Favourite Cover Versions

Benbaz

Just got thinking from another thread about an easy listening song that I recommended. It was a cover version of an old Tears for Fears song called "Mad World" and it was done by Gary Jules. And in my opinion I think it is far superior to the original.

Soooooo I got me thinking about other peoples' views on cover versions that are far superior to the original versions......so let's ave em!!!

Another one is David Gray's cover of Soft Cells' "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"

B.

BuffyBot

Dunno why I like it so much... but the Manic Street Preachers version of Out Of Time on the Warchild 1 Love album was quite good IMHO

Mr E

Ryan Adams cover of Oasis' Wonderwall.
Better than the original.

- Dave.

Kali

ahh wait for the usual cries of "man who sold the world" and "halleulijah"

my favourites are:

gomez - its getting better
yo la tengo - you can have it all
flaming lips - cant get you outta my head

dougal

I love the version of Firestarter by Jimmy Eat World on the 1 Love album. I'ts class when played loud!

Also David Holmes did a loose cover of Beautiful Day by U2 that is just amazing.

Whenever an artist takes the song and totally re-interprets it then it's a worthwhile cover otherwise its just karaoke.

woolymammoth

Jack L's version of "Can't get you out of my head" by kylie... erm, what else... Travis' version of "Hit me baby one more time" is pretty good.

Quigs Snr

Joyrider - Rush Hour

Okie

Dropkick Murphy's - Amazing Grace
Johnny Cash - In My Life
Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better
and a few others I can't remeber at the moment!

I'm living in dread of what Avril, Snoop and the others are going to do to Metallica's songs in this MTV Icon thing tonight *shudder*

tman

Originally posted by Okie
I'm living in dread of what Avril, Snoop and the others are going to do to Metallica's songs in this MTV Icon thing tonight

lol, i didn't realise snoop was going to be on that...
puchizzle my fizzle metalicizzle... drizzle...

Giblet

GNR - Sympathy for the Devil

Jaeger

Ditto on the MTV icon bit. Had a look through my stuff and picked out the covers.

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Jackson)
Steve Vai's - Star spangled banner (usa national anthem) Pantera - Mission Impossible (main theme)
Rage Against the Machine - Fuck The Police (NWA)
Aslan's - Angie - (stones)
Quite liked their cover of Wish you were here but it comes nowhere close to floyd's version.
Pearl Jam - Interstate Love Song (Stone temple pilots)
Stone Temple Pilots - Roadhouse Blues (doors wasn't it?)
Metallica - garage inc - Die Die My Darling (forgotten who it was)
Metallica - garage inc - Loverman (nick cave & the bad seeds)
Foo Fighters - Baker Street (gerry rafferty)
Goldfinger - 99 red balloons (nina)

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Giblet
GNR - Sympathy for the Devil

got to agree with that

SprostonGreen

Originally posted by Okie

Johnny Cash - In My Life
That whole album is deadly.

Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better
Agreed, is that on any album, I've only ever heard it on Phantom.

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thedrowner

kangaroo-jeff buckley
hit me baby one more time-travis

bettyboo

Anyone ever heard Cat Power's version of 'I can't get no satisfaction'? Absolutely wonderful...She makes the song completely unrecognisable..

Also have to cite David Bowie's 'Wild is the Wind' and Sinead O'Connor's version of 'you do something to me'.

Epitaph

Sparklehorse with Thom Yorke - Wish You Were Here
Fun Lovin' Criminals - We Have All The Time In The World

Metallica - Darth Vader March (ok, not really a cover, but I likes it!!)

Miguel_Sanchez

Suprised nobody has mentioned this yet:

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Also:

Otis Redding - Satisfaction
RHCP - Higher Ground



And a side note: Guns n' Roses doing Sympathy for the Devil - I hope you were taking the p***. If anyone says that their version of Knockin' On Heaven's Door is good I will shoot them.

[edit] Cant' believe I forgot these two:

Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness + The Mercy Seat
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Kali

Originally posted by thedrowner
kangaroo-jeff buckley

ooh bloody definitely.. tis my favourite jeff buckley track.. and "lonesome road" too (on the smae single iirc)..
the cat power suggestion reminded me of her covers album which is quite good..
not quite as good as stina nordenstams cover album "people are strange" tho... check out her versions of we are sailing (rod stewart) and people are strange (doors)... stinabulous!

da_deadman

Johnny Cash has some good ones from his American albums, esp. One (u2).
And Hendrix's All along the Watchtower is great.

