Covers that are quite different from the original song
 

I was listening to Sun Kil Moon's cover of Modest Mouse's "Ocean Breathes Salty". I think I actually like it better than the original for it's acoustic nature.

So throw out some other radically different covers, whether they're better or worse than the original.

Rasputina's cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish you were here."

Can't say I've heard the original, but Rasputina's version is hot. Cellos = Hotness :cool:

Maplebee's covers of Doris Day's "Perhaps Perhaps."

Have to say once again I've never heard the original, but Maplebee's version is bonkers.

Oh, and Rasputina made a song out of the "This Little Piggy" nursery rhyme, which to is bonkers.

Quirky women = Hotness

Just bought a fucking Rasputina CD off of pretty much what little I could find out about them after reading your post.

Awesome shit.

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt > original by NIN

Cash's version is good, but I'll always prefer the original.

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt > Anything NIN has put out, give or take 5 songs, not including Hurt.

That too

Rammstein's version of Stripped by Depeche Mode is pretty fucked. I like both versions.

That's a cover? I had no idea...

The Number Twelve Looks Like You - My Sharona

Hendrix verison of All Along The Watchtower, and Van Halen's verison of You Really Got Me

You haven't heard Pink Floyd's version of "Wish You Were Here"?
Hang your head in shame!!! :nono:

Anyways, Deadstar Assembly and Zeromancer both have great covers of "Send Me An Angel"

I love Zeromancer and DSA. :love:

Cool :cool:

Which album?

"How we quit the forest," is the best album, but that is out of print and expensive if you can find it.

Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights (The Postal Service)
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall (Oasis)
Tori Amos - 97 Bonnie & Clyde (Eminem)
Annie Lennox - Waiting In Vain (Bob Marley)
George Michael - Roxanne (The Police)
Joss Stone - Fell In Love With A Girl (White Stripes)
White Stripes - Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Robbie Williams - Ain't That a Kick in the Head (Dean Martin)

just to name a few

get yr facts straight j slugs

Graveworm - Losing My Religion

Bowie's covers in general are rather different (Not really his Pin-Ups stuff), specifically Cactus (The Pixies) and Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers) though.

Michael Hutchence's cover of The Passenger by Iggy Pop. Far better than the original IMHO.

SAME BAND.

Nevermore - The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)

*singer.

Sixpence None the Richer did a shockingly poor cover of Crowded House - Don't Dream it's Over :(

I felt like throwing my radio in a shredder.

Sepultura - Orgasmatron :shifty:

Motorhead cover btw.

Radical Recital, as that's the only one easily found apparently. I'm working on getting 'How we quit the Forest." But I'm cheap and poor, so it's a bit of a pain.

Also bought a CD by Dresden Dolls. Good shit right there.

New album is supposed to come out in April. :cool:

I still need to get their "A for Accident" live album. :(

Mushroomhead - Crazy

Botch - Rock Lobster

:y:

Throwdown - Baby Got Back

Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

Horrible, horrible cover.

I forgot A Perfect Circle's covers album. There's a bunch of songs on there but the covers of Imagine by John Lennon and What's Goin On by Marvin Gaye are pretty sweet (though some people will consider them blasphemy, no doubt)

LOL wow I just tried this out - awful.

Having said that I'm surprised someone like Lacuna Coil hasn't done a cover of Kiss From A Rose yet.

Marilyn Manson-Sweet Dreams

There's this canadian band called Out of your Mouth that does a rock cover of Madonna's "Music". Pretty good.

Also, anything from the Pink Floyd Symphonic Album.

Which reminds me, Johnny Hide did a fairly different version too.

Oh yeah, and Natalie Imbruglia's cover of Torn is pretty different from the original.

Manson's version of Sweet Dreams is really different compared to the original.

Elbow's version of Independant Woman is alot different too.

APC's version of "The Nurse who Loved Me," originally by Failure, is very different from the original. But both are pretty hot.

Fall Out Boy - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
Joey Ramone - What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
H.I.M. - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)
Saosin - Penelope (Pinback)
Thursday - Ny Batteri (Sigur Ros)
System of a Down - Damnit (Blink 182)
Godhead - Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)
LostProphets - Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - I Believe I Can Fly (R. Kelly)
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran?)
Phantom Planet - Undone, The Sweater Song (Weezer)
Sublime - No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley)
The Ataris - Butterfly (Weezer)
The Darkness - Street Spirit (Radiohead)
Nirvana - That Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie)
Nirvana - Where did you sleep last night? (Leadbelly?)
Audioslave - Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
White Stripes - Walking with a Ghost (Teagan and Sara)
Seether - You Know You Are Right (Nirvana)
Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen?)

yup, those are the ones I enjoy the most

HOLY FUCKING SHIT SEETHER DID A COVER OF YOU KNOW YOUR RIGHT

Believe the name is Lake of Fire originally done by the meatpuppets...awesome cover

Yeah, but they redid Where Did You Sleep Last Night as well.

I remember Eddie Vedder doing a cover of Sunday Bloody Sunday, without remembering too much about it it was rather different from the original.

Wait a minute....Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' is a cover? :rant::VMAD:

Hurt, Hallelujah and All Along the Watchtower are classic covers.

as for covers that sound nothing like the original - anything by Richard Cheese. Lounge versions of Rape Me, Fight For Your Right and Guerilla Radio amongst others..

Yup. It was originally done by a band called "Ednaswap."

The band also wrote songs done by Madonna and Sinead O'Connor.

Nickel Creek's version of Toxic (Britney Spears) actually kicks some serious ass (can hear it on their myspace website if you haven't had the pleasure to hear it live), especially when you have Chris Thile taking the piss throughout the song.

LOL. That reminds me. I heard Ben Patton cover "Oops, I did it agian" when he performed here. Sounded nothing like the original song.

staying on the britney theme travis used to do baby one more time in their live sets with just fran and a guitar!

rofl I forgot William Shatner's cover of Common People by Pulp. Crazy.

can someone send me these?