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    Great prog-ish covers

    PLEASE don't post a slew of Musical Box note perfect tribute versions. Just one off covers.


    Luv it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tyYb3yXLhI


    Visually a bit disturbing but a great sound.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZJ2Q-1CGmc


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WFU60rKTJo
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    Okay, obviously that great piano cover of Sound Chaser destined to be on this thread!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Azol View Post
    Okay, obviously that great piano cover of Sound Chaser destined to be on this thread!
    Which is exactly why I started this thread. For some strange reason some very good stuff was ending up there. Do people just not bother to read or understand thread titles?

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    Can't read the clips from work but Glass Hammer did a proggish cover of Dan Fogelberg's 'Longer' on their 'Shadowlands' album. Not as good as GH's own songs, but good nonetheless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azol View Post
    Okay, obviously that great piano cover of Sound Chaser destined to be on this thread!
    With a name like that, he would be laughed at in the Netherlands.

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    Is this what you had in mind? I posted it on this thread because I felt that a cover this good didn't deserve to be on a thread called " '70s Kitsch At It's Worst".

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    Quote Originally Posted by JIF View Post
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    Is this what you had in mind?
    Excellent stuff. And I prefer his voice to Gabriel's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by klothos View Post
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    Brilliant!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Excellent stuff. And I prefer his voice to Gabriel's.
    For a Canadian, he's sure got the English accent down. Btw, his name is Sandy Singers.

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    Love that solo piano Soundchaser version!

    The 180 G's made a bunch of the most amazing A cappela Cardiacs Covers
    https://soundcloud.com/david-minnick...ardiacs-covers

    And how about this one by the Ukelele orchestra of Great Britain

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    Quote Originally Posted by thedunno View Post
    The 180 G's made a bunch of the most amazing A cappela Cardiacs Covers
    https://soundcloud.com/david-minnick...ardiacs-covers
    Thanx for that link, my fav is on there: NWV.

    And while I'm at it, I'll mention what I think is perhaps the best C cover ever, Sterbus' version of Dirty Boy. In fact so much so that I prefer it to the original. Could almost go in the "better than the original" thread.

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    As much as I like the sound of Dire Straits Tunnel of Love as solo piano, it isn't a cover version. I can play Bohemian Rhapsody on a tin whistle that doesn't make it a cover version.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    As much as I like the sound of Dire Straits Tunnel of Love as solo piano, it isn't a cover version. I can play Bohemian Rhapsody on a tin whistle that doesn't make it a cover version.
    I, on the other hand, don't care much whether the performance of a rock/pop tune by a non-originator/non-composer ought to be called a cover or a tribute or similar. Both are used etc. And also, it is not always that someone's performance was just to show they can play the instrument -- sometimes people won't even bother to say "cover" or "tribute" or whatever and just simply upload their performance.

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    Well, there is a big difference between a tribute and a cover. A tribute band plays compositions as close to the original as possible. (The Musical Box, P-Floyd, Status Quiz, Led Zeppagain) Whereas a cover band usually performs its own interpretations of others compositions. A "cover" also refers to known artists recording & releasing other artists' material and with the permission of the original artist. An unknown person on youtube playing a song, sorry but that is not a cover version, especially if it isn't a recorded/released song.

    Words have definitions and understood applications for a reason

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Well, there is a big difference between a tribute and a cover. A tribute band plays compositions as close to the original as possible. (The Musical Box, P-Floyd, Status Quiz, Led Zeppagain) Whereas a cover band usually performs its own interpretations of others compositions. A "cover" also refers to known artists recording & releasing other artists' material and with the permission of the original artist. An unknown person on youtube playing a song, sorry but that is not a cover version, especially if it isn't a recorded/released song.

    Words have definitions and understood applications for a reason

    It is quite commonly understood that "cover" is the more generic way, than "tribute", to *simply* communicate the *sole fact* that someone is performing something they didn't write. That's the definition of "cover" in my mind when I use it. I don't have to consider "closeness to original composition" as a factor before being able to just go ahead and spontaneously lazily say "cover" since it's the more generic term --- I don't have to obsess over whether picky people will think I am referring to cover's generic "something the performer didn't write" meaning or cover's "own interpretation of the original version" meaning. "Tribute" communicates as much that the performer is expressing his/her appreciation -- i.e. paying "tribute" -- as "closeness to original version". These are the various versions. Again, I use "cover" lazily in its generic definition since, after all, the common person will not not understand that.

    In summary, I'm laid-back and easy-going about music, and I speak that way about it, by default.

    I guess that just about wraps up this exchange, hopefully --- cause it's Saturday and I'm going outdoors now. Cheers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    Why didn't Genesis play the intro that way in concert?

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    ^^^^^^^
    Afaik it's because all those early years Tony didn't have a piano onstage and he didn't like the way it sounded on the RMI piano. By the time he had the Yamaha electric grand they had dropped the song. I have heard that, but then again maybe it was just a bit of editing to cut to the chase. I doubt the idea of changing it to a nylon guitar occurred to them

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