Good cover versions of new order songs — Forum Archive

30 Oct 2016, 18:40

just found this channel, which has a lot of decent new order cover songs. most have the notes shown.

while some are just basic and plain covers, the more recent ones sound much better.

elegia (early)

elegia (newer)

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30 Oct 2016, 19:56

Yes, I've come across this guy's FL covers before. As a FL Studio user, myself, I find it especially impressive. Although, I think the goal is recreating the original as close as possible with FL and soft synths. The vocal ones also make good karaokes...

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30 Oct 2016, 20:02

I think our friend has a rival, True Faith in Cubase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJCptaW8btI&index=2&list=RDsYnBmNvyeFQ

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31 Oct 2016, 04:48

Here's a Brazilian-produced collection of NO covers, compiled and released last year:

https://theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/album/va-dreams-never-end-a-tribute-to-new-order

Nothing notable, but a noble project, given that there's been so such official compilation attempted.

Honestly, Sophie Ellis-Bextor's version of "True Faith" ain't bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n\_k\_Pul8A5E

As opposed to George Michael's total crap take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riLArIZN6xo

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1 Nov 2016, 02:13

here are some of the versions of temptation:

another take:

instrumental cover:

everythings gone green and temptation:

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1 Nov 2016, 12:15

Thanks for highlighting my channel on here Negative 1, the extra views will do nicely. [hi] I'm currently working on a cover of Cries and Whispers and will be up on my channel soon, so check it out :)

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1 Nov 2016, 17:04

Mark Kay wrote: Thanks for highlighting my channel on here Negative 1, the extra views will do nicely. I'm currently working on a cover of Cries and Whispers and will be up on my channel soon, so check it out :)

Excellent work, Mark. It must take a lot of effort to complete these projects...

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1 Nov 2016, 17:25 · edited 1 Nov 2016, 17:37

Mark Kay wrote: Thanks for highlighting my channel on here Negative 1, the extra views will do nicely. I'm currently working on a cover of Cries and Whispers and will be up on my channel soon, so check it out :)

no problem mark,

i have just finished going through pretty much every one. and you've done a brilliant job on them.

i'm not a fan of the slowed down ones (sorry, they don't sound natural), but other than the odd vocal (age of consent?) i feel they are all worth of listening to.

also, the other new wave ones too....

onto my favorite song, the perfect kiss....

perfect kiss:

one more, couldn't include it previously:

the perfect kiss: epic mix:

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1 Nov 2016, 17:47

Deceiver wrote:

Mark Kay wrote: Thanks for highlighting my channel on here Negative 1, the extra views will do nicely. I'm currently working on a cover of Cries and Whispers and will be up on my channel soon, so check it out :)

Excellent work, Mark. It must take a lot of effort to complete these projects...

Thanks Deceiver. It sure does take a lot of effort for me as I'm no musician and I'm just doing most of these by ear. It helps that all these New Order songs are ingrained in my brain through listening to them non stop over the years [:d]

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3 Nov 2016, 13:09

thieves like us:

slow mix

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4 Nov 2016, 21:28

true faith:

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5 Nov 2016, 20:27

22 Nov 2016, 21:10

DJ Luxxury's take on Blue Monday:

https://soundcloud.com/luxxedits4u/how-does-it-feel-luxxury-edit

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6 Dec 2016, 23:19

krafty:

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9 Dec 2016, 22:36

round and round:

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13 Dec 2016, 03:23

sooner than you think:

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17 Dec 2016, 19:30

State Shirt - The Him

https://youtu.be/7utFuJflS8o

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20 Dec 2016, 21:48

Radiohead - Ceremony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF9xO2Tpwzs

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14 Feb 2017, 18:36

Loose Buttons cover AoC: SoundCloud

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12 May 2017, 00:38

here's ceremony,

ceremony:

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15 May 2017, 22:39

http://www.nme.com/news/music/finn-wolfhard-stranger-things-guns-n-roses-new-order-2072291

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16 May 2017, 02:58

onto fine time:

fine time:

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16 May 2017, 18:33

here's a couple of versions of shellshock,

shellshock:

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16 May 2017, 22:05

U gotta love this BLT : somebody sample those pans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnS-OaOXUc

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17 May 2017, 05:39

Del Boy wrote: U gotta love this BLT : somebody sample those pans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnS-OaOXUc

that was beyond horrible..

are you sure this wasn't supposed to be one of the worst covers? maybe we need a separate thread.

i don't think people get the idea.

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17 May 2017, 10:27 · edited 17 May 2017, 10:40

negative1 wrote:

that was beyond horrible..

are you sure this wasn't supposed to be one of the worst covers? maybe we need a separate thread.

i don't think people get the idea.

