Cover Songs Featuring Highly Skilled Musicians

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Radiohead have played a surprising number of covers over the years. Here's a webcast from 2007 where they do Joy Division's Ceremony and The Smiths' Headmaster Ritual.







And Thom and Jonny just sitting around doing an acoustic version of Portishead's The Rip.

 
Two more from Radiohead/Thom Yorke.

Cover of Can, The Thief



Thom doing Neil Young's After the Goldrush

 
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Radiohead have played a surprising number of covers over the years. Here's a webcast from 2007 where they do Joy Division's Ceremony and The Smiths' Headmaster Ritual.







And Thom and Jonny just sitting around doing an acoustic version of Portishead's The Rip.

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Man, those are good. I particularly like the cover of Headmaster Ritual.
 
One of those you have to work hard at screwing up if you have an ounce of soul in you.
 
Don't try this at home boyz and gurlz: A Wes Montgomery tune "D-Natural Blues"
Played by Emily... (but she transposed it to Bb - way cool)
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I'd like to dedicate this cover to the Republican Party/Trump cult/Christian Republicans.

Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.

Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick among the pure.
God money's let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose
 
A masterpiece Rush song about placing hope in young people, very nicely covered.

 
I was really not much of a fan of Ozzy's music, except in the following sense: after his departure from Black Sabbath I always listened to his stuff, because he always tried to get the finest backup musicians he could find. Doing that, he hired Randy Rhodes, one of the most staggeringly brilliant guitarists in music history. Had Rhodes not died in the very beginning of his career we might be talking about him now as the best ever. Anyway. after Rhodes' death Ozzy brought in the very creative, powerhouse player Zack Wilde, and together with Ozzy and Keyboardist John Purdell, they came up with what could be taken as a major musical statement of prog rock in the eighties (though prog was not really Ozzy's style at all). It has his usual goofy lyrics, but the musical composition is fantastic. Here is a very fine cover:

 
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