stand by me by pennywise

Tangled up in Blue by the Indigo Girls.

(Originally a Bob Dylan diddy for you youngins')

By far the single best cover song ever recorded, imho.

-bear

I love that song :) Great cover song.


A few months back I was at a local dive bar with some friends and I put that in the juke box. For some reason I was getting major cool points from my friend Michael all night long, but the playing of that song caused him to take them all back. He's not a fan... Okay, that was a pointless story.

Maybe, but isn't it always the pointless ones that seem to be the best? Just look at Cube and Pi. Great movies, but if there was a point in the end, it was lost on me.

Crossroads by Cream.
Travelling Riverside Blues by Led Zeppelin.

I like New Found glory covers like; Aerosmith's - Don't wanna miss a thing, Celine Dion - My heart will go on..
But I'd prolly have to say Nirvana's covers on Unplugged in New York are the best

paint it black- the black dahlia murder

nothing compares to you-sinead oconnor(originally by prince i think)

everything counts-in flames

when the smoke is going down- soad

goodbye blue sky- soad

blasphemus rumors-duncan shiek

enjoy the silence-dead to fall or shadows fall?

sunday bloody sunday-evergreen terrace

and my favorite

anesthesia- shai hulud

And DEFINITLy Fiona's version of across the universe.

My two absulote fav's are right there..mmmmmThats good stuff.

UUmmm..Did you see cube 2? : ) I think there was a point.(even if the point was to make it as lame as the first.)

Oh Oh Oh...One more thing.. Bowling for soup's Hit me baby one more time.Oh yeeeaaa...

i really enjoy smells like teen spirit by tori amos (originally nirvana)

Pearl Jam's live cover of Smells like Teen Spirit is pretty cool too.:D

what about Jeff Beck's white hot remake of Pork Pie Hat? Can my man get some juice for that?

Prince wrote the song, most definitely. I am unaware of any recordings of it by him though.


edit: a quick check of AMG reveals that the only recordings of the song by the man himself are live performances, primarily bootlegs.

A few of Dream Theatre's:
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend, Love Liews Bleeding
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Led Zep - Rover, Achilles, The Song Remains the Same
Pink Floyd - In The Flesh

I'll put in another vote, this time for Dave Matthew's Band's cover of "Cortez the Killer" on the "Live in Central Park" CD. Un-fucking-believable. Warren Haynes is the guest guitarist and he plays about as close to Neil Young as you are gonna hear.

"Twist and Shout"
The Beatles

all of the covers from Nirvana's Unplugged in New York
Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" originally done by NIN

yeaah both covers are really really good.

Also the atari's remake of boys of summer was pretty good.

Haven't seen that one yet. Want to though. If nothing else, the death traps were a lot of fun to watch.

One of my favorite covers is Stabbing Westward's "Bizarre Love Triangle" (New Order)
And for the gratuitous cover performed by Metallica..."Breadfan"

No, I agree with irateplatypus, I like Fiona Apple's version of Across the Universe better.

Not sure as to what the best cover song is, but I know Mike Patton sings it! :D

Yeah they do a good cover of Metro and Snowblind but Im pretty sure that the Zelda song is not SOAD. Sounds a bit like them, but its just a mislabeled mp3 thats been circulating the net for a while. Who is it a cover of anyway?

I'm pretty sure it is them Sounds just like them. I'll have to diggin through albums to find out for sure. It's a remake of the theam song from the NES game, Zelda.

Try "N.I.B." (orig: Ozzy), a band called Primus redid it. They are all bass-centric and crazy. Check it out, one of the only remakes I accept.

I can't believe I forgot this one when I started the thread. There is a cover of the Rolling Stones Gimmie Shelter by the Sisters of Mercy. Not only is it the ONLY Rolling Stones cover I like, it is the only Stones cover I like better then the original. They style that the Sisters do it is SO much more suited for the song.

Dynamite hack did a damn good cover of "boyz in the hood" a few years back- whatever happened to them?

I would have to say Pantera's cover of Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan. . .very good!!

Aside from the many other already mentioned tunes...

Radiohead covering Carly Simon's - Nobody Does it better.

I would love to hear this but I can't find it. Where'd you get it? Is it live? Bootleg? Help.

Hendrix's <i>All Along the Watchtower</i> is my favorite cover of all time. Lyrics of Dylan with the sound of Hendrix.

Radiohead does a cover of <i>Union City Blue</i> that I also like.

War Pigs - Faith No More is definitely one of the best covers out there.

--jaded

The Whitney Houston remake of Dolly Parton's "I will always love you".

Snake River Conspriracy doing the Cure's LoveSong.

Sonic Youth doing the carpenters Superstar

"A band called Primus..."

Who the hell doesn't know who Primus is?!

My favorites:

"Hurt" - Johnny Cash cover/NIN original
"Burning Inside" Fear Factory and Static-X cover/Ministry original
"Sober" - Staind live cover/Tool original
"Kill You" - Deftones live cover/Eminem original
"Tourniquet" - Rasputina cover/Marilyn Manson original

Boysetsfire - Rocketman

Snowblind - System of a Down is one of my favorites. That and anything by SOAD.

I know this is off topic but I need to rant.
Jessica Simpson covered that annoying Berlin song from Top Gun and actually made it worse. Made me cry since I couldn't change the channel. j/k

Boysetsfire also does a cover of fade to black that is alright.

The first time I saw them was awesome.

Children of Bodom - rebel yell

All the ones I like:

- Adema - Nutshell(AIC)
- Godsmack - Sweetleaf(BS)
- System Of A Down - Snowblind(BS)
- Jonny Cash - Hurt(NIN)
- Avril Lavigne - Fuel[live](Metallica)
- Avril Lavigne - Knocking On Heavens Door(can't remember)
- Disturbed - Fade To Black[live](Metallica)
- Audioslave - Seven Nation Army[live](White Stripes)