Best Cover Songs

im not really a fan of covers...but The Ataris version of Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" is fucking excellent.

Gives me goosebumps. I think that version(the ataris) captures the emotion in that song much better than the original.

~C
 
whoever said whiskey in the jar for thin lizzy. i believe that is a chieftans song. and everyone has covered the chieftans...neil young, dave matthews, phish, everyone
 
whiskey in the jar is a traditional song. the chieftans were covering it too, although checking the ascap title database says:

Writers:
__ BELL ERIC
__ DOWNEY BRIAN MICHAEL
__ LYNOTT PHILIP PARRIS
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that's thin lizzy. it's really a moot point though, because they didn't write it.
 
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Well, thank you for the clarification Finder and Michael. I truely had no idea, and yes, it was from WinMx that i got it from.

While i never thought it sounded too much like Phish i gave it the benefit of the doubt because i did think it sounded like something Primus would do. I speak specifically of their funky songs like De Anza Jig. And Phish does cover alot of songs so i didn't think too far into it.
 
DigitalDuality said:
as everyone can tell i'm a manson fan i love the covers the man has selected to do..even the ones that have gone pop

just by manson alone:

Patti Smith: Rock N roll nig9er
Steven J Hawkins: I put a spell on you (nina simones cover is also great)
Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams
Soft Cell-Tainted Love
Doors- Five to One
John lennon- Working Class Hero
David Bowie- Golden Years
Ac/Dc- highway to hell (who'd've guessed)
Dr Hook- Get my Rocks Off
ok enough of that..

Rasputina -- (2 chicks on cellos hooked to distortion amps/pedals)...
-Manson's -Tourniquet
-Pink Floyd's - Wish you were here
-Sir Mix a Lot- baby's got back

System of a down - Shame on a nig9a (by Wu-tang)
Mindless Self Indulgence- Bring tha Pain (Method Man)

Nirvana- Man who sold the world (David Bowie)
- Where did you sleep last night (Ledbelly)
Tori Amos- Little Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen)

Stone Temple Pilots- Andy Warhol (David Bowie)

The Pop/rock/rap all star remake of What's Goin on (Marvin Gaye)

Orgy- Blue Monday (New Order)

Hole- Pale Blue Eyes (Velvet Underground)
Slayer- Now i want to be your god (take on Iggy and the Stooges "now i want to be your god")

Fred Durst (shutters)/Goo Goo Dolls -Wish You Were Here (pink floyd)

Kittie- Run Like Hell (Pink Floyd)
Korn/Chino from the Deftones- Wicked (Ice Cube)
Kid Rock- Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
Jonnhy Cash- Hurt (NIN)

Nirvana (again)- Molly's Lips ( Vaselines)
Nirvana- Lake of Fire (Meat Puppets)

Twiztid- People are strange (the doors)
Tori Amos- Love Song (the Cure)
Genitorturers- I Touch Myself (The Divinyls)
Rancid- Bad Moon Rising (CCR--or was it 3 dog night)
Deadsy- Tom Sawyer (Rush)
Candiria - 187 (Dre/Snoop)
Everlast- Halfway Crooks (Mobb Deep)
Dope- Fuck tha Police (NWA)
Dynamic Hack- forgot the name of the song (eazy e)
Counting Crows- Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchel)
Pat McGee- Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)


I'm sure i could go all night...
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Manson seems to be releasing more covers these days than his own material.
 
i think golden years & down in the park are some of manson's best musical moments.

i'm sure perfect circle's mashup of diary of a madman & lovesong has been mentioned, but other than that my favourite cover has to be:

sisters of mercy - gimme shelter (rolling stones).

it's really, really good; the combination of uber-gothic near theatrical vocals & chugging thundering guitar forces you to view the song in whole new light. the production is excellent as well :)
 
