Your favorite "cover" songs

[Scary Terry]

The Beatles: Honey Don't (Carl Perkins)
Deke Dickerson: Sittin' and Thinkin' (Charlie Rich)
Southern Culture on the Skids: Rose Garden (Loretta Lynn)
Black is Black: Los Straitjackets w/ Raul Malo (Los Bravos)
I Hear You Knockin': Dave Edmunds (Fats Domino)
Little Sister: Elvis Costello (Elvis Presley)
All That Heaven WIll Allow: Mavericks (Bruce Springsteen)

[kitator]

I`m a big fan of Metal/Rock,but have a soft spot for "Cry Little Sister" from The Lost Boys movie,so a good cover is by the band Zug Izland ,titled "Cry".
http://searchservice.myspace.com/index. ... mit=Search

check out this video by Gerard McMann,the original song with a cool gothic vampire picture gallery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fFo-WZsm5Q

[Scott M]

Check this out. Fergie sounds like she's got some pretty big balls!

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... ress-hill/

That...is pretty interesting.....I need to listen to that a few more times.

^I'm surprised there haven't been more comments on this, either positive or negative. I sorta' like it myself.


Anybody see Fergie doing the female wail on Gimme Shelter with Jagger and U2 on the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame? I never paid a bit of attention to The Black Eyed Peas but this woman can seriously sing her heinie off.*




*Metallica backing Ozzy on Iron Man/Paranoid was a lot of fun too.

[Zeiram]

I'm a cover junkie - too many good ones to list. A couple though...

Pretty much anything by the Hayseed Dixies.

Camper Van Beethoven's take on "Pictures of Matchstick Men."

Siouxsie and the Banshees doing "The Passenger."

Bowie's version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog." The original was good, but Bowie tightens it up so much.

That cover of "Mad World" on the Donnie Darko soundtrack is vastly better than the original IMO.

- larry

[kitator]

A few other good cover songs from some Industrial Metal and Heavy Metal bands I thought about:
You Spin Me Round============:Dope
Personal Jesus===============:Marilyn Manson
Sweet Dreams===============:Marilyn Manson
Tainted Love================:Marilyn Manson
Planet Caravan==============:Pantera
The Devil Went Down To Georgia=:Primus
Burning Inside===============:Static X
Cars =====================:Fear Factory
Shout ======= =============:Disturbed
Land of Confusion============:In Flames

[raydrz]

i been meaning to mention SHOUT2000 but never online when i think of it...i was instantly hooked on them chicago metallists from then on...

[Batmaniak]

Johnny Cash doing Hurt, Rusty Cage and Personal Jesus... or just about anything on the American Music Recordings.

[gothiken]

Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls ( Joy Division )
Type O Negative - N.I.B. ( Black Sabbath)
Metallica - Die Die My Darling/Last Caress ( The Misfits )
Joey Ramone - Wonderful World ( Louie Armstrong )
Megadeth - Anarchy in the UK ( Sex Pistols )
Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust ( Joni Mitchell )

to name a few

Kenny

[Batmaniak]

Ooooh, Kenny just made me think of Nazareths cover of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight"

[ManthingVT]

Judas Priest- Green Manalishi (Fleetwood Mac)

Patti Smith- Because The Night (Springsteen)

Jayhawks- Bad Time (Grand Funk)

Led Zeppelin- You Shook Me

Nazareth- Love Hurts (The Everly Brothers)

Tesla- Signs

Marylin Manson- Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)

Just a few minutes ago I saw (on TV) Tom Petty, The Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne cover While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Prince on lead guitar- Fantastic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY

[tay666]

Ok, I dug this thread up, because there have been a couple covers on the radio lately I wanted to discuss.

The first one is the Immigrant Song from the soundtrack for Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkP3urtYCkc

I actually kind of like it. It freshens up a song that had gotten kind of tired for me. Well, maybe not tired, but for almost 10 years now, the only thing that came to mind whenever I heard it was Viking Kittens. So.
This version at least breaks that cycle.

The other one, is
Godsmack doing Rocky Mountain Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieb5Z9cpiAs
Not really a fan of this one. I like music. The crunchier tunes sound really good. But the vocals just kill it for me. He has the wrong voice for this.
I would love to hear Joe Walsh do the vocals with this music track though. I think that would be lots of fun.

[mikef12169]

Tool - No Quarter

If you havent heard this your missing something special


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfgDXd0C ... ata_player

[The Coop]

The other one, is
Godsmack doing Rocky Mountain Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieb5Z9cpiAs
Not really a fan of this one. I like music. The crunchier tunes sound really good. But the vocals just kill it for me. He has the wrong voice for this.
I would love to hear Joe Walsh do the vocals with this music track though. I think that would be lots of fun.

I caught part of this and wondered who it was. I agree, the music was good, vocals not so much. Thats my opinion of a lot of stuff I hear now though. The screaming growl does nothing for me.

[chasd25]

Lucy in the sky with diamonds - U2

[tay666]

Just heard this one today

Foo Fighters doing Band on the Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIUrba-aoc

Sounds pretty good!

[raydrz]

dave grohl is so underrated!...

foo did many many AWESOME covers...
darling nikki-prince
have a cigar-floyd
baker street-gerry rafferty
tie your mother down-queen

+++

http://www.coversproject.com/artist/foo%20fighters/

[HauntedPen]

Tim Capello (on The Lost Boys soundtrack) - I Still Believe - The Call
Foo Fighters (until the last portion of the song) - Down In the Park - Gary Newman
Gary Jules (Donny Darko soundtrack) - Mad World - Tears For Fears
Van Halen - Where Have All the Good Times Gone - The Kinks
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Peter Gunn" Theme - Henry Mancini

I know there are more but they've either been mentioned already or I can't think of them offhand.

[miluzzu]

The Monkees "Stepping Stone" covered by Minor Threat.

Had that on recently. Great cover.

[miluzzu]

In a more modern vein:

The Koffin Kats, "Maneater"

http://youtu.be/Gq7tv6de2wE

And

Cold Blue Rebels, "Enter Sandman"

http://youtu.be/rlrjDavsO-0

And

Igor and the Red Elvises "Bad Romance". Only clips I could find are bad live recorings... The studio version is tremendous!

[Zombiezilla]

The Monkees "Stepping Stone" covered by Minor Threat.

Had that on recently. Great cover.

And it smokes the Sex Pistols version. I will take the Monkees version first, but the Threat version is right behind it.