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Best cover versions

PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:07 pm
by rocklobster
I like to listen to covers because some artists seem to be good at presenting a different spin on the song, rather than giving us a note by note cover. Here are some of my faves:
"All Along the Watchtower"-Jimi Hendrix
"Higher Ground"--Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Rock On"--Def Leppard
"Twist and Shout"--The Beatles
"Enjoy the Silence" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit"--Tori Amos
"The Man Who Sold the World"--Nirvana

PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:17 pm
by Ante Bellum
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:26 pm
by Radical Dreamer

PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:40 pm
by Davidizer13
Here's some of mine.

Beautiful Day (U2) - Sanctus Real

Come Together (The Beatles) - Aerosmith, for the hilariously bad movie Sergeant Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band

Jumpin' Jack Flash (Rolling Stones) - Elite Beat Agents soundtrack

Also, do video game remixes count? If so, we could be here all day.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:51 pm
by Htom Sirveaux

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:55 am
by Kaori
One Eighty does a nice version of "Vacation" by the Go-Go's.

Evanescence "Tourniquet" - this song is originally by Soul Embraced.

Extol "Shadow of Death" - it's very similar to the original song by Believer, except that it's faster, cleaner, tighter, and better.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:12 am
by Tancos
There are too many to list, from Devo's "Satisfaction" to this.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:12 am
by Roy Mustang
Dance the Night Away -Van Halen by The Mavericks

Here Comes My Baby -Cat Stevens by The Mavericks

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:21 am
by EricTheFred
I have to say, the only covers of Beatles tunes that worked well for me would be the Aerosmith version of "Come Together" and the Elton John version of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" .

On the other hand, the Beatles did several covers that are my favorite versions of the tunes.
"Act Naturally" (Buck Owens)
"Twist and Shout" (Isley Brothers)
"Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry)
"Please Mr. Postman" (some chick in the 50s, can't remember)
"Rock and Roll Music" (Chuck Berry)

Some favorite covers unrelated to the Beatles:
"People Get Ready" the Rod Stewart / Jeff Beck version is one of the few things by Stewart I genuinely like, and it is my favorite version of this tune.

"Sloop John B" Beach Boys version

"Suzie Q" Creedence version

"Johnny B Good" both the Buddy Holly version and Elton John version.

"What A Fool Believes" Dooby Brothers version

"Barbara Ann" Beach Boys

And with a bit of sadness I must admit that most of the people reading this post are younger than every single one of these recordings.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:01 pm
by GrubbTheFragger
A Day To Remembers : Over my head (cable car) Its the fray meets hardcore which is amazing

Anything by Rocksugar (Youtube them)

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:36 pm
by Warrior4Christ
Lacuna Coil do a pretty good "Enjoy The Silence" (Depeche Mode), as do Anberlin.
"Love Song" (The Cure) by Anberlin.
"Livin on a Prayer" (Bon Jovi) by Stellar Kart.
"You Put This Love In My Heart" (Keith Green - classic!) and "Take On Me" (A-ha) by MxPx.

A lot of the stuff by the Gimme Gimmes.

And this one of the Monkey (Magic) theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxQiCy7sEF4&feature=related

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:18 pm
by Scarecrow
Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away (Gary Moore Cover)
Black Majesty - Six Ribbons (Jon English Cover)
Van Canto - Wishmaster (Nightwish Cover)
Van Canto - Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden Cover)
Van Canto - Kings of Metal (ManOwaR Cover)
Groove Coverage - Poison (Alice Cooper Cover)
Pathfinder - Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield Cover)
Royal Anguish - Mary Did You Know (Mark Lowry Cover)

Those are the best covers IMO... ones that actually took the originals and did something unique with them. Or just made them sound better than the original (Van Cantos Kings of Metal, Pathfinders Moonlight Shadow, Black Majestys Six Ribbons... and as much as I love Alice Cooper, I prefer Groove Coverages version)

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:09 pm
by SnoringFrog
I never realized Nightwish's "Over the Hills and Far Away" was a cover, I love that song though. And I'm definitely interested in hearing Evanescence's take on a Soul Embraced song as well as ADTR's version of "Over My Head".

"Apologize" -originally by One Republic covered by Silverstein and Ryashon.
"Maniac" - Covered by The Great Escape
"I Just Died In Your Arms" - originally by The Cutting Crew covered by Inked in Blood
"Carry on Wayward Son" - originally by Kansas covered by The Showdown.
Legend of Zelda theme covered by System of a Down.
"Right Here Waiting" - originally by Richard Marx covered by [url=And Then There Were None]And Then There Were None[/url]
"Safety Dance" - originally by Men Without hats covered by Face
"Crank Dat Soulja Boy" - covered by I Set My Friends On Fire
"Gangster's Paradise" - originally by Colio covered by In Fear and Faith

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:25 pm
by Davidizer13
SnoringFrog (post: 1384426) wrote:Legend of Zelda theme covered by The Rabbit Joint.


Fix'd.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:30 pm
by KagayakiWashi
Oingo Boingo's rendition of "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks
Five Iron Frenzy's rendition of "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones
"Bohemian Polka" which is Weird Al Yankovic's polkatized version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Metallica's "The Ecstasy of Gold" by Ennio Morricone (from "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly")
And of course......Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" as performed by William Shatner

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:48 pm
by airichan623
"What Hurts the Most"- covered by CASCADA, by Rascal Flatts
"Fly Me to the Moon"-covered by Utada Hikaru, by Frank Sinatra
"Melt with You"- covered by Bowling For Soup
"Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"- covered by Relient K, by VeggieTales cast

PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:48 pm
by rocklobster
more good covers:
"RESPECT" by Aretha Franklin (yes it was a cover. Otis Redding did it first, but she did it better)
"You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor (originally sung and written by Carole King)
"Ball of Confusion" by Love and Rockets (originally done by Temptations. This one's a techno version, and it actually works)

PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:59 pm
by the_wolfs_howl
Hmm, I'm not too knowledgeable about covers, but I do much prefer Red's cover of "Ordinary World" to the original. And yes yes YES to "Jumpin' Jack Flash"! XD "I was baaaaawn...." They made it crazier and faster and so much more fun for the game.

I also love the covers Celtic Woman does of various songs - especially "Walking in the Air," "Over the Rainbow," "You Raise Me Up," and "Beyond the Sea."

PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:34 am
by That Dude
Fascination Street -by- Stavesacre (The Cure.)
Love Song -by- Anberlin (The Cure)
Smooth Crimanal -by- Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
Beat It -by- Fall Out Boy feat John Mayer (Michael Jackson)
Time (The Sound Of Music Mix) -by- DBA (The Sound Of Music)
Say A Little Prayer -by- DBA (Aretha Franklin)
All Around Me -by- David Crowder Band (Flyleaf)
The Phantom Of The Opera -by- Nightwish (Andrew Lloyd Weber.)

And I have a few more, I'll post them later...

PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:36 pm
by Radical Dreamer
That Dude (post: 1385363) wrote:The Phantom Of The Opera -by- Nightwish (Rogers and Hammerstein I believe...)



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(Andrew Lloyd Webber. XDDD)

Also, because I forgot to mention it earlier, Sweet Talkin' Woman by ELO, covered by Five Iron Frenzy. XD

PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:47 pm
by That Dude
Fixed!

And Corrie, you totally beat me to it! I was going to post that FIF song.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:18 pm
by KagayakiWashi
Five Iron's rendition of the doxology is pretty awesome too, though that might fall more under the the Ska-Punk-Neohymnissicism category.....OK....it's more of an incorporated cover and I just wanted to invent a word.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:34 am
by SnoringFrog
That Dude (post: 1385363) wrote:Love Song -by- Anberlin (The Cure)
Smooth Crimanal -by- Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
The Phantom Of The Opera -by- Nightwish (Andrew Lloyd Weber.)
Those are all awesome.
That Dude (post: 1385363) wrote:Beat It -by- Fall Out Boy feat John Mayer (Michael Jackson)
All Around Me -by- David Crowder Band (Flyleaf)
And I have a few more, I'll post them later...
I need to go look up these two, I love both of the original songs.

99 Red Balloons - original by Nena, covered by Goldfinger (I heard there was a FiF cover of this too, but I can't find it online)

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:55 pm
by Warrior4Christ
SnoringFrog (post: 1385573) wrote:99 Red Balloons - original by Nena, covered by Goldfinger (I heard there was a FiF cover of this too, but I can't find it online)

For some reason it sounds better in German, so I'm glad they did the last part in German. That was pretty decent.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:18 pm
by Scarecrow
I found this guy on youtube... He covers classical video game tunes and some other stuff on his guitar and he is amazing.

Here are a couple of my favorite arrangements he has done. He's got tons more though and he is excellent:

Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger
Times Scar from Chrono Cross
Cruel Angel Thesis from Neon Genesis Evangelion

PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:11 pm
by ILurvMusic
[font="Comic Sans MS"]Because of Paramore covering the song Use Somebody by Kings of Leon, I now like Kings of Leon version too.[/font]