By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking ‘all along the watch tower’ but things like Fever Ray’s cover of Vashti Bunyan’s song Here before
Fever Ray is relatively well known while Bunyan had very limited success
Taste aside, some of y’all really need to learn the definition of obscure.
The Breeders “Drivin’ on 9” was a cover of song by an obscure band called Ed’s Redeeming Qualities. The Breeders version is IMO sweet and meloncholy but the original is rather weird.
Hard to pick one, but murder by death has quite the number of them… But them covering the 90s rnb classic ‘creep’ was a shock
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Type O’s cover is so weird: really turns out on its ear
Do obscure rap samples count? Because I love these two:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy9nSEYZQzE&si=6x72ueIzb4LvqImv
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4TqyGMjeIpA&si=RkaU_sQJK24G9M9T
To the original question, I would pick RHCP cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s song If You Want Me To Stay.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzWSL-gEO4&si=l-LP8ose9welAblw
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXkP0HTf3w&si=OrswIwjoCLw1jHO
Also Type O’s cover of Seals and Croft’s song Summer Breeze
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ywL6tMQdG4c&si=9uM1HqkGh1rSwv7V
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uiKzKdLk-iQ&si=pQRsVqWN8iAUzSDn
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Not sure if this applies, but people still seem to think that Nine Inch Nails covered Hurt by Johnny Cash and not the other way round. That or they haven’t even heard the original.
Probably The Man Who Sold the World covered by Midge Ure, which I find much better than Bowies original or the famous Nirvana cover.
Also really like Renegades cover by 36 Crazyfists.
Good song, but Bowie is not obscure.
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“Torn,” by Natalie Imbruglia (1997) was originally written by Ednaswap and recorded in 1995—which, imo, is better. However, even though they wrote it, it was first recorded in 1993 by danish band, Lis Sørensen, who titled it “Brændt,” which means “Burned.”
Bonus! “The State I’m In” a song from Ednaswap’s first album, was covered by Sinéad O’Connor for her 2000 album Faith and Courage.
Wild! I didn’t know that wasn’t done by Sinead
The Louis Prima Orchestra’s cover of “Whatta Ya Gonna Do?”, by Sunny Skylar. One of my favorite songs, a perfect blend of New Orleans and New York in the 40s. The link above is the only version I can find on the internet, which is instrumental. The version on the record I have has vocals and is cleaner. I hope somebody works to preserve Louis Prima’s catalog from the 40s digitally, there’s so much old music at risk of being lost!
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Stille Volk’s cover of Iron Maiden’s To Tame A Land:
This would be a perfect fit if it went the other way. Big band covering obscure band
Harry Belafonte’s exuberent cover of “Day O (Banana Boat Song)” which was a hit in its time and re-popularized by the dinner scene in Beetlejuice.
The original is Jamaican folk/traditional and the first recording of it Eric Connor - Day O has a totally different tone to it. In the original, labouring on a banana plantation is as tiring and depressing as you’d think.
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Who’s tripping down the streets of the city
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The original had not much success until the cover?? Where did you get that information from?
Yeah, I literally laughed out loud when I saw that.
I have one word for that commenter.
“Plastics”
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