Jaeger

Hmm, didn't JiMi have the original Watchtowers? Thought Dylan covered him....ah well, I've lost the best ever Dylan version of it, yeah he has loads of different ones. All good.

Btw, to whoever liked Jimmy Eat World's cover of Firestarter...you're kidding me. Title track to Bleed American was and still is my favourite track by them. Some people call it "salt, sweat, sugar".


A mate I used to go to college with was the drummer in a band that I had the privilege to see doing a live cover of Breathe by the prodigy. Just the way the prodigy sang it, except instead of decks, they used good old fashioned drums, bass, lead and vocals. Blew me away. And yeah, the drums on that were unbe-fucking-lieveable. Never knew til then how good a drummer me mate was.

SprostonGreen

Stevie Wonder's "Dont your worry bout a thing" as covered by Incognito.

Beatles "Dear Prudence" by Siouxsie & Banshees

Sid Vicious "My Way"

Vaseline's "Jesus dont want me for a sunbeam" - Nirvana

daveg

Metallica's whiskey in the jar (not as good as the origional) and stone cold crazy.

Hairy Homer

Ike & Tina Turner's version of Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love' rocks. Much filthier than the original.

Tina can come and be old in my house any day.

Miguel_Sanchez

Originally posted by Jaeger
Hmm, didn't JiMi have the original Watchtowers? Thought Dylan covered him....ah well, I've lost the best ever Dylan version of it, yeah he has loads of different ones. All good.

Nope. Twas definitely a Dylan penned song. Although he readily admits that Hendrix's version is just as good or better than his - in fact he re-recorded a version himself in the same style as Hendrix.

rabbitinlights

Squarepusher - love will tear us apart. (joy division)

Only a brave man would try and cover joy division.
but it sounds amazing.

I urge people to D/L this or even better buy it if you like things slighly different?

Giblet

Originally posted by Jeff_Lebowski

And a side note: Guns n' Roses doing Sympathy for the Devil - I hope you were taking the p***.

Why, because its a great version of the song?

ferdi

S.O.S. by Abba was covered by the Mad Caddies, absolutley fantastic.

ThenComesDudley

JJohnny cash version of Personal Jesus

Repli

Pantera - planet caravan
Anthrax - sabbath bloody sabbath

thedrowner

Originally posted by Kali
ooh bloody definitely.. tis my favourite jeff buckley track.. and "lonesome road" too (on the smae single iirc)..

i can't even begin to try and think what smae is coz i have no room left in my brain so would u be obliging and let me know, ta

also...i was gonna put down low's cover of last night i dreamt somebody loved me and then i said...'no...it's not as good as the original'

but it probably is

i listened to it last night and it nearly made me cry. (but at this stage of exams, most things make me cry)

D-Generate

Nada Surf - Blue Monday and Love Will Tear Us Apart (New Order and Joy Division)
Sonic Youth - Superstar (Carpenters)

Ro: maaan!

Originally posted by Benbaz
Just got thinking from another thread about an easy listening song that I recommended. It was a cover version of an old Tears for Fears song called "Mad World" and it was done by Gary Jules. And in my opinion I think it is far superior to the original.

Gary Jules version is without a doubt about 71 times better than the original.

Also punk covers of "Ordinary World" by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and "Time after Time" though I'm not sure who the artist was...

Kali

Originally posted by thedrowner
i can't even begin to try and think what smae is coz i have no room left in my brain so would u be obliging and let me know, ta

haha that'd be ****ty spelling.. they're both on the same single..that being "last goodbye"

Bard

Fugees - No Woman No Cry
(Original artists: Bob Marley & The Wailers)

Fun Lovin' Criminals - We Have All The Time In The World
(Original artist: Louis Armstrong)

Guns'N'Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
(Original artist: Bob Dylan)

Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
(Original artists: Thin Lizzy)

Metallica - So What!?
(Original artists: The Anti-Nowhere League)

Rolling Stones - Like A Rolling Stone
(Original artist: Bob Dylan)

Samara

Guns N' Roses cover of The Skyliners song 'Since I Don't Have You'

Jimi's cover of 'Hey Joe' originally done by 'the leaves'

(as well as Jimi's version of Dylan's all along the watchtower which has already been mentioned)

Samara

Also quite like Muse's version of 'Feeling Good', originally performed by Nina Simone, but can't remember the names of the songwriters.

thedrowner

Originally posted by Kali
haha that'd be ****ty spelling.. they're both on the same single..that being "last goodbye"

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oh my goodness im so embarassed (well as embarassed as u can be over the net) you prob though i was being sarcastic, but no, i was being serious. these exams have fecked with my head royally!

i have last goodbye on single....but think it only has one 2 versions of last goodbye and kanga roo. i got it years ago, and its a cardboard cd case, as opposed to a hard plastic one.

