Boardsies Greatest Cover Song - Live Thread

Kolido

Couple of close contests here, here are the final 4 for this session, will be back later with more

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal 6 4 Steve Earle - Dublin Blues

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River 5 2 Trent Reznor & Karen O - The immigrant song
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 6 3 Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
The Clash - I Fought The Law 5 4 Kim Wilde - Keep Me Hanging On
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie 3 4 The Killers - Romeo and Juliet

Kolido

R1/Match 17

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Vs

The Slits - Heard it through the Grapevine

R1/Match 18

Eric Clapton - Cocaine

Vs

Motorhead - Heroes

R1/Match 19

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Vs

Neil Young - All Along The Watchtower

R1/Match 20

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

Vs

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Soft Cell - Tainted Love Vs The Slits - Heard it through the Grapevine
Eric Clapton - Cocaine Vs Motorhead - Heroes
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Vs Neil Young - All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Vs Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Mehaffey1

Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
The Clash - I Fought The Law
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie

Mehaffey1

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

4 top class songs there. As a cross reference too Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love is a cracker too

Declan A Walsh

My votes in Bold.

Soft Cell - Tainted Love Vs The Slits - Heard it through the Grapevine - Quite like the first, as I always have, and have not heard the second.

Eric Clapton - Cocaine Vs Motorhead - Heroes - Both good, but have to go with my nomination. Cracker of a cover version.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Vs Neil Young - All Along The Watchtower - It took a while, but I learnt to appreciate it. Did not hear Neil's take on that song.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Vs Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams - Fantastic performance from Jimi. The second is passable.

PsychoPete

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Motorhead - Heroes
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Irish Aris

Match 17: Soft Cell (my nomination and a classic!!)
Match 18: Eric Clapton (not a fan of heavy metal)
Match 19: Jeff Buckley (one of the many great covers of this song)
Match 20: Marilyn Manson (Manson has some great covers, I was also tempted to include his version of Tainted Love in my list)

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Surely this goes without saying? The better song

Eric Clapton - Cocaine
I like the motorhead cover but it's not as good as the original, I didn't know cocaine was a cover, it wins here for me,

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Just live listening to him sing this.

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
I like this better then the original

Ficheall

One for Hendrix. Love Leonard Cohen, but can't bring myself to vote for Buckley's cover.
And one for Clapton, I guess - didn't realise it was a cover!

Declan A Walsh

Ficheall wrote: »

One for Hendrix. Love Leonard Cohen, but can't bring myself to vote for Buckley's cover.
And one for Clapton, I guess - didn't realise it was a cover!

You do realize that it is Neil Young's version of All Along The Watchtower that is up against Jeff Buckley! Jimi's one is up against Marilyn Manson! Just in case...!

Ficheall

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

You do realize that it is Neil Young's version of All Along The Watchtower that is up against Jeff Buckley! Jimi's one is up against Marilyn Manson! Just in case...!

I do, aye, sorry - shouldn't have put them on the same line.

Zaph

Soft Cell - Tainted Love. Great version, just missed out on being one of my nominations.

Motorhead - Heroes. Never knew they did a version, really enjoyed it.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah. Almost as good as the original.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower. The definitive version.

Declan A Walsh

Zaph wrote: »

Soft Cell - Tainted Love. Great version, just missed out on being one of my nominations.

Motorhead - Heroes. Never knew they did a version, really enjoyed it.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah. Almost as good as the original.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower. The definitive version.

You're welcome. I heard it on Radio Nova and I was blown away by it!

phatkev

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - God Damn this is a tough one, love Neil Young and All along the watchtower is one of my all time favourite songs. But Buckleys cover of Hallelujah is iconic
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower - AATW gets in the second time of asking

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Kolido wrote:

Eric Clapton - Cocaine

Kolido wrote:

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Kolido wrote:

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Votes above. One Grapevine version is enough and the best one has gone through already.

Zaph

Necro wrote: »

Votes above. One Grapevine version is enough and the best one has gone through already.

I wonder if anybody nominated the 11 minute long Creedence version? It's good, but still not as good as Marvin Gaye.

BandMember

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River Vs Trent Reznor & Karen O - The immigrant song
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U Vs Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
The Clash - I Fought The Law Vs Kim Wilde - Keep Me Hanging On
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie Vs The Killers - Romeo and Juliet
Soft Cell - Tainted Love Vs The Slits - Heard it through the Grapevine
Eric Clapton - Cocaine Vs Motorhead - Heroes
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Vs Neil Young - All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Vs Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

I'm starting to notice a theme that I'm picking an awful lot of the first named song.... :pac:

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

The Killers - Romeo and Juliet ; hadn't heard this cover before, but it's decent enough so gets my vote, never been a fan of Louie Louie anyway

:eek::eek::eek::eek: Well, you can GTFO!

*only joking.

**I'm not really.

Ectoplasm

Soft Cell - Tainted Love yesss
Eric Clapton - Cocaine my nom, love it
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - Before the song got over played tf this was the version I loved
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower - A classic

Collie D

16. The Killers - Romeo and Juliet

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Soft Cell - Tainted Love ; big fan of this version of the song

Eric Clapton - Cocaine ; tune

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah ; was overplayed far too much for a few years, but its great

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams ; this made my shortlist, but just missed the cut, glad to see it in here anyway.

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Neil Young - All Along The Watchtower
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Mam of 4

Soft Cell
Eric Clapton ,
Neil Young ,
Jimi Hendrix,

The fact that I remembered the names in order is my reason !

Electric Nitwit

Kolido wrote: »

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower Vs Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Ah man, that could have been the final!
I love Jimi but have to go for Manson, it's one of those covers that makes you hear the lyrics anew, it captures the essence of them better than the original. It's a truly amazing song

Kolido

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River 5 -2 Trent Reznor & Karen O - The immigrant song
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 6 -3 Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
The Clash - I Fought The Law 6 -4 Kim Wilde - Keep Me Hanging On
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie 4- 5 The Killers - Romeo and Juliet
Soft Cell - Tainted Love 6 -0 The Slits - Heard it through the Grapevine
Eric Clapton - Cocaine 6 -3 Motorhead - Heroes
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah 6 -0 Neil Young - All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower 6 -5 Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Gru

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
The Clash - I Fought The Law
The Killers - Romeo and Juliet

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Motorhead - Heroes
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

Declan A Walsh

Gru wrote: »

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
The Clash - I Fought The Law
The Killers - Romeo and Juliet

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Motorhead - Heroes
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

Thank you for putting my nomination through!

Gru

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Thank you for putting my nomination through!

i think i was too late, the page kept glitching, i luckily had copied and pasted my answers but wasn't fast enough :pac:

Kolido

Talking Heads - Take Me to the River 6 -2 Trent Reznor & Karen O - The immigrant song

The Kingsmen - Louie Louie 4- 6 The Killers - Romeo and Juliet

Kolido

R1/Match 21

The Fugees - Killing Me Softly

Vs

Space - We Gotta Get Out of this Place

R1/Match 22

Faith No More - Easy

Vs

Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down

R1/Match 23

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Vs

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

R1/Match 24

Disturbed - Sound of Silence

Vs

The Carpenters - Please Mr. Postman

The Fugees - Killing Me Softly Vs Space - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
Faith No More - Easy Vs Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down
Johnny Cash - Hurt Vs The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Disturbed - Sound of Silence Vs The Carpenters - Please Mr. Postman

Declan A Walsh

Gru wrote: »

i think i was too late, the page kept glitching, i luckily had copied and pasted my answers but wasn't fast enough :pac:

You were in time for Talking Heads. Kolido's post was above yours - it needed one more vote!