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Whats the most different version you can find?



Firstly heres the link to the "Hit"version

And heres an early version

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ZGrlO7JU4[/youtube]

Wow, that House of the Rising Sun is mournful by that woman

Blondie - The Tide is High


And the original is...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrIP3DpYOV0[/youtube]

Original:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deK2KhBvHb4[/youtube]

Classic cover version (you might remember it as the opening theme music from HBO's 'Not Necessarily The News' circa 1985):


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLDDxfFKd9Y[/youtube]

Prince Buster - One Step Beyond (1964)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3DAHAPLaVI[/youtube]

MOON - One Step Beyond (2010)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fnezdn6Diw[/youtube]

I much prefer that Prince Buster version than the famous Madness version Redrobin.

Tainted Love, heres the well known Soft Cell version

And the Original

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U[/youtube]

Here's one that's amusing because both versions are so nearly identical (Prima's original is even more energetic in the studio recording):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-a8kLtJSJ4[/youtube]

David Lee Roth must have studied Prima's vocal performance for hours to get it to note-perfect imitation, but among 80s teens, who knew?:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4lX0QyZc[/youtube]

Mad World by Tears For Fears was later covered by Gary Jules. I think the cover maybe became more well known thanks to the film Donnie Darko. The cover is very different to the original, but I like both versions.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsHSHE-iJQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Az2BvTcshg[/youtube]

SR-71 - 1985 (Original)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sy8ulwexfY[/youtube]
Bowling For Soup - 1985 (Cover)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xorgqoL_t0k[/youtube]

Here's an interesting example, "Whiskey in the Jar" was originally a traditional Irish drinking song, but since they didn't have recording equipment in the 1600s, I can't really show you the "original" version.

However, here's the Thin Lizzy version

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M2jSzLBzK4[/youtube]

And the famous Metallica cover inspired by the Thin Lizzy version

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIh3nO6-V_A[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UETTaHaAnaQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmqhwoV1dO0[/youtube]

A more recent example, but I find it rather bizarre that there are so many people out there who think that 'Valerie' is a Winehouse song. I love Winehouse, but I was really fond of 'Valerie' when the Zutons first released it one year earlier. It's a little frustrating that it's never on the radio anymore. And it's formally not even Amy Winehouse who is the sole credited artist on the re-working of 'Valerie', as it is first and foremost the brainchild of Mark Ronson, with Winehouse being the featured artist. The whole album Version is chockfull of similar covers (perhaps most notably the Kaiser Chiefs' 'Oh My God', sung by Lily Allen, and The Smiths 'Stop Me If You Heard This One Before' with guest vocals by Daniel Merriweather).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xpmfJp0Xc[/youtube]

Also, but not that far removed from the famous version, here's 'Unchained Melody', first released 10 years before the famous Righteous Brothers version of 1965. There were actually a couple of singers who did 'Unchained Melody' in 1955, but my favourite is Roy Hamilton's:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Fuesi8VcI[/youtube]

It's called 'Unchained Melody' because it was the soundtrack to the 1955 movie Unchained; another forgotten little fact.

Life in a Northern Town by The Dream Academy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17MA58P-QY[/youtube]

Dario G Sunchyme

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFTDffMvJlY[/youtube]

Ok so it's not a cover, it's a sample, but The Dream Academy was one of my fav's in the 80s n when this Dario G tune came out in the 90s I was really irritated that no one knew what I was going on about when I mentioned Life in a Northern Town. Surely I'm not the only person who bought the album. Still have it on vinyl too.

original
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww[/youtube]

Jessica Simpson version
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPtfsk4ETjM[/youtube]

A couple by the original artists:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI[/youtube]

Intro is trippy and scary. Interesting though for sure.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dwSOoQXgQU[/youtube]

Well, almost. Todd Rundgren's original band, but he only sings harmonies on the chorus. Haunting and psychedelic.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKRXhmFQlw[/youtube]

This is the album version on Fallen (I think it's about the same as on the indie release Origin), but not the more famous radio version. Very sad, beautiful, chilling, etc. song. Amy sounds raw and beautiful.

EDIT:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_GDIbq-7f0[/youtube]

Wow, this is even more depressing than the finalized version(s). Melodically it's about the same, but with atonal piano chords. Some darker lyrics that were replaced like "I would take out the beating heart from my chest." Sad in a less obvious way bridge. Former principle songwriter Ben Moody wrote the whole original before Amy changed certain parts. It's almost like young Christians doing a doom metal ballad...