Kevin's Watch

Cameraman Jenn wrote: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.

CJ is impressive when she gets on a roll...

Billy Idol's version of "Mony, Mony" is the only one I know. He certainly throws himself into it.

Cameraman Jenn wrote: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.

Jenn, this is why I love you.

My favourite cover at the moment is Bush's "Wild Horses" - the live version that is on YouTube. Rossdale's haunting voice is perfectly suited to heartbreak songs, and this cover is nearly as addictive as "glycerine" was all those years ago.

I must check out the original sometime...

Currently listening to Oasis's cover of "Cum On Feel The Noize".

Good stuff.

I also really dig Def Leppard's hysterical cover of Englebert Humperdink's "Release Me".

A real oldie, but I really enjoy Yes' cover of the Simon and Garfunkel song America.

Cameraman Jenn wrote: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.

Tsk! Tsk! Jenn, just go club Faith Hill. The baby seals are innocent! I'll swear you were with me the whole time!


Duh! Edited because I forgot:

Joe Bonamassa's cover of A New Day Yesterday (Jethro Tull)

A surprisingly good (and certainly differant) bluegrass cover of Stuck In The Middle With You (Stealer's Wheel) by a woman named Dale Ann Bradley.

And there is a live cover of Ramble On from Train (normally a pretty bland and generic band) that kicks butt.

Symphony For The Devil from Blood, Sweat & Tears

I want to mention the Youngified Crazy Mary by Pearl Jam.

But I think the all time hands down best improved cover has to be Dancing in the Streets by Van Halen.

Sheriff Lytton wrote:Tool "No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin cover)

agreed! and you beat me to it.