Great Cover Songs

[hotpie]

A Hard Rains A Gonna Fall - Roxy Music
Bad Moon Rising - The Reels
Bizzare Love Triangle - Frente
All Apologies - Sinead O'Connor
Satisfaction - Devo
Walk On The Wild Side - Jeff Duff
Mad World - Gary Jules
Suspicious Minds - Fine Young Cannibals
Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Mighty Quinn - Manfredd Mann

 

[SonOfScray]

Fortunate Son - Dropkick Murphys

 

[Captain Sensible]

Walk on the wiggly side-The Wiggles
Teenage Dirtbag-Adam Brand
Dirty Deeds(Done Dirt Cheap)-Kerry-Anne Kennerly
Dont Wanna Know(if you are lonely)-Billy Baxter and the Hollowmen
Loose-The Birthday Party
In The Ghetto-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Kicking Against The Pricks(the whole album)-Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
La Mer, This Guys In Love With You-The Reels
Addicted To Love-Ciccone Youth(Sonic Youth)
Ca Plane Por Moi-Sonic Youth

 

[bragg]

Ted Hawkins - As Long As I Can See The Light (J Fogerty)
Beth Orton - I Wish I never Saw the Sunshine ( Ronnie Spector)
Indigo Girls - Romeo & Juliet (Dire Straits)
Billy Bragg - Jeeanne ( The Smiths)
Star 69 - The girl from Mars ( Ash)
Gomez - Getting Better ( The Beatles)

 

[hotpie]

Walk on the wiggly side-The Wiggles
In The Ghetto-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Forgot about these two classics

 

[Mog]

Sepultura do a great version of Celtic Frost's Procreation of the Wicked.

 

[doggies1954]

Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers orginally a ohio players song
Higher Ground - red Hot CHili Peppers alwas forgot who sang the original....
Throw your arms around me - pearl jam do a great version

 

[bunsen burner]

Satisfaction - Devo

That is just plain wrong. I'd put that down as possibly the single worst cover I have ever heard.

 

[bunsen burner]

All time best cover:


Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Urge Overkill- Girl, you'll be a woman soon

 

[Bomaz_Magic]

All Along The WatchTower - Jimmi hendrix
Knocking on Heavens Door - GNR

 

[Fritz_the_Cat]

Johnny Cash - Hurt

My absolute favourite cover ever, only cover better than the original IMO.

worth a mention
Beats International - In the Ghetto
Stiff Little Fingers - Doesn't Make it Alright
Tricky - Black Steel

Shannon Null - What About Me HA HA HA... joke... Shannon blows bigtime

 

[Eriiin]

Most songs by the gimme gimmes

 

[Darky]

Blind Guardian - Spread Your Wings (original by Queen)
At Vance - The Winner Takes It All (Abba)
At Vance - The Logical Song (Supertramp)
Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen)
Skid Row - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)
Blue Cheer - Sumertime Blues (Eddy Cochran)
The Dictators - Slow Death (Flamin' Groovies)
Slash & Michael Monroe - Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
Santana - Black Magic Woman (Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac)

 

[The Hippie]

Tesla do some great covers, 'Signs' (5 Man Electrical Band), 'Wonderful World' (Joe South, not the Louis Armstrong one), have a couple of bootlegs doing a terrific version of Sabbath's 'War Pigs', Led Zepps 'The Ocean', and The Beatles 'We Can Work It Out' from 5 Man Acoustical Jam.

 

[Falchoon]

Jealous Guy - Is it Roxy music?
Wendy - Concrete Blonde

 

[bunsen burner]

Jealous Guy - Is it Roxy music?

yep. Released it after death of John Lennon and was #1 for a few weeks. But wasn't a whole lot different to the original.

 

[the fly]

What A Wonderful World - Nick Cave & Shane McGowan

 

[Contra Mundum]

The Blondie version of Bowies "Heroes" is unbelievable! [heaps better than the crap version by that band with Zack Dylan in!]

Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar - O"

Billy Bragg - the Internationale

 

[Fritz_the_Cat]

Jealous Guy - Is it Roxy music?
Wendy - Concrete Blonde

Yeah both good ones... i'm assuming you mean "Tomorrow Wendy - Andy Prieboy & Johnette Napolitino"

Can somebody remind me what band was andy prieboy from?

 

[moistie]

Higher Ground - red Hot CHili Peppers alwas forgot who sang the original....

That would be little Stevie Wonder...
Satisfaction- Devo (I like it Bunsen )

 

[Fritz_the_Cat]

Just thought of another one i really like

Five-Eight - Needle & the Damage Done

Anyone who likes the original.. have a listen to this version if you can source it.

 

[Captain Sensible]

Yeah both good ones... i'm assuming you mean "Tomorrow Wendy - Andy Prieboy & Johnette Napolitino"

Can somebody remind me what band was andy prieboy from?

Wall Of Voodoo I think.

 

[Captain Sensible]

Throw your arms around me - pearl jam do a great version

Saw Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls do a version of this at a sound check many years ago. Best version I have heard.

Another great live cover was Spiderbait doing Ace Of Spades with Janet on vocals.

 

[Captain Sensible]

Just thought of another one i really like

Five-Eight - Needle & the Damage Done

There's a Neil Young tribute album called The Bridge. Cant remember who does it, but it has a really good version of this song. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds also do a great version of Helpless.