Favourite covers?

daveymack

Check out their covers of "I'm not like everybody else" by the Kinks,
Dinosaur Jnr's version of "Just like Heaven"
Cowboy Junkies version of "Sweet Jane" by the Velvets
The Black Keys version of the Beatles "She said she said"

And many many more....

johnny_ultimate

Rhyme wrote:

...and any of Ben Folds covers, particularly 'Get your hands off my woman, motherf*cker'

That, and Twin Falls, B*tches and In Between Days (which, to be honest, i prefer over the original)

SprostonGreen

Manic Street Preachers - Raindrops keep falling on my head.

mada999

there's some deadly covers out there...

one that sticks out is

Johnny cash's version of I hung my head (Bowie)
and of course buckley's version of halaluja (sp?) cohen

Anton17

Nada Surf - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)

Where do i get my hand on this? I love there cover of where is my mind

redmosquito

Pearl Jam - I've Got a Feeling (Beatles)

Man on mir

Ramones - needles and pins
Jeff Buckley - Just like a woman (bob Dylan)
Bellx1 - Good Fortune (PJ Harvey)
Jeff Buckley - The boy with the thorn in his side (the Smiths)
Gemma Hayes - Lay Lady lay (bob Dylan)
Duke Special - Love will tear us apart (joy Division)
BellX1 - Heartlands (U2)

Creamy Goodness

H's between vowels Since you've been gone (kelly clarkson)

lordgoat

Kate Bush - Sexual Healing - in fairness i've only heard the lat minute of this but so it could be crap but i love kate so...

Johhny Cash - Hurt
Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls
Tool - No Quarter
David Bowie - See emily play

dalk

mada999 wrote:

there's some deadly covers out there...

one that sticks out is

Johnny cash's version of I hung my head (Bowie)

Actually, shock horror :eek: Sting wrote it...

(oh god!... did i just enjoy listening to a song Sting wrote in the last decade?!)

Tiddlywinks

Vivienne Long - I am the Walrus (Beatles)
Lisa Hannigan - Be my Husband

the real ramon

Sonic Youth did a cover version of The Carpenters superstar, which was surprisingly excellent, it's funny how some bands can turn an ordinary song into something brilliant. Another case of this would be St.Etienne's Only Love Can Break your heart.

thehurricane

rem - love is all around (troggs)
white stripes - just dont no what.. (?)

odhran

my favourite covers are:
the white stripes- jolene
jeff buckley- hallelujah
nirvana- the man who sold the world

blu_sonic

cake - i will survive (Gloria Gaynor)
CowBoy Junkies - Sweet Jane (velvet underground)
Morrissey - Noone can hold a candle to you (Ramonde)
the futureheads - hounds of love (Kate Bush)
the raincoats - lola (the kinks)
oasis - you've got to hide your love away (the beatles)
oasis - heros (david bowie)

the real ramon

blu_sonic wrote:

the raincoats - lola (the kinks)

that *is* an excellent cover, I'd have to add it to my list

Jimmy_Jazz

thehurricane wrote:

white stripes - just dont no what.. (?)

? = Burt Bacharach

dalk

Jimmy_Jazz wrote:

thehurricane wrote:

white stripes - just dont no what.. (?)

? = Burt Bacharach

To be pedantic it was Burt Bacarach and Hal David

KnifeWRENCH

No Doubt-Its My Life (Talk Talk)
White Stripes-Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Marilyn Manson-Tainted Love (Soft Cell...was that the original or was theirs a cover too?)

grumpytrousers

dalk wrote:

To be pedantic it was Burt Bacarach and Hal David

And to be really pedantic - it was Burt'n'Hal who wrote it. I think the artist who recorded the definitive version was Dusty Springfield

My own nominations for topnotch covers
Teenage Fanclub - Here Comes Your Man
Oasis - Cum on feel the noize
Manic Street Preachers - Out of Time

Doc_Savage

love it or hate it...
A perfect circle : imagine (lennon)

John

square_igloo wrote:

Marilyn Manson-Tainted Love (Soft Cell...was that the original or was theirs a cover too?)

There's was a cover, the original was by Gloria Jones. Manson's is the worst of all the Tainted Love covers I've heard. He's normally good at covers but that and Personal Jesus have both been bollocks.

NineMoons

Off the top of my head...

Glen Hansard - Everytime (originally Britney Spears) - this song just kills me, specially the violin

Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon) - Tom introduces is as the sexiest song ever written - it gives me goosebumps. Good ones.

The Dead Flags - Survivor (Destiny's Child) - wild, screaming version is roughly a million times better than the original

There are probably loads more but that's all I got right now

GreenHell

Dead Kennedys - I faught the Law

Only cover I've listen too in the last few months but I like it.

Richard Cheese - Guerila Radio is also good for a laugh.

nlgbbbblth

The Clash - Police & Thieves
The Clash - I Fought The Law
SLF - Johnny Was

Unit00

EELS - Get your freak on (Live at the olympia) - Missy Elliot
Nick Cave - Let it be - The Beatles
NIN - Dead souls - Joy Divsion
Elvis - My way (live) - Frank Sinatra

eoinf

Jose Gonzalez - Hand On Your Heart - Kylie Minogue.