Goosebumps are good
July 18, 2015 8:07 AM Subscribe
Three astonishing covers that illuminate the songs:
k.d. lang: "Crying" (from 1990's Tribute To Roy Orbison)
Linda Ronstadt: "The Dolphins" (Fred Neil's haunting anti-war song)
and in newly-restored footage of the Blues Alley performance:
Eva Cassidy: "Over The Rainbow"
k.d. lang: "Crying" (from 1990's Tribute To Roy Orbison)
Linda Ronstadt: "The Dolphins" (Fred Neil's haunting anti-war song)
and in newly-restored footage of the Blues Alley performance:
Eva Cassidy: "Over The Rainbow"
Also the Linda Ronstadt version in the post doesn't seem to work for me (maybe because I'm not in America, I don't know), but here's one that does.
posted by dng at 8:17 AM on July 18, 2015
posted by dng at 8:17 AM on July 18, 2015
Here are my favorite covers of Over the Rainbow:
Renata Scotto
Art Pepper
posted by slkinsey at 8:22 AM on July 18, 2015
Renata Scotto
Art Pepper
posted by slkinsey at 8:22 AM on July 18, 2015
Speaking of awesome covers: Ryan Adams Wonderwall
posted by leotrotsky at 8:45 AM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by leotrotsky at 8:45 AM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
For me, listening to Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" as she grew older is positively chilling. I hear all of her broken dreams and addictions going into the song and the song becomes a plea to escape.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 8:57 AM on July 18, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 8:57 AM on July 18, 2015 [4 favorites]
Oh, nice, thanks for posting! I love Eva Cassidy. It's so sad that we lost her so young.
posted by aka burlap at 9:04 AM on July 18, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by aka burlap at 9:04 AM on July 18, 2015 [5 favorites]
Eva Cassidy was a treasure. I discovered her years ago and her story slays me. It thrills me every time I see her mentioned on metafilter, more people can discover the wonder.
posted by pearlybob at 9:08 AM on July 18, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by pearlybob at 9:08 AM on July 18, 2015 [7 favorites]
Fred Neill left it all behind to care for Dolphins, but not before he had The Urge for Going.
posted by Oyéah at 9:20 AM on July 18, 2015
Imma let you finish, but the best "Crying" cover of all time didn't have any backing musicians and wasn't even in English.
posted by Spathe Cadet at 9:22 AM on July 18, 2015 [16 favorites]
posted by Spathe Cadet at 9:22 AM on July 18, 2015 [16 favorites]
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3EofN3Flag
Joni does Fred Neill.
posted by Oyéah at 9:30 AM on July 18, 2015
Joni does Fred Neill.
posted by Oyéah at 9:30 AM on July 18, 2015
Imma let you finish, but the best "Crying" cover of all time didn't have any backing musicians and wasn't even in English .
I came here to post this link. Couldn't agree more. Just stunning.
posted by Myca at 9:35 AM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
I came here to post this link. Couldn't agree more. Just stunning.
posted by Myca at 9:35 AM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
Yeah that Mulholland Drive version of Crying is indeed lovely, particularly for the emotional weight it carries in the film. But doesn't it mostly sound so haunting because of the massive amounts of reverb added in the soundtrack?
k.d lang's version is so solid, so much the song itself and yet also her. Such a great artist, particularly in this time. I kind of feel like America didn't deserve some of her talent. Nice of Canada to have shared her with us.
posted by Nelson at 10:12 AM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
k.d lang's version is so solid, so much the song itself and yet also her. Such a great artist, particularly in this time. I kind of feel like America didn't deserve some of her talent. Nice of Canada to have shared her with us.
posted by Nelson at 10:12 AM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
That song is a window into Eva's soul.. and what a beautiful soul. Thank you Eva.
posted by Captain Chesapeake at 10:43 AM on July 18, 2015
posted by Captain Chesapeake at 10:43 AM on July 18, 2015
The The - Dolphins (since someone beat me to the Orton / Callier version)
posted by the bricabrac man at 10:54 AM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by the bricabrac man at 10:54 AM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Here's my goosebumps cover- Cry, Cry, Cry doing James Keelaghan's Cold Missouri Waters
I hadn't seen Eva Cassidy before- thanks for that.
