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wwf_fan_57 User Profile	#1 Posted: Thu, Jan 24 2008, 9:33 PM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-13-2007 Posts: 398	Being the recent trend of the remake threads I thought what the hell what are your favorite cover songs. Disturbed:Shout and Land of Confusion NonPoint: In the Air Tonight Johnny Cash: Hurt. He made that song his in my opinion. Just a phenominal song. Heard a band named Breaking Benjamin do it live and it was amazing.

dkeage User Profile	#2 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 2:48 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-05-2004 Posts: 15,152	Breadfan-Metallica

J.Redleg User Profile	#3 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 2:52 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 04-28-2005 Posts: 18,020	Anyone doing "Mustang Sally"

8trackdisco User Profile	#4 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 2:57 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 11-06-2004 Posts: 60,082	Cheap Trick redoing Chuck Berry's "Aint That A Shame."

whizzy1 User Profile	#5 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 3:02 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 02-14-2007 Posts: 3,256	Rev Marilyn Manson--Sweet Dreams, Tainted Love Blue Monday by Orgy is good too worst----Twisted Sister ---Leader of the Pack hehe

Goathead50 User Profile	#6 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 3:28 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
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DrMaddVibe

#7 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 3:52 AM EST

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SRV - Voodoo Chile

Fishbone - Shattered

Devo - Working In A Coalmine

Santana - Black Magic Woman

Cure - Purple Haze

Cake - "War Pigs"(YouTube THAT one!), "I Will Survive", "Perhaps,Perhaps,Perhaps"

Cult - Magic Carpet Ride

Frank Zappa - Stairway To Heaven

Living Colour - Back In Black

Pennywise's entire catalog!

The Raconteurs - Bang Bang (Shot My Baby Down)

RATM - Street Fighting Man, Kick Out The Jams

POTUSA - Kick Out The Jams (For a different reason)

Powerman 5000 - Good Time Roll

White Stripes - St James Infirmary Blues

Just to name a few...

Goathead50 User Profile	#8 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:04 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
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SteveR@CigarBid User Profile	#9 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:17 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 11-19-2002 Posts: 12,746	Disturbed - Commercialized pop metal. No talent. As for Nonpoint...I think their Phil Collins cover is the only decent song they've released in 10 years. The best cover song I've heard in a long time is Deftones - Simple Man. Amazing. Next to that, Atreyu's cover of You Give Love a Bad Name is pretty sweet.

Goathead50 User Profile	#10 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:19 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 01-22-2007 Posts: 21,809	Georgia on my mind. Ray Charles then Willie Nelson

rastusmcnair User Profile	#11 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:47 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	Joan Osborne - Brokedown Palace

rastusmcnair User Profile	#12 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:48 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	Ryan Shaw - I'm looking for a lover (J.Geils Band, before the sold out with all that MTV crap)

rastusmcnair User Profile	#13 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:51 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	The entire "Endless Highway-A Tribute to The Band". Various artists. Awesome.

PtRD User Profile	#14 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:51 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 02-19-2007 Posts: 583	All Along the Watchtower: Jimi Hendrix

rastusmcnair User Profile	#15 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:52 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	Randy Newman - Blue Monday

Goathead50 User Profile	#16 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:54 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
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rastusmcnair User Profile	#17 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 4:59 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	Elvis Presley - HoundDog

rastusmcnair User Profile	#18 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:01 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	I have 2+ homemade CD's of nothing but "Red House". Everybody does that one.

MACS User Profile	#19 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:04 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 02-26-2004 Posts: 79,796	I am NOT a big fan of cover songs. Make up your own damn music... and usually the original is FAR better. That said, Metallica did a few covers that I absolutely love. Am I Evil, Turn the Page and Tuesday's gone. Pat Benatar and John Mellencamp both did 'I need a lover' and I like them both. Not sure who did it first.

