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Topic: Best Cover Songs

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ChisledFromBliss

#1 posted October 14, 2009 at 3:16am (EST)

War Pigs - Faith No More (Black Sabbath)
Easy- Faith No More (Lionel Richie)
Maggies Farm - Rage Against The Machine (Bob Dylan)
In My Eyes - Rage Against The Machine (Minor Threat)
Kick Out The Jams - Rage Against The Machine (Mc5)
Crazy - Ray LaMontagne (Gnarls Barkley)
Hey Ya - Matt Weddle (Outkast)
Let's Go Crazy - Incubus (Prince)
Darling Nikki - Foo Fighters (Prince)
Wind Cries Mary - Jamie Cullum (Jimi Hendrix)
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jamie Cullum (Jeff Buckley)
Hokey F'n Pokey - Psychostick (Every Kindergarten Teacher)
Take On Me - Reel Big Fish (Ah-Ha)
Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Ohio Players)
Scarlet Begonias - Sublime (Grateful Dead)
Imagine - A Perfect Circle (John Lennon)

Fire away...

Canadian_Man
Canada

#2 posted October 14, 2009 at 9:15am (EST)

Grave - Alice In Chains' "Them Bones"
Thanatos - Dark Angel's "Darkness Descends"
Dark Angel - Metallica's "Creeping Death"
Motorhead - Metallica's "Whiplash"
Obituary - Celtic Frost's "Circle of the Tyrants"

buffduff

#3 posted October 14, 2009 at 9:40am (EST)
edited October 14, 2009 at 9:41am (EST)

Andrew Bird-Oh Sister (Bob Dylan)
Dr. Dog-Heart It Races (Architecture In Helsinki)
Floating Action-Drive(The Cars)
Locksley-Hotel Yorba(The White Stripes)
The Raconteurs-Rich Kid Blues(Terry Reid)
Megafaun-Tell Me Why(Neil Young)
Man Man-Everyone Says I Love You(The Marx Brothers)
Jimi Hendrix-Like A Rolling Stone(Bob Dylan)
Corinne Bailey Rae-Since Ive Been Loving You(Led Zeppelin)
Aerosmith-Come Together(The Beatles)
Neil Young-Imagine(John Lennon)

That should be enough covers to list for now. If anyone actually wants to check any of these out and can't find them let me know and I'll hook you up.

Forgotten_Freshness
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#4 posted October 15, 2009 at 2:28pm (EST)

The Birthday Massacre - I think we're alone now (Ritchie Cordell / Tommy James & The Shondells)

sixteenvolt420

#5 posted October 16, 2009 at 7:43am (EST)

One of my favorites is the Dog Fashion Disco cover of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell, from the Beating A Dead Horse To Death cd.

Forgotten_Freshness
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#6 posted October 16, 2009 at 10:15am (EST)

That's really good too.

RagingShadow07
Ghost FTW

#7 posted October 16, 2009 at 11:43am (EST)

Killswitch Engage's cover of Holy Diver
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Forgotten_Freshness
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#8 posted October 16, 2009 at 11:44am (EST)

Has anyone mentioned every single song by Ten Masked Men yet?

They're strictly a cover band. Look them up on youtube for their versions over the original videos.

cesar93

#9 posted October 16, 2009 at 6:41pm (EST)

Toxic by local h, original was brittny spears i think

DR_SPOCK

#10 posted October 16, 2009 at 7:13pm (EST)

Does anyone remember the videos some dude had on YouTube of famous guitarists soloing with the original audio stripped and replaced with some guy playing atonal guitar on top? Same user had an awesome Star Wars video with different James Earl Jones audio files played where Darth Vader normally speaks. One or many of the guitarists filed a lawsuit and his crap was removed...which is a tragedy.

They weren't covers but this thread reminded me. I MISS THEM.

DR_SPOCK

#11 posted October 16, 2009 at 7:15pm (EST)

GUYS, NEVERMIND. I am stupid (of course). Listed as "eric clapton shreds" with different names. Here's one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_M9zWORBuA

YOU ARE WELCOME.

DR_SPOCK

#12 posted October 16, 2009 at 7:26pm (EST)

TRIPLE POST.

Can't find the original voice over. All the new ones suck. :(

BJB

#13 posted October 17, 2009 at 11:02am (EST)

Sublime-Eye of Fatima(Camper Von Beethoven)

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Forgotten_Freshness
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#14 posted October 17, 2009 at 11:04am (EST)

Sublime sucks though.

A lot. Fudge Sublime.

BJB

#15 posted October 17, 2009 at 11:09am (EST)

fudge u

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sixteenvolt420

#16 posted October 17, 2009 at 11:14am (EST)

I love Sublime.

BJB

#17 posted October 17, 2009 at 11:17am (EST)

Dirty Heads-Viva La Vida(coldplay)
I suggest everyone listen to this. I think it sounds a lot better than Coldplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlytqteLkSE

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Porksta

#18 posted October 18, 2009 at 3:22pm (EST)

Mushroomhead - Crazy (Seal)
Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)

sixteenvolt420

#19 posted October 19, 2009 at 6:25pm (EST)

Porksta wrote:
> Mushroomhead - Crazy (Seal)

I forgot about this one, definately a great cover.

vikitty

#20 posted October 21, 2009 at 10:57pm (EST)

Spin Aqua - Malibu (Hole)

mentalpowers
A nice rock-n-roll band from Shepherd's Bush, London. . .

