[Closed] Favourite cover version

cooooool 8)

Lemonheads cover of "Different Drum"

Original by one of the Monkees??

Also covered by Sussanah Hoffs from the Bangles

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is up there with my favourites.

Funnily enough, one of my faves is also Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb.

Also I absolutely adore She by Elvis Costello.

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Drum - Wuthering Heights[/url]

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of Hazzard - MGMT cover. [/url]

Awesome 🙂

Slayer - Filler/I dont wanna hear it. Dead fast minor threat cover

St Etienne, "Only love can break your heart" Much as I love Neil Young's original, I like this more.

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Word up, covered by Gun.

Viva Las Vegas by the Dead Kennedys

Johnny Cash has a few crackers - Hurt, Personal Jesus but my favourite would be Solitary Man

The Ben Folds cover of Bitches Aint Shit is great too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJxvi767kQ

Arctic monkeys doing Girls aloud's Love Machine.

Teenage Fanclub's [url=

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Richard Cheese is great value. I think his cover of Snoop's Gin & Juice could be my favourite

The Killers doing Romeo and Juliet.

always liked this cover of The Clash - [url=

Of Brixton[/url]

Faith No More's version of Warpigs. Better than the original IMO.

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- Hounds of Love[/url]

All Saints - under the bridge

Chris Cornell - [url=

Jean[/url]

The Cure's cover of Love will tear us apart is flipin top banana

ultraviolence's hardcore gaba techno version of sabbaths paranoid is great

but my favorite covers are

Cradle of filth covering Clif Richards "devil woman"

and

the murderdolls cover of "white wedding"

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tm - the light 3000[/url] is quite different from [url=

smiths[/url] - or some of the nouvelle vague stuff - [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7OS30c2Fys ]love will tear us apart[/url] for instance.

Placebo doing Kate Bush's 'Running up that Hill' is fantastic 8)

Walk on By - the Stranglers

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Oh hang on Victoria - The Fall

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Machine Head - Message in a Bottle

Fear Factory - Cars

Gun - Word Up (nicked from above, but true)

The Wildhearts - Cheers theme tune (for cheery smiles)

That chris cornell cover reminded me of this
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Ant Farm[/url]

Although pretty much all [url=

Dixie's[/url] covers are great

Some beauties there, my choice
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Metallica 'Whiskey in the Jar'

End. 🙂

Metallica 'Whiskey in the Jar'

Oh yeah - that's a goodun'

Oh hang on Victoria - The Fall

That's a good call.

I like that Schneider TM track too, and Galaxie 500's cover of Ceremony by Joy Division.

But for me it has to be [url= http://www.we7.com/#/song/The-Pastels/Speeding-Motorcycle+ ]Speeding Motorcyle by The Pastels[/url]. Originally by Daniel Johnston.

And while searching for it I found [url=

beautiful version by Yo La Tengo[/url] as well.

Cake doing 'i Will Survive'.

The Twilight Singers doing 'Black Is The Colour Of My True Loves Hair'

Judas Priest doing the old Joan Baez number Diamonds and Rust
or
Guns N Roses version of Live and Let Die was also very good
as was
Rainbow's version of Mistreated from their Onstage album

Helter Skelter- Siouxsie And The Banshees
Police and Thieves- The Clash
Them were the days............

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B cover of Tinie Tempah - Pass Out[/url]

Lemonheads cover of "Different Drum"

Original by one of the Monkees??

Linda Ronstadt.....written by a monkee...Mike Nesmith

Much as like the Lemonheads its not as good as the original

Bryan Ferry - Jealous Guy

Expect big things very soon

or Hurt by Johnny Cash (was NIN)
or Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley
or I Am The Walrus by Oasis
or Step On by Happy Mondays

or maybe just maybe The Man Who Sold The World by Nirvana (Lulu also did a pretty good cover of it)

+1 [i]Only Love Can Break Your Heart[/i]

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Mortal Coil [i]Song to the Siren[/i][/url] (Tim Buckley)

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Power [i]I found a reason[/i][/url] (Lou Reed)

[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkHHdfPWj0w ]Coldcut [i]Autumn Leaves[/i] (Irresistible Force remix)[/url] (old jazz standard)

sonic youth do the carpenters superstar

😈

probably the unlikliest duo ever, russell watson and shaun ryder - barcelona.... let the music vibrate you 🙂

elton john not so good, (even tough original)

Harry Connick Jr WICKED!!!

Your Song

How can we forget this?

I do like the origionlal but I think they made this their own song too.
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A great song
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Another great origional song
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Another great origional and lovely song but <i like this version too.
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Some great ones so far, here's a couple more...

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and Juice - The Gourds[/url]

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in Music - The Fall[/url]

[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hapufz1NFkY ]Too Drunk to **** - Nouvelle Vague[/url]

Rufus Wainwright doing Lenny Cohen's [url=

Hotel"[/url]

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Man Who Sold the World"[/url] by Nirvana

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[i]Lake of Fire[/i][/url] (Meat Puppets)

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Sub [i]Southern Trees[/i][/url] (not exactly a cover version, but heavily inspired by [i]Strange Fruit[/i])

[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvABWs3r-VI ]The Chequers [i]Get Up, Stand Up[/i][/url] Marley/Tosh reggae classic gets disco makeover

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Ha! I love a good cover version, haven't clicked on all the links above and couldn't be bothered to find these on youtube but they're all good (IMO)

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Pixies - Winterlong
Flunk - Blue Monday
Taken by Trees - Sweet Child 'o' Mine
Headless Heroes - Just Like Honey
Caulfield Sisters - Please, please, please etc. (the Smiths song) and Some Candy Talking
Clayhill - Please, please, please etc
Ada - Maps
Carter USM - Panic and This is how it Feels (the Inspiral Carpets song)
and many more!