OldSchool User Profile	#20 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:12 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
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Charlie

#21 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:15 AM EST

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Johnny Cash and June Carter-"It Ain't Me Babe" (Dylan)

Elvis Presley-"Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins orginal)

Rolling Stones-"Mannish Boy" (Muddy Waters)

Elvis Presley-"Mystery Train" (Little Junior Parker)
"My Baby Left Me" (Arthur Crudup)
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (Smiley Lewis)
"Good Rockin Tonight"-(Roy Brown)
"I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles)
When Elvis started out in the business, he did all covers by great and unknown at the time Blues artist...He was at his best doing the covers. Highly reccommend buying Elvis Presley "Boy from Tupelo" CD to hear Elvis at his best.

Van Morrison "Glorida" (John Lee Hooker)

George Thorogood "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" (John Lee Hooker)
"The Sky is Falling"

Could go on and on regarding Blues covers by White Rockers, such as Rolling Stones, who owe their very existence to the great Black Artist.
Eric Clapton has done many great covers of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and John Lee Hooker such as "Little Red Rooster"

Love this subject....lets see some more.

Charlie

daveincincy

#22 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:15 AM EST

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DMV, Living Colour - Back In Black? Interesting. I always liked Living Colour (Cult Of Personality ownz me on Guitar Hero LOL).

Just googled it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzN0kaF-Lk
Man, he's really straining. Maybe it sounds better not-live...or is it just me? I still like their music. I was at the prime of my teenage youth when Vivid came out, and it was a great change in style during the 80's...especially given the ethnicity of the group.

There a lot of great cover songs, many of which aren't coming to mind right now, but one that regularly sticks out for me is Mrs. Robinson by The Lemonheads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzN0kaF-Lk

dkeage User Profile	#23 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:18 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-05-2004 Posts: 15,152	Re #19, se my post #2. Those are on the same album, I think its called something like 9.99$ Garage Tapes.... I'll have to dig it out

rastusmcnair User Profile	#24 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:24 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	Dwight Yokum "Truckin". Off of "Deadicated". A pretty good collection of Grateful Dead covers by various artists.

rastusmcnair User Profile	#25 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:27 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	A mention here for Robert Johnson. Argueably on of the most covered artists ever. If I remember right he recorded 21 songs almost all of which have been hits or classics for other artists for decades.

Goathead50 User Profile	#26 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:34 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 01-22-2007 Posts: 21,809	Heard it through the grape vine Marvin Gaye CCR Gladys Knight Joe Cocker Ronnie Milsap

rastusmcnair User Profile	#27 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:35 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 03-01-2003 Posts: 1,845	Joe Cocker - "You can leave your hat on" Original by Randy Newman on "Sail Away".

marc palanzo User Profile	#28 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:39 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 02-06-2006 Posts: 2,786	I just watched the Cake cover of War Pigs on youtube. They ruined a great song.

daveincincy

#29 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:41 AM EST

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LOL
Gin Blossoms cover of Christine Sixteen (KISS) f/ KISS on Letterman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jech_MLQ8f0&feature=related

Speaking of Gin Blossoms...Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LskTI7pc4fA

Here's a forum related song...any Primus fans?
Primus - Have a Cigar (Pink Floyd)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iEXn9pY2ik

I like the Encomium CD, a tribute to Led Zeppelin. Especially like the Stone Temple Pilots. It's too bad Scott Weiland can't keep his chit together.

CROS User Profile	#30 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:55 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 10-04-2006 Posts: 3,486	"Ruby don't take your love to town" Killers cover of Kenny Rogers.

Goathead50 User Profile	#31 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 5:59 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
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nine999 User Profile	#32 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 6:04 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 07-27-2005 Posts: 14,622	the dickies : "silent night", "many, moe and jack", "gigantor", and "paranoid" best cover band ever. social distortion: "ring of fire" mr. t experience: "spider man" way better than the ramones' version screeching weasel: "I Can See Clearly" nine

Goathead50 User Profile	#33 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 6:05 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
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Charlie User Profile	#34 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 6:06 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 06-16-2002 Posts: 39,751	Leon Russell doing "Wild Horses" done by Stones and originally done by several other artists but I like Leons the best of all....... Charlie

Charlie User Profile	#35 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 6:08 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 06-16-2002 Posts: 39,751	"Pretty Woman" by Reverand Al Green, originally written and recorded by Roy Orbison.... Charlie

Goathead50 User Profile	#36 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 6:09 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 01-22-2007 Posts: 21,809	^ Good one.

