Best (and worst) cover versions

Rustar

Good:

The Ventures- Wild thing (ultra cool Peter Lorre vocals)
Dream Theater - Yes covers
both Sublime's and Bob Marley's covers of The Toyes 'Smoke Two Joints'
Flying Lizards - 'Money'
Somebody's (!?) cover of The Call's 'I still believe' (with saxes)
Manhattan Transfers' "Birdland" by Joe Zawinul/Weather Report

Bad:
Elvis - Roger Whittaker's 'The Last Farewell' (Roger sounds like a lonely sea captain....Elvis sounds like....well, let's just say there isn't a 'sea captain' bone in his body)
Donny Osmond's cover of Johnny Mathis's '12th of Never'


Be interesting to hear:

Nazareth's cover of Tomorrow's 'My White Bicycle'
and what would Stevie Nicks' version of the song that Trevor Rabin wrote for her, 'Love Will Find a Way', sounded like if Yes had not grabbed it for themselves?

Dirtiest song ever written in the English language:
'Come On Eileen'

fuse

eggshapedfred wrote:

RCHP - higher Ground - originally by Stevie Wonder

Was gonna say that aswell,
but also a singer/guitarist Ellen McIlwaine does a cover version of it.
I'd rank it as good as the RHCP version, very different tho.
Fatboy Slim used it as a sample aswell, great tune worth checking out.

skapunkkeith

SxE Punk wrote:

Best covers.

Band/Artist-Song(Original Band/Artist).

The Mad Capsule Markets-War dance(Killing Joke).
Rancid-The harder they come(Jimmy Cliff).
Stiff Little Fingers-Doesn't make it alright(The Specials).
The Mighty Mighty BossToneS-Tin soldiers(Stiff Little Fingers).
Ska Daddyz-Hotel California(The Eagles).
The Futureheads-Hounds of love(Kate Bush).
Pinhead Gunpowder-Big yellow taxi(Joni Mitchell).
Goldfinger-Nite Klub(The Specials).
Goldfinger-Up the junction(Squeeze)
Goldfinger-Man in a suitcase(The Police).
Goldfinger-99 red balloons(Nena).
Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards-To have and to have not(Billy Bragg).
Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards-Marie Marie(The Blasters).
Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards-For you(The Anti-Nowhere League).
Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards-Leavin here(Motorhead).
Less Than Jake-Album=Greased(Various, the album is comprised entirely of covers of the full OST to Grease).
Less Than Jake-Surrender(Cheap Trick).
Reel Big Fish-Hungry like the wolf(Duran Duran).
Reel Big Fish-Kiss me deadly(Billy Idol).
The Get Up Kids-Alec Eiffel(The Pixies).
Blood for Blood-Ultra violence(The Oppressed).
The Vandals-Don't stop me now(Queen).
Rammstein-Das Modell(Kraftwerk).
System of A Down-Metro(Berlin).
Minor Threat-1 2 X U(Wire).
Minor Threat-Steppin' Stone(The Standells).
Ben Folds-Tiny Dancer(Elton John)
Johnny Cash-All his covers are infact better than the originals except perhaps rusty cage(Sound Garden)

There's just a few of my favorites.

i have to agree with almost everything said there, but also

joey ramone-what a wonderfull world
green day-outsider

melekalikimaka

skapunkkeith wrote:

i have to agree with almost everything said there, but also

joey ramone-what a wonderfull world
green day-outsider

and reel big fish - nothin like a dame
molotov - girls
berlin project - gin and juice
reel big fish - mele kalikimaka ( thus my name on boards)

SxE Punk

My favorite Reel Big Fish cover would actually have to Brown eyed girl or Boys don't cry. And I would hope I needn't mention who wrote those two.

melekalikimaka

i've to question the brown eyed girl track, i also have it under thier name...tho i've never located a legal cd version of it, i suspect it may be named reel big fish when in fact another sings it

oh and allisters version of fraggle rock ....well rocks

SxE Punk

It seems to be the common theory that it was them on the likes of Soulseek etc etc. But I've never found any solid confirming evidence. **** even some of the copies of the Goldfinger cover of up the junction are creditied to RBF. Seems like whenever someone makes a funny ska song or ska cover, everyone assumes it was RBF.

Creamy Goodness

josé gonzález - heartbeats (the knife)
biffy clyro - take me out (franz ferdinand) ****s all over the orignal.
ben folds - video kill the radio star (some random 80's artist).

the worst...

colin farrell - I fought the law (the clash).

so bad it's funny

Brother To God

The best has to be Helmets version of Gigantor,Jose Gonzales with Heartbeats Johnny cash with Hurt and Faith No More with Zombie!!
The worst has to be Tori Amos doing Slayers Rain In Blood

tj-music.com

The worst ever cover version of a song has got to be U2s version of Kraftwerks: "Neonlight".