Tom Waits - Yesterday is here - performed by Mantel Band

[RidleyJack]

You want to do a cover. First, you get the feel of the song. Second, you see if you have guts and skills to put it together. Most artists feel confident on the second thing, but very few remember to get the first one right. This is a perfect example.

[JakobS96]

It's a good cover, but i like Wait's style more ...

[392hemia100]

VERY NICE! Forget the comparisons to Toms version (which I also love) , this is an excellent revamp and well worthy in it's own right. Thank you, this one goes to my favorites list. And who is the singer? Sexy Smokey Sultry!

[murmelsucher]

@392hemia100 you are totally right with the name of the lady... thank you very much!

[Szczepan07]

mantel band? are there more songs of this band? i've senn just one TW cover more. seems to be interesting

[frankcastle139]

never heard a Waits cover that does his song justice. this is no exception

[introduction1988]

ehre is the german one?^^ hehe

[nichmars]

good version but not on a level with Waits. Also I don't understand what most of the tags have to do with this clip... Clapton? huh? Hendrix...Whu??

[planetery]

This is BAD AS SHIT!!! The guitar solo aside (not that it was bad), this sounds like what the song would sound like in a Weimar-era cabaret. Simply brilliant. You took something that was obviously of a certain time yet performed in a modern vein and recorded it in such a way that it is indistinguishable from actual period music. Brav-fucking-o. Start using vintage recording techniques (wax cylinders, anyone? lol) & you guys will ROCK this shit...

[karlmonster]

can you do it better ? I bet you can't ... your comment is really BAD AS SHIT !!!

I bet it's better than hearing you talking !!!

[planetery]

Uhh... was that supposed to be an insult?

Maybe if you weren't illiterate, you could make yourself clearly understood. But then again, if you could read you would've understood that I was giving them a COMPLIMENT.

If THAT didn't make sense to you, allow me to dumb it down a notch: You are a stupid fucking asshole. Either learn to read or go kill yourself.

[planetery]

Eh- didn't realize you were German. I guess that means you have an excuse for being illiterate.

But still... du bist eine fuckhead.

[ass9days]

you are a very nice band,who know what they want to do and succeed..but..

u changed it a lot from the original..

nice touch though..

agree with strictly too..

[strictly4thefrogs]

was I the first to watch it?

the counter doesnt lie...

well, tom waits version is pervaded by a devastating loneliness which I've been missing while hearing this version.