Best Cover Songs You've Heard

[Clyne]

A few that pop into the head right away:

Travis - Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
U2 - Everlasting Love (Robert Knight?)
Pete Yorn - Suspicious Minds (Elvis)
Nelly Furtado - Crazy (Gnarles Barkley)


And finally, since it's the most covered song of all time (you can pick your own artist from any of the thousands that have done it):

Ray Charles - Yesterday (The Beatles)

[finitek]

Here are a handful of great covers:

Sissy Bar - Gin & Juice covering Snoop Dogg

Fear Factory - Cars covering Gary Numan

Material Girl - KMFDM covering Madonna

Fast As A Shark - Witchery covering Accept

Those always make me smile


Bonus Cheese Factor:

Downtown Train - Rod Stewart covering Tom Waits

you can find all of these on youtube

[tyven]

ISMFOF - Crank That
YouTube - I Set My Friends On Fire - Crank That

this was actually worse than the awful original

[BadKarma]

this was actually worse than the awful original

....wow, words cannot express my contempt for soulja boy and the assholes who remade it

[Firedemon]

That version of Crank Dat was digusting....absolutely terrible. The only other version of the song that's great is when Travis Barker added his drumming.

[Ensam]

Gary Jules - Mad World

forgot about that one, tis awesome



As far as the Where is my Mind covers, I don't agree that they're better than the original, but I did like the Nada Surf one, never heard of them, going to check them out (and Placebo is of course <3)

[Darunia]

A few of my personal favorites include:

Korn - Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd)
Apocalyptica - One (Metallica)
Apocalyptica - Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
Stone Sour - Wicked Game (Chris Isaak? i think)

[Zieara]

My all-time favorite cover is...

Metallica - "Astronomy"
Originally a Blue Oyster Cult tune.

[Lordwafik]

Some covers I like :
Cardigans + Tom Jones - Burning down the house
Gary Jules - Mad World
Tori Amos - Smells like teen spirit (I love both version for diff reasons, so many rage teens hate her cover!)
Shirley Bassey - Love Story
Audrey Hepburn - Moon River

[tribute041]

Thrice - Eleanor Rigby (the beatles.. duh)

[Ruiner]

YouTube - Lateralus (full version)- Tool Cover piano/vocal

YouTube - Tool- Vicarious cover (Full)

Those were great.

[Jakson]

YouTube - The Price is Right - Hill Valley Preservation Society

YouTube - Buckethead star wars

YouTube - The Muppet Show - Hill Valley Preservation Society

YouTube - Muppet Babies - Hill Valley Preservation Society

YouTube - Buckethead-Willy Wonka theme

YouTube - Galaga - Hill Valley Preservation Society

YouTube - Castlevania II Simon's Quest - Hill Valley Preservation Society

YouTube - Buckethead - Nightmare Before Christmas and Halloween Themes

YouTube - MARILYN MANSON :: This Is Halloween

YouTube - Fiona Apple :: Across The Universe

YouTube - Sally's Song - Fiona Apple

YouTube - Silent Hill - SYL "Room 429" (Cop Shoot Cop cover)

YouTube - System Of A Down - Snowblind #4

YouTube - Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell

Hill Valley Preservation Society has a lot of fucking awesome covers (A lot of 80's movies/TV shows themes, etc.) but can't find any but these on Youtube, though there's a couple more on their myspace page: http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...=3831694&plid=

Edit: Ok, so none of their songs work, they seem to be no more. fuck.

[Amarok]

Dax Riggs - "Yesterday" by The Beatles
Dax Riggs - "I'm Your Man" by Leonard Cohen
Dax Riggs - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel
Nargaroth - "Far Beyond The Stars" by Azhubham Haani
Krieg - "Venus In Furs" - by The Velvet Underground
Dissection - "Elizabeth Bathory" by Tormentor
Vader - "Raining Blood" by Slayer

[Tricen]

YouTube - The Dillinger Escape Plan with Mike Patton [Irony Is A Dead Scene] 04. Come To Daddy

DEP covered Aphex Twin's Come to daddy. I think they did a good job covering it from converting it to instruments

[Guitarman]

Some of the better ones off the top of my head:

Godsmack - Sweet Leaf (ozzy cover)
YouTube - Godsmack - Sweet Leaf

The Ataris - The Boys of Summer (Don Henley cover)
YouTube - The Ataris - Boys of Summer Music Video

Ozzy - Stayin' Alive (BeeGees cover)
YouTube - Ozzy Osbourne & Dweezil Zappa ( Very Rare ) Staying Alive

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (MJ Cover) *
YouTube - alien ant farm smooth criminal

Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry cover)
YouTube - Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode

Enjoy!

*

Spoiler: show

On "inside the actor's studio", the simpsons cast said when they did the michael jackson episode, mj had a "random white guy hand picked by jackson to sing for the show". I wonder if it isnt the singer from this. He does a REALLY good job inpersonating.

[Tomiko]

Some I like that I don't think have been mentioned yet:


YouTube - Rhymefest featuring Ol Dirt Bastard - Build Me Up

YouTube - Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights

First heard this one when Seno(?) linked it in the spam forum:
YouTube - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole ~ Somewhere over the Rainbow HQ

Found this one when looking for acoustic versions of the song on YouTube:
YouTube - I'm Yours

[Beckwin]

Cap'n Jazz - Take on Me
Conor Oberst - Kodachrome (Paul Simon jam)
Weezer - Uptown Girl

costello covering bacharach
cash covering dylan
there's a neat tribute album of Daniel Johnston covers

[Wintermute]

Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry cover)
YouTube - Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode

Less 'Cover' more 'Noise'

YouTube - Sex Pistols - Johnny B. Goode (audio)

[Rhinox]

Deftones - no ordinary love

[Antithesis]

YouTube - Marlon Bachata Rosa