Cover Songs: best and worst

[Revering4Blue]

I'm not going to touch anything that's been (Good or Bad) previously listed.

Good:

Robert Plant - Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night

Rod Stewart - Downtown Train

Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon

Not Good:

Guns N' Roses - Sympathy For The Devil
IMO, Axel and company did a nice job with covers of, among others, "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Live And Let Die" , but not this one.

Spiderbait - Black Betty
This dreadful version of the Ram Jam classic sounds like a cross between a garage band and Flatt & Scruggs.

Will To Power - I'm Not In Love
Nothing like Lite FM ready covers of Pop/Rock crossover classics, and just when I thought that this band couldn't do any worse than "Baby, I Love Your Way / Freebird Medley (Free Baby)", somehow, how they managed to do just that.

Yuck!

[marcshoe]

I started to mention Will to Power, but all I could think of was that Neitzsche band, and I didn't want to look them up. They made Ray Conniff sound soulful.

[mth123]

Here's a list with a Beatles theme (My Opinion Of Course)

Best Covers of Beatles Songs

Norah Jones - Something
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Hey Bulldog
Sarah McLachlin - Blackbird
Rufus Wainwright - Across The Universe
Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Prince, et al - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Worst Covers of Beatles Songs (That are fairly common, I'm sure there are lots of horrible covers out there)

Oasis - I am The Walrus
Elton John - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Harry Nilsson - You Can't Do That
Ike and Tina Turner - Get Back
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Taxman

Best Covers By The Beatles
Twist and Shout
You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
Roll Over Beethoven

Worst Covers by the Beatles
Mr. Moonlight
Kansas City
Words Of Love
Matchbox

[reds1869]

Weezer does an amazing cover of "Talk Dirty to Me" at some of their shows. Easily better than Poison.

[cumberlandreds]

Good Remakes - I like ones that change the original

Blue Swede's - Hooked on a Feeling
Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On
Fever Tree - Daytripper/We Can Work It Out (not a hit)

Glad you reminded me of Vanilla Fudge and their cover of You Keep Me Hangin' On. I remember seeing that on VH-1 many years ago and always loved it. I like it better than the Supremes version.

[RichRed]

I'm not going to touch anything that's been (Good or Bad) previously listed.

Good:

Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon

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I really like that one, Rev. While we're on the subject of Neil Diamond covers, Chris Isaak's version of Solitary Man is really good, IMO.

Other good ones that come to mind:

Annie Lenox - Train in Vain (The Clash)
Vampire Weekend - I'm Goin Down (Springsteen)
Bruce Hornsby - I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)

[Raisor]

I really like that one, Rev. While we're on the subject of Neil Diamond covers, Chris Isaak's version of Solitary Man is really good, IMO.

Other good ones that come to mind:

Annie Lenox - Train in Vain (The Clash)
Vampire Weekend - I'm Goin Down (Springsteen)
Bruce Hornsby - I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)

I'm not sure it qualifies as a cover, but Annie Lennox and David Bowie doing Under Pressure at the Freddie Mercury concert gives me chills when I hear it.

[RichRed]

I'm not sure it qualifies as a cover, but Annie Lennox and David Bowie doing Under Pressure at the Freddie Mercury concert gives me chills when I hear it.

Lennox also has a nice cover of Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain."

I'd probably get chills listening to her sing the phone book.

[BernieCarbo]

Better:

Frank Zappa: Tied To The Whipping Post
Jimi Hendrix: Hey Joe
Lynard Skynard: T For Texas
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Mary Had A Little Lamb (I couldn't resist)

[WrongVerb]

Better:

Frank Zappa: Tied To The Whipping Post

Listening to it now. Great choice!

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Mary Had A Little Lamb (I couldn't resist)

How about Liberace: Chopsticks? LOL

[BernieCarbo]

Listening to it now. Great choice!

That was on his Them Or Us album, and Bobby Martin and Stevie Vai were at their best. Stevie's Spanking and In France were also notable.

[Big Klu]

Good cover:

"Proud Mary" -- Ike & Tina Turner

[dfs]

Here's a list with a Beatles theme (My Opinion Of Course)


Best Covers By The Beatles
Twist and Shout
You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
Roll Over Beethoven

Since this list does not contain "till there was you" I must assume that you forgot about it or that your opinion is wrong.

[Raisor]

Good cover:

"Proud Mary" -- Ike & Tina Turner

Negative.

That's not a "good cover".


That's an awesome, bone crushing, kick ass cover.

[Ohayou]

Off the top of my head, Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is hands down the best cover I've ever heard, probably followed by Tool's cover of Led Zeppelin's No Quarter, and New Order's first cover of Joy Division's Ceremony, if it counts.