"Moody" covers of famous songs.

[TheScarlettChad]

How shite are they? Extremely.

Apart from this one, it transcends shit and becomes amazing. 

 

 

[johnnyboy]

I always liked Billie Jean by The CIvil Wars.

 

[hallicks]

The depressed teenager in me has fully awoken for this. 
 

Tori Amos - Smells like teen spirit. Oversings it but quite beautiful. 

Sinead O’Connor - Sacrifice. This reminds me of some very low ebbs. Gorgeous though.

 

[SpiritOfTheForest]

I absolutely adore Type O Negative's cover of Paranoid. What a song, what a band

 

 

[TheScarlettChad]

12 minutes ago, SpiritOfTheForest said:

I absolutely adore Type O Negative's cover of Paranoid. What a song, what a band

 

 

Love Type O!

[Statto]

Puddles is the king of this stuff.

 

And it's still just about Survivor Series week, so:

 

[Merzbow]

Coil's cover of Tainted Love, moody might be downplaying it but it's an early song about the AIDS epidemic, completely changing the intention of the lyrics.

 

 

[The Gaffer]

I'm not sure if Aurora started it or it pre-dated her, but there was an awful deluge around I think the early 2010s in supermarkets and adverts - it may have all been one cheap to license Not-Aurora - of someone doing loads of covers in this put on sounding mermaid at the coffeeshop voice. It did my head in at the time. 

Anyway, I love moody covers apart from that. This is the WrestleMania X-Seven of them, surely:

Any excuse to post everybody's least favourite my favourite band also. Early HIM had a ginormous moody chug to them though that this cover has:

This is also surprisingly good. Wish they were doing more of it and leaning less into "Bumblegum pop, but it's a witch!"

 

[DiscoPistol]

Kasey Chambers, a slightly obscure Australian Country singer absolutely smashing Lose Yourself

 

 

[BomberPat]

in terms of "being so shit it comes out amazing", you can't beat this nonsense: 

 

[stumobir]

Karine Polwart, a criminally unknown Scottish folk singer, seamlessly stitches Smalltown Boy and Here Comes the Rain together in this belting set.
 

 

[Carbomb]

6 minutes ago, stumobir said:

Karine Polwart, a criminally unknown Scottish folk singer, seamlessly stitches Smalltown Boy and Here Comes the Rain together in this belting set.
 

 

She's fairly big in folk music circles - but folk just isn't as popular as it used to be, sadly. Unsurprising to hear her doing a great job with these, she's always had a tremendous voice and style about her.

[wordsfromlee]

Not all that moody, but a great acoustic cover of an electronic rnb song

 

[cobra_gordo]

First thing that sprang to mind was this

Liz Hodson also does a stunning version of Aint No Sunshine but I prefer this

Not as moody as my other two suggestions but fuck it, I love this version of Sea Of Love.

 

[FLips]

It's a moody cover of an already moody song.