Smashing Pumpkins: Depeche Mode’s “Never Let Me Down”

How about Smashing Pumpkins cover of “landslide”

The White Stripes cover of Teegan and Sarah’s “Walking with a ghost”

H.I.M.’s covers of Don’t fear (the reaper) and Chris Issak’s “wicked game”

Oh forgot Nirvana’s cover of “The man who sold the world”

John mayer:Ray Charles’s ” I got a woman”

limp bizkit did saniteriun…. that was pretty cool

Korn’s cover of “Word Up” by Cameo

The Ramones’ cover of “Time Has Come Today” by the Chambers Brothers

i did ‘doctor doctor’ by UFO for the first time at karaoke last week and the crowd went nuts – i nailed it so i’m doing it again soon…

Beck – “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime” [by the Korgis]

[great]

ryan adams doing ‘wonderwall’
johnny cash’s versions of ‘one’ and ‘rusty cage’
the fall’s version of ‘victoria’
the sex pistols trying ‘roadrunner’
lennon’s take on ’stand by me’
foo fighters playing ‘lyla’
and a million more i’m sure!

Sinead O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” -an excellent example of covering a song and making it your own.

Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah is probably the best cover ever.

Pearl Jam’s Baba O’Reilly

Chris Cornell does an incredible Peace Love & Understanding

Metallica’s version of “Stone Cold Crazy” Johnny Cash’s version of “Rusty Cage,” and GNR’s version of “Hair of the Dog.” top 3 covers

Ben Harper’s “Strawberry Fields Forever”

Death doing Judas Priests Painkiller.
Overkill doing Sonic Reducer (cant remember who did it originally seeing how many times its been covered) and A Perfect Circle doing John Lennons Imagine

the doors covering gloria by van morrison

oh and how about cream’s crossroads by robert johnson. best blues song ever!

nirvana’s vaselines, devo and wipers covers are all amazing oh and their cover of here she comes now. i do agree jeff buckley’s hallelujah is the greatest cover ever i also dig patti smith’s gloria but im not sure if thats a cover…

Clapton’s version of I Shot the Sheriff is horrific

–Sympathy for the Devil (G’n’R covering The Stones)

–Come Together (Aerosmith covering The Beatles)

–Higher Ground (RHCP covering Stevie Wonder)

RHCP Higher Ground

311 – LOVE SONG

SRV doin Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child

Best: Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Worst: Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes

Sonic Youth covering the Carpenters “Superstar”

For years I’ve been praising Bob Dylan as a songwriter, having written both the best- and worst-covered songs ever: Hendrix launching Watchtower to dizzying heights of guitar acrobatics, and Guns n Roses karaoke-style slaughter of Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.

angie, and nothing compares to u by stereophonics.

GnR knocking on heavens door

Some good choices here- Hendrix, Sinead,Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”- but G & R doing Dylan or pretty much anything else by them is a good thing to listen to if I ever need to quickly empty my stomach.

Worst cover? Milli Vanilli doing
Cat Stevens’ Wild World.

Patti Smith: My Generation
Patti Smith: Gloria
The Nirvana Meat Puppets Stuff
Joy Division: Sister Ray (off of still)

One of the best covers ever, even Lou Reed loved it.

the Cowboy Junkies: Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane”

best cover ever is hands down jeff buckleys take on hallelujah. blows the original out of the water in every way. not only the best cover song ever but one of the best songs ever.
others:

Jamie cullum – radiohead’s high and dry
pearl jam – last kiss
butch walker – elvis costellos alison

TAlking about Johnny Cash – his Version of U2’s ‘One’ is awesome

Black Crowes “Hard to Handle”

eric clapton’s unplugged version of layla! fantastic!!!
and the ramones’ i believe in miracles done by pearl jam in their benaroya hall album.

garbage doing big star’s “thirteen”. very cool.

this will look very out of place here, but the new paul anka record is great! wonderwall, smells like teen spirit, jump, its my life are great! the arrangements are totally awesome, you’d think the songs were written that way!

RAMMSTEIN’S COVER OF DEPECHE MODE’S STRIPPED IS AWESOME

Cream-Crossraods
Nirvana-Where did you sleep last night
John Lennon-Stand by me
NIN-Dead Souls

John Mayer: Jimi Hendrix’s Bold As Love

P.O.D. BULLET THE BLUE SKY (U2)

ROCKS

Ryan Adams – Wonderwall
Beth Orton – Ooh Child
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Sheryl Crow – Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Fiona Apple – Across the Universe
Gillian Welch – Hickory Wind
Lucinda Williams – Return of the Grievious Angel
Chris Isaak – Solitary Man
Tori Amos – Rattlesnakes

Joe Strummer’s cover of Redemption Song. Very cool.

“The Pusher”- Blind Melon

wilco and billy bragg- airline to heaven

few years ago I heard a cover of All Along the Watchtower by Lenny Kravitz (Vocals) and Eric Clapton. That was hot.

Joe Cockers: With A LIttle Help from my friends

i agree with those listed above but i would like to add

“Hallelujiah” by Jeff Buckley
and
“With a Little Help From My Friends” by Joe Cocker

two covers that radically transformed the original songs
i’d also include

“Twist and Shout” by the Beatles
“The Drugs Don’t Work” by Ben Harper
“Woodstock” by CSNY, not sure if Joni Mitchell ever performed it first
“Mountain Jam” and “Stormy Monday” by the Allman Brothers
“Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix
“House of the Rising Sun” by the Animals
“Spit on a Stranger” by Nickel Creek
“Wonderwall” by Ryan Adams
“I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” The White Stripes
“Summertime Blues” by The Who

i’m sure im forgetting a couple others

I really like Smashing Pumpkins “landslide”, Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold The World”, “Rusty Cage” by Johnny Cash and “Crimson and Clover” by Joan Jett

The Band – “Don’t Do It”

Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold the World” NEEDS to be on this list, and, even though it’s only a live bootleg, A Perfect Circle’s cover that mixes Ozzy’s “Diary of a Madman” with The Cure’s “Lovesong” is one of the most stellar.
Also, though likely no one on this board has heard it, Starlit’s cover of Bowie’s “Modern Love” is incredible.

ryan adams – wonderwall
oasis – hey hey, my my
johnny cash – one

If the tribute video of Joe Strummer’s cover of “Redemption Song” does not make you cry, then you are an unfeeling cyborg.

How can you all forget the two great Clash covers, Pressure Drop and I Fought the Law.
Also, Johhny Cash : Sunday Morning Coming Down and Janis doing me and Bobby McGee

Sorry, One More : Respect by Aretha

Sinead – her Prince song(maybe not really a cover)
Pogues – Dirty Old Town and Waltzing Miltda

How did everyone forget The Animal’s version of “House of the Rising Sun”, MMEBand’s cover of bruce springsteen’s “blinded by the light”, and the Byrds version of “Mr. Tambourine Man”

GnR – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Fiona Apple – All Across the Universe

Johnny Cash – Rusty Cage

U2 – Helter Skelter

I like to listen to music also?

