Cover songs
 

So, I've come across a lot of cover songs in the past, but most of them suck. So I was wondering what covers have yall heard that are actually good?
I'd say Ari Hest's cover of "Little Lies" is my favorite.
And then some guy on YouTube covered Stand Back, and I like the way he changed it up and did an acoustic version of it.

TUSK by Colourmusic
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xhkh83

This is a good cover. I like it. Love, Viv

I just recently watched Ari Hest's cover of Little Lies and I actually loved what he did with it even though I usually believe you don't mess with gems or masterpieces, and leave well enough alone. It was a new take on that song and something Lindsey and Stevie could do up on stage, toned down and simplified just like Ari's version (since Chris isn't there). I think that would sound great and totally surprise us fans and most of us would fall over from hearing the song.

I have not liked, generally, any Fleetwood Mac covers that I've heard.

The Cranberries version of GYOW wasnt too bad... and I liked some of the stuff on Camper Van's version of Tusk

See I never thought the Cranberries sounded good live. And that's only from watching them on tv ever. You don't think Stevie and Lindsey could do a stripped down version of Little Lies like Ari Hest did and it go over well with fans? Cause I do. I think it'd be a hit with them!

I like Annie McLoone's 1976 version of Spare Me a Little.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBwLZkIsax0

I loooveee the Tori Amos cover of Landslide:

I still really like Sister Hazel's version of Gold Dust Woman, a dozen years on.

Not really, because it's a Christine McVie vocal. ;)

One of the worst was Wilson Phillips cover of GYOW. It was way too happy and "pretty". It lost all of its intensity!

People will probably get on me for this, but I did actually like Billy Corgans' version of Landslide. I know alot of people didn't though. It's just me! *waits for the pie-throwing!!*lol

I love Hole's version of Gold Dust Woman.

True, and all the more reason they should do it exactly as Ari Hest had done. A stripped down vocal of them two just singing Little Lies for us. I think the fans would go wild and we'd still get to hear the song, cause it looks like Chris isn't coming back anytime soon. I think Stevie and Lindsey could pull it off well. And it would probably sound better stripped down, than the full instrumental live version they used to do (with Christine).

I love that cover version. It's by far the best song on the Legacy album and I still listen to it regularly. For a great Mac cover though then check out Nora O'Connor's version of That's Alright from her album 'Til The Dawn. Also Sara Watikins' Steal Your Heart Away.

This guy has a real nice voice. He is Barratt Waugh singing "Songbird".
http://www.sendspace.com/file/owb7aq



Does anybody have a cover of Rhiannon sung by an Asian woman? You can tell she probably doesn't speak English. I used to have it and another version of Rhiannon before my computer crashed a while back.

I disagree. I don't think Stevie and Lindsey have pulled off any of Christine's songs (pulled them off well anyway). Just my opinion though. ;)

Eva Cassidy's cover of "Songbird" is beautiful.

I won't get on you for it. Billy singing that song is one of the things that got me into the Mac so I adore it. Smashing Pumpkins got me through my teenage years so I had trust in Billy that he was on to something. ;)

I wonder what the biggest cover was? I reckon it was [I]Black Magic Woman[I] when it was covered by Santana. Most people recognise it as his song.

Either that, Judas Priest's Green Manalishi, or Eva Cassidy's Songbird. I've gotten a fair amount of grief over the years for my dislike of anything and everything Eva Cassidy. I absolutely cannot stand Eva Cassidy.

On a more positive note, I love Status Quo's Don't Stop and Black Crowes/Jimmy Page's Oh Well! Would have loved to have heard Robert Plant singing it!

:nod: I love this cover. I'm a huge fan of Nickel Creek, and now Sara's solo stuff, too.


Also like the Smashing Pumpkins' Landslide, but I can't stand the Dixie Chicks version. Which is weird, cause I'm a bluegrass freak. I think they just missed the point of the song.

:wavey: Big wave to a fellow Nickel Creek fan! Have you heard their version of Toxic? Trust me, go with it...

:wavey: HUZZAH! Right back at ya!

I have heard their version of Toxic, it's the definitive version, in my opinion.

I wish there was an album version or somethin. Whaddaya think of their cover of I Want You Back?

Btw, hi everybody, I'm new here, and also pretty new to Fleetwood Mac. Can't get enough of 'em at the moment, I've spent way too much time blasting the Tusk album and rolling around on the floor.

Anyhow, great place y'all've got goin' here. Very informative. :D

Better than the original, IMHO

I seriously doubt that any FMac cover has come close to the sales numbers of Santana's cover of BMW. Probably the Dixie Chicks' cover of "Landslide" would come in #2.

And, from the tone of your post, the grief is well-deserved.

Hmmmm, Robert Plant singing "Oh Well"??? :eek: You mean their rewrite of "Oh Well" that turned into "Black Dog" doesn't suffice?? :shrug: Just like the Beatles took "Albatross" and turned it into "Sun King".

