Colombian video artist Dicken Schrader covers Depeche Mode songs with the help of his young children, Milah and Korben, using some unexpected objects as instruments and illustrative props. Three split-screen videos: "
Strangelove", "
Everything Counts", & "
Shake The Disease".
posted by flex
on Jan 29, 2012 -
22 comments
Looking for something familiar with a twist? Best told from their About Us Page: Vitamin Records was formed in Los Angeles in 1999 to provide music lovers with high quality string quartet, lounge and electronic tributes to major pop and rock artists. Vitamin's mission is to offer fans exciting versions of their favorite songs performed in new musical contexts.
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posted by filmgeek
on Mar 23, 2011 -
22 comments
The Music of Jacques Brel is an article by music journalist Amy Hanson about the career of pop music legend Jacques Brel and his effect on popular music in the English language. A lot of songs and covers are mentioned in the article, below the cut are links to the songs that I could find videos of online.
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posted by Kattullus
on Aug 6, 2010 -
49 comments
Nouvelle Vague covers New Wave and Punk (MLYT) Nouvelle Vague (no, not
this one) does Bossa Nova covers of New Wave and Punk songs, including:
Dance with me (
Lords of the New Church),
Master and Servant (
Depeche Mode),
Love will tear us apart (
Joy Division),
Making plans for Nigel (
XTC),
Blue Monday (
New Order),
This is not a love song (
PiL),
The guns of Brixton (
The Clash), and one NSFW title
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posted by zippy
on Aug 19, 2009 -
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Beck intends to record cover versions of selected albums in a day, unrehearsed, with guest musicians and then to release them on his website. Pitchfork announced it yesterday
here. The first song is
Sunday Morning.
posted by tawny
on Jun 19, 2009 -
48 comments
Written in 1967 by Bob Dylan, it was originally
quiet, lowkey... and vaguely menacing. But when Jimi Hendrix
redefined it the following year, even
Dylan knew that the song had changed forever.
Since then, it's been
covered (
over and over again),
praised almost as often,
analyzed,
referenced, and, of course,
found to be encoded in the minds of Cylons.
Originally released 40 years ago, erm, yesterday: All Along the Watchtower.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher
on Dec 28, 2007 -
41 comments
Songs You Didn't Know Were Cover Versions: Good Lovin',
Mambo No. 5,
The City of New Orleans,
Fernando,
The First Cut Is the Deepest,
I Love Rock 'n' Roll,
Just A Gigolo,
Without You,
Don't Turn Around,
Let's Live for Today,
Dazed and Confused,
Seasons in the Sun,
Pass the Dutchie,
There's Always Something There to Remind Me,
Gloria,
Respect,
Turn Turn Turn,
When the Levee Breaks,
Do You Wanna Touch Me,
Cum on Feel the Noize,
Hanging on the Telephone,
I Go Blind,
I Will Always Love You,
Take Me to the River,
Louie Louie,
The Twist etc. etc.
posted by jonp72
on Jul 13, 2007 -
111 comments
Aside from the usual crap, YouTube has a great selection of
one the
most
covered
song of all time:
All Along the Watchtower. Classics like Hendrix (
live and
studio), Neil Young (at
DailyMotion
with better sound) and
U2--and some great contemporary versions like Keziah
Jones' blazingly-fast
version,
Bradley Fish's 12-instrument (including Chinese Zither)
version, Michael Hedges’
reason-to-be-excited
cover, and
even a quite good version of DMB's much-maligned
cover. What doesn't really rank: Dylan's original.
posted by FeldBum
on Jul 2, 2007 -
43 comments
Mefites love cover versions. But are we ready for
The Legion of Rockstars? To wit: "1) A bunch of people put on noise-canceling headphones. 2) They all listen to the same song and play along. 3)The results are recorded and set to the original music video. 4) Hilarity ensues" (
myspace,
via).
posted by bardic
on Jun 22, 2007 -
22 comments