Here are some good ones:

Jimi Hendrix: Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower”

Johnny Cash: Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”

The White Stripes: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”

The Fugees: Lori Lieberman’s “Killing Me Softly”

Eric Clapton: Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff

Slash – Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Johnny Cash – Give My Love to Rose
Mary J. Blige – One

GNR version of Black Sabbath´s “It´s Alright” (not a very popular song)is way beeter than the original

Brother, don’t lose your head. There aint nothin’ worth sayin’ that aint been said.

1. Sid Vicious: “My Way”
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers: “Higher Ground
3. Too Much Joy: “Seasons in the Sun” (OK, never made it to an album, but a highlight of their live show)
4. Love and Rockets: “Rock On”
5. Jimi Hendrix: “Hey Joe” (original artist: Billy Roberts)
6. U2: “Fortunate Son”
7. Camper Van Beethoven: “Pictures of Matchstick Men”
8. Phish: “La Grange”
9. Billy Corgan: “Always”
10. Lemonheads: “Mrs. Robinson”

‘The Angels’ – We gotta get out of this place.

‘Leningrad Cowboys’ – My Sharona

‘Live’ – Love My Way

All better than the originals !

I registered because I can’t believe no one said:

Ramones–”Needles and Pins”

Actually, most covers by the Ramones are really good.

RATM- ‘Renegades of Funk’
Pearl Jam- ‘Last Kiss’
Korn- ‘Word Up’
Faith No More- ‘Easy’ and ‘War pigs’

Ramones cover of “Surfin’ Bird” is tha bomb diggity.

Ugly Kid Joe “Cats In The Cradle”,UB40 “Red Red Wine”,RATM “Renegades Of Funk”,Billy Paul “Your Song”,Mr Big “Wild World”,Gregory Isaac “House Of The Rising Sun”,Natalie Imbruglia “Torn”,The Donnas “Too Fast For Love”,Guano Apes “Big In Japan”,Save Ferris “Come On Eillen”,Santana “She’s Not There”,D’Angelo “She’s Always In My Hair”,Kula Shaker “Hush”,Sugar Ray “Spinning Away”,Santa Esmeralda “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”,Muse “Feeling Good”,The Clash “I Fought The Law”,Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”,No Doubt “It’s My Life”,Type O Negative “Summer Breeze”,Van Halen “You Really Got Me”,Kim Wild “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”,Soft Cell “Tainted Love”…

Wilson Pickett – Hey Jude
Aretha Franklin – The Weight
both featuring Duane Allman

Pretty much any cover by Derek Trucks Band, especially Sahib Teri Bandi/Maki Madni and Gonna Move

Also — John Coltrane – My Favorite Things

Beatles – Til There Was You (from the Music Man musical)
Aretha – Border Song (Elton)
Paul Buchanan (Blue Nitle – Strangers in the Night
UB 40 – Red Red Wine (Neil Diamond)

Gotta love the odd ones…

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Enter Sandman – Paul Young

Kid you not. Check out Paul Young’s MySpace page to download song.

C’mon guys, what about Ike and Tina’s cover of CCR’s “Proud Mary.” Show some love.

Sacre: Tears for fear’s, “Mad World”. classic

Slash’s cover of the Godfather theme. Also classic

I fought the Law – The Clash

faith no more- easy lionel richie
stereophonics- dont let me down beatles
perfect circle ashes to ashes bowie

twist and shout- the beatles
stand by me- john lennon

has anyone heard hanson’s cover of radiohead’s optimistic? i think that its pretty cool.

I like Knockin’ on Heavens Door by Guns N’ Roses.I think it’s much better than the original!Also,I like Sympathy for the Devil,GN’R again,Live and Let Die…All great songs…covers:)

Admittedly not as great as some of the classics you guys have mentioned, but I tought Ray Lamontagne’s “Crazy” is worth mentioning (The Gnarls Barkley song)

GnR? Please! How can you even compare them to the Stones, Dylan, or even McCartney? “Sympathy for the Devil” by Guns and Roses? Better than the original? Whaddya, like 12?

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s version of Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” Check it out.

Don’t you remember? Jelous guy by Roxy Music (no 1 after John Lennon death) also SRV “Voodoo Chile(slight return)” + “Hey Joe” by Hendrix (as it was mentioned by someone in the list, it isn’t Hendrix’s song).

jeff buckley’s hallelujah

Maciej’s talking about the right Roxy Music EP, but their “Jealous Guy’ is not as good as Donny Hathaway’s version, but their cover of “Like A Hurricane” is the best ever. Ramones did a great “California Sun”. David Johannson did a great “Buttercup” at the Bottom Line in ‘78.

I think a great cover makes you sit up & notice a song that you never really thought that much of.

Billy Bragg’s take on 70’s disco with “When will I see you again”.
U2 nails it beautifully with “Everlasting Love”.
Gram Parson’s aching “Green Green Grass of Home” made me realise it’s not the song that I hated..it was Tom Jones.
Bowie bettering Pixies with “Cactus”.
Pixies bettering Neil with “Winterlong”.
Neil hasn’t really bettered anybody. He’s better off with his own material…Four Strong Winds was good though…

Quicksand by Dinosaur Jr.
Pretty Woman by Van Roth

Rage Against the Machine covering Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm” and Johnny Cash covering Nick Cave’s “Mercy Seat”.

I didn’t get either song until I heard the covers.

Okay Gaz, I see what you mean. In that sense, I have to say the best example is Aztec Camera’s transcendant version of Van Roth’s “Jump”! Or, Judy Collins doing “Both Sides Now”, or the Minutemen covering Blue oyster Cult, or Terry Reid doing Phil Spector on his “River” album. But, the ultimate example of what you are talking about has to be Lou Reed’s powerful version of John Lennon’s “Gimme Some Truth” from his live double album, “Take No Prisoners”. Top Jimmy had the d.j. play that track before the Rhythm Pigs hit the stage at the Central(later called the “Viper Room”) one New Year’s Eve after the opening band(Green On Red) finished their set,stunning the crowd. Then Jimmy and the Pigs killed the crowd with their amazing cover of the Doors “Roadhouse Blues”(after slaying them with their version of “There Stands the Glass”)!

Ryan Adams – Wonderwall
Metallica – Breadfan
Metallica – Stone Cold Crazy
Metallica – Turn the Page
Van Halen – You really got me
Van Halen – (Oh) Pretty Woman
Simply Red – You Make Me Feel Brand New
Elton John – Spirit in the Sky
Rage Against the Machine – Ghost of Tom Joad
Robbie Williams – Mr Bojangles
Pearl Jam – Last Kiss
Dixie Chicks – Landslide

It’s a good list for the most known covers of all time. Scissor Sisters’ cover for Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” is a great one too.

