Let's face it :hmm: , "original" doesn't always = "best".

No, this is not a "Fender vs. Sadowsky" thread :smug: .

I'm just curious as to which songs you like better, when performed by someone other than the composer/original band.

Reasons would be nice too ;) .

Here's three from me, to start the ball rolling (assuming that anyone replies and there is "a ball" to roll :hmm: ):

1. "Ziggy Stardust", by Bauhaus, as oppposed to the David Bowie version.

(Almost the same, very close as cover versions go, but Pete Murphy just tears it a up a bit more on the vocals and the guitars are wild).

2. "Desperado", by Johhny Cash, as opposed to The Eagles.

(That song sounds like it should have been written by Johnny Cash IMO and he gives a very heart-felt rendition of his acoustic version on his final album).

3. "All Along the Watchtower", by Jimi Hendrix, as opposed to Bob Dylan.

(OK, it's easy to knock Bob Dylan as a performer, but Hendrix just made this song his own, IMO.)

:) What do you guys think?

Word Up By Korn (Cameo)

even though it gets waaaaay too much radio play, Disturbed's cover of Genisis's Land of Confusion is actually a really good cover. Throwdown's cover of Baby Got Back is also a moy bueno.

have a cigar covered by primus

Summertime blues and Young Man Blues are both covers right? - The Who.

yea then rush redid summertime blues too

Let's face it :hmm: , "original" doesn't always = "best".

No, this is not a "Fender vs. Sadowsky" thread :smug: .

I'm just curious as to which songs you like better, when performed by someone other than the composer/original band.

Reasons would be nice too ;) .

Here's three from me, to start the ball rolling (assuming that anyone replies and there is "a ball" to roll :hmm: ):

1. "Ziggy Stardust", by Bauhaus, as oppposed to the David Bowie version.

(Almost the same, very close as cover versions go, but Pete Murphy just tears it a up a bit more on the vocals and the guitars are wild).

2. "Desperado", by Johhny Cash, as opposed to The Eagles.

(That song sounds like it should have been written by Johnny Cash IMO and he gives a very heart-felt rendition of his acoustic version on his final album).

3. "All Along the Watchtower", by Jimi Hendrix, as opposed to Bob Dylan.

(OK, it's easy to knock Bob Dylan as a performer, but Hendrix just made this song his own, IMO.)

:) What do you guys think?


+1000 on #3 I haven't heard the other ones yet.

Godzilla by Racer X opposed to Blue Oyster Cult.
Listen to both and you'll see.

"Respect" - as covered by Aretha Franklin, original by Otis Redding

What can you say? It's her song now and forever.

War Pigs - as covered by Faith No More, original by Black Sabbath.

I'm not a huge sabbath fan, but I do like them. This is one of their best, but the FNM version just has more urgency and energy.

I'm sure I'll think of others.

tool's cover of no quarter is freaking the best cover ever.

Love Song - 311

30 Days in the hole - Gov't Mule
Sweet Leaf
War Pigs

Salisbury Hill - Dave Matthews and Friends

oh and pigmy love circus did a sweet cover of 21st century schizoid man in concert, dont' know if they have a recorded version of it.

tool's cover of no quarter is freaking the best cover ever.

You apparently like Tool, and you put Adriana Lima back, thus you are on my good side again.

Were you ever on my bad side, no.

I really like the cover album, Renegades, from Rage Against The Machine, most of the songs on there are better than the originals IMO.

You apparently like Tool, and you put Adriana Lima back, thus you are on my good side again.

Were you ever on my bad side, no.

I really like the cover album, Renegades, from Rage Against The Machine, most of the songs on there are better than the originals IMO.
yeah maggies farm is one of rages coolest songs.

but they generally change the whole song when they cover something and make it their own.

Sorry, I forgot one :hmm: .

"Easy" by Faith No More, as opposed to The Commodores (I believe?).

(Again, close to the original in many ways, but that long pause and the "Ooooooooohhh")!

:smug:

Send Me an Angel - Zeromancer (originally Real Life)

Shout - Disturbed (originally Tears for Fears)

Red Red Wine - UB40 (originally Neil Diamond)

I Can't Help Falling in Love With You - UB40 (originally Elvis Presley)

Paint It Black - Inkubus Sukkubus (originally The Rolling Stones)

Turn the Page - Metallica (originally Bob Seger)

Life is a Highway - Rascal Flatts (originally Tom Cochrane)

dancing queen by abba covered by black sabbath cover band.

Send Me An Angel - Thrice (originally Real Life)

Paint It Black - Earth Crisis (originally The Rolling Stones)

Turn The Page - Metallica (originally Bob Seger)

I agree on All Along the Watchtower.

Also Deadsy's version of Tom Sawyer is just as good if not better than Rush's.

A couple more:

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley covering Leonard Cohen's original

Haunting and powerful, but its use in crappy TV shows finales and films cheapens Buckley's legacy a bit. Still a great song.

We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder covering the Beatles

Funkier, more soulful and just plain better IMO

I'll +1 the Renegades album, especially Maggie's Farm. I love both versions.

A few Joe Cocker songs could be included (A Little Help From My Friends, The Letter) and Nirvana's Unplugged has some great covers (The three Meatpuppet's songs, as well as the Bowie and Leadbelly songs) that I prefer to the originals.

Ben Folds - Bitches Aint **** (originally Dr.Dre)

Happy Together, Mothers Of Invention (orig. The Turtles)

Frank Zappa didn't just cover it, he also hired the two original singers to do so.:bassist:

I agree with 311-love song

Paint It Black - Earth Crisis (originally The Rolling Stones)



:rollno:

I really like Queens of the Stone Age's cover of Everybody's Gonna Be Happy (the Kinks)

Also Kyuss' cover of Into The Void has a great jam in the middle that edges it ahead of the Black Sabbath original, IMO.

"Love The One You're With" by Aretha Franklin (from her "Live at the Fillmore" album), originally performed by Stephen Stills.

"Stand!" by the Jackson 5 from their first album, originally performed by Sly & The Family Stone.

A couple more:

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley covering Leonard Cohen's original

Haunting and powerful, but its use in crappy TV shows finales and films cheapens Buckley's legacy a bit. Still a great song.
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+1 on on the song :smug:
+100 on the comments :bawl:

Blinded by the Light covered by Manfred Mann's Earth band

They took an unlistenable Bruce Springsteen dirge and made it rock.

I Can't Help Falling in Love With You - UB40 (originally Elvis Presley)

The Erasure version from the album Other People's Songs is also really good.

Under My Thumb covered by Social Distortion originally by the Rolling Stones

Metallica's cover of Bob Seagers " Turn the Page" :bassist:

Metalium's version of "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple

Guns N Roses' version of "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones

GNR's version of "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth

Vision Divine's version of "Take On Me" by Aha

Iced Earth's EXACT recreation of "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden

Iced Earth's version of "Screamin For Vengeance" by Judas Priest

Demons & Wizards' version of "White Room" by Cream

Fozzy's version of "Live Wire" by Motley Crue

Killswitch Engage's version of "Holy Diver" by Dio

PANTERA'S TRIBUTE OF "CAT SCRATCH FEVER" BY UNCLE TEDLY VON NUGENTBURGER

This one is obscure for both the original and cover acts....

Big In Japan - Guano Apes (originally Alphaville)

Also agree about Jimi's version of All Along the Watchtower and will add...
Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Guns N Roses (originally Bob Dylan)

Just about every Diamond Head cover Metallica did. Metallica always had a knack for making a cover their own.

Springsteen covers are almost always better than the originals.

His cover of the Detroit Medley and Drift Away are simply fantastic.

Just kissed my baby (the meters) covered by Galactic.

Red Hot Chili Peppers versions of "Higher Ground" and "Love Rollercoaster" are better than the originals.

Same goes for Soft Cell's (and the Living End's) version of "Tainted Love", Alien Ant Farm's version of "Smooth Criminal" and the White Stripes version of "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself".

