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.