what's your favorite cover?

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:07 am

i have her version of Brixton, is quite good. really want to hear her Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Post by **deewilldo** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:40 pm

Favorite covers,
Incubus--turning japanese
Perfect circle--Imagine
Mxpx-Take on me
Tori Amos-smells like teen spirit
Faith no more-Easy
Save ferris-Come on eileen

Post by **dANdeLION** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:51 pm

Catherine McPhee's version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"

Post by **Cail** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:40 pm

Rainbow's version of the theme from The Snowman.

Post by **lucimay** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:28 pm

dANdeLION wrote:Catherine McPhee's version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"

stop your toolery dAN. tom WAITS does it better.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:31 pm

Lord Mhoram wrote:8. Making Plans for Nigel (XTC)

I have a Primus cover of this...very fun to listen to!

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:34 am

Eva Cassidy did a fantastic version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

Post by **Spring** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:01 am

Nirvana's cover of David Bowe's song The Man Who Sold The World is excellent, IMHO.

Post by **cheeseman** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:48 pm

ah man theres loads!

johnny cash - hurt
faith no more - easy
cake - i will survive

Post by **Warmark** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:30 pm

cake - i will survive

Good song!

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:35 am

Pearl Jam: Crazy Mary

Post by **taraswizard** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:13 am

Consider, Mony, Mony done by one of the best known bubblegum groups of the 1960s, Tommy James and the Shondells. Let's all agree TJs and the Ss are bubblegum (along with the Archies, Cowsills, Partridge Family, etc.). So in 1983 Billy Idol covers the song, and while we might say the song when done by TJ and Ss it's mildly suggestive; however, the Billy Idol cover is much more than merely suggestive. Comments?

Any other covers that might fit into this category? Would anything from David Bowie's Pin Ups maybe?

Sorry if this sounds like a completely off the wall topic, but since I heard Billy Idol's cover earlier this evening through my digital cable service, these thoughts came to mind.

Post by **wayfriend** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:43 pm

What's the category? Covers that are improvements on the original?

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:52 pm

If so...I'd like to submit that Rufus Wainwright's cover of the Beatles "Across the Universe" is superior to the original.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:06 pm

I would say The Animals version of House of the Rising Sun qualifies as well, if you compare their lyrics to the original, which were sung from a female POV.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl
And me, Oh Lord! was one
My mother was a tailor,
She sewed them new blue jeans.
My lover he was a gambler, Oh Lord,
Gambled down in New Orleans.

My lover, he was a gambling man
He went from town to town;
And the only time he was satisfied
Was when he drank his liquor down.
Now the only thing a gambling man needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk;
And the only time he's ever satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk.

If I only list'nd when my dear mother said:
Beware, my child, when you roam,
Keep away from drunkards and all those gambling men,
It's best by far to come home.
Go and tell my baby sister
Never do like I have done,
But to shun that house in New Orleans
That they call the Rising Sun.

With one foot on the platform,
And one foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear the ball and chain.
I'm going back to New Orleans
My race is almost run;
I'm going back to spend the rest of my life
Beneath that Rising Sun.

Post by **The Dreaming** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:54 pm

Rufus Wainwright - Across the Universe

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:03 pm

I can tell you a cover I hate/loathe/abhor. Faith Hill should have been drawn and quartered and tarred and feathered and maggots and rotting meat stuffed up her nose while staked out in the hot sun of the desert for such sacrilege of turning "Piece of My Heart" into some fluffy country crap. If I even catch a slight whiff of that while channel surfing on the radio I feel as though I must go out and club a couple dozen baby seals to assuage my rage.

Post by **bloodguard bob** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:38 pm

I like Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Somwhere Over the Rainbow.

But favorite cover would have to be John Coltrane's Favorite Things.

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:40 pm

Holy crap Jenn.... baby seals even. eep.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:04 pm

I'm sorry but I feel that strongly about it.

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

what's your favorite cover?

Remakes and covers