#cover versions

[cat-hesarose]

shut the fuck up right now this is my new favourite cover of any song

[secondhandsounds]

Unknown Artist - Megahit 8 (Worldwild Music, 1996) Found In: Farplace Animal Rescue (Woolston, Southampton) Price: 33⅓p (£ for £1)

Let's start with the positive: that cover is the most 90s thing to ever exist in the world. FOUR different flavours of 90s font! Obelisks swimming through weirdly-textured water in a manner so incomprehensible that AI would write it off as a fever dream but AI didn't exist in '96 which means that A HUMAN DESIGNED THIS.

I'm going to just bask in the glory a little longer. Just a little longer before I wake up and face cold, cruel reality.

I had my suspicions about this one - unfortunately not until I'd already bought it, but we live and learn. The lack of any kind of liner notes crediting the artists. The shoddy spelling. The words "Cover Version" written very small on the back cover.

I gave it a listen - suspiciously - and it all sounded just a little off, but at this point it was all just theory. Then track 9 kicked in. Wannabe, ostensibly by the Spice Girls. I know Melanie Scary Spice Brown, ma'am, and YOU are not she.

I don't mind cover versions. I love cover versions. These cover versions are actually pretty damn good, despite my saltiness. But something about this Atlantic Rim level of charlatanism rubs me all the way up the wrong way. Not only did you rob me of some sick 90s jams, but you didn't credit the hardworking humans producing these covers. FOR SHAME.

Tracklist:-

Paint My Love - absolutely not Michael Learns to Rock

I'll Never Break Your Heart - this ain't Backstreet Boys

Lemon Tree - only a fool would think this is Fool's Garden

Fastlove - anyone other than George Michael

California - Berlinda Carlisle (they spelled Belinda wrong so I'm willing to concur that this might be accurate)

Don't Cry for Me Argentina - literally not even close to being Madonna

Naked - a half-decent facsimile of Louise

Step by Step - it's offensive to even pretend this is Whitney Houston

Wannabe - half-price Spice Girls

The Power of the Dream - how DARE you impersonate Canadian legend and breakout star of Deadpool 2 Celine Dion

Se a Vida É - the RSCPA want to shut down these alleged Pet Shop Boys

If We Fall in Love Tonight - this isn't even Martha Stewart, let alone Rod Stewart

Unbreak My Heart - I'm so sorry your name was even printed on this, Toni Braxton

Missing - anything but Everything but the Girl

You Were Meant for Me - more cheap plastic tiara than an actual Jewel

Children - I don't know enough about this artist so who knows, this could be (but most likely isn't) Robert Miles

That Thing You Do - I wonder if anyone genuinely mistook this for The Wonder

Beyond the Invisible - counterfeit Enigma

[originalharmonysalad]

Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic ( David Bowie Tribute)

See Jorge: This year marks 10 years since David Bowie’s passing. And 10 years ago I started a season that traveled around the world, singing versions in Portuguese.

I was tasked with the mission of creating these versions for the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

And that’s how my relationship with this artist began, whom I already admired not only as a singer, a composer, an instrumentalist, but also as the great actor he was.

And the last time I performed this repertoire for the public, there was no audience at all, because of what befell us, the 2020 pandemic.

And this year I did a live stream singing this repertoire, interpreting Pelé dos Santos, in a very, very beautiful place, on the coast here in São Paulo.

This year I intend to bring an edited version of what that live stream was, in tribute to the passing of David Bowie, but also to the eternal musical legacy he left through these works and how much these works are present in people’s lives.

I hope you enjoy this material, completely dedicated to him and, why not also to Wes Anderson, who had this whole idea.

Repertório 1. Lady Stardust (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 2. Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 3. Queen Bitch (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 4. Oh! You Pretty Things (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 5. Suffragette City (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 6. Changes (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 7. Rebel Rebel (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 8. Quicksand (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 9. Five Years (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 10. Team Zissou (Seu Jorge) 11. Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 12. Space Oddity (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 13. When I Live My Dream (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 14. Life on Mars? (David Bowie / versão: Seu Jorge) 15. Starman (David Bowie / versão: Carlos Stein, Sady Homrich e Thedy Corrêa — Nenhum de Nós)

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Fighting Dogs - The Price Of Grain (Poison Girls cover)

Wanna hear a Poison Girls cover done in a borderline-stadium-crust-style from the early 00's? Probably not, but I finally found this mp3 in my archives and this band was pretty important for me for a couple years, so here you go...

[drakebellappreciation]

Cover Versions Part 1

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Well, I shake all over and you know why...

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Double & Triple Doses 🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶

Introducing #triple dose and #double dose hashtags!

You can now easily find past Sonic Surprises posts featuring two or even three versions of a legendary song under these tags.

For a double or triple dose of iconic tracks, hit #double dose #triple dose!

Here are some songs which have been featured :

#Double dose : Mystery Train, Suzanne, Mr. Tambourine Man, Be Bop A Lula...

#Triple dose : I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Blue Moon of Kentucky, Blue Suede Shoes...

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Pavement, covering Velvet Underground’s What Goes On

Live at a Tibetan Freedom Concert in S.F. c1996

and when it’s over, it’s over