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To be honest with you, I think this thread is incorrectly titled. It would be more accurate to call it: "Reproductions of NO songs in Fruity Loops that try to sound as similar to the original as possible". But that doesn't necessarily constitute a good cover version. I would suggest that most of these are only of interest to fellow amateur 'producers'; not so much to others. Call me biased but I would also suggest that the only good cover version on this thread is the one I posted on page 1 - The Afgan Whigs cover of Regret. And it's good precisely because it doesn't just try to ape the original. (EDIT: actually the State Shirt and Radiohead covers are decent too) Del Boy's vid above may be a little rough around the edges but it does at least have a sense of fun & originality about it, unlike most of these FL covers. Time to rename the thread perhaps?

(Maybe even split the thread up: Non FL covers in a proper cover versions thread, all the FL recreations in one place that most of us can ignore.)

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17 May 2017, 17:04

Debaser wrote:

negative1 wrote:

that was beyond horrible..

are you sure this wasn't supposed to be one of the worst covers? maybe we need a separate thread.

i don't think people get the idea.

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To be honest with you, I think this thread is incorrectly titled. It would be more accurate to call it: "Reproductions of NO songs in Fruity Loops that try to sound as similar to the original as possible". But that doesn't necessarily constitute a good cover version. I would suggest that most of these are only of interest to fellow amateur 'producers'; not so much to others. Call me biased but I would also suggest that the only good cover version on this thread is the one I posted on page 1 - The Afgan Whigs cover of Regret. And it's good precisely because it doesn't just try to ape the original. (EDIT: actually the State Shirt and Radiohead covers are decent too) Del Boy's vid above may be a little rough around the edges but it does at least have a sense of fun & originality about it, unlike most of these FL covers. Time to rename the thread perhaps?

(Maybe even split the thread up: Non FL covers in a proper cover versions thread, all the FL recreations in one place that most of us can ignore.)

at least these sound like new order.

none of those other ones even come close.

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17 May 2017, 17:20

A good cover version isn't meant to sound like a cheap software facsimile of the original; it's meant to bring something new to the party. It's not Del Boy who doesn't understand what a good cover version is, it's you!

If you honestly think that Radiohead don't do a better cover version than some bedroom producer using FL, then you really are getting the difference between a software facsimile and a proper cover version mixed up.

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18 May 2017, 17:22 · edited 18 May 2017, 17:25

regardless of what is consider a 'cover', at least you're bringing some discussion to the matter.

i do like string versions if done properly, and i know many other bands have attempted to do cover songs, although i don't like any with female lead vocalists though..

i guess, i like the fact, these are like instrumentals of songs that new order could have done, and some of them could actually pass for the real things maybe.... anyways..

these actually take a lot of work, and effort to get the sound and notes right.

most covers sound like poor drunken karaoke, that have no thought or effort put into them, and thats the vast majority of them.

here's regret:

regret:

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18 May 2017, 18:59

Alongside the strings, the piano does it for me. Here's a Ceremony not long uploaded.

Quite majestic really - reminds me of 80's/90's US TV theme tunes in a way - Hill Street Blues anyone?!

Relates to a thread I raised re MIF set list. If they did the likes of Ceremony on piano/synths that that would be reworking worthy of the description!

Enjoy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLURj8tRpvg

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28 May 2017, 21:08

Two covers from me:

Run https://soundcloud.com/onetrack-4/run-110913

Let's Go https://soundcloud.com/honeycroft/lets-go-mixdown4

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2 Jun 2017, 01:56

Here's Fine Time:

fine time:

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13 Jun 2017, 01:16

Galaxie 500 Ceremony

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26 Jun 2017, 10:46

Now here's something: 1963 - enjoy, love the dude on the right.

Not quite the same as the version for MIF coming up (just guessing/hoping):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3YbUk9BMU

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26 Jun 2017, 23:59

Since nobody mentioned them - Chemical Brothers do a nice temptation cover / sample / intro to star guitar. I like it a lot.

https://youtu.be/\_QrUFXrOv0I

Lots of vids on youtube from live bros shows where they incorporate more or less of the song. [rolling]

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27 Jun 2017, 15:21

jlaw wrote: Since nobody mentioned them - Chemical Brothers do a nice temptation cover / sample / intro to star guitar. I like it a lot.

https://youtu.be/\_QrUFXrOv0I

Lots of vids on youtube from live bros shows where they incorporate more or less of the song.

Ah yes, I mentioned this on a different thread a looong time ago. You can buy that Brixton live version on The American EP they released back in 2002. Here's a Japanese version that appeared as a bonus on the Chem's '93-'03 DVD:

It was as recently as 2016 when they started incorporating some of Bernards vocals too - and running them through a vocoder, which is a bit too cheesy for me. Like THIS & THIS . I have to say that even if you think this is too much, it's worth catching the Chems live at least once in your life. They put on a great audio-visual spectacular. It's like doing drugs without the drugs!

