Favourite cover songs?

[gman23]

Santana's cover of "Black Magic Woman"
Lisa bonet singing "Baby i love your way " from high fidelity
Yes doing the Paul Simon song "America"
Blues brothers "Gimme some lovin " most of their covers are good
Hayseed Dixie "Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap" bluegrass band that does all AC/DC covers
Grateful Dead doing werewolves of london on halloween

 

[Tathagata]

Screamin Jay Hawkins cover of Tom Waits's " Heart attack and Vine"

Midge Ure's cover of " The Man Who Sold The World"

Nazareths cover of " Love Hurts" ( originally a Roy Orbison song)

The Marcels cover of " Somewhere over the rainbow"

Jackie Wilson doing " Danny Boy"

Bryan Ferry doing " A Hard Rains gonna Fall"

Elvis Costello - My Funny Valentine

Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on you

Randy Travis - It's just a matter of Time

 

[bootstomper]

19th Nervous Breakdown (Rolling Stones) ~ Skrewdriver
Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash) ~ Social Distortion
I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash) ~ King Size Braces
Mama Tried (merle Haggard) ~ King Size Braces
1916 (Motorhead) ~ Dims Rebellion
most of the covers by Manic Hispanic...The INS Took My Baby Away (The KKK Took My Baby Away, The Ramones)

that's all i feel like posting now, i got way too many to post

 

[hobbit.]

Yes doing the Paul Simon song "America"

With out any sarcasm, the quality of musical taste on this board is Awesome.

What about 'The Enids' cover of the 'Dambusters march' though ?

 

[scylis]

Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)

 

[Guest]

Some of the covers of Beatle song done for the soundtrack of I m Sam.

 

[MWG]

Some of the covers of Beatle song done for the soundtrack of I m Sam.

Sarah McLachlan's cover of "Blackbird" was to die for.

Pearl Jam's (or was it just Eddie Vedder solo?) cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" was excellent as well.

And while we're on Beatles' covers, there was a cover of "Because" on the 'American Beauty' soundtrack, though I cannot for the life of me remember which group it was that covered it. It's absolutely riveting.

 

[Guest]

Sarah McLachlan's cover of "Blackbird" was to die for.

Pearl Jam's (or was it just Eddie Vedder solo?) cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" was excellent as well.

And while we're on Beatles' covers, there was a cover of "Because" on the 'American Beauty' soundtrack, though I cannot for the life of me remember which group it was that covered it. It's absolutely riveting.

Diana Krall - who I think is overrated when she sings jazz standards - does a great job with AndI Love Him.

 

[APhil]

Jaco Pastorius - Blackbird
Ataris - Boys of Summer (though the video cracks me up)
Dave Matthews - In My Life
Dynamite Hack - Gin and Juice

 

[tiger_smurf]

The White Stripes- Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Radiohead- After the Goldrush (Neil Young)
Nirvana-Where Did You SLeep Last Night (Ledbelly)
Pearl Jam-Sittin' on the Dock of th Bay (Otis Redding)

 

[Lady Christabel]

Crystal Method ~ "Insane in the Brain" (Cypress Hill)
Crystal Method ~ "Magic Carpet Ride" (Steppenwolf)
The Ataris ~ "Boys of Summer" (Don Henley)
Metallica ~ "Cocaine" (Clapton)
Allison Krauss and Union Station ~ "When You Say Nothing at All" (Keith Whitley)
Pennywise ~ "California Dreamin'" (The Mamas and the Papas)
Beach Boys ~ "California Dreamin'" (TMatP)
Aerosmith ~ "Come Together" (Beatles)
Dixie Chicks ~ "Star Spangled Banner" Superbowl XXXVII (Francis Scott Key)
Marilyn Manson ~ "Tainted Love" (Soft Cell)
Bowling For Soup ~ "I Ran" (Flock of Seagulls)
Bowling For Soup ~ "Summer of '69" (Bryan Adams)
Rednex ~ "Cotton Eye Joe" (Isaac Payton Sweat)
Tom Jones and The Art of Noise ~ "Kiss" (Prince)
Tom Jones ~ "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (Randy Newman)
INXS ~ "When the Bullet Hits the Bone" (Golden Earring)
DMB ~ "Werewolves of London" acoustic (Warren Zevon)
Bon Jovi ~ "Don't Fear the Reaper" (BOC)
Counting Crows ~ "Big Yellow Taxi" (Joni Mitchell)
Garth Brooks ~ "Walking After Midnight" (Patsy Cline)
Madonna ~ "American Pie" (Don McLean)
Elton John ~ "Mellow Yellow" (Donovan)
Lenny Kravitz ~ "American Woman" (The Guess Who)
Midler, Hawn, Keaton ~ "You Don't Own Me" (Lesley Gore)
Guns N Roses ~ "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney)
Limp Bizkit ~ "Behind Blue Eyes" (The Who)
Tesla ~ "Signs" (Five Man Electrical Band)


That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Angel_Diva]

Bowling For Soup - I Ran
Limp Bizkit - Sanitarium *i love that cover*
Gob - Paint it Black
Cake - I will Survive

~I don't listen to many covers.... but those i found quite good.

 

[Wilben]

Rednex ~ "Cotton Eye Joe" (Isaac Payton Sweat)

That song is awesome.

