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Oct 24

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BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge 2014

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BBC 1 is undoubtedly one of the world’s best radio stations – their constant supply of fresh new music, big name stars and zany humour keeps millions tuned in every day. The Live Lounge is one of our favourite BBC institutions, established since 2006 it was originally hosted by Jo Whiley on her mid morning radio show and is now hosted by Fearne Cotton. Invited artists usually perform one of their own songs and a cover of someone else’s, always in an acoustic format. The Live Lounge is also a physical studio within Radio 1 studios from where the performances are broadcast. Some shows though, are broadcast from the BBC Maida Vale Studios as the Live Lounge is fairly small.

We love the shows for many reasons, but mainly because the cover versions are often a totally different genre than the artists normally perform. Jamie Callum performed a cover of Pharrell Williams’s ‘Frontin’ which eventually led to him being signed by Pharrell’s label. The performances are intimate, alive and buzzing with energy.

We have compiled our Top 10 performances – very difficult to do, because all are amazing – and put them into a playlist for your listening pleasure.

Our two favourite performances – Taylor Swift and Ella Eyre – we present below with the original versions of the songs they covered.

Note: The videos are high-quality and may take longer than usual to load (it’s worth the wait!).

Taylor Swift covers Vance Joy’s Riptide

Vance Joy – ‘Riptide’ Official Video

Ella Eyre – Funk My Life Up (Paolo Nutini cover)

Paolo Nutini – Scream (Funk My Life Up) Official Video

1 – Taylor Swift covers Vance Joy’s Riptide
2 – Clean Bandit & The BBC Philharmonic – Rather Be
3 – Ed Sheeran – Stay With Me (Sam Smith cover)
4 – Ella Eyre – Funk My Life Up (Paolo Nutini cover)
5 – Lily Allen – URL Badman
6 – Coldplay – Magic
7 – Bastille – Earth Song / Common People
8 – George Eza – Barcelona
9 – Paolo Nutini – Someone Like You
10 – Kiesza – So Deep
11 – Justin Timberlake covers the Jackson’s Shake your Body (Down to the Ground)

Well, the last track from Justin Timberlake was not from this year’s series, but it’s too good not to include! Enjoy The Music!

Creation 5’s BBC Live Lounge Playlist

Each year a compilation album is released with some of the best performances. Just recently the BBC announced the track listing for their Live Lounge 2014 album – the 9th volume in the series. The collection includes artists such as Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, The Script, Coldplay and 5 Seconds of Summer covering and performing the biggest hits of the past year.

This year’s collection will be released on October 27 and includes two discs with a total of 40 tracks.

Full tracklisting for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge 2014:

Disc 1:
Ed Sheeran – ‘Stay With Me’ (Originally By Sam Smith)
Ben Howard – ‘Hideaway’ (Originally By Kiesza)
Ella Henderson – ‘Say Something’ (Originally By A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera)
Sam Smith – ‘Berlin’ (Originally By RY X)
George Ezra – ‘Budapest’
Foxes – ‘Happy’ / ‘Teardrop’ (Medley) (Originally By Pharrell Williams / Massive Attack)
Ellie Goulding – ‘How Long Will I Love You’
Little Mix – ‘Holy Grail’ / ‘Counting Stars’ / ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (Medley) (Originally By Jay Z Ft. Justin Timberlake / OneRepublic / Nirvana)
The Script – ‘Superheroes’
Maroon 5 – ‘Maps’
Aloe Blacc – ‘The Man’
Kasabian – ‘Fancy’ (Originally By Iggy Azazlea Ft. Charli XCX)
Paolo Nutini – ‘Scream (Funk My Life Up)’
Bastille – ‘We Can’t Stop’ (Originally By Miley Cyrus)
Labrinth – ‘Shake It Off’ (Originally By Taylor Swift)
Tom Odell – ‘Roar’ (Originally By Katy Perry)
Kiesza – ‘Nobody To Love’ / ‘Doo Wop (That Thing)’ (Medley) (Originally By Sigma / Lauryn Hill)
Katy B – Crying For No Reason’
Duke Dumont Feat. Jax Jones – ‘I Got U’
Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne – ‘Rather Be’

