Best/ Worst Covers

[SpaceMonkey]

Summer Breeze - Type O Negative
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
California Girls - David Lee Roth
A Fine Day To Die - Emperor
Message In a Bottle - Machine Head

Some good choices there. I like MH's version of "Colors" better than "Message in a Bottle" though.

 

[CliffyIsGod]

I have heard them do Pink Floyd's "Young Lust".

And Have A Cigar.

 

[ledzep]

Best

If you don't know me by now - David Brent

:lol: :lol: :lol:
gold

 

[DB]

worst

american pie- madonna

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Best:

All along the watchtower- jimmy hendrix
eve of destruction- screaming jets
the man who sold the world- nirvana
sunday bloody sunday- living end

 

[Knightmare]

I heard 'To the moon and back' by Human Nature tonight and I reckon it would sound cool if a hardcore band did a cover of it.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Dancing in the street- Van halen, brillant, love Eddie and Anthonys back up vocals.

 

[Iafeta]

Who originally did All Along the Watchtower? I love Jimi Hendrix, I thought he was the original.. guess not.

Best: Agree with rooster booster, Live and Let Die - Guns N' Roses, cover of a version from Wings

 

[Iafeta]

Good (but the original is still good) Video Killed the Radio Star, can't remember who did them

Anytime any girly chick tries to f*ck up a rock anthem, thats just f*cked up right there.

 

[ledzep]

Who originally did All Along the Watchtower? I love Jimi Hendrix, I thought he was the original.. guess not.

Best: Agree with rooster booster, Live and Let Die - Guns N' Roses, cover of a version from Wings

Bob Dylan

 

[ledzep]

Good (but the original is still good) Video Killed the Radio Star, can't remember who did them

Anytime any girly chick tries to f*ck up a rock anthem, thats just f*cked up right there.

That reminds me:
Worst - Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine
:evil: :evil: :evil:

 

[salivor]

Who originally did All Along the Watchtower? I love Jimi Hendrix, I thought he was the original.. guess not.

And thats why when talking covers there is only one cover to beat them all, Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower. Was a great song originally by Bob Dylan but Jimi took to a whole new level where these days the original has almost been forgotten.

Some of my other favourite covers would be:
Bob Dylan - House of the Rising Sun
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
The White Stripes - Joelene
Tool - No Quarter
Nirvana - Where did you sleep last night?
John Lennon - Stand by me
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

 

[edabomb]

Best: Seal - Who wants to live forever at the Freddy Mercury tribute concert.

Worst: Perfect Circle - Imagine

 

[SP]

The Ataris - The Boys Of Summer

 

[Alex28]

Best:

Hurt - Johnny Cash
Masters of War - Pearl Jam
Sea of Love - Cat Power
Teenage Kicks - Snow Patrol
Army of Me - Helmet
Since U Been Gone - Ted Leo

Special mention should go to The Herd for "Only 19" - it could have been very easy to f*ck up that song but they did a great job, and to witness it live with John Schumann performing with them was pretty amazing.

Worst:

Try not to listen to bad music, but most of the ones mentioned here (as worst) are pretty bad. Sugarbabes covering "Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" was pretty bad too.

 

[Gene Krupa]

Best: I Will Survive - Cake. They made that song their own.
Mr Postman - The Beatles
Roll Over Beethoven - The Beatles

 

[Red Bear]

Worst
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - william Shatner

 

[carcharias]

best
Common People - William Shatner

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Best (off the top of my head)
Black Betty - Spiderbait
Forever Young - Youth Group
Gangstas Paradise - Coolio (at the time anyway)


Worst
American Pie - Madonna (same as DB)
Locomotion - Kylie Minogue

 

[Gene Krupa]

Gangsters Paradise isn't actually a cover.