Your Favourite Cover??

[DDXdesign]

Awesome thread!

My Faves in descending order:

Number 1 by a mile: Blue Man Group with Esthero, doing Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit". CHILLS I tell you!

(Also a special nod to the BMG on the Complex Tour doing bits of Crazy Train and all of Teenage Wasteland as well as the above)

Other faves:
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Faith No More - Easy (Lionel Ritchie, wasn't it?)
Metallica - Turn the Page (Bob Seger), Whiskey in the Jar (the Thin Lizzy version of the old Irish folk tune)
Primus - Amos Moses (Jerry Reed)

And I can't remember the name of the band, but a few years back there was an obscure heavy metal cover of I Want You/She's So Heavy (Beatles). It rocked, a LOT.

 

[Juneau]

Yep it was Lionel Richie, I listed that one as well hehe.

Reminded me,

Les's Frog Brigade doing Thella Hun Ginjeet (I think a King Crimson Song)
Keller Williams also does a great Crazy Train and Ramble On

 

[DDXdesign]

Yep it was Lionel Richie, I listed that one as well hehe.

Reminded me,

Les's Frog Brigade doing Thella Hun Ginjeet (I think a King Crimson Song)
Keller Williams also does a great Crazy Train and Ramble On

Doh - missed your mention of Easy, sorry.

2 more things: 1.Thela Hun Ginjeet is a cool song, and is deffo KC. and 2.Keller Williams is my favorite guitarist these days, his playing and his songs are incredible.

 

[P. Aaron]

America - Yes

Yes did a great job on this.

Heard it through the Grape Vine- CCR

Very cool also is CCR's version of "I put a Spell on You"

 

[Funkster]

My altime fav cover would have to be Johnny Cash's version of Soundgardens Rusty Cage

2nd would be Pat Travers version of Bob Marley's Is this love.

3rd would have to be The Firm doing You lost thet lovin feeling,, Tony Franklins Fretless tone is killer.

 

[jrthebassguy]

worst cover IMO the cover of "Mad World" on the Donnie Darko soundtrack, lost all the power of the orig

really? I love that cover, better than the original probably.

 

[Diowulf]

Iced Earth-Iced Earth
Iced Earth-Night of the Stormrider (old one)
Hammerfall-Crimson Thunder
Rhapsody-Power of the Dragon
Rhapsody-Night of a 1000 flames

EDIT: I know I read the description when I posted, but I guess I didn't get it. But in case of favorite looking CD covers, those are above, but in terms of favorite cover tunes:

Iced Earth: Transylvania-Iron Maiden
Amon Amarth: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath-Black Sabbath
Children of Bodom: Don't Stop at the Top-Scorpions

Thank you jammadave, even though I caught this way too late

 

[jrthebassguy]

i'll also add NOFX's covers of "Vincent' (by originally by don maclean) and "All Of Me" (originally billie holiday)

 

[BassGod]

I like Iced Earth's cover of 'The Number Of The Beast' (Iron Maiden).

Peace,
Graeme

 

[glydebass]

best of all time is...you guessed it. The Gourds for Gin and Juice. I'm sorry but it doesnt get much better than that. Also good is Dave Matthews Band doing Long Black Veil. Also most of the Beatles remakes on the I Am Sam soundtrack are sweet.

 

[Gia]

snake river conspiracy's love song (the cure)

it's amazing. they turned it into electro-industrial and really made it their own.

 

[dirtgroove]

Has anyone else here heard Ella Fitzgeralds verion of Sunshine of your love (Cream).
Quite possibly the coolest of covers I've ever come across.

 

[bmc]

Wide Mouth Mason live cover of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" that blends into "I Wish".

Wide Mouth Mason is a Canadian trio.

 

[DDXdesign]

Iced Earth-Iced Earth
Iced Earth-Night of the Stormrider (old one)
Hammerfall-Crimson Thunder
Rhapsody-Power of the Dragon
Rhapsody-Night of a 1000 flames

Wait, this thread is about covers you like to listen to, of one band doing another band's stuff - it looks like you've listed bands and their songs that you like to cover.

I could be wrong, but I don't *think* Iced Earth was a song before Iced Earth did it (?)

I'll delete my post if I'm totally crackers here.

 

[CrazySean]

Brittany Spears - Satisfaction
Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven

Curse you!!!

 

[CrazySean]

Some covers that I like to listen to are:

Pearl Jam - Sonic Reducer (Dead Boys) (which, sorry to say, kills the original)
Tool - You Lied (Peach)
Audioslave - Working Man (Rush)

And probably my favorite:

Pearl Jam - Crown of Thorns (Mother Love Bone - Pearl Jam w/ out Vedder)

Peace,
Sean

 

[deepbob]

the meters - doodleoop
rhcp - fire
schmee - >> Link Removed

oh yeah that string quartet doin the hendrix tunes was pretty damned cool too...

 

[fulcrum]

That'd be the Kronos Quartet-- didn't know they did more than just Purple Haze, and should have known. Ta very much.

My list would have to include (but is not limited to:
Eric Clapton Cocaine (J J Cale)
Eric Clapton I Shot The Sheriff (Bob Marley)
Pat Metheny Group Insensatez (Tom Jobim)
Pat Metheny Third Stone From The Sun (Jimi Hendrix)
Jimi Hendrix The Star-Spangled Banner (uh...)
Deep Purple Hush (Joe South)
Elton John Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Lennon/Macca)

any Beatles cover they put their minds to, with the possible exception of Mister Moonlight
anything Frank Sinatra sang
anything Ella Fitzgerald sang

 

[Jarhead]

of what i've heard so far,

Victor Wooten-Overjoyed(Stevie Wonder)

 

[seanm]

Courage (for Hugh MacLennan) by the Tragically Hip.