Disc 2:
Coldplay – ‘Oceans’
London Grammar – ‘Wrecking Ball’ (Originally By Miley Cyrus)
5 Seconds Of Summer – ‘Amnesia’
The 1975 – ‘Sex’
Indiana Feat. RHODES – ‘Waves’ (Originally By Mr. Probz)
Haim – ‘XO’ (Originally By Beyoncé)
Jacob Banks – ‘Magic’ (Originally By Coldplay)
Hozier – ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ (Originally By Arctic Monkeys)
Nick Mulvey – ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’ (Originally By Drake Ft. Majid Jordan)
Bombay Bicycle Club – ‘F For You’ (Originally By Disclosure Ft. Mary J. Blige)
Mallory Knox – ‘Lovers On The Sun’ (Originally By David Guetta Ft. Sam Martin)
Lower Than Atlantis – ‘Am I Wrong’ (Originally By Nico & Vinz)
James Bay – ‘Forever'(Originally By Haim)
Example – ‘Dark Horse’ (Originally By Katy Perry Ft. Juicy J)
Ella Eyre – ‘Comeback’
Angel Haze – ‘Drunk In Love’ (Originally By Beyoncé Ft. Jay Z)
Wilkinson Feat. Becky Hill – ‘Counting Stars’ (Originally By OneRepublic)
Chase & Status – ‘Strong’ (Originally By London Grammar)
Rudimental – ‘The Monster’ / Story Of My Life (Medley) (Originally By Eminem Ft. Rihanna / One Direction)
Gorgon City Feat. MNEK – ‘Ready For Your Love’

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Oct 23

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Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron

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Get your first look at Ultron trying to tear apart Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the rest of the world in the first official trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Get ready for an epic and action-packed thrill ride!

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Avengers: Age of Ultron is Marvel Studio’s epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. Written and directed by Joss Whedon and produced by Kevin Feige the film is based on the hugely popular Marvel comic book series The Avengers which was first published over 50 years ago in 1963.

The film stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk). Scarlett Johansson plays the Black Widow, Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye and Samuel L. Jackson plays Nick Fury. The A team must defeat Ultron, played by James Spader who is a slimy, sickening villain determined to bring about human extinction. Amidst the action the team meet two newcomers Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, and Pietro Maximoff, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. They also meet an old friend in a new form when Paul Bettany becomes Vision.

The only bad thing we see about it, is that we have to wait till May 1, 2015.

Oct 23

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Searching for Sugar Man

This is a multi award-winning documentary about Sixto Rodriguez whose music did not manage to make it big in the US but somehow he became a massive rock icon in South Africa. When his albums flopped in America, Rodriguez’s ‘almost-fame’ slipped away into anonymity in his home land but a bootleg copy of one of his records managed to cross the water and get in the palms (and ears) of the apartheid-suffering South Africans. The messages that Rodriguez’s music conveyed struck a chord with the people there and subsequently he became a huge success.

The story follows two young natives who want to find out more about the illusive Rodriguez following rumors that he had met a gruesome end and all sorts of other inventions about his location and life situation. All sorts of exciting adventures occur on their path to discovering the truth about their idol; with little information to go on they have their work cut out. As the story unfolds there are twists and turns that will shock your socks off.

This is a must-see film written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul (who later committed suicide) about humanity, hope and the eternal intrinsic power of music.

