#covermesongs

[joeyyeahcovers]

Listen to the 50 best cover songs of 2015, from piano covers of Bruce Springsteen to heavy metal covers of Elvis. Featuring Hot Chip, Willie Nelson, James Blake, Nick Cave, and dozens more.

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[transpondster]

Great longread about the genesis and evolution of Patti Smith's version of Gloria, from brief poem about the crucifixion to a song-poem about sin and redemption, borrowing from Van Morrison's garage classic of the 1960s. It's a great story, told well here.

Smith’s poem “Oath” and Them’s garage-band staple “Gloria” merged in a spontaneous moment one day in 1974. Playing regular concerts at Max’s Kansas City and other small clubs, Smith now had a three-piece band and the practiced what they called “fieldwork,” or what a different sort of band might call jamming.

“In the beginning it was just Lenny and I, and then we brought in a piano player, who was Richard Sohl,” Smith told Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross in 2006. “So it was just the three of us… and we did very simple songs, because the configuration was so simple. We just chose songs that were basically three chords, so I could improvise over them.” A song so simple a child could play it, “Gloria” was a staple of these sessions – at a later point they auditioned second guitarists by playing “Gloria” for forty minutes or more to see who dropped out first (after many others couldn’t handle it, Ivan Kral stayed the course and soon joined the band).

One day though, it evolved into something new. “We bought Richard Hell’s bass guitar from him for $40, sometime in ’74,” Kaye told the blog Rock Town Hall in 2011. “We’re in the practice room, and Patti wanted to play it. She hit a big E note: boinnnggg! She recited a bit of ‘Jesus died for somebody sins but not mine.’ You know, moving into ‘Gloria’ seemed like a natural progression. Especially when we began, there was not a lot of forethought into what we did.”

From the moment Smith hit that E note, “Gloria” ceased being a cover by the strictest standards. Over half the words in the final version are her own, and even the bits she takes from Van Morrison are often radically rewritten. But this loose approach to covers was nothing new for the band.

(via The Story Behind Patti Smith’s “Gloria” » Cover Me)

[princesspear-blog]

i love great music! Covers are great music x 2!!

As any hardcore Strokes fan knows, “I’ll Only Try Once” is the demo version of the original Y.O.L.O (sorry, Drake), “You Only Live Once” off of the album First Impressions of Earth. Los Angeles based sisters HAIM showed off their admiration for the New York rockers with a true to form cover of “I’ll Only Try Once.”

The trio visited Sirius XMU back in February and kept the gentle touch of the 2006 B-Side in tact.

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[thecharlieschafer-blog]

the kind folks at @covermesongs put up my kings of leon cover. go check it out! (click photo)

[thecharlieschafer-blog]

i just came back from a day of college prep. and found out my "you are my sunshine" cover is being featured by the nice people over at @covermesongs . 

go check it out! http://tinyurl.com/3gzo6wz free dwlnd: http://charlieschafer.bandcamp.com/track/you-are-my-sunshine 

[cold-pressed]

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Beautiful. Especially if you open multiple tabs of it at once. (You're welcome for the tip ;])

 - Sam Brown/ Runaway-- Kanye cover

[echoromeokilo-blog]

This is my baby brother's band Fort deClare.  He's 15 and is already standing out as a promising musician in a family of musicians.  He has been featured on this website covermesongs.com before as well as another cover website called Coverlaydown.com twice.  The second installment features myself on vocals!

This blog asked Sam if he could submit a song to be their Covermesong premier feature.  He decided to cover America's Ventura Highway.