Amazing cover versions….

….I know, bin dun, but bugger me with a fish fork, this has blown my tiny mind;

That’s brilliant, love it.

Pretty sure my suggestions aren’t everyone’s cup o tea, but this is simply awesome. 😂

Well, the answer is Hurt by Johnny Cash

Someone will suggest that Sounds of Silence abomination by Disturbed, and I’ll just say now that they are a massive idiot.

Someone will suggest that Sounds of Silence abomination by Disturbed, and I’ll just say now that they are a massive idiot.

Not a fan, Disturbed have a got better covers than that. 😉

This Joni Mitchell cover always amazes me

I’m going to go with Chris Cornell’s cover of Johnny Cash’s cover of Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage 🙂

The best cover version ever is I Fought The Law by The Clash.

The rest of this thread will now be runners up and honourable mentions.

How about a band doing a cover of a song in a Clash stylee?

Sound of Silence you say?

Royal Trux – Money for Nothin’

I honestly think it captures the idea behind the original song better than the original.

I think Johnny Cash and Hurt is the right answer, but another that I only associate with the coverers rather than the coverees is (also note Fat Bob on guitar)

and as it’s so left field, here’s another for free. I love a cover version particularly when it’s clearly different to the original. On this one – if you know TWP you know it’s coming, but when? (about 3 mins)

How about this one then? Heard this at their Hyde Park gig around 2004.

I’m going to go with Chris Cornell’s cover of Johnny Cash’s cover of Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage 🙂

I was just away to say that, its brilliant!

Someone will suggest that Sounds of Silence abomination by Disturbed, and I’ll just say now that they are a massive idiot.

In my opinion it is very, very good. I don’t believe I’m an idiot but I do understand that people can have opinions, no matter how incorrect they are.

She by Elvis Costello is perhaps my very favourite cover version though.

Just incredible:

A/nd this wobbles a bit near the start, but its simply sublime

Night wishes version of walking in the air. King and country version of little drummer boy. I’m also one of the idiots who likes disturbeds version of sound of silence

Valerie

Got to be on the list

Pennywise, Stand by me.

Though the Cash NiN cover is also great.

This sounds like it was the original and Duffy did a really lame cover.

I’m going to go with Chris Cornell’s cover of Johnny Cash’s cover of Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage 🙂

Fair

A little piece of utter loveliness that I think just shows what a bloody great songwriter Pete Shelley was

I love covers, especially unlikely reimaginings… Two recent-ish favourites from the same people

I never thought the Smashing Pumpkins could be groovy. But this one can even make me swing.

Pretty sure my suggestions aren’t everyone’s cup o tea, but this is simply awesome. 😂

You’re not wrong.

Just incredible:

Yeah, that’s quite astonishing.

I love Faith No More. I love that they can pull off some right nasty horrible crunchy shit, then take a breath and turn out something like that. Brilliant, thanks for the share.

I do love a cover version me. I’d agree that Hurt is up there (esp with the video).

Personal favourites for me are:

Blue – Cat Power (I’m not a Joni fan, but this song has such power)
Everything is Free Now – Courtney Barnett (for a wheelie everyone was covering this Gillian Welch classic)
Rebel Girl – The Linda Lindas (also love that they do Linda Linda, in Japanese, too. And the Paranmaum film version from the art house Linda Linda Linda film…)
Cruel Summer – Olivia Rodrigo (this was the proof to me that Livi has talent. Taylor Swift wrote a **** complex song that shifts key and she nails it sat in her living room live complete with squeaky keyboard pedal. “And I screamed for whatever its worth ‘I love you’ ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard”).

There are just simply far too many to list (from Gram Parsons and Bonnie Prince Billy’s Merle Haggard covers throug to Al Green’s Willie Nelson and Kris Kristoferson to Nirvana’s Mollys Lips…). It’s impossible.

ETA: my favourite Richard Thompson cover, however, the Bonnie Prince Billy & Tortoise’s Calvary Cross… sublime.

Motorhead- Heroes…… and also Motorhead- sympathy for the devil

Love a good cover version. The whole of Battle for Seattle by Little Roy, Emotive by A Perfect Circle and Renegades by RATM. Sturgill Simpson’s version of In Bloom is nice too

Katzenjammer’s cover of Genesis’s Land of Confusion is probably my favourite. This week.

The terminally wonderful Dead Kennedys with an Elvis number.

And Rawhide, which I probably post every time as I love this version in the studio.

Too many to name really but a couple that I have enjoyed recently with a SKA/ Reggae flavour

The Specials – Pressure drop

Rhoda Dakar – The man who sold the world

IMO the whole of the Radiodread album by Easy star all stars is worth a listen

In my opinion it is very, very good. I don’t believe I’m an idiot but I do understand that people can have opinions, no matter how incorrect they are.

You know what, in fairness, to make sure I wasn’t misremembering it I have just listened to it again on YouTube. I will admit that it is not as bad as I remember.

It is, however, still pretty bad. It sounds like a rock singer has won X-Factor, and for the tilt at the Christmas number one Simon Cowell has taken Sounds of Silence and applied his usual ‘quiet start into overblown orchestral into quiet ending’ arrangement.

Foo fighters version of pink Floyd’s have a cigar with Taylor Hawkins singing is better than the original, and I love floyd

Hmm, I don’t think just doing a song on an acoustic guitar slowly counts as a good cover. More like a rendition, and it’s not very creative tbh.

E.g. this is is IMO a great cover of Wicked Games

Is it a cover if one of the original band members is involved?
If so, then the mariachi Golden brown….

Golden Brown