Searching for Sugar Man

Gimme Shelter

Filmed in 1969 on the last leg of The Rolling Stones’ US tour of that year. This insightful yet ultimately tragic depiction of life on the road with the Stones is truly remarkable. This counterculture era film follows a “reactive” method of filmmaking. The direct cinema style is filmed spontaneously as things unfold rather than reconstructing events that have already occurred giving the film a more realistic feel. The tragic final concert on this tour, and film, is the notorious Altamont Speedway Concert which resulted in death and a hell of a lot of problems. The Hell’s Angels were, in hindsight, mistakenly hired as the security for the event in return for free beer. The crowd got fired up, the Angels got riled up and everything got very messy. Four people were killed; there is even footage of a Hell’s Angel stabbing a gun-carrying attendee to death. This is a dark representation of music culture, but it’s true and it happened. The Maysles directors’ spin on it does add to the sinister undertones with a lot of flashing back and forward to brutal moments in the Altamont disaster, despite this it is a truly remarkable and “must-see” film.

Gimme Shelter

Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Back is a film by D.A. Pennebaker, which follows Bob Dylan for four weeks during a tour of England in 1965, in this 96 minute long fly-on-the-wall style documentary. A typical interview, concert depicting documentary this is not as Dylan is shown backstage and in between gigs for more than half of it and gives full on displays of his obvious disdain for the less intelligent folk that cross his path. Despite some seemingly antagonistic and arrogant moments this is a very intimate, emotional and quite wonderful film both musically and personally. Dylan is a musical genius, whether you like his attitude and personality or not, it is not quite a delusion of grandeur with him, it’s more of an utter belief of grandeur in mental stature.
Bob Dylan is one of the most poignant musical stars of our time and so Don’t Look Back is an honest reflection of a life few can comprehend; it definitely set a standard for music documentaries that followed.

Don’t Look Back

The Beatles Anthology

This is not for the faint hearted – eleven hours worth of film spanning the entire career of the biggest thing to come out of Liverpool probably for all eternity; the phenomenon that is The Beatles. It begins with a bit about their backgrounds and upbringings and follows them right through to their break up in 1970 with footage derived from a plethora of media sources. There are clips of interviews, newsreels, anecdotes, photographs, even home movies are all woven majestically into this timeline of historical success. This is another honest and frank documentary which does not dismiss differences between the band members but rather adds this in to portray the reality of the intensity of their relationships and the pressures of being superstars. Anthology is a staggeringly detailed and intimate account of the life of The Beatles and definitely rates with the best documentaries of all time.

The Beatles Anthology

This Is It

This really was it, Michael Jackson was no more and this documentary film, the footage originally being intended for his personal library, was made and released as a sort of consolation to his fans that the King of Pop would no longer be performing his final tour as planned. He died before he even reached the first destination and so this depiction of the lead up to the tour is all we have to inform us as to how those concerts would have been. There is rigid choreography, pedantic perfection, a lot of energy and a few strange moments of Michael having “issues” but overall an amazing insight into the illusive character and secret world of one of the biggest and most controversial and talented stars of all time.

This Is It

The Last Waltz (1978)

The Last Waltz is a moment in legendary rock history never to be repeated, or probably beaten. The Band were signing out as, well, a band and decided to have a farewell concert in their own honour. And what a send off it was. This film by Martin Scorcese documents this night and the major stars which headlined this monumental Thanksgiving on November 25, 1976. Up on stage you will see the likes of Paul Butterfield, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Neil Diamond, Bobby Charles, The Staple Singers and Eric Clapton performing live at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Critical acclaim has given The Last Waltz the title of being one of the best concert films ever made covering the career and the influences of the band members and fantastic performances by one of the best line ups in history.

The Last Waltz (1978)

Woodstock (1970)

Woodstock was a legendary event which could never be repeated. It was a one off, unique moment in music history and so any documentary with real footage from the weekend of madness that was Woodstock has to be worthy of a place in the top ten best music documentaries. Whether the coverage is any good or not would be irrelevant but as it turned out the documentary has become one of the most entertaining ever made and was (and is) a huge success winning many accolades including an Academy Award. This culturally historic document was an enormous box office hit and grossed over 50 million dollars in the US. With performances by Crosby, Stills & Nash, Canned Heat, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Sha-Na-Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, Arlo Guthrie, Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane, John Sebastian, Country Joe McDonald, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, the line-up couldn’t really get much better than that.

