What's Your Favourite Cover Version?

barbarella · 03-30-2009, 07:34 PM

With the recent cover version of "Run" by Leona Lewis knocking spots off the original by Snow Patrol, some others came to mind-

Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus- Marilyn Manson
Hall And Oates- I Can't Go For That/ Sunrise- Simply Red
Barry Ryan- Eloise- The Damned
Cameo- Word Up- Korn
Dobie Gray- The In Crowd- Bryan Ferry

So What's Your Favourite?

Kram3r · 03-30-2009, 11:37 PM

One that's standing out ATM is Sonic Youth's cover of the Carpenter's song, Superstar.

Roygbiv · 03-30-2009, 11:46 PM

Patti Smith's cover of Gloria is the only cover I've ever loved.

Dieselboy · 04-02-2009, 10:56 PM

Its hard to choose cause they're so many cool covers I've come across..

Chilren of Bodom doing Somebody Put Something In My Drink (Ramones)

and

Pennywise covering Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)

...are a couple that I've heard and really liked lately.

jackhammer · 04-04-2009, 10:29 AM

Trickys version of Public Enemy's Black Steel is still the standard that other cover versions should aspire too. If you are going to cover a song then put your own spin on it and thats exactly what he did.

FaSho · 04-04-2009, 10:42 AM

I'd like to throw out Nirvana covering "The Man who Sold The World", even though it's a cliche.

Bulldog · 04-04-2009, 10:44 AM

Here's five that spring to mind;

The Fall - I'm Going To Spain
Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
The Pogues - The Recruiting Sergeant/Rocky Road To Dublin/Galway Races
Rolling Stones - Stop Breaking Down
Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy

333 · 04-04-2009, 11:05 AM

No one has mentioned Between the Buried and Me's cover album. The entire album is pretty good, but there are a few mentionable songs from The Anatomy of:. They do a little bit of everything. My favorites are between their versions of Queen's "Bicycle Race" and Pink Floyd's "Us and Them".

jackhammer · 04-04-2009, 11:15 AM

I didn't mention BTBAM because they are awful

333 · 04-04-2009, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackhammer

I didn't mention BTBAM because they are awful

We'll, once again, you leave me to resort to this lame one-liner:

We're all entitled to our own opinions.

PS

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barbarella Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 154	What's Your Favourite Cover Version? With the recent cover version of "Run" by Leona Lewis knocking spots off the original by Snow Patrol, some others came to mind- Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus- Marilyn Manson Hall And Oates- I Can't Go For That/ Sunrise- Simply Red Barry Ryan- Eloise- The Damned Cameo- Word Up- Korn Dobie Gray- The In Crowd- Bryan Ferry So What's Your Favourite? __________________ Below Zero.

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Roygbiv marquee moon Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 759	Patti Smith's cover of Gloria is the only cover I've ever loved. __________________ Roygbiv's Review Revue LATEST REVIEW SILENT SHOUT BY THE KNIFE

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Trickys version of Public Enemy's Black Steel is still the standard that other cover versions should aspire too. If you are going to cover a song then put your own spin on it and thats exactly what he did. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I didn't mention BTBAM because they are awful __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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Kram3r Groupie Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 12	One that's standing out ATM is Sonic Youth's cover of the Carpenter's song, Superstar.

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Dieselboy Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 608	Its hard to choose cause they're so many cool covers I've come across.. Chilren of Bodom doing Somebody Put Something In My Drink (Ramones) and Pennywise covering Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) ...are a couple that I've heard and really liked lately.

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Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	Here's five that spring to mind; The Fall - I'm Going To Spain Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down The Pogues - The Recruiting Sergeant/Rocky Road To Dublin/Galway Races Rolling Stones - Stop Breaking Down Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy

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333 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 965	No one has mentioned Between the Buried and Me's cover album. The entire album is pretty good, but there are a few mentionable songs from The Anatomy of:. They do a little bit of everything. My favorites are between their versions of Queen's "Bicycle Race" and Pink Floyd's "Us and Them".