>>14099
To be honest, I was paying more attention to the woman second from the right rather than the music. It is very bland but, you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usPkL2EQPYo


You probably wouldn't get away with it nowadays.

Chemical Plant Zone of the Sonic 2 videogame soundtrack is my absolute favoite from the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZjcomp8X0
The synth is great, the bass could be pumped up a lot. Doesn't add a whole lot, however, as per the underspoken prerequisit for the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbFjyP2rZo Takes it in a different direction, much smoother but it's lacking the punch of the original. Still, what they do is pretty cool.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl5xwbt7kj8 The obglitaory metal verion, it's pretty sharp but metal feels like too much of a meme these days. Reminds me of The Black Mages. Saxaphones with metal? Sounds odd - the quality of the reed is drowned out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIkdY9LSiU Is probably the cleanest of the lot, most listenable.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eToidN3DUPE adds some solos to the synth, really good stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb5F7-DDUp0 Ooh shit, this is the one I've been looking for, haaa get down to funky town, pwaaaang.

>>14106

I see nobody has told you about Smoov McGroov.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uVnR9B2vY

That's definitely my favourite song out of the original Megadrive games. However, it was the Win 95 port of SonicCD that I grew up with as a kid, and some of the music on that game is just on another level.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt7tOKgNuJc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1s2xJcECq8

You'll get weebs saying the JP version is better, of course, but they are just flat out fucking wrong. The guitar playing on these songs was probably a huge influence on me if I think about it, it hits that perfect balance of impressive chops but tasteful restraint that all guitar solos should aim for.

They really don't do videogame soundtracks like they used to, sadly.

>>14106
>>14107

Oh, and since this thread is meant to be about covers, this piano medley of Castlevania songs has always been impressive to me. I can't think of a videogame franchise with more consistently kickass music than Castlevania.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5x2WU-ZPL4

13 years old now. Fuck me.

You've reminded me of Team Teamwork.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM5z0aBVAmU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8TgQbki1Ik

This is the most wonderful cover of Country Roads. Always makes me smile, today bringing a tear to my eye. Even if I don't understand the lyrics, the energy makes me remember there's a scene out there I could love, in the country including a family, sunshine, flowers, children.. instead of this dim bedsit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4FUjD_N8YU

>>14127
Fucking weeb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ

>>14168
Not to be a cunt but most modern day metal cover bands tend to sound the same. Listening to this track all I could think was 'yeah, what?'. I guess I don't like metal that much any more. Infact no, fuck that - this isn't metal as I know it, it's .. pop metal or some shit. It's the same 'metal' sounds as every other band; power cords, overemphasis of unusual tonal shifts and characterless vocals.

>>14169

I think that is just a very generic sounding metal band in general. And that cover just completely misses the tone of the original song to boot.

Thinking about it they look like they're just badly aping Killswitch, who I never really listened to, but looking back weren't all bad. And I spent far too much time reading metal forums that shat all over metalcore because old metal fans were boring fucks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dISy0ykWqM3Ag-MA

>>14170

Don't go trying to start metalcore or nu-metal apologia around here lad, we're all over 30. You should know better.

Nah honestly most of it isn't that bad, the main issue back in the day was one of trying to make sure the -core kids didn't give proper respectable metal crowds a bad name. It was elitism sure, but for pretty real reasons. If you band had -core in the music, and if a -core band slipped into a trve metal lineup somehow, it attracted -core people to the crowd, and the whole ethos and etiquette between them was antithetical to metalheads. A metal pit is good natured friendly violence, a -core pit is a bunch of sperg rage arseholes trying to genuinely hurt each other because they're retarded.

Years ago a nun in Italy won their version of the Voice. It led to this:

A couple months back she revealed that she abandoned her habit and now lives in Spain as a waitress while focusing on her music career. So I guess if you would then now is your perfect opportunity.

