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I thought I knew the Ferry song - but it turned out I actually know the Canned Heat one. When the lyrics came up on the screen I was totally befuddled. I think the contestant on the show had the same reaction.
https://youtu.be/f8tZO97uhyE
i first heard it on an unlabelled compilation tape someone made me. way too young to remember the original (1970s song) so took it at face value.
You may be too young to remember the original but I remember it very well
Technically the "original" in as much as the songwriters are performing it, but not actually the first recording. The earliest was in about 1993 and was a re-worked version in Danish, with a structure much more akin to Natalie Imbruglia's version.
Sail by Devildriver (covering awolnation)
Wasted years by Devildriver (Covering Maiden)
Black soul Choir by Devildriver (Hall n Oates?)
Gouge Away by Papa Roach. (Pixies cover).
Another Brick in the Wall - Korn
Whiskey in the Jar - Tallica
etc.
Mostly what I heard when I got into rock and metal at around 15 or so, I just presumed was original songs!
Years later I then found out.
I was surprised by the later devildriver discoveries though, as all 3 tracks sound fantastic as metal songs, and would never have suspected 2/3 to be covers of totally different artists.
First version I heard (and loved) was by the Smashing Pumpkins.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aw6AI3gL8JEZKjZpw80HZ
Only realized after that it was by The Cars.
(Mind you, Queen then ripped off Stairway for Bohemian Rhapsody.)
was actually a cover of Monkey's Mike Nesmith song - he the air to the Tippex fortune! (and you thought he was the goofy one!)
This one is a 'I didn't know it was a cover of a cover'.
Nirvana's Where did you sleep last night. I thought it was their interpretation of the Leadbelly version of the folk song. But listened to Mark Lanegan's first album recently which has a version of the song on it, with Kurt Cobain on guitar. The arrangement and Lanegan's vocals very obviously influenced the Unplugged version. So it's more like Cobain's cover of his and Lanegan's cover, if you know what I'm saying!?
Originally written and recorded by Richard Jobson and Stuart Adamson in 1978 THE SKIDS.
It was originally used in the soundtrack to a Swedish film called Heaven and Hell... and used in the background of a scene about Saunas. Yes, indeed.