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Here are the Arctic Monkeys covering Nick Cave's - Red Right Hand .
INXS covering the Loved Ones - The Loved One .
Beck Covering INXS's Need you Tonight .
My favourite Pearl Jam cover - the Hunters & Collectors song Throw your arms around me .
I still like the original better though...
Lily Allen covering The Clash's Straight to Hell
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Blind Guardian covers Mr Sandman
Blind Guardian covers Barbara Ann
Rage covers Paint it Black
Gamma Ray covers It's a Sin
Gamma Ray Covers Return to Fantasy
Atrocity covers Shout
Atrocity covers The Great Commandment
Disturbed covers Land of Confusion
Saxon covers You've got another thing coming
Jazzkantine covers Highway to Hell
Jazzkantine covers Jump
Hayseed Dixie covers Ace of Spades
J.B.O. "covers" Roots Bloody Roots
Leaves' Eyes cover Scarborough Fair
Leaves's Eyes cover To France
Van Canto covers Rebellion
Van Canto covers Fear of the Dark
Can Canto covers Master of Puppets
+1 to Van Canto, they can even make Metallica sound good.
Running Free Iron Savior
Hellion/Electric Eye Iron Savior
Neon Knights Iron Savior
Metal seems to be the flavor here so far, but for a switch, I think The Cure did a pretty good job with World in My Eyes.
the Bird and the Bee- I can't go for that.
Also their version of Psycho Killer from the Talking Heads.
Snake River Conspiracy's version of The Cure's Love Song
Although I would love to hear someone like Sara Brightman do a remake of Warlock's Love Song. As strong as Doro Pesch's vocals are it would need to be another really strong voice.
Eliza Doolittle's version of Cee-Lo's F@#$ You
Rodrigo y Gabriella- Stairway to Heaven Not my favorite version the studio track is really really good.
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley on the Theremin
G3 (Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, & Joe Satriani) doing Red House by Jimi Hendrix
Ramones- California Sun among other covers through out their career.
love the Lilly Allen cover 8th Dwarf
G3 (Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, & Joe Satriani) doing Red House by Jimi Hendrix
love the Lilly Allen cover 8th Dwarf
Thanks Dragonsong for G3 - I have always loved Vai and Satriani... I didn't know that they gigged together - I like the cover of Voodoo Child with Malmsteen.
I like this cover of Seven Nation Army By CW Stoneking (you have to sit through a bit of an interview first but its worth it.
Thanks Dragonsong for G3 - I have always loved Vai and Satriani... I didn't know that they gigged together - I like the cover of Voodoo Child with Malmsteen.
Yea that's a good one. I am certainly not one of those, "You cannot like Vai if you like Satriani". Now to get them to grab Jeff Beck, and some of the other brilliant guitarist out there for like G20.
"Band on the Run" by Foo Fighters
I don't have a link, but I always liked Primus' cover of Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar"
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An awesome cover of a cover! An a cappella take of the Battlestar Galactica version of All Along the Watchtower.
Gee!
Ell!
Oh!
Are!
Eye-eye-eye-eye-eye-eye-eye!
Aye!
G-l-o-r-i-a!
Gloria!
Back before the Beatles, bands used to have these things called "standards". These were songs that were ingrained into the public's consciousness but not necessarily associated with any particular one band or performer. Different groups might release different versions in different markets. Or a whole scene could latch on to a song, so that if you played that town you needed to play that song.
Most of these songs were written in New York City, either at a place called Tin Pan Alley or on the stage in those musicals that James Jacobs hates so much.
But one, one was written by a young Irishman named Van Morrison. Back before Tupelo Honey, before Astral Weeks, before even Brown-Eyed Girl, Van the Man was in a hot-s$*+ British Invasion-era band from Belfast called Them. They had a heavy, organ-driven British blues rock sound, like The Animals or early Stones. They didn't get very far, but before they went they released this stomper. (They also did "I Can Only Give You Everything" which became a punk classic through The MC5 and provided half the samples that Beck used on Odelay.)
