Metallica Original Metallica - Enter Sandman - YouTube Pat Boone Cover pat boone - enter sandman - YouTube Guns and Roses original Guns N' Roses - Paradise City - YouTube Pat Boone Cover Pat Boone Paradise City - YouTube Nirvana Original Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit - YouTube Paul Anka Cover Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit (High Sound Quality) - YouTube Van Halen Original Van Halen - Jump (HQ music video) - YouTube Paul Anka Cover JUMP - Paul Anka.wmv - YouTube There are others, the whole Rock Swings album by Paul Anka is the pure embodiment of a bad idea. What makes it even funnier, is he made a second one too. That Pat Boone album on the other hand WTF?
if you want to hear some 'quality' cover versions pop down to your local B&Q and have a listen to the stuff they play over the PA system...all 3rd rate covers of Duran Duran and Rihanna..probably something to so with getting out of having to pay the PRS royalties i shouldnt wonder.
Bob Marley - I shot the sheriff (Live) - YouTube or Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff - YouTube have I got the idea?
Big band/swing is a fantastic genre of jazz, that has sadly been raped out of existence by the (most notably) popturds and has beens...im thinking of Rod Stewart who has destroyed, and with great financial success is has to predicatably noted 'the great American songbook'...classic songs by jerome kern and the like....then theres Robbie Williams and all the rest..none of them can sing these songs properly, and the one man who can, Buble, is a total sell out fame whore. Listen to any of the compostions/cover versions by Harry Connick Jnr (a real musician incidentally, who knows his craft), then listen to an equivalent by one of the aforementioned tossers... And of course, these numpty popturds who cash in can only do so on the backs of the talent who prop them up..Thats the arrangers, musicians, and of course, the forgotten (by the masses) composers of these great works.. yet again, i blame the X-factor culture, where these songs are regularly destroyed by the cliche makers....you know, Mack the Knife etc, sung by a Tesco Twat, black tuxedo, bow tie undone....absolute meaningless shit, and i wont be a part of it..
