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Favorite Cover Songs

RiderOnTheStorm

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Original:
[youtube=_WcWHZc8s2I]Sade-No Ordinary Love[/youtube]

Cover:
[youtube=MuNZGijfaZA]Deftones-No Ordinary Love[/youtube]

I still like the original better, but Deftones didn't do bad.
 

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The cover that most improved on the original is perhaps Nazareth's "Love Hurts" (Everly Brothers).

Honorable mentions:

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Woodstock (Joni Mitchell)
Eye & I - Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground)
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (The Four Lads)
Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
Devo - Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)
Cake - I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
Dread Zeppelin - Heartbreaker Hotel (Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley) :D
 

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My favorite song cover has got to be Cake's "I Will Survive." The video is about as classic as it gets. That music videos have gone the way of the Dodo is a sad, sad thing. I hope something like Youtube and amateur video production will revive them...

[YOUTUBE="596qaxm-u4o"]Survive This...[/YOUTUBE]

I mean, they just really bring it. Everything from the bass (rockin'!) to the stupendous guitar riffs, to the horns... Ah, just great. They just totally rock it out.
 

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Slightly in the heart of Valentines day (HA! get it? ahhh...) I like Tori Amos's cover of The Cure's "Love Song." The lyrics are beautiful, and set to piano... I love it.

[YOUTUBE="G7-FWGZI4IY"]Tori Amos - Love Song [/YOUTUBE]
 

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[YOUTUBE="1RgRwIVMfM4"]Cover Bad Romance[/YOUTUBE]

This cover isn't an official single, but I like it. The real part starts at 0:30.
 
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[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6BSqi9F5A"]Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine[/YOUTUBE]

Original is from a 1950's musical revue, covered by many different artists but I happen to like this one at the moment.
 

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[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6BSqi9F5A"]Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine[/YOUTUBE]

Original is from a 1950's musical revue, covered by many different artists but I happen to like this one at the moment.

Nice pick. From Songs to No One, with Gary Lucas, originally written by Edith Piaf. Also covered by many artists.
[YOUTUBE="8FDGcrA0UYc"]Hymne à l'amour[/YOUTUBE]
 

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Shiny Toy Guns - Nothing Compares to You(Prince/Sinead O'Connor)
Buddy Miles - Down By The River(Neil Young)
 

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Original:
[youtube=-oaHHrNQVrg]Chris Issac[/youtube]

Cover:
[youtube=Hmp2bmpniQI]Corey Taylor[/youtube]

Corey's voice...:wub:
 

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Of course, I must mention:

[YOUTUBE="Fqx6OrXf0b4"]Mike Mill harmony ftw...[/YOUTUBE]
 

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[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkZNrCru7X8"]The Cure don't compare[/YOUTUBE]
 

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I love covers. What's are some of your favorite cover songs?

This is easily the best music video of the 2000s let alone cover song.

[YOUTUBE="SmVAWKfJ4Go"]Johnny Cash- Hurt[/YOUTUBE]

Just Classic... always makes me think of the wonder years

[YOUTUBE="uQYDvQ1HH-E"]Joe Cocker - A Little Help From My Friends - Woodstock 1969[/YOUTUBE]
 

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Off the top of my head:

Aretha Franklin - Respect
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14qTXRkAKr8"]Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower[/YOUTUBE]
Janis Joplin - lots (Me and Bobby McGee, etc.)
Indigo Girls - Romeo and Juliet
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9pWuFqf7dI&feature=related"]Warren Haynes - Wasted Time[/YOUTUBE]
Eagles - Take It Easy
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0DKOGco_o"]Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah[/YOUTUBE]
Garbage - Kick My Ass
Giant Drag - Wicked Game
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmQe_eBvrc"]Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better[/YOUTUBE]
Rage Against the Machine - Maggie's Farm
Pearl Jam - Fortunate Son (Sleater-Kinney also did a great cover of this, on Wedrock: A Benefit for Freedom to Marry)
Heart - anything by Led Zeppelin
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhonK8NMm8"]anyone - Crimson and Clover[/YOUTUBE]
anyone - Take Me To the River

I can take or leave Run DMC's cover of Walk This Way, but it may be the most important cover ever recorded.

Oh, and my personal favorite. Sorry for linking so many songs. I tend to go overboard with this kind of thing. I like music.
 
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Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (by The White Stripes, covered by Chris Thile)
Toccata (originally an orchestral piece by Ginastera, covered by Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
One Of These Days (a cover of "These Boots Were Made For Walkin'" by Operation Ivy)
Stairway to Heaven (by Led Zeppelin, covered by Rodrigo y Gabriela)
Woodstock (by Joni Mitchell, covered by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
Faust Arp (by Radiohead, covered by Punch Brothers)
Life on Mars? (by David Bowie, covered in Portugese by Seu Jorge)
Literally anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

And, last but certainly not least...
Bitches Ain't Shit (by Dr. Dre, covered by Ben Folds)

Also:
I love covers. What's are some of your favorite cover songs?

This is easily the best music video of the 2000s let alone cover song.

Johnny Cash- Hurt

Joe Cocker - A Little Help From My Friends - Woodstock 1969
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah
anyone - Take Me To the River
HELL YES. :rock:
 
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