A fave band, a cover by it, cover of it & original

^ I had heard that before (I think from you), briefly looked it up, and may just be tired (got to sleep after midnight and woke up at 3 am as usual), but not really getting how it fits the aim of the topic. I hope you or someone else if they get it will explain.

I have moved this to General Music Discussions (better to "cover" diverse music) by the way.

The idea is for the poster to choose a band or artist to "cover" so to speak. Choose a song/track that is not an original of that band (a cover) and mention the details. Also mention another band or artist that covered your band/artist of choice. Then choose a favourite track of your from the artist or band (an original). One need to all three, but lease try to do at least two of those. Here is another example 9and I get to use Komeda, which is favourite act of mine of the Stereolab, Broadcast, and vanishing Twin ilk to cover Can).

Can

Here is Can covering "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night" by Josef Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber):



Here is Komeda covering "Mushroom" by Can:



Here is Can with its "Vitamin C":

I want to do Stereolab now:

Here is Stereolab's "One Note Samba / Surfboard" (with Herbie Mann on flute) which covers "Surfboard" by Roberto Menescal and "Samba de Uma Nota So" by João Gilberto.



Here is Visioneers cover of Stereolab's "Come And Play In The Milky Night":



And here i a favourite of mine by Sterelab done by Stereolab ("Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious"):

^ I love Wyatt's version of "Stay Tuned" (and Comicopera is one of my favourite albums by him, all are below Rock bottom for me, but RB is such a masterpiece).

If I were covering or doing Robert Wyatt (which I would have as one of my favourites as an artists and for covers), which I will here...

The Unthanks cover of Robert Wyatt's "Sea Song" (Rachel Unthanks has several great covers)



Robert Wyatt covers Peter Gabriel's "Biko"



And Robert Wyatt doing Robert Wyatt with "Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road":



Note: I prefer Wyatt's cover of "Stay Tuned", but much like mentioning Steven Wilson before, Gabriel is a very big name in PA and so I wanted to mention that cover.

I know that cover kinds of topics tend not to be very popular here. I can find covers really interesting and have posed here at PA the idea that some here might like cover material of a band where they are not into the band for certain reasons.

By the way, I tend to "google" search things, which might take me to Reddit or whatever, but this site can be useful for such things (one can look up both what a band covered and what others covered of that band, but it is more limited than I would like): https://www.whosampled.com/ And I hav used Second Hand Songs before https://secondhandsongs.com/ and searching youtube.

Here is Steven Wilson covering "Stonegage Dinosaurs" by Cardiacs:



Here is Cardiacs covering "Susannah's Still Alive" by The Kinks.



And here is the Cardiacs song that got me into Cardiacs done by Cardiacs, "Dirty Boy"