Your favorite cover songs

I don't know about any of you beings....but i don't care for cover songs too much.....Now and then there is a diamond in the rough.....Just for shits and giggles what are some of your favorite cover songs????

mine are:

New Found Glory - Goonies theme (Cyndi Lauper)
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
Nirvana - Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbean (Vaselines)
Face to Face - Interzone (Joy Division)
Tool - No Quarter (Led Zeppelin)
David Bowie - Cactus (Pixies)
Deftones - No Ordinary Love (Sade)
Otis Redding - Day Tripper (the Beatles)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)

.....i could go on and on with my favorites.....let me
know what you like.......love and light......Toolfan

NoFx - Aux Champs Elysées ( Joe Dassin )

(It's a french song from the 60's. Go figure )

[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by PyroErotica]

Also... Class of 99 did a cover of "Another Brick in the Wall" for the Faculty soundtrack that I really enjoy.

Tori Amos - Love Song (cure cover)
Tori Amos - Smell like Teen Spirit (nirvana)
Tori Amos's entire Strange little girls album
Radiohead - Bloody Sunday (U2)
PJ Harvey - Can't get no Satisfaction
Johnny Cash - Hurt (NIN)
Sarah Slean - Climbing up the walls (radiohead)
Cibo Matto - about a girl (nirvana)
Nirvana - The Man who sold the World (david bowie)
Nirvana - Plateau (meat puppets)
Nirvana - Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam (the vaselines)
STP did a good Led Zeppelin song too I think

Those are just the ones off the top of my head though and all pretty mainstream, I'm sorry


[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by desidia]

Aisler's Set - Walked in Line (Joy Division)

Superchunk - 100,000 fireflies (Magnetic Fields)

Wedding Present - Hit Parade 1&2 (various artists covered on side one of each)

Mary Lou Lord - Birthday Boy (Ween)

Low - I Started a Joke (Bee Gees)

Spacemen 3 - Rollercoaster (13th Floor Elevators)

Liz Phair - Fuck or Die (Johnny Cash's I walked the line)

o man there's soooo many.....

Jack'O'Fire Under the Wires (the Cramps) Pretty much everything they did were covers.

the Cramps Jeez were to start: Domino (Roy Orbison), Love Me (Charlie Feathers), The Crusher (the Novas), etc, etc.

the Gun Club Run through the Jungle (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Green River Queen Bitch (Bowie)

The Cynics Buick McKane (T Rex)

the Jesus and Mary Chain Surfin USA (Beach Boys)

Social Distortion Ring of Fire (Cash)

Fu Manchu Freedom of Choice (Devo)

[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by HELLBELLY]

KMFDM - Material Girl

Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love

the donnas - 'living after midnight' (judas priest)
the donnas - 'too fast for love' (motley crue)
dinosaur jr. - 'just like heaven' (the cure)
mudhoney - 'pump it up' (elvis costello)
sonic youth - 'ca plane pour moi' (plastic bertrand)
yo la tengo - 'dreaming' (blondie)
superchunk - 'girl u want' (devo)

Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now ( the smiths)

Karma to Burn----24 hours (Joy Division)
Led Zeppelin---Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Anne Bredon/Joan Baez)
Aimee Mann---One (Beatles)
Faith No More---War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
Thin Lizzy---Whiskey in the Jar (some Irish folks)
Metallica---Am I Evil (DiamondHead)
Minor Threat---Stepping Stone (the Monkees)
Damn..good topic...so many to choose from...
If I may change the subject for a moment....whattya think some of the WORST covers have been?
I have to start off with Dixie Chicks version of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide.

http://saturn5.com/~koz/isleys.mp3

http://superdeluxe.com/~koz/stairway.mp3

fuck an a

[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by papawheelie]

Tori Amos manages to do a better version of "Famous Blue Raincoat" than Leonard Cohen did, which is something I thought impossible.

Frontline Assembly's cover of "Justify My Love" is good, clean fun.