Well,my favs are:

1.Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
2.”Summertime” by Big Brother & The Holding Company
3.Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” by Madonna & Massive Attack
4.Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5.Randy Newman’s “You Can Leave Yous Hat On” by Joe Cocker

GNR could make some covers. KOHD, Live n Let Die, Mama Kin, Since I Don’t Have You, Sympathy…….

Ike & Tina Turner – Proud Mary

My Morning Jacket-”It Makes No Difference”
Nirvana-”Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”
Johnny Cash-”Hurt”

Eels live cover of Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country”

Elvis Costello: Nick Lowe’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding”

Stevie Ray Vaughn’s cover of Little Wing is beautiful!!!!

Joe Cocker- “Little Help From My Friends” by The Beatles

Rage Against the Machine- “The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen

Red Hot Chili Peppers “Higher Ground” by Stevie Wonder

Nirvana “Lake of Fire” by The Meat Puppets

Pearl Jam “Keep on Rockin’ In The Free World” by Neil Young

David Bowie “Cactus” by The Pixies

Zappa plays Zappa… *shrugs* It’s not Frank it’s Dweezil

Guns n Roses covers of Sympathy for the Devil and Live and let die are not that good and are not even close to the originals, however I do enjoy their cover of knockin on Hevanes door.

CCR’s 11 minute opus of “I Heard it Throught the Grapevine”

U2’s remix of “Night and Day”, Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love”, and “Unchained Melody” are all impeccable choices and covered beautifully. Oh and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” is a great romp thru that tune.

any Nirvana cover songs, and Higher Ground by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Tom Robinson Band’s version of Dylan’s “I shall be Released” is incredible. Redd Kross’ live version of Kiss’ “Duece” is spectacular. I saw it last Saturday at the Double Door in Chicago!

Ike and Tina’s cover of “Proud Mary” was so so good

Tool covering “No Quarter.”

I shouldn’t have to name the original band, right?

siouxsie and the banshees- dear prudence

tom waits – young at heart

pearl jam- crazy mary

johnny cash – time of the preacher

rasputina – all tomorrow’s parties and barracuda

I actually really dug No Doubt’s cover of ” It’s My Life “. They did a great job with that one.

The Replacements covered Keith Richards “Happy”.

They used to open shows with this classic!

Holy Cole’s haunting cover “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” (Tom Waits)

Cat Power (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – it is always nice to have a couple of great versions

Nirvana’s cover of “The man who sold the world” agree !!!!Def Leppard Hanging on the telephone Blondie . Van halen cover of Pretty woman Roy Orbison , A personal favourite of mine is Snow Patrol “crazy in love” .Gun “Word up”, Faith no more “Easy” Commodores

Frank Black- “Dark End of the Street” by Flying Burrito Brothers.

wow

Prince’s version of “One of Us” (which he wrote) is awesome; both the studio version and the live performance of it for the VH1 Fashion awards a few years ago(i think?) far outweigh Joan Osborne’s version.

Oh and speaking of “Satisfaction” covers, DEVO’s always makes me smile. One of the best.

hey how about midnight cowbow cover by faith no more? gorgeous piece of music, and i think different enough to warrant a place.

Johnny Cash covered Nine Inch Nalis?? DAMN life is good.

You knew I meant Nails.
…and I would say “I Fought the Law” by The Clash and “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Fall Out Boy (I know, I know, don’t kill me)

Baby One More Time – Brad Roberts (of the Crash Test Dummies)…his voice with that song is an insanely wonderful combination.

Wonderwall – Cat Power. She has such a nack for taking songs and making them hers

Monkey Gone to Heaven – PJ Harvey. Don’t know if this one can be found legally but it’s good.

Pearl Jam have made so many covers that are better than the originals.

crazy mary
last kiss
sonic reducer
love reign o’er me
little wing/maggot brain

just to name a few.

nirvana’s cover of “the man who sold the world”

D’Angelo-”Crusin’” by Smokey Robinson

Mary J. Blige-”Sweet Thang” by Chaka Khan & Rufus

Musiq-”Something” by The Beatles

TLC-”If I Was Your Girlfriend” by Prince

Redman,Eric Sermon,& Keith Murray-”Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugar Hill Gang

Red Hot Chili Peppers-”Love Rollercoaster” by The Ohio Players

Cake-”I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor

Are you people mad!!!! how can you not mention hallelujah by jeff buckley!!!

I see someone from Warsaw, are you Legia or Polonia follower? Reg. Polish cover, there is one to be added to the list: “Sen o Warszawie” by Wilki (originally by Czeslaw Niemen).
I have a question to Helvis – “Like A Hurricane” was recorded by Roxy Music on Brian Eno’s era or after?

Maxwell-”Closer” by Nine Inch Nails” and “This Woman’s Work” by Kate Bush

Alicia Keys-”How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore” by Prince

Much love to the late,great Jeff Buckley,but unfortunately I haven’t heard the remake.I’m sure he aced it though.

Sex Pistols – Stepping Stone
Black Flag – Louie Louie
Grateful Dead – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
Replacements – Black Diamond

Phish – Cities (Talking Heads did original)

Ok, first of all…Prince DID NOT write “One Of Us”. Eric Bazilian wrote it…and the Hooters did the original. As for best covers, I definitely agree with a lot here like Cash’s version of “Hurt”, Hendrix’s “Watchtower”, Buckley’s “Hallelujah”, Cake’s “I Will Survive”…and I’ll throw in Cash’s cover of “Personal Jesus”, Buckley’s version of “Kick Out The Jams”, Gary Jules’ cover of “Mad World”, Joe Strummer also (during live shows) would do an awesome cover of “Blitzkrieg Bop”, Alison Krauss’ version of “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You” and the Sundays version of “Wild Horses”.

Husker Du-Eight Miles High

Jimi’s version of All Along The Watchtower is my favorite also.
Yes cover of America by Simon & Garfunkle is rather unique.

Big Mountain: Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way”

The Afghan Whigs: Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love Babe”

Urge Overkill: Neil Diamond’s “Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon”

Nirvana: David Bowie’s “Man Who Sold The World”

Eric Clapton’s cover of Jimi’s Little Wing as well as Sting’s cover of Little Wing—all three versions are very different yet each is stunning.

The Roots – Masters of War

Damone did an amazing cover of Iron Maiden’s Wasted Years.

the racounters-bang bang (my baby shot me down)

also john coltrane-my favorite things

black keys’ cover of the beatles’ she said, she said

Peter Frampton’s cover of “Jumpin Jack Flash” is ridiculous

Nirvana’s cover of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” is haunting
Hootie and the Blowfish cover of Led Zepplin’s “Hey Hey What Can I Do” is awesome

Hmm, one that was highly and sadly overlooked by these editors is Hallelujiah as dine by Jeff Buckley. Well.. and maybe anything else he covered too (check out Live at Sin-e album for those)

Also… want good cover tunes? Get yourself a CD copy, or a now on the endangered species list VHS copy of the 30th Anniversary Bob Dylan Concert. It’s worth it just for the Clapton version of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”

ben harper diffidence- pearl jam
maynerd w/jaynes addiction cashmir- led zeppelin

Thanx for the acknowledgement Helvis..Cannot find Lou Reed covering Gimme Some Truth. Checked my old Vinyl Copy of Take No Prisoners…checked the AMG site & even googled it. Please enlighten me.

