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

[skibob]

Another 50% cover. Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Boom Boom. The album version featured John Lee Hooker. But I couldn't find that version on youtube:


10,000 Mona Lisa's You Oughta Know

 

[skibob]

Even Trent Reznor came around to admitting that this is the definitive version of the song…and this video made by Johnny Cash as he neared death is, well, as haunting as the lyrics of this poignantly sad song:

Still gives me chills.

 

[crgildart]

I kind of like this one, not a top 10 contender though..


Not sure how we missed this one so far...

 

[Mike Thomas]

The first 'Boy Band':

Covered by one of the most important band of the 80's, Minor Threat:

 

[SkiNurse]

Not that they are necessarily "better", but I just consider them great remakes of the Simon & Garfunkle classics.

Mrs. Robinson

The Boxer

 

[fatbob]

Funny was thinking of that as one of the most popularly covered songs

might be the original

another scouse mob

 

[SShore]

Dolly wrote "I Will Always Love You" for Porter Wagner when she left his show, and like everything Dolly does it was brilliant

Then Whitney took the song to a different Planet (and made Dolly very rich)

 

[skibob]

Not that they are necessarily "better", but I just consider them great remakes of the Simon & Garfunkle classics.

Mrs. Robinson

The Boxer

I hadn't heard that version of Mrs. Robinson in ages. In fact, hadn't hear Lemonheads in ages. Nice!

 

[pais alto]

Not that they are necessarily "better", but I just consider them great remakes of the Simon & Garfunkle classics.

Mrs. Robinson

The Boxer

A theme!

 

[crgildart]

We've jumped the shark. I Will Always Love You was already mentioned. Probably a couple others double dipped as well. These are all good enough to post over and over though!

 

[Mike Thomas]

Warren Zevon, covering Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door:

If you're not familiar with Warren, or the circumstances behind the album The Wind, he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer shortly before he began recording and died two weeks after the album's release... so he was being literal when he sang "let me in, let me in, let me in".

 

[crgildart]

^^^I remember that. Lots of good versions of that but none as symbolic..

More Dylan

 

[Scruffy]

Cowboy Junkies doing Neil Young's Powder Finger

 

[SBrown]

 

[Scruffy]

David Bromberg doing Blind Wille McTell's "Dying Crap Shooter's Blues"

 

[Scruffy]

Little Feat doing Dylan's "It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry"

 

[Stev]

Devo - Head Like a Hole
(Original by Nine Inch Nails)

 

[SkiNurse]

Devo - Head Like a Hole
(Original by Nine Inch Nails)

Wow! That was really interesting. Big fan of NIN Head Like a Hole. Didn't even know a cover existed.

 

[neonorchid]

 

[neonorchid]