
Irontruth |

The Sword play Cheap Sunglasses (by ZZ Top)
I've seen them play live a couple times, always a good show.

Limeylongears |
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Giorgio Moroder does Nights in White Satin
Not sure why I like this... but I do
I found out about a week ago that you can (more or less) sing the words of I'm a W*nker by Ivor Biggun to the tune of Nights in White Satin . This is the sort of thing that sends me into fits of ecstacy for days on end, which is perhaps why I belong in a secure institution.

Kajehase |
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Detect Magic wrote:Jimmy Fallon does Neil Young doing LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It" featuring Bruce Springsteen.I didn't want to like this, but, shiznit, it was pretty funny.
Bruce Springsteen's Bruce Springsteen was spot-on!

Limeylongears |

Kajehase |

This one is probably pushing beyond the limit of what constitutes a cover: Thea Gilmore sings Sandy Denny - London

Kajehase |

This one should go into a new thread, good/great covers of bad songs.
I used to have an mp3 of that song from a different live session, where they kept being on the verge of corpsing every time they got to a "still believe" - resulting in much tittering from the audience.

Tinkergoth |

Speaking as someone with at least 20GB of nothing but rock, metal and alternative covers of all kinds of songs, it's hard for me to pick out absolute favourites. But some of them are:
- Dokken: One (Harry Nilsson)
- Thyrfing: Over the Hills and Far Away (Gary Moore) - Nightwish's version is also great.
- EverEve: House of the Rising Sun
- Ink (little known Australian band, formed by members of Jerk and Anxiety Whispers): Cry for Love (Iggy Pop)
- Melody Black (Another Aussie band with former members of Ink and Jerk): Ballroom Blitz (The Sweet)
- The Crüxshadows: Here Comes The Rain Again (The Eurythmics)
- Marilyn Manson: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (The Eurythmics)
- Stone Sour: Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
- KMFDM: Being Boiled (The Human League)
Honestly, I could spend hours just writing a list, but those are the four that spring to mind as current favourites.
That said, I have to make mention of a few versions of Tainted Love, as it's one of the songs I just keep going back to:
- Soft Cell (yes, it's a cover, despite what some people believe)
- My Ruin
- Marilyn Manson (Warning: NSFW clip)

Irontruth |

This one is a favorite of mine, Electric Six - Radio Gaga. The video is really what sells it though.

TwiceBorn |

Tori Amos covering Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
Tori Amos covering Slayer's Raining Blood
Tori Amos covering Eminem's '97 Bonnie and Clyde
Tiamat covering the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil... I like this cover better than the original (blasphemy?).
Nevermore covering Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence.
Opeth covering Deep Purple's Soldier of Fortune.
Ozzy Osbourne covering John Lennon's Working Class Hero

TwiceBorn |

I wouldn't call the original a great song, but... Cookie Monster covering Carley Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe (Share it Maybe) always puts a smile on my face. :-)

Doodlebug Anklebiter |

This one is probably pushing beyond the limit of what constitutes a cover: Thea Gilmore sings Sandy Denny - London
(Pretty sure I already posted this one, but whatevs, it's awesome)

Doodlebug Anklebiter |

The Dictator - Aladeen M*+~$~#&*%*!
Reminds me I've got to add that to my Netflix queue.

Hardwool |

My vote goes to Muse - Feeling Good (by Nina Simone)
Also The Dandy Warhols - Hells Bells (AC/DC)

Doodlebug Anklebiter |

Soft Cell
Gloria Jones (who was in the car when Marc Bolan died? Or something?)
Also, IIRC, the Soft Cell extended 12" single version of "Tainted Love" morphed into Where Did Our Love Go?