To a lesser extent, I also like Tom Morello's version of Another Brick in the Wall, but not as much as the original. Same goes for Run DMC's version of Walk This Way. Also, I haven't heard the original version of "Dazed and Confused", but I don't think it would be as good as Led Zeppelin's version.

Does Eric Clapton's unplugged version of Layla count as a cover?

Also, some of Weird Al's songs are better than the originals.

Crazy Frog sucks.

Blinded by the Light covered by Manfred Mann's Earth band

They did a number of Springsteen covers far better than him....incuding "Spirits In The Night".

To this list I'd also add Mat Weddle's version of Outkast's "Hey Ya" (check YouTube...you won't believe what a nice tune that really is!).

Wanna hear a bunch of Hendrix tunes not only covered WELL, but literally re-invented? Check out Phil Brown's "The Jimmi Project". Jimmy Haslip on bass....'nuff said.

Between the Buried and Me's cover of Metallica's Blackened ... best cover ever :P

Smooth Criminal- alient Aunt Farm ( originally by M.J)

i quite like deftones cover of simple man by leonard skynard
No Doubts version of Talk Talk's It's My Life is pretty cool
And Tool does justice to Led Zep's No Quarter

i like it a lot when peopel cover the beatles as i saw them as better song writers than performers.

im more of a stones guy, oh well.

i like reel big fish covering ah-ha's "take on me"
+100000000 to jeff buckley's hallelujiah
and jimi's watchtower...i dig the dave matthews version as well.
aretha's "respect"
the spin doctors covering "have you ever seen the rain" by CCR...huge CCR fan, just thoguht the dr's did a great cover of that one.
rage against the machine doing he boss' "ghost of tom jode"

Just about everything by Me First & the Gimme Gimmes.

+10000000 to Me First.
I also like the Ben Folds Five cover of "Video Killed The Radio Star" along with Ben's solo version of "Songs of Love" (originally written by The Divine Comedy).

Another really good cover that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet is the Ataris version of "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley from a few years back.

Other good ones that come to mind:

Less Than Jake - Surrender (orig. by Cheap Trick)
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (orig. by Fleetwood Mac)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (orig. by NIN)
Willie Nelson - Always on my Mind (don't remember who wrote it, but a lot of people have sung it)

Any cover by Joe Cocker!

and jimi's watchtower...i dig the dave matthews version as well.
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i dunno if this has been said but, Jimi's "watchtower" was a Bob Dylan cover. although Dylan him self has said, he like's Jimi version better than his own.

Iron maiden's "Fear of the dark" and "Hallowed be thy name" by Cradle of filth:hyper:

A couple more:

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley covering Leonard Cohen's original

Haunting and powerful, but its use in crappy TV shows finales and films cheapens Buckley's legacy a bit. Still a great song.

Couldn't agree more!!! Jeff Buckley is amasing and that cover brings me almost to tears!

I'll add:

Devo's cover of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Originally by the Stones.

Definitely one of my favorite covers ever!

Peace

-Benny

Cake's cover of War Pigs is pretty awesome.

I like Muse's versoin of the Nina Simone song "Feelin Good". But i also love Nina Simone.

Joe Jackson did a cover version of Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well" on SNL about 15 years ago...

it was PURE SMOKE!!!

EWF covering Beatles' "Got To Get You Into My Life"

Don't know their name, but the folkish\bluegrass band that covered Snoop's "Gin and Juice" is some great stuff!

I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & the Pips ver.
Respect - Aretha Franklin ver.
Leave My Kitten Alone - Beatles ver.

The original versions were all great too.

Cake's cover of "I Will Survive" originally by Gloria Gaynor.

Don't know their name, but the folkish\bluegrass band that covered Snoop's "Gin and Juice" is some great stuff!

The Gourds

Elvis Costello & The Attractions' I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (orig. by Sam & Dave).

The Ataris version of Boys of Summer … more energy less production than the Don Henley original.

Fortunate Son the old Credence Clearwater tune … as done live on the Sing Me Back Home CD by Ivan Neville and company. Hard not to like the NOLA vibe.



