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I put this in another thread (personal reference audiophile recording), but it may be better placed here.

 

Beatles Audiophile Covers:

 

Patricia Barber - Norwegian Wood

Eva Cassidy - Yesterday

Holly Cole - I'm Only Sleeping

Celine Dion - Here, There & Everywhere

Emmylou Harris - For No One, Here, There and Everywhere

Helen Reddy - The Fool on the Hill

Patti Smith - Within You Without You

Tessa Souter - Eleanor Rigby

 

Some other audiophile covers recordings of note:

 

Tori Amos - Angie

Susan Boyle - Wild Horses

Eva Cassidy - Ain't No Sunshine (you could make a case for all her recordings)

Sinead O'Connor - House of the Rising Sun

Parzivals Eye - Chicago (Christina Booth)(Graham Nash cover)

Rita Wilson - Never My Love, Wichita Lineman (these are better than the originals IMO)

 

Here are some others:

 

Tori Amos - Whole Lotta Love (Live at Montreux 1991/1992)

Pat Benetar - Don't Let it Show (Alan Parsons), Helter Skelter (Beatles), Wuthering Heights

Eva Cassidy - Blue Skies, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Danny Boy, Imagine, Stay, Woodstock, Wonderful World

Sheryl Crow - Behind Blue Eyes (The Who), Mother Nature's Son (Beatles)

Charlie Daniels Band - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Al Di Meola - I am the Walrus (Beatles)

Celine Dion - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face

Jane Duboc - Nossos Mementos (Wichita Lineman)(Sung in Portuguese)

Mary Fahl - White Bird (It's a Beautiful Day)

Marianne Faithful - Working Class Hero (Lennon)

Sandy Farina - Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatles)

Annie Haslam - Ripples (Genesis), Turn of the Century (Yes)(with Steve Howe), Moonlight Shadow, Nature Boy, If I Loved You, She's leaving Home (Beatles)

Heart - Love Reign O'er Me (The Who)(Dreamboat Annie Live), Mona Lisa's & Mad Hatters (Elton John)(Alive in Seattle), Stairway to Heaven (live), Where to Now St. Peter? (Elton John)

Olivia Newton-John - The Long and Winding Road (Beatles)

The King's Singers with Erich Kunzel & CPO - Because (Beatles)

Lana Lane - Breathe Intro - Johnny Moon - Breathe in the Air - Time (Pink Floyd), Netherlands (Dan Fogelberg), Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues), White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane), Wooden Ships (CSN)

Annie Lennox - A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harem), Don't Let it Bring You Down (Neil Young)

Aimee Mann - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Beatles), One (Nilsson cover)

Mastermind - The Endless Enigma (ELP)

Sarah McLachlan - Blackbird (Beatles)

Alanis Morissette - Crazy (Seal)

Steve Morse - La Villa Strangiato (Rush)

Nana Mouskouri - Time in a Bottle (Croce)

Kotaro Oshio - Bolero (Ravel)

Ida Sand - Old Man (Neil Young)

Jake Shimabukuro - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (beatles)

Patti Smith - Are You Experienced (Hendrix), Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)

Al Stewart - Pink Panther Theme

Rod Stewart - I'm Losing You

Styx - I am the Walrus (Beatles), Summer in the City

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Hendrix 'All Along the Watchtower' wins in my private ranking but there are so many other great covers.

 

This one started my interest in Jacqui Naylor

 

 

A great song and a great album by 70+ mento musicians

 

 

This is Beatallica, a cover band covering Beatles' in Metallica style :)

 

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It's not often that the cover version is better than the original. But sometimes musicians succeed in distilling the essence of an existing song and working out the idea of the original even better. An example for this is imho Yello's Lost Again covered by Moby. He created a slow motion version of the song (similar to Peter Gabriel's version of Heroes lasker98 posted above) which is very different from the original. The song has now a new dramaturgy with two peaks at 2:38 min and 3:58 min. Not a song to dance to, but something to inhale tone by tone.
 

 

Go where you feel most alive.

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On 2/9/2016 at 10:51 AM, jim1961 said:

I put this in another thread (personal reference audiophile recording), but it may be better placed here.

 

Beatles Audiophile Covers:

 

Patricia Barber - Norwegian Wood

Eva Cassidy - Yesterday

Holly Cole - I'm Only Sleeping

Celine Dion - Here, There & Everywhere

Emmylou Harris - For No One, Here, There and Everywhere

Helen Reddy - The Fool on the Hill

Patti Smith - Within You Without You

Tessa Souter - Eleanor Rigby

 

Some other audiophile covers recordings of note:

 

Tori Amos - Angie

Susan Boyle - Wild Horses

Eva Cassidy - Ain't No Sunshine (you could make a case for all her recordings)

Sinead O'Connor - House of the Rising Sun

Parzivals Eye - Chicago (Christina Booth)(Graham Nash cover)

Rita Wilson - Never My Love, Wichita Lineman (these are better than the originals IMO)

 

Here are some others:

 

Tori Amos - Whole Lotta Love (Live at Montreux 1991/1992)

Pat Benetar - Don't Let it Show (Alan Parsons), Helter Skelter (Beatles), Wuthering Heights

Eva Cassidy - Blue Skies, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Danny Boy, Imagine, Stay, Woodstock, Wonderful World

Sheryl Crow - Behind Blue Eyes (The Who), Mother Nature's Son (Beatles)

Charlie Daniels Band - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Al Di Meola - I am the Walrus (Beatles)

Celine Dion - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face

Jane Duboc - Nossos Mementos (Wichita Lineman)(Sung in Portuguese)

Mary Fahl - White Bird (It's a Beautiful Day)

Marianne Faithful - Working Class Hero (Lennon)

Sandy Farina - Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatles)

Annie Haslam - Ripples (Genesis), Turn of the Century (Yes)(with Steve Howe), Moonlight Shadow, Nature Boy, If I Loved You, She's leaving Home (Beatles)

Heart - Love Reign O'er Me (The Who)(Dreamboat Annie Live), Mona Lisa's & Mad Hatters (Elton John)(Alive in Seattle), Stairway to Heaven (live), Where to Now St. Peter? (Elton John)

Olivia Newton-John - The Long and Winding Road (Beatles)

The King's Singers with Erich Kunzel & CPO - Because (Beatles)

Lana Lane - Breathe Intro - Johnny Moon - Breathe in the Air - Time (Pink Floyd), Netherlands (Dan Fogelberg), Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues), White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane), Wooden Ships (CSN)

Annie Lennox - A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harem), Don't Let it Bring You Down (Neil Young)

Aimee Mann - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Beatles), One (Nilsson cover)

Mastermind - The Endless Enigma (ELP)

Sarah McLachlan - Blackbird (Beatles)

Alanis Morissette - Crazy (Seal)

Steve Morse - La Villa Strangiato (Rush)

Nana Mouskouri - Time in a Bottle (Croce)

Kotaro Oshio - Bolero (Ravel)

Ida Sand - Old Man (Neil Young)

Jake Shimabukuro - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (beatles)

Patti Smith - Are You Experienced (Hendrix), Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)

Al Stewart - Pink Panther Theme

Rod Stewart - I'm Losing You

Styx - I am the Walrus (Beatles), Summer in the City

Great list. There are a fair number of covers  here I've never come across. Thank you!

 

JC

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