Covers of Prog Artists by Non-prog Artists

So there are a lot of Non-Prog Artists that have covered, for better or worse, progressive songs.  I am always curious to listen to these tracks, either for humor sake or to be otherwise impressed.  I got this idea from listening to the Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs "Under the Covers, Vol. 2" album where they do a cover of Yes' "I've Seen All Good People: Your Move/All Good People" which was surprisingly tastefully done, especially with Hoffs folk style vocals.  Of course it helped to have Steve Howe play the guitar part as a guest on the album.  There is also a cover of Television's "Marquee Moon" (yes all 10 minutes of it) on this album.  This cover actually fits Sweet's voice and style of guitar playing, but even though the vocals are a little too polished, the long instrumental section is very well handled.

Edited by TCat - December 03 2018 at 10:50

Cristi wrote: two David Bowie covers Helloween - Space Oddity Motorhead  - Heroes (a pleasant surprise )

Canadian hard rockers April Wine covered 21st Century Schizoid Man. It's not embarassing or anything, but really rather pointless as they bring nothing new or interesting in their approach that I can discern. I find it hard to see why anyone who had access to any KC version of the song would ever want to listen to it.

The only cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man that did it justice - in my opinion - was Voivod's version. They went all the way through with it - even including the technical section in the middle - and hearing that pumped up with some prog metal intensity and even more urgency was pretty damn cool

Mascodagama wrote: Necrotica wrote: The only cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man that did it justice - in my opinion - was Voivod's version. They went all the way through with it - even including the technical section in the middle - and hearing that pumped up with some prog metal intensity and even more urgency was pretty damn cool I'd like to hear that. Which album is it on?

Minutemen did a fun cover of Steely Dan's Dr Wu.

TCat wrote: Also, go ahead and list covers that Prog bands have done of Non-prog artists.  For example, Yes doing an amazing cover of "America" originally by Simon & Garfunkel, that most people are familiar with here.

Mascodagama wrote: Minutemen did a fun cover of Steely Dan's Dr Wu.

For that matter, Smash Mouth covered 'Dan's Do It Again.

Cristi wrote: Mascodagama wrote: Necrotica wrote: The only cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man that did it justice - in my opinion - was Voivod's version. They went all the way through with it - even including the technical section in the middle - and hearing that pumped up with some prog metal intensity and even more urgency was pretty damn cool I'd like to hear that. Which album is it on? it's on Phobos (1997) I bet you can find it on youtube

You were right. It rocked!