Your 3 favourite covers of all time

[Mythos]

Hendrix: All along the Watchtower
Ramones: Needles and Pins
Clash: I fought the Law

[walt]

Tom Rush-Urge For Going(Joni Mitchell)



John Cale-Hallelujah(Leonard Cohen)



Bill Frisell-Live To Tell(Mad Donna)

[Tangram]

I'll play:

Chicago - I'm a Man



Elton John - Pinball Wizard



Beck Bogart & Appice - Superstition




Doesn't hold a candle to the original but I like it:
Tangerine Dream - Space Oddity

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[Rufus]

Something's coming-YES

[bob_32_116]

Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Judy Collins - Sunny Goodge Street
Steven Wilson - The Guitar Lesson

[Jay G]

I love covers. Just can't think clearly right now as to all of my favorites though a few of my all time favorites are:

Zakk Wylde and Randy Coven doing Stevie Wonders I Wish
Cinderella doing Janis Joplins Move Over. Not a fan at all of either but this cover is just so amazing and Tom Keifer sings Janis better than Janis.
Rainbow doing Yardbirds Still I'm Sad

[polmico]

#1. The Melvins and Jello Biafra covering Roxy Music? Yes, please:



#2. "No More Songs" by Henry Cow.

#3. "Blue Jay Way" by Colin Newman (of Wire):



Probably could throw in a few of Mike Patton's Bacharach covers, but picking one (or even which bands did them best) is a chore.

[Sterbus]

"Sterbus do Cardiacs..."
Thank you so much PeterG! Hope you liked the cover of Gina Lollobrigida too!


And answering to your thread I give you some of my choices....

[Dave (in MA)]

Just a Youtube amateur cover, but I love this one.

[bill g]

Hmmm. Not a huge fan of covers, but... there are some good ones. I agree with Judy Collins' 'Sunny Goodge Street' and Santana's 'Black Magic Woman'

But not yet mentioned:

Karda Estra doing Steve hackett's 'Twice Around The Sun'
Danny Wilson doing Bowie's 'A Couple of Kooks'
Glass Hammer doing Dan Fogelberg's 'Longer'

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[PeterG]

"Sterbus do Cardiacs..."
Thank you so much PeterG! Hope you liked the cover of Gina Lollobrigida too!

Wow! That is bloody fantastic. I had no idea you had done that, and I have no idea how I've missed it until now. And how fitting that you e tuoi compagni should do a cover of the Cardiacs song named after an Italian actress. E bello, grazie! And like I said to you the first time I heard Dirty Boy, I'm in love with Dominiques voice. You can tell her that from me.

[Sterbus]

She just read that, she's happy
We played this one (along with Fear by Spratley's Japs and Dirty Boy as a show closer) at the last Tim benefit in Kingston in September, but we recorded it for Christmas

We're going to open for William D Drake in Rome next 21 February, that will be another great night!

[Zeuhlmate]

Not mentioned

Johnny Winter - Highway 61
Robert Wyatt - At last I am free
Colosseum (live) - Rope Ladder to the Moon

[bob_32_116]

Joni Mitchell - How Do You Stop

Originally recorded, I believe, by James Brown.

[walt]

Robert Wyatt-Strange Fruit

[NogbadTheBad]

Devo - Satisfaction


Dickies - Paranoid


GWAR - Carry On Wayward Son (starts at 1.28)

[davis]

[Bukek.Siansu]

Rush Power Windows
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[interbellum]

Gary Jules (with Michael Andrews): Mad World (Tears For Fears)



Fluttr Effect: The Chauffeur (from "Undercover") (Duran Duran)

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Visionary Mountains (Joan Armatrading)

[zravkapt]

[Zeuhlmate]

The Who - Summertime Blues (Live at Leeds)

[Jon]

Sinead O'Connor - Sacrifice
The Who - Eyesight to the Blind
Kate Bush - Lord of the Reedy River

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

The question is not about album covers, it is about musical covers.

sez who?

[Kavus Torabi]

Voivod doing Astronomy Domine always springs to mind whenever there's a question of favourite cover versions.
Normally most covers of Syd songs fall short of the mark or make my toes curl, for some reason, but Voivod somehow manage to be really faithful to the original yet make it sound just like a Voivod song.
It's charming, psychedelic and beautiful.
I don't even mind them getting a couple of the words wrong since it was harder to source accurate lyrics pre-Internet.

Laibach's Across The Universe is an absolute knockout too.
I actually prefer it to the Beatles original, and I'm a big Beatles fan.

Shudder To Think perform a slinky, sexy and swaggering cover of Atlanta Rhythm Section's So Into You on Pony Express Record.

Until the Internet came along I knew nothing about the original. When I heard it I was taken back by how, kinda, ordinary it sounded.
STT took a fairly pedestrian tune and, with a few liberties, turned it into a sparkly behemoth.

And yeah, absolutely Ramones Needles And Pins. Largely due to Joey's impassioned and incredibly sincere performance they transformed a fairly goofy bubblegum pop tune into something far greater. It still chokes me up sometimes. I think he was such a good singer. As much as I love the original, their Baby I Love You eclipses it for the same reason. I think it may be my favourite pop vocal by anyone. Man oh man, he means every word he sings on it.

[PeterG]

Voivod doing Astronomy Domine always springs to mind whenever there's a question of favourite cover versions.

Oh absolutely, the first Voivod album I ever bought was Nothingface on cassette, with no idea of the tracklisting, I bought it because The Organ had reviewed it, or Sean or Marina had mentioned it at a gig, I can't remember, and wow what a surprise I got when I heard that fantastic version of AD.

By the way, for all those under the age of 40, whose first language is Enlgish, the Latin word Domine rhymes with Astronomy, kind of the point of the title really, that rhyme.

But God knows how many times I've heard DJs on radio say Du-mine, even those of an age who should know better.