Like A Version.

[Clutch]

Alright, post your favourite covers here.

Name, title, and who did it originally, with the Youtube link.

 

[manticle]

Bad: brighter death now (orig Michael Jackson)
Mercy seat: Johnny Cash (orig Nick cave and the bad seeds)
Won't back down: Johnny Cash(orig Tom Petty)
Passenger: Souixsie and the bad seeds (orig stooges)
Foxy Lady: The Cure (orig Jimi Hendrix)
Dirty old town: The pogues (orig Ewan MacColl)
And the band played waltzing matilda: The Pogues (orig Eric Bogle)
I put a spell on you: Diamanda Galas (orig Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
All the pretty horses: Coil (and Odetta but more a traditional song rather than a cover) orig - who knows?
Love will tear us apart: Swans (orig Joy Division)



Least favourite: Downtown train by rod stewart (orig Tom Waits)
Also find most Marilyn Manson covers pretty terrible.

Youtubing up to anyone interested - too many to search for right now while I procrastinate.

 

[DU99]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Betty



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_%28Them_song%29

check the backing band
Orginal Beatles


orginal

 

[Silo Ted]

I quite like Zoot's pumped up version of Elanor Rigby (The Beatles)



edited to include link

 

[climbatize]

Hmm.. Did you get the idea from Triple J?

Love this Tame Impala cover recorded in the JJJ studio. Rose is just amazing and hot as hell.


NIN covering Joy Division


Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band covering Nirvana


Stevie Ray covering Hendrix.. f**king epic


I so wish I could find a studio version of this.. Tame Impala covering Massive Attack


Patty Smith covering Them


The Cramps covering Little Willie John


Pixies covering The Yardbirds


That's all I got so far.. :beerbang:

 

[manticle]

Passenger: Souixsie and the bad seeds (orig stooges)

Should read siouxsie and the banshees. I made poetry in my head

 

[Silo Ted]

I was cranking the Stooges last night actually (the album "Funhouse")

 

[Muggus]

Both artists have been mention but find it hard that it hasn't been mentioned...

 

[BennyH]

Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage (SoundGarden)
Rage Against The Machine - Renegades of Funk (Afrika Bambaataa)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Anything Dave Grohl has ever done (live or charity gigs)
Most of the Me First and The Gimme Gimmes catalogue
................ Plus whatever I can't think of right now

 

[manticle]

Both artists have been mention but find it hard that it hasn't been mentioned...

I think you could include pretty much every track from Johnny's cover album(s) and not put a foot wrong. He took them all to another place.

 

[Clutch]

Tori Amos: Raining Blood (Slayer Cover)



Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah



Marilyn Manson: Tainted Love (Soft Cell cover)



Curtis Stigers & The Forest Rangers: John The Revelator (You may know this from Sons of Anarchy)



Sepultura: The Hunt (New Model Army cover)



Mr Little Jeans: The Suburbs (Arcade Fire cover)


And for shits and giggles



Scratch ******* beat juggling on two turntables doing Star Wars: The Imperial March.

 

[Dave70]

APC
Imagine.


Cream.
Crossroads.


Respect.
Aretha Franklin.


Tool.
No Quarter.


Voodoo child.
SRV.


Maggies Farm.
RAGTM (filthy commies..)


Rocket Man
William Shatner..( the Shat version of anyone's song allways trumps the original)



Any cover of a Dylan song.

 

[MarkBastard]

I think you could include pretty much every track from Johnny's cover album(s) and not put a foot wrong. He took them all to another place.

Agreed, and I was about to post that before even reading the thread!

However they weren't "cover albums". There was a few originals in them as well.

Also I reckon the original of "My Life" (The Beatles) is better, and his version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is probably on par with the original. All of his other covers are better than the originals!

 

[Airgead]

Rolf Harris Stairway to Heaven...

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd cover (duh)

this album is a spin out if you've already listened to Dark Side of the Moon enough times that it's ingrained in your brain.

exhibit A:
cover -
original -

 

[bum]

Blondie - Hanging On the Telephone (The Nerves)
SFK - Truly (Hazel)

 

[browndog]

Great topic, Silo Ted, I'm with you on the Zoot. Looking forward to checking out all those links when I've time. One for me
;
Joan Jet, Dirty Deeds, ACDC

-Browndog

 

[tavas]

Screaming Jets - Folsom Prison Blues (Just to back up Manticle's statement)

Pennywise - Land Down Under

Megadeth - Paranoid (even tho I'm not a Megadeth fan)

Faith No More - Easy and War Pigs

Metallica - Garage Days album (original, not the re released one)

Foo Fighters - Down in the Park

 

[MarkBastard]

Do you really think Pennywise' cover of Land Down Under is good? Do you actually listen to it and say "Wow, this is a great song, I love the way they did this and that".

I just can't believe that anyone could think that.

 

[Supra-Jim]

Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage

William Shatner - Common People

Metallica - Am I Evil

Tea Party - Paint it Black

Cheers SJ