Covers
 

best covered songs?

I think all along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix. originally by Bob Dylan
and
Hounds of Love - Futureheads. originally by Kate Bush.

well i'm just gonna say the album renegades by RATM...every song = great cover..

oh yeah and try a little tenderness by the von bondies...alongside with c'mon c'mon their best song....

Yep, I agree with "All Along The Watchtower", also Jimi's "Day Tripper" (originally sung by The Beatles, of course)...

And another Beatles-Cover: "Because" by Eliott Smith (American Beauty OST)

"day Tripper" covered by Bad Brains is great as well.

And I like "Streets Of London" by the Sex Pistols

Hurt - Johnny Cash

All of Oasis's songs - originally by the Beatles :D

a band called day of contempt did a "hardcore"- ized version of the cures "love song". it was pretty good for what it was.

The Avengers- Paint it Black (rolling stones)
Tori Amos- 97 Bonnie & Clyde (Eminem), Raining Blood (Slayer)
Talking Heads- Take Me To The River (Al Green)
The Unseen- beat it (Michael Jackson)
Lunachicks- Heart of Glass (Blondie)
Bratmobile- Where Eagles dare (misfits)
Tiger Army- American Nightmare (misfits)
Dropkick Murphys- Halloween (misfits)
Filth- Banned from the Pubs (Peter & The Test Tube Babies)
The Specials- Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan)
Motorhead- God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols)
Johnny Cash- I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
The Queers- Lobotomy, Sheena is a Punk Rocker (Ramones)
PJ Harvey- Monkey Gone To Heaven (Pixies)
Mike Ness- Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
Sahara Hotnights- Rockaway Beach (Ramones)

Johnny Cash- Hurt
Social Distortion- Ring of Fire
The Offspring- Territorial Pissings
Nirvana- The Man Who Sold the World, Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam, Dazed and Confused, Love Buzz.

Love Buzz was a cover? Who did the original?

Shocking Blue.

The Weakerthans-Anchorless(Propagandhi)
The Ducky Boys-Stand by me(Ben E. King)
Onelinedrawing-September(this song is actually a blend of the songs "in my life" and "when i'm 64" both by the Beatles)
Fiona Apple-Across the universe(Beatles)
Social Distortion-Pretty in Pink(Psychedelic Furs)
H20-Like a prayer(Madonna)
Hot Water Music-Radio(Alkaline Trio)
Rise Against-Anyway you want it(Journey)
JackoffJill-Love Song(The Cure)
Thrice-Eleanor Rigby(Beatles)

and a bunch of christmas song covers

Coldplay "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard That Before" (originally by the Smiths)

Waterloo Sunset - Def Leppard

here comes the sun by the voodoo glow dolls.... not sure if its good or bad but its funny....

yeup.

elbow - independant woman

^ That's a superb cover. It's a major pisstake of whoever did the original (Beyonce?), showing up the complete laziness of modern pop.

Dave Matthews Bands live cover of All Along The Watchtower is pretty good, as is Nightwish's cover of Walking In The Air. Ben Folds does a pretty good cover of Tiny Dancer, and Dispatch do a good live cover of Piano Man.

Dave

mrs. robinson - lemonheads
whats going on - a perfect circle

^ i was just gona say mrs. robinson by lemonheads (orig. by simon and garfunkell obv.)
and did anyone read in NME the top greatest covers?

Nina Gordon - Straight outta Compton - wow.

You all should check out www.secondhandsongs.com . Its a database devoted to song covers, good for figuring out who has covered a particular song, when, and who wrote the original, how many times a song has been sampled, what songs the sample it appears in, and a whole bunch more information regarding covers. Great resource!

both the white stripes "jolene" and "i just dont know what to do with myself" are good covers.

Nirvana- The Man Who Sold the World

David Bowie being the original of course.

well, duh. yeah, that was a good cover. Rage did the whole of renegades pretty well.

^Agreed. Another entire album full of good covers is Metallica's Garage Inc. Granted, their original material and pre-haircut songs are best, but they did a kick ass cover of Hank Williams' "Tuesday's Gone". (It even had John Popper of Blues Traveler on the harmonica.)

Yeah Whisky in the Jar is a great cover.

where did you sleep last night-nirvana is one of my favourites and
tainted love by marilyn manson is cool too.if they haven't already been mentioned.

2! Telegram Sam and Ziggy Stardust by Bauhaus. Blows both original versions out of the water. :hphones:

Take this job and shove it (Johnny Paycheck) - Dead Kennedys

Orgasmatron (motorhead)- Sepultura

Redemption Song (bob marley) - Joe Strummer

Manfred Mann's cover of Springsteen's "Blinded By the Light" is pretty good.

Grand Funk's version of "The Locomotion" is easily the best one.

I've always thought the Beatle's cover of "Rock and Roll Music" is a lot meatier than Chuck Berry's.

Just my opinion.

Silent Night - The ****ies (I haven't got a clue)
Here Comes The Sun - Nina Simone (beatles)
Guns of Naverone - The Specials (Thompkin/Webster)

I didn't realise The Di, ck, ie, s would get blanked out.

Wicked Game - Him (me thinks) originally - Chris Issak

Probably "Big Yellow Taxi" performed by Counting Crows. Even better than Joni Mitchell's original.

My favourite covers are:
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleroes-Redemption Song (Bob Marley)
AFI-Head Like A Hole (NIN)
The Clash-Brand New Cadilac (Vince Taylor and his Playboys)
Stretch Armstrong-Express Yourself (NWA)
Goldfinger-Rio (Duran Duran)

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That has to be the worst cover version of any song in history. Big Country versions of Don't fear the reaper (blue oyster cult) Paranoid (sabbath) Rockin in the free world (Neil Young) Prairie Rose (roxy Music) and the afore mentioned Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) seriusly rock.

all along the watchtower-jimi hendrix.

oh and the man who sold the world by nirvana. =)