:eyebrow: ... So much of the early Brit invasion stuff were covers ... hard to remember they aren't the originals.

First off, We can work it out by Stevie Wonder as someone said earlier is very good and a display of excellent multi-tracking of vocals. Stevie Wonder also covered "Light my fire" which was excellent and he covered Bob Dylans "Blowin in the wind" which was also a good cover. Those are just some, I know they are very subjective as some people may find the original better. "light my fire" I do not neccesarily place Wonders as better than the doors just good. Just like I do not agree with someone who said that the Chili Peppers Higher ground is better than Wonder's.

Satisfaction by Devo
I Shot The Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Dimming Of The Day - Bonnie Raitt
Crossroads - Cream
Born To Run - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
War - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Young At Heart - Tom Waits
Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down - Paul Young (just for Pino's KILLER fretless and octaver bassline - especially the 1/16th note outro)

Slayers "Raining Blood" covered by...










Tori Amos!! :eek: :hiding:

I think is scarier and darker than the original.

The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown) by Judas Priest. They did such a great job of making it their own that most people don't know it was originally done by Fleetwood Mac.

Ben Folds - Bitches Aint **** (originally Dr.Dre)

oh, sh##!!!

i just saw him do this live!! hilarious!!

:D

Also, I haven't heard the original version of "Dazed and Confused", but I don't think it would be as good as Led Zeppelin's version.

I honestly like it better.

Vanilla Fudge's You Keep Me Hangin On schools the original.

W.A.S.P.'s cover of "The Real Me." :hiding:

Seriously. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqT2Y2l6aLA)

Scorpions - "I Can't Explain." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgxdiA17-E)

Sanctuary - "White Rabbit" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDZUNRRrrLk)

Armored Saint - "Saturday Night Special" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00000JPCK001002/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_002/104-8084368-1923931)

The only way I may like a cover version is if I heard it for the first time without knowing the original (and I liked it, of course - Hendrix's version of "Hey Joe" comes to mind). No matter how "polished" or "interestingly arranged" the songs are, you won't find a single tribute album in my LP/CD collection. One of my bandmates has always been fascinated with "Working Man", the Rush tribute album, which boasts an impressive personnel for sure, but the work is not my cup of tea anyway. It pissed me off when he wanted to do the "Never Turn Your Back On A Monster!" section of "La Villa Strangiato" (one of my favorite sections of the tune, BTW) the way it was recorded for that compilation (he actually did it having agreed not to do it (http://media.putfile.com/Never-Turn-Your-Back-On-A-Monster) and I wanted to strangle him that night). I love the shuffle feel of that part and the "impressive" drum arrangement totally ruins it to me. That's a good example of those "musicianship displays" that annoy me.

BTW, Joe Cocker's version of "With A Little Help From My Friends" isn't a cover for me but a totally different song that borrowed the lyrics from another one. I like it.

The only way I may like a cover version is if I heard it for the first time without knowing the original (and I liked it, of course - Hendrix's version of "Hey Joe" comes to mind).

That's my explanation for why I prefer the Chili Pepper's version of Higher Ground than the original. I listened to them both, and I decided to add the Chili Pepper's version to my Mix CD.

Diamonds and Rust-Joudas Priest (Original Joan Baez) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R7tWil0TKU
Dance on a Volcano-Mekong Delta (Original Genesis)
Black Betty Ram Jam (Original Not really sure) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo
War Pigs-Sacred Reich (Original Black Sabbath) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdC-4UVIhs
Substitute Ramones (Original The WHo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abFCB9X3Fmc

Johnny Cash covering NIN's Hurt. Even Trent in an interview said, once Johnny does your song, its becomes his song - I agree.

Widespread Painc doing Neil Young's Don't Be Denied

The Arrogant Sons of Bitches had two live albums that were only covers. One set was Radiohead and the other was Nirvana and I greatly preferred their versions to the originals.

I like Pat Benetar's version of Paul Revere & the Raiders "Just Like Me". I don't like it better per se, but it is a very interesting arrangement.

I figger if yer gonna rerecord someone elses song make it different - make it yours (or your bands).

