Best Cover Songs Ever

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tons of good cover songs. motorheads version of 'Enter Sandman' is really good.



I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Creedence and All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix are probably my two favorites.



Battle of Evermore-the Love Mongers (zeppelin)
Dancing Days accoustic-Stone Temple Pilots (accoustic)
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Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen)
Train Kept A-Rollin' - Aerosmith (Tiny Bradshaw)
" - The Yardbirds (")
Six More Miles - The Residents (Hank Williams)
My Way - Herman Brood (Paul Anka)
Run Through The Jungle - Gun Club (CCR)
Intoxicated Man - Mick Harvey (Serge Gainsbourg)


I also like Seu Jorge's acoustic David Bowie covers in Portuguese from The Life Aquatic.



The People's Republic of Clogher
Lost In Music - The Fall (orig - Sister Sledge)



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Worst cover songs...



... anything off this album.



The People's Republic of Clogher
Originally Posted by Loner
Worst cover songs...



... anything off this album.
hehe I heard some of that the other day. Rock on Pat!

I also heard Chubby Checker doing a cover of Back In The USSR which wasn't half bad.



I am having a nervous breakdance
Did anyone see Paul Anka do "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on Letterman?
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but
now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.



Put me in your pocket...
Sorry Piddy, no


I just heard a different version of Message in a Bottle by Sting that I absolutely loved.
It was more acoustic and had a mellow, smokey jazz feeling to it. I'm not sure if it's a new release or where it's from. I'd love to get it...Has anyone heard this version before?



Evenescence-Heart-Shaped Box
Marilyn Manson-Tainted Love
Marilyn Manson-Working Class Hero
Metallica-Turn The Page
Phish-Gin and Juice
Guns n Roses-Knockin on Heavin's Door
Motorhead-Louie Louie
Nirvana-The Man Who Sold The World
Johnny Cash-Hurt
Nirvana-Love Buzz (But nothing beats the original)



Some of these have already been mentioned, but...
  • Johnny Cash, Hurt
  • Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Love Roller Coaster
  • Eli, Andy Warhol
  • Michael Jackson, Come Together
  • 311, Love Song
Worst cover of all time: Cake's cover of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive.



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Yoda, I agree with you on the Gloria Gaynor thing. I'm sorry, but that song should never have seen the light of day the FIRST time, let alone someone doing it AGAIN.

Pleh pleh pleh. Icky taste. Pleh pleh!



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"Yesterday" - Marvin Gaye (The Beatles)
"Love In Vain" - The Rolling Stones (Robert Johnson)
"Dear Landlord" - Janis Joplin (Bob Dylan)
"The Harder They Fall" - Guster (Jimmy Cliff)
"Twist and Shout" - The Beatles (The Isley Brothers)

Honorable mention: "I Will Survive" - Cake In your face Yoda.
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Here are a couple I really like. Completely off the top of me head...

I Heard It Through The Grapevine, The Slits
Our House, Phantom Planet
Something, Radiohead
Any Way That You Want Me, Spiritualized
Jolene, The White Stripes
Crossroads, Cream
Superstar, Sonic Youth
Insane In The Brain, The Connells
Blackjack Davey, The White Stripes



Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
Here are a few which come to mind and I can actually find some music.

"Lola" by the Raincoats (written by Ray Davies)


"Satan is Real" by the Louvin Brothers (written by Porter Wagoner)
LINK (click on the Play button under the album cover and the three paragraphs )

"Summertime" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (written by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward)
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Will your system be alright, when you dream of home tonight?
This immediatly popped in my head



As for the worst...

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Come on Eileen: Reel Big Fish
Land Down Under: Pennywise
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