MetaFilter posts tagged with coversongs

Cover Vs. Original

auralcoral — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:52:25 -0800

Which do you prefer, the cover or the original?

M-I-C-K-E- Why does this sound different?

amyms — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:38 -0800

Covering The Mouse. An MP3 blog dedicated to cover versions of Disney songs. My favorite so far is Gene Simmons' cover of "When You Wish Upon A Star."

Cover songs you never thought you'd hear

St Urbain's Horseman — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:26:19 -0800

When Pigs Fly: Jackie Chan and Ani DiFranco? The Fixx covering Nancy Sinatra? Devo sings "Ohio"? You won't believe your ears. The "back" button is directly below the album cover.

The Puppini Sisters

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:23:32 -0800

In light of all of the recent genre-crossing cover posts on MetaFilter [1, 2], here's another. The Puppini Sisters cover such classics as Wuthering Heights, Heart of Glass and I Will Survive in 1940s style jazz. Enjoy.

The Torontoist Cover Song Catalogue

soundofsuburbia — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:47:39 -0800

The Torontoist Cover Song Catalogue. We tried to avoid some of the more obvious cover hits (like Alien Ant Farm's recent chart-topper "Smooth Criminal") and we stuck with actual recorded covers rather than including those only played in concert. You'll notice that most of these cover versions are pretty chilled-out, which is a byproduct of looking for tracks that were eclectic, odd and often very different from the originals.

flash rapture

giantkicks — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:33:17 -0800

Blondie's Rapture, a heartfelt cover of it by My Robot Friend. -another Flash link...

Atrocious Cover Songs

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:20:17 -0800

When Bad Singers Happen To Good Songs: The Songicides! In today's Spectator Markus Berkmann amusingly raises the deadly spectre of the worst covers ever recorded. We're talking assassins here. I nominate Phil Collins's massacre of Holland/Dozier/Holland's "You Can't Hurry Love", as originally sung by Diana Ross and the Supremes; U2's goring of Cole Porter's "Night and Day", best sung by Sinatra or Ella and, worst of all, though he's my favourite artist, Leonard Cohen's mangling of Irving Berlin's classic "Always". What's the worst cover version you'd like to report to Musical Homicide?