My favourite music covers

A cover version is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist typically with another production style or genre.

As is Xmas time, this is a cover of “Carol of the Bells” with metal style:

Long time ago, in the Napster epoch, I discovered the covers, specifically punk covers of pop songs. It was a revelation for me, and I started to search for more and more covers. With the time I discovered that there are a lot of covers, not only punk covers, but also metal, rock, and other genres covers of pop songs, and also covers of other songs.

Before Spotify, Last.fm was my favourite way of listening music (now last.fm is just the scrobbler but time ago, it was a tag-based music player too). I discover more and more covers, and when the Spotify era started, I started to create playlists with my favourite covers.

Here are some of my favourite covers playlists, most of them are punk and metal covers of pop songs:

And this one is one of my latest discoveries, a playlist of LoFi-style covers of “famous songs” I use a lot to work:

For me covers world is a rabbit hole, you start with a song you like, and you end with a lot of new songs and artists you never heard before. There are even groups that only do covers, Our Last Night, Northern Kings, etc.

I hope you enjoy the playlists as much as I do.