“Respect”- Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin

“Hallelujah”- Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley

“All Apologies”- Nirvana/Sinead O’Connor

“Fell In Love With A Girl”- The White Stripes/Joss Stone

Looks like my choice is gone b/c of the link maybe. Bauhaus did a cover of Telegram Sam. It’s great. You can find it on Youtube btw.

union city blues by radiohead
shake the disease by hooverphonic
higher ground by the chilies
dear prudence sioxie and the banshees

20 century boy by chalk circle
every day i die by dubstar

Grateful Dead covering Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away”
Eric Clapton covering JJ Cale’s “Cocaine”

blinded by the light- manford mann, bruce springsteen

along came mary – bloodhound gang
tori amos – i dont like mondays
siouxsie – trust in me

it’s manfred, buddy

Carrie Underwood- Sweet Child O
‘Mine
Sharol Crow- Sweet Child O’ Mine
Jizzy Pearl- Sweet Child O’ Mine
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE MAN AND THAT IS: AXL W. ROSE.

best elliot smiths version of jealous guy
worst limp bizkits ver. of behind blue eyes because limp bizkit blow dogs for quarters

the worst…that’s hard to say. gotta be a two-way tie between mariah carey’s “bringin’ on the heartbreak” and britney spears’ “satisfaction”. abominations.

i know i sound like such a indie/yuppie (yindie? yupdie? i can’t keep up) but here goes

Hounds of Love-The Futureheads (i cant believe more ppl didn’t put this!)

Hurt-Johnny Cash (duh)

Wonderwall-Ryan Adams (shhhhh, i actually prefer his version to oasis’s, and cat power’s version is gorgeous too)

John Cale did a better version of hallelujah than Jeff Buckly, although I still like the original by Lenoard Cohen.

d’angelo-cruisin

muse cant take my eyes iff you!

although im not sure whether its complete shite or not

Pearl Jam/Love Reign O’er Me (The Who)

It begins and ends with the Clash’s cover of “I Fought the Law.” After that, it’s any song covered by Springsteen, The Beatles Twist and Shout, Jeff Buckley’s Hallejulah, and The Rolling Stones Not Fade Away, which made the Buddy Holly original sound rather tame.

what about “bitches ain’t shit” by ben folds?

how ’bout R.E.M. ‘Arms of Love” (Robyn Hitchcock?) no?
then Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter
‘Your Move” (Yes). still not happy?
Oasis ‘Hide Your Love Away’ (John Lennon).

vernon reid’s cover of “brilliant corners” off of his album known unknown. the track was originally by thelonious monk. mr. reid is truly the best guitarist ever….

nice to see cat power and the sundays getting some props here.

Here’s one no one will think of: Jethro Tull’s cover of Mozart’s Bouree on their Stand Up album.

My bad!!! Bouree was a J.S. Bach tune. Duh!

jeff tweedy – love and mercy (brian wilson)

John MAyer- bold as love

Rage Against the Machine did a whole album of damn good covers

Pearl Jam, Cover Band. Man they oughta release something of their live shit. I mean, so many songs…Throw Your Arms Around Me, Trouble, The New World, People Have the Power, Bleed For Me, – or for that matter, the countirfied version of the Ramones’ I Believe in Miracles…it just goes on. They are just so underrated, whatever y’all think of em.
Others, ain’t no arguin’ everyone who sings Jeff Buckley’s praises of Mr Cohen’s Hallelujah, or how about Ben Harper’s cover of Sexual Healing? Glad someone mentioned the Black Keys there too. And Sonic Youth’s Superstar? Shit, that whole Carpenters compilation kicks ass.

james marshall hendrix fuckin’ rules…

Good cover: Red Red Wine by UB40. There are plenty more. Like Do Ya Wanna Touch by Joan Jett, Give a Little Bit by the Goo Goo Dolls, California Sun by the Ramones, and many, many more – too many to list here.

Horrible covers: Jessica’s Simpson’s Take My Breath Away (trash, like everything she does), I Love Rock’n'Roll (ditto – pure blasphemy, a total disgrace)

Stevie Ray Vaughn – Little Wing
Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe
The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
The Black Keys – She Said, She Said

This list is pretty lame.

Ryan Adams – Wonderwall

Noel said that’s how it should have been played.

Ryan also does some of Gram Parsons’ stuff justice.

Good ones -
Devo – ‘Satisfaction’
Feist – ‘Inside & Out’ (BeeGees)
Dinosaur Jr. – ‘Just Like Heaven’
Jose Gonzalez – ‘Hearbeats’ (The Knife)
The Slits – ‘I Heart it Through the Grapvine’

ain’t that a shame – cheap trick

red beret – warren zevon and rest of rem

A few I forgot were-
1.Korn-Word Up
2.Johny Cash-Hurt
3.Johny Cash-I Won’t Back Down
4.Tom Petty-Something In The Air
5.Pearl Jam-Last Kiss
6.Blinded By The Light-Manferd Mann
7.Eddie Vedder-You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
8.Red Hot Chilli Peppers-Higher Ground
9.Garth Brooks-Shameless
10.Boys II Men-In The Still Of The Nite
11.Elvis Presley-You’re Sixteen
12.Elvis Presley-Bridge Over Troubled Water
13.Elvis Presley-You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling
14.Elvis Presley-Unchained Melody
15.Extreme-Help!
16.PM Dawn-Norwegian Wood
17.Hootie & The Blowfish-Dream Baby
18.Smashmouth-I’m A Believer
19.Smashmouth-Why Can’t We Be Friends
20.And the soundtrack to “Backbeat”

Peter Frampton: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (George Harrison)

Stevie Ray Vaughan: “Voodoo Chile” (Hendrix)

**and my personal favorite:
Ben Folds Five: “She Don’t Use Jelly” (Flaming Lips)

to name a few that I didnt see up already

Monster Mike Welsh – Dylan’s Masters of war

Ike and Tina – Otis Redding’s I’ve Been Loving You Too Long. Tina’s voice sounds so much more painful than Otis’s.

Also:

Aretha Franklin – Respect
Raconteurs – It Ain’t Easy
Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
The White Stripes – Death Letter
The White Stripes – Stop Breaking Down
The White Stripes – Jolene
Cream – Crossroads
Cream – Spoonful
Big Brother and the Holding Company – Piece of My Heart
Big Brother and the Holding Company – Summertime

Jimi Hendrix at Monterey:
Like A Rolling Stone
Killing Floor
Rock Me Baby
Wild Thing

The best cover of them all is Daniel Johnston’s version of “Live and Let Die”! He replaces a couple of lines of Macca’s lyrics to bring the song up to a new plateau of profundity.

