Cover Me: Best cover songs, some better than the original?

[neonorchid]

 

[jack97]

RIP Mark Hollis

 

[jack97]

 

[neonorchid]

 

[Snowfan]

 

[Tim Hodgson]

^^^Fantastic

Below are 25 covers of the same song. Purity and clarity of human voices:



This end credit version by Kacey Musgraves is, IMHO, and in its own John Denver way better than the movie version:

 

[Jim Kenney]

Not my favorite Doors song, but kind of spooky/relaxing at bed time:

 

[Willyum215]

“Got To Get You Into My Life” by Earth, Wind & Fire just might have the original topped in my book.

 

[Tim Hodgson]

Cover of a Celine Dion and Josh Groban duet:




In 1969, while in high school, I saw Jimmy Page use a bow to play parts of this song at Winterland (they have surely withstood the test of time):

 

[Stev]

Does this count as a cover?

Original:

 

[AlpedHuez]

Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel"

 

[AlpedHuez]

Norah Jones, "Jesus, etc"

 

[Tim Hodgson]

AlpedHuez: Dang! Now that's some good feeling' soul satisfying music right there: Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel (Official Video). I remember hearing it played on the Michael Berry Show out of Houston a few times, but I never new much about the song or the singer.

Norah Jones covering Wilco's "Jesus, Etc." has soul but is sadder to me. But I have never heard it before. Thank you for posting both.

 

[Michael Kane]

Mike Ness "Under the Influence" - The whole shebang

 

[AlpedHuez]

AlpedHuez: Dang! Now that's some good feeling' soul satisfying music right there: Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel (Official Video). I remember hearing it played on the Michael Berry Show out of Houston a few times, but I never new much about the song or the singer.

Norah Jones covering Wilco's "Jesus, Etc." has soul but is sadder to me. But I have never heard it before. Thank you for posting both.

Wagon Wheel is based off an unfinished song chorus by Bob Dylan from the 1973 "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" soundtrack sessions

which Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua turned into a fully formed song (crediting Dylan as co-writer).

 

[AlpedHuez]

I haven't been able to shake this one since I first heard it (having a faint clue the lyrics were Dylan-esque -- and in fact it is Bob's original)

 

[Tim Hodgson]

Alped: Thank you for posting Dylan. He has provided the theme song for my life recently:

Everything is Broken

"Seem like every time you stop and turn around
Something else just hit the ground
Broken cutters, broken saws
Broken buckles, broken laws
Broken bodies, broken bones
Broken voices on broken phones
Take a deep breath, feel like you're choking
Everything is broken"

And

Gotta Serve Somebody

"It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord
But your gonna have to serve somebody."

O.K., I guess I am going to have set some time aside to watch some more Old Crow Medicine Show videos...

Holy crap I have never heard Dark Eyes before. Thank you for sharing that.

I will see your Dylan and raise it with Santana:

 

[AlpedHuez]

Alped: Thank you for posting Dylan.

You can call me Al ... the "d" making do for the d' in Alpe d'Huez

 

[Willyum215]

 

[AlpedHuez]

Are you familiar with Ryan Adams, who did a song-for-song cover of T-Swifts 1989 album?