Best prog cover by a non prog band?
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Topic: Best prog cover by a non prog band?
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Subject: Best prog cover by a non prog band?
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 05:53
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Cryin in the dark/King of twilight by iron maiden..fantastic cover version...even better than the original
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Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:02
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Where can I find that cover?
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:05
the cover version is called King of twilight although it has pieces from cryin in the dark..the song appeared as a b side for the single called aces high but can be found again in cd version in the EDDIE ARCHIVES collectors box... Edit: Here is a link to a bit of it: http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/audio/bsides/Eddie's%2 0Archive%205%20of%20608.wma - http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/audio/bsides/Eddie's%2 0Archive%20(5%20of%206)08.wma Bah did not work just go to http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/bestbsides.php - http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/bestbsides.php then and click on the song ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Chipiron wrote:Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:10
And there is also a nice cover on Cross eyed mary wich appeared as a b side for the trooper single... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:11
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OK, Thank you.
I can't remember any cover now... I'll think about it. I suppose most non-prog bands aren't fond of prog or brave enough. ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:12
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well look at Black Sabbath's "Heaven'n'Hell" ------------- don't worry be happy |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:16
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Any prog bands got some unusual prog covers of some pop songs? Like forexample The residents: A mans world ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:18
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"In The Court Of The Crimson King" by SAXON "21st Century Schizoid Man" by ENTOMBED  ... and I think I've heard once "Hymn 43" by OVERKILL... ------------- Pablo P. |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:19
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Hmm interesting i think also Ozzy osbourne covered 21st century schizoid man... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:37
There's Beggar's Opera doing MacArthur's Park (?) and Yes did a fair few... America for one.
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:39
ah yes and that was a song by simon and garfunkel? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 06:48
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One to make many in the forum cringe: The Sissors Sisters version of PF's Comfortably Numb - which I personally quite like
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Posted By: thrang theng
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 07:06
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Listen to Heart of the sunrise by Yes covered by the California Guitar Trio from the album CG3+2, they played it with acoustic guitars! but also includes bass and drums ------------- Take my fire Take my food and water Forget about those promises Of social good and social order... |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 07:07
I've been listening to the Beggar's Opera
version of MacArthur Park on the Vertigo ' Time Machine' box set. I thought it would be really terrible but it's brilliant - I'll have to get some of their albums. ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 07:32
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This is the best of all IMO... ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 07:34
Get their first three: "Act One" ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
; "Pathfinder" Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 07:42
Cheers MB - Waters of Change it is then. God, Prog is an expensive hobby. I've also just ordered the Deram Legend of a Mind box set! ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 08:19
Saw it once on MTV and found it quite disturbing...eerie, I would say! ------------- A flower? 
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Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 08:21
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Helloween covered Locomotive Breath and Hocus Pocus on their 1999 release Metal Jukebox
Well, the originals are better, but they are nonetheless funny!  ------------- A flower?
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 08:26
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Downloaded some months ago! Excellent cover! |
Posted By: cluckie
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 08:36
i quite like the whole album, theres a definite atom heart mother influence in at least one of their songs |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 09:40
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21st Century Schizoid Man (for instance Gary Moore Band backing Greg Lake aint bad at all, as is a multi-tracked, voices-only version by Dokaka, and particularly excellent jazz take by Theo Travis last year) /Red (e.g. Glueleg) seem to be popular KC tunes to cover. Elsewhere Gary Lucas had down two stripped down and reinvented versions of King Kong: as Guerillas In The Midst (ex. Skeleton At The Feast), King Strong (ex. Gods & Monsters), and Floyd's Astromony Domine also on Gods & Monster, said to be multi-tracked in one take. Jeff Buckley's Back in New York City (ex. Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk) is a favourite. Perhaps the best thing Yngwie Malmsteen has done IMHO is a cover of Uk's In The Dead Of Night. Jens Johansson who plays key on that, also stars on Mastermind's storming intrepretation of Endless Enigma . Ever heard Tommy Bolin's demo of what subsequently became Mahavishnu Orchestra's Sister Andrea? The already mentioned Californian Guitar Trio's Heart Of The Sunrise is magnificient . Les Claypool's Frog Brigand doing Floyd and King Crimson has its moments on the Live albums. Primus do several covers including tunes originally by XTC, Peter Gabriel and Stanley Clarke on Rhinoplasticity A colleague tells me he has just obtained off E-bay an album of Govt Mule playing Floyd - can't wait to hear it. Pete Townshend doing proto-proggers Canned Heat's Back on The Road Again on a live album, is well worth a listen. Didn't WASP cover something from Quadraphenia? |
Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 09:43
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I really like Instrumedley on Dream Theater's "A Change of Seasons" CD. Also - I agree with the post about California Guitar Trio! Those guys are totally entertaining! ------------- If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud! |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 09:44
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Less favourite covers: Many of the tribute albums issued by Magna Carta (although the Rush and the Yes tributes have some stand out tunes). Landberk's heavy handed treatment of T2's (No More) White Horses. |
Posted By: riversdancing
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 09:52
| Silver Sun has recorded a magnificent punk 'n roll version of Xanadu (Rush). Absolutely brilliant! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 09:55
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If I can do one the other way around, Fates Warning's cover of 'The Sign Of The Southern Cross' is absolutely superb.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Odysseus
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 16:23
I'm not into Maiden anymore, but I actually kinda liked the cover of Tull's Cross-Eyed Mary. With the exception of Bruce's vocals.  The intro kicks major *ss, though. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 16:45
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I think Iron Maiden also did a version of 'All In Your Mind' by Stray- never heard it, but that song is utterly brilliant; Stray's debut is BRILLIANT! However, what I've heard of the rest of their catalogue is frankly not.... Saxon and April Wine did a cover of 'In The Court Of The Crimson King'- I bet they are worth a laugh... |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: September 14 2005 at 17:51
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Kevin Gilbert and Giraffe covering on stage the entire 'Lamb lies down on Broadway' VOIVOD covering 'astronomy domine' ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: riversdancing
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 04:32
| Forbidden recorded a version of 21st Century Schizoid Man. This song is quite popular among metal bands; Voivod has its own version, but since Voivod is listed here, that cover does not count here in this topic. |
Posted By: lordoflight
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 07:02
| besides 21st century schizoid man and astronomy domine, voivod also covered pink floyd's nile song. the cover version is better than the original in my opinion because the latter is a bit too slow. its one of the few straightforward hard rock songs by pink floyd |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 07:15
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if we're adding proggers cover of pop songs how about Glass Hammer's cover version of Dan Fogelberg's 'Longer' from their Shadowlands album, weeeeeirrd choice of song but they do some interesting things with it The Cali Guitar Trios version of 'Heart of the Sunrise' is cool if we're classing Radiohead as prog check out jazz pianist Brad Mehldau's awesome readings of 'Exit Music (For a Film)', 'Paranoid Android' and 'Everything in its Right Place'. He also does cool versions of Nick Drake's 'River Man' and the Beatles' 'Dear Prudence'
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Posted By: Mnemosyne
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 12:26
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Scissor Sisters covering "Comfortably numb", ------------- I'm a Man-Owl-Fish. Creator-Observer-Muse. |