the Greatest Covers of all time

[CC_Eagle]

Where did ya find the Frenzal cover of The Dead Heart?

Its on Power and the Passion: A Tribute to Midnight Oil. Other artists covering Oils tracks include Something For Kate, Shihad, Grinspoon and Area 7.

Across the Univers - John Butler Trio (The Beatles)

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

MAD!! I've gotta have that CD..

The JBT cover is great, I first heard it on Marking Time and jumped at the What You Want single when I heard it was on it.

 

[Foz]

Rock and Roll Music. The Beatles version still remains the best today despite hundreds of cover versions. Chuck Berry did the original I think.

 

[et]

The guy on the Footy Show who did I've Been Everywhere.

 

[Red Bear]

Me first and the Gimme Gimme's songs
Frenzal - Dead Heart, TNT, Sweet n Sour, Home and Away.
The Lving End - Tainted Love, Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Others i cant remember.

 

[Anonymous]

Although I'm sure I will suffer admonishment from the reggae purists like Captain Dread, another cover I love is

Fugees - No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley)

Nowhere nears as good as Bob's but a good interpratation nonetheless.

 

[Trollhammaren]

If this Dimitri bloke is serious, he is deadset the Patrick Bateman of these forums...

Decent covers:

Faith No More - Easy (Lionel Richie), War Pigs (Black Sabbath), This Guy's In Love With You (Burt Bacharach), I Started a Joke (Bee Gees)

Metallica - So What? (Anti-Nowhere League) plus many more

Him - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)

Tool - No Quarter (Led Zeppelin)

Frankenbok - Don't Call Me Baby (Madison Avenue)

 

[ledzep]

All Along hte Watchtower laps the field

 

[SP]

about cover versions, this isnt the greatest (well i think anyway) but what U2 song is LMC's take me to the clouds above?

 

[miccle]

The Waifs - Don't think twice it's alright (original by Bob Dylan, appears on the Waifs new live cd)

Reel Big Fish - Boss DJ (original by Sublime)

 

[Anonymous]

Fugees - No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley)

I haven't actually heard it... but I quite like Wyclef Jean's own reggae efforts on The Carnival. It's something I've wanted to check out for some time though.

 

[carcharias]

The drugs dont work , Ben Harper

 

[CC_Eagle]

Reel Big Fish - Take On Me...goes like a zyertec.

 

[et]

Wave of Mutilation - Superdrag (Pixies)
Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana (Bowie)
Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows (Jonie Mitchell)
Turn Turn Turn - Byrds (Seeger)

 

[PARRA_FAN]

There's a lot of great covers:

Screaming Jets- Eve of Destruction (Barry Magurie)
Screaming Jets- Shivers (????)
Living End- Sunday Bloody Sunday (surprised this wasnt released on an album its so good) (U2)
Joe Cocker- With a little help from my friends (The Beatles)
Jimi Hendrix- All along the watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Rolling Stones- Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Nirvana- Man who sold the world (David Bowie)
Stereophonics- Dont let me down (The Beatles)
INXS- Loved One (The Loved ones)
Jimmy Barnes and the Badloves- The Weight (The Band)
Jimmy Barnes and INXS- Good Times (The Easybeats)
AC/DC- Baby Please Don't Go (Van Morrison)
Billy Thorpe- Somewhere over the rainbow (not sure, but it was off The Wizard of Oz)
Robert Palmer and forget who the band was - Get it On (T Rex)
*Monkees and Smashmouth- I'm a believer (Neil Diamond)

*two different versions, no duet.

 

[CC_Eagle]

Screaming Jets- Shivers (????)

Thats a cover? :shock:

 

[Phillips]

Limp Bizkit - Faith 8)

 

[Matt23]

NFG - My heart will go on
Travis - Hit me baby one more time

 

[carcharias]

Thats a cover?

yep Nick Cave wrote it and it was either him and the bad seeds or the birthday party. I think it was more likely a Birthday party song. Nick was the singer.

 

[thomo]

Reel Big Fish - Take On Me...goes like a zyertec.

Great version (way better than all the boring boy band versions!). I also like their version of "Come on Eileen" but it isn't as good as the original.

Speaking of the Fugees, I'm surprised nobody has selected "Killing Me Softly".

 

[Rexxy]

Thats a cover?

yep Nick Cave wrote it and it was either him and the bad seeds or the birthday party. I think it was more likely a Birthday party song. Nick was the singer.

Definitely Birthday Party (Door, Door?), although I think i read somewhere Roland S Howard had it up his sleeve from the time he was with his previous band.
Crime and The City Solution?

Anyway, one oif the greatest pop songs ever written.