Keith Urban is actually overlooked/underrated/snubbed by the Country community I think. This performance lost a CMA Award to Jason Aldean who may be a lot of things but he's not a great Performer at all.

I didn't realize how many of these were covers.

Probably my fave all time cover is UB40 red, red wine

Anonymous wrote:His "Somebody to Love" is pretty great too.

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