What are some of your favorite cover songs?

[Anthony Lutz]

Covers usually have one of two ways of going: they can either be amazing, and do the original justice, or they can be god-awful, and can not be justified as to why the band even thought of butchering a classic. What are some of your guys' favorite cover songs, or even some of your least favorites? Seeing as a lot of bands in the scene seem to cover at least one or two songs in their career, there has to be an attitude that the fans have about them. Thoughts?

[kuggy91]

let go-boys like girls

[FeynmanWannabe]

There are really too many too name so I'll just name:

Treepeople - Bigmouth Strikes Again

[FeynmanWannabe]

We're starting off so well. :rolleyes:

[chaosB4storm]

any cover by guns N roses is pretty sweet

[Anthony Lutz]

I'll start since I started this thread :-)

I think I speak for many in this thread when I say that Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" is one of the best cover songs ever. It also may be one of the only that actually surpasses the original. Everything about it is so amazing, and he definitely makes the song his own.

A cover that I really down-right loathe is Thursday's cover of "Nybatteri". Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of Thursday, but in all honesty, why did they need to cover Sigur Rós? I think that their intentions were good, but the overall performance did not do justice to the song one bit. Not only that, but ever since I heard it, it made me look at Thursday in a whole new way. This is one of those songs that I "pretend" they didn't do, and look past it when listening to the rest of their discography.

[amysaurus]

I really like NFG's covers haha.

[IWasaCamera]

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness

[OdeToTheSun]

Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness

Johnny Cash's were always so good.

[IWasaCamera]

Johnny Cash's were always so good.
Most of the American series was mediocre actually.

[OdeToTheSun]

Most of the American series was mediocre actually.

eh, I enjoyed them though.

[IWasaCamera]

eh, I enjoyed them though.
Wouldn't be the first time we disagree.

[mynameiscarterr]

No Reason Why (Gorilla Biscuits) - New Found Glory
Sonic Reducer (Dead Boys) - Saves The Day
Louie Louie (Richard Berry) - Black Flag
The Man In Me (Bob Dylan) - Say Anything
Fight For Your Right (Beastie Boys) - This Is Hell
Lovesong (The Cure) - 311
Since u Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) - A Day To Remember
Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Presley) - Dead Kennedys
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) - Cobra Starship
Holiday (The Get Up Kids) - Kris Roe of The Ataris
I'm Real (Jennifer Lopez) - The Starting Line
Minor Threat (Minor Threat) - Sublime

[TheOtherAndrew]

Matthew Good - Moon Over Marin (originally by Dead Kennedys)

[Iwudstilldie4u]

Pretty much everything on Punk Goes 80s

edit: and The Secret Handshake's cover of "They Way We Talk" (The Maine)

[YeahItsCase]

Bedlight for Blue Eyes - Jumper

and I don't mind Cartel's version of Wonderwall

Oh, and ALL covers done by the Vitamin String and Vitamin Piano Quarter..they are all awesome.

[caityconundrum]

sweet as tall as lions cover:

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[myplanforescape]

Sonic Youth - Superstar
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Vines - Ms. Jackson
SR-71 - In Your Eyes
The Ramones - California Sun
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Surfin' US


As for ones I can't stand the one the comes to mind right away is 311's cover of Love Song and Marilyn Manson's covers of Sweet Dreams and The KKK Took My Baby Away.

[_jonas]

Hallelujah - jeff buckley
Hurt - johnny cash
Such Great Heights - iron & wine
Exit Music - vampire weekend
No Surprises - marissa nadler

[MusicBox24]

No Reason Why (Gorilla Biscuits) - New Found Glory
Sonic Reducer (Dead Boys) - Saves The Day
Louie Louie (Richard Berry) - Black Flag
The Man In Me (Bob Dylan) - Say Anything
Fight For Your Right (Beastie Boys) - This Is Hell
Lovesong (The Cure) - 311
Since u Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) - A Day To Remember
Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Presley) - Dead Kennedys
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) - Cobra Starship
Holiday (The Get Up Kids) - Kris Roe of The Ataris
I'm Real (Jennifer Lopez) - The Starting Line
Minor Threat (Minor Threat) - Sublime

No.

