Cover Song Thread Mk II

[Bernkastel]

Right, since the previous cover song thread hasn't been posted in since early 2015, I decided to create a new one. The idea is, of course, the same. If there's a cover version of a song and you like it, go ahead and post it here.

Here's something to start with.

Death Note - The World (English Cover)
Death Note - What's Up, People? (English Cover)

[U.P. Cinnabar]

And, this cover of Dire Straits' "Romeo And Juliet," which I like better than the original

[Adam Reynolds]

I actually tend to rather like cover artists in general. More than a few take pop songs and make them better. Though to start, I have to start with a sad one. Youtuber Christina Grimmie was killed in Orlando on June 11, the day before the mass shooting at the nightclub. Her brother probably stopped it from becoming a mass shooting.

The first and last song of hers that I saw on Youtube:




And another from somewhere in the middle:


RIP

Though for a smartass answer, some of the most well known versions of songs are often covers, like this:

[U.P. Cinnabar]

Battlestartrek GINO almost ruined that damn song for me.

Here's the Indigo GIrls' cover of "All Along the Watchtower."



as well as Ralph Stanley's haunting acapella cover of "O Death," featured in O Brother, Where Art Thou:

[Bernkastel]

I actually tend to rather like cover artists in general. More than a few take pop songs and make them better.

I agree. It's why a lot of my own interest in music is centred on looking for covers of various songs or bits of music I've heard. Even if the cover doesn't improve on the original, there are plenty of covers that are still likeable in their own way.