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trustmeimokay
09/30/04, 02:47 PM
whats everyones favorite cover songs
mine are....

atreyu-you give love a bad name
dbc-jamie
almost better-pieces of me
tbs-just like heaven
ltj-surrender

and one quick question (may be dumb but i need to know) is "car" by brand new a cover? im pretty sure it is, i just need confirmation
im_random
09/30/04, 02:50 PM
ben folds- tiny dancer
howie day- only the good die young

that's all i can think of at the moment..but i'm sure there's more
basedonimpulse
09/30/04, 02:53 PM
ben folds - get your hand off of my woman (darkness cover)
the movielife - thank you (descendents cover)
trustmeimokay
09/30/04, 03:43 PM
i love ben folds....
aolsux
09/30/04, 03:48 PM
almost better - pieces of me
the starting line - i'm real
new found glory - (everything i do) i do it for you
copeland - part time lover
less than jake - any of the greese songs or the muppet songs
SilverStar89
09/30/04, 03:51 PM
almost better - pieces of me
the starting line - i'm real
new found glory - (everything i do) i do it for you
copeland - part time lover
less than jake - any of the greese songs or the muppet songs
I liked the Starting Line's cover of I'm Real too. I also was kind of partial to Rufio's cover of Like A Prayer.
Coronary Parasite
09/30/04, 03:52 PM
and one quick question (may be dumb but i need to know) is "car" by brand new a cover? im pretty sure it is, i just need confirmation
car is a built to spill cover

brand new-am i wrong
the movielife-thank you
oasis-hey, hey my, my
new found glory-the never ending story, the glory of love
nine days-video killed the radio star
the get up kids-alec eiffel

that's all i can remember right now...
PunkDrums182
09/30/04, 03:54 PM
I liked the Starting Line's cover of I'm Real too. I also was kind of partial to Rufio's cover of Like A Prayer.
i loved like a prayer, at their show i didnt think they were very good but when they played like a prayer i was like that was fuckin awesome

i like the fob cover of love will tear us apart
and nofx cover of i want you to want me and some others..
SingleDoubt
09/30/04, 04:01 PM
brand new-am i wrong
who originally did Am I Wrong?

and my current favorite is The Get Up Kids, "Close to Me" (Cure cover)
selftitled85
09/30/04, 04:02 PM
starting line - im real
new found glory - glory of love and everything i do
mxpx - take on me and summer of 69
reel big fish - take on me as well
311 - love song
yellowcard - all apologies
im_random
09/30/04, 04:03 PM
and my current favorite is The Get Up Kids, "Close to Me" (Cure cover)

I LOVE that one too.

Another I remembered:
Something Corporate- Bittersweet Symphony
SingleDoubt
09/30/04, 04:07 PM
I LOVE that one too.

Another I remembered:
Something Corporate- Bittersweet Symphony
no WAY! i love both that song and soco, i have to find that song!
Tanooki Suit
09/30/04, 04:10 PM
A Perfect Circle - "Diary of a Madman/Lovesong" and "Ashes to Ashes"
Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold the World"
Death Cab for Cutie - "This Charming Man"
Jimi Hendrix - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
AFI - "Just Like Heaven"
The Strokes - "Run Run Run"
The Vines (sadly) - "I'm Only Sleeping" (sounds almost exactly like the Beatles)
Scissor Sisters - "Comfortably Numb"
Further Seems Forever - "Jaime"

Plus I have a cover of "867-5309 (Jenny)" by some punk band that's really good (it's tagged as Blink, but it doesn't sound like them).
PunkDrums182
09/30/04, 04:11 PM
oh i forgot Blink 182's cover of Letters to Elise on mtv icon (the cure)
and i downloaded one video where before the song they were playing mark just started playig genie in a bottle and it was awesome
im_random
09/30/04, 04:23 PM
no WAY! i love both that song and soco, i have to find that song!

Yeah you do haha. it's GREAT!

if you can't find it i can send it to you on AIM.
MrChainsaw389
09/30/04, 04:26 PM
I can't believe noone as mentioned the Iron and Wine cover of "Such Great Hights"

Goldfinger did the best cover of Just Like Heaven, because they didn't just play the song, they made it there own.
catastrophe13
09/30/04, 04:31 PM
who originally did Am I Wrong?
it's by Love Spit Love, I do believe.

