Best Cover Version?

Silverfish

There's probably a thread I should have posted this in, but this is a fantastic ( imo) cover version of 'Hey Ya' by Outkast done by some...bloke with a beard.


Hey Ya Cover

Zapp Brannigan

It's been my flashbox on Bebo for a long time now. It's brilliant.

Mossy Monk

very good. nice to see (and hear)

besty

Is that Richard Cheese?

I love alot of Johnny Cash covers. My favourite is probably "I won't back down" by Tom Petty.

iFight

It's really good, didn't think it would turn out so well.

Creamy Goodness

that's pretty cool.

i'm fairly picky when it comes to covers, i see no point in coverng a song if you just keep it exactly the same.

masters of this are biffy clyro they absolutely tear songs apart and make them their own.

they've covered 4 songs "you're the one that i want", "you can go your own way", "take me out" and "buddy holly"

the second i saw this guy i thought it was iron&wine but his beard isn't ginger enough

mike65

Best cover? Van Halen - You Really Got me.

Mike.

Civilian_Target

Often unmentioned great covers:
Audioslave - Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
Entombed - 21st Century Schitzoid Man (King Crimson)
Primus - Master of Puppets (Metallica)

leche solara

Sidetreets and lanes of Walthamstow - cover version by Tadhg Martini
Much better than the original - super atonal apples,

Pigman II

Best Cover: Smashing Pumpkins - Dancing in the Moonlight.

Pumpkins were right up there with Johnny Cash for taking someone elses song and making it their own imho.

Wertz

Absolutely anything by Me First and the gimme gimme gimmes....nearly all they do is cover versions and even though this is about as polarised as my muscial tastes go, every cover is brilliant and funny into the bargain.

metrovelvet

Johnny Cash does amazing covers.

Another notable one Nirvana's cover of Leadbelly's Where did you sleep last night?

fillmore jive

Cowboy Junkies do a great version of 'Sweet jane'(velvet underground) on their first album. They also do a great verion of 'I'm so lonsome I could cry' 'Walking after midnight', the list goes on really....

Rollo Tamasi

The Puppini Sisters covering The Smiths is something to hear.
Also Masters at Work's remdetion of Light my Fire featuring Shirely Bassey is something else.

kinaldo

some of my favourite cover versions (in no particular order)...

The Ramones - Baby, I Love You
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Wachtower
The Beach Boys - Sloop John. B
John Lennon - Stand By Me
Simon & Garfunkel - Bye Bye Love
Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Corrs - Little Wing
Sinead O' Conor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Cyndi Lauper - When U Were Mine
Cyndi Lauper - What's Going On?
David Bowie - China Girl
Prince - Just My Imagination
Prince - A Case of You
Madonna - I Want You
Madonna - American Pie
Andrea Corr & Bono - Summer Wine
Andrea Corr & Bono - When the Stars Go Blue
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
No Doubt - It's My Life
The Ronettes - Paradise
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World
Nirvana - Lake of Fire
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Zombienosh

At the moment i love, Nonpoints cover of In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins,

Tar.Aldarion

Stream of Passion - When the Levee breaks

A cover of the original blues song, famously covered already by Led Zeppelin and A Perfect Circle.

AdrianR

Just a few that come to mind

Best punkband covering a crooner goes to:
Sex pistols for "I did it my way"

Best Folk act (ish) covering a Rap artist goes to:
Luka Bloom for "I need love"

Best punk/indie cover of Simon and Garfunkel goes to:
Lemonheads for "Mrs. Robinson"

joeblogg1

Celine Dion : I drove all night (Originally Roy Orbison and Cinci Lauper)

Part of her show in Vegas which I saw last year and its a great version of a great song:rolleyes:

blastman

Agree about Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies. I love their version of John Denver's Leavin' On A Jet Plane.

Falling In Love With You by Lick The Tins was bloody good too.

Purple Rain by The Waterboys

Nellie The Elephant by The Toy Dolls

After The Gold Rush by The Flaming Lips

Helpless by Nick Cave

Romeo and Juliet by The Indigo Girls

I'm sure there's more....

gustavo

A few that spring to mind
Sinead O' Connor -Silent Night
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Oasis -Cum on feel the Noize
Franz Ferdinand - What you Waiting for

John

My personal favourites include two versions of "Tainted Love". The first, the one everyone knows and loves, is Soft Cell's. The other is a completely different take on the song by Coil where they slow it down to a funereal pace, dedicating it to all their friends dying of AIDS. The video is on youtube. It was the first music video to be put on display by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It features Soft Cell's Marc Almond as the angel of death on an AIDS ward. Heavy stuff.

In a lighter mood, I love The Flying Lizards' cover of James Brown's "Sex Machine". It's hilarious, they suck all the funk and sex out of it. Also of note is Nick Cave's cover of "Running Scared" by Roy Orbison. Oh and his cover of "Disco 2000". And his cover of "The Singer". And every other cover he's done.

MrJoeSoap

Personal favourites:

Jeff Buckley - Satisfied Mind
Muse - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
José Gonzalez - Heartbeats
Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better

DerekD Goldfish

Another notable one Nirvana's cover of Leadbelly's Where did you sleep last night?

