Lloyd Cole: "Chelsea Hotel"
Poco: "Magnolia"
Rosanne Cash: "River"
Translator: "Today"
Bryan Ferry: "All Tomorrow's Parties"
Mott the Hoople: "Sweet Jane"
The Primitives: "I'll Be Your Mirror"
Allison Krause: "Can't Find My Way Home"
Jeffrey Gaines: "Win"
Three Dog Night: "Eli's Coming"
Linda Ronstadt: "Party Girl"
The Jam: "David Watts"
Buffalo Tom: "Going Underground" |
or that matter,, any cover of bob dylan songs
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Donnie Hathaway’s cover of Leon Russell’s “A Song For You”
Johnny Cash’s cover of Trent Rezniks “Hurt”
Cowboy Junkies cover of Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” comes damn close.
Wet Wet Wet’s cover of the Troggs “Love Is All Around”...just kidding! It’s rubbish... |
+1 on Johnny Cash/Hurt
Frank Zappa / Whippin’ Post
Eva Cassidy / Fields of Gold
SRV / Voodoo Chile
Earth Wind & Fire / Gotta get you into my Life
and my favorite...
Roberta Flack / Bridge Over Troubled Water
Do find the last one and check it out. Perfection (at least to me).
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Dave Matthews (Live in Central Park)--All along the Watch Tower
Ricki Lee Jones-- Rebel Rebel (although my wife disagrees with me)
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)-- Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jimi was on the right track, but SRV made it what it is.
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+1 for SRV I was going to post that myself. Truly a great rendition. |
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Live and let die - Guns N' Roses
+1 on Hurt by Jonny Cash |
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Wild Thing, of course everybody knows The Troggs, but I was fortunate to live up in Chicago in the '70s where they played the much lesser known but better cover by Fancy.
Son Of A Preacher Man covered by Joss Stone is better than the original too, in my opinion. |
Cream - Crossroads
Aerosmith - Train Kept A Rolling
Voivod - Astronomy Domine
Zep - You Shook Me
Jeff Buckley - Halleluja
Tiamat - Sympathy For The Devil
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For me Shout by Otis Day and the Knights (Lloyd Williams) is one of the greatest covers of all time. The original Isley Brothers version is really good. Our local oldies station plays it all the time. But the Animal House version just adds so much to it that I have a hard time hearing it any other way.
I'll admit, the Animal House version has all the associated coolness of the movie associated with it including the impeccable placement of the song within the movie. |
slaw, you know it's funny how when "Oops" is taken out of Britney's hands and put in Richard's, you can hear how good a song it actually is. |
Gary Clark, Jr.'s cover of Hendrix's Third Stone from the Sun.
If you like blues based rock, a little R&B, occasional heavy guitars all mixed together you should check Clark out. He's the real deal. |
Does Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" qualify? I've never been able to ensure, though, that I've heard the actual original by Billy Roberts(?). |
Sonic Youth - Superstar, The Carpenters
The Carpenters, Calling Occupants (of Interplanetary Craft), Klaatu
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
Ricki Lee Jones - I'll Be Seeing You
Walk Off the Earth - Someone Like You |
@tls49 ,
A band called Shell does an excellent cover of Stairway, so does Rodrigues Y Gabriela"
Your mention of Travis has me playing Fran Healy right now!
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+1 Talking Heads - Take me to the River
Alison Krauss/Viktor Krauss - Big Log
Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Pink - Me and Bobby McGee
Travis - Baby One More Time (yet another Brittany Spears song)
As far as Stairway to Heaven, it hard to believe that a cover could be better than the original, but Heart's version comes close.
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@bdp24 ,
I was hoping someone would get a kick out of "Oops!..."
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Talking Heads. Take me to the River. Jimi Hendrix. All Along the Watchtower. |
Ha! slaw’s Richard Thompson cover of "Oops!...I Did It Again" is genius! Fun topic. And djones51’s The Band’s "I Shall Be Released" is one I wish I had made (maybe I did in the similar thread?). Richard Manuel’s falsetto vocal is really special. For another great version of his Janis Joplin's "Me And Bobby McGee", give a listen to Gordon Lightfoot's recording. ARC's Bill Johnson really liked the recorded sound quality of the album it's on (If You Could Read My Mind) too. |
Nilsson - Without You, Everybody's Talking
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
The Band - I Shall Be Released
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn |
FZ -- Stairway To Heaven cover
The Residents -- Jail House Rock
Mnozil Brass -- My Way cover |
Santana & Patricia Barber "Black Magic Woman"
Van Halen "Dancing in the Street"
John Mayall Blues Breakers "What I'd Say"
Janis Joplin "Me and Bobby McGee"
Gregg Allman "These Days"
John Mayer "Bold As Love"
Mudcrutch "Lover of the Bayou"
Allman Brothers "She Has Funny Cars"
Joe Cocker "Feelin' Alright"
more to come.....
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Jenny Lewis "Handle With Care" (maybe not better but great effort)
Annie Lennox "Strange Fruit"
Patricia Barber "A Taste of Honey"
The Cowboy Junkies "Betty Lonely"
Eels "Oh Well"
The Meters "Wichita Lineman" (maybe not better but a damn good effort)
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss "Nothin’"
Ryan Adams "Down in a Hole"
Joan Taylor Shaw "War Pigs"
Aretha Franklin "Respect"
Eric Clapton "I Shot the Sheriff"
Kapt Kopter & the FabulousTwirly Birds "Day Tripper"
Lucinda Williams "It’s a Long Way to the Top"
The Remains "I’m a Man" "All Day and All of the Night" "Like a Rolling Stone"
Richard Thompson "Oops!, I Did it Again"
Van Halen "Pretty Woman" (a good effort)
Ides Of March "Wooden Ships"
BTW, there is a thread from a while back similar to this...….
like @bdp24, to be continued...….
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The Beatles: "Rock & Roll Music" (Chuck Berry original of course). Dave Edmunds: "I Hear You Knocking" (Smiley Lewis original); "Born To Be With You" (The Chordettes original); "Singing The Blues" (Marty Robbins original); "Almost Saturday Night" (John Fogerty original); a bunch more. Edmunds is my favorite song re-interpreter. Elvis Presley: "Hound Dog" (Big Mama Thornton original). The Byrds: "My Back Pages" (Bob Dylan original); "Mr. Tambourine Man" (ditto). The Bobby Fuller Four: "I Fought The Law" (The Crickets original); "Love's Made A Fool Of You" (ditto). The Guess Who: "Shakin' All Over" (Johnnie Kidd & The Pirates original). .....to be continued!..... |
Quicksilver Messenger Service's cover of Bo Didley's "Who Do You Love" - recorded live at the Fillmore West! |
Since we’re discussing American icons like Over the Rainbow, I’ll throw in this "cover" of Moon River. This is actually the "demo" recording with Mancini playing the piano and Mercer singing. I have it on an Oxford American Southern Music CD Sampler. To me it blows all the others away. https://youtu.be/MKnZ174_kWk |
Jerry Lee Lewis (of all people) does a cover of Over the Rainbow, which is not as good as Garland, and is obviously more masculine, but I like it. https://youtu.be/XEu28N2TINoI do like the Eva Cassidy version. But, I still like Garland's best. |
"Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone," was written and sung by Bill Withers, produced by Booker T. Jones with Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass, Al Jackson Jr. on drums and Stephen Stills on guitar.
A really fine song but the recent version by Buddy Guy and Tracy Chapman tops it, in my opinion. |
The Rolling Stones’ cover of Robert Johnson’s “Love in Vain”
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Eva Cassidy... Over the Rainbow. |
