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#1 2006-03-14 9:15 pm
Great song covers
What are some of your favorite covers of songs? And by a cover, I mean a song performed by an artist other than the one who initially made it famous, not just a song written by one artist and made famous by someone else.
I've got tons, but it seems I can never go wrong in listening to Edwyn Collins covering The Gospel According to Tony Day. He does it better than Bowie. That's hard to do.
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#2 2006-03-14 9:21 pm
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Re: Great song covers
The greatest cover ever is Jimi Hendrix's version of all along the watchtower.
I'm a huge Dylan fan but Hendrix flat out stole that song, making it his own.
I love covers in general. My personal favorite is probably Tom Waits version of Papa's got a brand new bag.
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#3 2006-03-14 9:29 pm
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Re: Great song covers
Interesting. One of my favorite covers is also a Bowie song; Bauhaus' cover of "Ziggy Stardust." Peter Murphy sounds creepier than Bowie, which is also hard to do.
I'm also quite fond of The Soup Dragons' cover of The Rolling Stones' "I'm Free" and Social Distortion's cover of June Carter Cash's "Ring of Fire."
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#4 2006-03-14 9:55 pm
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Re: Great song covers
Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" (esp. the video).
Sting's cover of Hendrix's "Little Wing."
Gawd...there are so many others I like, but none of them come to mind at the moment.
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#5 2006-03-14 9:59 pm
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Re: Great song covers
Ha!
One of my favorite covers is a Bowie song too!
Nirvana in New York doing "The Man Who Sold The World".
Great tune.
The Foo Fighters' cover of "Baker Street" is cool too.
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#6 2006-03-14 10:06 pm
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Re: Great song covers
Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil by GnR
Some of the Misfits' by Metallica
1. Instill fear.
2. ???????? (use your imagination)
3. Profit!
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#7 2006-03-14 10:45 pm
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Re: Great song covers
Anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Especially Country Roads and Rocket Man
A Newfound Glory -(Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Hit Me Baby One More Time - Second Floor Daycare
The Gourds - Gin and Juice
I could keep going
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#8 2006-03-14 10:48 pm
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Re: Great song covers
CaptKevMan wrote:
Sting's cover of Hendrix's "Little Wing."
Never have and probly never will hear Sting's version, but Stevie Ray Vaughan does a helluva Little Wing. It's like 7 minutes of everything that Hendrix should have done but didn't in 2 and a half minutes.
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#9 2006-03-14 10:55 pm
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Re: Great song covers
couple more
Reverend Horton Heat - Folsom Prison Blues
Primus - Intruder (or all of Miscellaneous Debris, for that matter)
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#10 2006-03-14 11:45 pm
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Suspicious Minds -- Fine Young Cannibals
Ain't That A Shame -- Cheap Trick
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#11 2006-03-14 11:58 pm
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Re: Great song covers
The entire Nouvelle Vague album.
Al Green
How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Put a Spell On You
A Perfect Circle
Imagine
Go digging through the Song thread... you're bound to find a bunch in there.
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#12 2006-03-15 1:08 am
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the entire Scattered, Smothered, and Covered album by Hootie & the Blowfish
Human Behaviour, as covered by The Decemberists
Time of the Season, covered by Dave Matthews Band
Turn the Page, covered by Metallica
Norwegian Wood, Eddie Vedder
Hard To Handle, Black Crowes
The Maker, Dave Matthews Band
My Own Two Hands, Jack Johnson (feat. Ben Harper)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Jake Shimabukuro
and more, and more, and more...
suck it, trebek.
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#13 2006-03-15 5:51 am
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Re: Great song covers
DevoDoc wrote:
Interesting. One of my favorite covers is also a Bowie song; Bauhaus' cover of "Ziggy Stardust." Peter Murphy sounds creepier than Bowie, which is also hard to do.
I'm also fond of their covers of Eno's "Third Uncle" and T. Rex's "Telegram Sam."
I had something else to post, but I forgot what it was.