This doesn't apply to cover bands, although I've heard cover bands that did rearrange stuff and were very clever about it.

Dio Covering Dream on, (Originally Aerosmith) holy shiznit was that tight. Video of it somewwhere on YOutube.

Raven's cover medley version of "Hellraiser/Action" always makes me bob my head far more than the originals.

Joan Jett's cover of Gary Glitter's "Do You Wanna Touch"

I'm preparing for flames but I truly prefer Limp Bizkit's rendition of "Faith" to the original.

Cyndi Lauper's version of "Money Changes Everything."

New York Dolls - "Stranded in the Jungle"


hmmm... it's almost like I'm going through a glam rock phase or something?

Cyndi Lauper's version of "Money Changes Everything."

Didn't know it's a cover. Another example of my point. I like it.

Supersuckers - Hey Ya

Fudge Tunnel - Cat Scratch Fever

Screaming Jets - Cunnamulla Fella (slim dusty) and Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire).

All the song on the Album KISS MY ASS are better then the original! :)

Dio Covering Dream on, (Originally Aerosmith) holy shiznit was that tight. Video of it somewwhere on YOutube.

I remember this. Didn't Yngwie do guitar on this song?

Johnny Cash covering NIN's Hurt. Even Trent in an interview said, once Johnny does your song, its becomes his song - I agree.

I agree with the Johnny Cash cover of NIN's "Hurt". It was just eerie in a good way when he did it.

Joe Cocker's "The Letter" and "Honky Tonk Women".

And last but certainly not the only or least:
April Wine's cover of "21st Century Schizoid Man" over King Crimson's! :hiding:

I calls 'em the way I sees 'em!!! :bassist:

Feist - Inside and Out

I like it better than the Beegee's version

VanHalen's cover of Pretty Woman
I also like U2's cover of Bob Dylan's All Along The Watch Tower

easystar allstars cover albums "Dub Side of The Moon" and "Radiodread"

they definitely play the radiohead songs better than radiohead did... and Dub Side is a monster with the lights out and the volume turned up... you don't even have to take any funny substances either... just lie back and absorb the dub...

All the song on the Album KISS MY ASS are better then the original! :)

no, I have to correct you, all the songs on KISS MY GRASS -Hayseed Dixie, are better than the originals. hehe! thats the reason I started listening to bluegrass!!!

Sheryl Crows version of GNRs "Sweet Child"

Bigod 20 - Like a Prayer
KMFDM - Material Girl
Nick Cave and Shane McGowan - What a Wonderful World
Sonic Youth - Superstar
Ministry - Lay Lady Lay
Devo - Satisfaction
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Only the Good Die Young
Vanilla Fudge - Keep me Hangin' On
Nick Cave - Mack the Knife
Nick Cave - I Put a Spell on You
Tori Amos - New Age
Bauhaus - Telegram Sam
Big Black - The Model
and I just found this album full of Kraftwerk covers using 8-Bit synths... NINTENDO KRAFTWERK...
and that's all I can think of right now...

Vernon Reid- "Enjoy the Silence" (Depeche Mode)
Bad Plus- "Tom Sayer" (Rush)
Brad Mehldau- "Everything in its Right Place" and "How to Disappear Completely"(Radiohead)
Charlie Hunter- "Come As You Are"(Nirvanna)
Anthrax-"Got the Time"(Joe Jackson)
Nickel Creek- "Toxic"(Britney Spears)
Jimi Hendrix- "Star Spangled Banner"(Francis Scott Key)
Elvis Costello- "God Only Knows"(Beach Boys)
Bill Frisell-"Have a Little Faith in Me"(John Hiatt). Bill also did a cover of Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" when I saw him (this was the same day June Carter died).

I have to say -1 on the 311/Cure thing. 311's version has a high-on-weed-behind-the-beat thing tha makes it sluggish and drag on.

Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Nickelback/Kid Rock (The production on it is slammin')

Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Flotsam And Jetsam

Live And Let Die - GNR

Simple Man - Shinedown

The Black Widow - Bruce Dickinson (On tribute album 'Humanary Stew')

I Don't Know - Jack Blades/Reb Beach (on an Ozzy tribute album)

Land Of Confusion - Disturbed

Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm

Those are some of my favorites that I can think of right now.


