Thread: Best Covers

Noobie, I concur with the Lacuna Coil cover. That one is awesome!

Originally Posted by Northman

Fricking love that cover. Been a while since i heard it. Thanks!

Blew my mind 1st time I heard it.

I am now a convert. Cemetery of Scream is awesome! I love this cover.

Nights in White Satin is just one of those songs that should never be touched, but they did a good job.

SRV - Superstition (Stevie wonder)
Jimmi Hendricks - Watch Tower (Dylan)

Richard Cheese's cover of Chop Suey, + some impersonations of Sting and Bjork

Nirvana- The man who sold the world
Staind- Nutshell
Gary Jules- Mad world

I'm having a brain fart on the rest.

Cash's Hurt was great, but I still don't think its anywhere near as good as the original

Oh, Pearl Jam- Love, reign o'er me.

Good call on the Ministry cover Atwater. I had forgotten about that one too.

Fuel - I Walk the Line
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire

Originally Posted by Hobe

SRV - Superstition (Stevie wonder)
Jimmi Hendricks - Watch Tower (Dylan)

I lkied the BT4 version of All Along The Watchtower that was used as the centrepoint for the finale of the 3rd season of Battlestar Galactica.....................not only was there a cover of the song, but the lines were used through out the final couple of episodes, and it bugged the hell out of me that I couldn't place the song they came from

Originally Posted by gnomeflinger

Noobie, I concur with the Lacuna Coil cover. That one is awesome!

One of my favorite bands in a long, long time.

My favorite ever is one most of you probably never heard of. Sophie Ellis Bextor's "Take Me Home" originally performed by Cher.

Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" originally performed by Aretha Franklin, as well as Gaye's Star Spangled Banner in Los Angeles back in 1982, probably the best version of them all.

Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire by Social Distortion.

Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney, since that song has been played over and over and over...

A Perfect Circle - Imagine
The Sundays - Wild Horses
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love and Sweet Dreams
Ozzy Osbourne - In My Life
Johnny Cash - Hurt
The White Stripes - Jolene and a bunch of Bob Dylan

Originally Posted by aberdien

The Sundays - Wild Horses

Very good cover.

Originally Posted by Den21vsBal19

Damn, I forgot Eddie

Van Halen's cover of The Kink's 'You Really Got Me' wasn't bad........and they also did The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again'

It takes a lot of talent really to cover a performance another group or artist owns, and Van Halen has it.

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A Perfect Circle covered Imagine by John Lennon, and sing it like the dirge in minor key instead of as an uplifting dream. REALLY good.

Just a really neat cover.



And of course, the one that currently still makes me laugh my ass off is Framing Hanley's cover of Lil Wayne's Lollipop:




I enjoy covers. Mostly because I like seeing what artists themselves are interested in. All Along The Watchtower by the Dave Matthews Band is ridiculously incredible live.



It's been covered a million times, but DMB's version just gets everything right about the original, and adds some extra color besides.

Good stuff.

~G