And that k.d. lang was awesome.
posted by MtDewd at 11:00 AM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
I hadn't seen Eva Cassidy before- thanks for that.
And that k.d. lang was awesome.
posted by MtDewd at 11:00 AM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
Covers that give me a chill:
Emmylou Harris: Hickory Wind (written by Gram Parsons)
Emmylou Harris: The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)
Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness (Will Oldham)
Nina Simone: Spring Is Here (Rodgers & Hart)
The Pogues: Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl)
And one that I always thought was a cover, but it turns out is an original, and probably my favorite K.D. Lang song: Miss Chatelaine.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:46 AM on July 18, 2015 [5 favorites]
Emmylou Harris: Hickory Wind (written by Gram Parsons)
Emmylou Harris: The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)
Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness (Will Oldham)
Nina Simone: Spring Is Here (Rodgers & Hart)
The Pogues: Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl)
And one that I always thought was a cover, but it turns out is an original, and probably my favorite K.D. Lang song: Miss Chatelaine.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:46 AM on July 18, 2015 [5 favorites]
kd lang can sing almost anything and find new emotional depths in it that weren't in the original. Check out her albums Drag and Hymns of the 49th Parallel. But even better than either of those, by far, is Shadowland.
Since we're also talking about David Lynch and his use of Roy Orbison's music, couldn't let that go by without including this untoppable classic.
posted by blucevalo at 12:03 PM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Since we're also talking about David Lynch and his use of Roy Orbison's music, couldn't let that go by without including this untoppable classic.
posted by blucevalo at 12:03 PM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh, Eva. I try not to copy your rendition of Over the Rainbow, but that last few bars in the bridge, I can hear it. What a bewilderingly talented person you were. The gift of your music is an amazing treasure and I'm envious of all the people that ever got to hear you live.
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I found this cover to be goosebumpy:
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Sara Bareilles).
posted by phoebus at 12:10 PM on July 18, 2015 [5 favorites]
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I found this cover to be goosebumpy:
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Sara Bareilles).
posted by phoebus at 12:10 PM on July 18, 2015 [5 favorites]
Sterling Harrison's cover of Tom Waits' "The House Where Nobody Lives" hits me. I can't find the whole thing anywhere, but there's a sample of it here.
posted by donpardo at 12:36 PM on July 18, 2015
posted by donpardo at 12:36 PM on July 18, 2015
It's been linked from MetaFilter before, but I get a little goosebumpy from Mike Masse's cover of "Africa" (orig. Toto).
posted by Spathe Cadet at 12:47 PM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Spathe Cadet at 12:47 PM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
Oh is this the thread for our favorite covers of Over the rainbow ?
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:30 PM on July 18, 2015
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:30 PM on July 18, 2015
Or are we doing haunting covers from David Lynch movies?
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:41 PM on July 18, 2015
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:41 PM on July 18, 2015
Some lovely music here, thanks all! I think my favorite goosebump inducing cover is Richard Thompson, Clive Gregson and Christine Collister doing Here Without You.
I may like their version more than the ones by The Byrds or Gene Clark, despite how improbable that may seem.
posted by talking leaf at 2:03 PM on July 18, 2015
I may like their version more than the ones by The Byrds or Gene Clark, despite how improbable that may seem.
posted by talking leaf at 2:03 PM on July 18, 2015
From a fantastic album of gospel covers of Bob Dylan, Brother & Sister, "The Times They Are A Changing"
Was anyone better at covers than Nina Simone?
posted by sallybrown at 2:04 PM on July 18, 2015 [4 favorites]
Was anyone better at covers than Nina Simone?
posted by sallybrown at 2:04 PM on July 18, 2015 [4 favorites]
That k.d. Lang cover of Crying was basically my entire jam for the year 1990.
