Well, it isn't Led Zeppelin who actually covered Willie Dixon's 'I can't quite you babe' and subsequently covered by The Rolling Stones. The Stones also covered Willie Dixon's 'Little Red Rooster' first covered by Chester Burnett. Otis Redding's 'Been loving you too long'.....covered by the Stones and then Led Zeppelin. The one you were supposed to guess is 'Spoonful'.......
Prince's cover of Joan Osbourne's "(What if God Was) One of Us" isn't really surprising as it actually sounds like something he would have written but I love the original and IMO his gospelly rocky version surpasses it...
“Surprising” might not be the right adjective for Alan Partridge playing air-bass along to Gary Newman’s “Music for Chameleons” but it’s certainly memorable.
Surprising Cover Versions? Here's mad Roger Troutman's cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine..... ! Starts with promise... turns to shit
Ha ha! I love Roger/Zapp. He was doing the autotune/ vocoder thing decades before anybody else and “More Bounce to the Ounce” was basically the backing track for half the 90s gangsta rap records, yet outside of 80s funk aficionado circles, hardly anyone has heard of him
You can’t get much more surprising than Lewis Floyd Henry, a motorbike riding busker who looks and sounds like Jimi Hendrix doing a one-man-band mash up of Metallica and the Wu Tang Clan. Madder still, he carries all his stuff around with him on his bike. That spot (Brick Lane) is only a couple of hundred metres from where one of my friends lives and I’ve seen this guy play in person, though I don’t know if it was this actual performance. And here, doing a version of The Prodigy’s “Breathe”
That’s awesome! There’s a lot of talent though probably not a lot of genetic diversity on show there.
One of my favourite bands from my youth, The Meteors, did some good covers. These boots are meant for walking was a good one: Their live shows were just mad. The Sex pistols also put some great covers on Flogging a Dead Horse, like C'Mon Everybody and Something Else. Nasher.
I thought I’d seen another cover of Sound of Silence in the thread but it seems to have disappeared. I nominated this guy (David Draiman) in the rock singer thread. This cover builds and builds and is just jaw-dropping .....