Hurt (NIN)- Johnny Cash
Dark Eyes (Bob Dylan)- Iron & Wine with Calexico
#9 Dream (John Lennon)- REM
Jumper (Third Eye Blind)- Bedlight For Blue Eyes
Something (The Beatles)- Radiohead
Karma Police (Radiohead)- The Dresden Dolls


As for horrible covers, basically anything of off Instant Karma, which are John Lennon covers. They have fucking Avril Lavigne doing "Imagine" and Big & Rich doing "Nobody Told Me".

[Dagless]

The Starting Line - I'm Real
Yellowcard - Everywhere
Manchester Orchestra - Brother
Placebo - Running Up That Hill
We Are Scientists - Sie Hat Was Vermisst

And pretty much all of New Found Glory - From The Screen To Your Stereo Part II

[makeasound]

Just about anything New Found Glory has covered has been awesome... personal favorite is "The Glory Of Love"

The Beatles did covers best though:
Twist & Shout
Roll Over Beethoven
You Really Gotta Hold On Me
Please Mr. Postman
Dizzy Miss Lizzie
Rock And Roll Music
Kansas City (hey hey hey)
Long Tall Sally
Matchbox
Money (that's what I want)

And a few more. All gold.

[ThemChains]

H20-Like A Prayer.

[Neo Cassady]

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

[_Andrew]

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Nada Surf - If You Leave
Kisschasy - Hey Jealousy
Cartel - Wonderwall
Rock Kills Kid - I Turn My Camera On
Mates of State - California
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Underoath - Wrapped Around Your Finger

[decisionpending]

Ben Folds - Get Your Hands Off My Woman (The Darkness) off Super D

[murrich]

Dr. Dog - Heart it Races

[3mpire]

Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

[pilot_light_out]

The Offspring - I wanna be sedated

[BrokenMirror]

Thrice - Eleanor Rigby

[IWasaCamera]

Thrice - Eleanor Rigby
hahahahahahahahahaha

[Chris Fallon]

let go-boys like girls

Pretty much everything on Punk Goes 80s

edit: and The Secret Handshake's cover of "They Way We Talk" (The Maine)
:hitself:

In my opinion, cover songs are meant to be fun and light-hearted. I'll take anything that puts its own unique spin on a classic, and doesn't weigh it down with heavy-handed nonsense.

[Jumpoff]

I always thought that Propagandhi - I Want U 2 Want Me was a pretty damn funny cover.

[Dagless]

Klaxons cover of No Diggity is awesome.

[chipdip18]

Jetman - Take On Me
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights

[WhitestKidUKnow]

jesse lacey does some nice neutral milk hotel covers live

[FayeQC]

I'm listening to Rufus Wainwright covering Across the Universe and it is so good :-)

[Spaldingxc]

Flight 409 - Don't Stop Believin' (Journey)
The Devil Wears Prada - Still Fly (big Tymers)

[Renee]

The Format - Do You Believe In Magic?

[chazjobro]

Type O Negative - Summer Breeze (Seals & Crofts)
Goldfinger - 99 Luftbaloons (Nena)
Rage Against The Machine - How I Could Just Kill A Man (Cypress Hill)
Anberlin and 311 - Love Song (The Cure) I liked both their versions.
Matisyahu - Watching The Wheels (John Lennon)

[Chris Fallon]

I'm listening to Rufus Wainwright covering Across the Universe and it is so good :-)

Flight 409 - Don't Stop Believin' (Journey)
The Devil Wears Prada - Still Fly (big Tymers)
Examples of how far apart the good and the bad can be in this topic.

[Anderson]

H2O - Today Was A Good Day
Boy Sets Fire - Fade To Black
China Drum - Wuthering Heights
Evergreen Terrace - Enjoy The Silence
Stretch Arm Strong - Express Yourself

[FayeQC]

Examples of how far apart the good and the bad can be in this topic.

I like Rufus Wainwright :-(
unless I was the good...

