Cover songs of acts we like and don't like - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The first version of "Born To Be Wild" that I'd heard was on Slade's "Slade Alive!", and there is also a version of the song on Blue Öyster Cult's "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees". I prefer both of these to Steppenwolf's original.

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Black Midi's cover of '21st Century Schizoid Man' is also very good.

Martin Barre's Band has covered quite a few songs, and made them quite interesting, to say the least. Eleanor Rigby is one of those. Interesting arrangements and quite pleasant.

another Money cover Big smile

Kendra Morris nails SOYCD in under five minutes!

Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused?

Love this cover of one of my favorite songs from Pink Floyd.

I might have posted this cover before, but it's worthy. Tongue

Starshiper wrote:

Well, it seems Swedish heavy-metal band Ghost has managed to pull
off a cover of "Jesus He Knows Me" that utterly eclipses the original by
Genesis—who knew they had it in them?

Ghost do fantastic covers, and this certainly is a good one!

Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell

I have posted the first one in an older thread with an overlapping theme. One of my favorite cover versions ever, but I love the original too. Actually kind of true-or close to the original, but still very unique:

I just wish Cécile McLorin Salvant's jazzy/ghostly version of Wuthering Heights was longer:

-Also I think Brad Mehldau's whole double album Jacob's Ladder is amazing. He interpretates Rush (Tom Sawyer and Jacobs Ladder) Gentle Giant (Cogs in Cogs) and Yes (Starship Trooper). His latter version is perhaps my favorite. A version of spinetingling beauty, of a song I never cared all that much about. I learned just now that the amazing Cécile McLorin Salvant is a guest singer on it. To me everything on this album surpass the original material. Not that its nessecarely "better", but I'm personally more engaged. I only genuinely loved the original of Cogs in Cogs on beforehand, so this album has made me appreciate Rush and Yes more than before. And it still grows with every listen:

Not exactly a prog cover, but they are both represented at PA, so: Tori Amos / Trevor Horn covering Kendrick Lamar's Swimming Pools (Drank) made me aware of the depth of that song in a very touching way:

In 2014 I saw Slowdive perform a 10-minute + version of Syd Barrett's Golden Hair live, and it was sublime. I have a early 90's studio-and a Peel Session-version, (plus an arguably better sounding long live version than the one underneath). But this live take from the same tour as I saw them them, shows this blue haired girl crying all the way through the song "went viral" and was a part of Slowdive's ressurection. Once dismissed and butchered by critics in the wake of Grunge, but a little like GY!BE - a whole new generation connect with them. So they are more popular now than they ever were:

Finally perhaps The Residents one true song of pure unabashed beauty: their version of Hank Williams Six More Miles (to the Graveyard) feel like it's totally undistanced and unironic...

-I don't know if I'm replying in the correct way. But if I do, I probably have loads of similar "takes". As I kind of collect them.

Dream Theater inspired covers made by various lesser known acts/bands could make an entire list on their own, but this caught me by a surprise, both due to the song of choice and how obscure the cover is:
vikingguitar.bandcamp.com/track/1881-phantom-of-the-opera

Epignosis wrote:

essexboyinwales wrote:

Dan Reed Network’s funky cover of Pink Floyd’s money is waaasy better than the original (which always feels out of place on DSOTM)

Out of place?

I always thought going from "Time" to "Money" made a lot of cents.

It also made a lot of sense, because DSOTM has a perfect flow.