What's your favourite cover song?

[lazarus]

Lately I've been listening to Fine Young Cannibals' cover of Elvis' "Suspicious Minds", which is just incredible.

[mac56]

1. There has never been a bad cover of that song -

recorded, anyway.

Lately I've been listening to Nick Lowe's cover of Johnny Rivers' "Poor Side Of Town". Remarkable. Especially since Nick had never heard the original!

[lazarus]

2. yeah

"Suspicious Minds" is just a great song, isn't it? I never really caught how intricate it was until I pulled this cover of it out last week.

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Nick Wilson & the Strangefellows' cover of "Over and Over"

That old Dave Clark Five song. It's off the "Agincourt" EP, a lost classic.

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. No, no, no. Wilson's "The Red Telephone" (with Solar Radio) was better.

First of all, Love > DC5. Secondly, Chris Shaw's vocals were always superior to Nick's nasally delivery.

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. Chris Shaw was a pretentious hack.

Everyone knows that the Wilson brothers WERE Solar Radio.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. They never even RECORDED anything with Roger!

(well, other than the "Vortices" single)

And you have the gall to call someone else "pretentious?"

Anyway, it's not like Shaw wrote any of the material, he just dressed like an ass. Damn, that boy had pipes, though.

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. He wore the Pagliacci suit in concert, didn't he?

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Yes.

And yes, that was pretentious asshattery.

Still.

[Wat_Tyler]

11. I keep telling people. Roger was never officially in Solar.

Jeez.

[Donkeyboy75]

40. No need to argue fellas, the band just sucked in general.

If I were any of the former band members, I wouldn't be stepping up to take credit for that tripe. :puke:

[Magrittes Pipe]

41. Hey Donkeyboy. I hear Juliana Hatfield has a new album out.

That might be more your speed.

Hey, does anyone know if she's still a virgin? Kinda pathetic in her late-30s and all.

[eyesroll]

43. No. No she isn't.

And I'm not gonna wash my hand ever again.

[Magrittes Pipe]

44. But... you know....

Does that really count? :shrug:

[eyesroll]

45. Stop parsing.

Next thing you know you'll be asking what the definition of "is" is.

[Lady Effingbroke]

4. I have always liked The Bangles version of "Hazy Shade Of Winter".

Also "Midnight Special" by CCR.

[tigereye]

26. yes the Bangles do really great covers

like Going Down To Liverpool? ( forget what the actual title is) and September Gurls, and of Elvis' Doll Revolution.

[Wat_Tyler]

5. The Irrationals cover of 'Don't Dream it's Over' in a hardcore stylee.

Delicious.

[asthmaticeog]

16. BHAAAAHAHAHAHA!

Back when I was in college radio, my show followed that of one of those asshat college djs who imagine that any inappropriate cover version (or mention of the words "fish," "pants" or "cheese") to be the absolute height of hilarity (these were usually unreconstructed Weird Al fans who defected to They Might Be Giants so as to seem less high-schoolish), and he finished his show with that hardcore Crowded House cover EVERY DAMN WEEK. I liked it a lot at first, but by the end of two semesters of hearing it every single Thursday at 4:58 pm I wanted to cave the motherfucker's skull in.

[Wat_Tyler]

18. Nothing beat Chiselhead's insane Klezmer take on Love Hangover.

[asthmaticeog]

21. Have you heard

the Singing Erudites' "Love Will Keep Us Together?" It's the Captain and Tenille song to the tune of "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Stupid, stupid, stupid, but it always got a giggle out of me. Mostly because they kept it to one minute so as not to belabor the gag.

I have not heard the Chiselhead tune. I'll try to find a download - I loves me some o' that Hebraic shizznit.

[Wat_Tyler]

24. Yeah, you should be able to find that.

Chiselhead, of course was a side project of the Discotheque Wrecks.

[tigereye]

28. well for Cheese and fish

Robyn Hitchcock probably would have fit the bill.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. "Absolutely Sweet Marie"

Dylan, done by Jason and the Scorchers.

Awe-inpiring and rip-roaring!
FSC

[mac56]

9. yeah!

I bought their "Fervor" EP and played it till the grooves wore through.

[asthmaticeog]

14. Agreed!

Good one, FSC. I think I still have the 12" single of that in my stash somewhere.

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. I FINALLY saw them at Liberty Lunch in 93

and their energy was just amazing. They are one live act I'd go see again and again.

[asthmaticeog]

42. Jason's still touring solo.

His last name, if memory serves, is Ringenberg or something else far too Jewish for a cowpunk (Kinky Friedman excepted, of course). He just passed through Cleveland a couple of weeks ago. I missed it, but I heard he still does a fine show.