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Cowboy Junkies [Hank Williams]
Que Sera Sera – Sly & The Family Stone [Doris Day]
Satisfaction – Devo [Rolling Stones]
Police and Thieves – The Clash [Junior Murvin]
On Your Way Down – Little Feat [Allen Toussaint]
Dear Prudence – Siouxsie & The Banshees [Beatles]
Sister Ray – Joy Division [Velvet Underground]
Stairway To Heaven – Dolly Parton [Led Zeppelin]
Light My Fire – Jose Feliciano [Doors]
Light My Fire – Stevie Wonder [Doors]
Heard It Through The Grapevine – The Slits [Marvin Gaye]
I’m Not Your Stepping Stone – Sex Pistols [The Monkees]
Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – The Chimes [U2]
How Soon Is Now – Tatu [The Smiths]
Take Me To The River – Talking Heads [Al Green]
 
Patti Smith: Rock N roll nig9er (Smells like children)
Steven J Hawkins: I put a spell on you (nina simones cover is also great) (Lost Highway Soundtrack.. Smells like Children)
Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams ( Smells like Children)
Soft Cell-Tainted Love (Just before Golden Age of the Grostesque)
Doors- Five to One- (B-side during Mechanical Animals single)
John lennon- Working Class Hero (During the Holywood sessions)
David Bowie- Golden Years (again during Mechanical animals)
Ac/Dc- highway to hell (who'd've guessed) (During Anti-christ superstar or Mechanical Animals)
Dr Hook- Get my Rocks Of (Mechanical Animals)
A Rose and a Baby Ruth (Mechanical Animals)
Down in the Park (Antichrist era or Mechanical era)


Hmm... Looks like his cover songs have been spread out through his career to me. More centered around the Omega era actually.

The only covers he's done lately is Tainted Love and Its a Small World after All... For every cover he's done.. i can name you 10 actual songs, not to mention remixes, collaborations, and other rarities from imports.
The fact that so many were done during Mechanical Animals... and the fact that Smells Like Children was nothing but remixes and cover songs... kinda ups the balance of that..

but whatever..
 
mariyln manson - sweet dreams
nirvana - lake of fire
pearl jam - last kiss
metallica - so what?
smashin pumpkins - landslide
orgy - blue monday
korn - one

i know there are more. but alas, i have class.
 
DigitalDuality said:
Steven J Hawkins: I put a spell on you (nina simones cover is also great) (Lost Highway Soundtrack.. Smells like Children)
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this has got to be a p2p mislabel. and one of the funnier ones, too.

it's 'screaming' jay hawkins.

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actually... i don't know where i got steven from.... i have it on tape and cd.. i never downloaded it..

Didn't Jay Hawkins have like 50+ children from like a whole whole bunch of women??
 
Animal Cookie-- i agree.. i love Korn's cover of metallica's One. I mean.. its no metallica.. but they transfered it between musical genre/style differences beautifully.
 
Jay's Kids

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rhythm and blues wild man Screamin' Jay Hawkins was pretty sure that he fathered roughly 57 children during his life. He just couldn't keep track of them all.

Now friends and family members of the eccentric singer, who died in Paris last month at age 70, have begun a worldwide search for his sons and daughters, who may or may not know that Hawkins, best-known for his 1956 hit single "I Put a Spell on You," is their father.
 
Soundgarden's Come Together (Beatles)
And that guy who did Tears for Fears' Mad World. Dunno his name.
I think that Stone Temple cover of Break on Through to the Other side was about the only good song on Stoned Immaculate.
And also, I hate Manson's covers. I hate him.
 
Dtergent said:
Soundgarden's Come Together (Beatles)
And that guy who did Tears for Fears' Mad World. Dunno his name.
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Gary Jules. That cover is amazing and brings me to tears.

I do like 'Down in the park' by manson...
Collide - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
Alkaline Trio - Exploding Boy (Cure)
Face to Face - Idle Hands (smiths)
Deftones - Please, Please, Please (smiths)
Razed in Black - Disintegration (Cure)
AFI - The Hanging Garden (cure)
Switchblade Symphony - Night Shift (siouxsie)
NIN - Dead Souls (joy division)
Cure - Love will tear us apart (joy division)
...and about a billion more...

(i swear i typed all this up in a couple months back *shrug*)
 
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