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[terrybooth]

What's you favourite piece of music through several versions. I guess I'm talking about pieces which aren't quite yet standards or maybe 'modern' standards.

I'm thinking of something like 'I heard it through the grapevine'
Marvin Gaye : fantastic pop song
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg[/BBvideo]
Fairport Convention : really owned it
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K0mwDq8b50[/BBvideo]
Antonio Forcione : really fresh instrumental interpretation
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7z84VCgnfc[/BBvideo]

And loads more, of course.

[jammy395]

Terry if you mean good cover versions.

Then ( Frank Zappa's ) version of ( Stairway to heaven ) is ace.

[slinger]

One of my favourites. The first and original version is a lost classic that first got airplay on Radio Caroline, a pirate station, back in (I think) 1967, the cover version from 1992 is just a good cover of a cracking song.

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VDS8uArR0A[/BBvideo]

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZNjoc5lJLI[/BBvideo]

[terrybooth]

Whatever happened to the story song: W.O.L.D; Hickory Hollow's Tramp; Ode to Billy Joe; Deliliah. Murder Ballads is about the last set I can think of. I get there'll be some good rap ones but they've passed me by.

[terrybooth]

Terry if you mean good cover versions.

Then ( Frank Zappa's ) version of ( Stairway to heaven ) is ace.

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKeIlJq4gM[/BBvideo]

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0MxkZHe ... re=related[/BBvideo]

and, so long as we're on Zappa in a frivolous mood, here's one of the best:
(Sorry about the subtitles but I thought live was better).

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwb1s1DY ... re=related[/BBvideo]

Gloiously kept funny by Nick Harper

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zYT7H05SlU[/BBvideo]

[slinger]

How's about this version of Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice by The Gourds. The language is a bit adult if anyone's of a sensitive disposition.

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE[/BBvideo]

In the same vein, check out anything by the wonderful Hayseed Dixie.

Willie Nelson covering Nirvana anyone?

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9YQYBfE8E4[/BBvideo]

or the theme from Shaft, on massed ukeleles?

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE[/BBvideo]

[slinger]

I need to find somewhere to hide from the fallout from this one. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present William Shatner a.k.a. James Tiberius Kirk, a.k.a The Big Giant Head, a.k.a. Denny Crane covering...Pulp.

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRPa0GhxGUs[/BBvideo]

[jammy395]

Derick Dick - aka Fish - Ex Marillion front man, does a cracking version of - The Kink's - Im an Ape Man.
Sublime.......

[slinger]

Here's some you'd never expect. Not exactly cover versions, but the original artists with...Pavarotti

[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rCd5uGaM8s[/BBvideo]
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtzQpmQrNow[/BBvideo]
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astkjuTalwk[/BBvideo]

[Neilardo]

Cheers slinger, love that james brown/pavarotti thing

Used to collect versions of "Sympathy for the devil". these are my two faves.
Janes Addiction
Laibach