Tinkergoth |

Tinkergoth wrote:Soft CellGloria Jones (who was in the car when Marc Bolan died? Or something?)
Also, IIRC, the Soft Cell extended 12" single version of "Tainted Love" morphed into Where Did Our Love Go?
Aye, the original is by Gloria Jones. I actually much prefer the Soft Cell version of it, as I've never been much of a fan of Soul as a musical genre. I wouldn't say that I'm too young for it, as I enjoy a lot of older music, but more that it just wasn't something I ever had much exposure to it when my personal preferences for music were forming. Mostly I listen to metal, rock and alternative (obviously those are broad categories, I've got my favourite sub-genres within each of those), but I do have a fairly eclectic taste overall.
The one that I forgot to mention before was the cover that Orgy did of New Order's song Blue Monday. I love both versions, but I'm a big fan of industrial metal in particular.
EDIT: Also worth mentioning are the following three covers of The Chauffeur by Duran Duran. Great song, and some brilliant covers:
- Deftones
- Sleepthief (ft Kirsty Hawkshaw)
- The Love Crave (funnily enough, this is the only song by this band that I actually like. Nothing else of theirs really appealed to me)

drunken_nomad |

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield covering Bowie
Did not know there was a video for Electric Six's cover. THANKS!!!
PS. Have to link to original Chauffeur NSFW...totally remember this video during my formative years. :)
Going to listen to the remakes now!

Limeylongears |

Another version of Nights in White Satin, this time by Deodato
Beats the original into a cocked hat (as worn by IceniQueen in the post above), mainly due to the wah-wah Moog solo about 3 minutes in. Some smashing guitar playing, too.
See also his famous (ish) version of Also Sprach Zarathustra
Also, don't know whether it counts as a cover or not, but Joe Bataan does The Lord's Prayer

Irontruth |

I forgot about the Bad Plus.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Tom Sawyer
Heart of Gold
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Karma Police
Iron Man
Barracuda

drunken_nomad |

Device covering Trent. Im actually liking most of this cd. Theres enough change up from Disturbed that it qualifies as something new. I wonder what happened to the original band. Im going to have to look around and see if theres more side projects.

Kirth Gersen |

Mötörhead plays AC/DC's Highway to Hell.
Bonus: Iron Maiden's The Trooper; The Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash; Perkins' Blue Suede Shoes; Ben E. King's Stand By Me; Chuck Berry's Let It Rock.

Kirth Gersen |

Festus Clamrod playing Charlie Daniels' The Devil Went Down to Georgia, complete with awesome claymation video!
But this metal remake is WAAAAAY better, with the same video.

Kirth Gersen |

Continuing the metal-remakes-of-pop-songs trend, here's Crowbar playing Dreamweaver. The 3rd comment (by xXxPobrecitoxXx) is the best!

drunken_nomad |

whoa! love that one!
Heres one from the other thread.
Paul "Killer" DiAnno covering Children of the Revolution by Bolan.

Cranky Bastard |

Did a search, did not find.
The Ataris cover Don Henley's 'Boys of Summer'.
One line in particular sells it for me, as a cover and update combo.
"Out on the road today, I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac."
I have much love for deadheads, but this hit me right in the inexplicables.

Haladir |

Shearwater and Sharon Van Etten covering the old Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks classic "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around". It walks the fine line of being true to the original and a new take on a classic.
And another modern take on a classic male/female duet would be the cover of The Zombies' classic "She's Not There" by Nick Cave and Neko Case.
And going back to 1991, who can forget Too Much Joy's cover of the schmatzy 1974 Terry Jacks song "[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_q-iElPxBY]Seasons In The Sun[/url"?

Doodlebug Anklebiter |

And going back to 1991, who can forget Too Much Joy's cover of the schmatzy 1974 Terry Jacks song "Seasons In The Sun"?

Doodlebug Anklebiter |

Pedant alert!
"Seasons in the Sun" was originally Jacques Brel's not at all schmaltzy Le moribond
Also, "She's Not There" was not originally a duet.

Doodlebug Anklebiter |

Every song covered on the Camper Van Beethoven box-set Cigarettes and Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years, but not any of the CVB covers except this traditional Spanish song that I can't find anything for:
Black Flag
Sonic Youth
The Pink Floyd (with another 8 minutes in the You Tube Mix column if you still need to comedown)
The Kinks
Country Joe and the Fish
Hank Williams
Ringo Starr

DrGames |

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 .
I like this cover of Bette Davis Eyes:

DungeonmasterCal |

Terrible Video, Great Song -- W.A.S.P. "I Don't Need No Doctor"
My favorite cover of this song, though is the classic one by Humble Pie --" I Don't Need No Doctor"

DungeonmasterCal |

The Sword play Cheap Sunglasses (by ZZ Top)
I've seen them play live a couple times, always a good show.
I saw them with Gypsyhawk last fall. They did this at the end of the show.