Tori Amos is always doing interesting covers. ‘Ring My Bell’ is a live favourite, but I don't think she's recorded it, but she did a version of a Chas and Dave song, the title of which escapes me at the 'mo, and I can't be arsed to go get the 'pod out of the car. She did a terrific version of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', (Nirvana), 'If 6 Was 9', (Hendrix), 'Strange Fruit', (Holliday), and 'Thank You' (Zeppelin). I've got a brilliant cover of 'I predict A Riot' by Cheshire Chord, a ladies choir, which I recorded from a radio stream, probably 6Music, as an MP3.
johny cash version of hurt was brilliant though i still love the nin version
marylin mansons sweet dreams
rage against the machine renegades of funk i like that whole album of covers, its great
a perfect circles emotive album i prefer their version of imagine
but when the levee breaks is no led zepplin
Order Of The Ebon Hand's version of the Banshees' "Spellbound"
Wierd Al
Like a surgeon
Smells like Nirvana
Another one rides the bus
What if God smoked cannabis?
Armish Paradise
Canadian idiot
Oops I farted again
Ugly girl
You're pitiful
Will the real Slim Shady please shut up
Amongst others. Not strictly covers though.
Best true cover, Bonnie Prince Billy, I see a Darkness.
Sussanah and the magical orchestra did a haunting cover of 'Love will tear us apart'. It was in Greys anatomy. They did an entire album and most of the tracks are waaaaay out there.
Placebo 'Running up that hill' is a really good cover, and the album that is on also has the pixies , Depeche and others.
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Another vote for Placebo's version of la Bush's classic. Also Nerina Pallot's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart.
OP said ' country roads '
There's a punk version on a ' Fat wreck chords ' sampler from , oh , er , ages ago .
I remember it being really good , but not who did it .
Dinosaur Jr . Yea . Listened to that one today . That mad ending . Ace .
Not strictly a cover , but how funny is it when Vic+ Bob do 'Foster and Allen ' ?
Mulligan and O'Hare .
... " she's gone to kenya , with that bloke from allied Carpets .... "
Disturbed have a habit of covering some '80s choons per album, eg.
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of Confusion, Genesis[/url] (quite a good version, this)
[url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOibtqWo6z4 ]Metallica doing Bob Seger's 'Turn the Page'[/url]
Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind...
Don't compare to Machine Head covering 'Raining Blood', mind...
or in fact [url= http://samples.musica.mustdie.ru/m/machine_head/1999_594.mp3 ]machine head message in a bottle[/url]
Arctic monkeys cover of girls aloud
Ryan adams covering wonderwall
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clyro - killing in the name[/url], made even better by the participation of the crowd.
Fun lovin crimnals have done a few. Sinatras (I think) summer wind is a rather fine example.
DJ Lebowitz plays "Holiday in Cambodia"
beastie boys- benny and the jets
be good tanyas - when doves cry
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cover is superb. Ninja edit: Youtube version is a wee bit different 🙂
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Marley goes disco.
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(I found myself singing Richard Cheese style Rape Me in Tesco once [:-(] )
Van Halen - Pretty Women, cracking opening riff
M6TTF - Member
Ryan adams covering wonderwall
Only thing I know about him was something I read in a newspaper so it must be true. was performing at a festival and someone at the back shouted 'Do summer of 69.' He through a right strop and wouldn't continue until they were ejected.
Singletrackworld said:
Sussanah and the magical orchestra did a haunting cover of 'Love will tear us apart'.
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Sooo intense it's untrue.
And The Biscuit's version of 'The whole world in his hands' -
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Some great stuff on this thread ta chaps and chapesses - will amuse me for a while. some I'd forgotten and some I never knew
Been enjoying hayseed dixie just now.
Nouvelle Vague cover lots of old Punk classics and other stuff from that era:
The Clash, Guns of Brixton is good
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One of my favourite ever covers, this time OF the Dead Kennedys:
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I almost prefer it to the original.
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Sid Vicious... MY WAY
nuff said
The ukelele orchestra are simply awesome
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one of my favourite vocalists ever - From Boulder to Birmingham (originally by Emmylou Harris).
Although anything she sings is fine by me......
The Dickies - Sound of Silence
Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
The Ramones - Needles and Pins
Sisters of Mercy - Emma
The Hunters Club - Feel Like Making Love
The Chameleons - Tomorrow Never Knows
The dead weather - are friends electric?
Snuff- I can see clearly now by jimmy cliff
Redd Kross- Dancing Queen
FNM- Easy
Motorhead- Louie louie by the kingsmen
anything off Gravelands by The King
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At The Drive In - This night has opened my eyes
Dirty Projectors, the Rise Above album is interesting I guess. Some half arsed covers of Black Flag
Slayer - Filler/I dont wanna hear it (Minor Threat cover, and absolute weapon of a song)
Minutemen - 3 Way Tie for last album - some good covers on there.
One of the best covers has to be Muse's version of Feeling Good by Nina Simone. Epic
Me First and the gimmie gimmies is alwas good to listen to before a blast through the forest so many wicked covers.
cheers
Rusty Mac
The Bates doing "Billie Jean" - not unusual, just damn good.
I dont know who did it, but the folky whiney bird that did a cover of Sweet child 'O Mine that was on the Xmas John Lewis ad should have her head on a pike. Heresey!
Today's favourite...
Glenn Campbell's done a few good covers, Good Riddance (Green Day) and Times Like These (Foos) are the ones that stick in my head.
... and for fans of Rodney the Modney...
Aztec Camera doing Van Halens "Jump"
Frazier Chorus doing "Anarchy in the UK"
The clouds version of "Wichita Lineman"
& Frankenbok doing "Don't call me baby"
According to [url= http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/ ]The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyric Project[/url], when the Biscuit occasionally cover "Wichita Lineman", the opening line is amended to
"I am a lineman at Notts County". 🙂
zigzag69 - Finally, someone else with the sense to realise hellsongs are ace.
The other way around (well, he's a famous singer if you are a redneck or kris kristoffersen) I heartily endorse Larry Jon Wilson's covers of "Sapelo" and "Friday Night Fight At Al's Place", both from the Country Soul Revue (hat tip to Craig Charles on that one)
Marilyn Manson covering Sweet Dreams is ace 🙂
The King, Gravelands.
Has anyone mentioned Ian Brown doing "In the year 2525" off his latest album? Strange choice, but then he is a bit strange.
