What are really good cover songs?

[coloradodem2005]

For me:
Aerosmith-Come Together (Beatles cover)
Van Halen-You Really Got Me (Kinks cover)
Faith No More-War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover)
Stone Temple Pilots-Dancing Days (Led Zeppelin cover)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters-Tangerine (Led Zeppelin Cover)
Jimi Hendrix-All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover)
Rage Against THe Machine-How I Could Just Kill A Man (Cypress Hill cover)-probably the entire Renegades album.
Run DMC w/ Aerosmith-Walk THis Way (Aerosmith cover)
Metallica-Whiskey In THe Jar (THin Lizzy Cover)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

1. Violent Femmes - Do you Really Wanna Hurt Me (Culture Club cover)

:thumbsup:

[u2spirit]

2. Several

George Michael singing Bonnie Raitt's "I can't make you love me"
KD Lang singing Neil Youngs "Helpless"
Sheryl Crow singing Rod Stewarts "The first cut is the deepest"

Those are a few of my favorites.

[jandrok]

3. Here are a few choice cuts.....

Joe Cocker - "I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends"

Talking Heads - "Take Me to the River"

Stevie Ray Vaughn - "Little Wing"

Willie Nelson - "Midnight Rider" (recent release...good stuff!)

Dead Horse - "Rock Lobster" (obscure, but cool!)

Tori Amos - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

I like covers where the artist reinterprets the original in a unique way. If you can't bring your own vision to a song, why cover it?

[coloradodem2005]

5. For that I will add....

...Stevie Ray Vaughan-Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) to that.

[jandrok]

6. Good call!

Stevie Ray really brought it on that one.

While we're on Hendrix, I'd add Sting's version of "Little Wing" to the list as well. Nice reinterpretation.

Off of Hendrix for a moment, I'd also add Joss Stone's version of the White Stripe's "Fell In Love With a Boy" to the list.

Marilyn Manson - "Sweet Dreams"

Lovemongers - "Battle of Evermore"

Iron Maiden - "Cross-Eyed Mary"

[Bok_Tukalo]

4. OK

Blitzkrieg Bop - Rob Zombie
Mrs. Robinson - Lemonheads
Kiss - Age of Chance
Wrap it Up - Romeo Void

[rock]

7. This looks like the right time for a question

Why are "remakes" called "covers"? I'm an old guy. I have noticed this terminology within the last few years. Whatever happened to just calling them "remakes"?

[coloradodem2005]

9. I do not know.

[immoderate]

17. Answer

During the fifties music on radio was segregated. R&B (originally called "race" music) was not played on white stations. In order to cash in on the new adventurous music, white artists were used to "cover" songs made by black performers. Examples:

Theresa Brewer recorded "Tweedle Dee" (a little cleaned up from original) by LaVern Baker. Pat Boone did Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti." Bobby Vinton decimated "Blue Velvet" by (IIRC) The Chords. and "Little Darlin'" by the Diamonds was originally recorded by The Gladiolas. Funny that we never hear about those black artists.

--IMM

[MissMillie]

8. Aretha Franklin - Respect (Otis Reding)

UB40 - Can't Help Falling in Love (Elvis)
10,000 Maniacs - Peace Train (Cat Stevens)
Sting - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)


Shawn Colvin - Someday (Steve Earle) - actually, Shawn did a whole album of covers and they're all VERY good.

[carpetbagger]

10. Good cover songs...

Keith Emerson and The Nice: Dylan's My Back Pages
Transatlantic: Procol Harum's In Held Twas In I
Most of Led Zeppelin I and II, and of course much of the English blues that came out at the same time.
Clash: I Fought The Law
Chicago: Spencer Davis' I'm A Man
Nirvana: Where Did You Sleep Last Night (since the Meat Puppets appeared on "Lake of Fire", it doesn't count)
Blue Cheer: "Summertime Blues"
Santana: "Black Magic Woman"
Bangles: "Hazy Shade of Winter"
Ant Trip Farm: "Hey Joe"
Foo Fighters: Baker Street

[Kire]

11. Anything Johnny Cash Does

Hurt, Personal Jesus, Bridge Over Troubled Water, etc.

[HeyManThatsCool]

12. Faith No More- Easy (Commodores) &

Metallica- Turn the Page (Bob Seger)

Marilyn Manson- Sweet Dreams (The Eurythmics)

The Lemonheads- Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)

The Sundays- Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)

[coloradodem2005]

14. Faith No More-War Pigs (Black Sabbath)

[neohippie]

16. I like bonerama's version of war pigs

Bonerama is a trombone based band from New Orleans and they do a phat cover of war pigs.

There is this great band from Chicago called Mr. Blotto and every year at their homegrown music festival called "Blottopia" they close the last set by covering an entire album. I think last year they covered The Who's "Who's Next" album and it was tremendous.

You can download entire shows by Mr. Blotto and many other bands who allow copyright free recordings of their music to be posted online at the Live Music Archive.


"20,000 live music concerts"

www.archive.org

Everyone should check out the archive.

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. Pearl Jam- Masters of War (Dylan cover)

RATM- Ghost of Tom Joad (Springsteen cover)
Janis Joplin- Summertime (Gershwin cover)

[CanuckAmok]

15. Do you mean FNM's live version of War Pigs?

When the singer just kind of breaks into a Jerry Lewis mumbling kinda delivery when he forgets the words?!

Hmmm...

here are some of mine:

Jesus Lizard - Sunday You Need Love (I forget who does the original)
The Fall - A Day in the Life (Beatles)
theweddingpresent - Falling (Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamente)
Slayer - Sick Boy (GBH)
Metallica - Overkill (Motorhead)
Einsturende Neubauten - Sand (Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood)
B52s - Downtown (Petula Clark)
Midge Ure - The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
Queens of the Stoneage - Never Say Never (Romeo Void)
Anal Cunt - Can't Touch This (MC Hammer)
Sun City Girls - Fly by Night (Rush)
Abdomen - United (Throbbing Gristle)
UI LAB - St. Elmo's Fire (Brian Eno)
Tragic Mulatto - Whole Lotta Love (blues standard/Led Zeppelin)

That's all I can think of for now

[coloradodem2005]

18. FNM did a studio version of War Pigs.

They stayed pretty true to it on the studio album. It was on "The Real Thing" along with "Epic".