Maciej, “Like a Hurricane” was recorded after Eno. Ten Years After(TYA covered “Woodchopper’s Ball”,but I digress). It was on the same record as their cover of “Jealous Guy”, which you were talking about in your post. There are only four songs on that EP. How could you have missed “Like A Hurricane”?

Marnr7, I love Frank Black, but his cover version of “Dark End of the Street” is nowhere near as good as the one by the Afghan Whigs on the What Jail is Like EP, that also contains the best Supremes cover by a rock band, ever. Frank Black has the best cover of Brian Wilson’s “Hang On To Your Ego” on a different CD.

Best:
No Doubt: Talk Talk’s “It’s My life
Aretha Franklin: “Respect”
Soft Cell: “Tainted Love”

Worst:
Madonna: Don McClean’s “American Pie”
Smashing Pumpkins: Fleetwood Mac’s “landslide”
Marilyn Manson” both “sweet dreams” & “Tainted love”

my chemical romance and the used redid under pressure i thought it was pretty good actually

The Beatles- Twist & Shout

Stereophonics – Handbags & Gladrags
Guns N’ Roses – Down On The Farm

Not the biggest covers in the world, but good nonetheless (IMO)

Pearl Jam- Love Reign O’er Me
RATM-renegades
Tool-No Quarter
Faith No More – Easy
Ben Harper – Indifference

The best cover version of all time, hands down, is The Fall doing “A Day In The Life”. Though Husker Du’s version of “Eight Miles High” is way up there. No pun intended.

The best cover song of all-time…Elvis Presley “You ain’t nothing but a hound dog” by Big Mama Thorton(1956),Stevie Ray Vaughan”Little Wing”(1987), by Jimi Hendrix,Olvia Newton John”Come on over”(1977),by the Brothers Gibb.

Bruce Springsteen: Seven Nights to rock by Moon Mullican, I think he only did this live on The Rising Tour.

The Who – Summertime Blues, and Youngman Blues. Excellent!

Summertime Blues, and Youngman Blues, The Who.Excellent!

Cowboy Junkies: Velvet UG “Sweet Jane”

hands down—van halens you really got me by the kinks

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds did a great cover of “All Tomorows Parties” and Beck’s cover of Daniel Johnstons “True Love will Find you in the End” is great.

cake-i will survive by gloria gaynor

Eric Clapton: Bob Dlyan’s Knockin’ on Heavens Door. The reggae beat is totally original.

Cat Power’s Wonderwall and I found a Reason are both beautiful. And everything Nirvana covered on their Unplugged album is amazing as well.

Ben Harper- Sexual Healing
Matchbox 20- Time After Time
Honestly I’m not a really big fan of either artist, but these two live covers are awesome.

You Really Got a Hold On Me- The Beatles
Mr. Tambourine Man- The Byrds
I fought the Law- The Clash
Luka- The Lemonheads
Here She Comes Now- Nirvana
Cum on Feel the Noize- Oasis
Crazy- R.E.M
California Sun- The Ramones
It’s All Over Now- The Rolling Stones
Missing You- Smudge
Have Love Will Travel- The Sonics

Elvis was the King of Covers!

Listen to his rendition of “Hey Jude”?

BEST COVER? Do you remember Rock N Roll Radio? by The Ramones was covered by KISS on Ramones tribute…. Awesome version by KISS!!!

phish-roses are free
hendrix-all along the watchtower
jerry garcia band-Knockin’ on heavens’ door
Allman Brothers Band-Layla 7/24/05
(Not many know of it, i saw it live)

Lucinda Williams: Masters of War

Blondie: Burning Ring of Fire

The Mekons: Edge of the World/Waltz Across Texas

Joni and Friends: Come Together

Gram Parsons: The Christian Life

Stones: Love in Vain

Clash: I fought the law/Police on my back

1. Pearl Jam – The Who’s Baba O’Reilly
2. Jerry Garcia Band – Smokey Robinson’s The Way You Do The Things You Do
3. Johnny Cash – NIN’s Hurt
4. Jeff Buckley – Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah
5. Eric Clapton & Robert Randolph – Muddy Water’s Got My Mojo Workin’ (they did this on tour a few years back)

MMEBand’s Blinded by the Light- b. springsteen
-the Animals version of House of the Rising Sun
-The Byrds versoin of Hey Mr. Tamborine Man by bob dylan

10,000 Maniacs “Because the Night,” written by Bruce Springsteen

Bob Weir and Rat Dog do a great Iko Iko.

rachid taha: rock the casbah (clash)
bowie: let’s spend the night together (Rolling stones)

Any artist who does a cover of Bryan Adams’ “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”, & DJ Sammy with “Heaven”.

I love a good cover!! Here’s some of my favorites!!

1. Maybe I’m Amazed – Virgos Merlot (Paul McCartney)
2. The Boys Of Summer – The Ataris (Don Henley)
3. Bad Boy – The Beatles (Larry Williams)
4. Hello Hooray – Alice Cooper (Judy Garland)
5. Talk Talk – Alice Cooper (Music Machine)
6. Baker Street – Foo Fighters (Gerry Rafferty)
7. Abracadabra – Sugar Ray (Steve Miller)
8. The Real Me – Fastball (The Who)
9. Manic Monday – Relient K (The Bangles)
10. Hazy Shade Of Winter – The Bangles (Simon & Garfunkel)
11. The Loner – Supergrass (Neil Young)
12. Video Killed The Radio Star – Presidents Of The United States (The Buggles)
13. Nada Surf – Black and White (The dB’s)
14. Don’t Let Me Down – Stereophonics (Beatles)
15. Golden Slumbers – Ben Folds (Beatles)
16. I Ran – Hidden In Plain View -(Flock Of Seagulls)
17. This Will Be Our Year – Ok Go (The Zombies)
18. She May Call You Up Tonight – Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs (Left Banke)
19. Against All Odds – Postal Service (Phil Collins)
20. On With The Show – The Get Up Kids (Motley Crue)
21. Bitches Ain’t Shit – Ben Folds (Dr. Dre)
22. Never Going Back Again – Matchbox Twenty (Fleetwood Mac)
23. No More Lonely Nights – The Merrymakers (Paul McCartney)
24. Since You’ve Been Gone – Butch Walker (Kelly Clarkson)
25. Always Something There To Remind Me – Marvelous 3 (Naked Eyes)

1. Johnny Cash’s performance of “Rusty Cage, by Soundgarden.
2. Faith No More’s rendition of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs”.
3. G n’R doing Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”.
4. Chris Cornell’s acoustic version of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”.
5. Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”, played by Joe Strummer.

