Best Cover Song
 

What band do you think has done a really great cover of a song, what band did they cover, what band are they and what song did they cover?

I've got a few that were really decent, imho.

Disturbed - Land of Confusion (Band: Genesis)
- Not a real fan of Disturbed, but their cover of this song was magnificent.

Mae - March of the Pigs (Band: Nine Inch Nails)
- Mae doesn't do hard songs, so this was something different, and lived up to the NIN version.

Anberlin - Enjoy The Silence (Band: Depeche Mode)
- One of my favourite songs of all time done really, really well.

Anberlin - Love Song (Band: The Cure)
- the 311 Version sucked ass, this version is 100% better.

Weezer - Veloria (Band: The Pixies)
- Amazing cover of a great song.

Alkaline Trio - Bye Bye Love (Band: The Cars)
- Just kinda makes me LOL.

Alkaline Trio - Children in Hear (Band: The Misfits)
- Best Misfits Cover Ever.

Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit (Artist: Dr. Dre/Snoop)
- If you haven't heard this, your life has no meaning.

Metallica - Turn the Page

Easy Star All*Stars - Karma Police (Radiohead)

"Saturday Nights All Right For Fighting" Elton John/Nickelback & Kid Rock

This has been done so many times now.

My list'll be up soon, but since I'm the only one who gives a shit, I don't feel pressed.

Are we talking about songs covered in the studio, at concerts, or both?

Some of these weren't written by the person who did them, so I'm clarifying

Johnny Hyde - Tainted Love (Originally performed by Gloria Jones)
--Better than the Manson version, IMO.

Stone Coyotes - Paranoid (Originally performed by Black Sabbath)

Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl (Originally performed by
Niell Young)

Brian May - Hot Patootie/Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? (Originally performed by the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show)

The Beatles - Slow Down and Bad Boy (Both originally performed by Larry Williams)

Hendrix - Watchtower (Dylan)

Probably misssing some.

Downloading the Me cover out of curiosity.

Okay I'm going to just name studio covers...

Pearl Jam - Love Reign O'er Me (The Who)

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson)

Rage Against The Machine - Kick Out The Jams (MC5)

Johnny Cash - Hurt (NIN)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)

AFI - My Michelle (Band: Guns 'n Roses)
AFI - Last Caress (Band: Misfits)
AFI - Head Like a Hole (Band: NIN)
AFI - Just Like Heaven (Band: The Cure)
Marilyn Manson - Five to One (Band: The Doors)
Ramones - Have You Ever Seen The Rain (Band: CCR)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Havana Affair (Band: Ramones)
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone (Band: Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Letters to Cleo (Who rock anyway) - Cruel to be Kind (Originally performed by Nick Lowe) and I Want You to Want Me (Originally performed by Cheap Trick).

type o negative/ozzy osbourse - pictures of matchstick men (originally by camper van beethoven)

Silent Scream - Children Of Bodom(Slayer)

Further Seems Forever - Bye, Bye, Bye (N'Sync)
Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver (Dio)
Face to Face - In Between Days (The Cure)

Thursday- Ever Fallen In Love
Blood Brothers- Under Pressure
Bad Brains- House Of Suffering
The Number Twelve Looks Like You- My Sharona
The Black Dahlia Murder- Paint It Black

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Cohen)
Cash - Hurt (NIN) and Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Simone - Summertime (trad.)

Off the top of my head:
Ugly Kid Joe- Cats in the Cradle
Nirvana- Lake of Fire

Peter Mulvey - Oliver's Army (Originally performed by Elvis costello) and The Ocean (Originally performed by Dar Williams)

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit (Dr. Dre)
Children of Bodom - The Final Countdown (Europe)
Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Presley)
Quicksand - How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall (Oasis)
Sun Kil Moon - Ocean Breathes Salty (Modest Mouse)

Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver (Dio)
Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - I believe I can fly (R Kelly)
H.I.M - Wicked Game (Chris Isaac)
Dio - Mr Crowley (Ozzy Osbourne)

My favorite cover song has to be A Perfect Circle's version of Imagine by John Lennon. They just gave it an amazing dark twist.

:nono:

I believe Dope does that cover, actually.

Buckley's Hallelujah is probably the greatest cover of all-time without a doubt. That song was him in so many ways.

Bruce Springsteen - Jersey Girl (Tom Waits)
Van Morrison - Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
Jimi Hendrix - Like a Rolling Stone (Dylan) and countless other Hendrix covers

Pantera - Planet Caravan


prefer it to the Sabbath original

Also:

Cannibal Corpse - No Remorse (Metallica)

Botch - Rock Lobster (B-52s)
All-Time Quarterback - Why I Cry (Magnetic Fields)
Galaxie 5000 - Ceremony (Joy Division)
Xiu Xiu - Asleep (The Smiths)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Pavement - The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen)
The Get Up Kids - Alec Eifel (Pixies)
Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Big Star)
H20 - Like A Prayer (Madonna)
Red House Painters - Silly Love Songs (Paul McCartney)
Cap'n Jazz - Take On Me (A-Ha)
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie)
Squarepusher - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
Slint - Cortez The Killer (Neil Young)
Radiohead - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
Rage Against The Machine - Microphone Fiend (Eric B. and Rakim)
Sublime - Smoke Two Joints (Bob Marley)
The Flaming Lips - What A Wonderful World (George Weiss / Bob Thiele)

Boyz II Men - Its So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday (GC Cameron)

Oh. I guess that cover is not well liked by APC fans?

