non-prog cover version of prog songs
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Topic: non-prog cover version of prog songs
Posted By: unclemeat69
Subject: non-prog cover version of prog songs
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 12:09
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I'd like to know what everybody's thoughts are about non-prog artists
doing their own version of prog songs such as: the scissorr sisters
doing pink floyd's comfortably numb, or the gym class heroes doing
their version of supertamp's breakfast in america (actually retitled
it). As for me I like comfortably numb just fine as a disco song, however I'm not to thrilled by R&B (which of course stands for Rubbish&Bullsh*t), so I don't like the brakfast in america song very much, also not a very creative version. But that's just my opinion, tell me yours and feel free to throw in any and every other non-prog cover of prog songs in the thread ------------- Follow your bliss |
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Posted By: jikai55
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 12:16
| The British band Kula Shaker did an amazing cover of Hush by Dee Purple |
Posted By: Clark Ashton
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 12:48
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Hocus Pocus
Power Metal band http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helloween - Helloween included a cover of the song in their 1999 album Metal Jukebox, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden - Iron Maiden covered it for their 2006 single " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_World_%28song%29 - Different World ". Rock guitarist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hoey - Gary Hoey released several instrumental renditions of this song on various albums. The pop/classical artist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa-Mae - Vanessa-Mae did a cover with violin on her 1997 album http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Storm_%28Vanessa-Mae_album%29&action=edit - Storm . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden - Iron Maiden covered it on the European DVD version of their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_World_%28song%29 - Different World (song) single. Party Punk band http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vandals - The Vandals also covered Hocus Pocus on their 2nd album, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=When_in_Rome%2C_Do_as_the_Vandals&action=edit - When in Rome, Do as the Vandals . ------------- And he took the stars In his hands And as he scattered them he’d shout “I’m the joker of the universe I’m what it’s all about” |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 12:52
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Doves made a cover of the first half of King Crimson's Moonchild. I've heard that Current 93 made a cover of Comus' Diana Those are the ones I remember at the moment. ------------- 
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Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 12:54
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I would like to actually see a non-prog band covering a "real" prog song. CN is a non-prog song by a prog rock band, so it's likely that many non-prog artists would cover Owner Of A Lonely Heart and still I wouldn't think they covered a prog song ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 13:02
good point ------------- Follow your bliss |
Chus wrote:Posted By: DethMaiden
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 13:03
| Saxon covered "The Court of the Crimson King". It wasn't bad. |
Posted By: Someo Therguy
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 13:13
| I remember a cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man by a rock band called Argent. If I remember right, they left out the entire instrumental section. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 13:32
ARGENT is here, in the Art-Rock section:
 http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=804 - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=804
I remember seeing a young lady singing "I talk to the wind" years ago in a MTV clip.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 13:57
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In the early 1990 there was a dance-techno duo called Opus III (if I can remember properly - their most famous song was "It's a Fine Day" and they featured a baldheaded female singer) which recorded an interesting cover version of King Crimson's "I Talk to the Wind".
The Israeli singer Noah has recently recorded a beautiful cover version of "Eye in the sky", in which you can only hear her and her guitar.
As you quoted the Iron Maiden, you cannot forget their version of Jethro Tull's "Crossed eye Mary".
Recently the Italian public has been sent back to 1976 thanks to a cover version of Le Orme's "Canzone D'Amore" by the pop band Aeroplani Italiani.
The Scissor Sister's cover version of "Confortably Numb" invaded the airplay two or three years ago.
On the contrary, the late Jeff Buckley's version of Genesis's "Back in NY City" is a real jewel which deserves to be discovered.
Finally, there is a cover version of "Your Move", the first section of Yes's "I've seen all good people", by a female vocal combo. I think they're the Wilson Phillips, but I'm not sure. Have you got more precise information about this? ------------- 
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 13:59
Cliff Richard did a cover of Argent's God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You. Then again,he would wouldn't he?  ------------- 
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 14:07
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Some Techno/Trance/House dude sampled "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" in a song called "Proper Education".
Totally Slaughtered the song
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 14:26
Has this band something to do with another one called Airline?  I remember hearing a cover of PFM's 'Impressioni di Settembre' by Airline.------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: luisrodl
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 14:28
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Korn did a cover of the whole Another Brick in the Wall. The curious thing is that it wasn't half bad!
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 14:34
Not to mention that Scooter (a sh*tty techno wannabe artist) killed their Logical Song track a few years back.  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 14:37
I hate that song!
