Smoke Two Joints--originally done by The Toyes, covered by Sublime. I love both versions.
I also thought Smooth Criminal, originally by Michael Jackson, covered by Alien Ant Farm, was decent.
Anything and everything by Rockapella.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Annie Lenox has an entire album of covers called "Medusa." It's great! What a voice.
Todd Rundgren did an album of covers called "Faithful." He recreated every sound and vocal nuance of the originals so it was really an attempt to come off sounding exactly like the original recordings. eerie stuff. Esp. the Beatles tunes.
Devo's "Satisfaction"
UB40's version of "Red, Red Wine."
Hey, haven't we done this thread before?
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
Have we? My B.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
quote:Anything and everything by Rockapella.
I concur.
I'll add Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower" to the list. Marvelous stuff.
Steve Martin's cover of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is one of only about two Beatles covers I've liked. (Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of "Taxman" was also okay.)
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I usually think that Beatles' covers are vastly superior to the Beatles. Namely, Rufus Wainwright's "Across the Universe," Sarah McLachlan and Bernadette Peters's (separate) renditions of "Blackbird," and Aerosmith's "Come Together."
My new favorite cover, though, is Bono doing "Can't Help Falling in Love." Ah... that falsetto....
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
quote:I usually think that Beatles' covers are vastly superior to the Beatles.
Blasphemy!
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
CM...it was a joke...
Posted by Mintieman (Member # 4620) on :
I think cat powers cover of Wonderwall is quite nice. Then again, I like all of cat powers songs.
And we cant go too far with out mentioning Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.
Posted by Jutsa Notha Name (Member # 4485) on :
Johnny Cash-- Hurt
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Oh, yes it just doesn't GET any better than Jeff Buckley's version of Halleluia
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
Rufus Wainwright did a great job with Cohen's Hallelujah. Annie Lennox' "Don't let it bring you Down" is more interesting than Neil Young's version. And I can't decide whether i like Steve Winwood or Alana Davis singing "Can't find my way home."
I wrote this post after only reading Bob's post and I realize I didn't add much at all.
[ February 11, 2005, 12:42 AM: Message edited by: Irami Osei-Frimpong ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:Oh, yes it just doesn't GET any better than Jeff Buckley's version of Halleluia
I don't know... have you heard k.d. lang do it?
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
The Fugees version of "Killing me softly" was great as was Cake's "I will survive". I also really liked Barenaked Ladies take on "When Doves Cry" and "Dancing in the Moonlight" by Toploader - also "Hard to Handle" by the Black Crowes.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
quote:Aerosmith's "Come Together."
No way. Not a chance.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Natalie Merchant's version of "Sally Ann" by The Horse Flies.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I really enjoy Amy Sky's cover of "Love Me Tender." It sounds less cheesy than the original.
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
I do like Stevie Wonder's version of "We Can Work it Out" better than the originial.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
One of my favorite covers is Del McCoury doing Richard Thompson's "Vincent Black Lightning 1952." He takes a folk-rock song, and turns it into a bluegrass song.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Firewater's cover of Tom Waits' "Diamonds and Gold." It's on their album of cover songs (all great) titled "Songs We Should Have Written"--is that not the best title for a cover album ever?
Guns'N'Roses covering the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," Dope's version of "You Spin Me Right Round," and Luxt's version of "The Safety Dance" are all really good too.
My roommate has co-opted the word "kravitz" to be a verb. "To kravitz" a song means to do a remake of it that's so good the original deserves to be buried, as he feels Lenny Kravitz did with "American Woman."
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
ha! I love that title for a cover album!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
You know the song has been kravitzed when you didn't know there WAS another version of American Woman.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
And you really know it is kravitzed when youhear the person who actually wrote the song sing it, and think they are doing a bad cover.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote:I usually think that Beatles' covers are vastly superior to the Beatles.
The one that sticks out the most is Earth, Wind & Fire's version of "Got to Get You Into My Life" - a song I believe to be the best Beatles cover ever, not to mention vastly superior to the original.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
So...does that mean I'm the only one who prefers the Guess Who version of "American Woman"?
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
some call it awful but i call it amazing. Tony Clifton singing I WILL SURVIVE makes me happy everytime i hear it
[ February 11, 2005, 11:55 AM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:So...does that mean I'm the only one who prefers the Guess Who version of "American Woman"?
I'll stick it out with you, Goat! Lenny Kravitz is up there with Sheryl Crow on the list of singers that make me physically cringe.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Goat, I'm totally with you. The live version for their "Runnin Back Thru Canada" tour is even better.
Incidentally, I nearly bust a gut when I saw a commercial for "Miss America" and they had American Woman playing in the background. Off all the songs to chose... *snicker*
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
I can think of two off-hand.
Crosby, Stills and Nash's a capella version of The Beatles' "Blackbird" is breathtaking. I heard them do that one live on a night when they were really "on" - they did it as their opening song, and were actually high-fiving each other at the end because they knew they were on that night and that it was going to be a good show, as it was.
Also, Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page". I think I've said here before that I think the cover is vastly superior to the original.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
quote:Also, Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page". I think I've said here before that I think the cover is vastly superior to the original.
No way. Too much voice, if anyone at all knows what I mean. Between that and "Stone Cold Crazy", I hereby declare Metallica a band that should never do covers at all. Ever.
Posted by babager (Member # 6700) on :
I really like The Ataris cover of Don Henley's Boys of Summer. I don't think I like their version more, but I do like it just as much.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I have written this somewhere before...I don't remember where though. ??
I love Erasure's cover of "Rapture" by Blondie. I'm not especially fond of their ABBA covers, but they're still fun.
"American Woman" was definitely kravitzed. I love his version of it and had no idea that there was another!
Mmm, and I think Sarah's cover of "Blackbird" is so nice. (Agree's with Annie on those Beatles covers.)
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I'm with Goat on The Guess Who. I'm mixed on Metallica - don't like their version of Turn the Page but loved Stone Cold Crazy.
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Namely, Rufus Wainwright's "Across the Universe," Sarah McLachlan and Bernadette Peters's (separate) renditions of "Blackbird," and Aerosmith's "Come Together."