Joe Cocker – With a little help from my friend
James Taylor – You’ve got a friend (yes, repect to Carole King the original performer)
Al Jarreau – Your song (great Jarreau-style cover of a great song)
Billy Joel – Light s a breeze (if you like the Piano Man, you’ll love this great cover of Leonard Cohen)

With a little from my friend by Joe Cocker (Sorry Ringo but Cocker does it better)
You’ve got a friend by James Taylor (total respect to Carole King, the original performer)
You song by Al Jarreau (awesome Jarreau-style cover of this awesome song)
Light as a breeze by Billy Joel (if ou like the Piano Man you’ll love this cover of the great Leonard Cohen song)

Helvins, Thanks a lot, I didn’t know this EP, but after your recommendation I will listen to “Like a Hurricane”. Reg. Roxy Music – album cover of “Country Life” with two girls is also worth to recommend.

Johnny Cash – Hurt
Sid Vicious – My Way (Purely for the improvised lyrics)
Nirvana – The Man Who Sold The World
RHCP – Higher Ground
Reel Big Fish – Take On Me
The Clash – I Fought The Law

And I cant believe nobody has said
Freddie Mercury – The Great Pretender

Best Cover I have heard is “Baker Street” by Foo Fighters.

Pete Yorn’s got a pretty great cover of Zevon’s “Splendid Isolation” on his last record…otherwise most of mine were mentioned.

i cant believe there is no zeppelin or stones up there…not even twist and shout by the beatles, who you at rolling stones seem to love more than life itself…n gnr needs some love on that list n what about aerosmith’s version of ‘train kept a rollin’? it rocks so hard…
this is a good list but you cant only list five covers and say they are the best you need to list maybe 20 or so…

guns n roses cover of knockin’ on heaven’s last nerve is not a good thing. hear him sqwak while teetering around like a poor man’s joe cocker bereft of talent. HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY1

Some of the best: Gin & Juice by The Gourds, Jolene by White Stripes, Spider-Man by THE Ramones, Bing & Bowie doing Little Drummer Boy and certainly Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood’s You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.

Pretty Woman – VH
Ice Cream Man – VH
Bring the Noise – Anthrax and Public Enemy (that count?)

The Flaming Lips: “Warpigs”

oasis – “heroes”

how bout annie lennox – wait in vain (bob marley)
switchfoot – sorrow (bad religion)…hard to find, though.
jem – maybe i’m amazed (paul mccartney)
giant drag – wicked game (chris isaak)

the worst cover ever is The Red hot chili peppers cover of bob dylan’s subterranean homesick blues…the red hot chili peppers totally suck..by the way their lyrics are completely awful..but anyway Richard Hell’s cover of Bob Dylan’s going, going, gone is truly amazing i would definitely recommend checking it out!!!!!

Best: Jeff Buckley; Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

Vanilla Ice “Play That Funky Music”: He DESTROYS the original with his tight flow! Wild Cherry who?

And I forgot Britney Spears’ cover of “Satisfaction” by the band A Rolling Stone; I didn’t know that it was written by another band because it sounds so great when she sings it!

‘wall of death’, originally by richard thompson, re-done by r.e.m.

How about the Gourds cover of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice.” and everyone thought it was Phish.

Here are few great covers pretty left of field, getting weirder further down the list:

OP8 – Sand (Some gender bending. Actually rather nice. Howe Gelb and Lisa Germano.)

Rotfront – The Robots (Russian language folk/hip-hop cover of that Kraftwerk song. Some folks mainly based in Berlin, as far as I know. Infectious. Needs to be heard to be believed.)

Ed Kuepper – Highway To Hell (AC/DC. On an acoustic guitar. And a boom box. Nothing else.)

Les Reines Prochaines – Wicked Games (Cover is titled ‘Opfer dieses Liedes’, literally ‘victims of this song’. They are actually from Basel, Switzerland. Can’t stop grinning whenever I put this on. Poor Chris Isaak.)

not sure if any mentioned it but what about “nobody does it better” by radiohead

Gary Jule’s version of Tears for Fears “Mad World”

Donny Darko wouldn’t be as good

Barenaked Ladies – “Lovers in a Dangerous Time.” No question.

hanson covered radiohead’s optimistic. no joke.

Ben Folds cover of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer”

The other great Beatles cover is “TNK”(Tomorrow Never Knows-Revolver)by 801(Eno, Ayers, Nico, & Manzanera)! Although, Eddie Hazel(lead guitar-Funkadelic)comes close with the 9 minute version of “I Want You/She’s So Heavy” on his mid-seventies solo album.

The best Fleetwood Mac cover is “You Can Go Your Own Way” by NOFX.

The other great Beatles cover is “TNK”(Tomorrow Never Knows-Revolver)by 801(Eno, Ayers, Nico, & Manzanera)! Although, Eddie Hazel(lead guitar-Funkadelic)comes close with the 9 minute version of “I Want You/She’s So Heavy” on his mid-seventies solo album.

M C 900 ft jesus – Stand and Stare (Curtis Mayfield)

Talking Heads – Take Me To the River (al green)

Tori Amos – Real Men (joe jackson)

Iron & Wine – Such Great Heights (postal service)

Franco Battiato – Ruby Tuesday (rolling stones) (from the ‘children of men’ sdtk)

Marilyn Manson – I Put a Spell On You (screamin’ jay hawkins)

Ben Folds – Side of the Road (lucinda williams)

Hole – Gold Dust Woman (fleetwood mac)

The Ataris – Boys of Summer (don henley)

Rage Against the Machine – The Ghost of Tom Joad (springsteen)

Ewan McGregor – Your Song (elton john)

Flaming Lips – Knives Out (radiohead)

Foo Fighters – Darling Nikki (prince; that’s why he played ‘best of you’!)

Eva Cassidy — “Fields of Gold”

in the trivia department:
Marvin Gaye — “I Heard it through the Grapevine”

I think Gladys Knight and the Pips had a hit with it first.

Allison Crowe – “Hallelujah”
a definitive version of Leonard Cohen’s song (which has, too often, fallen victim to tepid troubadors)

Actually, any cover by Crowe could top the list – and she’s done plenty, from Counting Crows’ “A Murder of One” through Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Pearl Jam and more.

Allison Crowe is the greatest cover artist I’ve heard in my life. Remarkably, she’s also one of the greatest original singer-songwriters we have today.

leonard cohen’s “i’m your man” by nick cave…
excellent!

KISS song, ‘Charisma’, by The Divys
http://www.TheDivys.com

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Voodoo Chile.” The only guy to make it better,

Ben Folds turning Dr. Dre’s “Bitches ain’t shit” into a nice ballad

That’s a lie by Too Much Joy, great rock version of LL Cool J track

The Raconteurs playing “Send me a postcard” by Shocking Blue, not to mention Nirvana’s “Love buzz”.

The Black Crowes giving their bearded JC-lookalike Chris Robinson a break for Pink Floyds “One of these days”.

Van Halen’s “Jump” turned into a nice little folk song by Aztec Camera.

“Thirteen” by Johnny Cash, did Glenn Danzig ever record the song himself?