Woodstock (1970)

Marley (2012)

Marley is a film documenting much of the artist’s stand on life, love, music, race and religion. Much of the information is from the memories and knowledge of Marley though his family and friends. The film covers his feelings towards being of mixed race, his family, his political beliefs and involvement, his loyalty to the Rastafari movement and Haile Selassie all of which inspire many of the songs depicted in the documentary. Most of all though Marley’s belief and hope for the future was that we could all share “One Love” and live together in harmony. He was a great prophet, poet and musician and despite a difficult start to his career eventually became one of the most influential and successful reggae artists ever. This “epic and uplifiting” film, featuring a great many performances of his popular work, offers a fascinating insight into this intense and thought-provoked man.

Marley (2012)

Muscle Shoals (2013)

“Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of the most creative and defiant music in American history”. This is the setting for the documentary which looks at the recording studio which inspired and produced so many of the all time greats. In this movie, legendary artists including Aretha Franklin, Greg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Wilson Pickett, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Steve Winwood and others bear witness to the magnetism and mystery of Muscle Shoals and why it remains a global influence today.

Muscle Shoals (2013)

In Bed with Madonna (Known as Truth or Dare in the US)

Whether this corset-wearing, overtly sexual and controversial superstar is your cup of tea or not, this insight into the woman with the “Blonde Ambition” is quite a piece of work. There is a lot of backstage and behind the scenes footage, some of which seems quite contrived and ironically does not portray the songstress in the best light, as well as onstage performances from the tour in 1990. Madonna can come across as slightly neurotic with diva tendencies and a lot of seemingly staged offstage filming makes it all look a bit too Hollywood. However, this is one of the most famous women to walk the earth, the biggest selling female artist ever with one of the most chameleon-like careers spanning four decades and counting. Madonna may not be to everyone’s taste but her iconic status and career longevity win her the right to make this film appear on our top ten list. Look out for the cameo appearances by Al Pacino, Kevin Costner, Warren Beatty, the list goes on…

In Bed with Madonna (Known as Truth or Dare in the US)

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Oct 22

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Union J – You Got It All

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Union J have released a music video for their new single You Got It All and it’s pretty perfect! The track was written by Magic! frontman Nasri and the moody black and white visuals were directed by Frank Borin.

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Union J are: JJ Hamblett, Jaymi Hensley, Josh Cuthbert and George Shelley, “It’s the ultimate big ballad and it takes us back to our vocal roots. As the weather turns colder it the perfect song for us to lead through to the winter,” they commented when sharing the track.

You Got It All is the group’s latest single and follows on from their top 10 hit Tonight (We Live Forever). It will appear on their forthcoming album which is coming soon – no release date yet – and promises to be exciting as they have been working with songwriters Jamie Scott (One Direction, The Vamps, 5SOS), Red Triangle (Little Mix, One Direction) and Eric Frederic (Jason Derulo, Cee Lo Green). The single will be officially released on November 30, although you can pre-order it now.

The boys are definitely doing something right – their tour with The Vamps next year sold out the O2 in London in an incredible 44 minutes!

Oct 22

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Gwen Stefani – Baby Don’t Lie

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Gwen Stefani has just released her solo comeback single Baby Don’t Lie and the music video is a kaleidoscopic mix of funky shapes and loud colors, very trippy! The single was previewed on last night’s episode of The Voice before the music video was released. Directed by Sophie Miller and Weirdcore (Aphex Twin visuals), it’s best just to sit back, relax and surf on the neon pink and yellow waves with Gwen’s soothing lyrics to complete the dreamscape.

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It might have been a boring video to make – think green screen – but it’s certainly not boring to watch! You see Stefani strutting down a morphing yellow road where a dance troupe join her and jazz things up a little more. The checkered angular mountains, the neon washes of pink and yellow and the strange dancing partners tell us that Stefani is definitely not on planet earth! The glitchy visuals are right on trend as well, glitch art is very fashionable these days (the aestheticization of digital or analog errors).