[Paulb-182]

Jesse Lacey - Accident Prone
Brand New - Am I Wrong?
Blink 182 - A Letter To Elise
Blink 182 - Another Girl Another Planet
MXPX - Summer of 69
Oasis - Heroes
Less Than Jake - Surrender
Reel Big Fish - Take On Me
Less Than Jake - Summer Nights
New Found Glory - No Reason Why
Guns N Roses - Live And Let Die
Green Day - Knowledge

[makeasound]

Evergreen Terrace - Enjoy The Silence
I've heard that song covered by not only Evergreen Terrace, but also Anberlin, Lacuna Coil, and It Dies Today.

Honestly, even though I'm not really a fan of the band, I have to say the best of those covers was the Lacuna Coil version.

[ThemChains]

Age of Ruin used to cover You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi. They were typical garbage metalcore back when it exploded in like 2002, but it was funny.

[SanePsychotic]

Just found this - "Achin' To Be" by Pinhead Gunpowder, a Replacements cover. Album's up for grabs in a blog of mine. Not bad, just kind of interesting.

[musicfiend]

Gatsby's American Dream- Just Like Heaven
John Mayer does a cover just imo.

[cereal4life]

I like the already mentioned generic ones myself! "Hurt"done by Johnny Cash and "hallelujah" covered by Jeff Buckley are my two favourites. I also enjoy A Static Lullabye's cover of Froufrou's "Let Go". haha

[mellzie14]

I really like NFG's covers haha.

I really like their cover of King of Wishful Thinking

[theliftedlorax8]

I'm less a fan of compilations of covers, like the "Punk Does..." series, and more a fan of live covers - I saw the Hush Sound on Wednesday and they played a really great cover of "Back in the U.S.S.R." that brought so much energy to the set.

Counting Crows play some awesome covers live - I have an mp3 of them doing "Rain King" with almost all of "Thunder Road" in the middle.

[coryatlarge]

i like Hurt- johnny cash (NIN)
and i liked misery business- sea of treachery (Paramore)
just like heaven- TBS (the Cure)
under pressure- MCR and the Used (Queen and David Bowie

[Chris Fallon]

I like Rufus Wainwright :-(
unless I was the good...
You were the good, no worries ;-)

[handlikesecret]

Cartel - Wonderwall
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
New Found Glory - Iris
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child

[SanePsychotic]

Cartel - Wonderwall
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
New Found Glory - Iris
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child

I concur, mostly because I hero worship SRV a little bit.

[handlikesecret]

I concur, mostly because I hero worship SRV a little bit.
haha he most definitely deserves it.

[doyouhas?]

i saw of montreal do purple rain live. it was awesome. it also did hurt that they were dressed like this:


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/1897692249_194899a35f.jpg?v=0


*notice kevin barnes. and the blue jeans shorts. and the glasses. and the handprints. he was indeed dressed as tobias dressed as blue man group. i laughed real hard.

[go go gadget!]

I concur, mostly because I hero worship SRV a little bit.
SAME! aha btw I love your avatar!

John Mayer's "Free Fallin'" cover is pretty sweet

[zaofan2007]

The Showdown's cover of "Carry On My Wayward Son" is AMAZING. way better than the original. check it.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofi le&friendID=7804777

[Getup and Dance]

Limp Bizkit - Faith
Joking

But I like Evergreen Terrace Writers block album

[annaboun]

Wonderwall- Charlie (Lost)

:upside:

[chris.vee09]

beat it-fallout boy <3

[SanePsychotic]

beat it-fallout boy <3

:shudder:

[stayforawhile]

Shot Through the Heart - Atreyu, great shit.

[_jonas]

Wonderwall - jay z

[Hamlet]

Most of David Cook's covers from American Idol, including Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" (which is in itself a cover of Chris Cornell's cover), "Always Be My Baby" by Mariah Carey, and "Eleanor Rigby".

Pat Boone's jazz/big band covers of "Enter Sandman" and "Stairway to Heaven"

Mat Weddle's "Hey Ya"

The Maine's "I Wanna Love You"

Paramore's cover of "My Hero" by the Foo Fighters

[OdeToTheSun]

What about Paramore's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" cover?

