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Title: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: Don Jacob on December 12, 2006, 02:22:32 AM
i know it's a rice crispy's comercial now but fuck this shit touches my heart right through the left ventrical
somewhere over the rainbow/what a wonderful world by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
http://www.youtube.com/v/C4yfYpEH_IQ
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: white Boy on December 12, 2006, 03:53:35 AM
yo that comercial drove me nuts, cuase that song is so dope and i coudlnt find it, then i was working valet, and it was playing in someones car, and i flipped shit, and looked at the cd, really dope song, btw the best cover is all along the watchtower by jimi, and number 2 is respect by aretha..........
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: QuietTruth on December 12, 2006, 11:33:31 AM
I hear this song everywhere and didn't know the fuckin' name. Propz. Lol.
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: JMan on December 12, 2006, 01:08:19 PM
yeh the vibe of this tune is great.. i usually here this once or twice a week of a mornin on my way too work.
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: Don Jacob on December 12, 2006, 01:33:35 PM
yo that comercial drove me nuts, cuase that song is so dope and i coudlnt find it, then i was working valet, and it was playing in someones car, and i flipped shit, and looked at the cd, really dope song, btw the best cover is all along the watchtower by jimi, and number 2 is respect by aretha..........

i agree with one, but at the time of this post it was Kamakawiwo'ole
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: AlerG on December 12, 2006, 02:13:20 PM
Fugees- Killing Me Softly
Guns N' Roses- Knockin On Heavens Door
Metallica- Turn The Page
Travis Meeks- The End (The Doors Cover)

there are so many, that is a great cover though,

chill
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: gav09 on December 12, 2006, 03:35:20 PM
Props! I dint no who that song woz! BTW this dude is BIG AS FUCK! Hes like Pun sized!
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: Jakubs on December 12, 2006, 03:58:57 PM
Props! I dint no who that song woz! BTW this dude is BIG AS FUCK! Hes like Pun sized!

Sadly enough, he passed away from being overweight too.
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: gav09 on December 12, 2006, 04:03:54 PM
^^^Shit man, bad news.
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: Jakubs on December 12, 2006, 04:37:27 PM
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow

http://download.yousendit.com/A9C3CD11624539B4

For those that want the song playing in the first post.
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: QuietTruth on December 12, 2006, 04:41:48 PM
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow

http://download.yousendit.com/A9C3CD11624539B4

For those that want the song playing in the first post.

Propz!
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: Jakubs on December 12, 2006, 04:47:20 PM
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow

http://download.yousendit.com/A9C3CD11624539B4

For those that want the song playing in the first post.

Propz!

Check "you know where" for the entire album!
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: NiCc_FrUm_ThA_nO on December 12, 2006, 05:56:55 PM
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow

http://download.yousendit.com/A9C3CD11624539B4

For those that want the song playing in the first post.

Propz!
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: Don Jacob on December 12, 2006, 06:11:57 PM

Metallica- Turn The Page



this is a little off topic but IMO almost every cover song metallica has done has been better than the original

am i evil (original)   :)
am i evil (metallica)  :rock:


Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: WC Iz Active on December 12, 2006, 06:29:34 PM
Guns N' Roses " Knockin On Heavens Door"   by far the greatest cover song ever.
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: big mat on December 12, 2006, 08:16:40 PM
What a fat mothafucka
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: ecrazy on December 12, 2006, 08:20:59 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/QZ8CFRFp7tY
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: WC Iz Active on December 12, 2006, 09:09:02 PM
^^great pick
Title: Re: greatest cover song EVER
Post by: Trauma-san on December 12, 2006, 09:31:38 PM
This is a great song, Braddah Iz is the man but I don't really consider it a 'cover' song because the originals don't have strong identification with a single singer.  I guess Wonderful World you can hand to Louis Armstrong and Somewhere Over The Rainbow to Judy Garland maybe, but how can you call it a cover song when Iz basically owned it?  It can never be done again, it's his forever.

BTW, did yall know when he died they laid his body in state under the capitol dome in Hawaii, 50,000 people filed by to pay their last respects! He was really loved by the hawaiian people because he was a patriot.  Hawaiians basically have this sad thing where they miss their culture and resent being colonized by the british and later becoming an american state.... so it's kind of like a resistance movement, but of course non violent because the Hawaiians wouldn't hurt a flea.  If you listen to some of his other music, it's haunting because it's all about how his ancestors are crying and things like that.  Crazy.

My other favorite song of his is "White Sandy Beach of Hawaii". 

BTW, while I'm thinking about it, a little story.

A guy owns a studio in Hawaii, gets a call one night in the middle of the night, in the middle of a thunderstorm, some soft voice on the other end tells him he wants to come record a song for his friend that he's been working on for a while.  The studio engineer tells him that it's too late, the soft spoken dude on the other end begs him to wait just 15 minutes and he'll be there.  The guy finally relents, and when the door opens 15 minutes later the biggest man he's ever seen is standing there with a yukelele.  He comes in, they do a quick level check of his voice in the microphone, the mountain of a man goes "this one's for Gabby" and records that song in 1 take in the middle of the night, when nobody had ever heard of him before.  Gets signed to a recording contract, goes on to become the biggest musician to ever come from Hawaii... when he passes away 50 thousand people walk by his body to pay their respects.