The Return of Cover Songs III

[Mendalla]

The Dead South are way cool. Haven't seen their take on "Chop Suey" before though. And Lorde doing my favourite Tears for Fears song? I'm in (not really a fan of TfF, just liked that song).

Will probably have some music for both here and the regular music thread soon. We had a basic Internet package on our cruise which meant no streaming allowed so haven't listened to much beyond what I have offline in Amazon Music.

 

[Mendalla]

"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan is at once beautiful and intensely sad. It was originally written about the death of Jonathan Melvoin of Smashing Pumpkins to a drug overdose, and more generally about the struggles that bring musicians to use drugs like heroin. Here, Chloe Agnew of Celtic Woman gives a gorgeous rendition. It's not Celtic Woman's usual fare but Chloe's voice and the arrangement are near perfection.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Heard this yesterday on CBC, rather mesmerized:

 

[Mendalla]

Heard this yesterday on CBC, rather mesmerized:

I love that version. Second favourite after the original.

Strangely, I am not otherwise a big Disturbed fan. Draiman has a magnificent voice but their music isn't quite my cuppa even in my current metalhead incarnation. I like his performance on Nita Strauss' "Dead Inside" better than anything I have heard from own band outside of this cover.

 

[Mendalla]

Oh wow. In 1988, the great Whitney Houston recorded "One Moment In Time" for the Olympics. With the 2024 Olympics opening last week, UK singer Lucy Thomas tackled the song and the results are magnificent.

 

[Mendalla]

Leonard Cohen covers are very common, but there's only a few songs that seems to get most of the attention, like "Suzanne" and "Hallelujah". So when I saw that Romanian guitarist Andrei Cerbu had covered "In My Secret LIfe" from Ten New Songs, I was intrigued. Andrei has several projects on the go, but mostly focuses on rock and metal so that's another reason this caught my attention: It just wasn't Andrei's usual. I first came across him through covers of metal bands like Nightwish. But he actually gives a very nice blues-y rendition of the song, even taking lead vocals himself (he has a stable of singers, mostly talented young women, that he usually works with). He's a hellagood guitarist but is also a decent vocalist, something that I did not know. And get a load of that guitar solo. Best one I have heard in a Cohen cover since Jennifer Warnes had Stevie Ray Vaughan join in on "First We Take Manhattan".