Best Cover Versions

mrtrebus

mrtrebus

Is there a thread about this already? Anyway I've been listening to a lot of Laibach recently who do some awesome covers, hard to choose a favourite but here's their version of Life Is Life
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SvjSu4R-8&feature=related

Vanilla Fudge's version of You Keep Me Hanging On
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWFaZgwerY

Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha with their tuvan throat singing version of Love Will Tear Us Apart
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Qr-ybO12M&feature=related
(their album Re-Covers has some other gems, like Orgasmatron & In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)

Rodrigo Y Gabriela's version of One
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjb5o2EbPpY
 
ChefChiTown

ChefChiTown

The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
I can't stand when bands play cover songs and put it on an album. It's one thing if you're playing somebody else's song at a concert, just to keep the crowd going, but when you put somebody else's song on YOUR ALBUM, I find it to be completely disrespectful.

I especially hate when bands release albums that are nothing but cover songs. Even my favorite band, Def Leppard, did that. :( Why Lep, why?
 
T

tiger1977

"Back Door Man" -The Doors
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" -Eric Clapton
"All Along The Watchtower" -Jimi Hendrix

and many, many more....too many to name
 
Legzman

Legzman

what the fuck you lookin at?
ChefChiTown said:
I can't stand when bands play cover songs and put it on an album. It's one thing if you're playing somebody else's song at a concert, just to keep the crowd going, but when you put somebody else's song on YOUR ALBUM, I find it to be completely disrespectful.

I especially hate when bands release albums that are nothing but cover songs. Even my favorite band, Def Leppard, did that. :( Why Lep, why?
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gunslingingbird

gunslingingbird

Santana - Oye Como Va
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
Metallica - Whiskey in a Jar
Guns 'n Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Van Halen - Pretty Woman
 
Patrick_S

Patrick_S

persona non grata
ChefChiTown said:
I can't stand when bands play cover songs and put it on an album. It's one thing if you're playing somebody else's song at a concert, just to keep the crowd going, but when you put somebody else's song on YOUR ALBUM, I find it to be completely disrespectful.

I especially hate when bands release albums that are nothing but cover songs. Even my favorite band, Def Leppard, did that. :( Why Lep, why?
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I´m guessing you´re not a fan of The Detroit Cobras (perhaps the best band in the world right now).

Some favourites:

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane (original by The Velvet Underground)
Whiskeytown - A Song For You (original by Gram Parsons)
The Detroit Cobras - Shout Bama Lama! (original by Otis Redding)
Nightwish - Walking In The Air (original from the movie The Snowman)
The Dictators - Slow Death (original by The Flamin´ Groovies)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Kill Surf City (original by The Beach Boys (Surf City))
The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (original by Eric Bogle)
Sahara Hotnights - Rockaway Beach (original by Ramones)
Entombed - Night of The Vampire (original by Roky Erickson)
The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (original by Black Sabbath)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (original by Nine Inch Nails)
 
PlasmaTwa2

PlasmaTwa2

The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Rammstein - Stripped

And the worst cover of all time is Guns N Roses 'Live and Let Die'. That's all the radio station here plays. What the fuck. Play the good version!
 
Kil4Thril

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