Stefani’s manager, Irving Azoff, said that the singer has been in Miami “recording new tracks” with Voice co-star Pharrell Williams. Interscope chairman John Janick commented to Billboard that Stefani is aiming for a December release date on her new solo album, the first since 2006’s The Sweet Escape.

Baby Don’t Lie was released through Mad Love/Interscope and features Benny Blanco, Ryan Tedder and Noel Zancanella as producers.

Oct 21

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Roy Kafri – Mayokero

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Watch legendary album covers come to life in this brilliant & hypnotic music video, Mayokero, by Israeli comic artist Roy Kafri. Watch Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, Madonna and more start singing on the sleeves! This is the best slice of entertainment you’ll watch today!

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You might not have heard of him but Roy Kafri is a comedic singer and beat-boxer from Israel and this track, Mayokero, is the first single to be taken from Kafri’s album, Acowpella Beatbox.

The amazing music video is the work of Vania Heymann, a second year student in Bezalel School of Art and Design, who actually got a whole crew of actors involved to help him put the classic album covers into live singing action.

Among the albums featured are: Michael Jackson’s Thriller, The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder, Simon & Garfunkel’s Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Prince’s eponymous second album, Jeff Buckley’s Grace, and Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisted.

You’ll also see: Françoise Hardy, Lionel Richie, Aretha Franklin, ABBA, Madonna, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Ahmad Jamal, Big Star, Serge Gainsborugh and Jane Birkin, and The Beatles.

Out favourite bit of animation is the bringing to life of the iconic Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd to blazing life – and the banana on the cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico turning bad! The video also has a story about a man with great taste in music who chucks out his old vinyls and gets into consumer electronics…

Oct 21

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FKA twigs #throughglass

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Take a trip with FKA Twigs in a hallucinatory new concept film for Google Glass, entitled #throughglass. Watch her, and her doppelgängers, perform an amazing and bizarre dance. This is FKA Twigs directorial debut and it’s completely mesmerising. The stunning, highly-regarded choreography, combined with the use of lightening fast technology makes Google Glass look cooler than it ever has before.

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FKA Twigs uses the glasses to search everything from moving footage of Benjamin Milan and British krumper Dominant to manga-inspired eye makeup. The score for the short film is a kaleidoscopic reworking of her debut single, Video Girl, along with parts of Glass & Patron, a track she has never released. The featureless white expanse of the background, plus the über cool first-person mirror shots and the incredible dancing makes for a truly bizarre, but quite beautiful video.

The Mercury Prize-nominated artist is about to go on tour throughout North America, with one show in Canada and a few shows in Europe.

Google Glass went on sale in the US on April 25, 2013 and in the UK on June 24 2014, with the high-tech wearable purchasable to anyone over the age of 18.

Oct 20

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10 Cover Songs that top the originals

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Cover songs are mainly about one artist paying homage to another and showing admiration for their work. Now and again however the revamp turns out to be an even bigger hit. Here are our top ten cover songs that either became more successful or are, in our opinion, a better, shinier version of the original.

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Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U

You’d never have guessed that this huge 90’s hit was not an original. The song was originally written by Prince for his side/project band The Family. He only released one album under this name, Nothing Compares 2 U was on it but never released as a single. Sinead’s close-up and personal, multi-award winning video is as powerful as the ballad she so emotionally delivers. There are even pretty convincing tears. Sinead’s version reached international fame in 1990 topping charts all over the world, going platinum and gold in four countries. Even the US was cracked by the haunting song of a lost love, and stayed at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks.

Johnny Cash – Hurt

As far as power-ballads go Johnny Cash absolutely nails this one, appropriately released first by Nine Inch Nails in 1994 on the album A Downward Spiral. The original version was a hit rock song but reached critical acclaim and worldwide recognition when released in 2003 by Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor who had reservations about Johnny Cash covering his song but later summed up Cash’s version with this quote…

“I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.”

