Favorite cover versions of the classics...

[basement farmer]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

I believe the Dirty Heads get it right:

Pretty killer HO music too. Some one astutely noted that Daryl looks like a muppet

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

I think there are a lot of obvious choices to make here, so I'm going the opposite route.

Nick Cave covering Roy Orbison.

Give me two whole minutes, and I'll make you a Nick Cave fan.

 

[fft]

This is going to be controversial, but I nominate the Flaming Lips covering Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.

I'm not saying its a better version, but its respectfully done and I love the earnestness, energy and psychedelic spirit they bring to it .... especially in this 2012 live version at the Hangout Festival.

Skip over the first set of the Lips... Dark Side of the Moon starts at 39:00...

I'm sure I'll have other nominations for this thread coming...

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

 

[fft]

OK... back with more. I tend to like it when bands set the bar high with their cover choices.... or those who try something thats a little out of the box for them.

First, Weezer covering Radiohead's Paranoid Android. You dont see this one covered everyday.

Next, the Decemberists toured a few years ago with some high powered backup singers...including uber talented Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. For the encore the backup singers took the lead and blasted out a duet cover of Heart's "Crazy on You". Totally out of the box for everyone involved.

 

[crawdad]

one of my favorite sabbath songs flaming lips covering here, gotta say the drummer kept it together...thankfully

 

[Jethro]

Speaking of Radiohead covers... never thought I would listen to Hanson, but there I was.

 

[momofthegoons]

I think this is a case of the remake being better than the original. Alan Stone doing Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy."

 

[placetime]

 

[fft]

Not even close to a classic, but saw this vid of Ryan Adams covering Bryan Adams recently and it cracked me up. Not a bad cover - shows which one of them has more talent.

 

[u bwade wunner]

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

 

[Madcap79]

I'll go boring. I like it better than the original. Actually I'll do a twofer.

Faith No More doing:

War Pigs

I Started a Joke

 

[ChippyMalone]

Joan Osborne's "Son of a Preacher Man" is the best I've ever heard.

And because I actually am a preacher's kid, I've sought out the best versions. Would love to hear one to compare if you got it.

 

[Magic9]

I guess this counts as a cover

 

[TNT_error]

Edit: one more

 

[basement farmer]

ORIGINALS THAT CAN'T BE IMPROVED

Thought about starting a different thread about originals that can't be touched by any cover version, but this is as good a place as any. The cover version of these songs don't suck, but they fall short.

 

[EveryDayAmnesiac]

How about some cover versions that DO suck?

Scarlett Johansson managed to butcher 10 Tom Waits songs on just one album.

Here's the worst offender:

And then, of course, there's this:

 

[Slayer]

Queensryche covering Welcome To The Machine.

 

[ll11]

Dum Dum Girls covering The Smiths.

 

[smokum]

***Edit: Ok Ok.. it's not a classic, but I liked it anyways

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[killick]