posted by annathea at 2:27 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by annathea at 2:27 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
I was not even aware of the original Fred Neil song until around a year ago, having grown up with Billy Bragg's version of Dolphins.
posted by docpops at 3:13 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by docpops at 3:13 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
My all time favourite cover is Supple's version of 'Stayin' Alive'. It has a subtle menace that totally works.
posted by Thella at 3:42 PM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Thella at 3:42 PM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
Wow, Thella that link was spectacular. It's rare that a cover finds a wholly different song lurking beneath the original, but that one does it.
posted by srt19170 at 6:37 PM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by srt19170 at 6:37 PM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
Speaking of covers, I wonder what would happen if Stevie Wonder covered Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind.
(I totally forgot about that performance, which is now 25 years old.)
posted by phoebus at 7:20 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
(I totally forgot about that performance, which is now 25 years old.)
posted by phoebus at 7:20 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
I have lately been digging up a lot of covers that I (along with many people, seemingly) was unaware were covers -- I am guessing 99 out of 100 listeners assume that Kim Carnes wrote "Bette Davis Eyes," when it turns out she was covering a Jackie DeShannon track from seven years earlier. My most recent finding was that "Love Hurts" was not the Nazareth song I always assumed, but had passed through a few sets of hands before those Scotsmen tackled it. This also explained to me some 26 years after the fact why in 1989 I saw Roger Daltrey* imitating Roy Orbison** doing a Nazareth song***.
* The song was a staple of Who live shows in the 1965-67 period;
**The Who learned it from the 1961 Roy Orbison version, but
***Orbison was covering an Everly Brothers track from 1960.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:34 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
* The song was a staple of Who live shows in the 1965-67 period;
**The Who learned it from the 1961 Roy Orbison version, but
***Orbison was covering an Everly Brothers track from 1960.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:34 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Some of my favorite covers:
Everybody Wants to Rule the World covered by Andy Mckee
Panama covered by Reggie Watts
Like a Rolling Stone covered by Jimi
The Long Way Around, Jackson Browne reinterprets a song he wrote 50 years earler based on the guitar work he recorded for Nico, put back into pop culture by Wes Anderson, as a counterpoint to how it was sampled into pop pablum.
posted by peeedro at 8:56 PM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
Everybody Wants to Rule the World covered by Andy Mckee
Panama covered by Reggie Watts
Like a Rolling Stone covered by Jimi
The Long Way Around, Jackson Browne reinterprets a song he wrote 50 years earler based on the guitar work he recorded for Nico, put back into pop culture by Wes Anderson, as a counterpoint to how it was sampled into pop pablum.
posted by peeedro at 8:56 PM on July 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
I just learned that Frank Sinatra heard this track by the Kingston Trio on his car radio, and immediately pulled off the road and called his manager to say he had to record it, with strings.
posted by spbmp at 10:40 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by spbmp at 10:40 PM on July 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Speaking of goosebumpy, here's Jane Monheit doing Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You."
posted by gottabefunky at 11:01 PM on July 18, 2015
posted by gottabefunky at 11:01 PM on July 18, 2015
Also, Cassandra Wilson covering "Love is Blindness."
posted by gottabefunky at 11:05 PM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by gottabefunky at 11:05 PM on July 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
The songs that Old Johnny Cash sang just destroy me. So powerful, so sad.
posted by Archer25 at 6:54 AM on July 19, 2015
posted by Archer25 at 6:54 AM on July 19, 2015
This is germane because it is about Roy Orbison and a chilling cover song.
Elvis Costello had a song called The Comedians on his album Goodbye Cruel World. It is one of those generalized laments he does so well where he complains about different kinds of people and outlines the reasons he thinks they're buttheads.
Then Roy Orbison covered the song, but not before Elvis Costello rearranged it and rewrote the lyrics to make it a narrative in which a guy is intentionally abandoned overnight on a Ferris wheel by his girlfriend and the ride operator she runs off with.
