Speaking of great Nirvana covers, Post Malone’s pandemic live stream covering a bunch of Nirvana classics stands out to me as well https://www.youtube.com/live/f7eaGcIyhPU

I had heard that T-Pain’s cover was good but never heard it myself until just now. Not only did he absolutely kill it, but the guitarist went off too. Great performance that honours the original.

I’m not sure if I’d agree on it being better than the original, but it does manage to keep the energy of the original while making the whole thing heavier.

Holy cow, that’s one way to honor a band’s legacy. I’m not surprised it moved Plant to tears. Can you imagine sitting there, seeing this immense spectacle and going “Holy shit, we inspired all these people”? Must be mind blowing.

Thanks for adding that comment. I do recall reading about this somewhere but I forgot to add her as the original artist.

That said, listening to the cover by Manson it’s pretty clear he’s primarily inspired by Soft Cell’s version of the song.

Wow. Never heard this version of the song, but man did Chvrches knock out it the park. It’s almost unrecognizable but familiar at the same time.

I would’ve added it to my list if you hadn’t. Jeff’s version is so good the Cohen original sounds like a cover to me these days.

Also, the only other song besides Cash’s rendition of Hurt that will move me to tears on every listen.

Some of these are a bit more obscure, but I think these deserve mention for either transforming or faithfully updating the original songs:

Visigoth covering Necropolis by Manila road: https://youtu.be/QWixcWq1HPk

Cradle of filth covering Temptation by Heaven 17: https://youtu.be/MfMa2lrFxhY

The unseen covering Paint it black by the Rolling Stones: https://youtu.be/QAowDvxJN1A

Type O Negative covering Cinnamon girl by Neil Young: https://youtu.be/BO9aD4mzSE8

Electric Callboy covering Everytime we touch by Cascada: https://youtu.be/AuBXeF5acqE

Marylin Mansion covering Tainted love by Soft Cell: https://youtu.be/srcb-zmKDOE

HIM covering Wicked game by Chris Isaak: https://youtu.be/8oYodfK4DkE

And who can forget the Guns and Roses cover of Knocking on Heaven’s door by Bob Dylan: https://youtu.be/k04tX2fvh0o (I’m pretty sure this is another case of a super popular cover eclipsing the original by another super star)

[Edit] Forgot this amazing cover of Pink Floyd’s Welcome to the machine by Shadows Fall: https://youtu.be/kvMDk3M3c1c

There have been countless covers of “while my guitar gently weeps” but I think none of them were as flamboyant as the collaboration between Dani Harrison, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lyne, and of course Prince.

I don’t agree with folks saying this is the best guitar solo ever but man does Prince pour his heart and soul into it.

https://youtu.be/uWc4wMyL1oI

It’s funny how Edge got lambasted for it when they introduced that feature, but it’s legitimately super helpful and non-invasive.

Yeah, I’m gonna go and suggest the GST vacation is probably a “costly political gimmick”. Honestly, I’m with her on not signing off on that.

Not sure why your getting downvoted, this is a pretty legit question.

I never expected to feel old on a comment about Michael Jackson, but here we are. Man, I can’t believe it has honestly been that long.

“Trump just finished the first episode of Fallout on Prime, confuses it for a strategy” - better headline. Serously, if it weren’t for the fact that this clown is president-elect, we would have collectively ignored him a long time ago.

Yeah, I suppose Rammstein were actually a bit optimistic with that line.

That’s really hard to source honestly due to the nature of proxy wars. The list I provided does include large conflicts in which the US was a beligerent in some way, shape, or form, so not just wars. For example, it includes domestic conflicts the US never flagged as wars such as the various campaigns against the American natives, the invasion of Mexico and a whole bunch of others lesser known ones.

pushes glasses well akshually…The US was not involved in an armed conflict from 1795 to 1798, 1805-1810, 1815-1816, 1828-1832, 1924-1939, 1961-1964 and finally 1975 to 1982. Out of the US’ 248 years of existance, it has enjoyed 38 years of official peace.

Isn’t the original line “sometimes war”? Or am I misremembering the lyrics.

This would’ve been a better joke if you changed “lockdown lunacy” to “a restriction not imposed by the government they were protesting” or just “a wild array of conspiracies mostly regurgitated to them by social media”.

And here we see the actual problem - Danielle isn’t the crazy lady holding the party hostage (like Kenny’s comment about the “inmates running the asylum” suggested), the whole party has gone off the deep end.

I don’t see how this has any chance of being fixed, unless the UCP suffers multiple crushing electoral defeats over the next decade or so.