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KingoftheCove Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 8:47 AM EST
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lets see em
here's a favorite......Enter Sandman (Metallica)
these guys rock it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c7bISLhVl8
gryphonms Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 10:16 AM EST
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The man who sold the world-Nirvana.
Mad world-Adam Lambert.
Puffnstuff79 Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 10:34 AM EST
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Kittie "Run Like Hell" by Pink Floyd. There's a YouTube video where you can hear it. Just google it
opelmanta1900 Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 11:08 AM EST
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Anything by Hayseed Dixie, but especially their hotel California...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keX84EUVd-I

And of Course, Gipsy Kings also cover Hotel California...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l436MSlivQ
Buckwheat Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 11:42 AM EST
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Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" would be my top pick. fog
The Les Claypool Frog Brigade's version of the whole PF Animals LP is another top five.
Ella Fitzgerald's live version of "Mack the Knife" would be in my top five.
I've always liked Phish's live version of "Loaded".

I'm sure that there are others that will come to mind but I have to do some work today. Sarcasm

Two more. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the Uke by Jake Shimabukuro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k

And Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of ""Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg
teedubbya Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 12:16 PM EST
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All along the watchtower - jimi (and the dead for that matter)

Not fade away - rolling stones (and the dead for that matter)

She Caught the Katy and Groove Me- Blues Brothers (breifcase full of blues is an underrated album... excellent band behind belushi and akroid)
DrMaddVibe Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 12:42 PM EST
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Some not mentioned...

Van Halen - You Really Got Me...to the point that I can't even listen to the Kinks version.
Wallflowers - Heroes
Cult - Born To Be Wild
RHCP - Higher Ground
Fishbone - Everybody Is A Star
Magnet - Lay Lady Lay
Beatles - Money
Beatles - Twist & Shout
DrMaddVibe Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 12:47 PM EST
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Rush - Crossroads
CCR - Susie Q
CCR - Heard It Through The Grapevine
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire
Sid Viscious - My Way
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Crimson & Clover
Joe Cocker - A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On
DrMaddVibe Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 12:53 PM EST
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Insane Clown Posse - Let's Go All The Way
David Lee Roth - California Girls
David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo
David Lee Roth - Tobacco Road
Van Halen - Happy Trails
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - I Wanna Be Like You
Sex Pistols - (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
Rage Against The Machine - Street Fighting Man
DrMaddVibe Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 1:01 PM EST
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Cake - War Pigs
Cake - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Cake - I Will Survive
Clutch - Cross Eyed Mary
Uncle Kracker - Drift Away
The Who - Young Man Blues
Foo Fighters - This Will Be Our Year
Nirvana - Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam
The Clash - I Fought The Law
Green Manalishi - Judas Priest
Love & Rockets - Ball of Confusion
Buddy Guy - Mustang Sally
Buckwheat Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 1:13 PM EST
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The Clash - "Police & Thieves"
Faith No More - "Easy"
Los Lobos - "What's Going On" & "Bertha"
The Pretenders - "Stop your Sobbing"
Janice Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"
Aretha Franklin - "Respect"
dstieger Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 2:06 PM EST
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George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Aerosmith - Walking the Dog

Funny, Buckwheat, I often list 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps" when discussing covers, but I'd never heard that one. I very much dislike the original, but I love Jeff Healy's version.
Buckwheat Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 2:13 PM EST
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dstieger wrote:
George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Aerosmith - Walking the Dog

Funny, Buckwheat, I often list 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps" when discussing covers, but I'd never heard that one. I very much dislike the original, but I love Jeff Healy's version.



Peter Frampton does a pretty good version of it as well. Peter also does a pretty good version of "Black Hole Sun"

And one more that I forgot.

Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah" - A haunting version that sends chills down your spine.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - “Little Wing / Third Stone From the Sun”
http://www.guitarworld.com/10-best-covers-jimi-hendrix-songs?page=0,5

And “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)”
http://www.guitarworld.com/10-best-covers-jimi-hendrix-songs?page=0,9
Mandoman Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 2:24 PM EST
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I like Phil Collins "You Can't Hurry Love" and Run DMC's "Walk This Way"
[email protected] Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 7:18 PM EST
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Kenny Kravitz "American Woman"
snowwolf777 Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 7:22 PM EST
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No particular order ...

Korn - Word Up
Toto - Live - Bodhisattva
Motley Crue - Smokin' in the Boys Room
Aerosmith - Come Together
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Zeppelin - You Shook Me
Molly Hatchet - Dreams
Aerosmith - Helter Skelter
Average White Band Live - Heard It Through The Grapevine
Keep A Knockin - Little Richard
Tesla - Signs
Beatles - Twist and Shout
Talking Heads - Take me to the River
Clash - I fought the Law
MACS Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 7:32 PM EST
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None. I hate covers, for the most part.

That being said... if I hear a cover before I hear the original, and I like it... that one.
wheelrite Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 7:38 PM EST
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Van Halen, You Really Got me,,,


wheel,
tailgater Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 8:33 PM EST
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Try a little tenderness.

Otis.
stogiemonger Offline
#20 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 8:44 PM EST
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Faith No More's version of the Commodores "Easy" is a nice edgy cover.
MACS Offline
#21 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 8:48 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
Try a little tenderness.

Otis.



