Covers Versions that are outrageously creative/inventive.

The Moving Sidewalks' psych version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand":

 

Frazier Chorus - "Anarchy In The UK"

 

From The Hollies to Glass Moon:

 

There are certainly some interesting versions on Stina Nordenstam's People Are Strange album.

Sissel Vera Pettersen - Hunting High and Low (a-ha).

 

Father Of Day, Father Of Night - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

 

One of my friends did a cool cover of the Old 97's "Four Leafed Clover" I think it's pretty.

 

CHICAGO's drummer and its founding member Danny Seraphine drove his band with energy and power by taking a jazz drummer’s approach to rock. Here's Chicago’s version of this Spencer Davis classic with Danny Seraphine on drums, Terry Kath on guitar and vocals, Peter Cetera on bass and vocals, Robert Lamm on keyboards and vocals, and the three-part Chicago horn section (James Pankow - trombone, Lee Lughnane - Trumpet and Walt Parazaide - woodwinds).

 

Jacob Collier - They Long to Be Close to You



...or any of the other covers he's done. All are brilliant.

Ed

 

Blue Suede's version is basically a note-for-note cover of Johanthan King's version.

 

I've always thought that ELO's version of Roll Over Beethoven takes the song a place no one else thought of...and does it really well.

The Flying Lizards' "Money (That's What I Want)" is pretty striking and very different than the original.

Gary Jules found something in Tears for Fears' Mad World that no one heard before--and his version has basically become the subsequent template.

 

How is this "outrageously creative and incentive"?

Ed

 

It's outrageously creative and inventive in a positive way. Very bold, unusual, and startling!

 

Such a sweet, pretty romantic song. Then this happened:



Imagine Jessica Walter obsessing over this version in Play Misty For Me!

 

Tomita - Holst The Planets.



jerol

 

Bill Evans Autumn leaves.
Judas Priest Green Manalishi

 

On a mobile and unable to link, but pretty much anything by Postmodern Jukebox and/or Puddles Pity Party.

Also there's a girl called Luna Lee regularly posting rock songs arranged for the traditional Korean instrument "gayageum". Everything she does is amazing and worthy of more exposure.

 

For inventiveness, (affectionate) irreverence, and for great, funny, attitude and sex appeal, I'll take the Stones' cover of "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)."

A wonderful complement to The Temptations' heavenly record. For all the attributes cited above, my favorite Stones R&B cover. And that is really sayin' something...

 

It is?



Ed

 

I like that the string octet of the original becomes voice in this version.

 

Chicago introduced the heavier element of jazz-rock to that shorter and lighter pop-rock version.

 

Martin Gordon's downbeat recasting of "I Feel Fine"

 

Always liked what Japan did with Marvin's "Ain't That Peculiar." It's an entirely different song.