This was one of the last singles released by Johnny Cash before he died in 2003; quite a sign off.

Lenny Kravitz – American Woman

First released way back in 1970 by The Guess Who, this rock tune reached number 1 on the Billboard Top 100. Lenny’s slower and far sexier version released in 1999 won him a Grammy for Best Male Rock Performance in 2000 and featured in the smash hit movies; American Beauty (Kevin Spacey does a great sing-a-long in the car to this), The Muppets, Austin Powers, Game Change and The Cable Guy. The video features actress Heather Graham raunchily writhing around on top of a bus, a lot of Americana, a shed load of leather outfits and even more sexy bikini clad girls either rocking out to Lenny or bouncing along on big motorcycles. Not a wonder this became so popular!

Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse – Valerie

The English Indie band The Zutons released this song in 2006 on their album Tired of Hanging Around and reached number 9 in the UK charts. However when Amy Winehouse came along and decided to pluck this song out of semi-obscurity and perform it in the BBC Radio One’s Live Lounge, the days of this being The Zutons’ song were blown out the water. When Winehouse collaborated with Mark Ronson, as well as him pumping his expertise into her Back to Black album, they recorded Valerie together and…BOOM; Valerie was born again as Mark and Amy’s adopted, and internationally famous, love child! Their version spent 39 weeks in the UK charts in 2007-8.

Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You

This classic warbler from Whitney featured in The Bodyguard, which she stars in alongside Kevin Costner, was first released by Dolly Parton in 1974. It featured on Dolly’s thirteenth solo studio album Jolene and twice reached number one on the Billboard Top 100 Country Songs. Whitney Houston released the song in 1992 and since then it has become one of the biggest selling singles of all time. Whitney’s R&B Soul and Smooth Jazz style rendition, a far cry from the original Parton Country & Western version, is number nine on NME’s Greatest Number One Singles in History List.

Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah

The original recording of Hallelujah was by Leonard Cohen who wrote and released the song in 1984, this version received little attention. In 2004, Buckley’s version (inspired by a previous cover by John Cale) was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone’s The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and became so popular there was even a book written about it. It did not, however, hit the charts immediately. The album on which his version of Hallelujah appeared was released in 1993 but the single first charted in 2006 and from here it hit the top of the polls in many countries. Buckley unfortunately didn’t live to witness the ultimate success of his cover due to his untimely death in 1997. This posthumous release sparked far more interest and resulted in worldwide recognition. Rolling Stone Magazine described the rendition – “Buckley treated the song like a tiny capsule of humanity, using his voice to careen between glory and sadness, beauty and pain. It’s one of the greatest songs ever”. The Buckley version of the song was used in many TV shows such as The O.C., Ugly Betty, ER, Scrubs and The West Wing to name but a few.

Roberta Flack/The Fugees – Killing Me Softly With This Song

This was first recorded and released by Lori Lieberman and written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel in 1972. Roberta Flack heard the song on a plane journey and wanted to put her own spin on it, she did so and made the song a huge hit. Whether her version or the Fugees’ is better is debatable and despite the addition of a sample from Bonita Applebum by A Tribe Called Quest that was added by the Fugees, Flack and Lauren Hill have a very similar delivery of the haunting melody. Simplicity and originality may be your preference but both tunes were super success stories as cover songs. Props should go to Roberta for picking out the tune and making it her own to provide Lauren Hill and The Fugees with the version they eventually developed, which, apparently, became so popular they had to remove it from the shelves in order to give room to release their next track from the album; Ready or Not.

