Your best and worst cover songs of all time...

[littleone]

Britney Spears - I Love Rock and Roll (stay away from the classics, bitch)

i actually like this one! i mean i dont think its better then the origional, but i always have fun singing along

i also liked the atomic kitten version of "the tide is high".

 

[Raz]

^^^^Oh yeah, I forgot about the atomic kitten one....I hate that one too

 

[Mary Poppins]

^ yeah that one is WRONG WRONG WRONG...i was trying to remember that one before...

 

[greenfalcon]

Placebo - Running up that Hill, cover of Kate Bush
good

 

[chandler]

Swifty - big word on the sarah blasko flame trees cover, she did an amazing job.

Other worthy mentions...

A Perfect Circle - When the Levee Breaks (doesn't top the original, but a different spin, and certainly an impressive one)

Ben Harper - Drugs Don't Work & Sexual Healing

 

[xcidium]

I heard Jose Gonzales (acoustic solo artist) do a cover of Massive Attacks "Teardrop"

He nailed it. Even thought I adore the Massive Attack version, his one felt so passionate and emotional. Definatley Goose-bump material.

Anyone else here it this morning on Triple J's "Like a Version?"
(Hmmm I wonder if JJJ have it downloadable yet...)

 

[Donny Don't]

A few of my favourites...

Rammstein - Stripped
Bodyjar - Hazy Shade Of Winter
Living End - Tainted Love
Pennywise - Down Under
Something For Kate - Harpoon (love both the original and the cover)

I'm sure there's plenty more but they're the few that spring to mind

Worst...i dunno, really bad covers i tend to forget straight away....

 

[Raz]

A few of my favourites...

Rammstein - Stripped
Bodyjar - Hazy Shade Of Winter

I love both of those as well...also, Orgy's cover of Blue Monday is pretty neat.

I this thread!!

 

[joannie_mhm]

worst- all saints, under the bridge. shit shit shit shit shit!

 

[AussieJunglist]

the good
Sexual healing done by ben harper. dare i say better than the original?

The BAD
Perry Farrell's blasphemous re-hash of "whole lotta love" by Led Zep
spew

 

[Raz]

^^^^Dayum, I knew there was another Tori Amos one I missed...she does whole lotta love as well, I like that too.




um, and also the Perry Farrell one incidentally....

 

[xcidium]

I hear this one was made famous by a certain Bluelighter.

Jolene - White Stripes

 

[onetwothreefour]

cat power's cover of "(i can't get no) satisfaction" sends chills down my spine.

 

[katmeow]

Jeff Buckley's version of ' Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen

I've been digging through my music collection and came up with a few more:

Radiohead do a great job of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.

I also really love Nirvana's cover of The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie. It's on their unplugged album.

 

[BloSs0m]

Smashing Pumpkins, doing an awesome job of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide".


Amazingly good.

 

[bunny]

I beat you all:

WORST - DAVID HASSELHOFF - Jump in my car (video clip starring Kit from Knight Rider)

BEST - MICHAEL BOOOOOOBLE' - No shit that man makes old songs so catchy.

I will deny I wrote that last one if anyone asks me. Someone must have logged in under my name dammit.

 

[bunny]

Also a certain Bluelighter who currently has a well known band did an Acustic version of RAPTURE which I thought was f*cking amazing... albeit I expected little of taking a dance tune and turning it into a slow duo with guitars.

Jolly good.

 

[0ff1cer_ch0ps]

On Channel V the other day, they had some homebake footage

Something for kate did "Rock The Casbah"

Sounds fuckin GREAT!!!

other mentions...

Faith No More - Easy

im sure there are more, im just fuckin lazy...

 

[ozbreaker]

I've always been a complete fan of Angie Hart singing New Orders Bizaare Love Triangle.

 

[keystroke]

Weezer - Across The Sea, RATM - Freedom, Slipknot - Scissors = best songs