#21 posted October 23, 2009 at 8:21pm (EST)

"Little Wing"- Derek and the Dominos covering Jimi Hendrix

willyum

#22 posted October 25, 2009 at 3:07pm (EST)

A few that I like:

Cherry Filter - Goddess's Tree (cover of Hajime Chitose's "Wadatsumi no Ki")
Zeppet Store - Flame (cover of Hide's "Flame", from Tribute Spirits album)
Utada Hikaru - I Love You (cover of Yutaka Ozaki's song of the same name)

Forgotten_Freshness
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#23 posted October 26, 2009 at 1:14am (EST)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d5AVM6KGUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ZwojBdO2I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNurpS8MZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMir6nI5Oc

sandpaperback
Eff it. I get them all.

#24 posted November 1, 2009 at 10:25pm (EST)

Hmmm... I disprove of most of these selections. Here are some of mine:

Pearl Jam - Throw Your Arms Around Me (Hunters & Collectors)
Pearl Jam - Patriot (Steven Van Zandt)
Persuasions - Any Way The Wind Blows (Frank Zappa)
Jason Faulkner - Photograph (Def Leppard)
Lars & The Bastards - To Have and To Have Not (Billy Bragg)
Nirvana - Molly's Lips (The Vaselines)
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes - Save The Best For Last (Vanessa Williams)
Freedy Johnston - Coffee Coffee Coffee (Tom T. Hall)
Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Big Star)
Fountains of Wayne - Baby, One More Time (Britney Spears)

Hey Ya - Matt Weddle (Outkast) --- Okay, I thoroughly approve of this. I have it listed under the band name (Obadiah Parker) rather than his.

Many others. Pearl Jam's covers are usually as good as they get: Baba O'Riley, Rockin' in the Free World, Save it for Later, Crown of Thorns, Gimme Some Truth...

Check out the Coverville podcast sometime too!

JearBear

#25 posted November 4, 2009 at 6:58pm (EST)

Dave Matthews Band has quite a few songs they've covered that are pretty good. I'm not around my computer right now so I couldn't tell you which one's but thought I'd throw my 2 cents into the hat..

sandpaperback
Eff it. I get them all.

#26 posted November 4, 2009 at 10:43pm (EST)

How could I have forgotten...

THE GOURDS - GIN & JUICE

BluePhoenix
have you ever been to electric ladyland?

#27 posted November 5, 2009 at 3:28pm (EST)

I enjoy this cover by Foo Fighters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DMi866ThM
of Gary Numan's Down in the Park

vDub

#28 posted November 5, 2009 at 5:13pm (EST)

Mad World - Novel (Tears For Fears)

ChisledFromBliss

#29 posted November 7, 2009 at 1:14am (EST)

sandpaperback wrote:

> Hey Ya - Matt Weddle (Outkast) --- Okay, I thoroughly approve of this.
> I have it listed under the band name (Obadiah Parker) rather than
> his.

It's really great isn't it. He's got a voice. I love fat guys representing on stage.

goldbera

#30 posted November 10, 2009 at 1:17pm (EST)

great topic Ive been wanting to make a cd of these soon.
Here is some more I thought of off the top of my head:

Satisfaction - Devo (Rolling Stones)
Black Steel - Tricky (Public Enemy)
Inside and Out - Feist (BeeGees)
All Along the Watchtower - Hendrix (Dylan)
The Man Who Sold the World, Mollys Lips - Nirvana (Bowie, the Vasalines)
Hallelujah - Everyone ever, but I like the John Cale one, many like the Jeff Buckley one (Leonard Cohen)
Hurt - J Cash (9 inch nails)
Higher Ground - Chili peppers (S Wonder)
Tainted Love - Soft Cell (Gloria Jones)

if you count rap songs that use the puffy method of using a whole bar sample, I really like That De La Soul/ Teenage fanclub cover of Free Fallin' (Tom Petty) on the judgement Night soundtrack (awesome cd, horrible movie)

goldbera

#31 posted November 10, 2009 at 1:22pm (EST)

vDub wrote:
> Mad World - Novel (Tears For Fears)
If you wanna take it there I think you need to give Gary Jules (sp?) his due. He pretty much owns that song now. Also there are a lot fo these "take a full song and make it acoustic" type covers. One I dig is "teardrop (massive attack, theme to "House") redone by Jose Gonzalez. Also this whole cd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_Eclectic:_The_...

I also really dug the Seu Jorge/Bowie soundtrack to Life Aquatic - rebel Rebel is da bomb. Man there are a lot of covers - I keep thinking of em!

BJB

#32 posted November 10, 2009 at 4:32pm (EST)

I dont know if its really a cover but how about No Woman No Cry by the Fugees(Bob Marley)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA8UEWLUkd0

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#33 posted November 10, 2009 at 8:27pm (EST)

I'll have to give this more thought, but when I think of good covers, it's not just about sounding like the original, but making it better! So, I think one of the all time greats at covers is Marilyn Manson. He takes a good song, and actually makes it better:
-Sweet Dreams
-5 to 1
-Personal Jesus
-Tainted Love
-I Put a Spell on You

Another great band at covering songs, but making them better is Metallica: just listen to Garage, Inc.

Also, 2 great blues cover albums:
Eric Clapton - From the Cradle
Aerosmith - Honking on Bobo

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sandpaperback
Eff it. I get them all.

#34 posted November 10, 2009 at 11:51pm (EST)

Goldbera gets plussed for his reference to the Judgment Day soundtrack and that song in particular.

Since the Fugees were brought up...

Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - Lauryn Hill (Frankie Valli)
Gone Til November - Soul Asylum (Wyclef Jean)
Bohemian Rhapsody - The Braids (Queen)
Mrs. Robinson - The Lemonheads (Simon & Garfunkle)
Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys (Willie Nelson)
Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill (Neil Diamond)
She Don't Use Jelly - Ben Folds (Flaming Lips)

I'm going more with "Cover Songs I've Enjoyed" rather than "Best".

Reed