DAY 14 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
Who doesn’t love a cover song??? Especially when it’s BETTER than the original?
This one should be real good today - time to fire up the Spotify! Can not WAIT to see what y’all got. The hard part is picking just one or two!
UPDATE - Started a Youtube Playlist of your picks!!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSLYrsBpwHJTuRTcZmG05m1FZR2say-14
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm cover of Michael Jackson that SLAPS!
Possession - Evan’s Blue (Cover of Sarah McLachlan)
In the Air Tonight - Nonpoint (cover of Phil Collins)
Ooo, never heard of these! will check them out. LOVE covers.
I love that cover by Cake. I listened to Goldfinger for a while and had never heard that 99 Red Balloons cover. Thanks for sharing:)
hanne hukkelberg covering break my body (pixies)
Love K.Flay’s stripped-down cover version of The Offspring’s classic song.
For fun, while I try to pick something - here’s my gender neutral cover of “I’m Your Man” by Leonard Cohen
https://youtu.be/DYU__WdmXq0?si=a1TJnGxTunRnLoGA
Real happy with this one.
Did someone say bluegrass Radiohead covers? Chris Thile/The Punch Brothers have you covered. Here’s a few selections. They have more if you dive into youtube.
nice! I added the Paranoid Android to the playlist - since it had the best sound recording
Iron Horse’s bluegrass Metallica covers are also fantastic.
Pickin’ on Modest Mouse is pretty damn good, too.
Dark Center of the Universe works surprisingly well as a bluegrass song.
Yes. The fast-paced vocals work perfectly for the bluegrass style
Rise Against -Anyway You Want It (Journey Cover)
Thrice -Helter Skelter (Beatles cover)
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes -Karma Chameleon (Culture Club cover)
Johnny Cash -Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover)
Bayside -Call Me (Blondie cover)
In This Moment -In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins cover)
Disturbed -Land of Confusion (Genesis cover)
The HU -Sad But True (Metallica cover)
Stand Atlantic -Your Graduation (Modern Baseball cover)
Silverstein -Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Could keep going but this is good for now
The genre’s are very similar, but the song Knowledge, by Operation Ivy was covered by Green Day on their debut album - I always enjoyed that version.
Also, another favorite was when The Presidents of the United States of America covered Video Killed the Radio Star original by The Buggles.
I would never claim that this is better than the original, but for me at least, Primal Scream’s version of the 13th floor elevators song Slip Inside This House is the perfect cover because it retains the psychedelic 60’s summer of love spirit of the original song while making it utterly contemporary (for the time it was released anyway, although to me it still sounds pretty fresh).
Original version: https://youtu.be/nwSA0Tckwbk?si=xGk5bIaVtU_ZVqHF
System of a Down - Metro (Berlin cover) From the Dracula 2000 soundtrack