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By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking 'all along the watch tower' but things like Fever Ray's cover of Vashti Bunyan's song Here before

Fever Ray is relatively well known while Bunyan had very limited success

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The song 1985 was not originally recorded by Bowling for Soup, but SR-71

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. Trent came off a bit whiny. Cash... it's his song now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Collective Soul covered the Morphine song You speak my language

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

once upon a band we played "Sister Andrea" by Mahavishnu Orchestra with many precisions and very many clarities β™«β™ͺ!! (it sounded pretty close)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm actually gobsmacked to hear 1985 isn't a bowling for soup original, it's a song I associate with them intrinsically

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

SR-71 ended up being a one hit wonder band and the singer ended up being a songwriter and producer, so I could see the song getting shopped around for a second chance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Literally any cover of "Hold Me Closer" by Cornelia Jacobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Rage Against the Machine's Renegades of Funk was originally written and performed by a band called Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force in 1983.

RAtM

Afrika Bambaataa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"House of the Rising Sun" has been covered numerous times. The most known version is from The Animals. I was today years old when I learned that this is the original version of the song. However, my personal favourite cover version is from BTO.

Another well-executed cover version is of the song "Johnny B. Goode", covered by Peter Tosh, beause it is tranferred into a different music genre.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Well apparently people think Darius Rucker wrote the Old Crow Medicine Show song Rock Me Mama, and what's more, OCMS in their turn credited it (in jest) to Bob Dylan.

Drives me crazy that people don't know Stomp and Holler is a Hayes Carll song, and that Hallelujah is a Leonard Cohen song, and Downtown Train a Tom Waits song, too.

But I don't know if any of these are as obscure as you are looking for. You are looking for songs even music people don't think of as covers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Type O's cover is so weird: really turns out on its ear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The Breeders "Drivin' on 9" was a cover of song by an obscure band called Ed's Redeeming Qualities. The Breeders version is IMO sweet and meloncholy but the original is rather weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bizarre Love Triangle. The original is some very bad pop music. New Years Day brought it not only to rock, but into being really good too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Taste aside, some of y'all really need to learn the definition of obscure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Meh, I saw this as an excuse to talk about something I wanted to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Hard to pick one, but murder by death has quite the number of them... But them covering the 90s rnb classic 'creep' was a shock

https://youtu.be/eaMj2l-iif4

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Probably The Man Who Sold the World covered by Midge Ure, which I find much better than Bowies original or the famous Nirvana cover.

Also really like Renegades cover by 36 Crazyfists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Good song, but Bowie is not obscure.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Not sure if this applies, but people still seem to think that Nine Inch Nails covered Hurt by Johnny Cash and not the other way round. That or they haven't even heard the original.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Whiskey In The Jar Song by Metallica, original is from ~~the Dubliners in 1969~~ a traditional Irish song in the 1950s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Metallica might have been more influenced by the Thin Lizzy version. But the song is older than The Dubliners.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Amen Break is a few seconds sample that became drum and bass. All of drum and bass has roots from that sample.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

For only seven seconds worth of drumming the Amen Break’s influence and reach is mind blowing. It literally changed (modern, western) music.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Two that are not at all obscure to but often overshadowed by their covers... i love the Four Seasons version of Beggin - https://youtu.be/d5AfvOk57bE?feature=shared

Same for the Everly Brothers doing Love Hurts - https://youtu.be/hFE2SnliiV0?feature=shared

Edit to add - i didn't know Peace, Love, and Understanding was Nick Lowe's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's a kid I know from a few karaoke nights whose go-to song is Beggin. Now it makes more sense why he does that song a bit differently (the first "Beggin" in the chorus he doesn't sing.)

I only grew up with the Madcon version and I didn't know until today that it was a cover.

I also heard a local singer do a really good acoustic cover of that song, where he actually does the rap parts.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

John Coltrane's versions of Afro Blue. Very different from Mongo SantamarΓ­a's original. I like both approaches, but Coltrane's recordings of it were all just so powerful.

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