TMT Special! Nominations: Covers of original songs

[Glüc]

Welcome to the nomination thread for the 2025 TMT special edition!

[Glüc]

The first category is Covers of original songs

Nominations are now open.

We are looking for 25 nominations.

Each person may nominate two songs, with a deadline of 72 hours. (Please include a youtube link)
If we're not full after 72 hours everyone gets another nomination 24 hours after their previous nomination.


---Specific rules for this category---

(This would be my interpretation anyway. I hope @þerxh Sant-Enogat, who nominated the category, agrees, but if not we can make some rule changes of course.)

- An artist doing a live performance of their own work is not a cover. In the spirit of the category I think we should also exclude solo artists doing a performance of a song by a band they were in at the time of recording, so no Paul McCartney doing a Beatles song for example.

- Technically pretty much all classical music is a cover, but classical music is usually credited to the composer rather than the performer and the idea of a piece is really the sheet music rather than a specific recording. I would suggest we dont allow covers where there is no recording in some form of the original song by the credited artist.

- We are looking for covers of a single song, so no mashups, medleys etc.

- Sampling a song is not the same as covering it. We are looking at new interpretations of an old idea rather than using an old interpretation for a new idea.

- Translations, parodies, instrumental covers, etc do count and are allowed.

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We are voting on the written combination artist (or composer) + title, rather than the specific version that is being linked to, in case people do not like that version.

If you can, please include a link to YouTube or some other video or audio file of the song. Otherwise I will find a link myself, but I might not always find the best version.

Nominated so far:

25 spots left

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

I nominate these:

Last one is a cover of "Heroine and cocaine" by The Tiger Lillies.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

My favorite cover is probably All That Remain's version of the The Thunder Rolls, which I nominated for last year's main TMT20. Therefore I won't nominate it again.

Panic! At the Disco - The Greatest Show

Weezer - Africa

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song

Amy Winehouse - Someone To Watch Over Me

[Gjermund Higraff]

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - If I had the world to give

Molly Tuttle - Olympia, WA

[Glüc]

Sinead O'Connor - She Moved Through The Fair (not sure if this qualifies)

I hadn't really thought about traditional songs, but I guess if we want to be consistent the answer would have to be no, because there isn't a recording of the original song.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Sinead O'Connor - She Moved Through The Fair (not sure if this qualifies)

I hadn't really thought about traditional songs, but I guess if we want to be consistent the answer would have to be no, because there isn't a recording of the original song.

Noted. I have removed that one. And added Amy Winehouse.

[Glüc]

Chvrches - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Idiotheque (Radiohead), cover by Alexa Melo
https://youtu.be/07gYJot1-UQ?feature=shared

Love will tear us apart (Joy Division), cover by Nouvelle Vague
https://youtu.be/r3GVd4DFFPA?feature=shared
(A french group I recommend, many bossa-nova covers of new wave/punk songs)

[Mic’haglh Autófil, O.Be]

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Brian Setzer Orchestra - Sleep Walk

[Glüc]

There are 11 spots left! Everyone now gets one additional nomination every 24 hours.

To be clear: those who haven't nominated yet can still post two picks at once (but then would have to wait another 24 hours before their third nomination)

[Glüc]

3. Madness - One Step Beyond

(Sneaking Ska in after all)

[Gjermund Higraff]

3. Dexys - Both Sides Now

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

There are 11 spots left! Everyone now gets one additional nomination every 24 hours.

To be clear: those who haven't nominated yet can still post two picks at once (but then would have to wait another 24 hours before their third nomination)

In that case this is my third nomination