That is actualy a cover of Mark Lanegans cover of the same song Lanegan released his version of the song 2 years before the Nirvana version and thier version sounds like a poor rip off of his cover version.

mikedragon32

Morrissey's version of "That's Entertainment"

The Dead Kennedys' (slightly amended) version of "I fought the law"

Luka Bloom's version of "I need love"

William Shatner's version of "Common People"

Arctic Monkeys' version of "Love Machine"

Zapp Brannigan

MrJoeSoap wrote:

[/I]José Gonzalez - Heartbeats

Who did the original?

I think the guys name whose excellent cover started this thread is Obediah Parker. Anyone confirm this?

MrJoeSoap

Slurms wrote:

Who did the original?

The Knife, video here.

Brilliant song, brilliant cover.

stipey

IMHO

Ben Folds' cover of "Tiny Dancer" (Elton John)
Neil Hannon's cover of "No One Knows" (Queens of the Stone Age)
No Doubt's cover of "Come On Eileen" (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
Aerosmith's cover of "Baby Please Don't Go (Them - i think)

and of course

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt"

blastman

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's cover of California Uber Alles

Cake's cover of The Guitar Man

Marillion's cover of Sympathy

Voivod's cover of Astronomy Domine

gustavo

The Byrds Tambourine Man

kinaldo

gustavo wrote:

The Byrds Tambourine Man

classic! really kicks dylan's ass (as does their cover of the times they are a changin')

slipss

a few of my favourites would probably be

Johhny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails?)

The Fugees - No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley)

Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (Bowie)

Redstarr - Don't Fear The Reaper (BOC)

billy the squid

99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger, as featured in the Not Another Teen Movie Movie.

Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender

REM - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Kirsty MaColl - Days

Luke Kelly - (same song) Days

and just for giggles give De Dannan's versions of Hey Jude and Bohemian Rapsody a listen

antod

placebo running up that hill

melekalikimaka

No Doubt - Dj's (Sublime Cover)
The Hippos - So Lonely (Police Cover)
Living End - Tainted Love (Soft cell)
Squatweiler - Call Me (Blondie Cover)
Lunachicks - Passenger (Iggy Pop Cover)
Peace Brothers - Frozen (Madonna Cover)

JC 2K3

Civilian_Target wrote:

Primus - Master of Puppets (Metallica)

Heh, agreed, slap bass ftw!

Pigman II wrote:

Best Cover: Smashing Pumpkins - Dancing in the Moonlight.

Pumpkins were right up there with Johnny Cash for taking someone elses song and making it their own imho.

This is my favourite cover of all time. Brilliance....

Chardee MacDennis

kinaldo wrote:

some of my favourite cover versions (in no particular order)...
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Madonna - American Pie
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:eek: she murdered that song!!

kinaldo

Call_me_al wrote:

:eek: she murdered that song!!

What can I say, I really loved Madonna back then.

Nightwish

I have a pretty sizable collection of cover versions. I dont know if I could pick an outright favourite because there are so many brilliant ones, but I've just listened to Umbra et Imago's cover of Rock Me Amadeus, which never fails to bring a smile to my face.

deedee lepoopoo

John wrote:

My personal favourites include two versions of "Tainted Love". The first, the one everyone knows and loves, is Soft Cell's. The other is a completely different take on the song by Coil

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I prefer the original version of 'tainted love' - the northern soul version.

The Flying Lizards - Money ( excellent cover).

Nouvelle Vague- 'Just can't get enough'


I have to say the Scissor Sisters 'comfortably numb' is a good cover.

It is shameful to say but phil collins 'you can't hurry love' isn't bad at all.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Alexisonfire - Charlie Sheen Vs Henry Rollins
Thrice - Eleanor Rigby
Probably one or two songs from Metallica's Garage Inc. album.
Seu Jorge - Life On Mars
...All great

garred

Jeff Buckley - Halleluia
U2 - Helter Skelter
Beatles - Twist and Shout
Nirvana - Man who sold..
Oasis - I am the Walrus
Radiohead - Noboby does it better
Mariah Carey - Without you

Timans

Pearl Jam - Rockin' in the Free World

adox

I`m really liking Ray LaMontagnes version of Gnarls Barkelys "Crazy" at the moment.

John

deedee lepoopoo wrote:

I prefer the original version of 'tainted love' - the northern soul version.

Yeah but as covers go, Soft Cell definitely claimed that song as their own (not that Gloria Jones isn't any good)

Shatanash

Starsailor : "Jealous guy"...Awesome!!!:)

Anam

Gary Jules - Mad World.

BaZmO*

There's loads that I love (too many to mention), but there's one doing the rounds at the moment that's fantastic. It's Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker (whoever they are???) doing a cover of OutCast's "Hey Ya"

oRlyYaRly

Mariah Carey - Against All Odds

Not the one with Westlife in it. :eek:

Sonnenblumen

Johnny Cash-Hurt
KD Laing-Hallelujah
Brian Ferry-Jealous Guy
David Bowie-Lets spend the night together
Cowboy Junkies-Blue Moon
Nirvana-The man who sold the world

Morf

at the gates - captor of sin(slayer)