I didn't know what prog was at that time, though. I only knew Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Zeppelin & Deep Purple
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Posted By: Tommydouglas
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 14:58
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Canadian band April Wine also did a cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man. Canadian prog-metal band Voi Vod has covered more obscure Floyd tunes such as the Nile Song and somewhat less obscure Astronimy Domine. ------------- "I'm not really spiritual, just religious." |
Posted By: Uroboros
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 15:01
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"21st Century Schizoid Man" was also covered by thrash metal band Forbidden (a really fine cover), as well as by Swedish death metallers Entombed and, of course, by Ozzy Osbourne (pretty lame attempt in his case, I'm afraid). ------------- Tous les chemins qui s’ouvrent à moi ne mènent à rien si tu n’es plus là |
Posted By: Uroboros
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 15:02
VoiVod also covered the Schizoid Man, but VoiVod are listed on PA. ------------- Tous les chemins qui s’ouvrent à moi ne mènent à rien si tu n’es plus là |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 15:06
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The Greek sax player Dimitrios Vassilakis and his band did a superb instrumental version of King Crimson's EPITAPH:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33168&KW=epitaph |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 15:07
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Korn's cover of Another Brick In The Wall is a very decent song. Disturbed's cover of Land Of Confusion is miles better than the original Type O Negative's cover of Day Tripper I like better than the original(Unlike the first two, I'm a fan of TON) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 15:07
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the band class of 99 make the cover of another brick of the wall of PF
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Posted By: Roskisdyykkari
Date Posted: May 06 2007 at 05:45
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Iron Maiden has done an EXCELLENT cover of Jethro Tull's Cross-Eyed Mary. Iron Maiden is my favorite band anyway, but I really like their version of Cross-Eyed Mary. They have also done a pretty lame cover of Hocus Pocus. Musically it's good, but the "singing" sucks. And Ozzy Osbourne's Schizoid Man cover is probably the worst I've ever heard! They didn't even do the jazz-section, and the vocals sound so horrible. Saxon's The Court of the Crimson King is a great cover, but you'll still miss the flute (in the part: "the purple piper plays his tune"). It's also a bit shorter than the original song. And how about Voivod's Astronomy Domine? Great! ------------- And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction the moral melee. |
Posted By: darksideof
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 00:12
dam kd you just read my mind.!!! I remember in the early 90's I think right? that they did a excellent vesion of Astronomy Domine.So because of that I aways wanted to check this band out so maybe 3 years a go I recenctly saw the video again and I went to find out to see if this band did a floyd tribute album and to check their out. maybe bacause I have never been since the early days of metal a big metal fan I found this band a terrible one. Their music too trashy and incoherence. Not my cup of tee and taste. however they succefully did a awesome version of Astronomy.  ------------- http://darksideofcollages.blogspot.com/ http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Darksideof-Collages/ |
Posted By: Kim Ankara
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 04:51
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The Scissor Sisters cover of "Comfortably Numb" is horrible. Why you would take out the best part of the song (the actual music) and replace it with generic dance filler is beyond me. Saxon's cover of "The Court of the Crimson King" is quite good, although it doesn't have the false ending! |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 08 2007 at 09:19
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Guitar maestro Gary Lucas has done a number of prog covers, Astronomy Domine, two very different arrangements of Zappa's King Kong (recorded as King Strong and Guerillas in The Midst), Kraftwerks Autobahn for live solo guitar and effects. Jeff Buckley has an intriguing version of Genesis's Back in NYC on My Girlfriend The Drunk. King Crimson seem to be the most heavily covered: by April Wine, Glueleg etc. etc. Paul Gilbert has done a few. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 13 2007 at 05:24
The dance act Salt 'N'' Pepa also wove Another Brick into 'The Brick Track vs Gitty Up' with an amazingly good result. :) ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 13 2007 at 07:54
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Wycliffe Jean did Wish You Were Here rather badly as I recall.
In The Woods... covers of Let There Be More Light (floyd) and Epitath (crimson) from Three Times Seven on a Pilgrimage are excellent.
Kittie krapped on Floyd's Run Like Hell (on Oracle)
Conversely, Fuzzbox's version of Bohemien Rapsody was quite fun
Pantera's cover of Black Sabath's Planet Caravan is a straight prog cover by Thrash Metal band of a prog song by a Heavy Rock (proto-Doom) band, most strange.
and VoiVod's version of Astronomy Domine is a bit special, even if they get the words wrong (how hard could it have been - there aren't that many!), but as has already pointed out VoiVod are prog anyway.
and on the flip side - Threshold's cover of Super Massive Blackhole. ------------- What? |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: May 14 2007 at 14:24
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The Balanescu Quartet do a string quartet version of Kraftwerk's Autobahn, it works really well.
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: May 14 2007 at 14:27
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I've just realised that all of this time I've kept forgetting to mention the Futurehead's version of Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love". Quite a beautiful one, indeed! -------------
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 09:03
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I have a soft spot for Frank Zappa's "Best Band You Never Heard" version of Stairway To Heaven ... though this cover is going the wrong way for this thread ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 12:46
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What about The Dickies's version of Nights In White Satin; all 55 seconds of it? ------------- 
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 13:53
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Do you know the Italian female singer Patty Pravo? On her eponymous 1976 album you can find "Sconosciuti Cieli", a version of "So long Ago so Clear" by Vangelis -------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 16:41
also worth an mention: Peter Gabriel's version of A Whiter Shade of Pale, in a style best described as punk... ------------- What? |