Best cover songs

JustTheBeebs
JustTheBeebs Posts: 124 Member
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I love my music, especially when a good band or artist does an amazing cover of a song that changes the whole sound of it.
My favourite at the moment is this EPIC (in my opinion) cover of Limp Bizkit's - Break Stuff.
The band is a small American outfit that i started to listen to in October when they were supporting Bowling For Soup on their UK tour! Check out the cover and some of their other songs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRQEknqwyJU
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  • LadyZephyr
    LadyZephyr Posts: 286 Member
    I LOVE Tori Amos's covers of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana and I Don't Like Mondays by Boomtown Rats. I'm totally addicted to a string quartet cover of Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas right now too, it's beautiful, and it's KANSAS. I quite like Birdy's cover album, she does great covers of Shelter by The XX and Skinny Love by Bon Iver.
    One of my all-time favourite covers though is Metallica doing Whiskey in the Jar.
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    Pearl Jam-Last Kiss
  • JamieG8991
    JamieG8991 Posts: 1,203 Member
    Bonfire did Stroke by Billy Squire and Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd and they did an awesome job in my opinion.
  • LindseyAlyssa
    LindseyAlyssa Posts: 156
    Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix's cover of 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2GCa-_nyU
  • xXxHBICxXx
    xXxHBICxXx Posts: 370 Member
    Avenged Sevenfold's cover of Pantera's 'Walk' and Foo Fighter's cover of Prince's 'Darling Nikki' are two of my favs
  • Allie_71
    Allie_71 Posts: 1,063 Member
    Two that are different from each other :)

    War Pigs Covered by Faith No More

    The Boxer Covered by Mumford and Sons.
  • jmmcs
    jmmcs Posts: 46 Member
    Ozzy Osbourne- Stayin' Alive
  • daveymac1
    daveymac1 Posts: 784 Member
    Jailhouse Rock- Motley Crue
  • daybehavior
    daybehavior Posts: 1,319 Member
    My some of my favorites

    Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Muse
    Creep - Powerman 5000
    Lithium - Vice Squad
    Blue Monday - Orgy
    Superstar - Sonic Youth
    Tourniquet - Rasputina
    Always On My Mind - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
    Across the Universe - Rufus Wainwright
  • Tat2dDom0105
    Tat2dDom0105 Posts: 661
    Thank You - Chris Cornell and Duran Duran

    War Pigs - Faith No More

    Rock and Roll - Heart

    Pretty Woman - Van Halen
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    If we are talking making a cover 'your own' there is one stand out for me ...

    Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower.
  • chefgirl866
    chefgirl866 Posts: 34
    Bohemian Rhapsody by Puscifer
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    :heart:
    Just want it in my topics for later.
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  • Crankstr
    Crankstr Posts: 3,958 Member
    One of my all time favorites is Chris Cornell's version of Billy Jean. It just changed the way I hear that song.

    yes.
  • Brewster1215
    Brewster1215 Posts: 247 Member
    Anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    Hurt - Johnny Cash
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Earth, Wind and Fire - Got to Get You Into My Life
  • emmymcq
    emmymcq Posts: 278 Member
    Halestorm - Bad Romance (Lady GaGa cover)

    Otep- Breed (Nirvana cover)

    System of a Down - Snowblind (Black Sabbath cover)

    Van Halen - Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
  • Wuggums
    Wuggums Posts: 339 Member
    Hurt - Johnny Cash

    Beat me to it. This is probably one of my all time favorite covers. The other would be Marty Casey's cover of Britney Spear's Hit Me Baby One More Time.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Thirteen- Johnny Cash

    Edit~ Just about any song of Sublime was done better than the original IMHO
  • theCarlton
    theCarlton Posts: 1,344 Member
    John Legend - Rollin' in the Deep (he does it acapella)
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    If we are talking making a cover 'your own' there is one stand out for me ...

    Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower.

    I was just about to say Dave Matthews Band for that too and when they perform Cortez the Killer
  • melsy21
    melsy21 Posts: 193 Member
    Surfin bird by the ramones
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
    Noah Guthrie- Sexy and I know it, not that the song is any good but what he does to it is amazing.
  • TattednPierced
    TattednPierced Posts: 358
    A lot of people bash cover songs for some reason.
    I personally don't find anything wrong with a band doing their own rendition of a song.

    I really enjoy Bullet For My Valentine's cover of Crazy Train.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiZ_ibmIWNE
  • agirlscamaro
    agirlscamaro Posts: 175 Member
    Fiver Finger Death Punch's "Bad Company" and Johnny Cash's "hurt".
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    Metallica - Turn the Page
    Matisyahu - Message in a bottle
  • feliligram
    feliligram Posts: 45
    Fall out boy does a pretty decent job on "beat it"
  • cscovel
    cscovel Posts: 13 Member
    Fiver Finger Death Punch's "Bad Company" and Johnny Cash's "hurt".
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