way2young

To expand upon the "All Along the Watchtower" thread....What's your favorite cover in general?

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Statesboro Blues- Cover :Allman Brothers Band; Original: Blind Willie McTell

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Rage Against the Machine's version of Cypress Hill's 'How I Could Just Kill a Man' is tops for me at the moment.

forseti-6

Stevie Ray Vaughan version of "Little Wing"

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Alien Ant Farm's version of Smooth Criminal. It turned such a crappy song in to a pretty good one

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vermin

Foo Fighter's Baker Street

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mercury-hg

blues standards aside (there's just too many to consider each performance a cover), i'll second SRV's "Little Wing" and add his "Voodoo Chile."

i'm also quite partial to Gn'R's "Live and Let Die" (Wing's original)

hiredgun

I don't know if i can pick just one. So I'll pick three.


Tool cover of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter"... turned a good song into an amazing song.

Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page"... so very good.

Last but not least, the cover of Tears For Fears' "Mad World" that was done for Donnie Darko.

pr0ky

The Finnish band HIM does alot of great covers.

My fav is their cover of "The Reaper" by the BLue Oyster Cult

MahlerIsGod

Here are some of my fav's:
1)Dave Grohl's Tiny Dancer
2)Johnny Cash's I See A Darkness
3)Radiohead's Rhinestone Cowboy
4)White Stripes Jolene
5)RATM"s The Ghost of Tom Joad
6)REM's Superman
7)Smashing Pumpkin's Landslide
8)The Sunday's Wild Horses
9)Tori Amos's Smells Like Teen Spirit
10)U2 Helter Skelter


With a very, very, very very special honorable mention to William Shatner's Rocket Man

P.S. If you haven't heard I See A Darkness by Johnny Cash stop what you are doing even if you are giving birth or performing open-heart surgery and listen to that song.

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OMC

Luciferion's cover of "Fight Fire with Fire"

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Atomic Pinkie

I'd have to say a few things...one

1) No band could ever cover Metallica properly
2) Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
3) Metallica - Turn the Page
4) Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (Billy's voice makes it SO MUCH BETTER)
5) Metallica - Am I Evil
6) Metallica - The Small Hours

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apetaster

Hot Water Music doing "Radio" by Alkaline Trio.

Fun b/c the first line of the song is:
'Shaking like a dog shitting razorblades...'

Soda_BoB

Yer thats a good one.. also

Nirvana- Man who sold the world
Nirvana- Where did you sleep last night

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Metallica's cover of Thin Lizzie's Whiskey in the Jar ( I think it's better than the original) Not to fond of their Turn the Page though, I think Bob Seger probably puked when he heard it.

Definately Stevie Ray Vaughns cover of Voodoo Child

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Gortexfogg

Bob Dylan's cover of "Baby, let me follow you down"

Hal Incandenza

Metallica--"Last Caress" (orig. Misfits)
Nirvana--"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (trad., usually credited to Leadbelly) and all of their Vaselines covers
Naked Raygun--"Suspect Device" (Stiff Little Fingers)
Faith No More--"War Pigs" (Black Sabbath)
Sonic Youth--"Touch Me I'm Sick" (Mudhoney)
Tons of others...

vermin

I used to run the sound board for a local band who did a really great cover of Misty Mountain Hop - turned it into a VERY heavy song.

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MSD

I wouldn't say these are the best, or my favorites, but just to throw out some that aren't up here that I listen to (I like most of what was already said)

KMFDM "Material Girl"
Rammstein "Barbie Girl"
Frail "Space Oddity"
Manson "Tainted Love"
In Flames "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Johnny Cash "Hurt"
Rammstein "Stripped"

KillerYoda

Although it's shitty quality, I always liked Goat Punishment's (ie: Weezer) live covers of Nirvana songs. There's five of them, if I remember correctly.

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methodtim

Ensemble cast of There's Something About Mary singing Buttercup.

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gibber71

Mannfred Mann's version of Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light"

Sting's live version of "Little Wing"

Johnny Rotten

SRV's "Little Wing"

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spectre

I agree on these.

Sorry, but Motörhead does a great cover of Enter Sandman.

A few more to add:

• Ozzy Osboure - Stayin' Alive (just because it's so damned amusing)
• Megadeth - Paranoid
• Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy
• Megadeth - Never Say Die
• Metallica - Blitzkrieg
• White Zombie - I'm your Boogieman

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Zotz

Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
Sammy Hagar - Take a Piece of My Heart
Def Leppard - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Blind Guardian - Surfin' USA

Dustallica

Metallica-Whiskey in the Jar, So What, Am I Evil?, Breadfan, Die Die My Darling and Last Caress

Marilyn Manson-Sweet Dreams

that's all the covers i can think of right now...sad isn't it?

YzermanS19

I just read this thread, I must say, I agree very strongly with all of these choices

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snowy

Travis's version of "Hit Me Baby One More Time". At first, it's great simply for the laugh factor, but as you listen to it more and more, you realize what a wonderful song it actually is...especially when not recorded by Britney Spears!

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Soda_BoB

Melvins-Smells like teen spirit

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Any thing by...



Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

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Ratman

The short list:

Tom Jones - Kiss
Bryan Ferry - Jealous Guy
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Dynamite Hack - Boys in the Hood
Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds
English Beat - Tears of a Clown
The Clash - I Fought the Law
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence

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perripken

I forgot Lenny Kravitz- American Woman

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rideough

you absolutlely have to check out Brown Sugar by Ryan Adams and Beth Orton.
This is an great song by the Stones and a legendary song by Ryan and Beth
Download it, buy it, Steal it from your friends, borrow the money to get it... it doesn't matter...you HAVE to hear this song or your life won't be complete!!!
Trust me i wouldn't lie to you...other people yes, but not you!

monkeydriven

Tori Amos - I'm Not in Love (10cc)

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Narcissus

the live version of this > all others

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SiN

good choices.

theres lots if covers i like, cant think of much any atm..

all that comes to mind is Ministry's cover of 'Lay Lady Lay'.

and Codeseven's "Boys of Summer"

god i kno there's more i like no one's mentioned tho..

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WhoaitsZ

my favorite cover ever is "Dancing in the Moonlight", a Thin Lizzy song covered by the Smashing Pumpkins. it's soooooooo mellow and easy going. it'll bring tears to your eyes if you were ever in love at age 15 or so

also thoroughly love "I'm on Fire" by Bruce Springsteen covered by Heather Nova

"Whiskey in a Jar" an old irish song and Thin Lizzy cover by Metallica

hmm.... Johnny Cash did a killer Danzig cover of "13"

just a few faves up there.

Thraeryn

Carp. When I started reading this thread, I had a GREAT song in mind, but it has left me by now.

Oh, wait.

The covers of "Cinnamon Girl" (Neil Young) and "Summer Breeze" (don't remember who originally) that Type O Negative produced brought those songs to an entirely new level. One they sincerely needed to be brought to.

mr.neat

Anything by Me First and the Gimme gimmies.

Atomic Pinkie

Whiskey in the Jar (covered by Metallica)
Am I Evil? (covered by Metallica)
The Small Hours (covered by Metallica)

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