Kali

Originally posted by thedrowner
i have last goodbye on single....but think it only has one 2 versions of last goodbye and kanga roo. i got it years ago, and its a cardboard cd case, as opposed to a hard plastic one.

ahh.. ive the one in the Grace EPs box set, its the japanese version, has last goodbye, 13min or so live version of mojo pin, kanga roo and lost highway.. and for some reason i called it lonesome road above. bah.

Dar

Oasis - Hey hey my my (Neil Young)

Elton John & GNR - Bohemian Raphsody (queen)

Mott the Hoople - All the young dudes (bowie)

Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn (dylan)

OCS & Noel Gallagher - Day Tripper (beatles)

Squall

The Hendrix version of "All along the watch tower" is miles better then the original Dylan version

Miguel_Sanchez

Originally posted by Bard

Guns'N'Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
(Original artist: Bob Dylan)

No sorry. I know everyone is entitled to their opinion and all but you must die now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Bard

Originally posted by Jeff_Lebowski
No sorry. I know everyone is entitled to their opinion and all but you must die now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

People were asked for their favourite cover versions. You could try resisting the urge to correct them when they do that.

To my list, I'd like to add:

Aslan - "Angie"
(Original artists: Rolling Stones)

Radiohead - "Nobody Does it Better"
(Original artist: Carly Simon)

Originally posted by Squall
The Hendrix version of "All along the watch tower" is miles better then the original Dylan version

I think you'll find that practically any cover version of any Bob Dylan song is better than the original. He was a brilliant song-writer but a poor performer in comparison.

da_deadman

I just remembered Nirvanas cover of Where did you sleep last night? by the Meat Puppets. Sounds amazing.
And Avril Lavignes version of Knockin on Heavens door is brilliant too:D

Theres lots...
But currently, it has to be Jennifer Ellisons( formerly of Brookside) cover of Tranvision Vamps Baby I don't care.

I have real player one plus, the pay thingy here and just watched the vid, with the sound blaring...
Jebus... Baby I do care, you are Shexy!!!
mm

thedrowner

Originally posted by Kali
ahh.. ive the one in the Grace EPs box set, its the japanese version, has last goodbye, 13min or so live version of mojo pin, kanga roo and lost highway.. and for some reason i called it lonesome road above. bah.

hey, i missed this ages ago!
i have lost highway. think its on the so real single.

see, when i first got into jeff buckley, i went out and tracked down (usually in goerges st arcade) all the singles, so i dont have them as the box set, im sure there must be some differences.

Kali

also st. etienne done a nice version of "only love can break your heart"... tis worth tracking down for those into that sorta groove.

anyway not quite covers.. but listening to kid 606's "the action packed mentalist brings you the ****ing jams" at the mo, totally ****ed up versions of radioheads - creep, a-ha, missy elliot, kylie, in the usual kid606 style (rather ****ed up idm) its a total head **** trying to listen to it

nessy

George Michael doing I cant make you love me .. (Bonnie Raitt)
Gun doing Word Up (Cameo)

Cork

The Frank And Walters doing "Funky Cold Madina"

sceptre

Originally posted by Kali
also st. etienne done a nice version of "only love can break your heart"... tis worth tracking down for those into that sorta groove.

Aye, 'tis on the greatest hits

byte

Originally posted by Repli
Pantera - planet caravan

Yup, that's a good cover. I have it on CD single.

Other good one would be Metallica's cover of Whiskey in the Jar, though obviously it isn't as good as Lizzy version.

BuffyBot

Originally posted by Kali
also st. etienne done a nice version of "only love can break your heart"... tis worth tracking down for those into that sorta groove.

Yeah, that is a very good cover - strange, but nice