Cover Songs

[Free]

 

[Free]

Pretty pretty pretty good.

 

[Free]

 

[Amigo Uriza]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

A LETTER TO ELTON JOHN FROM THE OFFICE OF THE NASA ADMINISTRATOR

This letter is to inform you of your termination from the NASA astronaut program. Our decision comes after a great deal of deliberation, and while we take no pleasure in terminating you, we felt it was the only choice we had.
...
And another thing, the word is “astronaut.” When you run around Cape Canaveral saying “I’m a rocket man!” it’s embarrassing for everyone.

 

[Free]

Like!

 

[Conifer Dada]

I prefer this to the original by The Smiths, although "'I am the son and heir" sits a bit clumsily with a female singer!

 

[Da5id Weatherwax]

This thread needs... BAGPIPES!

 

[Free]

Bagpipe rock.... *shakes it off*

Anywho, lookee here - Jack can sing!

 

[Free]

I for one welcome our new robot rockstar overlords.

 

[Da5id Weatherwax]

Bagpipe rock.... *shakes it off*

Hey it could have been worse, I could have linked a badpiper video... but those three ladies are just as talented and a lot easier on the eyes... albeit without the flame throwers on the pipes' drones...

 

[Free]

Hey it could have been worse, I could have linked a badpiper video...

Sorry, I don't hate bagpipes. It's that, my family was terrorized for days by a clan of bagpipers when I was a kid, and you just can't shake those experiences...

Truthfully, the problem (for me) is, there are certain instruments that rock makes it really hard for. Forget bagpipes. I tend to giggle whenever I can pick out cowbells in a rock song. Yeah sure 'Don't Fear the Reaper,' but I can't get through the opening on War's 'Low Rider' without laughing out loud.

Now, for a bit of listening...




EDIT: Oh right, cover songs...

 

[Da5id Weatherwax]

Well then, something neither rock nor bagpipes then - which qualifies as a "double cover song" because Richard Farina wrote the words to the tune of a much older Irish air called "Lagan Love". His wife and long-time musical partner Mimi (Joan Baez' sister) first recorded it as a solo track after his tragic death in a motorcycle accident. This is the version recorded by Sandy Denny with a haunting fiddle coda from Dave Swarbrick, two other musical giants now sadly lost to us.

 

[Free]

 

[Conifer Dada]

The cover version of this is so well known that I've posted the original from 1966 instead . . . . or at least the earliest recorded version.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[Free]