THE CHAIN

[droid]

Tracks that have been covered multiple times, preferably in different time periods and/or with radical reinterpretations. Riddims acceptable as long as each version brings something new, as are samples, motifs, melody, basslines - if they form a significant element of the next tune.

1968, Stax beauty



1972, rocksteady version. Wonderful, ghostly backing vocals on this. Riddim subsequently made famous by Delroy Wilson's Have Some Mercy.



1986, pure evil, a perversion of all that came before.



1998 - nuff said

 

[IdleRich]

Good idea for a thread... lemme think.

 

[IdleRich]

Baby's On Fire is an obvious one

 

[IdleRich]

Post-punk take

 

[IdleRich]

There's another version, well there's lots, but there is one I'm thinking of but my memory is fucked...

 

[IdleRich]

How did you get all videos in one post?

 

[IdleRich]

Blues

 

[IdleRich]

Fuzz



And so on....

 

[sufi]

nice

hmm

the original and imho the best actually, but i'd never have heard it were it not for TMC version above

 

[droid]

How did you get all videos in one post?

Just post the link without using the tag.

Also, some words about each track if you could gents, year, something different it does?

 

[sufi]

erm

 

[Mr. Tea]

bit of an obvious one, but:







(and, uh, Marilyn Manson, or so YouTube tells me!)

 

[Mr. Tea]

erm

Yeah I thought it was gonna be about that song too!

 

[IdleRich]

As far as I know that tune has surprisingly few covers.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Not covers exactly, but we are surely allowed:

 

[sufi]

this is great - i posted it on COTD thread a while ago
Jaguar Jonez was pipped at the post to represent Oz at the Eurovision 2020 last week
but her Eurovision tune wasnt as ass-kicking as this one, neither is the nirvana original

 

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[sufi]

there are lots of good covers on that radio station channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd2KNtfphz8HvYzM4pwtHmg Melbs versions of standards -
I liked this a bit

compared to the original which is cast into a distant pale insignificance, apart from having a good title

 

[baboon2004]

Alton Ellis/Althea and Donna/Sean Paul

 

[IdleRich]

Literally hundreds of versions of Louie Louie - weird how Richard Berry who wrote that and Have Love Will Travel isn't more feted.