[Pert_UK]

15. "Come up and see me (make me smile)" - The Wedding Present

Their cover of the Steve Harley & The Cockney Rebel song was fantastic.

Other greats include the Marilyn Manson version of Tainted Love....MAGIC!

Senser's cover of the Beastie Boys' "Looking down the barrel of a gun" - rocking!

And some others I can't remember....

[asthmaticeog]

17. Husker Du - "Love is All Around"

Also, their version of "Eight Miles High" achieves transcendence.

[gpandas]

19. all along the watchtower-

by jimi hendrix, or neil young

[Phillycat]

27. Hendrix Watchtower, easily.

[lazarus]

37. Ah, of course

The ultimate cover, IMO.

[Richardo]

20. The speed-bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage"

...Austin Lounge Lizards! :D:thumbsup:

[MallRat]

22. Best cover of a Beatles song?

So many to choose from... there's always Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from My Friends."

More recently, Alanis Morrisette did a hauntingly beautiful version of "Norwegian Wood."

I think of half a dozen really great covers... I can't pick a favorite.

-MR

[tigereye]

31. actually Alannis does interesting covers

she did a nice cover of a Police song... forget the name... really nice reading of it.

[mac56]

32. "Here Comes The Sun" by Richie Havens

This may actually deserve its own thread.

[shaolinmonkey]

23. Anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

they have a whole album of covers. "Somewhere over the rainbow" is really funny when Fat Mike sings it.

[tigereye]

33. I like the NoFx covers

and punk covers of "serious" or older tunes in general.

[Phillycat]

35. Actually they have three albums of covers.

And the one you're referencing is the worst of them. Their first record, with the covers of Rocket Man and Mandy, is the best. Even so, it gets old after awhile.

[Philostopher]

25. I genuinely like the rock and quasi-industrial covers Johnny Cash did.

I know everybody knows about the cover of NIN's 'Hurt,' at the very last minute in his career, but he also did covers a few years earlier of Soundgarden's 'Rusty Cage' and Depeche Mode's 'Personal Jesus' that were funny at first, but the more I listened, the more they grew on me.

Also got a charge out of KMFDM's cover of 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'' a few years back.

Fun fact about one cover -- Barry Manilow had a big hit with 'I Write The Songs'. It was written by Bruce Johnston, who did a brief stint in the Beach Boys (played the keyboards on 'California Girls') and, mostly, made his living as a hired hack for other people.

[mac56]

39. Johnny Cash covered the Laverne and Shirley theme

for a car commercial.

That man could make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

[peekaloo]

29. Shonen Knife doing 'On Top of the World'.

[mac56]

34. Shonen Knife had a great cover of "Daydream Believer"

by the Monkees.

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. "God on Our Side." Also Dylan.

This time covered by Wire Train. On "Between Two Words" from 1985.

[Richardo]

38. "Satisfaction" by Devo

[tanyev]

46. There's a TV commercial I keep seeing

that has a haunting cover of "There's a Place for Us." Does anyone know who the artist is?

[lazarus]

47. TIAA/CREF

Why they're advertising so much is beyond me. No idea who does it, either.

[tanyev]

48. Yes, that's it!

Technically, the commercial is not successful, because I could not remember the company, and I have no clue what they actually do, but I always stop what I'm doing and listen to the song.

[tarkus]

49. Tori Amos did sme good ones...

I like her version of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat", and her version of Slayer's "Raining Blood" is pretty funny.

[jus_the_facts]

50. Uncle Cracker ~ Drift Away

Day after day I'm more confused
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame

Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Beginning to think that I'm wastin' time
I don't understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
I'm countin' on you to carry me through

And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I'm feelin' blue
The guitar's comin' through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you've given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You help me along makin' me strong

:loveya:

[lazarus]

52. The original was perfect

and the cover, IMO, doesn't add anything. It sounds almost exactly the same, just different enough to annoy...

Sorry, but I LOVE that song.

[jus_the_facts]

53. I love it too.......

....and the cover is almost exactly the same...but it doesn't annoy me at all..I like it a lot as it brought the song back to life in a great way....now that recent cover of Skynyrd's "Simple Man" is like nails on a chalkboard! x(

:hi: to you and Haele!! :)

[JimmyJazz]

51. right now I'm kinda lovin' Joe Strummer's version of the

Redemption Song (imagine that :7)

[HEyHEY]

54. My Back pages performed by the Byrds