Angel

Her eyes...
She's on the dark side
Neutralise....
Every man in sight.

Word up!

If there's music, we can use it....feel free to dance....

The Crystal Ship

Both the concerned bands make their second entry on this here blog. Without further ado, assuming you have already listened to the original here is The Crystal Ship by Nevermore. Off their new album The Obsidiam Conspiracy. The other cover on the album, Tea Party's Temptation doesn't make it but is still worth a mention. Enough ado.

Sway

There are more covers of this song that one would care to count. Including a Pussycat Dolls version (but why?).
But as covers go, this one rocks (or is it sways?) so well, it makes you go dig up the original and lover the cover even more – not just because of where’s it’s used (in the classique SF classic Dark City) but how and why it’s used. Jennifer Connelly singing in Anita Kelsey’s sultry voice in that dark and dinghy place just adds that touch, even if its appearance in the movie is only the first few bars. If you have seen Dark City, you’ll know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t I recommend the Director’s Cut of Dark City. And not just for this awesome cover:

Song to the Siren

Also famously known (to people of our generation) as the father of Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley did this gem of a song, and what a cover by Frusciante on his latest solo effort The Empyrean, a gem of an album 'best played as loud as possible in dark living rooms late at night'. Take my word for it, or Frusciante's.

Den Ständiga Resan

This one's a bonus track on Watershed. A bonus indeed. Who knew Marie could do a number like this!

Laisse tomber les filles

France Gall, April March, April March




And thereafter Ms. March english-ised that song with the subject intact, called it CHICK HABIT and it was thusly famously used in Death Proof

Light My Fire

Ananda Shankar, The Doors

Dream a Little Dream of me

Louis Armstrong, The Beautiful South

Rock and Roll

Led Zeppelin, Rasputina

Going Out West

Tom Waits, Gomez

Sympathy for the devil

Axel makes the song seem dark and pure evil

Bad Moon Rising

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Rasputina

Unravel

Bjork, Radiohead

I came across this on Radiohead.tv sometime ago. Pretty interesting with minimal instrumentation which is as good as no instrumentation compared to the original by Bjork. Even more interesting is the fact that i used to wonder if anyone would have covered Bjork and how they would have done. And, here we have a good cover.

Dub Side of the Moon

Easy Star All-Stars, Pink Floyd

I wouldn’t count myself as a huge fan of Reggae or Pink Floyd for that matter. But this album is a complete makeover of the Dark side of the moon with Reggae style… It’s a MUST listen for everyone… Time is done in a very interesting style…

They have another such album called Radiodread

Renegades

Maggie’s Farm
Bob Dylan, Rage against the machine
Renegades

As usual I had to have all the albums of Rage against the machine. All songs are covers and not really done all the songs separately apart from Maggie’s Farm (Bob Dylan). This was their last album and they had too leave us all wanting more… It was released in 2000, after Rage singer Zack de la Rocha had already left the band, but featured his vocals. It is rumored that Zack did not want the album to be released… interesting

Bodhisattva

Steely Dan, Toto
I picked up this album called Through the Looking Glass by Toto, that’s when I had just done XX and VII and was desperate to try more. This entire album is a mix of all covers. In that is where I discovered my favorite band being covered, you should all try it. In fact there is a cool version of “Could You Be Loved (Bob Marley)” and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles cover)”.

Superstar

The Carpenters, Sonic Youth

In my growing up days, Carpenters was one of the bands introduced by uncles in the family. Say about 2 years ago, when i was discovering Sonic Youth and totally enjoying it, i could not believe when i stumbled upon a cover version of 'Superstar' by The Carpenters. The song does not feature in any of their (Sonic Youth's) albums and it appears in a Tribute album to the Carpenters called 'If I Were a Carpenter'.

White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane, Sanctuary

I am really curious to know what excites / interests Warrel Dane to do covers? The latest is that he is covering Paul Simon's 'Patterns' in his solo album which he is currently working on. Can't wait to hear that!

I'm not in Love

10CC, Tori Amos

here's the 10CC version. Let me try and get Tori's version too from the album Strange Little Girls