There have been a few over the years....
Joe Cocker - I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
Peter & Gordon - World Without Love
U2 - Helter Skelter (from "Rattle and Hum")
Frankie Miller - Imagine
and some real turkeys, too - either Billy Bragg's or Wet Wet Wet's version of IGBWALHFMF, Cilla's version of "Step inside Love" and the Overlanders version of "Michelle"....too many to think about...
And OK, Jealous Guy is a Lennon song...but it's a great cover...
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
McFly did a good version of Help.....
I know a little bit about a lot of things, but not a lot about anything...
Looking for people to jam with in Sydney Oz.......
And OK, Jealous Guy is a Lennon song...but it's a great cover...
So is Imagine, But we forgive you.
Deep Purple's version of Help is one I like and Ozzy's
In my Life works much better than I though it would.
Jeff Beck covered She's a Woman, but using talk box instead of vocals. Not really a fave of mine, but an interesting version.
-=tension & release=-
Blackbird - Sarah McLaughlin,
One of my favorite guitar songs and I think she improved upon it. Her voice is perfect for that song.
Cheers,
Max
Joe Cocker - I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
Fionna Apple = Across the Universe
Aerosmith - oh, whatever the heck is the name of that song....
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas: Do You Want To Know A Secret
Overlanders: Michelle
Joe Cocker: With A Little Help From My Friends
Matt Monro: Yesterday
Emy Loo Harris ( I think) : Here There And Everywhere
And:
I normally hate 80's pop (come to think of it I hated that decade too. The only good thing was the kids were born then.) but:
Bananarama: Help (Yeah I know! they murdered it but in a quirky kind of way I like it sometimes)
Wet Wet Wet: With A Little Help From My Friends ( same with this one I like it sometimes)
The guitar is all right John but you'll never make a living out of it! (John Lennon's Aunt Mimi)
Gov't Mule's versions of She Said and Helter Skelter rule! Eddie Vetter does a good cover of Hide your love away aswell as alot of the "I am Sam" sndtrck Beatles covers.
Thinkin' bout the times we had
Some were good and some were bad
guitar fightin' the tv
i was thinkin bout you and me
I love U2's Helter Skelter...but it's not the best beatles cover ive heard. that goes to......
Strawberry Fields Forever - Ben Harper.
Anything from the I Am Sam soundtrack is just BUTTAH!
Tomrrow Never Knows & All Along the Watchtower
Michael Hedges
Eric Gales did a hellatious job on "I Want You"
George Benson's "Abbey Road" (complete remake of all Abbey Road tunes) was very interesting; some moments of brilliance, but a few moments of horrific schlock as well.
There was a cover of Tomorrow Never Knows on the soundtrack for 'The Craft'. Don't know who did it, but it was great!
Gotta add Rufus Wainwrights version of Accross the Universe to that.
I'd almost forgotten:
Peter Sellers: "A Hard Days Night" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Both brilliant because he did them like mini Shakespearian plays, not as songs, but it worked.
Chris
The guitar is all right John but you'll never make a living out of it! (John Lennon's Aunt Mimi)
I really enjoy when bands that are so far removed from another do one of their songs. Case in point is a band called Type-O Negative. Every album they put a cover of a classic song on there, done in their very gothic style. One was "Summer Breeze".
They did a "Daytripper" version at one point that was very interesting.
"Oh Darling"
Bela Fleck & the FleckTones Live
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