Your Top 3: Favorite Covers
 

What are your favorite cover songs that bands have performed? This includes live covers and covers released on albums.
Mine are:

Metallica - "Tuesday's Gone" -- originally recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Disturbed - "Fade to Black" -- originally recorded by Metallica
Johnny Cash - "Hurt" -- originally recorded by Nine Inch Nails

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - This Night Has Opened My Eyes

Metallica - "Tuesday's Gone"
Marilyn Manson - "Sweet Dreams"
Johnny Cash - "Hurt"

I believe I hath found my long-lost Canadian brethren.

Also, Distubeds cover of "Fade to Black" is #4.

Oh and one other thing.

Know what this is?

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a guitar pick. HAHA
Just a wild guess there

I'm assuming that is a guitar pick belonging to Disturbed's guitarist?

That you got right. It belonged to John Moyer and was the one he used to close out the show, playing Down With The Sickness which incidentally is number 5 :p

I have a guitar pick signed by Willie Nelson...
that's about it. Haha.

Awesome. How did you get ahold of that?

at the moment....

Wanda Jackson - You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse cover)
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Lissie - Nothing Else Matters (Metallica cover)
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Deftones - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths cover)
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These are my three favorite for now

my lists change often as I discover new cover songs

Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush Cover)
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speaking of Lissie covers... I like her cover of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance
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Placebo - All Apologies (Nirvana Cover)
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Honorable Mention...

Lucie Silvas - Nothing Else Matters

just absolutely stunning and beautiful cover

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Nickel Creek - Tomorrow is a long time (Dylan)
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Nickel creek's cover of Britney Spear's Toxic is also legendary
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Rasputina - Wish you were here (Pink Floyd)
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Ignore the vid.

Rasputina do a bad ass cover of Heart's Barracuda as well, among other great covers.

Dixie Chicks - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)

Iced Earth - Transylvania (Iron Maiden cover)
Blind Guardian - Surfin' USA (Beach Boys cover)

No idea about number three, probably one of Fozzy's covers. Maybe Blackout (Scorpions cover).

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Jesus christ, I love how people post youtube videos in music threads. If we wanted to hear the song, we would youtube it ourselves.

Not to act bitchy, but christ.

:shifty:

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I prefer linking youtube videos, I don't really have a desire to 'youtube' something I never heard of before based on recommendation based on plain text ..

These are some of my favorite covers, don't care if I use the same band twice.

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Fiance's brother actually gave it to me for my birthday.

well man i figure its convenient that way its saving you the time to look them up and type it out, then again im lazy. and sorry i thought people needed to hear some richard cheese

KEEP POSTING THE VIDS. I can't be arsed to youtube it myself.

Lol.

How about the name and url instead of embed.

Whatever solution you guys agree with that means I only have one click to do is the best.

No particular order here.

"Shame on the Night" by Jorn (originally by Dio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4idLUzwKSA

"I Walk the Line" by Those Poor Bastards (originally by Johnny Cash)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgJkYpukzBc

"Cowboy Song" by Anthrax (originally by Thin Lizzy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtnY4D5jtMo

I really like Peter Gabriel's cover of Magnetic Field's "The Book of Love" at the moment.
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I'm a massive fan of cover songs. I'm writing a research project on cover songs for uni at the moment (well, I'm supposed to be but haven't actually done any of the writing of it yet)

At this moment in time, I'm bumming this though

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Oh and I actually really like this. Not a fan of 30 seconds to mars but this is a pretty good cover, feels a bit haunting at times.

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Bayside - Megan (Smoking Popes)

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Alkaline Trio - Wake Up Exhausted (Tegan & Sara)

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Smoking Popes - Pure Imagination (Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory Soundtrack)

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" -- Disturbed

"Shout 2000" -- Disturbed

"Land Of Confusion" -- Disturbed

No particular order.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQLtCoh5EaI

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I evidently have no grasp on how to post youtube videos but those songs are:

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen - done by Jeff Buckley
With A Little Help From My Friends by the Beatles - done by Joe Cocker
Three of a Perfect Pair by King Crimson - done by Between the Buried and Me

This.

As well as:

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(Studio version isn't on Youtube. Their whole album actually)
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Without repeating any, I currently like this quite a lot:

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(Sorry, could only find the live version on YouTube...)

Going a bit off the beaten path for a few:

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary (originally Ike & Tina Turner)

Bananarama - Venus (originally Shocking Blue)

Barenaked Ladies - Fight the Power (originally Public Enemy)

Been digging this one lately

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1, 2 & 3.
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:heart: