Favorite Stevie Cover Song????

[SorcererJP]

Originally Posted by danax6

I vote Bill's version of Without You. Oh yeah.

Speaking of... a few days ago at work I heard a cover version of Stand Back. It was on commercial Top 40 radio, but I couldn't place it at all. Am I that out of the loop that I missed a cover of Stand Back doing the rounds?

That must be Rod Stewart's version of the song. It's on his album 'The Leas Singer'...

/me has to confess that it's in his collection

[Sahara]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

yes!

but stevie should totally return the favor and do a cover of
If you want ma body and ya think i'm seeeeeeeexxxxxay

Mwahahha, Amen!

[danax6]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

vanessa, is this the stand back you were talking about?

Oh gawd no. That version hurts my everything.

It was a woman singing.

[BellaDonna93]

It's Tori Amos version of Landslide!!! So amazing cover

[demonchaser]

Originally Posted by danax6

Oh gawd no. That version hurts my everything.

It was a woman singing.

It may be Linus Loves (featuring Sam Obernik). My gym used to play it all the time. There is a video of it on youtube.

[danax6]

Originally Posted by demonchaser

It may be Linus Loves (featuring Sam Obernik). My gym used to play it all the time. There is a video of it on youtube.

The voice matches I think, but I couldn't hear that well because there was quite some noise at the time. The music was much closer to the original though, not as remix-y as this version.

It surprised me because it got played alongside the likes of Keane, Amy Whinehouse, Racoon and whoever else is hot right now. That's what made me wonder if it was a recent cover that I wasn't aware of.

[StvNixRox]

I just saw an acoustic version of Nightbird and Dreams on Youtube by Lily Wilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-8DTP9-kXY
I thought it was an EXCELLENT cover of a Stevie song. Not as good as the original of course but very good. She makes it her own.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by buckymcnix

Since then, Michelle has been my greatest musical advocate and I am working on a plan to make her my personal publicist. And I am lucky enough to get to perform for her Live and In Person in a couple short weeks.

just tell me where and when, bb

and yaaaaahh!!!!

[blackroses]

Originally Posted by StvNixRox

I just saw an acoustic version of Nightbird and Dreams on Youtube by Lily Wilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-8DTP9-kXY
I thought it was an EXCELLENT cover of a Stevie song. Not as good as the original of course but very good. She makes it her own.

I agree. That is quite nice.

I have also really enjoyed these "Bill" renditions, but no one can replace Stevie or FM on any of them for me.

[ragandbone]

Guess I gotta go find Bill...

[Musicman408]

I have the Rumours tribute CD and Elton John's Don't Stop is kind of cool.

[IKV Nexis]

I ran across this one by a vocal groupe called Gregorian, Masters of Chant. They did a version of Dreams I realy like. This groupe takes pop songs and sets them to the Gregorian Chant scale of music. Its real interesting stuff.

[David]

Originally Posted by IKV Nexis

I ran across this one by a vocal groupe called Gregorian, Masters of Chant. They did a version of Dreams I realy like. This groupe takes pop songs and sets them to the Gregorian Chant scale of music.

How odd. Does that mean the song is sung monophonically -- that is, as a single melody (no harmony) with all voices in unison? or is the chord progression turned modal? In the case of DREAMS, it's really already modal. It's the old church mode of mixolydian (although Stevie didn't intend to do that) -- it's an F major scale with the 4th raised by a half step (which you hear when the song moves to a G chord). Well, whatever. I'll listen to it on iTunes.

Edit: I didn't find DREAMS, but I found some audio on this site:
http://www.gregorianmastersofchant.com/Media.htm

Hmmm . . . .

[ragandbone]

Oh my
well I did find the monks singing "Dreams" on Youtube (no video) with a little disco beat

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

[Sanne2]

Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide