Best/Worst Covers

[waynewdk]

Newton Faulkner - U spin me right round was good

[waynewdk]

Rolling stones did a cover version of David Essex's - Paint it Black, not as good though ;-)

[pjadnoo]

The only one that I can think of right now is White Stripes' version of Jolene in 2005. It's something they do quite a bit, rather than just a spur of the moment Glasto-special though, so not sure if it counts for this thread

edit: Hmm, I can't get the vid to embed, but here's a link

Edited October 16, 2013 by pjadnoo

[The 38 year old virgin]

Best cover ever, I'm gonna wear my formative musical genre on my sleeve and say this

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gjlxSRzJI4Y

Or this

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uSGsB59ko

This talk of Metallica at Glastonbury, how about either if these

[Amy Lawn]

Of this year's covers, Amanda Palmer's Common People was brilliant, a possible festival highlight. Dinosaur Jr's Just Like Heaven is a standard fixture of their sets, and with good reason; it's excellent. The Smashing Pumpkins' mandatory Space Oddity was pretty cool, but the slot could have gone to a better Pumpkins song. Haim's cover of Oh Well seemed to fit what they were about, but was too polished and staged for my liking, they didn't go through all of Part 1, never mind Part 2, probably fun if you're a fan of them and don't know the original though. Liam Gallagher dragging Rock N Roll Star out of bed early in the morning was embarrassingly shite... and incidentally the best part of his set.

[Gnomicide]

Best cover of 2013 for me was Rodney Branigan doing Creep. A real pin drop moment.

Honorable mention for Billy Bragg's stab at Dead Flowers.

[sifi]

Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower.

Thread can be closed now.

[Gnomicide]

Rodney Branigan's whole set in the Greenfields on Thursday was excellent.

And I thoroughly enjoyed Bragg's dead Flowers

[The Nal]

This is excellent

 

[MrZigster]

On 12/4/2022 at 3:51 PM, The Nal said:

This is excellent

 

Was hoping for Rainbow not Richie.

[GeezLouise]

Jay-Z covering wonderwall as an eff you to Noel and/or Liam. Amazing stuff. 

[clarkete]

51 minutes ago, GeezLouise said:

Jay-Z covering wonderwall as an eff you to Noel and/or Liam. Amazing stuff. 

That was an electrifying start to a set after such anticipation beforehand 

[Olshansky]

Tori Amos has a lot of great covers, but her version of Led Zeppelin's Thank You is one of her best 

 

And because I dont think it gets mentioned often enough, Sinead O'Connor does an incredible version of John Grant's "Queen of Denmark" 

 

 

 

[Obiginnaw]

  So 90's it almost hurts, but it's a very commendable cover

 

 

edit: didn't realise this thread was just 'on the farm'

Edited December 6, 2022 by Obiginnaw

[Tranquility of Solitude]

3 hours ago, Olshansky said:

Sinead O'Connor does an incredible version of John Grant's "Queen of Denmark" 

.... and just because Elton is headlining, this is pretty good too

 

 

 

 

 

[Skip997]

7 hours ago, GeezLouise said:

Jay-Z covering wonderwall as an eff you to Noel and/or Liam. Amazing stuff. 

 

6 hours ago, clarkete said:

That was an electrifying start to a set after such anticipation beforehand 

Quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen on stage. Absolute genius.

[Skip997]

This one is pretty bad

[philipsteak]

8 hours ago, Skip997 said:

 

Quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen on stage. Absolute genius.

Just wait until you see Peter Kay headlining the Saturday. It's the future! 

Classic. 

[MrZigster]

6 hours ago, philipsteak said:

Just wait until you see Peter Kay headlining the Saturday. It's the future! 

Classic. 

I'm sure I saw Bill Bailey play at the bottom of the theatre field on the Sunday after all the main acts had finished one year. Pissing hard with rain. "Put the umbrellas down". 2007 I think? Possibly 2011 though?

Can anyone remember?

Anyway, I remember wondering back then if it would become a regular thing. Which it obviously didn't. Which is a pity 'cause it was great.

Tim Minchin would be cool.

[philipsteak]

2 hours ago, MrZigster said:

I'm sure I saw Bill Bailey play at the bottom of the theatre field on the Sunday after all the main acts had finished one year. Pissing hard with rain. "Put the umbrellas down". 2007 I think? Possibly 2011 though?

Can anyone remember?

Anyway, I remember wondering back then if it would become a regular thing. Which it obviously didn't. Which is a pity 'cause it was great.

Tim Minchin would be cool.

He must have done it more than once cos I saw him do it and I wasn't there in 2007. And I thought it was same time as the headliner but wouldn't swear to it though. 

He opened the main stage at Latitude one day in 2021.

[shuttlep]

Arctic Monkeys, Love Machine

 

best cover ever