Best Cover songs

DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN WITH MIKE PATTON- COME TO DADDY (aphex twin)

Not the best cover I've heard, but the Chili Peppers do a pretty good version of Fugazi's "Waiting Room"

A. Is it a cover if it's a traditional tune like Mack the Knife or Tom Dooley?
B. Is it a cover if they really only two lines of a song?

Interesting fact: Summertime is the most recorded song ever.

Mack The Knife isn't a traditional tune. It was written by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill for The Threepenny Opera.

the clash i fought the law

Summertime is a standard. The Gerswhins wrote and composed it but they never themselves performed or recorded it as far as I know. Singers such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. sang the song, whereas groups like Sublime and The Fugees sampled it.

red hot chili peppers - havana affair

lots of other ones also but dont feel like listing them all

Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

Beck - Your Cheatin Heart

Lovage - Sex

Siobahn Lynch - Stayin Alive

White Stripes - Jolene

lots more...espescially Cake and Manson covers

Rockapella
and why they aren't anywhere else on this list is beyond me.
Rockapella is arguably the best cover band in the world.

Any a capella cover song on a p2p network that isn't attributed to anyone is automatically Rockapella. I've seen no indication that either of those are Rockapella, nor any of the DMB songs floating about. And I they don't have the signature badass bass of Barry. There is no better low end in a capella.

Unless, of course, you know something I don't. And I'd love to know if you do.

Then there's the opposite of that rule: that about one in a hundred people actually attribute the Gourds' Gin and Juice to the Gourds. I've seen Phish, Blues Traveler, The Grateful Dead (WTF?), OAR, Garth Brooks, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Hayseed Dixie, the friggin' Soggy Bottom Boys...

Thrice- Send Me an Angel

Strung Out- Bark at the Moon

"I touch myself"- Genitorturers

Bjork+PJ Harvey - Satisfaction

ohgr- borderline

Is that the same song that was originally in The Wizard?!

end of the road....Me first &the Gimmie Gimmies

house of the rising sun-Adolescents
louie louie-Black Flag
paranoid-Dickies
nights in white satin-Dickies
aint talkin bout love-Minutemen

"Welcome to the Jungle" - Zombie Apocalypse (originally Guns 'n' Roses)
"Paint it Black" - The Agony Scene (originally Rolling Stones)
"Welcome to the Machine" - Shadowsfall (originally Pink Floyd)
"Baby Got Back" - Throwdown (originally Sir Mixx Alot)

Louie Louie -- Black Flag
Back To Dungaree High -- Queens of the Stoneage
Halloween -- AFI
Rocket Queen -- Bleeding Through
99 Red Balloons -- 7 Seconds




edit -- fixed typo

[Edited on Jul 25, 2004 by lethholelm]

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