Hmm

All I can think of is:

The Ataris ~ "Boys of Summer" (Don Henly)
Metallica ~ "Whiskey in the Jar"(Thin Lizzy)
Johnny Cash ~ "Hurt"(Nine Inch Nails)
Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ "Roller Coaster of love"(Ohio Players, and dear god is the cover better)

 

[Killswitch]

Crystal Method ~ "Insane in the Brain" (Cypress Hill)
Crystal Method ~ "Magic Carpet Ride" (Steppenwolf)
The Ataris ~ "Boys of Summer" (Don Henley)
Metallica ~ "Cocaine" (Clapton)
Allison Krauss and Union Station ~ "When You Say Nothing at All" (Keith Whitley)
Pennywise ~ "California Dreamin'" (The Mamas and the Papas)
Beach Boys ~ "California Dreamin'" (TMatP)
Aerosmith ~ "Come Together" (Beatles)
Dixie Chicks ~ "Star Spangled Banner" Superbowl XXXVII (Francis Scott Key)
Marilyn Manson ~ "Tainted Love" (Soft Cell)
Bowling For Soup ~ "I Ran" (Flock of Seagulls)
Bowling For Soup ~ "Summer of '69" (Bryan Adams)
Rednex ~ "Cotton Eye Joe" (Isaac Payton Sweat)
Tom Jones and The Art of Noise ~ "Kiss" (Prince)
Tom Jones ~ "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (Randy Newman)
INXS ~ "When the Bullet Hits the Bone" (Golden Earring)
DMB ~ "Werewolves of London" acoustic (Warren Zevon)
Bon Jovi ~ "Don't Fear the Reaper" (BOC)
Counting Crows ~ "Big Yellow Taxi" (Joni Mitchell)
Garth Brooks ~ "Walking After Midnight" (Patsy Cline)
Madonna ~ "American Pie" (Don McLean)
Elton John ~ "Mellow Yellow" (Donovan)
Lenny Kravitz ~ "American Woman" (The Guess Who)
Midler, Hawn, Keaton ~ "You Don't Own Me" (Lesley Gore)
Guns N Roses ~ "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney)
Limp Bizkit ~ "Behind Blue Eyes" (The Who)
Tesla ~ "Signs" (Five Man Electrical Band)


That's all I can think of right now.

why...did google explode or something?

it was a whats your fave list, not lets see who can seek out the most cover tunes.

 

[Lasz]

The only one I can think of that isnt mentioned previously that I really like is Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson.

 

[metal_minx]

I like:
The Meteors - "Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones
Tiger Army - "American Nightmare" by the Misfits
Guana Batz - "Train Kept A Rollin'" by Aerosmith (?) not sure who the orginal was by
Nekromantix - "Light My Fire" by the Doors
Social Distortion - "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones, "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "I'll Be There" by the Jackson 5
Mad Sin - "All Hell Breaks Loose" by the Misfits
Demented Are Go - "Be Bop A Lula"
Metallica - "So What?" by Anti-Nowhere League

 

[Liontamr]

The only one I can think of that isnt mentioned previously that I really like is Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson.

Agreed...

One cover tune I really like is the new one of "Tweeter And The Monkeyman" by a band that I can't recall right at the moment.. The Traveling Willberrys I think originally did that one, and it's so much better as a hard rocking song.

 

[Silent_J]

marilyn manson - tainted love
pearl jam - keep on rocking in the free world
gnr - sympathy for the devil
kiss - rock n' roll radio
drain sth - ace of spades

 

[honeylick]

isley bros - summer breeze (seals & crofts)

 

[InternationalFunboy]

(this post brought to you from the year 2001 by the miracle of the information superhighway)

All of the covers that come to mind have already been hit upon by others here, except the great cover of Gary Numan's 'Cars' as done by Fear Factory with Gary sitting in. Of course I love the original....
How about the version of 'Slam' that Onyx teamed up with Bio-Hazard to do....? that was fucking ripping.....

If anyone picked up that DVD/Bonus CD set that tool put out about a year ago you were treated to a very pristine rendition of Zep's 'No Quarter'.
Or what about Phunk Junkeez kinda covering Kiss' 'i love it loud'?....that's a really fun song...and speaking of Kiss I always liked Dinosaur Jr's version of 'Goin Blind'....
Pantera did a fresh version of 'Planet Caravan' by Sabbath.

An oldie but a goodie is 'Higher Ground' as done by the Red Hot Chili Peppers....

oh and that version of 'Fat Albert' by Dig on that Saturday morning cartoon soundtrack comp.

I guess I had a few more rattling around in my head after all.....


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[InternationalFunboy]

Did anyone mention "Gin and Juice" as covered by The Gourds?


man, I'm tired of killing threads.

 

[Lady Christabel]

Did anyone mention "Gin and Juice" as covered by The Gourds?


man, I'm tired of killing threads.

You've got a way about you IFB.

 

[lapinova]

i like girlie, artsy stuff.
That said...
i love Tori Amos' cover of the Rolling Stones' Angie, and her version of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat"... Peter Gabriel's version of "Suzanne" is also quite good.
i don't think i'd be a good Canadian if i didn't mention that the Cowboy Junkies did a great version of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane", Great Big Sea's version of "It's The End of the World as We Know It" or the Barenaked Ladies version of "Lovers in a Dangerous Time".


i could probably go on for hours, but those were the first to pop into my head.

 

[kellycummings]

Madonna ~ "American Pie" (Don McLean)

I like your other choices but I think I heard Buddy Holly roll over in his grave when I read this one.

 

[Lady Christabel]

I like your other choices but I think I heard Buddy Holly roll over in his grave when I read this one.

I never said it was better, I said I liked it. The harmonies are more pronounced and well done.