Best Covers

[Patek23]

I was going through my Music collection last night and realized that Ozzy does a bad ass cover of "Mississippi Queen" by Mountian. I mean the song was already a great one but he transformed this one into an AMAZING track. What are some of your guy's favorites?

[Deelow]

Foo Fighters- Baker Street is my favorite cover. They took the song and made it their own...even though that's playing with fire they pulled it off IMO.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Sissy Bar has a cover of Snoop Dogg's "Got B***es in the Living Room."

No, I'm not making that up. :/


(Edited for family viewing.... thought one of the words would get filtered)

[troutman]

Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower

http://www.coversproject.com/

There is an amusing Carpenters tribute album with covers by Sonic Youth and Shonen Knife.

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

A tribute album, If I Were a Carpenter, by contemporary artists (such as Sonic Youth, Shonen Knife, Grant Lee Buffalo, Matthew Sweet, and The Cranberries), also appeared that year and provided an alternative rock interpretation of numerous Carpenters hits.

Ween covers everybody. Flaming Lips too.

Pat Boone sings heavy metal standards:

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/9325/patmetal.html

[StoneCole]

Reel Big Fish - Take On Me
Reel Big Fish - Hungry Like the Wolf
Reel Big Fish - Kiss Me Deadly
Reel Big Fish - Boss DJ
Reel Big Fish - New York, New York (a capella)
Reel Big Fish - The Main Street Electrical Parade (extremely rare, but it is neat to hear the Fish singin' and humming all the electrical sounding parts from the real song).

There are many other Fish covers, but those are the best.

Fish front man Aaron Barrett has a side project called the "Forces of Evil" that does covers of Dance the Night Away and Ball and Chain (Sublime)...both also very good.

Non-Fish (Pearl Jam) Covers:

Pearl Jam - Rockin' in the Free World (live)
Eddie Vedder - Hide Your Love Away
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
Pearl Jam - It's Okay (also live)

I'm starting to think it's more the band that I like than the covers themselves.

Others:

Blackbird - Sarah McLaughlin
With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Crocker (Wonder Years Themes)

Maybe I just like Beatles covers too?

[habernac]

Motorhead's take on AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top" is brilliant.

[Frank the Tank]

Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit.

Oh wait, you said BEST covers.....

[V]

Johnny Cash - Hurt

There is no better cover out there.

[Bobblehead]

I kind of like Suspicious Minds by FYC

[the-rasta-masta]

I love Jeff Healy's version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Dominicwasalreadytaken

Johnny Cash - Hurt

There is no better cover out there.

Hurt is good, but I still like his rendition of Rusty Cage even better.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

Sissy Bar has a cover of Snoop Dogg's "Got B***es in the Living Room."

No, I'm not making that up. :/


(Edited for family viewing.... thought one of the words would get filtered)

Are you thinking of the countrified version of "Gin and Juice"? "got bitches in the living room" is a line in that song.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

"Gin and Juice" by the Gourds I believe it is (might be Phish) is one of my favs

"All Along The Watchtower" as stated above the Hendrix, and DMB covers are both great

don't know if traditional songs really count as covers, if so half of Great Big Sea's collection (I'm not a huge fan of their own stuff)

just because there was a thread dedicated to her new CD the other day "Workin' Man" by Rita MacNeil is actually a really good song

When more come to me I'll post 'em

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Are you thinking of the countrified version of "Gin and Juice"? "got bitches in the living room" is a line in that song.

I am, and that song is amazing, WAAAAY better than Snoop's version, no disrespect to Mr. Dogg

[Reaper]

Richard Cheese covering Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness."

Pure gold.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

I am, and that song is amazing, WAAAAY better than Snoop's version, no disrespect to Mr. Dogg

Yeah, it is without a doubt the greatest cover song in recorded history. It is the Gourds by the way.

[J pold]

Tom ames prayers- Steve earle

[socalwingfan]

Dwight Yoakam - suspicious minds

[Neeper]

Michael Buble - Song for You, oringinally done by Donny Hathaway.

What an awesome love song.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by socalwingfan

Dwight Yoakam - suspicious minds

Yeah, I really like that version as well. Great video, too.