I love The Starting Line's I'm Real, and Dynamite Boy's I Want It That Way is so fun, as well as Brand New's Am I Wrong and Car, and I think it's fun when bands play I Believe In A Thing Called Love [I've seen a fair few play it live].
SingleDoubt
09/30/04, 04:59 PM
I can't believe noone as mentioned the Iron and Wine cover of "Such Great Hights"
i was gonna mention that but i forgot
Tanooki Suit
09/30/04, 05:11 PM
I can't believe noone as mentioned the Iron and Wine cover of "Such Great Hights"
That's because it isn't that good.
Shellular
09/30/04, 05:14 PM
Something Corporate - Anything, Anything
sweethypocrisy
09/30/04, 05:17 PM
That's because it isn't that good.
where in ohio do you live?
Throwback
09/30/04, 05:25 PM
Brand New - Am I Wrong (oh how I heart it)
Kid_Dynamite
09/30/04, 05:27 PM
johnny cash - hurt

who needs punkrock covers?
sweethypocrisy
09/30/04, 05:29 PM
johnny cash - hurt

who needs punkrock covers?
omgz i forgot that one! that kicks ass
Throwback
09/30/04, 05:40 PM
I love Dashboard's rendition of Night Swimming becuase that is an amazing song in its own right.
Coronary Parasite
09/30/04, 05:46 PM
who originally did Am I Wrong?

and my current favorite is The Get Up Kids, "Close to Me" (Cure cover)
love spit love (the ex singer of the the psychedelic furs band after they broke up)

it was one of my favorite songs forever so when they did it i was in awe


i forgot about the get up kids close to me and tsl's am i real, i love those songs

and i also have a really good konstantine cover but i don't who it is, it said name taken but it isn't...
MrChainsaw389
09/30/04, 06:09 PM
You listen to APC and you thought the AFI cover of Just Like Heaven was good...I've heard countless covers of that songs and that one is one of the worst. It sounds no different then the song itself.
Love As Arson
09/30/04, 06:10 PM
My list is better than all of yours:

Thursday - Ny Batteri
Ben Gibbard - Thriller
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
The Postal Service - Against All Odds
All-Time Quarterback - Why I Cry
Dillinger Escape Plan - Like I Love You
Cedric Bixler - I've Had It
SingleDoubt
09/30/04, 06:12 PM
Thursday - Ny Batteri
i had no idea that was a cover
pjtunes91
09/30/04, 06:13 PM
i had no idea that was a cover
Original by Sigur Ros.
Coronary Parasite
09/30/04, 06:13 PM
i had no idea that was a cover
it's a sigur ros song

i love sigur ros
pjtunes91
09/30/04, 06:14 PM
it's a sigur ros song

i love sigur ros
Ohhh, beat you to it... haha. :lol2:
Coronary Parasite
09/30/04, 06:16 PM
Ohhh, beat you to it... haha. :lol2:
blast!

haha
Tanooki Suit
09/30/04, 07:31 PM
where in ohio do you live?
toledo... why?
Tanooki Suit
09/30/04, 07:32 PM
My list is better than all of yours:

Thursday - Ny Batteri
Ben Gibbard - Thriller
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
The Postal Service - Against All Odds
All-Time Quarterback - Why I Cry
Dillinger Escape Plan - Like I Love You
Cedric Bixler - I've Had It

I agree with you on "Against All Odds" and "Why I Cry".... and it'd be really sweet if you sent "Thriller" to me on AIM.
Nate_RAWKS
09/30/04, 08:39 PM
A whole thread about cover songs and no mention of Me First once all i can do is shake my head at you people.

Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - End of the Road
NFG - The Glory of Love
catastrophe13
09/30/04, 08:53 PM
I'm not big on most of Me First and The Gimme Gimme's stuff [that I've heard]. I like their Rainbow Connection though.
Surreal_Gurl
09/30/04, 09:05 PM
311-Love song (cure cover)
Its no cure but im feeling it...
venus/bacchus
09/30/04, 09:09 PM
My list is better than all of yours:

Thursday - Ny Batteri
Ben Gibbard - Thriller
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
The Postal Service - Against All Odds
All-Time Quarterback - Why I Cry
Dillinger Escape Plan - Like I Love You
Cedric Bixler - I've Had It
solid list, but my personal affinity for The Magnetic Fields somehow makes me really loathe ATQ's cover...I can't even listen to it

I'll add all of Elliott Smith's covers (Because, Don't Fear the Reaper, Supersonic, etc)
Converge - Disintegration
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Can't Hardly Wait
The Blankket - Hey Ya!
The Network - Teenagers From Mars

and Tanooki's list was good too, add those to mine
Tyler Revolution
09/30/04, 09:40 PM
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
The Starting Line - I'm Real
Yellowcard - Everything
Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights
The Postal Service - Against All Odds
Coronary Parasite
09/30/04, 09:58 PM
Are you sure about that one?
are you asking if it's real? or if he thinks it's good?

