Little known (but good) cover songs.....

[Guest Lord of The Curry]

So I'm listening to Avril's cover of "Knocking On Heavens Door" and I actually don't hate it. In fact, I really like it. Now I'm thinking about cover songs.

 

So, what rare or unheard of cover songs do you dig? One of my personals faves (which is available for DL on Kazaa) is The Deftones doing "Say It Ain't So" by Weezer.

[Guest Shaved Bear]

I like In Flames covering "Eye of the Beholder"

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

Motorhead's cover of Enter Sandman is pretty funny.

[Guest Kibagami]

Reel Big Fish does a bitchin' cover of "Unity".

 

K.

[Guest R2DFooster McSockman]

The Flaming Lips versions of Pink Floyd's "Breathe" and "Lucifer Sam" are great.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Sepultura doing Motorhead's "Orgasmatron"

 

Sepultura doing Jello Biafra's "Biotech is Godzilla"

 

Sepultura doing "Procreation of the Wicked" by Celtic Frost.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

...and Sepultura doing "Symptom of the Universe" by Black Sabbath

[Guest eiker_ir]

Travis - Hit Me Baby One More Time is pretty funny..and good!

 

i also love the cover of Last Caress by AFI

[Guest Renegade]

I liked You spin me right round by Slaves on dope, even though the rest of the album was pretty awfull.

[Guest gangsteruwa]

AFI's cover of the Misfits "Halloween."

Vader's cover of Morbid Angel's "Immortal Rites."

[Guest BigPoppaKev]

Janes Addiction's acoustic cover of Blind Melon's No Rain is a very good cover song.

[Guest notJames]

Treepeople - "Bigmouth Strikes Again" (Smiths)

Shades Apart - "Tainted Love" (Gloria Jones, not Soft Cell)

Reel Big Fish - "Kiss Me Deadly" (Lita Ford)

Green Day - "My Generation" (The Who)

Big Drill Car - "Surrender" (Cheap Trick)

Descendents - "Wendy" (Beach Boys)

Snuffy - "Jessie's Girl" (Rick Springfield)

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Panic (Smiths)

Goldfinger - "99 Red Balloons" (Nena)

Fifteen - "Rainbow Connection" (Kermit the Frog)

Liz Phair/Material Issue - "Turning Japanese" (The Vapours)

Bouncing Souls - "I Want Candy" (Bow Wow Wow)

Lick The Tins - "Can't Help Falling In Love" (Elvis Presley)

Bigod 20 - "Like A Prayer" (Madonna)

1000 Homo DJs - "Supernaut" (Black Sabbath)

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

I've liked every single cover I've heard of "Can't Find my Way Home," as done by Joe Cocker, Alana Davis, Allison Krauss and Bonnie Raitt.

[Guest Lord of The Curry]

Travis does a great cover of "The Weight" which I first heard at the end of the film Igby Goes Down.

[rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0]

Radiohead covering Winter Wonderland is both brilliant and hilarious.

[Guest JangoFett4Hire]

Iz's version of "Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World" is pretty good...

 

Boston punk band Gang Green covered "Voices Carry" and changed the line about Falling in Love to Falling down drunk... good stuff

[Guest nl5xsk1]

Boston punk band Gang Green covered "Voices Carry" and changed the line about Falling in Love to Falling down drunk... good stuff

The best part of Gang Green doing Voices Carry is that they actually got Aimee Mann to join them for a version on one of the albums. I can't think of any other obscure cover that got the support of the original that way.

[Guest Nevermortal]

HIM doing "Rebel Yell" (David Bowie)

HIM doing "Don't Fear the Reaper" (Blue Oyster Cult)

 

Cradle of Filth doing "For Those Who Died" (Sabbat)

 

Dimmu Borgir doing "Metal Heart" (Accept)

Dimmu Borgir doing "Burn in Hell" (Twisted Sister)

[Guest Flyboy]

Fiona Apple's "Across The Universe" is good.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I liked You spin me right round by Slaves on dope, even though the rest of the album was pretty awfull.

That was actually done by Dope, not Slaves on Dope, which is a different pointless nu metal band entirely.

[Guest JangoFett4Hire]

nl5xsk1- wow, really? That's awesome...

 

Love the MDC quote by the way...

[Guest justsoyouknow]

HIM doing "Rebel Yell" (David Bowie)

Might you mean Billy Idol? Or did David Bowie have a song called "Rebel Yell" as well? I'm not too huge on the Bowie, so I'm not really sure.

[Guest starvenger]

So, what rare or unheard of cover songs do you dig? One of my personals faves (which is available for DL on Kazaa) is The Deftones doing "Say It Ain't So" by Weezer.

I've heard a Juliana Hatfield cover of "Say It Ain't So" that's pretty good.

 

Others:

- Holly McNarland, "In The Air Tonight". Pretty haunting

- Toploader, "Dancing in the Moonlight". Popular in Britain, as I understand it.

- Honourable mention to Steve Buscemi singing "True" in The Wedding Singer...

 

Goldfinger - "99 Red Balloons" (Nena)

I didn't like it, to be honest.

[Guest nl5xsk1]

Other punk covers that I like more than the original:

 

Circle Jerks: Fortunate Son, She's Having my Baby & Put a Little Love in Your Heart

Sheer Terror: Boys Don't Cry

MDC: Politician & Spanish Castle Magic

Minor Threat: (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone

Slapshot: White Rabbit

 

 

and Jango, thanks for noting the MDC quote ... I've been giving some thought to changing it and am stoked to know that it was recognized before it suffers it's unfortunate demise.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

I love the Dropkick Murphys covers of The Clash's "White Riot" and "The Guns of Brixton."

[Guest Sandman9000]

Ten Masked Men.

 

Death Metal cover band.

 

Covers include Thriller, Like A Virgin, Wonderwall, and Hit Me Baby One More Time, among others.

 

Know them. Love them. Like I have.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Slayer - "Ice Titan" (Dio)

 

Anti-Establishment - "I Disappear" (Metallica)

[Guest treble charged]

The FUBAR soundtrack has a few that I enjoy. Sum 41's cover of Helix's 'Rock You', treble charger doing April Wine's 'Roller' and Toronto's 'Your Daddy Don't Know' by the New Pornographers are probably the three best on there.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Therion covering Manowar's "Thor (The Powerhead)".

[Guest Nevermortal]

HIM doing "Rebel Yell" (David Bowie)

Might you mean Billy Idol? Or did David Bowie have a song called "Rebel Yell" as well? I'm not too huge on the Bowie, so I'm not really sure.

Yeah, Billy Idol. Brainfart there.