Songs That Are So Inimitable That Nobody Is Foolish Enough To Cover Them

[Dr Rock]

1. SINNERMAN by the fantastic Nina Simone...

It appears about three bands have covered it, and they're all dreadful. Which proves my point, in a way.

What songs do you etc etc?

[Video Game Fan 2000]

edit: ah fuck those boring Uncut pleasing losers Lambchop did this

[Kankurette]

I'd say I Am the Walrus, but Oasis did it.

[madhair60]

so far this thread isn't going very well

[Dr Rock]

so far this thread isn't going very well

I was just thinking that. Makes me sad.

[curiousoranges]

Candle in the Wind 1997

[checkoutgirl]

I'd say I Am the Walrus, but Oasis did it.

And it's a great cover in my humble. Any song is coverable because it's about the style of the band/producer doing the cover rather than the song being covered.

[wrec]

Johnny Cash's Hurt. Nobody but the man in black could have come up with this and it's impossible to imagine anyone else singing those words.

Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah. Buckley dug deep to come up with something so personal and inimitable that nobody would dare try to put their own spin on it.

Candyflip's Strawberry Fields Forever. Impossible to hear this classic without thinking of 1990 and "the summer of love".

Metallica's Whiskey in the Jar. A true story about James Hetfield's experiences as a NWOBHM-obsessed 18th century highwayman in the mountains of counties Cork and Kerry.

[famethrowa]

Thick as a Brick

[bobloblaw]

O Superman

[Oz Oz Alice]

This Italo version of O Superman is pretty special https://youtu.be/q_dJuvWi-js?si=0XIe5EJYjStnFspy.

[TheMonk]

Agadoo

[Shaxberd]

I was gonna say Bohemian Rhapsody - why would you cover another band's most famous song, that is also quite long and unusually structured - but Panic at the Disco apparently did it, the fools.


Revolution 9 then. Bet nobody's done that.

[phantom_power]

O Superman

Bowie did a live version if that counts

Space Oddity? I am sure someone has covered it but I bet it was rubs

[dazed_and_bemused]

Anything in the genre of prog rock. Though you can sort of imagine Radiohead having a punt at, say, Grendel by Marillion.

[mechanical blood goat]

I was gonna say Bohemian Rhapsody - why would you cover another band's most famous song, that is also quite long and unusually structured - but Panic at the Disco apparently did it, the fools.

Fuck them, Weasel Walter did it brilliantly.

[gilbertharding]

In my office we have Radio 2 but not quite loud enough to properly hear... so yesterday I happened to hear some dreadful guff by the Libertines, who were Live In Session in the BBC Piano Room, with an orchestra. And then a few seconds later I heard this racket had become a quite well rendered cover version of the ending of Alone Again Or, by Love. And when the music ended, the DJ informed me that I had just heard The Fucking Libertines performing their version of Alone Again Or.

I mean, the audacity. The sheer bloody CHEEK of these cunts.

[gilbertharding]

On the other hand, I would hope that everyone has heard the track by track cover version of The Who Sell Out by Petra Haden?

[gilbertharding]

Sorry  - I presumed from 90% of the posts that the thread was 'Songs that you'd THINK were so inimitable no-one would cover them, but it turns out you're wrong'

[Dr Rock]

Sorry  - I presumed from 90% of the posts that the thread was 'Songs that you'd THINK were so inimitable no-one would cover them, but it turns out you're wrong'

It should've been titled  'Songs That Are So Inimitable That Almost Nobody Is Foolish Enough To Cover Them, And If They Do It's Crap' but I couldn't fit that in.

[The Mollusk]

Fuck them, Weasel Walter did it brilliantly.

Beat me to it. One of the best covers of all time.

[dmillburn]

I was gonna say Bohemian Rhapsody - why would you cover another band's most famous song, that is also quite long and unusually structured - but Panic at the Disco apparently did it, the fools.

Bet it's not as good as this. "No, no, no, no, no, no absolutely not".

[Dr Rock]

Protomen are generally great at covers, and this is quite good, but too slavish to the original so not much point.

[Inspector Norse]

It should've been titled  'Songs That Are So Inimitable That Almost Nobody Is Foolish Enough To Cover Them, And If They Do It's Crap' but I couldn't fit that in.

Ah!

[gilbertharding]

Didn't the Durrans also cover White Lines for the same album (with an irony that simply can't have been accidental)?

[twosclues]

Won't stand for this G4 erasure.

[sevendaughters]

the ultimate fool's errand

[Good Hank]

Anyone else done 'A Design for Life'? If they have, I don't think I want to hear it.

[Dr Rock]

Anyone else done 'A Design for Life'? If they have, I don't think I want to hear it.

Nouvelle Vague have probably done a fey, wet 'n' wispy one, but I haven't checked.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

It should've been titled  'Songs That Are So Inimitable That Almost Nobody Is Foolish Enough To Cover Them, And If They Do It's Crap' but I couldn't fit that in.

Justin Hawkins doing This Town Isn't Big Enough For the Both of Us