Flour Power

It’s often said that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”. And for people like Weird Al Yankovic and Richard Cheese, it’s also a hell of a good way to make loads of money and have a good laugh. Anyway, every once in a while I come across a great cover of a song I love, or a song that I like and only later find out that it’s a cover of some terribly (and sometimes also terrible) old song. So I decided to put together a list of some great covers found on Youtube. I focused on covers done by relatively well-known artists and the great covers made by the “average Joes” will possibly be featured in a future post.

So, without further ado, enjoy this list of 12 awesome music covers:

Korn – Creep (originally by Radiohead). If there is a song that has been “covered” a lot of times, that’s “Creep”. And this Korn acoustic version is amazing!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREPw8Fl0qg

Nelly Furtado – Crazy (originally by Gnarls Barkley). Also try this video, you might not get the dreadful “This video is not available in your country.” message.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MuWXd_N_-s

Travis – Baby One More Time (originally by Britney Spears). It’s cool to see how a terrible song turns into something decent just by being playing differently.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NwqN-xj9Xs

KT Tunstall – I Want You Back (originally by The Jackson 5). KT Tunstall is like one-girl band.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xANiW9yWvGE

David Fonseca – Rocket Man (originally by Elton John). A great song (and also an impressive video) by this Portuguese artist.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icB6yOkphz8

John Frusciante – How Deep is Your Love (originally by Bee Gees).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkqOPGXgkEk

Amnesiac Quartet – I Might Be Wrong (originally by Radiohead). And, as always, Radiohead’s video is sooo weird.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-790ehxSs20

Manic Street Preachers – Umbrella (originally by Rihanna). There’s a huge number of covers for this song. Take a look at this Youtube playlist.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JohzXpM-vkU

Alanis Morisette – My Humps (originally by Black Eyed Peas). Now this is a big change… And by the way, the video is a parody done as part of some Estonian video competition.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g

Natasha Bedingfield – This Love (originally by Maroon 5).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-LjlEyyjl4

The Kooks – Kids (originally by MGMT). Does anyone else think that MGMT’s videoclip is just… creepy?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBLT_Fxu6rk

Nouvelle Vague – Blue Monday (originally by New Order)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SpZXU61hCI

PS: Sorry for the low quality on some of the videos, but I keep being hit by the ”This video is not available in your country.” message.