Roberta Flack:

The Fugees:

One Direction – One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks); tracks by Blondie & The Undertones Respectively

It is very difficult to say whether this is a better version of Blondie’s song One Way Or Another as it mixes in with another very big hit of the 70’s Teenage Kicks, both of which were huge successes in their own right. One Direction recorded the track for Comic Relief / Red Nose Day 2013, a yearly charity event which raises millions for the underprivileged via comedy events and a huge TV show in the UK. The band has gone from strength to strength since the X Factor and has become a huge worldwide success story. Mashing together two seventies hits and releasing it as their own single could have been catastrophic but as it was for such a good cause the single hit the big time resulting in being nominated for British Single of the Year at the BRIT awards, reached the top ten in the charts of 17 countries, it went gold and platinum in 8 countries……Blondie’s version was also a huge hit for her but in comparison she didn’t stand a chance competing against the teenage fan following of 1D.

Nirvana – The Man Who Sold the World

This track, originally by David Bowie, has inspired many cover versions but the one that out shined and out sold the original was Nirvana’s. Featuring on their MTV in Unplugged in New York album in 1994, it is quite a simple and honest version of the cover but Cobain’s vocals and the band’s unmistakable sound made this a truly unique version of the song. Bowie was said to be impressed that his music had reached the depths of the US in order for Nirvana front-man to consider remaking a song of his. He also was said to have liked the Nirvana version but did not like it when kids would approach him and say it was great he was covering Nirvana songs after performing the song again on tours!

Justin Bieber Feat. Nikki Minaj – Beauty and a Beat

This is not exactly a cover song being better than the original as much as the original recording never being released at all! Consequently it was rewritten to suit its new owners. It seems that Anton Zaslavski (Zedd) had it right when he realized the track he had written for his album Believe did not quite fit and so passed it on to Bieber’s team who adapted it for the young star and his choice of rapper, Nikki Minaj. The song went global and topped the charts all over the world just adding to the crazy success the young Canadian has achieved.

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Oct 20

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Watermät – Bullit

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French DJ and Producer Watermät has a brand new entry in the UK charts this week at Nº15 with Bullit. Crowned as an Essential Track by Pete Tong earlier this year and one of the most streamed songs of the summer in Ibiza, this gorgeous groove defines a #feelgood vibe.

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Tiesto, in an interview with Billboard Magazine in August, when asked ‘What’s next for EDM genre, which trend will we be talking about 6 months from now?’ said “This track ‘Bullit’ by French DJ-Producer Watermät is going to be huge”.

Watermät has been composing tracks for many artists in the past, before deciding in late 2013 that it was his time to take the stage and share his love for dance music with the world. His first self released EP Sparks including the tracks Sparks and Something About U was released in December 2013. After that, the buzz around Watermät started rolling and Spinnin’ Records took their chance to sign him for his next track Bullit on their Deep imprint in February 2014. Bullit was released on Spinnin’ Records in May 2014.

During the massive double-weekend event of the Tomorrowland festival in Begium, Bullit was the 2nd most streamed track – it was also the 2nd most streamed track in Ibiza this summer – quote an accolade. Watermät was also the most played artist in July this year on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 Dance Music.

Shift K3Y have just done an awesome remix:

Oct 18

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The Ting Tings – Do It Again

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The Ting Tings fabulous retro music video for their new single Do It Again is, without a doubt, the best video you’ll watch all week! Step back into the 1970’s and enjoy the technical brilliance of this psychedelic visual for this instantly infectious disco-tinged track. Brilliantly directed by Andrew Daffy, you see Katie White and her gorgeous hair walking a treadmill surrounded by über cool TRON-like lighting effects with Jules De Martino rocking the drums and providing back up.

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The quirky British duo unveiled the music video for their brand new single a few days ago on VEVO. The track, which will officially be released on November 3, is taken from their upcoming album Super Critical which will be released on October 27.

After taking some time off from the music industry, The Ting Tings are back with a bang and have abandoned their indie-pop-rock sound and embraced vintage disco music. We think it suits them perfectly and that Super Critical will be a must-have album.

Jules De Martino said that the song is about “not being lazy” and Katie added that “it’s about the need to lighten up, stop the paralysis of criticism and do anything that makes you feel good.”

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