Best Cover Songs

[Elevens]

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Blue Monday by Orgy....wow I didn't think anyone else listened to them.

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That's why this part of the dark horse candidate. I honestly can't name another Orgy song, anyway.

[matrix]

just found stairway heaven!
101 cover versions of stairway

Frank Zappa's cover is available for streamy listening here

[dalston]

Sinead O' Connor's version of All Apologies.

Kirsty Maccoll's version of A New England.

Prize for being radically different while still great goes to the Scissor Sisters for their version on Comfortably Numb. Not exeactly better than the original but brilliant in its difference.

Same goes for Johnny Cash's version of The Mercy Seat.

[JCool]

Guns N Roses cover of McCartney's Live and Let Die is truely awesome. The original sounds wimpy by comparison.

[kitaristi0]

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Frank Zappa - Stairway is on ....


The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

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Meh, I just listened to it and I wasn't too impressed. I think I had my hopes up too high though. The only thing that song did for me was remind me that I haven't listened to Zappa in ages, and that I'll have to whip out the old Hot Rats from the record collection.

[pokerspite]

Van Halen's covers of the Kink's You Really Got Me and Where Have All the Good Times Gone? Also their cover of Martha Reeves and the Vandella's Dancing in the Streets.

Ten Years After's cover of Them's Baby, Please Don't Go recorded live at Woodstock.

Tesla's cover of The Five Man Electrical Band's Signs.


Probably my favorite though would be Joe Cocker's rendition of With a Little Help From My Friends

Little Wing by SRV
Voodoo Child by SRV

[kitaristi0]

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Little Wing by SRV
Voodoo Child by SRV

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Good, but not better than the originals.

[luckyharr]

How about Janis Joplin's cover of "Me and Bobby McGee," originally by Kris Kristopherson.

I like "Sweet Jane" by the Cowboy Junkies, originally a Velvet Underground song. I enjoy both versions but like how the Cowboy Junkies changed the mood of the song, similar to Ryan Adams' cover of Wonderwall.

I think best cover of a Bob Dylan song probably deserves its own thread.

I like the "In My Time of Dying" call earlier in the thread. I love that song and never knew it was a cover.

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Little Wing by SRV
Voodoo Child by SRV

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Good, but not better than the originals.

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I've played SRV's and Hendrix's back to back before just to answer that question, and to me, SRV's is better.

But, as with all music, tastes vary.