Some of my fave FMac covers:

The Melvins - Green Manalishi
Annie McLoone - Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
Chaka Khan - Everywhere
KC & The Sunshine Band (?!?!?) - Don't Stop
Rod Stewart - Stand Back
Cyndi Lauper - You Make Loving Fun
Goo Goo Dolls - I Don't Want To Know
Kick Axe - The Chain
Rusty Wier - Don't Let Me Down Again (he also covered Lindsey's "Lola (My Love)" and Stevie's "Think About It" on the same album)
Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - Gold Dust Woman
Pamela Stanley - Rhiannon
Matchbox 20 - Never Going Back Again
Pointer Sisters - Hypnotized
the aforementioned Eva Cassidy - Songbird

Eva Cassidy's "Songbird". Enough said. :D

Anyone hear Ms Lindsay Lohan's cover of Edge of Seventeen? *vomit* WHY!? WHY, LINDSAY, WHY!?!?!?!?!? :(

Edit - I am aware this isn't a FM song. lol. My mind was stuck on Stevie for a minute there (always).

I know I'll get a lot of flack for this, but I actually halfway like Lohan's version of Edge... to me the production is more in line with the subject matter of the song. Stevie's version seems to be made a harder edged rock song for the sake of the album having a harder edged rock song. I know Paul Fishkin and Jimmy Iovine wanted to throw Stevie's airy fairy image out the window and prove she was just as much of a rocker as a man for her debut album. To me, Edge was a casualty of this policy.

I actually don't mind Wilson Phillips Go Your Own Way either. It was a wholly new take on the song... and I respect that. The layered harmonies are very Fleetwood Mac. And I detest Wilson Phillips... so it takes a LOT for me to admit I like their version of GYOW :laugh:.

I really like Matchbox Twenty's version of Never Going Back Again too, again, because it's such an entirely different take on the original. And it really works. I know Lindsey feels the song's subject matter is about coming out of the darkness, thus his prosaic approach to it on Rumours. But there's a definite dark undertone to the lyrics, which Matchbox Twenty totally cashed in upon. I like it! :thumbsup:

Yes, I agree. Lindsey claims that he meant finding joy and never going back to that pain again. I don't think the lyrics necessarily say that. Matchbox Twenty says never going to put myself in a position to be hurt again and their arrangement has a detached, robotic tone that brings that sentiment to life. I like hearing the hard shell that forms when you've been hurt once too often. I like Rob's voice. I want Lindsey to work with him.

Michele

I'm really surprised you know who he is! I thought he was just a local Austin attraction. He actually lived around the corner from me in Austin when I was a kid. I had no idea he did those covers... I'll have to track them down!

Meh. I just don't like Lindsay Lohan, that's all. lol.

I also don't like Rob Thomas. All his Matchbox 20 songs to me sound the same! And they're all about germs. "I got a disease", "Unwell" etc...GET TO A DOCTOR, MAN! lol

This board is great for learning something new about F Mac! I never knew that Cyndi Lauper covered You Make Loving Fun. I need to go look for that!

I love both Tori Amos's and The Dixie's Chicks' version of Landslide. I hate most of that Rumours cover CD.

But, I heard a great version of I Know I'm Not Wrong. I posted about it in another place, but I should have put that post here! They are called the 1900's and below is a link to them doing it live. I'm still trying to get the version their studio version that I heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pWcVFAQfmY

Also, Tom Petty does a live version of Oh Well on his new 4 disc live Anthology collection. I kind of like it.

Finally, Lucy Wainwright Roche does a decent cover of Everywhere.

How about a thread where we talk about who we would like to cover some Mac songs????

I'd love to hear ...
Dolly Parton do That's Alright
Patty Griffin do Storms
Teddy Thompson do Love in Store
Counting Crows do Save Me a Place
Mary Chapin Carpenter do Honey Hi
Heart do Smile at You

OK, I'm off to hunt down Cyndi's YMLF!

Kevin

Thank You so Much... Eva Cassidy's cover of "Songbird" was my choice too... Sooooooo Beautiful... ;-)


Donnie Wayne ~

I just found this cover of That's Alright.

Kinda what it'd sound like if Patsy Cline could've covered it.

WHAT ? :eek: Where can I find this ?

The 1978 album Energy. There's one used CD of it on amazon.com for $4.99

Thanks :). But I won't buy a Pointer Sisters' CD just to listen to a Fleetwood Mac song, so I guess I'll never hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-8DTP9-kXY

Btw, I like this Nightbird cover.

Some channel (TV ONE, I think) has a musician biography series called Unsung, which is really good. The subjects are usually lesser-known black artists and groups. Anyways, I just watched one on Melbe Moore, which led me to do some searching where I found that she covered "Dreams" on a 1985 album. I really want to hear it!

Here are three covers of "That's Alright", I absolutely love this song lately for some reason. I like the first one the best, the other two sound generic to me.

I likes the second one best, hehehe...

It's really quiet at first though. But when she belts it at 2:49 it totally makes the cover.

I definitely overlooked this song at first, but it's my fave on the album now.

Me too haha, I'll admit that skipped it for a long time, but Mirage is slowly becoming one of my favorites :D

I just discovered that Waylon Jennings covered Rhiannon...
I call it Waylannon.



"Shee ruleserr lyfe lika berd in flyte.." :laugh: