Cover Songs

[sodamntired]

Do you have any favorite cover songs that you feel are just a little bit better than the originals?

 

 

Do you know any cover songs that are a lot worse than the originals and should be destroyed, never to be heard by another human being again?

 

 

I really like the Beatles song Across the Universe...but Rufus Wainwright's cover of it is so goddamn great...i think maybe just a little better

 

 

The hardcore band Throwdown's cover of Baby Got Back...so great

 

Snake River Conspiracy's version of How Soon is Now...is very good

 

Same goes for Richard Cheese doing his cover of anything....i really enjoy him doing Radiohead's Creep...not better, but on the same par...

 

 

As for worst, I'll say Madonna's butchering of American Pie

 

 

okay....anyone else??????

[Shortcut To Moncton]

Good covers:

Nirvana's The Man Who Sold The World [bowie] (call me trendy)

Weezer's Velouria [Pixies]

Yes, Rufus Wainwright's version of Across The Universe

Faith No More - War Pigs [teh Sabbath}

and probably the best one: Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen]

 

Decent covers:

Gob's version of Paint It Black [teh stones]

Goldfinger's version of 99 Red Balloons [Nena]

Orgy's Blue Monday [The New Order]

Stabbing Westward's Bizzare Love Triangle [The New Order]

 

Bad covers:

I can't think right now.

 

But the new Between The Buried And Me cover cd should go to hell.

 

 

An additional note: I know we'll get a lot of these, so I'll say right now that Limp Bizkit's version of "Behind Blue Eyes" is better than The Who's version--at least it doesnt have that horrible guitar solo.

[sodamntired]

crap...i forgot Gob's version of Paint it Black...yeah, that's a great one

 

 

 

and also, anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

 

 

 

AND...its one that I'm sure most people on here haven't heard, the German punk rock band The Bates do a wicked cover of

 

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

[Prometheon]

Sonata Arctica has covered Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler, and World in my Eyes by Depeche Mode, and I like both more than the originals.

 

The Wind Beneath My Wings must be heard though; it's hilarious and great.

 

Also, MGB's cover of Enjoy the Silence was decent.

[no yu begin wher i end]

Muse did some decent covers of House of the Rising Sun and Can't Take My Eyes Off You.

 

Radiohead's live cover of Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon is also pretty good.

[Guest apsham]

Say what you will, but Fall Out Boy did an awesome cover of Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'.

[Shiri]

Jeff Buckley - Halleluja

Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Fiona Apple - Across The Universe

[sodamntired]

Tears for Fears also did a wicked cover of Creep at some concert

[heyrabbit]

johnny cash - hurt ( obviously)

deftones-please please please (the smiths)

hayden- gouge away (pixies)

emm gryner - big bang baby (STP)

[sodamntired]

hayden- gouge away (pixies)

hells yes

 

 

forgot about that one

[HoboFactory]

Failure's "Enjoy the Silence" is slightly better than Depeche Mode's original.

 

Rammstein's "Stripped" is much better than Depeche Mode's original

 

Deftones' "Simple Man" also.

[Computer]

Jenny Lewis & the Watson twins cover of Handle with Care by the travelling Willbury's.

 

EDIT: Or was it George Harrison...

Edited June 13, 2006 by Computer

[mrjones]

Bedlight For Blueeyes' cover of Third Eye Blind's "Jumper" is absolutely wicked.

[sodamntired]

a way everyone can hear The Bates cover of Billie Jean

 

 

the video kind of sucks

 

 

i think the their version is wicked though

[heyrabbit]

All Along the Watchtower- hendryx ( undisputed champ)

 

I'm sorry for forgetting, god

( Bows to Jimi.)

[no yu begin wher i end]

Nick Cave - Let It Be

[cleric9999]

pearl jam - leavin here, last kiss, rockin in the free world

aerosmith - come together

tool - no quarter

[sodamntired]

Dope - You Spin Me right Round

[dancing_invisible]

Mentioned before that deserve to be rementioned:

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Johnny Cash - Hurt

 

More:

Korn - One

RHCP - Higher Ground

Nirvana - The Man that Sold the World / Lake of Fire

 

Some baddies:

Limp Bizket - Behind Blue Eyes

William Hung - She bangs

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

[Shiri]

I actually thought Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal was pretty cool. I agree that Behind Blue Eyes sucked ass but then again, anything by Limp Bizkit does.

[Audio of Being]

Good:

Trews-You can't always get what you want (Rolling Stones)

Phish-Drowned (esp the 12/31/95 live version) (The Who)

 

Bad-

Phish-Thbthumping, Sabotage

[Ravenous megin-sane]

dead kennedys cover of the beatles - back in the ussr

[dancing_invisible]

I agree that Behind Blue Eyes sucked ass but then again, anything by Limp Bizkit does.

Who else can take rock, hip-hop, metal put in a can, shake it up, and come out with something that isn't furtilizer? It's the Bizket man, the Limp fucking Bizket.

 

There up there with you know... Rod Stewart and uh.. Rod stewart.

____

 

If anyone's heard the outro to the Limp Bizket CD Chaocalate Starfish, you know what I'm talking about.

 

BTW, I fucking hate Limp Bizket, and that is one of the worst covers ever.

[no yu begin wher i end]

Good:

Trews-You can't always get what you want (Rolling Stones)

The Trews do a fairly decent cover of Hey Jude.

[noise_pollution]

Bedlight For Blueeyes' cover of Third Eye Blind's "Jumper" is absolutely wicked.

On your advice I checked out that cover and its wicked, I just wish I could find a version that wasn't mono.