Oh! If any of you have ever heard Garth Brooks live acoustic version of "American Pie"..........he totally nails it. Nothing wrong with Don McLean's version at all, but Garth really got it.

I fought the law ..The Clash
Old Man .....Howard Stern and the Losers

I fought the law ..The Clash


I always liked the Dead Kennedy's version of that song better than the original

Frank Zappa - Stairway to Heaven

Three that really stand out, that I don't think were mentioned in this thread:

Van Halen doing the Kinks, You Really Got Me

Dead Kennedys doing Elvis, Viva Las Vegas

Rolling Stones doing the Temptations,(Just My) Imagination

I also like Manfred Mann and the Ataris versions of the songs mentioned above.

I was in GC yesterday and I heard Johnny Cash doing his take on Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus. Absolutely awesome!

Tower of Power's version of James Taylor's "Steamroller" (from the Sketches of James CD)

Just about any song covered by Cold Blood back in the day, especially "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free," and (another song by JT) "Lo and Behold"

One Bad Son's cover of Civil War (my favorite GNR song, but OBS just makes it sound sooo sweet)

HIM Wicked Game

No Quarter - Tool
The Stroke - Mr. Bungle
Manic Depression - King's X
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Cop Killer - Soundgarden
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - The Revolting Cocks
The Ballad Of Dwight Fry - Melvins

Taking the chance that I might sound like a tool, I think any song Pantera covered was better than the original.

Speaking of Tool, I also agree that "No Quarter" sounded better than the Zeppelin version but I still like the original regardless.

Metallica's cover of the Queen song "Stone Cold Crazy" was better than the original IMO.

And of notable mention here, Corrosion of Conformity's cover of CCR's "Fortunate Son" isn't better than the original, but just as cool and is a really sweet take on the classic.

Yeah, Tool's version of "No Quarter" is totally amazing how they totally made it into a Tool song...hehe...

Also Under My Thumb by Social D orginally by Rolling Stones.

Oh...and of course Dream Theater doing all of Dark Side of the Moon

Primus master of puppets

tool's cover of no quarter is freaking the best cover ever.



A great big +1 to that! :bassist:



Have you ever tried playing the Tool version on bass? H.F.S.!

Metallica - Turn the page
Johnny Cash - Hurt

A lot of my faves have already been mentioned, including Judas Priest's completely wonderful desecration of "Diamonds and Rust" but here are a couple I have not seen mentioned:

Heartbreaker Dread Zeppelin (original by Led Zeppelin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LI4TUucW4

Cat Scratch Fever Motorhead (original by Ted Nugent)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGW3GBBoLg

:bassist:

I always liked the Dead Kennedy's version of that song better than the original
+1 and whoever said Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal was better than MJ's needs to clean out their ears no offense. No one does that song like Michael Jackson.

Oh yea and Guns of Brixton by Nouvelle Vague originally by the Clash. They gave it a totally different vibe that I think fits the song better.

Kyuss - Into the Void (as someone already mentioned)
System of a Down - Snowblind (original by Black Sabbath)

Thoes two are some awsome covers.

Sheryl Crows version of GNRs "Sweet Child"

Are you nuts? :ninja:

Any cover of Dylan original material. Bob Dylan is one great composer and poet/lyricist, but I can't stand his voice, lo-fi recordings, or overly simple arrangements.

STYX did a great version of "I am the walrus" by the Beatles. I'm not saying it's better but it is interesting.

Goldfinger- 99 Red Balloons

The Unseen- Paint it Black

System of a down- The Metro

Megadeth - Anarchy In The UK

Pantera - Electric Funeral

Dream Theater - Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding

GNR - Sympathy For The Devil

Motorhead - Louie Louie

Metallica - Hole In The Sky

Live and let die


I like the Guns N' Roses version.