[coryatlarge]

beat it-fallout boy <3
i like pierce the viel's cover better........

[Troggy]

Black Keys - Act Nice and Gentle [the Kinks]
Five Iron Frenzy - Sweet Talkin' Woman [Electric Light Orchestra]
John Mayer - Freefallin [Tom Petty]
Mae - A Day in the Life [Beatles]
New Found Glory - From the Screen to Your Stereo I (whole thing)
New Found Glory - Cut the Tension [Lifetime]
Nickel Creek - Spit on a Stranger [Pavement]
No Use for a Name - This is a Rebel Song [Sinead o' Connor]
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Stairway to Heaven [Led Zeppelin]
Yellowcard - Everywhere [Michelle Branch]
The Ataris - Boys of Summer [Don Henley]
Midtown - Sister Golden Hair [America]

Mostly pop punk stuff eh...I could use some more good covers.

[Anderson]

Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven

[chris.vee09]

:shudder:

haha. why not? its catchy, and while i hate that their so mainstream, i thinks its a good song

[xxemo_kittyxx]

I like Jesse Lacey's version of Oh Comely.

[bhs1158]

Further Seems Forever - Bye Bye Bye

[lesliebrand]

I like Jesse Lacey's version of Oh Comely.


AGREED!
Covered by Jesse Lacey acoustically. I loved it from NMH but when I heard it live at a Brand New concert, wow. It blew me away.

http://www.imeem.com/people/q1xdcR/m...k_hotel_cover/ (http://www.imeem.com/people/q1xdcR/music/BKYEa2fi/brand_new_oh_comely_live_neutral_mi lk_hotel_cover/)

[Rhysie G]

lostprophets - cry me a river


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[stupidtyonparad]

against me! wagonwheel
mad caddies s.o.s.

[IWasaCamera]

Anberlin - Like A Rolling Stone

Bob who?

[matty p]

haha. why not? its catchy, and while i hate that their so mainstream, i thinks its a good song

:-0 beat it was a good song until fall out boy got their hands on it. pretty much managed to massacre every part of it...from the vocals to the poor excuse of a guitar solo.

one of my favourite covers is johnny cash - hurt. love the NIN original too. both very different songs.

[Kid B]

This is one of my favorites

Radiohead - Ceremony (Joy Division). I haven't even heard the original but I fucking lovet his one.

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[Kid B]

Anberlin - Like A Rolling Stone

Bob who?
Haha

[_jonas]

Radiohead covering Bjork's Unravel. beautiful

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& Smith's Headmaster Ritual

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[_Addiction_]

Under Pressure (Queen) - My Chemical Romance feat. The Used

[Ben09]

It Aint Me Babe - Dave Melillo
Everywhere - Yellowcard
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

[EmoGangstaTMT]

Johnny Cash - Hurt
Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver ( The video made me lol )

That's really all when it comes to covers..

[Anthony Lutz]

beat it-fallout boy <3

no.

Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven

Such a great cover!

[sandra92]

arctic monkeys (amy winehouse) - you know i'm no good

[theguy77]

thrice - the earth isnt humming

the earthy spin they put on it was so nice, i dont think they could have found a better song for the theme of their EP.

[pianomanfan021]

dave melillo - dylan's 'it aint me babe'
pearl jam - baba o'riley (the who)
snow patrol - you will? you will? you will? (oberst)

and the obvious ...
ben folds - b____ ain't s___!

[live2dance]

Goldfinger-99 red balloons
New Found Glory- Kiss Me

[Getup and Dance]

Under Pressure (Queen) - My Chemical Romance feat. The Used

Blood brothers version is a whole lot better.

[_Andrew]

Stereophonics - Nothing Compares 2 U (Original by Sinead O'Connor)

[_jonas]

Elliott Smith - See You Later & Half Right ( Heatmiser covers even though he wrote them )

[Anderson]

Stereophonics - Nothing Compares 2 U (Original by Sinead O'Connor)
The Sinead O'Connor version is a cover as well. The original was written by Prince and recorded with a band called the Family.Prince version 4th one down (http://skreemr.com/results.jsp?q=nothing+compares+2+u+ )