Cover Songs
 

Now, I know that Kane Knight made a thread about cover songs a few months back. But that was about covers that you thought outdid the original. This is about your favorite cover songs in general. Not necessarily better. Just enjoyable. I will share a few of my own.

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)

Kane Knight -- The Ballad of Serenity (Firefly Theme) :shifty:

i thought the flaming lips cover of queen's bohemian rhapsody was REALLY CLOSE.

but the deftones cover of weezer's say it aint so was MUCH better than the original.

almost forgot, limp bizkits cover of Michael's Faith was really good and outdid the original by a large margin.

Well, there goes your credibility. :(

:mad: it was the first song to get limp bizkit over with mainstream fans.

now i shamefully enjoy old bizkit at home :shifty:

Hurt - Johnny Cash
Enter Sandman - Motorhead

Ben Folds' bitches aint shit is amazing.

hay man ill give you a copy of my band covering american idiottt

Red House Painters - Silly Love Songs
All-Time Quarterback - Why I Cry
Galaxie 500 - Ceremony
Xiu Xiu - Asleep
Nirvana - Man Who Sold The World
Botch - Rock Lobster
Cap'n Jazz - Take On Me
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
The Flaming Lips - What a Wonderful World
Pavement - The Killing Moon
Weezer - Mrs. Robinson

I don't know, probably forgetting a bunch.

Dreamtheater - Perfect Strangers
Dreamtheater - The Big Medley
Iced Earth - Burnin' For You
Gypsy Kings - Hotel California
Van Halen - Pretty Woman
Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell

Rasputina do badass covers:

Barracuda (Heart)
Wish you were here (Pink Floyd)
Rock n Roll (Led Zep)
If your kisses can't hold your man (Tin Pan alley song)

Nickel Creek:

If tomorrow wasn't such a long time (Bob Dylan)
Spit on a stranger (Pavement)

Metallica:

Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Pantera:

Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath)

Tool:

No Quarter (Led Zep)

Alison Krauss:

Now That I've found you (I have no idea who did it originally)

Faith No More- War Pigs

All of Rage Against the Machine's Renagades of Funk..

I downloaded a live version of Incubus doing Massive attacks Teardrop and it was pretty good:y:

Yeah that's a good cover

Also
Deftones - The Chauffeur (Duran Duran)
System Of A Down - The Metro (Berlin)
Muse - Feeling Good (Nina Simone)

Off the top of my head
Rage against the machine as Kris P said
Lake of Fire-Nirvana
Turn the Page- Metallica
Everything on American Idol.....kidding.

Wait, wait, wait...Xiu Xiu covered Asleep?

I think I heard that Jimmy Hendrix's version of All Along the WatchTower was a cover.

It was by Bob Dylan originally, I think.

The Almost - Amazing, Because It Is (covers part of Amazing Grace)
Further Seems Forever - Say It Aint So (Weezer)
Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver (Dio)

Yes. Download that shit. Or I'll send it to you. Whatever you want.

And yes, All Along The Watchtower was a Bob Dylan song, and you'll notice it made my list of great covers.

Sound Tribe Sector 9 - ROY G BIV (Boards of Canada)
Nirvana - Man Who Sold The World (Bowie)
Dream Theater - Funeral For A Friend - Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (I don't know who did the original, but there are many versions, so it's def a cover)

Will Young - Hay Ya (Outkast)

Ok normally I don't like that kind of stuff, but that cover was just so warm and fuzzy

All along the Watchtower is a Dylan song.. The Dylan version is more of a folky storytelling song.. Hendrix made it an anthem..

Just found a pretty good rendition of Talking Heads' "Once In A Life Time" by The Exies.

Iced Earth - Transylvania

And all the covers on Metallica's Garage Inc album.

Pretty Woman, the Fools or Rockapella (Don't remember the original artist)
Watchtower, pretty much any versions but especially Hendrix (Dylan)
Moxy Früvous, Psycho Killer (Talking Heads), I've Gotta Get a Message to You (Beegees; I don't like the original even)
More or less any cover the Pixies did
Bauhaus, Ziggy Stardust (Bowie), Telegram Sam (Marc Bolan)
Type O Negative, Paranoid (Sabbath), Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young?)

There are more, but I'm having trouble remembering artists right now.

that killswitch engage holy diver cover is AWESOME. just listened to it for the first time.

Melvins-"Going Blind" (Kiss)
Spiderbait-"Black Betty"(can't remember the original, and yes I was one of the 2 people who saw "The Condemned," So what?)
Crowbar-"No Quarter"(Led Zeppelin)
Hank III-"Cocaine Blues"(Johnny Cash)
Johnny Cash-"Rusty Cage"(Soundgarden)
Clutch-"Who's Been Talkin'?"(Howlin' Wolf)
Mastodon-"The Bit"(Melvins)

Ben Harper's Sexual Healing and Whole Lotta Love on Live From Mars are both awesome..