Best Covers You've Ever Heard

[Guest DiabloIIFreak1010]

Mine has to be System Of A Down's "Damnit" (Blink 182 Cover) They took it, slowed it down, made it very depressing, and even put it on Acoustic. Just amazing. I loved it.

[Guest The Man in Blak]

Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" would have to be at the top of my list. Just an amazing guitar de force that sounds very little like the original Dylan-penned track.

 

Nirvana's cover of "In the Pines" (or "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", as they call it) on their Unplugged session should get some props as well.

[Guest Incandenza]

Whenever this thread pops up, I delight in being able to once again express my love for Talking Heads' glorious redo of Al Green's "Take Me to the River." Also, let me pimp Elvis Costello's "(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding," as well as give a shout out to Burning Sensations, for their channeling the spirit of Lou Reed to do a cover of the Modern Lovers' "Pablo Picasso."

[Guest Harry Hood]

If you like Jimi's cover of Watchtower than you should try Dave Matthew's Watchtower. I really like the Will It Go Roun din Circles and Sneakin' Sally through tthe Alley covers done by Phish. Dave's cover of Redemption song is real good. Sublime had a nice cover of Scarlet Bergonia's, originally by the DEad. There are many manhy more I'm fogetting to, which I'll prob. get to later.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Dave Matthews' cover of watchtower is pathetic. Hendrix totally smokes it in every single aspect, IMO.

 

I really dig Tool's covers of No Quarter and Daytripper.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

Favorite Cover Songs:

 

"Black Sabbtah"-Type O Negative(Black Sbabbath)

"No Quarter"-TOOL(Led Zeppelin)

"Just My Imagination(Running Away With Me)-Rolling Stones(Tempations)

"Cop Killer"-Soundgarden(Body Count)

"See Emily Play"-David Bowie(Pink Floyd)

"Perfect Strangers"-Dream Theater(Deep Purple)

"Last Caress/Green Hell"-Metallica(Misfits)

[Guest Harry Hood]

Yeh Tool's cover of No Quarter is damn fine.

 

But I still stand by my guns that Dave's watchtower is fantastic.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

SOUNDGARDEN DID COP KILLER?????

 

what the fuck...

[Guest The Man in Blak]

Hendrix's "Watchtower" is like standing right in the middle of a Vietnamese firefight.

 

Dave's "Watchtower" is like a junkie smoking a blunt and watching a documentary about Vietnam, thinking that it must have been "pretty killer" to have been over there.

 

There's absolutely no comparison.

 

I'll tack on another song to the list, though:

 

nine inch nails' take on "Dead Souls" (Joy Division)

[Guest Harry Hood]

OK, does anyone else find it incredibly rage inducing when you hear someone call a song an original when it's a remake, like if someone talks about how great a song Metallica's whiskey in the jar is, or pearl jam's last kiss?

[Guest spiny norman]

I agree with Talking Heads's Take Me To The River, that was great.

 

John Lennon's version of Stand By Me is brilliant.

 

Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U killed the Prince original.

 

Freddie Mercury's The Great Pretender

Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (obviously)

 

Plus, I thought the Moulin Rouge version of Roxanne was really really good.

[Guest raptor]

Our Lady Peace: Imagine (John Lennon), Dear Prudence (The Beatles)

Stone Temple Pilots: Revolution (John Lennon)

Stevie Ray Vaughn: Little Wing, Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix), Tick Tock (Bob Marley), Pipeline

Jason Wade: You Belong To Me (Patsy Cline)

Gin Blossoms: Carrie Anne, Dead Skunk, The Flaming Moe Song

No Doubt: Suspicious Minds (Elvis)

[Guest Incandenza]

Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U killed the Prince original.

Technically, Prince didn't record that song until after Sinead O'Connor scored a hit with it.

 

I also want to add the Flaming Lips' covers of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and Radiohead's "Knives Out" are both excellent, AND superior to the originals.

[Guest Nevermortal]

OK, does anyone else find it incredibly rage inducing when you hear someone call a song an original when it's a remake, like if someone talks about how great a song Metallica's whiskey in the jar is, or pearl jam's last kiss?

To be fair, Whiskey in the Jar is not really credited to one band....its an Irish Drinking Song.

 

But Metallica was definitely inspired by Thin Lizzy's, no question.

[Guest Sassquatch]

AC/DC - "Iron Man"

Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"

Soundgarden - "Come Together"

[Guest Harry Hood]

This was a post fo mine at another board

 

OK Here goes, hopefully this doesn't go on too long:

Best:

Fire - Phish, orig. Jimi

Cities - Phish, orig. Talking Heads

Good Times Bad Times - Phish, orig. Led Zeppelin

Jesus Just Left Chicago - Phish, orig. ZZ Top

Terrapin- Phish, orig. Syd Barrett

Uncle Pen - Phish, orig. Traditional

Bold as Love - Phish, orig. Jimi

Walk Away - Phish, orig. ???

Also Sprach Zarathrusta- Phish, orig. Deodato

Funky Bitch - Phish, orig. Son Seals

Ya Mar - Phish, orig. The Mustangs?

Frankenstein- Phish, orig. Edgar Winter

Johnny B. Goode- Phish, orig. Chuck Berry

Emotional Rescue - Phish, orig Rolling Stones

Loving Cup - Phish, orig. Rolling Stones

Trenchtown Rock - Phish, orig. Bob MArley

Boogie on Reggae Woman - Phish, orig. Stevie Wonder

Wipeout - Phish, orig ???

Beauty of my Dreams - Phish, orig. Del Mcoury Band

Oh yeh and the

Phish Covered Albums : Quadrophenia, White Album, Loaded, Remain In Light, and Dark Side of the Moon

Interstellar Overdrive - Pearl Jam, orig. Pink Floyd

SMB Theme - Ulu

SMB Theme - Mr. Bungle

All Along the Watchtower- Dave MAtthews Band, orig. Bob Dylan

Long Black Veil - Dave Matthews Band, orig. can't remember

Gin and Juice - the Gourds

 

Worst:

Terrapin Station - Phish, sorry noone can ever cover this tune...

D'Yer M'ker- Sheryl Crow, Stone Temple Pilots

 

Otehr good ones on my playlist's are:

Joe Cocker - She Came in thourhg The Bathroom Window, the Beatles

Joe Cocker - With a Litlte Help from my friends , the beatles

DMB - Wild Horses, Rolling Stones

99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger, Nena

Watchtower- Jimi, Bob Dylan

Most Zeppelin Blues Songs

Black - OAR, Pearl Jam

Take on Me - Reel Big Fish, A-Ha

Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac

DMB - Waste, Phish

Seaweed - Go YOur Own Way, Fleetwood Mac

No Use for a ?Name - Redemption Song, Bob Marley

[Guest Respect The 'Taker]

OK, does anyone else find it incredibly rage inducing when you hear someone call a song an original when it's a remake, like if someone talks about how great a song Metallica's whiskey in the jar is, or pearl jam's last kiss?

To be fair, Whiskey in the Jar is not really credited to one band....its an Irish Drinking Song.

 

But Metallica was definitely inspired by Thin Lizzy's, no question.

And what a great drinking song it is..

 

Personally, i think Metallica's cover of 'Am I Evil?' is done to perfection, so much so that i prefer it over the original.

 

When it comes to covers, few do it better than Metallica.

 

Illusion - Won't go there with GNR

[Guest Sassquatch]

I did like Metallica's cover "Die, Die My Darling" better than the Misfits original version.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I like metallica's cover of that one Ja Rule song......oh wait.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

I did like Metallica's cover "Die, Die My Darling" better than the Misfits original version.

I agree here. While I like the Misfits, Metallica kicked that songs ass. I also would like to state that I agree with Illusion about "Am I Evil?". That is one of the five best covers I've ever heard. It's almost too good.