Robert Wyatt's version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6T9qp9XbRY) of Elvis Costello's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjrHxpiet0) "Shipbuilding"

Robert Wyatt's version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6T9qp9XbRY) of Elvis Costello's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjrHxpiet0) "Shipbuilding"
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that song was written for Robert Wyatt by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer, but then Elvis recorded it himself. So who's covering who is debatable.
Anyway, any song with Bruce Thomas on bass is better than the same song without.

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley covering Leonard Cohen's original

Haunting and powerful, but its use in crappy TV shows finales and films cheapens Buckley's legacy a bit. Still a great song.




+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000


plus Nirvanas cover of Bowie's Man Who Sold The World is sick

this is a bit different, but i dislike Cat Steven's cover of I Shot The Sheriff, Bob Marley's original is the best by far.

Al Jareau's version of Your song, by Elton John

Leon Russell's version of Jumping Jack Flash on Concert for Bangladesh


One thing is obvious from this thread, besides the point about most Dylan covers being better then the originals. Mad Dogs and Englishman (Joe Cocker) is the best cover band ever!

Leon Russell's version of Jumping Jack Flash on Concert for Bangladesh
I have always liked that one, too.
Another one can be found on the Johnny Winter And Live album.


Mad Dogs and Englishman (Joe Cocker) is the best cover band ever!
Maybe...the Isleys would be up there, too. "Summer Breeze", "Listen To The Music", "Love The One You're With", "It's Too late", etc.

I Can't Help Falling in Love With You - UB40 (originally Elvis Presley)



+1

"Frozen" covered by Jeff Scott Soto (original by Madonna)

Anyone put MY WAY by The Sex Pistols yet!!!!! :-)

Happy Together, Mothers Of Invention (orig. The Turtles)

Frank Zappa didn't just cover it, he also hired the two original singers to do so.:bassist:

maaaaaaaaaan, i love their version... it was my first thought when i read this thread.

and i really like sucks cover of war pigs.. its a really nice bass in some how.. dont really know why i like it so much.

I really dig Joss Stone's cover of "Some Kind of Wonderful". Great groove.

I'm seriously shocked that Tool's Version of "No Quarter" is mentioned so many times in this thread. I heard how "amazing" it was, checked it out... pretty weak compared to the original.

I'm seriously shocked that Tool's Version of "No Quarter" is mentioned so many times in this thread. I heard how "amazing" it was, checked it out... pretty weak compared to the original.

+100

Rare Earths version of Get Ready. Way too cool!

Rare Earths version of Get Ready. Way too cool!

That is a cool one. Will Lee covered that with Hiram Bullock on Live at Mannys car wash.

Another great band that does a lot of covers is the Meters. Their covers of Come Together, Love the One Your With, Just Kissed My Baby, and Honky Tonk Women are all seriously smoking.

jimi hendrix's version of bob dylans all along the watchtower.

I'm seriously shocked that Tool's Version of "No Quarter" is mentioned so many times in this thread. I heard how "amazing" it was, checked it out... pretty weak compared to the original.

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Oh...and of course Dream Theater doing all of Dark Side of the Moon


Basphemy:eyebrow::scowl:

The Rascal Flatts version of Life is a Highway is a little too country, and too polished, but it's better because they don't sound like they are falling down drunk.

David Lee Roth's Tobacco Road

Exodus' version of Overdose sounds the way I think ACDC would have done it in 1986

Slayer made both Inna Gadda Da Vida and Dissident Aggressor their own, just as Judas Priest was always able to do when they did covers.

Rigor Mortis' version of Psychotherapy

The Accused has a version of Boris the Spider and Devil Woman that have to be heard.

And I hate to admit it, but Cobain's melody in the Nirvana version of Plateau is better, but he screwed it up by not being able to hit the notes.

I never thought the Tool cover of No Quarter was all that memorable.

Anything by Zeppelin.

"The Loco-Motion" (Grand Funk Railroad) originally by Little Eva :bassist:

James Taylors covers of "Handyman",How sweet it is" and You've got a friend".In fact,any JT cover version,except Day Tripper,off the "Flag album.Oh,and Tom Petty's version of the Byrds' "Feel a whole lot better"