Anyway, the song was great: a pounding, storming, shout-along (spell-along?) with impassioned blue-eyed soul shouting. I may read too much into this, but I always liked to imagine that Van is playing on his Latin roots when he's naming this hot, assertive, liberated hippie chick who's just marched into his room just about midnight. If so, then consider this a Celtic Catholic analogue to the American singers who brought the sanctified shout of gospel and brought it to the pop market in the form of Soul.
Either way, it was a damn fine single. I don't know what happened in the European charts, but it didn't go anywhere in America. But it became one of those records that guys in bands bought.
One such band was The Shadows of Knight, a garage band from Chicago that ruled that town's mid-Sixties rock scene. The SoK were kind of a strange concept in that they were a copy of a copy of their hometown's music, but they made up for what they lacked in originality with an excess of enthusiasm. Anyway, the SoK aren't really well-remembered except by Sixties punk enthusiasts and midwestern septugenarian hippies, but they did bring "Gloria" into the American Top Ten in 1966.
From there the song spread from Boston (The J. Geils Band did it) to Los Angeles (The Doors, too) to everywhere in between. When the Jimi Hendrix Experience started playing out, they had been put together so quickly by Chas Chandler of The Animals that they didn't have a fleshed-out setlist of originals. Jimi heard the song, liked it and recorded a version so apocalyptic it melts my brain every time I hear it.
My favorite version, however, is the Jesus-denying-lesbian-poet-(not poetess!)-with-a-switchblade one that opens Patti Smith's debut album Horses. A founding document of New York punk, the song and the album as a whole witness Patti's continuous morphing from a visionary poet like her beloved Rimbaud into a raving rock'n'roll monster a la Wilson Pickett and back again. Great stuff. A couple of years later she was performing the song in Florida, blaspheming and taunting God, when she fell off the stage and broke her neck.
That's a song with some history.
Now, linkified!
Them playing live for French people!
Shadows of Knight starting at 2:39.
Prepare for brain melting!
Patti Smith live. Not breaking her neck, though.
Warning: there's some excessive rocking in these links and it might not be safe for lameoids.
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An awesome cover of a cover! An a cappella take of the Battlestar Galactica version of All Along the Watchtower.
Even more awesome that Bear commented. So say we all.
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Probably my favorite cover ever:
Marie Laforet covers Paint it Black, by the Rolling Stones.
Sort of.
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Ok, a couple of more awesome ones:
Carla Bruni covers Serge Gainsbourg's Le Petits Riens (in English!)
Dolly Parton covers Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin
And since those are probably too slow for a lot of you metalheads, let's end off with one of the best covers ever:
That was excellent! My wife says thanks you for the heads up.
It also led us to Odetta
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I love covers! Here's some faves...
Dinosaur Jr covers “Just Like Heaven” by the Cure.
7 Seconds covers “99 Red Balloons” by Nena.
Taken By Trees covers “Sweet Child of Mine” by Guns N’ Roses.
The Gourds cover “Gin and Juice” by Snoop Dogg.
Gnarls Barkley covers “Gone Daddy Gone” by Violent Femmes.
Bat For Lashes covers “I’m On Fire” by Bruce Springsteen.
Tori Amos covers “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana.
Jeff Buckley covers “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen.
Pearl Jam covers “Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding.
Red Hot Chili Peppers covers “They’re Red Hot” by Robert Johnson.
Faith No More covers “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath.
Flaming Lips covers “Breathe” by Pink Floyd.
And the Johnny Cash trifecta:
“Thirteen” by Danzig
Ok maybe not completely a cover but...
Old Crow Medicine Show's finalized version of Wagon Wheel
and in the covers I never imagined I would hear category
Tuvan throat singers doing Amazing Grace
About Tuvan throat singing. As these peoples are the descendants of Temujin could you imagine what the Mongols enemies thought if they heard the earliest versions of this coming from the camps before battles.
Fairport Convention doing Bob Dylan in French.
Black Box Recorder doing Jacques Brel in English.
Gainsbourg et Bardot doing Bonnie Parker.
Travis covering Britney :-)
Richard Thompson doing Britney.
