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Category Archives: Cover versions

Ernie K. Doe - “Here come the girls”

The original from 1970:

Sugababes version anno 2008:

Enjoy…

Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Knock me down”

Bonus…Flea playing a mean mean bass in the Stevie Wonder classic “Higher ground”:

Enjoy…

Radiohead - “Headmasters ritual” (The Smiths cover)

Radiohead having fun in the studio…great cover by the way:

Here’s the original:

Enjoy…

Real Life - “Send me an Angel”…kinda

Super cool acoustic cover version of one of the biggest hits of the 80ies…Real Life - “Send me an Angel”

Acoustic guitar, violin, bass…sweet!

Led Zeppelin vs. Lenny Kravitz

Led Zeppelin: “Moby Dick” anno 1969

Lenny Kravitz: “Always on the run” anno 1991

Hmmm…sounds awfully similiar don’t they….hmmm…

The Monkees vs. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

Holy smokes…I was for some odd reason surfing the iTMS and came across this old (1967) song by the English band The Monkees…”Zilch”…and, to my great surprised heard something so very familiar…:

…sure thing…Mr. Dobalina…or as Del Tha Funkee Homosapien called him 24 years later (1991) Mistadobalina…the chorus from Zilch provided the back bone of his [...]

Pomplamoose - “September”

Fantastic cover version of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September”…
Enjoy…

Raf - “Self control”

Rafs original version:

Laura Branigans version:

Laura Branigan - Self Control from Nik Sam on Vimeo.

Daft Punk - Tron Legacy Theme

“Tron Legacy” is coming out in 2010, but a few teasers have already been released…What really made my tail wag though was news regarding the soundtrack…Daft Punk will be composing the film score, and according to the grapewine, they’ve already recorded 24 tracks…
Download the song here (.mp3)
Note: This song is NOT the Daft Punk version…it’s [...]

Radiohead vs. The Beatles

First…check out the piano part of the insanely great “karma Police” by Radiohead:

Now listen to this:

Anyway…”Karma police” is still one of the greatest songs of the nineties ever…
Enjoy…