Favourite Cover Versions!

[kestrelx]

This cover version does the original, You really got me by The Kinks justice. Anyone got any other songs that were covered that they think are as good as or better than the original?

YouTube - Van Halen - You Really Got Me

 

[steve2qec]

Joe Cocker's version of With A Little Help From My Friends. Also, most Dylan covers are better than the originals!

 

[kestrelx]

Joe Cocker's version of With A Little Help From My Friends. Also, most Dylan covers are better than the originals!

Hendrix - All along the Watchtower, is better than Dylans, as he said himself he often got the feeling he wrote it for Jimi Hendrix without knowing it

 

[steve2qec]

Yeah, that's a classic. My fave Dylan cover is (a bit obscure) This Wheels On Fire by The Brian Auger Trinity. GnR's version of Live And Let Die is pretty good as well.

 

[david1]

Yeah, that's a classic. My fave Dylan cover is (a bit obscure) This Wheels On Fire by The Brian Auger Trinity. GnR's version of Live And Let Die is pretty good as well.

Is it this one ? ;-



YouTube - Julie Driscoll Brian Auger & Trinity - Wheels On Fire (1968)

 

[steve2qec]

Yes. Dig the keyboard player....groovy!!

 

[pipinfort]

YouTube - Foo Fighters.. Band On The Run (cover)

Love the Foo`s version of the Wings track and also agree with a couple of the others here, G`n`R`s Live And Let Die, Van Halen You Really Got Me......and mentioning Van Halen, you can add David Lee Roths version of Californian Girls and Just A Gigolo

 

[shakermaker]

YouTube - My Morning Jacket - Rocket Man

Haunting.

 

[yerself]

YouTube - JOAN BAEZ ~ Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts ~

 

[yerself]

YouTube - K.D. Lang sings Neil Young's Helpless

 

[yerself]

YouTube - Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry

 

[grannyclaret]

I love all Rod Stewarts cover versions of the big bands,,,,,

 

[wadey]

Leona Lewis singing Snow Patrols "Run" is just fantastic and I thought it would be awful, go on give it a chance

PS All Along The Watchtower was the first record I ever bought

YouTube - Leona Lewis: Run (with Lyrics)

 

[kestrelx]

Leona Lewis singing Snow Patrols "Run" is just fantastic and I thought it would be awful, go on give it a chance

PS All Along The Watchtower was the first record I ever bought

That's a good track by Leona Lewis, the video with her in it is good, All Along the Watchtower a great track...

This works...


YouTube - Ian Brown - Thriller (Michael Jackson Cover)

 

[wadey]

Thanks for the link

 

[dormiles]

Basically all the covers made by Travis, especially "Hit Me Baby One More Time" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday".

 

[kestrelx]

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust a excellent version

YouTube - Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust [Live Totp Oct. 1.982]

 

[kestrelx]

I just found out that Nina Hagen did a cover of Ziggy Stardust - now bet you didn't know that - did you?

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/nina_hagens_cover_version_of_ziggy_stardust/

 

[cmonstanley]

this one the stones did YouTube - The Rolling Stones "Just My Imagination"

 

[Romps]

YouTube - Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - Far Corporation - Stairway to heaven (Led Zeppelin) 1985