Eight Miles High – Golden Earring (check out the live, though edited, Byrds own version on Untitled)
Hey Joe – Willie Deville
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Them (Van Morrison)

Do fans of other bands argue over what cover songs a band does best more than Pearl Jam’s fans? Lord knows us spoiled PJ fans have a ton to choose from.

I don’t think I’ve read anyone posting about Phish’s Halloween shows where they have covered entire records, including The White Album, Quadrophenia, Remain in Light, and Loaded.

Sleater-Kinney have done some great ones also – Springsteen’s The Promised Land, Danzig’s Mother, Bikini Kill’s Riot Grrl, and perhaps the only band that does justice to Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit.

Patti Smith – Hendrix’ Hey Joe

BEST…
Rasputina – Barracuda
Slayer – Hand of Doom
C.O.C. – Lord of This World
Black Crowes – Fearless & The Weight
CCR – 99 & 1/2
The Who – Young Man Blues
Metallica – Astronomy, Breadfan, & Am I Evil
Yngwie Malmsteen – Keep Yourself Alive
Thin Lizzy – Rosalie & Whiskey in the Jar
Anthrax – Parasite

WORST…
Kittie – Run Like Hell (possibly the worst song I’ve ever heard)
Limp Bizkit – Faith & Behind Blues Eyes
Nickelback – Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Kid Rock – Feel Like Makin’ Love
Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
Ugly Kid Joe – Cat’s in the Cradle

Foo Fighters – “Darling Nikki”

Nirvana – “Ain’t It A Shame” (I guess technically this is just Kurt and friends, but it’s on the Nirvana box set)

Talking Heads – “Take Me To The River”

Tom Waits – “Sea of Love”

Steve Earle – “Breed” or “Before They Make Me Run”

The worst cover I’ve heard- Sheryl Crow, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”

All my choices have already been mentioned, but anyway:
Roxy Music: “Jealous Guy”
Johnny Cash: “Hurt”
Jeff Buckley: “Hallelujah”
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: “Crimson and Clover”
Sonic Youth: “Superstar”
Ike & Tina Turner: “Proud Mary”

Plus two that haven’t been mentioned:
Annie Lennox: Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade of Pale”
George Michael: Elton John’s “Tonight”

Phish-Roses are Free(Ween)
Grateful Dead-Good Lovin(The Rascals)

GN’R : Knockin on a heaven’s door / Live n let Die /

Eric Clapton: Cocaine

ben harper doing “heart of gold” or “whole lotta love” or “voodoo chile”

minor threat doing “stepping stone”

les claypool doing all of pink floyd’s “animals”

dinosaur jr. doing “just like heaven”

david gilmour doing “terrapin”

… and i know how you PJ fans get but they should’ve never messed with “25 minutes to go” on the benroyal hall cd.

All Along the Watchtower has to be the greatest cover ever. Even Dylan acknowledges that Hendrix’s version is the definitive version of the song. Speaking of Dylan…
I don’t know if it technically counts as a cover, but I think Springsteen deserves some credit for his performance of One Head Light. He performed this with the Wallflowers at some award show and just completely steals it from them. Jakob Dylan sits there looking like he’s waiting for his dad to save him. Priceless. Be sure to check it out on youtube.

Sinead O’Conner’s cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2u.
And the best is Talking Head’s version of Al Green’s Take Me To The River. Excellent; the best thing they ever did.

Snowblind – System of a Down
After Forever – Corrosion of Conformity

Don’cha know that RESPECT by Aretha was a cover of Otis Redding?

sublime – scarlet begonias (grateful dead)
blind melon – candy says (velvet underground)
johnny cash – it aint me babe (bob dylan)
elliot smith – jealous guy (john lennon)
flaming lips – bohemian rhapsody (queen)

CSN&Y WOODSTOCK
NotForsale Band LIKE A HURRICANE
Johnny Winter HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
James Taylor HOW SWEET IT IS..
NotForSale Band TAKEN AT ALL

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ cover of The Ramones song, Havana Affair. The near perfect example of one band taking a familiar song and making it their own.

Radiohead bootleg I have gotten recently where they do The Spy Who Loved Me and Wish You Were Here. Truly great.

OASIS

Cum On Feel the Noize

Rush’s cover of “Crossroads” by Cream

Take me to the river- talking heads.

GN’R – Knockin’ on heaven’s door

CCR: I Heard it Through the Grapevine

RHCP: Higher Ground

Nirvana: Here She Comes Now
Nirvana: Man Who Sold the World

GNR: Knockin on Heaven’s Door

Beatles: Twist and Shout

RATM:Cypress Hill’s “How I Could Just Kill a Man”

Van Halen “You Really Got Me”

Blue Cheer “Summertime Blues”

Fuck yes.

Guns N’ Roses- Knockin On Heavens Door (Live Version)
Aerosmith – Baby Please Don’t Go
Aerosmith – Train Kept A Rollin
Aerosmith – Walkin The Dog
Zwan – Number Of The Beast
Jimi – All along The Watchtower
The Yardbirds – Spoonful
The Doors – Backdoor man

The only Spoonfull cover that’s truly something else, bye Ten Years After, Alvin Lee is second only to Hendrix (As so many others hehe)

John Mayer makes his guitars almost sound like Hendrix in Wait Until Tomorrow. It’s unbelievable, he should be at the top of that list.

Love Machine by the Arctic Monkeys. Just brilliant!

Some already said these, but I have no patientce to read ALL posts:

Aretha Franklin “Respect” (Otis Redding)

Talking Heads “Take Me To The River” (Al Green)

Michael Andrews & Gary Jules “Mad World” (Tears For Fears)

Robert Plant “Morning Dew” (Bonnie Dobson)

Vanilla Fudge “You Keep Me Haning On” (The Supremes)

Otis Redding “Satisfaction” (Rolling Stones)

Devo’s cover of “Satisfaction” is another gem as well

The Band’s I Shall Be Released by Jeff Buckley, The Searchers’ Needles and Pins by the Ramones

From the Crow Soundtrack NIN’s version of Joy Division’s Dead Souls

Ryan Adams
“Wonderwall”

White Stripes
“One More Cup Of Coffee”

Nirvana
“Where Did You Sleep Last Night”

White Stripes
“I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself”

The Postal Service
“Grow Old With Me”

Nouvelle Vague
“Love Will Tear Us Apart”

White Stripes- Outlaw Blues(Bob Dlan)
White Stripes-Love Sick(Bob Dylan)
Pearl Jam-Masters of War(Bob Dylan)
R.H.C.P-Subteranean Homesick Blues(Bob Dylan)
Fuel-Daniel (Elton John)

superstar -sonic youth

Afghan Whigs – TLC’s “Creep”