because it is real, and it owns, hardcore
boysdontcry
09/30/04, 10:04 PM
Are you sure about that one?
seriously? are you questioning that cover? that cover is better than the original and i'm obsessed with oasis. the ryan adams version is just stunning though.
SwingingMics
09/30/04, 10:05 PM
Our thread got moved.
Shellular
09/30/04, 10:06 PM
Our thread got moved.
Aww, I'm sorry boys.
boysdontcry
09/30/04, 10:09 PM
it's ok. today is shelly's day so she can do no wrong.
SwingingMics
09/30/04, 10:11 PM
it's ok. today is shelly's day so she can do no wrong.
He's right shelly.
Shellular
09/30/04, 10:12 PM
aww, thanks lovers.
SwingingMics
09/30/04, 10:13 PM
When did this get started?
Mad Caddie
09/30/04, 10:45 PM
Everything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (especially Somewhere over the Rainbow)
I agree with everyone about the glory of love by NFG
Bigwig do a pretty sweet cover of the cherers theme
but my fav has to be 99 red balloons by Goldfinger
venus/bacchus
09/30/04, 11:02 PM
seriously? are you questioning that cover? that cover is better than the original and i'm obsessed with oasis. the ryan adams version is just stunning though.
agreed
Tanooki Suit
09/30/04, 11:13 PM
That cover doesn't come close to the orginal. Liam was put on earth to sing that(and don't go away). Radiohead's cover of it was better than Ryan Adam's too.
I agree. Ryan Adams just doesn't put the right emotion into Wonderwall, and I can't believe you'd actually claim it was better than the original.
Coronary Parasite
09/30/04, 11:15 PM
i don't think it was better, but he does a damn good job


and don't go away is my not only my favorite oasis song, but my favorite song period.
Tanooki Suit
09/30/04, 11:21 PM
My favorite Oasis song is "Don't Look Back In Anger", by far. I think it's the best song they ever made, and it definitely is in my top-5 songs (number one would be "this charming man").
boysdontcry
09/30/04, 11:21 PM
I agree. Ryan Adams just doesn't put the right emotion into Wonderwall
seriously? if anything he put too much emotion into his cover.
Thomas Sway
09/30/04, 11:23 PM
Long threads that you didn't get in on at the beginning are the bane of my existance. I'd so love to interject something spectacular and insightful but I'm not about to ya know...read. So I shall instead add something completely objective and yet intensely effective:

I rock a law suit when I’m going to court / A white suit when I’m getting divorced / A black suit at the funeral home / And I’m in my birthday suit when I’m home alone
boysdontcry
09/30/04, 11:23 PM
aquiesce, the masterplan, don't look back in anger, and cum on feel the noize are my favorite oasis songs probably.

fucking in the bushes is great too.
Thomas Sway
09/30/04, 11:24 PM
Also - I'd like to reveal my intense and passionate adoration for Ashlee Simpson. lol. I love her CD.

LaLa.
Coronary Parasite
09/30/04, 11:24 PM
My favorite Oasis song is "Don't Look Back In Anger", by far. I think it's the best song they ever made, and it definitely is in my top-5 songs (number one would be "this charming man").
don't look back in anger is my number 2 :)

i am nuts about oasis
Tanooki Suit
09/30/04, 11:25 PM
seriously? if anything he put too much emotion into his cover.
my point was that it's the wrong kind of emotion. he puts in a lot, just not the right kind.
punklet2101
09/30/04, 11:47 PM
Love Spit Love - "How Soon Is Now?"
Brand New - "Am I Wrong?"
Rufio - "Like A Prayer"
venus/bacchus
10/01/04, 06:27 AM
Love Spit Love - "How Soon Is Now?"
Brand New - "Am I Wrong?"
Rufio - "Like A Prayer"
I never knew Love Spit Love covered How Soon is Now...I might have to check that out
Chemical Love
10/01/04, 06:28 AM
further seems forever - bye bye bye
pjtunes91
10/01/04, 09:20 AM
My favorite Oasis song is "Don't Look Back In Anger", by far. I think it's the best song they ever made, and it definitely is in my top-5 songs (number one would be "this charming man").
"Don't Look Back in Anger" is my favorite Oasis song.

EDIT: This belongs in the Oasis thread... my bad.
Love As Arson
10/01/04, 09:23 AM
Are you sure about that one?
Don't question me, bitch.
Nate_RAWKS
10/01/04, 09:41 AM
Love Spit Love - "How Soon Is Now?"
Brand New - "Am I Wrong?"
Rufio - "Like A Prayer"

Forgot about like a prayer by Rufio such a great cover.