Oops I Did It Again - Children Of Bodom(Britney Spears)

<font color=white>I prefer 'Oops I Did It Again'. Fucking great.</font>

Fucked up the song

Atreyu - You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)

oops i
did it again to your heart
Got Lost
in this game oo baby
Oops you
think im in love from above o o o o

I quite like all the covers Metallica did on the Damage Inc. album, accept the Motorhead ones... not really a fan of Motorhead.

Covering Stone Cold Crazy is probably the best thing Metallica has ever done.

:mad:

Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)

Pearl Jam - Fuck Da Police (N.W.A.)

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (Gotham) (Originally performed by David Bowie) and Telegram Sam (Originally performed by MArc Bolan)

Arsis - Things she said ( OA: Depeche mode ) A well-crafted death metal rendition of a depeche mode song.

Arsis - Roses on White lace (OA: Alice Cooper ) Another awesomely done death metal cover.

Angry Samoans - Somebody to Love ( OA: The Great Society ) A punk rendition of the classic 60's song.

Minutemen - Have you ever seen the Rain? (OA: CCR ) A punk/funk cover from the greatest punk band to ever exist; outdoes the original by leaps and bounds.

Minutemen - Dr.Wu (OA: Steely Dan ) Another folkish punk version of a Steely Dan tune. Outdoes the original by leaps and bounds as well.

Love - My Little Red book ( OA: Burt Bacharach ) Cover by one of the greatest rock bands to come out of the 60's and outdoes the original, too bad the White stripes butchered it later.

Sun City Girls - The Shining Path (OA: Peruvian Trad Folk ) Avante-garde Alt-rock version of a classic folk song that captures the essence of the old west like nothin' else.

Buffalo Tom does a great cover of Going Underground by the Jam.

I likethe Jam, but I love their version (Which doesn't sound much like the original)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIUJg8-W5RE

That's really good. Cornell covers Zeppelins "Thank You".

Hurt - Johnny Cash (NIN)
Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica (?)
Please Mr. Postman - The Beatles (The marvels)
Help - John Farnham (The Beatles)
(Don't fear) The reaper - HIM (Blue Oyster Cult)
Hallelueja (sp?) - Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen)

Rasputina - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
Rasputina - Barracuda (Heart)
Dresden Dolls - War Pigs (Black sab)
Faith No More - Easy (Commodores)
Nickel Creek - If tomorrow wasn't such a long time (Dylan)
Nickel Creek - Toxic (Britney Spears), it is quite good

Two I heard recently that just amazed me

Anberlin - There is a Light that Never Goes Out. (The Smiths)
Anberlin - The Promise (When In Rome)

WHOA, WHOA, WHOA...Hold it right there...

You sir, can STFU. I will not have 311 bashing going on around here. Got it? Okay, now that I got that taken care of...

1) 311 - Love Song (The Cure)
2) Van Halen - You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
3) Rufio - Like A Prayer (Madonna)
4) Futher Seems Forever - Bye Bye Bye (N'Sync)
5) Rage Against The Machine - Fuck Tha Police (NWA)
6) Johnny Hyde - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones)
*The Manson one is decent, but I prefer this one
7) Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson)
8) Pearl Jam - Love Reign Over Me (The Who)

9) Guns N Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan)

Jeff Buckley covering The Smiths' I Know It's Over

http://www.sonymusic.com/clips/selec..._full_smil.mov

i think fryza has been listening to punk goes 90's

the number twelve looks like you - my sharona
ryan adams - wonderwall
halifax - straight up (paula abdul )

<font color=white>Song was fucking horrible.</font>

yeah atreyu kinda messed up there

Clearly Ben Folds- Bitches Ain't Shit

Not IMO, but it's cool. :y:

10) Van Halen - Pretty Woman

Yeah this was awesome.

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Whisky in the jar was originally by Thin Lizzy btw.
Just thought I'd add that seeing as you didn't seem to know :y:

Renegades by RATM was a great album, loved Fuck Tha Police (NWA), Maggies Farm (Bob Dylan) and Renegades Of Funk (Afrika Bambaata or whatever they're called) covers.

HIM-Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
HIM- LArger the Life (Backstreet Boys)

Pistol Grip Pump is great too...

I was actually gunna go with Rage Against the Machine- Fuck the Police of the Live and Rare album.

That would have been better if it wasn't one verse ollowed by like 5 minutes of ZDLR saying "Fuck the police" over and over.

Fred Durst could do some really good covers. I actually liked the cover of Blue Eyes too.

Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit really were never as bad as everyone started to act like.

I'm listening to it right now and you're wrong.

Limp Bizkit - Faith (George Michael)

lol @ kane knight neg repping me cause he was wrong. What a fucking loser. Please let us know when you lose your virginity you dumb sack of shit.

LOL @ you whining about it. What a fucking loser.

(If you're wondering why I didn't copy the "lose your virginity" bit, we all know better than to think you ever will)

Marilyn Manson - 'Sweet Dreams' (Eurthymics)

Failure - Enjoy the Silence

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Handle With Care (Travling Wilburys)

Bruce Dickinson - The Zoo

Easily the best cover I've heard. The man takes a blah song by The Scorpions and turns it into a great song.

Johnny Cash- Hurt (NIN)

This is my favorite cover song in the history of mankind.

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Tone Loc did it better.

Dimmu Borgir - Burn In Hell (Twisted Sister cover)

Metallica - Die Die My Darling (Misfits)