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    Posted: July 06 2006 at 17:04
Does anyone have interesting covers of classic or even more obscure prog songs? If you do, please post them here or give the artist name/album. If this topic has already been done before, I apologize.
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Points: 11979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2006 at 17:24
Funny you should mention that,here's Kevin Gilbert performing excerpts from The Lamb and in the 4th link a storming verion of Musical Box:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-9WV933kA&search=kevin%20gilbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biDVswwZUyM&search=kevin%20gilbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q75eAWigm5s&search=kevin%20gilbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOfp9Cbf_U8&search=kevin%20gilbert


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How about Dream Theater covering Rush's "A Passage To Bangkok"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCUJd2k901c&eurl=

LaBrie's vocals are horrid though and there is a syncing problem
    

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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

How about Dream Theater covering Rush's "A Passage To Bangkok"?
http://www.rushisaband.com/video.php?id=382

LaBrie's vocals are horrid though.


I totally agree. LaBrie sounds flat and struggles to hit the high notes. I bet Russell Allen could hit those notes.
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Sex Pistols perform Hawkwind's Silver Machine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_C1JEBxeA
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what's better than prog classics... covered by the best of the next generation of prog....


more shameless plugging  of this album in advance of a 5 star review I'm posting tonight... if a fan of keyboard orientated prog... you have to have this album. Erik recommended it to me and was floored on the first listen. It's  available for $9. for almost an hour of some serious serious music covered by groups that obviously love the subject matter hahaha

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=8449
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I'll be posting my cover of "Moonlight on Vermont" soon, but in the meantime, mistreat your ears to this:
 
 
Not prog, but instead a cover version I did (in about 3 hours total) of the extremely obscure childrens' show "King Koopa's Kool Kartoons". When I first saw it on retrojunk.com, I was amazed that something so obscure could possibly exist. When I searched for it on Google, NOTHING came up. My friends and I were shocked. "The internet not know about something!? NO!!!!" So we all dedicated ourselves to finding out more about this show that time forgot. Long story short, the show's obscurity is utterly justified. It sucks. But the theme song, which you can find the original at http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/985-king-koopas-kool-kartoons/ , repulsed me even more. Cheap 80's crap with bad everything. So, with a mind akin to The Residents', I decided to cover it. Something so bad needs to be spread around, you know? And there you go.
 
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I put way more thought into that than was necessary.
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The Italian symphonic prog band Malibran has a mad cover of bouree with changing moods, in fact there's a salsa part, figure it out!.
The polish group Quidam made a cover of led zep No quarter.
After Crying made a live cover of starless with john wetton.
In the PFM 10 anni live album they make covers of king crimson and jethro tull.
Asia song here comes the feeling was in fact a song by the french symphonic band Atoll


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Quidam's version of 'No Quarter' is powerful and amazing.ClapClap

 But they made another cover of Camel's 'Rhayader' - on the live album 'Baja Prog'.Smile
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Robert Fripp and  Peter Hammell doing the Strangler's TankLOL
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Marc Almond has covered Peter Hammill. Can't remember what song. Not any of his proggiest.

Current 93 has covered Comus: Diana 

A bit off topic (but just a bit): Tori Amos has a great cover of Slayers Raining Blood.

Ehem. Panzerpappa has covered Happy the Man: I Forgot to Push it.

A cover/tribute album of new italian prog covering italianprog from the 70's has been made.

Venus in Furs, the fictive band in the awful Velvet Goldmine movie does great covers of Roxy Music: Ladytron and Bitter Sweet.


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Franco Battiato made a very good cover of 'Impressione di Septembre' by Premiata Forneria Marconi in a (dreadful otherwise) album of cover versions.

And PFM made a cover of Battiato's non-prog track 'Bandera Bianca' in a tribute cd.
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There are several Mike Oldfield covers. The most curious is a version of 'To France'... by (a bit prog related) metal band Blind Guardian.

Kevin Ayers also made a (inferior) version of 'Flying Start', a song he also sang on the 'Islands' album.
 
Another cover before leaving: Blackmore's Night (Ritchie Blackmore's medieval rock group) made a cover of a rare but good B-side Jethro Tull song: Rainbow Blues
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How about Iron Maiden's cover of Cross Eyed Mary (Tull) or Jeff Buckley's version of Back In New York City
 
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Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:



A bit off topic (but just a bit): Tori Amos has a great cover of Slayers Raining Blood.

Actually, Tori (whom I rather dig - I've got three or four albums by her) made a whole album of covers, called "Strange Little Girls". Some of the versions are a bit weird to say the least, but none could accuse her of not having personalised the songs. "Raining Blood" is even more disturbing than the original (which is the slowest song on Slayer's seminal RiB album); but my personal favourite is her cover of Eminem's "97 Bonnie and Clyde" - a real blood-chilling piece of work.

A cover/tribute album of new italian prog covering italianprog from the 70's has been made.

That sounds quite interesting. Do you have a link to that? I suppose my friends Ubi Maior from Milan might be on that.

BTW, as someone mentioned the ubiquitous DT, I think they're a great cover band. I'd like to hear what they did of "The Number of the Beast" (though when I heard that Maiden wanted LaBrie to replace Dickinson, I wanted to die on the spot...LOL), and I really like their cover of DP's "Perfect Strangers".

As to "No Quarter", the Tool cover is nothing short of spectacular. I'm well on my way to becoming the next Tool fan on this forum...Wink
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Originally posted by <a href=http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=9182&FID=3 target=_blank><strong><FONT color=#000000>moomaloo</FONT></strong></A> moomaloo wrote:

]How about Iron Maiden's cover of Cross Eyed Mary (Tull) or Jeff Buckley's version of Back In New York City
 
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and frank zappa covering led zeppelin's starway to heaven?????
and DT covering rush's different strings?????
and a brazilian bossanova singer (i don't remember the name) covering rush's tom sawyer?????
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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

How about Dream Theater covering Rush's "A Passage To Bangkok"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCUJd2k901c&eurl=

LaBrie's vocals are horrid though and there is a syncing problem
    
 
they are! Confused



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Points: 113 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2006 at 12:52
Hum, Between the Buried and Me covered King Crimson's Three of a Perfect Pair. I haven't heard the original or the cover yet, though.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2006 at 13:22
WillieThePimp,

Just to please you: Willie The Pimp was covered by Juicy Lucy and it's a rather cool version (not that I've heard the original, but I can imagine what it's like).

Check it out if you haven't already.
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