Love the new avatar...
teedubbya Offline
#22 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 9:04 PM EST
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2 of my favorite albums are cover albums.

Good rockin' tonight: the legacy of sun records and true love - toots and the maytals.

Actually the toots album is all toots remakes with other stars. The willie Nelson version of still movin is Awsome.

crgcpro Offline
#23 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 9:04 PM EST
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How about worst covers ever?

Madonna doing American Pie would be my choice for the worst!
calavera Offline
#24 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 10:03 PM EST
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Favorite cover is Sisters of Mercy doing Gimme Shelter.

New Order covering the Joy Division song Ceremony.

Nirvana doing The Man Who Sold the World or Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam or Where Did You Sleep Last Night.

Megadeth doing Paranoid.

Marilyn Manson doing Down in the Park.

Foo Fighters doing Baker Street or Darling Nikki.

White Zombie doing Children of the Grave.

Sepultura doing Symptom of the Universe.

The Bangles doing Hazy Shade of Winter.

and maybe the best cover ever:

Slayer doing In A Gadda Da Vida.






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ZRX1200 Offline
#25 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 10:04 PM EST
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Mr. Bungle "Stroke"
opelmanta1900 Offline
#26 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 10:06 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
None. I hate covers, for the most part.

That being said... if I hear a cover before I hear the original, and I like it... that one.


I feel that way about a lot of covers...

but hayseed dixie I like because they aren't trying to improve the original... they're turning it into a stringed bluegrass piece... and they really are some of the most talented musicians around... if an instrument has strings, they can play it masterfully...
ZRX1200 Offline
#27 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 10:08 PM EST
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Btw DMV Cakes "B Sides" album is full of good covers, for being dumb phukking Norcals I love their music and they "get" country.
eye2 Offline
#28 Posted: Tue, May 20 2014, 10:09 PM EST
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Lot of good selections here. Especially Van Halen's You Really Got Me

I'll add : HKT48 performing Morning Musume's The Peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXRUoYz_fIs
DrMaddVibe Offline
#29 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 6:34 AM EST
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gryphonms wrote:
Mad world-Adam Lambert.



I believe you really meant Gary Jules...it's okay...most people don't know him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRVngvIHxAA

Adam completely lifted the arrangement. Great voice...still.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#30 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 6:36 AM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Btw DMV Cakes "B Sides" album is full of good covers, for being dumb phukking Norcals I love their music and they "get" country.



ThumpUp

RATM's "Renegades" is another full album too...also like Richard Thompson's version of "Oooops I did It Again"
teedubbya Offline
#31 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 7:10 AM EST
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Poison has a cover album too.
teedubbya Offline
#32 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 7:11 AM EST
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Crazy. Not sure which is considered the original though. Written by willie.
Buckwheat Offline
#33 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 7:19 AM EST
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Dwight Yoakam's "Under the Covers" album is pretty good.
Joe Ely's version of "The Road Goes On Forever" is very good and worth a listen.
teedubbya Offline
#34 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 7:22 AM EST
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I'd like to see Celine Dion do a cover of everybody wang Chung tonight.
DrafterX Offline
#35 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 8:29 AM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
I'd like to see Celine Dion do a cover of everybody wang Chung tonight.



does she do 'Freak on a Leash'..?? Huh
HockeyDad Offline
#36 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 8:38 AM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
I'd like to see Celine Dion do a cover of everybody wang Chung tonight.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgVj3P7cwI&feature=kp
Puffnstuff79 Offline
#37 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 9:04 AM EST
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The Doors Mystery Train (the live version blended with Away in India)
Buckwheat Offline
#38 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 9:59 AM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgVj3P7cwI&feature=kp



Why dear Lord? Why? Brick wall
danmdevries Offline
#39 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 10:05 AM EST
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Fear I may catch some flak for this

Landslide by Smashing Pumpkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5bznN76xRY
HockeyDad Offline
#40 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 10:07 AM EST
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I would go with Landslide by the Dixie Chicks instead.
Buckwheat Offline
#41 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 10:09 AM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Fear I may catch some flak for this

Landslide by Smashing Pumpkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5bznN76xRY





You would've gotten more flak if you had posted The Dixie Chicks version. Which is pretty good, IMO.
DrafterX Offline
#42 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 10:21 AM EST
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFGdH5wgCs

Mellow
danmdevries Offline
#43 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 10:30 AM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFGdH5wgCs

Mellow


Well that's certainly different
DrafterX Offline
#44 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 10:32 AM EST
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I think the HockeyDad used to sing with them.... or he was gonna try out or somethin.. Mellow
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#45 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 1:27 PM EST
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The Four Seasons - "I've Got You Under My Skin"
teedubbya Offline
#46 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 1:29 PM EST
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the california raisons - heard it through the grape vine
DrafterX Offline
#47 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 1:31 PM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
the california raisons - heard it through the grape vine



I heard they lip-sync.... Mellow
gryphonms Offline
#48 Posted: Wed, May 21 2014, 2:18 PM EST
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My Maria-Brooks and Dunn.
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#49 Posted: Thu, May 22 2014, 5:42 PM EST
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Stevie Ray Vaughn voodoo child slight return
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#50 Posted: Thu, May 22 2014, 8:18 PM EST
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Janice Joplin...Bobby Magee......Kristofferson himself even called her and said that this song was meant to be sung by her.
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