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Guest thefrenchargel
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Sepultura doing Procreation of the Wicked is mine. I miss that band. Soulfly doesn't hold a candle to 'em.

Guest Spaceman Spiff
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Being a big Pearl Jam fan, I usually "mark" for any cover that they do (and they do *a lot*)

Guest saturnmark4life
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this country cover of Gin n Juice, don't know the artist but EVERYONE should own it. try d/loading it. No Use For A Name did a great version of beth.

Guest MaxPower27
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Hmm:

 

GNR: Knockin' On Heaven's Door

MachineHead's cover of "message in a bottle"

Kilgore's "Walk"

 

And many more!

Guest AzkulKazul
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Theory in Practice - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

Guest CoreyLazarus416
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Megadeth - "Paranoid" (originally Black Sabbath)

Megadeth - "Anarchy In The UK" (originally Sex Pistols)

Motörhead - "Louie Louie" (Kingsmen version)

Soil - "Raining Blood" (originally Slayer)

Metallica - "Astronomy" (honestly, I forget who did it first)

Metallica - "Am I Evil?" (originally Diamond Head) - Such a great cover most people think it's a Metallica original.

Guest sk8420kid
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Propagandhi- I want you to want me (Cheap Trick)

Cap'n Jazz- Take on Me (A-ha)

Voivod- Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)

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Metallica - "Astronomy" (honestly, I forget who did it first)

Blue Oyster Cult

Guest Intimacy Goblin
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Manson's version of "Tainted Love"

Any song performed by the cover band Plain Jane (local band in SC). They kick so much ass. They did a particularly good cover of Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride"

Guest Anorak
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this country cover of Gin n Juice, don't know the artist but EVERYONE should own it. try d/loading it. No Use For A Name did a great version of beth.

The cover is by a band called The Gourds, I have It on CD and its certainly pretty unique.

Guest redbaron51
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Metallica: Am I Evil

Megadeth: Paranoid

Guest M Nyland
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MachineHead's "Message In A Bottle" is really awesome...

 

 

Left Front Tire (punk band) did a cover of "Country Boy Can Survive" that is really good...

 

and any punk cover by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes is worth looking into

Guest chirs3
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Everclear's cover of the Speed Racer theme song. Awesome.

 

Pretty much everything on the first CD of Garage Inc, too.

Guest godthedog
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fourteen posts and no mention of jimi hendrix's cover of 'all along the watchtower'. pathetic. that gets my vote for greatest cover ever (and it also has my favorite guitar solo).

other favorites:

 

jeff buckley's cover of 'hallelujah' is awesome.

 

cowboy junkies' 'sweet jane' is about as good as the original.

 

soft cell's version of 'tainted love' is actually a cover, and is a hundred times better than the original.

 

the beatles did a KILLER cover of 'long tall sally'.

 

i'm sure there's more, but that's all i got for now.

Guest oldschoolwrestling
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Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World originally by David Bowie

Guest ArkhamGlobe
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fourteen posts and no mention of jimi hendrix's cover of 'all along the watchtower'. pathetic. that gets my vote for greatest cover ever

Agreed. Honorable mention goes to the Clash's version of I Fought the Law.

Guest Nevermortal
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"Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Cradle of Filth (Originally by Iron Maiden)

Guest jimmy no nose
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I like that one Easy Like a Sunday Morning song(what's the name of the song?) by Faith No More.

Guest bob_barron
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"All Along the Watchtower"- U2

"Graceland"- Willie Nelson

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I like that one Easy Like a Sunday Morning song(what's the name of the song?) by Faith No More.

That would be "Easy"

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I like the cover of Brittney Spears "Hit Me Baby One More Time" by Mr. Bungle and the cover of the Kiss tune "Going Blind" by The Melvins.

 

All the songs on Metallics "The 5.98 EP, Garage Days Revisted" are excellant covers.

Guest TheyCallMeMark
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My favourite cover is "Turn The Page" by Metallica. I think that Metallica's covers were all tremendous, but I don't think any of them really made an old time classic song classic again... But "Turn The Page" kicked ass, was better than the original but was still very true to it.

 

WHOOO~!

 

Jimi Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" was damn good but I think the degree Metallica improved "Turn The Page" outweighs this one. Then again the utter pile of shit that was the music video kind of makes me sad... I can't decide now that I think about it.

 

Screw it I'll call it a tie.

Guest evenflowDDT
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fourteen posts and no mention of jimi hendrix's cover of 'all along the watchtower'. pathetic. that gets my vote for greatest cover ever (and it also has my favorite guitar solo).

You know it only took 14 posts because I hadn't answered it yet ;)

 

Seriously though, I'm in total agreement. I've always thought of Bob Dylan as a brilliant songwriter but a terrible singer. Jimi Hendrix has also covered "Gloria", although it was more for fun than a serious song (it appears on the box-set and probably somewhere else as well) and doesn't come out as well as "All Along the Watchtower".

 

I also really like Reel Big Fish's cover of "Take On Me". Since the original song is synthesized, they split it between the horns section and distorted guitar for the intro/bridge, and sounds really sweet, like it'd make a great bouncy party song. It has so much more life than the other rock covers of the song I've heard. RBF's cover of "Hungry Like the Wolf" is also pretty good, but not better than the original.

 

Also, even though it's a karaoke version, I like the Smashing Pumpkins' cover of "Landslide" simply because I don't really like Stevie Nicks' vocals on the Fleetwood Mac original.

Guest evenflowDDT
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Seriously though, I'm in total agreement. I've always thought of Bob Dylan as a brilliant songwriter but a terrible singer. Jimi Hendrix has also covered "Gloria"...

"Gloria" of course not being by Bob Dylan but by Van Morrison. I'm pretty sure Hendrix has covered at least one other Dylan song though. I think it was "Drifter's Escape".

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Green Day - Tired Of Waiting For You

Green Day - Outsider

Offspring - Sedated

Guest Brian
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"Seriously though, I'm in total agreement. I've always thought of Bob Dylan as a brilliant songwriter but a terrible singer. Jimi Hendrix has also covered "Gloria", although it was more for fun than a serious song (it appears on the box-set and probably somewhere else as well) and doesn't come out as well as "All Along the Watchtower"."

 

I don't know. His voice comes off really well sometimes, and than it also has this warn down quality I like about it.

 

Hendrix live did alot of Dylan covers, most notably Dylan's great "Like a rolling stone".

 

Mannfred Mann doing Springsteen's"Blinded by the Light". Pretty good arrangement.

 

Why has there been no mention of Santana's "Black Magic Women". Sure they had Peter Green (I think that's who) but it was still damn good.

Guest meanmaisch
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I'm a huge U2 fan, but their version of Watchtower really sucks. They barely even knew the song when they played it and yet they still put it on Rattle and Hum.

 

Believe it or not, Radiohead does a great version of Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy and Carly Simon's Nobody Does It Better. Two cheesy songs made better.

Guest raptor
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Here's my favorites:

Green Day: Outsider, Tired of Waiting For You

Our Lady Peace: Dear Prudence, Imagine

American Hi-Fi: Surrender

Gin Blossoms: Flaming Moe's, Dead Skunk, Christine Sixteen

Metallica: Turn The Page, Sabbra Cadabra, Die Die My Darling, Last Caress, Whisky in the Jar

Barenaked Ladies: When Doves Cry

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