What's your Favorite Cover of a Song?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-06-10 08:40am

"People Are Strange" - Echo and the Bunnymen

Which has the added bonus of being used for a great film too.

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-06-10 10:20am

Favorite right now's probably "Cars"-Fear Factory and Gary Numan

Any Weird Al cover's usually good though, same with Apocalyptica.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2004-06-10 10:21am

Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad" as done by Rage Against the Machine. Marvelous.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-06-10 10:41am

Dalton wrote:
Durandal wrote:Metallica's cover of "Turn the Page" is top-notch, far, far better than the original, in my opinion.
It's very good, but it doesn't quite have the sense of loneliness that Bob Seger's version did.

For some reason, I have to say that the Metallica version captured the lone-wolf spirit better. Seger's was kind of depressing.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-06-10 10:52am

The Grateful Dead's "To Lay Me Down" as performed by the Cowboy Junkies is my fave at the moment.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-06-10 10:53am

Durandal wrote:Metallica's cover of "Turn the Page" is top-notch, far, far better than the original, in my opinion.

Goddamn Durandal, you really have to stop stealing my pics.

Indeed, Metallica's "Turn the Page" was a perfect example of how to do a cover song, keep the spirit of the original but inject more flavor.

I also have a somewhat guilty attraction to The Offspring's version of "I want to be Sedated"...

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-06-10 11:49am

GN'R's cover of Live and Let Die was pretty awesome.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2004-06-10 12:14pm

I think White Zombies covers of Sabbaths 'Children of the Grave' and KC and the Sunshine Band's 'Im Your Boogieman are top banana...

The Beatles 'Twist and Shout' is cool too.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-06-10 12:15pm

Dave Matthews' cover of All Along The Watchtower. I just remembered how much that kicks ass.

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2004-06-10 12:43pm

Can't decide between

China Drum's cover of 'Wuthering Heights'

Small dog gives head's cover of 'Who's got the crack'

Tindersticks' cover of 'If you're looking for a way out'

Sinead O'Connor's cover of 'Nothing compares 2 U'

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-06-10 07:56pm

Blind Guardian doing Surfin' USA.

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2004-06-10 10:35pm

Hrm...
For sheer accuracy, I actually like Shadows Fall's rendition of "Welcome to the Machine."
For stuff I actually like, though, Groove Daddy's cover of "Subdivisions" by Rush.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-06-10 11:47pm

All The GNR covers here mentioned are pretty good.

I also like Dave Matthews Band's cover of All Along the Watchtower and Long Black Veil (although it would be nice if Dave could be a bit more suitably morose while singing it).

The king of all covers, however, has got to be Johnny Cash's cover of Trent Reznors's Hurt. It FAR surpasses the original - Johnny really sounded like he was feeling all the pain in the world when he sang that song.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2004-06-10 11:49pm

My Ruins cover of Tainted Love. Alot better than the original, soooo much better than Mansons cover.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2004-06-10 11:58pm

My faves are:

Lisa Loeb's cover of Ozzy's Goodbye To Romance
Foo Fighter's cover of Prince's Darling Nikki
Rob Zombie's cover of The Commordores' Brick House
The Shazam's cover of ELO's Twilight
Save Ferris' cover of Dexy's Midnight Runners' Come On Eileen
The Gourds' cover of Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice
Untergangskommando's cover of Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun

....not to mention the countless covers from Me First and The Gimme Gimmes.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-06-11 09:32am

Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb, because i'm a whore for the Scissor Sisters

Travis did a godlike cover of Hit Me (Baby One More TIme) on the Mark and Lard show. When i heard it i was so impressed i fucked up a computer i was working on.

The Misfits cover of Ballrom Blitz was good

Yellowcard did a cover of Everywhere by Michelle Branch that was quite good.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-06-11 10:31am

Travis did a godlike cover of Hit Me (Baby One More TIme) on the Mark and Lard show. When i heard it i was so impressed i fucked up a computer i was working on.

its classic cos it sounds like two guys down the pub, trashed... singing Britney Spears.

I don't really understand the Scissor sisters phenomenon, who did comfortably numb first?

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-06-11 11:17am

Pink Floyd.

I like the Sissor Sisters because they make being camp a good thing again.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-06-11 11:26am

Pat Boone's cover of Enter Sandman.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-06-11 12:45pm

My Ruins cover of Tainted Love. Alot better than the original, soooo much better than Mansons cover.

I'd have to agree there.

Fear factory - Cars & School, both superior to the originals by quite a lot.

Machine Head's cover of Message in a Bottle is superior to the original too.

Cannibal Corpse's covers are good, better than their actual songs, No Remorse and Zero The Hero I think are better than the originals.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-06-11 12:53pm

OMFG I almost forgot Phish's stirring, shitkicking, hillbilly rendition of Gin and Juice

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-06-11 08:16pm

Someone, I can't remember who it was, I guess Scissors Sisters, looking at the thread, covered Floyd's Comfortably Numb, one of the few covers I like.

Let's see, Disturbed covering Shout, but only because I didn't like the original, Disturbed's version was enjoyable.

GnR, Live and Let Die.

-Damien

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-06-11 09:15pm

Richard Wainwright--Hallelujah.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-06-12 12:50am

Rasputina doing Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here or Sarah Brightman doing Kansas' Dust in the Wind.