[Closed] Best cover versions.

All Along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Gimme Shelter, Emma or Jolene - Sisters of Mercy
Nothing Compares To You - Sinead o'Connor

Hurt - Johnny cash

Shake and Vac - Snuff
Viva Las Vegas - Dks
I have a great version on cassette of NMA doing Gimme all your lovin' Live

Tainted Love Softcell
12inch version even better.

Johnny Too Bad - Taj Mahal

Jeez has this come around again so soon?

Walk on By...The Stranglers

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Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Walk on By...The Stranglers

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Must have missed it first time round. Its still better than talking about tyre pressures though.

Anything by Steps. Delightful! H is so sexy too! Squeal!

Calm down Gary- THIS is sexy...

'Are you Experienced?'

Belly 😀

Hurt - Johnny cash

+100

Also his version of Personal Jesus.

 

Foo Fighters cover of Pink Floyds In the Flesh

[url= http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/Foo-Fighters-with-Roger-Waters-In-The-Flesh-92711/1358842 ]Vid here[/url]

(Ok, slight cheat, but it is still good :lol:)

EDIT; Complete video fail!

I am very fond of the comedy / unusual cover versions as well

Been done before but here is a few for anyone who missed them 🙂

this is briliant IMO

If you want more
Richard cheese or nouvelle vague are good

Clash, I fought the law.

THIS is sexy...

'Are you Experienced?'

Belly

Wicked Game, ace! Never heard of Giant Drag before... hello iTunes!

I've always loved this take on Neil Young's 'Powderfinger':

Walk on by and snuff ,thumbs up.

GlitterGary - Member
Anything by Steps. Delightful! H is so sexy too! Squeal!

You Need to proceed to A&E

Tandem Thanx for the heads up on these guys
Love Jazz Fusion from start of it in London town
This group does great covers.

How about odd ones? Here's Peter Tosh's take on Johnny B. Goode!

"Mama said son you gotta be a man
You gotta be the leader of a reggae band"

Awesome early video too, the owl, the lip-syncing and the unicycle...

slayer covering Minor Threat !

Grantway - especially the intro

It is really bizzare. Senor coconut is a german house DJ / electropop player

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

poison idea cover of MC5 "kick out the jams"

[brave pills]

ANY Dylan cover

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Futureheads. Hounds of love.

OR

Tee hee

Like where you are coming from tazzy, prefer the original though.
How about the Threat doing 12Xu. God how I love Minor Threat. They are the perfect antidote to every crap song you hear that needs banishing from your ears. Talking of which ,that new Nickleback song,jeeeeez.

prefer fugazi to minor threat bit it's all good.

these make me giggle like homer though

(temple of love cover) all together now...Black, black,black,even blacker!

how could I forget this?

this was posted last time we did this, beautiful version. 😀

kicks the arse of ZZ top!

love snuff

Rolf Harris's version of Stairway to Heaven?

Awesome covers awesome.

Much better than Jonny Cash's
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And don't laugh, but I really like this

This thread is meaningless without the Apples

The Clash cover of Cadillac is very good, Vince Taylor original, not sure tho, some of the lyrics are The Renegades version.

And, most stuff by The Cramps is betterer, of course. Goes without saying, I expect.
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Johnny Too Bad - Taj Mahal

thanks for that one

Here´s my pick:

Thrashing Doves - Sympathy For The Devil

and
Outkast - Spottieottie Til Infinity (cover/rips Souls of Mischief)

Elbow have done some great covers, funny and otherwise

Working Class Hero

Independent Woman

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - Mark Ronson.

All Smiths fans should hate this, but it works. Morrisey likes it too, which is nice.

Just remembered this Neil Young cover from Laura Marling.

Some great suggestions already, but this is my all time favourite.

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' by Royal Trux:

It's what the original SHOULD have sounded like.

Nirvana doing Man who sold the world on unplugged

(cover of a Nate Dogg/Eve track)

and most of the tracks from RATM

Obviously the only decent cover versions are the ones that change the style of the song completely eg.

This one's a classic, rather surprised it's not already on here:

Here's a rather left field one I never thought I would post:

Shouldn't work, but it does, Scissor sisters - Comfortably numb

The Hayseed Dixie cover of Comfortably Numb is superb. A bit tricky to find however. Their covers of Ace of Spades and holiday are excellant as well.

“Stone Sour - Wicked Game”

Oops I did it again - Richard Thompson

I thought Leona Lewis did a really good job of Run... The backing's a wee bit overfussy but it's a fine vocal. Also, she's nicer to look at than Gary Lightbody

Loving that Elbow version of Independant Woman. The cats are the icing on the cake.

+1 for Nirvana ansd man who stole the world.

Also rather like Manic street preachers cover of Umbrella.

RIP Ari

FFS - Leona nailed 'Run' on the Live Lounge admittedly, but the produced version and Radio 1 killed it. Can't bear to listen to it - much prefer Snow Patrol and I don't really like Snow Patrol

Mechanical Bride [i]Umbrella[/i] (Rihanna)
Cheshire Chord [i]I Predict A Riot[/i]
Foo Fighters [i]Baker Street[/i]
Tori Amos [i]That's What I Like Mick[/i] (Chas & Dave)
Belly [i]Hot Burrito #1[/i]
Calexico [i]Alone Again Or[/i]

Van Halen- You really got me

Anything by Richard Cheese FTW -

😀

Oasis My generation and Sex Pistols Substitute and The Fall A day in the life.

and

give up on this linky thing

Cud - You sexy thing