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album of covers of 1 song

Sometimes I get interested in a particular song (a jazz or pop standard, or a classical piece) and then go on youtube listening to different covers/performances of that song for hours. It makes me wonder if there's ever been an album or CD containing, say, 20 different covers of the same song. There could be a series of such albums for different songs. Lately Bob Dylan is in the news and many of his songs have been recorded 100s of times. Has anything like this been tried? Does it sound crazy? I could imagine buying a few. Thanks. 50.0.136.56 (talk) 02:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The one that I own that fits your criteria is this treat which has eight different versions of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D. I look forward to seeing other suggestions. MarnetteD|Talk 03:43, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I like the title, "Pachelbel's greatest hit". 50.0.136.56 (talk) 05:22, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Army of Me: Remixes and Covers is almost exactly what you wanted. Staecker (talk) 11:44, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I own a vinyl-record with a bunch of versions of "Für Elise" by Beethoven, and Pierre Kartner also known as Father Abraham/Vader Abraham has a best of 3-CD where the last CD contains different versions of The little café by the harbour done by artists like; Engelbert Humperdinck, Peter Alexander, himself and many others. Doop also made a remix-album with somewhere around 12 versions of the song Doop OXYGENE 7-13 (TALKPAGE) 11:56, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Another one: Mark Ryden's The Gay Nineties Old Tyme Music: Daisy Bell featuring covers of "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" by a variety of artists such as Katy Perry, Nick Cave, Kirk Hammett, Danny Elfman, and more... ---Sluzzelin talk 13:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Do they have the version sung by HAL, the homicidal computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey ? StuRat (talk) 13:37, 30 October 2016 (UTC) [reply]

No, though they have AL. ---Sluzzelin talk 13:54, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Swiss Radio DRS 3 once broadcast an entire hour of "Besame Mucho" interpretations. I found bits and pieces, such as here online, but not the entire program (which they had broadcast earlier, some time before they went online). I had it on tape. Must have been the late 1980s. Maybe other radio stations have done similar things, or still do. ---Sluzzelin talk 13:54, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Resonance FM have twice broadcast an entire day of covers of the Beatles song, 'Yesterday' the most covered song I believe. A remarkable day of radio. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.7.166.71 (talk) 07:59, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks all. Someone linked earlier to a Bjӧrk album which was the type of thing I had in mind (hadn't heard of it before), though it's gone now. It got brutal reviews and that made rethink the idea some. The other examples seem possibly more listenable, and the radio specials sound interesting too. 50.0.136.56 (talk) 23:57, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There's also Laibach's Sympathy for the Devil (album). -165.234.252.11 (talk) 15:29, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Stairways to Heaven was a compilation of versions of "Stairway to Heaven" originally performed on episodes of The Money or the Gun. jnestorius^(talk) 12:06, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have two CDs of "Louie Louie", issued by Rhino. —Tamfang (talk) 21:48, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Revengeance and Bastard

The unusual sound right before ending the Soulfly song Revengeance, so can you think what that sounds like? Also the rhythm at the beginning of another Soulfly song Bastard resembles a different band, can you think what metal band it resembles in rhythm? If you answer both questions, I'll use your opinions to add those info to these corresponding song pages on Soulfly Wiki. Also I was looking for info in all of review sites for the album that contains these songs but couldn't find mention of those, that's why I ask here on Reference Desk. Planet Star 02:46, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Revengeance effect sounds like what Eric "Mixerman" Sarafin used to call a science experiment, maybe starting from an acoustic guitar folksinger joke I've heard a few times. The performer says "now here's a song that I wrote in prison", and then runs their thumb and forefinger nails up and down the low E string so it sounds like someone trying to saw through a metal bar. Run that through a little low-pass filtering and flanging and you might get that sound? 50.0.136.56 (talk) 04:43, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the first song sounds like something as simple as Backmasking of individual notes. With modern digital effects pedals you can even replicate such effects live, and not have to resort to tape effects as was done in the past. Obviously, there's other processing going on here, but compare it to something like Jimi Hendrix's "Castles Made of Sand" which was one of the earlier uses of this technique for guitar. --Jayron 32 17:17, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Can you guys clarify it more while not including so much background info, included, are you talking about "Revengeance" that sounds like Jimi Hendrix's CMoS?, if it is I may not agree with this one as there might be songs from other bands that more closely resembles it. What about the VERY END of "Revengeance", a part that starts at 5:22 that utilizes a wind instrument of what kind? Would you agree that the first 36 seconds of another song "Bastard" resembles Foo Fighters in musical pattern (not to mention that its composition is heavy metal unlike typical Foo Fighters, or in other words metal cover of Foo Fighters)? Planet Star 01:54, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I loosely determine based from searching around kinds of wind instruments and hearing samples from youtube that the last 20 seconds of "Revengeance" utilizes a free reed aerophone, but probably not everyone would agree. Planet Star 07:12, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chen Weilian song

what is the origin of story in the song huo chai tian tang by chen weilian --14.100.135.53 (talk) 08:31, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It might be The Little Match Girl. Rojomoke (talk) 12:26, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]