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11 Aug 2017, 02:13

not quite a cover,

but the blue monday drum patterns on the oberheim DMX

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23 Oct 2019, 11:59

Wait a minute, why didn't they trawl through YouTube for a Fruity Loops recreation? Perhaps they wanted to hear an original sounding cover version (?). Send them yours!

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23 Oct 2019, 12:11

WTF? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc

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23 Oct 2019, 12:34

Michael Monkhouse wrote: WTF?

You mised this the first time round? (post #86) You missed it the 1 and a halfth time round?

Your fandom ain't what it used to be MM.

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25 Oct 2019, 07:42 · edited 25 Oct 2019, 09:12

I haven't been a superfan since the mud-90s. It was a combination of four factors... Living outside the UK pre-Internet made it hard to track down new releases. Moving from one shitty bedshit to another I found vinyl too bulky. I was sick of London's policy of accompanying every newbie with 460976875564564 rip-offs. My personal favourite was two years to track down Lionrock's third 1963 remix when it had fuck all New Order in it - my fault cos the two official mixes should've warned me. Duh. Obsessing over a band is a tad adolescent. When you get to my age you develop more mature interests like philosophy, psychology and Melanie C. (This is a joke. Philosopy is boring. So is psychology.)

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26 Oct 2019, 10:01

Great Atmosphere reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq825x8fvpk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1PTcq1Z0gdTSatWOdnh4NcnqayXz2kpd7eWri1gBwihOFXL7PhXk9XBZM

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14 Nov 2019, 01:30 · edited 14 Nov 2019, 01:32

subculture chris lowe from the pet shop boys is decent:

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29 Nov 2019, 06:06 · edited 29 Nov 2019, 06:09

errors' cover of "the village" is sublime.

edit: omg, that's my shirt in the pic, but not me in it. i looked at it and thought i had a mastectomy! maybe i'll change it.

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5 Dec 2019, 11:41

There was a band that did a cover of All The Way at Reading 1993 and absolutely butchered it.

Think they were called New Order or something.

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2 Jan 2020, 07:19 · edited 6 Jan 2020, 10:16

Since someone mentions the Errors cover I was reminded of this whole album which is remarkably strong https://www.discogs.com/Various-Power-Corruption-Lies-Covered/release/3322279

Edit: there are 30 second previews of every track on that album here: https://soundcloud.com/mojomagazine/sets/power-corruption-lies-covered

I'm contemplating dumping it onto archive.org's music collection since it's not available to buy any more (although it's cheap 2nd hand on discogs)

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9 Feb 2020, 19:20

She'll do anything to impress me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ga31SG8-4c

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9 Feb 2020, 20:41

When worlds collide, eh?

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9 Feb 2020, 23:25

perspexorange wrote: When worlds collide, eh?

When 2 Become 1.

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9 Feb 2020, 23:44

you guys need to start your own thread.

this was supposed to be for 'good' covers, not horrible, watered down ones.

that would be a better place for those.

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10 Feb 2020, 10:37 · edited 10 Feb 2020, 12:20

Imaginative take on one of their best songs, note-perfect band and the lickworthiest shoulderblades in the universe. What more do you really really want? The first official cover was Grace Jones' SLC, an obscure B-side. It is total shit. By a curious coincidence, it featured Sly n Robbie, who were responsible for the equally fuckingly shitty RIAD 2nd CD. see you in 10 years, guys?

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10 Feb 2020, 13:54 · edited 10 Feb 2020, 13:57

negative1 wrote: you guys need to start your own thread.

this was supposed to be for 'good' covers, not horrible, watered down ones.

that would be a better place for those.

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Well, ‘good’ is very subjective. Although I don’t personally like the Mel C one, others might. Similarly, ones you like might not be to my taste either.

Maybe you should retitle the thread ‘Cover versions that negative1 likes’. [;)]

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10 Feb 2020, 14:18

perspexorange wrote:

Although I don’t personally like the Mel C one, others might. ]

You're welcome to your opinion, but remember that religion is a sensitive one.

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10 Feb 2020, 14:22

Michael Monkhouse wrote:

perspexorange wrote:

Although I don’t personally like the Mel C one, others might. ]

You're welcome to your opinion, but remember that religion is a sensitive one.

[:d]

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10 Feb 2020, 21:51

Michael Monkhouse wrote: She'll do anything to impress me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ga31SG8-4c

That was almost as good as The Light.

I don't like any cover versions though, not even NO doing JD stuff.

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12 Feb 2020, 18:29

The Light have to be experienced in the proverbial flesh. On CD or Youtube you just get carbon copies with Hooky's ''''vocal'''' - live they're awesome. Years ago I bought the Blue Order covers CD. The funny part is that when the arsistant went to get the CD itself he thought he was out of earshot and commented, 'I played this this morning. It's shit.' He was right.

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