Johnny Cash "Hurt"
Gary Jules "Mad World"





[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by Zer0]

Bouncing Souls - I Want Candy
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - every song they cover
Goldfinger - everything on Darrin's Coconut Ass
Against All Authority - Centerfold
Bigwig - the Cheer's theme song
Offspring - Sedated
Lagwagon - Bad Moon Rising
NOFX - Radio

I LOVE COVER SONGS!!!!
THEY FUCKING ROCK!!!!

my favorites are the songs that i listed in all the other 'favorite cover songs' threads in this section.

like this one: http://suicidegirls.com/boards/Music/1507/page1/
here's another: http://suicidegirls.com/boards/Music/4771/page4/

there's a bunch more.

and, yes, i am a board nazi

i don't remember if i ever mentioned AFI's cover of the police's 'man in a suitcase,' though. that's one of them.

[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by Prudence]

'one' is harry nillson, yo.

tori amos - lovesong (cure)
faith no more - easy (lionel richie)
faith no more - i started a joke (i dont know)
bauhaus - ziggy stardust (bowie)
devo - satisfaction (rolling stones)
guitar wolf - summertimes blues (i dont know)
anal cunt - stayin' alive (beegees)
electric hellfire club - bloody sunday (u2.. fucking hilarious)

[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by CatBoner]

[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by CatBoner]

Prudence,

Have you ever heard Goldfinger's cover of "Man in a Suitcase?" It's VEEERRRY good!

'one' is harry nillson, yo.

ooops...you schooled me. two points for you.


[Edited on Mar 01, 2003 by GnatKingClone]

[Edited on Mar 02, 2003 by GnatKingClone]

Dropkick Murphys- Rocky Road to Dublin (traditional..dunno if it counts as a "cover" though)
Solas- Dignity (Bob Dylan)
Cramps- all of em (various)
Dead Kennedys- Viva Las Vegas (Elvis)
Faith no More- Lets' Lynch the Landlord (Dead Kennedys)
Man or Astroman- The Munsters Theme song
The Damned- I'm Bored (not really a cover...but they did their own version of Gary numan's "In Cars", for about 1/3 of the song, "Gay Bars")

And German Industrial band Laibach, who did a cover of entire Beatles' "Let it be" album. Simply kick-ass-ingly awesome.

And, oh, lets see... a whole shitload that I can't remember right now.

[Edited on Mar 02, 2003 by Chrono01]

it's good to see everybody taking an interest in this topic.....i appreciate the vast selection of muzak being posted.....i am going to download a shitload of these.....i haven't heard half of the songs that everyone is posting....should be fun....keep'em coming

wheee. henry rollins did a cover of kick out the jams, with bad brains that's pretty decent....

american nightmare - dead and gone (the trouble): features gibby from the trouble and sounds faster and better than the original
deathreat - dear sirs (koro): obscure hardcore punk bands covering obscure hardcore punk bands, except this song totally rips and deserves to be remembered.
converge - clean (depeche mode): the first time i heard jake bannon's singing voice... it's surprising how well they pulled off this song and you can hear similar sounds in their newest material.
converge - serial killer (vio-lence): converge takes a dumb 80s thrash metal song, pushes up all the sliders on the mixing board, and creates a brutal, blindingly fast, thrash-fuckin-tastic piece of noise art. you need to hear this version of this song. fuck the original, this will make you a believer.
cat power - the covers record: the whole thing is amazing, she totally transforms the songs that she covers. she's the voice.
coalesce - black dog (led zeppelin): coalesce actually did a whole ep of zep covers but this is the best just because the riff in black dog is so fucking rad and fits their style of playing so well. sean ingram's brutal growling is perfect, too, because i could never fucking stand robert plant.

i know there's more but i can't think of 'em off the top of my head... there are a lot of punk/hc bands covering each others songs, but a lot of 'em just sound the same to me... honestly, when one grindcore band covers another grindcore band, what's the point? oh well.

Lordy, too many to list 'em all. Got a real sweet tooth for covers. A few that stick out:

-Celtic Frost: Mexican Radio (Wall of Voodoo)
-Galaxie 500: Ceremony (Joy Division)
-Siouxsie & The Banshees: Gun (John Cale)
-Robyn Hitchcock: It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Dylan)
-Cat Power: Path of Victory (Dylan)
-James William Hindle: I Started A Joke (Bee Gees)
-Jack o' Fire: Trouble Everyday (Zappa)

HELLBELLY you're the only human being I've heard mention this band besides me. Nice to feel like a band this good didn't miss everybody before they imploded.

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