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While My Guitar (Ukulele) Gently Weeps-Jake Shimabukuro
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Hard to imagine this song without the epic sax solo but it works so well.
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I never get tired of the B-3 sound, with its 'spits" and clicks that synths can’t duplicate. Keith Emerson (!!!) called Jimmy the best ever on the Hammond organ. A huge influence on Keith.
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I like that better than the original!
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I posted this one several years ago. I actually didn’t know it was a Sisters of Mercy song until years after I heard this version. I think it works great as a straightforward rock song from the criminally underrated Rhino Bucket. I don’t miss Doktor Avalanche one bit.
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I love how this sounds with a very different voice. Hope Sandoval’s voice is beautiful and ethereal, in the sense of “more suggested than actually there”. Valerie June’s voice gives me feels of both solidity and being otherworldly, at the same time.
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That thing is basically a tank, and Jimmy Smith could make it fly.
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Not quite as cheerful as most of the ones above, perhaps?
Laibach: Strange Fruit
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Holy shit… did they just cover Strange Fruit!!! Wow!
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Worthy of a heart, though I’ve always despised the original version.
I really miss having a facepalm response button.
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I’m gonna rerun some I posted at the other place, because this is my mood today:
Many many years later:
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Frog Leap does come out with some nice ones. I always liked this one…
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My favourite version of Metallica’s Whiplash is Motorhead’s:
It’s just better in every respect!
They make the song their own.
I’m also fond of their version of The Pirates’ Please Don’t Touch, on which they collaborated with Girlschool:
Mostly because I grew up listening to the original during car journeys to the Gower in South Wales for camping holidays, and it takes me right back.
And ironically, talking of Girlschool, I much prefer their version of Bomber:
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One of my favourite bands, Alice Donut, has a habit of doing humerous covers for the last track of their albums:
The Angels’ My Boyfriend’s Back
My boyfriend’s back and he’s got the Black & Decker!
He’s gonna chop you into pieces and feed you to my goldfish!
Black Sabbath’s War Pigs:
In a similarly trombonic vein, The Pixies Where is my Mind?
For those of you not familiar with the band (and I can understand if you’re not; they never seem to have made the impact I feel they should have), the drummer and vocalist actually exchange duties for those last two covers, with the drummer, Stephen Moses, taking up the trombone 
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Ooh, yes. I kind of like this one.
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I’m not sure if this technically should fall under this thread, but it’s undeniably a cover…
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I remember them! I played “Love is a Fickle Thing” and “Tipper Gore” on my radio show back in college.
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