Your Favorite Covers! (of All Time)

[JimK]

...and "She's A Woman" from the same LP.

 

[40Hz]

you're no good (linda Ronstadt)

Oh yeah!

Also her rendition of tge Eagles tune Desperado.



and Roy Orbison's Blue Bayou

 

[Spupilup]

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) by Magazine. Barry Adamson got an amazing bass tone with his Ovation Magnum. He was one of the first bassists in the '70's to use a chorus and flanger.

 

[40Hz]

Here's another great one. Yvonne Elliman's brilliant and soulful version of Blind Faith's Can't Find My Way Home.

 

[bench]

i always this one. fits the lyrics much better than the original, imo...

 

[JimK]

The Isley Brothers did some nice cover versions-
"Love The One You're With"
"Summer Breeze"
"Machine Gun"
"It's Too Late"

Santana's "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" & "Oye Como Va".

"Hush"- Deep Purple

 

[Charlzm]

Voivod's cover of "Astronomy Domine" is (to my ears) such an improvement on the Pink Floyd original.


Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" is an amazing reinvention of the old Memphis Minnie song.

I always did like Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" cover.

 

[Runnerman]

 

[Runnerman]

 

[Jeff Scott]

Chieli always does a pretty serviceable version of this.




Shame the YT poster screwed up the song title, however.

 

[JimK]

...will probably be filleted for this-
I like The Counting Crows' cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" over Joni's.

Joan Osborne's "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" (from Standing In The Shadows Of Motown) and "Smiling Faces Sometimes" .

 

[charlie monroe]

will probably be filleted for this-
I like The Counting Crows' cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" over Joni's

Stropping my fish knife even as we speak.

 

[TDPRI Bones]

 

[BishopHastur]

Laibach - Across the Universe


I like just about all the covers they've done over the years, but this is the first one to come to mind.

 

[red_rhino]

Chain of Fools - Little Caesar

 

[Honkey tonk]

 

[klyph]

t became a chart hit as a single by the Isley Brothers in 1962.

As record companies did back then, Wand decided to hustle the Brothers into the studio to create an album of "twists" to put out with the magic title "Twist and Shout". Of course, you gotta have a slow dance or two. I wasn't going to post this because it's a jazz standard, so I wasn't sure that was fair game, but some other posters have done it...

Dig that guitar playing! And the sax solo! And the other Isleys oooh-ing and aah-ing for five minutes, sounding alternately like a Hammond organ or a horn section... I know I probably like ballads more than most on TB, but this is a GREAT track...

 

[Honkey tonk]

 

[PWRL]

Hammock's cover of Black Metallic by The Catherine Wheel is really good.

 

[Spupilup]

How about Frank Zappa's version of Ring of Fire???