The Orbison version is chilling and beautiful, but it's also really really weird. The song itself, and the fact that for some reason someone decided that if Roy Orbison was going to cover that song, it had to be totally rewritten from the perspective of a guy who is stranded overnight on a Ferris wheel.
posted by ernielundquist at 10:39 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Elvis Costello had a song called The Comedians on his album Goodbye Cruel World. It is one of those generalized laments he does so well where he complains about different kinds of people and outlines the reasons he thinks they're buttheads.
Then Roy Orbison covered the song, but not before Elvis Costello rearranged it and rewrote the lyrics to make it a narrative in which a guy is intentionally abandoned overnight on a Ferris wheel by his girlfriend and the ride operator she runs off with.
The Orbison version is chilling and beautiful, but it's also really really weird. The song itself, and the fact that for some reason someone decided that if Roy Orbison was going to cover that song, it had to be totally rewritten from the perspective of a guy who is stranded overnight on a Ferris wheel.
posted by ernielundquist at 10:39 AM on July 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
I had no idea this would turn into a "goosebumps, let me show you mine" festival, but it's awesome. I'm especially grateful to learn about Dylan's Gospel.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:32 PM on July 19, 2015
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:32 PM on July 19, 2015
I am so late to this party, but OMG Ian and Sylvia doing Tears of Rage.
(shivers)
posted by Mrs. Rattery at 2:39 PM on July 19, 2015
(shivers)
posted by Mrs. Rattery at 2:39 PM on July 19, 2015
I'll add Beth Hart (w/ Jeff Beck) singing "I'd Rather Go Blind" in front of the Obamas at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012. Amazing.
posted by GamblingBlues at 3:38 PM on July 19, 2015
posted by GamblingBlues at 3:38 PM on July 19, 2015
Julio Iglesias cover of La Mer (original Charles Trénet)
cover of I Drove All Night (original Roy Orbison)
Patty Smith cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit
Prince cover of The Best of You (original Foo Fighters)
Kiesza cover of What is Love (original Haddaway)
Nevena Tzoneva cover of I Will Always Love You(orginal Dolly Parton)
Fountains of Wayne Hit Me Baby One More Time
The Darkness Fade Out (original Radiohead)
posted by jouke at 10:50 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
cover of I Drove All Night (original Roy Orbison)
Patty Smith cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit
Prince cover of The Best of You (original Foo Fighters)
Kiesza cover of What is Love (original Haddaway)
Nevena Tzoneva cover of I Will Always Love You(orginal Dolly Parton)
Fountains of Wayne Hit Me Baby One More Time
The Darkness Fade Out (original Radiohead)
posted by jouke at 10:50 AM on July 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
billibee and ochenk: "Free Man In Paris" (part of the current MeFiMusic Challenge).
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:59 AM on July 22, 2015
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:59 AM on July 22, 2015
I've always been partial to Melanie's cover of Mr. Tambourine Man. It's the only version I've heard that actually seems to get it.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:54 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Sys Rq at 4:54 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
Y'all know I love a good cover. It comes from being a bar hack. As far as goosebumps… how about Carmen McRae's “Sound of Silence”? Maybe Sara Watkins and the Watkins Family Hour doing “Brokedown Palace” even if she leaves out the do-doot-doos which is my favorite part? Okay then, how about Kenda Morris absolutely melting “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”?
P.S. Did you think I wasn't gonna post Los Colorados because I always post Los Colorados in every cover thread? Yeah, no. I have no willpower. [Explict Lyrics]
P.P.S. What's that? You want something else by the same guys? How about a cover of “Let It Be” that includes a kazoo solo?
posted by ob1quixote at 6:39 PM on July 24, 2015
P.S. Did you think I wasn't gonna post Los Colorados because I always post Los Colorados in every cover thread? Yeah, no. I have no willpower. [Explict Lyrics]
P.P.S. What's that? You want something else by the same guys? How about a cover of “Let It Be” that includes a kazoo solo?
posted by ob1quixote at 6:39 PM on July 24, 2015
Rasutina - Wish You Were Here
Dawn Landes - Young Folks
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:32 AM on July 26, 2015
Dawn Landes - Young Folks
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:32 AM on July 26, 2015
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