Most awesome cover ever.
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Most awesome cover ever.
Listening to a friends music collection, they had the following song:
Tom Jones, covering Leadbelly's Black Betty.
Find the album "Mr Jones" by him to hear it. Quite something else. After the initial minute of literally, uncontrollable tears streaming from the eyes laughter I recovered enough to dub the song: awesome.
Tom Jones, covering Leadbelly's Black Betty.
Find the album "Mr Jones" by him to hear it. Quite something else. After the initial minute of literally, uncontrollable tears streaming from the eyes laughter I recovered enough to dub the song: awesome.
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Unto Ashes' cover of B.O.C.'s 'Don't Fear the Reaper' is, in my book, the best cover ever. It completely changed the pace and mood of the song so that I love it just as much as the original, but can't compare to two because, aside from being the same song, they're worlds apart.
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Metallica didn't stray all that far from Bob Seger's version with 'Turn the Page', did they?
You gotta love Guns 'n Roses' cover of the Stones' 'Sympathy for the Devil', especially when Slash goes out of control near the end. Sweet!
I dunno if it ranks as 'awesome' but it's definately one of the greatest covers ever: Johnny Cash doing 'Hurt' which IIRC is originally a Nine Inch Nails song. That gives me the shivers everytime.
You gotta love Guns 'n Roses' cover of the Stones' 'Sympathy for the Devil', especially when Slash goes out of control near the end. Sweet!
I dunno if it ranks as 'awesome' but it's definately one of the greatest covers ever: Johnny Cash doing 'Hurt' which IIRC is originally a Nine Inch Nails song. That gives me the shivers everytime.
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I alwyas liked In Flames' cover of Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts". Nothing like a death-metal band covering a synth-pop band.
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The soul of the song remains the same, but in my opinion, it's an improvement.SiegeTank wrote:Metallica didn't stray all that far from Bob Seger's version with 'Turn the Page', did they?
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Hmm. I guess the rock cover of the Russian national anthem in my sig would qualify.
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Onward Christian Soldiers, / Onward Buddhist Priests.
Onward, Fruits of Islam, / Fight 'till you're deceased.
Fight your little battles, / Join in thickest fray;
For the Greater Glory / of Dis-cord-i-a!
Yah, yah, yah, / Yah-yah-yah-yah plfffffffft!
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Onward, Fruits of Islam, / Fight 'till you're deceased.
Fight your little battles, / Join in thickest fray;
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They made it a bit more metal and (In my own opinion) vastly overdid the sax-riff of the original.SeigeTank wrote:Metallica didn't stray all that far from Bob Seger's version with 'Turn the Page', did they?
I think it's okay, but I think it doesn't hold a candle to the original.
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Hell yeah, that's a no brainer. Superior in every way to the original: None of Dylan's warblings and 60% of the song is Hendrix's insane guitar work.Bertie Wooster wrote:I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but Jimi Hendrix's cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" has to be the best cover of all time.
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I'd like to third Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower." He didn't just cover it, he made it his own.
I'd also like to bring up George Thorogood's version of John Lee Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer."
I'd also like to bring up George Thorogood's version of John Lee Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer."
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Some of the above may be better on technical merit, but as a geek and ska fan I heartily recommend seeing Skavoovie and the Epitones live if you have similar taste and get the chance, for their awesome revved-up 11-piece cover of the theme to Batman: the Animated Series. It's on one of their albums too, but they play it fairly straight there.
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Just last night I heard Ozzy Osbourne and Dweezil Zappa covering Stayin' Alive.
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