I love covers! Thanks for all the new links (and mentioning Cash up there Daigle! I love most of his covers...and originals ^_^ though I cant get into his covers of "Bridge over Troubled Water" or "Danny Boy") I read that Chris Cornell said Rusty Cage wasn't Soundgarden's song anymore after they heard Cash's cover. And feytharn, Hayseed Dixie = AWESOME! I have their ACDC and KISS cover discs. Their version of "Have a Drink on Me" fits so perfect!
This stretches the OP 'great song' idea, but heres Bob Dylan's "original" Friday (made famous by Rebecca Black)
I'll come up with some more later.
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and speaking of people doing Britney...
Local H covering "Toxic". Theres a creepy version of "Hit Me Baby One More Time" that makes it sound like domestic violence rather than whatever it was originally supposed to mean. I cant remember who did that one.
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and now... a Devo triple play
Workin in a Coalmine
and I cant find a video so this link goes to a streaming mp3...Head Like a Hole
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Perfect Circle cover Fear
ooo and one last one
Mindless Self Indulgence cover Method Man
Rasputina doing Marilyn Manson's Tourniquet Much better than the original (and I like manson)
And her doing Wish You Were Here
Amy Lee doing Sally's Song from Nightmare Before Christmas
Chris Cornell doing Billie Jean &*%$ing fantastic.
ANTHRAX! covering Joe Jackson, Trust, and Public Enemy!
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Um.. I enjoy Ironhorse's Fade to Black cover. I find it soothing.
Dolly Parton covers Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin
OMG. Dolly is one of the greatest artists of all time. Thanks Erik for bringing that to my attention. I love that even better than her version of Shine, which I already loved.
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Gainsbourg et Bardot doing Bonnie Parker.
One of Gainsbourg's best songs ever. It's called "Bonnie and Clyde," incidentally, as so far as I know this is the original version of the song, not a cover.
Gainsbourg et Bardot doing Bonnie Parker.
One of Gainsbourg's best songs ever. It's called "Bonnie and Clyde," incidentally, as so far as I know this is the original version of the song, not a cover.
No, it's not actually a cover. The words, however, are a French translation of a ballad that Bonnie wrote. At least I assume so, because Faye Dunaway reads such a poem in the awesome 1967 film.
Not that I should need to justify any link to a movie of Brigitte Bardot adjusting her stockings!
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Sly and the Family Stone covering Doris Day
KISS has covered a lot of things...Communication Breakdown, Rain by the Beatles, Kissin Time, Then (S)he Kissed Me, Wish Upon a Star, God Gave Rock and Roll to You (bleh), 2000 Man, and Ace covers two songs on his solo record: The Moves "Do Ya" (rat-tat-tatta!) and my alltime favorite
New York Groove (originally by Hello)
then the followthru...lots of people have covered KISS tunes, but my favorite is Mighty Mighty Bosstones cover of Detroit Rock City.
and heres their kickass version of Aerosmith...they also cover Metallica early on but I never got into Enter Sandman in any form...except Ben Stillers version.
Dickie and the boys also cover Van Halen (I wont dance in a club like this...indeed!)
and that leads to all the VH covers...Kinks songs, KISS Firehouse, ZZTop stuff, old standards, Humble Pie tunes, Mountain covers, half of Diver Down is covertunes. But my favorite cover VH did was a little ditty from Dale and Roy Rogers
oh and Me First and the Gimme Gimmees have made a career of punking up semi-cool songs. My favorite is them covering Sinead OConnor covering a Prince tune
The Tea Party doing Paint It Black
Biffy Clyro covering Umbrella by Rianna
Shinedown's version of Skynyrd's Simple Man
Both are mighty covers.
Ike and Tina Turner doing River Euphrates by The Pixies Go to http://youtu.be/gqZfPfHv0NQes
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the pillows doing a live cover of Video Killed the Radio Star, as song by The Buggles.
The Beatles doing a cover of Shout!, a song by The Isley Brothers.
The Fall do The Kinks.
Otis Redding does The Stones live.
John Coltrane does Rodgers & Hammerstein.
And now, for a change of pace, let's take an original of a famous cover.
Them playing live for French people!
Fixed the link.
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While still a young song, I quite enjoy Peter Bjorn and John's Young Folks, and this [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_8j8k39y0]bluegrass cover by Dawn Landis[/i] is equally as good.