Best Song Covers

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  • miranda_mom
    miranda_mom Posts: 873 Member
    Gary Jules-Mad World (better than the Tears for Fears original, IMO)
    Cowboy Junkies- Sweet Jane
    Nirvana-Man Who Sold the World

    I know there are many others I am forgetting, but these are the first to come to mind

    ETA: Jeff Buckley-Halleluja (how could I forget that one!)

    You stole all of mine! No fair!

    BTW, you clearly have excellent taste in music.
  • rbl1225
    rbl1225 Posts: 235 Member
    I think I will have to go back pretty far and say Elvis when he did blue suede shoes
  • MandaPaigeSparkles88
    MandaPaigeSparkles88 Posts: 1,289 Member
    Limp Bizkit did an awesome cover of George Michael's Faith I love that song!!!
  • JPod279
    JPod279 Posts: 722 Member
    Foo Fighters cover of Band on the Run. I can't listen to it without crankin the chit out of it.
  • misskerouac
    misskerouac Posts: 2,242 Member
    Foo Fighters cover of Band on the Run. I can't listen to it without crankin the chit out of it.

    I often watch Dave Grohl's cover of "Tiny Dancer" on the Craig Kilborne show on YouTube. It's not even that great, hah, but there is something about it that I love.
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    Whiskey In the Jar - Metallica

    45 - Shinedown

    There was also one that Pearl Jam covered but now I can't remember the name! It was a song from the 50's I believe about a young couple who's car stalled on railroad tracks and got hit by the train. The girl died.

    Last Kiss - good call

    Yes! THANK YOU! It's been driving me nuts...
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    Gary Jules-Mad World (better than the Tears for Fears original, IMO)
    Cowboy Junkies- Sweet Jane
    Nirvana-Man Who Sold the World

    I know there are many others I am forgetting, but these are the first to come to mind

    ETA: Jeff Buckley-Halleluja (how could I forget that one!)



    You stole all of mine! No fair!

    BTW, you clearly have excellent taste in music.

    Why, Thank You!
  • DonniesGirl69
    DonniesGirl69 Posts: 644 Member
    Metallica covering Bob Segar's "Turn the Page"
  • stephenglover
    stephenglover Posts: 87 Member
    Shinedown's Simple Man

    This, by far is one of the best ever covers, especialy acoustic.
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  • stephenglover
    stephenglover Posts: 87 Member
    Guns 'n Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's Door

    Love this one.

    Another great on and the Chili Peppers doing Higher ground.
  • stephenglover
    stephenglover Posts: 87 Member
    BEST COVER EVAH!!!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

    Oh how I hated this guy, my wife will play it if it's on just to bug me,haha1!
  • lmbame905
    lmbame905 Posts: 83 Member
    Pearl Jam-- The Who's "Love Reign O'er me"

    This. Chills every time. :)
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now

    and I could be wrong, but did 311 do a cover of a UB40 song?
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    Johnny Cash singing the Nine Inch Nail's song "Hurt." It's heart-wrenching, I cry every time I hear it.

    A distant second is A Perfect Circle's remake of "Imagine."
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
    Umbrella -- The Baseballs.

    41564987456154896 times better than the original.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM2177pHMT0
  • dane11235813
    dane11235813 Posts: 682 Member
    Pearl Jam - sittin' on the dock of the bay (live)

    that kinda dorky guy on you tube who covered the LMFAO song - i think he did an awesome job!
  • trhjrh06
    trhjrh06 Posts: 2,272 Member
    This
    > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Oc8iT6d2M

    Wow, never heard of this guy before. He is amazingly talented.
  • afrazier128
    afrazier128 Posts: 99 Member

    Hurt - Johnny Cash

    Love this remake! Ah-MAZING!

    ~ I also like Social Distortion's remake of Ring of Fire and Dead Kennedys I Fought the Law ~
  • dietingqueen
    dietingqueen Posts: 26
    Tainted Love Marilyn Manson but I also love it by Soft Cell saying that I love any version of this song .
  • bassmanlarry
    bassmanlarry Posts: 117 Member
    I have to say any cover Johnny Cash did (Hurt, Rusty Cage, One, Personal Jesus). He had a way of taking any song and making it his own. Not sure if they count as covers since they don't appear on any album, but the Civil Wars' covers of Michael Jackson's Billy Jean and the Smashing Pumpkins' Disarm are amazing. Both can be found on YouTube.
  • trhjrh06
    trhjrh06 Posts: 2,272 Member
    I'm a GLEEK so IMO I think Glee did an amazing cover of

    Queen's Somebody To Love:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQj4i4awhY&feature=related

    &&&&

    Journey's Don't Stop Believin'
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxPyUzWSPA
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member

    Hurt - Johnny Cash

    Love this remake! Ah-MAZING!

    ~ I also like Social Distortion's remake of Ring of Fire and Dead Kennedys I Fought the Law ~

    YES!!!
  • laurenkoszola
    laurenkoszola Posts: 101 Member
    NOt sure who it is originally by but 311 redid "Love Song"...one of my faves!
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    Hurt - Johnny Cash

    FTW
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    NOt sure who it is originally by but 311 redid "Love Song"...one of my faves!

    The Cure did that song originally and it has been covered a couple of times. And let's just face facts... all these covers wouldn't be so good unless the original was completely awesome... and it is...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXCKLJGLENs
  • bassmanlarry
    bassmanlarry Posts: 117 Member
    ZZ Top's new song Gotsa Get Paid is kind of a cover of the song 25 Lighters on My Dresser.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I'm a big Metallica fan, but they should have left Turn The Page and Whiskey In The Jar alone. The originals are better.

    Pearl Jam does a great 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away'
    Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
    The Turtles - It Ain't Me Babe
    The Ramones - Out Of Time and Needles And Pins
    The Clash and Tom Petty do good versions of I Fought The Law
    Bruce Springsteen's version of Trapped
    Cream doing Crossroads!
    The Beatles - Please Mister Postman
    Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
    Eddie Money - You Really Got A Hold On Me (The Beatles version isn't too shabby either)
    J Geils Band - Where Did Our Love Go? (smoking!)
    Gary Jules - Mad World
    Linda Ronstadt - It Doesn't Matter Any More
  • 76tech
    76tech Posts: 1,455 Member
    Flickerstick - Fade Into You
    (awesome in it's own right, and means a lot to me. good stuff.)

    Johnny Cash - Hurt
    (In this case, I think the cover is so much more meaningful than the original. And I love NIN)

    Gary Jules - Mad World
    (Love this version)
  • spicypepper
    spicypepper Posts: 1,016 Member
    The Ramones - Needles and Pins!

    http://youtu.be/__F5bfTJlfY

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