Favourite cover songs

[LESStar58]

X- Pretty much the best band to ever come out of Los Angeles in my very humble opinion

Breathless (Jerry Lee Lewis)


Soul Kitchen (The Doors)

 

[LESStar58]

 

[Cric_life777]

waka waka is the best song for cover

 

[natheel]

Been listening to the punk goes pop albums and found a decent cover of Lordes "Royals" by Youth in Revolt.

 

[LESStar58]

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/hear-infamous-stringdusters-cover-just-like-heaven-w508523

The Infamous Stringdusters do a bluegrass version of Just Like Heaven by the cure.

This blew my mind!

 

[Generalzod]

I like U2's version of Everlasting Love...

 

[Vozzy]

Disturbed - Sounds Of Silence
Amon Amarth - Ariels (system of a down)
Moonsorrow - For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica)
Blind Guardian - You're The Voice (John Farnham)

 

[The Mad Hatter]

 

[The Mad Hatter]

David Gray Say Hello Wave Goodbye [Soft Cell cover].


And this Def Leppard cover of Mick Ronson's Only After Dark.


Fischerspooner covering Wire's The 15th.


The Smashing Pumpkins covering Alice Cooper's New Wave (completely under-rated gem) Clones (We're All). [The original is totally awesome too].


Robert Plant / Honey Dippers Sea of Love


I always liked Wheatus' version of A Little Respect too. But I can only find shitty re-recording vids.

And the ELO / Jeff Lynne version of Xanadu...not technically a cover. But great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4siEWXsZBHM

 

[gUt]

XTC

Peter Gabirel

The Fleetwoods

From the play The Quare Fellow (1954) by Brendan Behan, song by Dicky Shannon

David Bowie

 

[gUt]

Burt Bacharach

Cop Shoot Cop

Black Sabbath

I believe this is the theme to the 1915 film The Golem (or music from it anyway)

Stevie Wonder

 

[gUt]

Rolling Stones

From the musical Porgy & Bess, Gershwin

Theme from the films

Roberto Murolo

Massive Attack

 

[gUt]

Bob Dylan

Teddy Edwards

Chinese traditional

Hunters & Collectors

Prince

 

[gUt]

@LESStar58
Little Wang from the Kang

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[veggiepatch1959]

David Gray Say Hello Wave Goodbye [Soft Cell cover].


And this Def Leppard cover of Mick Ronson's Only After Dark.


Fischerspooner covering Wire's The 15th.


The Smashing Pumpkins covering Alice Cooper's New Wave (completely under-rated gem) Clones (We're All). [The original is totally awesome too].


Robert Plant / Honey Dippers Sea of Love


I always liked Wheatus' version of A Little Respect too. But I can only find shitty re-recording vids.

And the ELO / Jeff Lynne version of Xanadu...not technically a cover. But great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4siEWXsZBHM

Wow!! Mick Ronson's solo album "Slaughter On 10th Avenue" had Only After Dark on it. I bought the vinyl when it came out and played it to a mate who was a Bowie freak. I told him it was a limited release of Bowie's new album. Poor merkin took the bait until I told him the truth.

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Well f**k me dead! I didn't know that it was a cover.

I had the song as my ringtone about 10 years ago. Also Parallel Lines is a shit hot album.

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Love your stuff gUt. Keep it up!

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I remember in the 80s and 90s two things about covers :

- they made great B-sides (geez I loved B-sides - covers, oddities, extended mixes, the occasional soundtrack song, throwaways, live tracks)

- they rarely printed the lyrics in the CD booklets / cassette covers / LP slips.

YouTube helps now with people posting about how a song is a cover and I love exploring and cross referencing finding the original artists.

 

[gUt]

Elvis

Tears for Fears

Gloria Gaynor

Wings

Leonard Cohen