Favorite Cover(s)?

[Rutlefan]

The shoegaze thread inspired this topic as it brought My Boody Valentine to mind, and hence their cover of Wire's Map Ref 41N 93W; probably my favorite cover ever as one of my favorite groups takes my favorite song from another one of my favorite groups and makes it completely awesome in a whole new way.

 

Some others I really like are Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower, Cocker's With a Little Help from My Friends, Johnny Cash's Hurt, and Wings' Richard Cory (from Wings Over America). Each of these covers took an already fantastic song and re-invented it in its own fantastic way but this is the nearest and dearest:

 

The Original...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2RvSHK_B8

 

The Cover...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUBcqs0Z9QA

Edited December 27, 2013 by Rutlefan

[Cyclonus X-1]

Tool's No Quarter.

[ozzy85]

Monster Magnet has a couple of good ones. They do an excellent job of David Gilmour's No Way Out Of Here and the Stones' 2000 Light Years From Home.

[ReRushed]

The Beatles - "Long Tall Sally"

The Clash - "I Fought the Law"

Fiona Apple - "Across the Universe"

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding"

Pretenders - "Stop Your Sobbing"

Edited December 29, 2013 by ReRushed

[Segue Myles]

Lacuna Coil:

 

Depeche Mode- Enjoy The Silence (feautured on their 2006 masterpiece Karmacode. Amazing cover! Even DM admitted it was great! )

REM- Losing My Religion (an interesting cover, the band gothed it up and made it a duet. Very good.)

Dubstar- Stars (I enjoy both versions, but Lacuna added a darkness that the original version sorely needed.)

 

Okay, they only ever covered these three songs. But I love them all!

 

Miles Davis covered Some Day My Prince Will Come. Stunning.

[invisible airwave]

Bowie - Let's Spend The Night Together

Deftones - Night Boat (Duran Duran)

Stone Temple Pilots - Dancing Days

Foo Fighters - Darling Nikki

Talking Heads - Take Me To The River

The Clash - I Fought The Law

Tom Petty - Feel A Whole Lot Better

Rolling Stones - Ain't Too Proud To Beg

Ramones - Surfin' Bird

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

Smashing Pumpkins - You're All I've Got Tonight

Van Halen - You Really Got Me

Edited December 29, 2013 by invisible airwave

[By Tor]

Quality.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McQKA0FeArM

[bathory]

blue cheer - summertime blues

melvins - goin blind

toxik - out on the tiles

heathen - hellbound

saint vitus - thirsty and miserable

iron maiden - cross-eyed mary, communication breakdown

metallica - am i evil, blitzkrieg, helpless, breadfan

minutemen - dr wu, aint talkin bout love

[bathory]

husker du - eight miles high

[bathory]

black flag - louie louie

motorhead - louie louie

[Narps]

G & R Knock'in On Heaven's Door

[greyfriar]

Rush - The Seeker

[Cyclonus X-1]

Helmet's Army of Me.

[greyfriar]

Voivod - Astronomy Domine

Voivod - The Nile Song

[ReRushed]

Bowie - Let's Spend The Night Together

Talking Heads - Take Me To The River

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

Van Halen - You Really Got Me

 

Love all these. Though it's safe to say every song Van Halen covered was top notch.

[Rutlefan]

Two side of the same single:

 

Big Black covers Cheap Trick's He's a Whore and Kraftwerk's The Model.

 

He's a Whore is just another take on what was already a great recording, but The Model completely turns the original on its head. One of my favorites (my work blocks the studio version because of the name of the lp on which the track appeared, I suspect, so here's a live version):

 

[The Owl]

I could name a few dozen covers that I really enjoy, but my favorite would be Opeth's cover of Robin Trower's "Brige of Sighs"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyVfUb-mM0

Edited December 30, 2013 by The Owl

[The Owl]

Also..... SRV's version of "Little Wing" is way up there for me..

 

[custom55]

of course...

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0DVsfz79Zs

 

 

[custom55]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0DxBIP3wE

[custom55]

America - YES

Planet Caravan - Pantera

Woodstock - CSNY

The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana

Where Have All the Good Times Gone - Van Halen

Love Buzz - Nirvana

and the best for last...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuEpaMiN-A0

[RushBoingo]

They Might Be Giants-Istanbul, not Constantinople (which is the most popular version of the song anyway) (Originally by The Four Lads)

They Might Be Giants-Yeh Yeh (Originally by Georgie Fame)

Great Big Sea-Run Runaway (Originally by Slade)

Great Big Sea-When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down) (Originally by The Oyster Band)

Mindless Self Indulgance-Tom Sawyer (you know who)

[sitboaf]

Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

[Rod in Toronto]

Dream Theater - Flick of the Wrist/Tenement Funster/Lilly of the Valley

[KennyLee]

Jeffrey Gains - In Your Eyes

 

If you never heard it...