The Kickass Covers Thread

[Sarge]

Holy crap, I think I wanna go shoot down some jets now. This Ace Combat 7 remix is killer.

 

[Cadenza]

Have you ever wanted to listen to a radical, bombastic prog rock rearrangement of that one time The Beatles wrote a string quartet piece? Well now you can!

Edit: I've changed the embed link like three times but it's still showing up as unavailable for some reason, just click the "watch on youtube" link, trust me

 

[lincolnic]

Here is a very good (and much too short) album of surf rock covers of Pokemon songs.

surfin' GBA, by Louie Zong

6 track album

louiezong.bandcamp.com

 

[Pheeel]

The Bad Plus do some absolutely astonishing covers. Their Velouria still retains the essence & emotion of the song while sounding like a couple of concert pianists jamming with a free jazz ensemble.

And their Smells Like Teen Spirit is almost as good!

 

[Violentvixen]

Kalimba Ghibli

 

[Dark Medusa]

this is sick!!!!!!

 

[Exposition Owl]

So, in honor of their re-release of Stop Making Sense, A24 put together an album of covers of all of the songs played during the movie. There’s a lot of great stuff there! Here’s one of my favorites:

 

[WildcatJF]

The Linda Lindas are amazing, thanks for sharing this! Haven't heard this one yet.

 

[Exposition Owl]

Two days ago I wouldn’t have thought that Dianne Reeves covering Ani DiFranco was something that existed, let alone something I would love. It just goes to show how fast things can change.