Good shout on the Fall's Victoria and This Mortal Coil Song to the Siren 🙂

as part of a quest to find new music i have listened to every one of those links lol!
I'm surprised neither of these have been said yet...
Sweet child of mine - taken by trees

Numb - Jamelia

Also, already mentioned. "Running up that Hill" by Placebo and "Man who sold the world" by Nirvana are both superb...

Excellent thread! 🙂

edit, billyboulders beat me to it with Taken by trees... Me and my slow typing.. D'oh!

Pogues' Dirty Old Town is great; follow the link to "Cinnamond" doing the same song and "WTF is that second rate quo copy!"

anyway.
+1 for This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren.
May I also suggest these:

- better version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kVBdVBn9w

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in the Supermarket - The Afghan Whigs[/url]

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- Alarm Will Sound[/url]

Love that someone has gone to the trouble of transcribing digitally borne music for an orchestra to cover the Aphex Twin 🙂

Stayin' Alive - Dweezil Zappa, with Donny Osmond on vocals:

Dinosaur Jr covering The Cure's 'Just like Heaven'

http://tinyurl.com/krk74l

John Drummer, Sisters Knockin on Heavens Door! A classic how did I leave that one out - Good shout

May I also recommend their version of Jolene (if you can find it!)

And you forgot this Sisters one
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+1 Sonic Youth 'Superstar'.

Always had a penchant for Trickys 'Black Steel'.

Rainbow - still I'm sad

Jose Feliciano - California Dreamin'
orig - Mammas n papas

little wing

brilliant cover

Love Hangover by the Associates.

I love this one... Abba gone Therapy?

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Gimme Gimme[/url]

There's something really pleasingly ramshackle and offkilter about the whole thing.

And I might regret this, but... Marmaduke Duke doing Beyonce
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This one seemed to upset people, but it works for me

[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOuSxal8pf4 ]It takes one to know one[/url]

"markfu - Member

China Drum - Wuthering Heights"

Wooo!

I find this haunting; but that may be due to the end of year show from my eldest daughter's dance school. Two of the senior students danced to this and there wasn't a dry eye in the place with the way they interpreted it (except mine, of course, because I don't cry, ever, honest)

And slightly more fun

Listen through for the classic guitar break at about 2:20.

and:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHTKM1jd_Mc

Both from the seminal Ruby Tracks CD

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yeah cool version of little wing. And err... Andrea Corr... Um!

Leatherface doing Abbas 'eagle'

NOFX - doing 'straight edge'

Pretty much anything by snuff or the gimme gimmes

+1 for dinosaur jr - just like heaven

Ah, Straight Edge is fantastic, I'd forgotten about that...

All of Paul Anka's Rock Swings album is fantastic too.

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Slow Gin - Joe Bonamassa. Brilliant!!

+1 Hurt by Johnny Cash
+1 for all of snuff's covers

Also ....
Motorhead by Primal Scream
Number of The Beast by Djali Zwan
Reverend Horton Heat's psychobilly cover of Paranoid
Peter Skellern - Puttin on the Ritz
Cake - I will survive
and can't really leave out Bill Shatner's cover of Common People

With A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker - by far the definitive version.

if you're talking "Paranoid", nothing beats this:

and also from the same band, "Eve Of Destruction", "Nights in White Satin" and of course, the seminal [url=

Splits[/url]

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Man Blues'[/url] played 'Live at Leeds' by The Who.

Originally titled 'A Young Man', by Mose Allison.

Ace of spades by hayseed dixie

maybe this link works sonic youth do superstar

The drummer singing in foo fighters version of pink Floyds have a cigar

The Pixies covering Leonard Cohen's I Can't Forget

Nick Cave Shane Macgowan Wonderful World

All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bng3agUOYiI

Timperley Sunset - Frank Sidebottom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3H4H0XorrA

Too many to mention by The Black Crowes but I will anyway.
Oh sweet nothing- Velvet Underground
Forever Young and Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan
Hard To Handle - Otis Redding
The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down - The Band
Over The Hill - John Martyn
Driving Wheel - Tom Rush
Roll Um Easy - Little Feat

Or Neil Young doing Oh Lonesome Me or Blowin In The Wind
The Stones doing Like a Rolling Stone
Hendrix doing All Along The Watchtower or Wild Thing
The White Stripes doing i Just don't Know What To Do With Myself

whoever said All Saints, I hope you were joking

Ramones My Back Pages (Bob Dylan)
Ramones Do You Wanna Dance (Bobby Freeman)
Jose Gonzalez Heartbeats (The Knife)

There's loads of others but I like covers that are quite a different take on the original

Had forgotten about that Pixies cover of Leonard Cohen's [i]I Can't Forget[/i] 🙄 It's superb 🙂

Here's a last three for the evening before I get completely lost trawling through records/mp3s/the internets.

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Mustang - Mike Patton[/url] (Serge Gainsbourg)

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Down Make Love - Nine Inch Nails[/url] (Queen)

[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dnHW7s05tk ]Bitches Brew - nomeansno[/url] (Miles Davis)

mike flowers pops wonderwall.. ?

Kiss Kiss by Holly Valance