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Your Favorite Cover Songs?

One of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a rock band is to have some other well known act cover your songs.

Here are some of my favorite cover songs:
1. "Well...Alright" (Original by Buddy Holly covered by Blind Faith)
2. "LA Woman" (Original by The Doors covered by Billy Idol)
3. "Love Me 2 Times" (Original by The Doors covered by Aerosmith)
4. "Come On Everybody" (Original by Eddie Cochran covered by Led Zeppelin)
5. "Refugee" (Original by Tom Petty covered by Melissa Etheridge)
6. "The Battle Of Evermore" (Original by Led Zeppelin covered by Heart)
7. "Hard To Handle" (Original by Otis Redding covered by The Black Crowes)

What are some of your favorite covers?
danoroo
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marakanetz
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1. Man's World covered by Residents.
2. Stairway to Heaven covered by Frank Zappa
3. Ring of Fire covered by Frank Zappa. In the concert he announced that JC got sick and won't be in the concert performing his song with his band that made people cheer LOL!
4. Dansing Queen covered by Jazz Baltica
5. Black Dog covered by Dread Zeppelin(the band who covers Led Zeppelin in Reggae style)
6. My way covered by Nina Hagen
7. Hotel California covered by Gipsy Kings in Spanish
bdgregory
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well, apart from really liking SHEL's cover that Mofi posted (thanks Mofi!), here are a few of mine:

Thunder Road (Springsteen) by Cowboy Junkies

Darkness, Darkness (Youngbloods) by Cowboy Junkies

Over the Rainbow by Eva Cassidy. also - pretty much everything Eva Cassidy did was a top cover.
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tls49
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Agree that the SHEL cover is very good, thanks for posting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Us-TVg40ExM

A favorite from the first time I heard it, and definitely one of the most unique.
danoroo OP
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@ Marakanetz

Zappa covering Led Zeppelin songs! I'll have to check that out.
larryi
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Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower (Dylan)
Nouvelle Vague-Guns of Brixton (Clash)
Shonen Knife-Top of the World (Carpenters)
Odetta-Times They Are a Changin' (Dylan)
Orbison, Nazareth-Love Hurts (Everly Brothers)
Be Good Tanyas-Waiting Around to Die (Townes Van Zandt)
My Chemical Romance-Desolation Row (Dylan)

I also like the Cowboy Junkies cover of Thunder Road and the Dread Zeppelin covers mentioned above (I particularly like the mashup of Zeppelin's Heartbreaker and Elvis' Heartbreak Hotel).

For so aweful, it is inspiring:

Sebastian Cabot reciting Dylan songs (e.g., It Ain't Me Babe)

Bob Dylan and Tiny Tim doing Sonny and Cher's "I've Got You Babe"

Captain Kirk doing "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Mae West doing "Twist and Shout," which is itself, a cover/ripoff of "La Bamba"
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