2 great covers on We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2

Razed in Black–Pride

Dead or Alive–Even Better Than the Real Thing

The Best
The Clash- “I Faught the Law”
Jeff Buckley- “Hallelujah”
Zerobridge- “Age of Consent”
Pearl Jam- “I’ve Gotta Feelin’”
Cat Power- “Satisfaction”
Zinoba- “Life’s What You Make It”
Hendrix- “All Along the Watchtower”
NIN- “Dead Souls”
The Byrds- “Hey Mr. Tambourine Man”
Devo- “Satisfaction”
Joey Ramone- “What a Wonderful World”
Bauhaus- “Ziggy Stardust”

The Worst
P,Puffy, Diddy,Whatever- “Every Breath You Take”
Jessica Simpson- “These boots were made for Walkin”
Those dudes last nite at the grammys doin’ the Eagles
Save Farris- “Come on Eileen”
Sheryll Crow- “Sweet Child of Mine”
Mary J Blige duet w/U2- “One”
Limp Bizkit- “Behind Blue Eyes”
Gwenyth Paltrow & Hewie Lewis- “Cruisin”
Ryan Adams- “Wonderwall”
Limp Bizkit- “Faith”
Jet- “Lust for Life”

Madonna- “American Pie”..a new classic.

Here’s a couple lost gems

Shonen Knife “Top of the World” (Carpenters)

Ramones “Do You Wanna Dance” (Bobby Freeman)

Guided By Voices “Baba O’Riley (A great closer to many wonderful encores)

oh ya, Rush’s version of “Summer Time Blues”. Check it out!

Van Halen -You Really Got Me

VH also did a great”Pretty Woman”

beck – creep
gnarls barkley – gone daddy gone
incubus – roxanne
incubus – black hole sun
mutato muzika orchestra – hey jude
television – satisfaction
tom petty – gloria
straylight run – play crack the sky

whoever said that I shall be release was a jeff buckley song..Bob Dylan wrote that song!

Streetwalkers– Daddy Rollin’ Stone. Forget it. Honorable mention: Phil Alvin does a great version of it, too.

John Cale is a motherfucker on covers: Walkin’ The Dog, Heartbreak Hotel, Pablo Picasso, Hallelujah… and on and on. Always wanted to hear him try ‘Money For Nothing.’ I saw Tom Waits do ‘Standin’ On The Corner Watchin’ All The Girls Go By.’

beatles – twist and shout
animals – don’t let me be misunderstood
allison crowe – hallelujah
ani difranco – when i’m gone

Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Delilah (Tom Jones)

The WORST cover songs are Devo’s “Satisfaction” and Madonna’s take on “American Pie”

Some great covers the Foo Fighters did are “Baker Street”,”Tiny Dancer” and “Stairway To Heaven”.The last two they did on Craig Kilbourn a few years ago…

Pearl Jam – “Rockin’ in the Free World”
My Morning Jackets – “It Makes No Difference”
Tool – “No Quarter”

Big Head Todd & the Monsters doing Tangerine from Led Zeppelin III

in no particular order:

Metallica: Turn the Page(Seger)
Johnny Cash: Hurt(NIN)
Megadeth: These Boots- the original version that is now out of print from the 1984 version of Killing Is My Business(Nancy Sinatra)
RHCP: Higher Ground(Stevie Wonder)
Slayer: Born to be Wild(steppenwolf)
Ministry w/ Trent Reznor: Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
Motorhead: Whiplash(Metallica)
U2: Beat on the Brat(Ramones)
GnR: Knockin on Heavens Door(Dylan)
RATM: Kick out the Jams(MC5)
System of a Down: Metro (Berlin, i think)
Marilyn Manson: This is Halloween(Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack)
Killswitch Engage: Holy Diver(Dio)
Mastodon:Orion (Metallica)
Murderdolls: White Wedding(Billy Idol)
Pantera: Cat Scratch Fever(Ted Nugent)
Sepultura: War(Bob Marley)

My favorite: “Cry to Me” by the Stones.
My least favorite: “Tutti Frutti” by Pat Boone

Tevin Campbell-”Shhh” by Prince

Aaliyah-”At Your Best” by The Isley Brothers

Jodeci-”Lately” by Stevie Wonder

Intro-”Ribbon In The Sky” by Stevie Wonder

Portrait-”How Deep Is Your Love” by The Bee Gees

Brownstone-”I Can’t Tell You Why” by The Eagles

No disrespect to the late Elvis Presley,but he is eventually,blatantly known for jacking artists’ original songs at their expense-r&b artists at the most.I was watching Saturday’s NBA All Star Game,and when I heard his supposed “remake” of Stevie Wonder’s “For Once In My Life”,I was lead to ponder was this a matter of THEFT-or HONOR.Fascinating.Ironically,a great cover group known as UB40 managed to ace one of Elvis’s originals,”I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You” which I thought they kilt.I think they get more of a wager than “The King” himself.Truth hurts.

you’re all i’ve got tonight – smashing pumpkins (cars)
hallelujah – jeff buckley (cohen)
hurt – johnny cash (nin)
money – velvet revolver (pink floyd)
video killed the radio star – ben folds five (buggles)

Fountains Of Wayne – Baby One More Time

Urge Overkill’s cover of “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon.”

Hard to Handle by The Crowes is great.

Starlit’s Modern Love is phenomenal.

Oh, and The Last Town Chorus’ version of Modern Love

how cold everyone over look the smashing pumpkins cover of comfortably numb (pink floyd)??

Johnny Cash: Depeche mode’s (Personnal Jesus)
Ben Harper: The Verve’s (Drugs don’t work)
Jimi Hendrix: Bob Dylan’s (All along the Watchtower)
Voivod: Pink Floyd’s (Astronomy domine)
Pearl Jam: The Who’s (Baba O’ Riley and Love reign O’er me)
Nirvana: David Bowie’s (The man who sold the world)

And some more I’m not thinking about…Smashing Pumpkins version of Landslide is great too…

“Love the One You’re With” by the Isley Brothers

How about: “Your Love” – East Lake Mountain Bandits (Outfield)

joey ramone – what a wonderful world
the ramones – i don’t want to grow up
the ramones – little bit o’soul
guns’n'roses – knockin’ on heaven’s door
nofx – stand by me

Reel Big Fish’s cover of “Video Killed the Radio Star” – the buggles

Aretha Franklin’s cover of ‘Respect’
Pearl Jam’s cover of ‘Last Kiss’
Johnny Cash cover of ‘Hurt’ (brought a tear to my eye)
Dr John’s cover of ‘Accentuate the positive’
Faith No More’s cover of ‘Easy’

Oh…. one more:
Ben Fold’s cover of Postal Services ‘Such Great Heights’ – better than the original

Bjork & PJ Harvey – Satisfaction
NIN – Dead Souls
U2 – Satelite of Love
Heart – Battle of Evermore
Train – Ramble On

dead kennedys cover of i faught the law

dead kennedys cover of i faught the law

teardrops – jose gonzalez (massive attack)

roxane de la tango moreln rouge (police)

roxane de la tango moreln rouge (police)