Song Hunt

"Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito" (breakfast-burrito)
08/25/2013 at 14:46 • Filed to: song hunt

It's like Criagslist Hunt for music.

Cover songs; sometimes they're horrible, sometimes they're wonderful. Your task on this Song Hunt is to show us your favorite cover song and it's original version.

The Who took the 50's jazz classic, "Young Man Blues" and breathed into it the heart and soul of Rock 'n Roll.

DISCUSSION (10)

fhrblig > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 14:56

Barenaked Ladies, covering Bruce Cockburn's "Love in a Dangerous Time":

And the original, also great Bruce Cockburn version:

pdthedeuce > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 15:11

nice idea...I like this

i'm gonna go with "you really got me" by the Kinks and Van Halen

GhostZ > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 15:12

I absolutely love Live at Leeds. It's probably my most-listened-to album.

This, unfortunately, seems to miss the section on "Tattoo" right before Young Man Blues where the band talks about Mose Allison.

Pete: "He was a Jazz sage. Quite what that means, I don't know."

Keith (I think): "It's a flavor of chicken!"

EDIT: Oh yeah, my favorite cover, and I'll be cliche about it, but I think Jimi Hendrix is quite possibly the best cover artist of all time. While it is debatable if he is the best guitarist (although those debates rarely last long) and debatable whether he was the best band, I think there is no question that no one made as many cover songs that were all so unique, amazing, and improvements on the original without getting tired or outdated. Of course, his best remains:

And of course, the orginal:

And another one, from Live at Leeds too!

Original:

Bandit > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 15:15

Foo Fighters: Have a Cigar.

They turned a Pink Floyd classic into a hard rock piece of awesome.

Bonus info: Instead of Dave Grohl singing like he normally does for all Foo songs, he drums on this track (Nirvana flashback!). Tyler Hawkins, normally the drummer, sings. Best of all Brian May from Queen plays the guitar.

Original version:

desertdog5051 > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 15:21

Robert Johnson. (one of the blues greats) "Sweet Home Chicago"

Eric Clapton's version.

Ferrero1911 > GhostZ
08/25/2013 at 15:49

"All Along the Watchtower" has got to be the best cover ever. I heard Bob Dylan perform it in the late 90's and it was almost unrecognizable. There were many people there who didn't recognize it at all, which is sad since they were all actually alive when it came out. Sadly I'm way too young to have heard Hendrix perform. I'll have to check out Live at Leeds. I have it on vinyl, but I'm not sure I ever listened to it.

Ferrero1911 > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 15:58

Not necessarily my favorite, but I've always like this cover/collaboration that Nirvana did of "Lake of Fire"

original:

GhostZ > Ferrero1911
08/25/2013 at 16:02

Live at Leeds is, quite possibly, one of the best live albums ever.

The thing is, many people think The Who were famous because of their Rock Anthems and complex rhythms. What they were really famous for was their live performances, I think they were some of the first bands to use pyrotechnics, projections, and lasers, long before Pink Floyd embodied the live show. I'm way too young to have gone to any of those concerts, but it was almost an art of logistics just getting their crowd as excited as they were.

I think anyone can make good music, if they work hard at it. It takes genius to create a fiction, a sort of ideal and life-changing experience that everyone measures as the standard of your craft. For The Who, it was live shows, and Live and Leeds was one of their most personal, in-touch and just plain beautiful performances. There are very few songs on that record that I like the studio versions equally well. Take "Heaven or Hell". You can hear the struggling, energetic voice behind the live version, but the studio one is just too structured for a song with that much meaning. That's art.

CB > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 16:10

Ballad of Hollis Brown. Originally done by Bob Dylan, re-done by Rise Against.

Original:

Remake:

Ferrero1911 > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/25/2013 at 16:17

I just remembered this one. Johnny Cash did a cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails. I think I like them both equally, they are so different.

Cover:

Original: