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Best cover versions?

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  • 21-12-2004 10:05pm
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    Thraktor
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    What do people think are the best/most interesting cover versions of well known songs? And I'm not talking about the sort of covers you hear splurged from the mouths of Louis Walsh's latest creation, actual reworkings rather than bland rerecordings need only apply.

    For me, recently at least, 'Hurt' By Johnny Cash (original by NIN) has to be the best, his voice really brings out the poignancy of the original's lyrics.


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    PiE
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    "Dancing in the Moonlight" & "Landslide" - Smashing Pumpkins


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    Zaph
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    There's a guy called Hawksley Workman who does an amazing waltz version of Bankrobber by The Clash. Absolutely beautiful.

    And of corse you can't leave out Talking Heads' version of Take Me to the River by Al Green


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    Thraktor
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    Actually, if I may, I'd like to quickly switch my choice to the song I just happen to be listening to right now, 'Win My Train Fare Home' by Robert Plant & Justin Adams. It's the live version recorded in the 'Festival in the Desert' in the Malian Sahara in 2003, although for the life of me I can't remember who originally wrote the song. It also contains elements of 'Crawlin' Kingsnake' by John Lee Hooker.


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    is_that_so
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    Got a few to add in no particular order

    I heard it through the grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Blue Moon - Cowboy Junkies
    Hurt - Johnny Cash
    You'll be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill(PUlp Fiction Soundtrack)
    Nothing compares to U - Sinead O'Connor
    All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
    Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy ( It is a trad song !! :D)


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    monument
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    Hurt - Johnny Cash


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    puntosporting
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    Sid viscious covered "MY WAY" by Frank Sinatra.
    Certainly not my favourite but if a cover version ever suited a man...


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    Creamy Goodness
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    jimmy eat world - last christmas


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    JoeSchmoe
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    Nouvelle Vague the Album of early eighties New wave tracks by Joy Division, the clash and loads more all done in a Bossa Nova style with breathy female vocals, tis great

    http://www.peacefrog.com/releases/?view=191&type=LP#PFG051


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    Kali
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    Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
    Low - Fearless
    Spacemen 3 - When Tomorrow Hits


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    [Deleted User]
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    Wicked games by Him is probably one of the weirdest...


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    Redleslie2
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    Kali wrote:
    Spacemen 3 - When Tomorrow Hits
    Haven't heard that. I remember they got annoyed at Mudhoney's cover of Revolution.
    Mudhoney wrote:

    Allright, look out
    I'm sick
    I'm so sick
    Of getting sick
    Everytime I lose my connection
    I'm tired
    So tired
    Of getting up in the morning
    For that long uphill walk
    To the methadone clinic
    There's gotta be an easier way

    Mark Kozelek's folky covers of AC/DC songs are superb.


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    Doctor J
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    Trouble's cover of The Monkees 'Porpoise Song' is rather nice :)


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