 

Oh, and the Soundgarden version of "Cop Killer" is from a UK Import I have entitled Digging the Garden of Sound. It's live from 1993, and it's just as badass as it gets. There's also a killer tune entitled "Kyle Petty, Son of Richard" that cracks me up.

[Guest godthedog]

yes! i get to be the first one to mention jeff buckley's cover of 'hallelujah' this time! (originally by leonard cohen)

 

there's also cowboy junkies' cover of 'sweet jane' (by VU).

 

tori amos's version of 'new age' (ibid) is really growing on me too. and her cover of '97 bonnie and clyde' is CREEPY.

 

nirvana did a cool ass cover of 'here she comes now' (ibid).

 

i don't know if paul mccartney's reworking of 'golden slumbers' can be considered a cover, since he changed the tune, but that's one of the greatest songs ever recorded.

 

mazzy star did a version of 'wild horses' that i prefer to the stones.

 

some beatles covers: 'money', 'twist and shout', and ESPECIALLY 'long tall sally'.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

That Mazzy Star cover of "Wild Horses" is fantastic. I love that chick's voice.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Motörhead - "Enter Sandman" (Metallica)

Kilgore - "Walk" (Pantera)

Monstrosity - "Angel of Death" (Slayer)

Dark Funeral - "Dead Skin Mask" (Slayer)

Hate - "Post Mortem" (Slayer)

Slayer - "Ice Titan" (Dio, I think)

Fozzy - "Blackout" (Scorpions)

Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower" (Dylan)

Jimi Hendrix - "Hey Joe" (I forget who originally did it, but I know Hendrix covered it)

Metallica - "Turn the Page (Bob Seger)

Metallica - "Astronomy" (Blue Oyster Cult)

Metallica - "Am I Evil?" (Diamond Head)

Sepultura - "Orgasmatron" (Motörhead)

Iced Earth - "Transylvania" (Iron Maiden)

Black Label Society - "Snowblind" (Black Sabbath)

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

Megadeth - "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath)

Shadows Fall - "Welcome To The Machine" (Pink Floyd)

Six Feet Under - "Piranha" (Exodus)

Six Feet Under - "War Machine" (KISS)

Six Feet Under (f/ John Bush) - "Blackout" (Scorpions)

Bruce Dickinson - "The Zoo" (Scorpions)

Cradle Of Filth - "Hallowed Be Thy Name" (Iron Maiden)

Soulfly - "Refuse/Resist" (Sepultura) {{kind of a cheap choice, but different bands}}

[Guest Incandenza]

I thought it was the Sundays that did a "Wild Horses" cover, not Mazzy Star.

[Guest Harry Hood]

On my computer i have versions of both sweet jane and wild horses by mazzy star, but i'm not relaly a big fan of either, although i do like her as a singer

[Guest EricMM]

I'd like to say that Goldfinger's cover of Rio is excellent, as well as their covers of 99 Red Balloons and Miles Away.

 

But that's of course because, goldfinger is awwsome! Although with the lastest album we're ecking into "was" territory...

[Guest godthedog]

That Mazzy Star cover of "Wild Horses" is fantastic. I love that chick's voice.

mmm...hope sandoval. i got a picture of her pinned up on my wall. she's wearing a thin t-shirt, with a little nipple action.

 

their one big album, 'so tonight that i might see', is also fantastic. one of the great lost records of 1993.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

I've got the Sundays cover of "Wild Horses," but must check out this Mazzy Star business.

 

Also, it's not exactly a standard, but I found a live cover of Elliott Smith doing John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." Absolutely heartbreaking and great--exactly the kind of song that fits him.

 

All the more reason to make me think that Elliott Smith is the rightful heir to the various Beatles' retired pop crown...

[Guest The Man in Blak]

Actually, I've always been find of Lou Reed's rocked out version of "Jealous Guy"...though, in all reality, I'm not sure you can really drek up such a good song.

[Guest Kibagami]

7 Seconds' cover of 99 Red Balloons owns. As does Lagwagon's "Kids In America".

 

K.