Best Cover Versions

[qwased]

Turisas - Rasputin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y150Lm4kZ_M

Originally a Boney M song if memory serves.

 

[neighborboy]

Cat Power - Satisfaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5P8w9Fdaps&feature=related (upbeat version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yon18DBsU_c (slow version)

I like what they do with this song because it's more interesting than "let's make a metal version of X"

 

[mrtrebus]

Cat Power - Satisfaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5P8w9Fdaps&feature=related (upbeat version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yon18DBsU_c (slow version)

I like what they do with this song because it's more interesting than "let's make a metal version of X"

In total agreement! So many covers are just lazy versions with loud guitars etc by bland metal bands!

Anyway, I like this version of Space Oddity from The Langley Schools Music Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQlxNy3wdk

 

[Becks...poamr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Johnny Cash Hurt

I wonder if anyone else has seen the Muppet video version... :eek:

 

[interceptor666]

That's not a cover. That song's been around for a long time and people think Thin Lizzy made it, but they did their own version of it. So Metallica's version of the song likewise is not a cover, since no one knows who originally wrote the song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_in_the_Jar

 

[Wickedclown]

Pantera - Electric funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--icdKMbCOo&feature=related

Insane Clown Posse - Murder Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEnNjfT-7w

Mambo Kurt - Engel :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FB513EA4DED75AE7&playnext=1&v=Q4saFXtXv9M

Everlast - Children´s story
http://www.lastfm.de/music/Everlast/_/Children's+Story

 

[STDiva]

Deftones - Sleepwalker

 

[mrtrebus]

Muppet version Jim Croce's Time In A Bottle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS4cBjCxhA

Fozzie Bear does Green Door, almost as good as Shakin' Stevens version!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHitEDkbVqE&feature=channel

Gonzo's rendition of My Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdq39OYoIWk&feature=channel

While My Guitar Gentle Weeps, Floyd Pepper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspowxpZOlY&feature=channel

 

[stainedblueyes]

Not usually a big fan of covers but occasionally a band throws something through an album which makes me sit up and take note.

HIM - Wicked Game

Drowning Pool - Rebel Yell

Wheatus - A Little respect

Black Crowes - Hard to handle

 

[amstrad]

Some of my favourites:

Jawbox - Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos)

No Doubt - It's My Life (Talk Talk)

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Micheal Jackson)

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)

Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls (Joy Division)

 

[stainedblueyes]

Some of my favourites:

Jawbox - Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos)

No Doubt - It's My Life (Talk Talk)

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Micheal Jackson)

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)

Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls (Joy Division)

Very nice!

 

[mrtrebus]

Heather Nova's version of Nick Cave's The Ship Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chzqZcuKZvw

 

[DJCowboy]

John Mayer did a good job with a Kid A cover from Radiohead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfZXZronW8

White Stripes do Death Letter originally by Son House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fM2qhG8mA4
(it's live but good still there is an album version as well)

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Nine Inch Nails - the Great Below (Covered by some indie chick, but it's dope)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn8rpOyFWhw

 

[Red Spyder]

Craddle of Filth's cover of Iron Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91h6qUikXjA

 

[mrtrebus]

The Proclaimer's version of Reckless Eric's Whole Wide World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908MNJnjSiQ&feature=related

 

[cartman24]

Between the buried and me - Three of a Perfect Pair (King Crimson cover)
*sorry can't find a working link*

 

[Jagger69]

Best cover of all time has to be The Who doing "Summertime Blues".

 

[friendsofmine]

just a few good ones

bob seger---------nutbush city limits
cake--------------war pigs
the scorpions------cant explain
stevie ray vaughn--voodoo chile

 

[alexpnz]

Oasis-Heroes (Bowie Cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGzym42eHk0