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#14 2006-03-15 5:55 am
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Re: Great song covers
More recently, I love Local H's version of the stinking Britney Spears pile "Toxic". They managed to not only cover a song and make it their own, but to make a bad song really good. Also, there's an artist named Leela James who reminds me of India.Arie doing an R&B cover of No Doubt's "Don't Speak". Awesome.
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#15 2006-03-15 6:07 am
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Re: Great song covers
Marlyn Manson - Personal Jesus
It's been playing in my head for over a week now. And I still love it!
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#16 2006-03-15 7:12 am
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Re: Great song covers
Shadowless wrote:
Marlyn Manson - Personal Jesus
MMmm. Yes. Good one. Johnny Cash's version is pretty good, too.
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#17 2006-03-15 7:28 am
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Re: Great song covers
Also, Cake's covers of Bread's "Guitar Man" and Willie Nelson's "Sad Songs and Waltzes".
I love Cake.
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#18 2006-03-15 8:25 am
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Re: Great song covers
When you're on Cake you can't forget I Will Survive
Others that stick in my mind include:
Reel Big Fish - Take On Me
Prodigy - Ghost Town
The Dandy Warhols - Hells Bells
The Living End - 10:15 Saturday Night
Nick Cave - Black Betty
Spiderbait - Black Betty
The Tea Party - Paint it Black
Missy Higgins - You just like me cause I'm good in bed
Clare Bowditch - Fall at your Feet
Clare Bowditch - Hallelujah
Sarah Blasko - Don't Dream it's Over
Little Birdy - Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Little Birdy - These boots were made for walking
The Cat Empire - Hotel California
PICTURES - Milkshake
Grinspoon - Drugs Don't Work
The Herd - I was only 19
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#19 2006-03-15 8:39 am
Re: Great song covers
Just about half the Beatles early catalog
All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix
99 Red Balloons by 7 Seconds
Crucified by Agnostic Front
8 Miles High by Hsker D
Easy Like Sunday Morning by Faith No More
Kick Out the Jams by Bad Brains w/ Rollins
Young Till I Die by Battery
Sufferagate City by Nerve Agents
Dazed and Confused by Cave In
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#20 2006-03-15 8:45 am
Re: Great song covers
A Perfect Circle - "Fiddle and the Drum" (Joni Mitchell)
The Damned - "White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane)
Face To Face - "The KKK Took My Baby Away" (Ramones)
Goldfinger - "99 Red Balloons" (Nena)
The Jam - "So Sad About Us" (The Who)
Less Than Jake - "Surrender" (Cheap Trick)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "I Believe I Can Fly" (R. Kelly)
NOFX - "Olympia, WA" (Rancid)
Reel Big Fish - "New York, New York" (Frank Sinatra)
Shades Apart - "Tainted Love" - (Gloria Jones, not Soft Cell)
Tori Amos - "Thank You" (Led Zeppelin)
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#21 2006-03-15 8:55 am
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Re: Great song covers
If remixes count, Dirty Funker's mix of The Immigrant Song is excellent
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#22 2006-03-15 9:03 am
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Re: Great song covers
pottymouth wrote:
Shadowless wrote:
Marlyn Manson - Personal Jesus
MMmm. Yes. Good one. Johnny Cash's version is pretty good, too.
The video for the Cash version had me on the verge of tears. That's the only time a music video has affected me like that.
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#24 2006-03-15 9:21 am
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Re: Great song covers
"Mississippi" - Sheryl Crow
I like the original equally well, they are like 2 completely different songs, yet not.
Odd when the cover comes out first too.
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#25 2006-03-15 9:41 am
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Re: Great song covers
jondaris wrote:
pottymouth wrote:
Shadowless wrote:
Marlyn Manson - Personal Jesus
MMmm. Yes. Good one. Johnny Cash's version is pretty good, too.
The video for the Cash version had me on the verge of tears. That's the only time a music video has affected me like that.
Know where I can see it?
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