Music covers Meme
1. List your top 5 imaginary covers - the covers of your dreams. (Basically, the artists and songs you imagine would be awesome -- but to your knowledge these songs haven’t been done yet).
2. List or link your favorite covers that actually exist.
1. I would love to hear these covers (weird taste ahead):
A. Arctic Monkeys covering Seven Nation Army
B. Adele covering Winter Song
C. Metallica covering Katy Perry’s Dark Horse (only partly for the hilariousness)
D. Lauren Hill covering U.N.I.T.Y.
E. Sleater Kinney (reunited) covering Sail
2.
Cassandra Wilson’s amazing version of U2’s Love Is Blindness:
Adele covering The Cure’s Lovesong:
I recently found this lovely version of Matt Corby covering the Black Keys’ Lonely Boy (skip the first minute or so of talking to get to the song):
Amazing jazz version from Charlie Haden and Hank Jones of the traditional song Wade in the Water:
The Piano Guys’ version of Coldplay’s Paradise:
I like the slashy vibes of the White Stripes’ cover of Jolene (so much that I wrote Yuletide fic about it lol):
I discovered these two covers of REM’s Losing My Religion recently from a T:SCC fanvid:
And to end on a couple of classics:
Bobby Womack’s cover of California Dreaming:
Eric Clapton’s cover of Bob Marley’s I Shot the Sheriff
2. List or link your favorite covers that actually exist.
1. I would love to hear these covers (weird taste ahead):
A. Arctic Monkeys covering Seven Nation Army
B. Adele covering Winter Song
C. Metallica covering Katy Perry’s Dark Horse (only partly for the hilariousness)
D. Lauren Hill covering U.N.I.T.Y.
E. Sleater Kinney (reunited) covering Sail
2.
Cassandra Wilson’s amazing version of U2’s Love Is Blindness:
Click to viewAdele covering The Cure’s Lovesong:
I recently found this lovely version of Matt Corby covering the Black Keys’ Lonely Boy (skip the first minute or so of talking to get to the song):
Amazing jazz version from Charlie Haden and Hank Jones of the traditional song Wade in the Water:
The Piano Guys’ version of Coldplay’s Paradise:
I like the slashy vibes of the White Stripes’ cover of Jolene (so much that I wrote Yuletide fic about it lol):
I discovered these two covers of REM’s Losing My Religion recently from a T:SCC fanvid:
And to end on a couple of classics:
Bobby Womack’s cover of California Dreaming:
Eric Clapton’s cover of Bob Marley’s I Shot the Sheriff