Cover Tunes

[wolverine]

Rage Against The Machine's final album was all killer covers of various rock, punk and hip-hop tunes. The best ones are "How I Can Just Kill A Man" (Cypress Hill), "Ghost of Tom Joad" (Bruce Springsteen) and "Renegades of Funk" (some rap group)

 

[Azcanuck]

These have already been mentioned but they are 2 of my favs:

Metallica's Turn the Page (original Bob Seger)

Social Distortion: Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)

 

[shedevil]

Robin Trower did a great cover of Hendrix's "Manic Depression".

Pearl Jam did a live cover album, some of my fave's were a cover of Johnny Cash's "25 minutes to go" and Bob Dylan's "Master's of War".

I seen Eric Clapton do a live cover of "Little Wing" and a Diddley cover of "Before you accuse me". LOVE that 12 bar blues!

Jeff Beck also did a GREAT cover of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life"

SD

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"Somewhere over the Rainbow"

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[bothmog]

Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley's Version of Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) is one of the best covers ever.

 

[wolverine]

And how could I forget this one:

Cowboy Junkies - "Sweet Jane" (Lou Reed)

 

[AA_Train]

I Heard it Through the Grapevine-Kaiser Chiefs (See previous posts for original artist(s)s)

 

[Man Mountain]

Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" by Three Days Grace

I like Three Days Grace a lot but I wasn't aware of this one. Thanks for pointing it out! Have you heard the Stone Sour version? It's great too!

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[slacker]

Pretty much any sony Led Zeppelin covered (which is like almost half of their stuff). I'm not even too familiar with many of the original versions but I'm sure Zeppelins must be better because they are all just so damn good. In particular I do like their Ben E King cover of We're Gonna Groove.

 

[AA_Train]

G-L-O-R-I-A by the Doors among others (Originally done by Them)

One of the best song EVER!!!!!

 

[AA_Train]

River Deep, Mountain High by Deep Purple (Originally done by Ike & Tina Turner)

 

[saskguy]

A lot of my favorites have been posted, and there are other ones I will have to look up that I have not yet heard.

The one I really like, that has not been mentioned already is

"Working Class Hero" done by Green Day (originally John Lennon)

I probably have the unpopular opinion, but I actually think I like the cover better than the original (not taking anything away from the original though)

 

[AA_Train]

A lot of my favorites have been posted, and there are other ones I will have to look up that I have not yet heard.

The one I really like, that has not been mentioned already is

"Working Class Hero" done by Green Day (originally John Lennon)

I probably have the unpopular opinion, but I actually think I like the cover better than the original (not taking anything away from the original though)

Actually many covers are better than the original. IMO Jimi's "All Along the Watchtower" is superior to Bob Dylan's version. Some are just different and some butcher the original. It's a crap shoot really

 

[Man Mountain]

Romeo and Juliet

I love the original Dire Straits version of the song:

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But recently heard this cover by The Killers and think it's very good as well:

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[LustyLacey]

I had to listen to the "Romeo & Juliet" cover....not the same, but pretty damned good. And i HATE the killers.
I like a lot of New Found Glory and The Donna's covers....hehe

 

[tedsweettangv]

Gin And Juice - The Gourds - Originally Snoop Dogg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCAM3C3dpIA

Love In Vain - Rolling Stones - Original Robert Johnson
Blinded By the Light - Manfred Man - Original Bruce Springsteen
The First Cut Is the Deepest - Cheryl Crow - Original Cat Stevens
99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger - Original Nena
Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit - Original The Who
Nobody Home - Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Original Pink Floyd

 

[newtothis]

I Will Survive - Cake / Original by Gloria Gaynor
Into the Mystic - Colin James / Original by Van Morrison
It's Tricky - Bloodhound Gang / Original by Run DMC

Anything by Richard Cheese: loungified covers - favorites include Insane in the Brain (Cypress Hill) & Creep (Radiohead)

 

[threepeat]

"Pocahontas" (Crash Vegas) - originally Neil Young
"After the Gold Rush" (Natalie Merchant) - originally Neil Young
"Four Strong Winds" (Neil Young) - originally Ian Tyson
"More Than This" (10 000 Maniacs) - originally Roxy Music
"Heroes" (The Wallflowers) - originally David Bowie
"Riding with the King" (Eric Clapton and B.B. King) - originally John Hiatt
"Sweet Jane" (Lone Justice) - originally Lou Reed
"My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy" (Maria McKee) - originally Dolly Parton
... and the classic:
"Little Wing" (Derek and the Dominos) - originally Jimi Hendrix