Phill451 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 This may have been done but what cover versions of songs do you favour over the original version. My personal choice at the moment is Johnny Cash doing the NIN song Hurt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batty Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Tom Jones - Kiss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hired goon Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 G'day, Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" is totes better than Leonard Cohen's cheesy original. --Geoff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill451 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 think I am with you HG, Jeff Buckley's version is amazing, although there is not much like seeing Leonard Cohen performing it live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danter Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Remember Blue Ruin ? - they did a brilliant cover of "Venus' which got lost due to Bananarama (gulp) releasing the same track at the same time. Guns & Roses - Knockin' on Heavens Door (Sorry Bob) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickj1 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Hendrix vs Dylan: all along the watchtower Ry Cooder Vs Elvis: Little Sister Donald Fagen Vs Drifters/Dion: Ruby Baby Ray Charles Vs Don Gibson: I can't stop loving you Wilson Pickett Vs Chris Kenner: Land of 1000 dances Beatles Vs Barrett Strong: Money Stones Vs Chuck Berry: Down the road apiece (they had to get one Chuck Berry song right- they'd tried enough) Elvis Vs Big Boy Crudup: that's alright mama Elvis Vs Chuck Willis: feel so bad Elvis Vs Lloyd Price: Lawdy miss Clawdy Elvis Vs Bill Monroe: Blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Vs Little willie John: Fever Elvis Vs Carl Perkins: Blue suede shoes etc Cheers Mick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 This may have been done but what cover versions of songs do you favour over the original version. My personal choice at the moment is Johnny Cash doing the NIN song Hurt. Agree, it is brilliant Hendrix - All along the watch tower Stones - Little Red Rooster, Under the Boardwalk Led Zep - You Shook me, I Can't Quit You Baby Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Take me to the river, Jealous Guy and numerous others Fuzzbox - Walking on Thin Ice Bowie - Sorrow INXS - the Loved One - from 1981, not the butchering done on Kick. Linkin Park - Behind Blue Eyes Marianne Faithful - Working class hero Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself Gary Jules - Mad World Shannon Noll - What About Me - JUST KIDDING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill451 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Agree, it is brilliantHendrix - All along the watch tower Stones - Little Red Rooster, Under the Boardwalk Led Zep - You Shook me, I Can't Quit You Baby Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Take me to the river, Jealous Guy and numerous others Fuzzbox - Walking on Thin Ice Bowie - Sorrow INXS - the Loved One - from 1981, not the butchering done on Kick. Linkin Park - Behind Blue Eyes Marianne Faithful - Working class hero Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself Gary Jules - Mad World Shannon Noll - What About Me - JUST KIDDING Some very interesting choices here, don't know the Gary jules Mad World cover so ill check it out. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Some very interesting choices here, don't know the Gary jules Mad World cover so ill check it out. Thanks. It's the cover that many people think is Michael Stip aka R.E.M Also faith No More - Easy Rammstein - the depeche classik - Stripped. Only song the german boys have ever sung in English and lastly the absolutely amazing Hendrix cover of " You got me Floatin" by PM Dawn from the Stone free various artists project 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill451 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 i've gota say the faith no more is also a sensational cover that I would never have thought of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Smith Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Santana - Black Magic Woman Doug Parkinson - Dear Prudence Rita Coolidge - My Crew Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World And most definitely Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Cheers Wayne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Doug Parkinsons - Dear Prudence (Beatles) The Zoot's - Eleanor Rigby(Beatles) Nirvana - The man who sold the world(bowie) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Morson Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 OMG Cohens Vs Buckley - you guys have lost the plot if anyone says Beatles song covered is better, that would be worse - I am in shock Scissor Sisters - take me out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Bobby Darrin - Mac The Knife (three penny orchestra -Louis Armstrong & others) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill451 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 two votes for Doug Parkinson. I will have to have a listen. Have you heard the Siouxsie and the Banshees version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Morson Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 ok - I am googling Doug Parkinson Dear Prudence - I will have a listen this is too mad to contemplate - no one beats the beatles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Smith Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I forgot Renee Geyer - Its a Mans World from Live at the Basement album and we are on a similar take Grumpy Cheers Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Morson Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 ahhh I see - you guys were the ones smoking something in 1969 got it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emesbee Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Santana - Black Magic WomanDoug Parkinson - Dear Prudence Rita Coolidge - My Crew Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World And most definitely Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Cheers Wayne I personally don't agree with the first two. Nothing wrong with Santana's version of Black Magic Woman, but I actually like the original Fleetwood Mac version better. I do prefer Santana's cover of She's Not There though. Dear Prudence? The Beatles version is the only one! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Morson Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 phew - world order restored gnight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill451 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Hard to go past the beatles, but Nirvana has got my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Hall Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 You" V Prince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proftournesol Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Little Roger and the Goosebumps - Stairway to Gilligans Island. This manages a great cover of 2 classics - Gilligans Island Theme Song words sung to Stairway to Heaven tune:D on a more serious note: Cowboy Junkies and 'Sweet Jane' & 'Helpless', and Patti Smith also covering Neil Young's 'Helpless'. Los Lobos do a fantastic live cover of The Beatles 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Whilst on Beatles covers, The Black Keys and 'She Said'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHorsepower Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Lovemongers version of Battle of Evermore ,off the soundtrack to the movie Singles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Guns and Roses - Live and let Die (Paul McCartney) Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt (Roy Orbison) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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