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I assume that is a cover of Bowie's song

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:

Eric Cartman doing "Come Sail Away"

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I know I have a lot of cover songs in my collection too, it's just gonna take a while to track them all down. I've got my vinyl LPs (yep, still have a turntable), CDs, what is already on my iPod, stuff on my computer not yet tagged and loaded on the iPod, plus things in the Amazon Cloud, some of which I didn't even know I had.

I got an email from amazon this morning informing me I have mp3 versions of CDs I had purchased from them available in the cloud. I just listened to a Tom Waits album I am sure I never purchased, at least I know I have never had the physical disc in my possession from any source. Maybe I bought it for my son years ago and I just forgot about it.

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Tori Amos does some wonderful covers.

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Natalie Merchant's Cover of Bowie's Space Oddity

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I love Jean-Luc Ponty! I have four of his albums on vinyl, plus another on CD which is a collaboration with him and Stephane Grapelli.

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Tori Amos does some wonderful covers.

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Oh, yes. I have her cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on my playlist, actually. And a couple other Coulton covers, because I like pretty much all of them. I also remember that "Walking in Memphis" cover, I'll have to look for that.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Natalie Merchant's Cover of Bowie's Space Oddity

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Excellent! I hadn't heard that one; always great when an artist I like covers an artist I like.

On the subject of David Bowie, I enjoy the version of "Under Pressure" he sang with Annie Lennox. There aren't many singers whose voice I like as much as Freddie Mercury's, but she ranks up there.


What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Vanessa Carlson using her little-girl-sounding voice to sing "Paint it Black"

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So I was going through my itunes, and I realized I have a lot of covers in my library. So, I started making a playlist, just for them, and I really enjoy it. I'd like to discuss cover songs with anyone who's interested, here, since a lot of you folks have pretty good taste. Now, this is partly so I can get recommendations on good music to add to my playlist, but I know that the bad covers will have to come up, because some are memorably terrible, even traumatic. I'd appreciate hearing about at least one cover song you enjoy, but mostly it's whatever you'd like to mention.

Some of my favorites:
Jonathan Coulton singing "Baby Got Back"
Disturbed rocking out "Land of Confusion"
Sarah McLachlan doing "Dear God"
Shawn Mullins doing "Changes"
The Barenaked Ladies goofing through "Material Girl" (a bootleg I heard years ago and haven't found again, sadface)
Hugo singing "99 Problems" ...with a banjo.
Tarja Turunen (formerly of Nightwish) singing "Poison"
The Goo Goo Dolls doing "American Girl"
Eric Cartman doing "Come Sail Away"
Ra rocking out "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"
William Shatner doing his sarcastic Shatner thing through "Common People"
Evanescence acoustically playing "Heart Shaped Box"

Some that I think are travesties that should never have happened:
Britney Spears daring to sing "I Love Rock and Roll" (or "Satisfaction" for that matter)
My Chemical Romance and The Used whining their emo way through "Under Pressure"
Vanessa Carlson using her little-girl-sounding voice to sing "Paint it Black"
...and so on.

Thoughts? Anyone? What are some of your favorites?

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