I have just learnt from Wikipedia that the debut single of Sylvester, the legendary disco artist best known for "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" and one of the campest men in disco, was his version of Neil Young's Southern Man. That is fucking mental:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjHhIGl90I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31amCrgicbI

I don't think we have a thread just for mash-ups (if we do, it hasn't been bumped for at least five years), so I will use this thread. I heard this in a bar last night and was blown away. It's not hilarious like some mash-ups; it's just that Say It Right by Nelly Furtado and Glue by Bicep go together incredibly well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhbpKfmuVe4

Skin performed this song live as a one-off during an interview on Italian radio. It was never released as a single by her but it probably would have had potential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-tfXrI890

>>14723
Technical skill for sure, but I don't think Darude Sandstorm works well on acustic - at least not this composition.

>>14324
The Furtado lyrics obscure the best part of Glue - specifically the long fading melodies. It's that sensation of coming down to a lonely desolate landscape, with the echos of the prior night still echoing in your head. The Furtado lyrics bring others back into it, which detracts from my experience of the track.

Bicep has so many good tracks, Apricots being another of my favorites.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Govg_XmORLE

This Crystal Castles version of the song was apparently quite unpopular, even though the original is largely unknown, but they got Robert Smith of The Cure to re-record the vocals and that version of Not In Love went on to be an immense hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCt0n-lqys

After listening to this and their version of This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us, they're definitely falling into the category of "when you hear them cover a song you'd rather be listening to the original instead".

>>14723


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhEnA90PoyE

>>14771
For reference, this is how remake videos should be made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI

Show the craft, not the monkey.

>>14772

I like Doctor Mix better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEJ3c9pSsE

>>14786


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_TIOfUEudo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWWBeaqdBas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyyGRh19r_k

Not sure this counts as a cover version. Still pretty remarkable.

This is probably a better thread than the main music thread for this song. I have heard the music in a few other places and loved it, and I had no idea they were all sampling Quincy Jones. And Quincy Jones was really just completely reimagining The Lovin' Spoonful:

I never played Metal Gear 5, or any of them for that matter, but the Midge Ure version of Man Who Sold the World does kind of shit all over Bowie's version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2wBKoDOzg

>>14898


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8


I've always liked the Nirvana version the most.

Maybe it's because it's what I was first exposed to, growing up in the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoHuoFQyrI
This is quite nice. The dudes lingering vocals don't match the lyrical content very well, but he's clearly a good singer. I love the scales in Indian music, they mix wonderfully as backing to this track.

The mix of Indian classical with Radioheads Creep has been noticed by a few people it seems; here's Bill Baileys take on it (his singing is terrible mind, but the backing turns, tumbles and recovers with a jourous momentum)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdzejjutY-4

Bonnie Tyler's "If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man)" was written by Desmond Child in 1986, and it wasn't very successful. He was so angry at the record company that when he was working with Bon Jovi a few months later, he wrote the same song again, and called it "You Give Love a Bad Name", just to show the record company that it deserved to be a hit. That was indeed a hit, so I guess he was right.

>>15004

To be fair, the Bonnie Tyler version sounds a bit lacklustre and generic. The Bon Jovi version is still pretty generic, but I guess it was more what people wanted at the time.

Move over, Eric Clapton - not even you can stop the German eurodisco behemoth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-om5KeRqfq4

How long has it been since someone last posted Jealous Guy?

>>15147
To answer my own question, I have just been through this entire thread from the very beginning, and nobody has ever posted Jealous Guy by Roxy Music before. I cannot promise that I won't be back to post it here again in a year's time.

Mylène Farmer's let herself go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d1FNShG0ws

>>15163
This guys stuff is quite good but I can't get over his weird expressions when he's performing Nirvana. Mouth and eyes. Check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JfMWBYpm2g

This is certainly... something.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO44Srpo6jQ

The Pet Shop Boys really made the right decision when they got Liza Minnelli in to have another go at Tonight is Forever.

>>8727
>Marilyn Manson has a similar effect on me; every time I hear one of his covers it makes me appreciate the original and want to listen to that instead.

He's only gone and done it again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmJsk0_Gt5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X3G2qR7nbc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlsdZyr1NOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6U1RCYLt4