Great Covers

[scott522]

Wild World - Mr Big (Cat Stevens)
Holidays in the Sun - Skid Row (Sex pistols)
Boys are back in town - Bon Jovi (Thin Lizzy)
Teaser - Motley Crue (Marc Bolan)

 

[roostersgal4eva]

I almost forgot

DJ Sammy - Summer Rain

 

[Chasing the Dream]

You Were Meant For Me - Steve Poltz (Jewel)
I Can See Clearly Now - Neil Finn (Johnny Nash)
Saturday Nights Alright - Nickelback (Elton John)
Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3) The Wrights (Stevie Wright)
I Still Call Australia Home - Adam Brand (Peter Allen)
Six Months in a Leaky Boat - Little Birdy (Split Enz)

 

[lion_gooner]

i realy liked dht's cover of listen to your heart

 

[scott522]

One - Mary j Blige (u2)

 

[scott522]

The Letter - JD Fortune (Joe Cocker)

 

[FattyLumpkin]

One Bourbon, One Scotch & One Beer - George Thorogood

Liked Axl's vocals on Sympathy for the Devil too

 

[lion_gooner]

cant go past black betty by spiderbait

 

[scott522]

one - johnny cash (u2)
you're the voice - heart (john farnham)

 

[SunKing]

Perfect Day-Duran Duran (?)

 

[Lucev23]

Bodyjar - Hazy Shade Of Winter
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
Reel Big Fish - Take On Me
MxPx - Take On Me, Summer of '69
Pennywise - Kids in America

 

[roostersgal4eva]

cant go past black betty by spiderbait

LOVE IT!!

 

[lion_gooner]

and as kerr4pm said 99 red ballons by goldfinger is a top song

 

[Lucev23]

New Found Glory - Don't Wanna miss a thing
Presidents Of USA - Video Killed the radio star
Amber Pacific - Video Killed the Radio Star
Ataris - Boys of summer
Blink-182 - Another girl, Another Planet
Bloodhound Gang - Kids in america
Cartel - Wonderwall
Everlast - Only Love Can Break your heart
Goldfinger - Is she really going out with him
Goodnight nurse - Milkshake
The Herd - Only 19
The killing moon - You oughta know
Less than Jake - I would walk 500 miles
Limp Bizkit - Faith
Me First and the gimme gimmes - hotel california
RHCP - Higher ground
So They Say - In bloom
The Vines - Miss Jackson

 

[Hollow Knight]

Gypsy Kings - 'Hotel California' kicks ass too.

Anyone who has seen The Big Lebowski knows what I'm talking about.

 

[FattyLumpkin]

The Presidents - Cest pla pour moi (?sp)

 

[Quigley]

The Black Crows - Hard to Handle.

Never a big fan of the band but they rocked that soul classic.

 

[Quigley]

The Vines - Miss Jackson

I don't think you can go past the Adam Spencer and Wil Anderson version of this song imo.

 

[Glyndon]

Speaking of covers, trying to locate the Foo Fighters cover of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street, does anyone own a copy ?

 

[John]

Speaking of covers, trying to locate the Foo Fighters cover of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street, does anyone own a copy ?

Sorry Glyndon I missed this on the way through. Try Limewire.

 

[John]

If you like covers I have found an interesting site called Coverville.

Seems good.

 

[armagedon ready]

Stairway to Heaven Rolf Harris Excruciating

Star Spangled Banner Jimmy Hendrix Mindblowing


God Save the Queen The Sex Pistols Priceless

 

[Lady Lawrence]

right off the bat I will just say I HATE COVERS - especially when it ocmes to people covering classics, even if they are putting their own spin on it and some say it is a tribute to the artists or the song. BS. I hate 'em with a passion.

What makes it even worse is when a classic song is covered and it becomes a hit and those that like it do not have a clue about the original version or the original artists and credit the band that covered it with being pure genius.

One example - Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack - awesome song, awesome songstress, writen all about Don McLean.

The Fugees - pfffwt!!!

 

[John]

right off the bat I will just say I HATE COVERS - especially when it ocmes to people covering classics, even if they are putting their own spin on it and some say it is a tribute to the artists or the song. BS. I hate 'em with a passion.

What makes it even worse is when a classic song is covered and it becomes a hit and those that like it do not have a clue about the original version or the original artists and credit the band that covered it with being pure genius.

One example - Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack - awesome song, awesome songstress, writen all about Don McLean.

The Fugees - pfffwt!!!

Each to their own LL but I think your post is a genaralisation to say the least. I have had some of my fav's over the years covered by other people and have never been offended by them even if I thought they covered the song poorly. As to differant generations hearing old songs by new artists I also have no problems with that. If a younger/another generation gets exposed to older/other music I actually think that is fantastic. If you had looked at the list that POBT posted from Rolling Stone there was an old blues artist called Robert Johnson. His influence to British blues explosion of the 60's when everyone from the Stones to Clapton was covering his songs just can not be ignored. If a generation had had your attitude then we would not have the Stones or the Beatles for that matter. Go look at the covers on early Beatles records. I bet you have a boogie at every party you attend .

As to classic's being covered I still have no issue. The word classic to me is a very overused word anyway. No offense to Phil Collins lovers but he has had songs of his described as classic and to be honest that leaves me cold.

The covering of music to me is an integral part of my musical evolution over my 47 years. As a young bloke I was introduced to Emerson Lake and Palmer a rather sad prog rock band who I like. They covered Classical music for exmple. Think of Fanfare For The Common Man by Copeland for example. A cover that has become more recognised by them than by the original composer.

As I say each to their own and I am not trying to convert you to my likes and dislikes.

 

[SunKing]

I'm a fan of covers but some artists should not go near certain songs. Madonna covering American Pie for instance