CROS User Profile	#37 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 6:10 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 10-04-2006 Posts: 3,486	What about The Sundays version of "Wild Horses" I like it because it reminds me of the roller coaster scene from Fear. "Let me in the house mistah walkah."

plinytheelder User Profile	#38 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 6:21 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 10-24-2006 Posts: 8,838	I think PtRD nailed it. When the original artist, in this case Bob Dylan, changes the way they play the song, to the way it was covered, that is the ultimate compliment.

pacman357

#39 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 10:38 AM EST

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#9 I disagre on Disturbed completely. Like their albums quite a bit, and got a chance to see them at Ozzfest. They put on a good show, too. Are they breaking any new ground? Not really, but few artists are these days. Even more rare these days is just good straightforward rock. Seems like nearly everything is country, rap or mall music like Timberdink and Spears.

#19 Never cared for the cover of Turn the Page. First real concert I saw was Bob Seger, Against the Wind tour. They did such an amazing job with that song during the show I can't imagine anyone else playing it. Besides, that song really needs the saxophone.

#28 Go listen to Faith No More's version. You'll feel better.

As for great cover tunes, hard to fault anything SRV did covering Jimi Hendrix. As much as I like my hometown homie's work, SRV usually made it even better.

One that seldom gets a mention, but just rocks...Iron Maiden covering Cross-Eyed Mary. I also like Devo's version of Satisfaction, but more as a fun novelty.

Thunder.Gerbil User Profile	#40 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 10:48 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 11-02-2006 Posts: 121,359	RE #34 Anything Leon Russell does he does better than the original. Including himself. His live performances are just leaps and bounds better than his studio albums, and his studio albums were excellent to begin with.

teedubbya User Profile	#41 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 10:59 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 08-14-2003 Posts: 95,637	Phish - The Simpsons theme.

DrMaddVibe User Profile	#42 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 11:12 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 10-21-2000 Posts: 55,444	#22...I just watched the clip you posted...that was really raw. Hard to catch good audio with a cellphone camera. If you get a chance pick up "Collideoscope" its on there and their version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" rocks out too.

Charlie

#43 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 11:20 AM EST

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Gerbil

I agree with you on Leon Russell, as he is the very best in person performer I have ever seen, and I have seen so damn many I cannot remember them all.

Leon deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I have signed several petitions on his behalf only to see crap artist and Country singers go in and leave Leon on the outside. He is an important rock and roll/blues artist who has been touring since he was 15 years old......

I loved Johnny Cash, but he is an example of someone in the Rock and Roll Hall who should not be in there while Leon is left out.........

Time to get off my soapbox.

Charlie

DrMaddVibe User Profile	#44 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 11:22 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
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Bluedevil User Profile	#45 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 11:31 AM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 06-16-2006 Posts: 7,383	I'll get on that Damn Soap Box! Join the Leon Lifers! It's the Hall of Shame untill the Master of Space and Time is inducted! I forgot. Patsy Cline doing Willie Nelsons "Crazy"

jpotts User Profile	#46 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 12:06 PM EST Add this topic as a favorite Add this post as a favorite
Joined: 06-14-2006 Posts: 28,811	MACS: "Pat Benatar and John Mellencamp both did 'I need a lover' and I like them both. Not sure who did it first." That was Mellencamp's song. He was a songwriter before he became John Cougar. I liked both too, but I think the one Mellencamp put out was a little bit better. When John Cougar turned into John Mellencamp, his stuff ended up sucking eggs.

teedubbya

#47 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 12:09 PM EST

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#48 Posted: Fri, Jan 25 2008, 12:15 PM EST

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#40, 43 Wish I'd known you guys back when I had my office over a bar. Leon used to play there once in a while. I'd have gotten you in free, we coulda smoked upstairs in between acts, etc.

#44 I'm pretty sure David Lee Roth covering Hendrix is not only a sign of the Appocalypse, but is against the Geneva Convention. He should also be sent to Gitmo and waterboarded for that.

BTW, I forgot the best cover artist. Richard Cheese. Best is Baby Got Back, but he does some great stuff with other songs, too.

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