OT: Cover Songs
by Longhorn on Feb 9, 2011 7:50 PM CST
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PrintInstead of doing work (which is probably going to bite me in the ass come tomorrow morning), I started going through youtube and finding random music/songs to listen to. I came across Pearl Jam's (Eddie Vedder's) version of Tom Petty's classic, I won't back down. And, I must say, it is probably one of the best cover songs I have ever heard.
I'm just curious...What are some of y'alls favorite covered songs?
Here's just a few I've come across...
Eddie Vedder covering Tom Petty
John Mayer Trio covering The Mamas & The Papas
And yeah...anything the Beatles cover.
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Not a huge fan of the original...
but Five Finger Death Punch’s recent cover of “Bad Company” is pretty good.
Since this is a music thread ...
scroll up to about 2:30 in this video and check out how Stevie Ray handles a broken guitar string.
SRV
Was an awesome guitar player, but I really mean his rhythm playing. His solos almost always sound the same. Got stuck in one blues pentatonic position a whole lot.
by Black Francis on Feb 9, 2011 11:45 PM CST up reply actions
i prefer the scala version
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Feb 10, 2011 12:17 AM CST up reply actions
Karma Police
Christopher O’Riley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TagBFTSt0wE
Hobson, did you see that?
Yes.
She stole that tie! It's the perfect crime. Girls don't wear ties; although some do. It's not a perfect crime, but it's a good crime.
Yes. If she murdered the tie it would be the perfect crime.
Pearl Jam
Last Kiss
Metallica…..Bob Seger Turn the Page is pretty dang good.
I'm not sure how I feel about the Metallica cover of Seger
It’s got a decidedly different feel to it, I don’t like it as well.
Admittedly though, I’m a Seger fan and not much of a Metallica fan.
THE RANGERS ARE FULL OF UNBELIEVEABLE SUCK GIVE UP NOW IT DOES NOT MATTER GOOD BYE.
"It has been said that baseball is to the United States what revolutions are to Latin America, a safety valve for letting off steam. I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But, then, I am a serious fan." -- George F. Will
Speaking of Metallica
their cover of Breadfan always gets me amped.
Salma Hayek is not hot.
by AndrusImpersonator on Feb 10, 2011 12:19 AM CST up reply actions
Breadfan is fucking amazing.
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by Brandon Worley on Feb 10, 2011 7:57 PM CST up reply actions
PJ's cover of Last Kiss may be the worst 3 minutes of music in the history of mankind.
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
Heh.
That may be a bit of a stretch, but it ain’t that great.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on Feb 10, 2011 11:17 PM CST up reply actions
i like the red hot chili peppers version of Higher Ground
Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Superstition” (another stevie wonder song)
Chris Isaak’s “Only the Lonely”
Van Halen “You Really Got Me”
Norah Jones “Turn Me On”, “Cold, Cold Heart”…any of her covers, really.
Johnny Cash covering Hurt
Johnny Cash doing Nine Inch Nails
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
i had no idea that was NIN song.
"what I have learned in 11 years in the sports business is that the dumbest guys in the room are always the media guys." - mark cuban
Yeah, for the longest time I thought it was a Cash original
He made it his own, though.
THE RANGERS ARE FULL OF UNBELIEVEABLE SUCK GIVE UP NOW IT DOES NOT MATTER GOOD BYE.
"It has been said that baseball is to the United States what revolutions are to Latin America, a safety valve for letting off steam. I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But, then, I am a serious fan." -- George F. Will
When you are a complete badass
like Cash wash, it really didn’t matter who writes stuff. Its all his if he sings it.
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
Absolutely true
Kristofferson may have written “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” but Cash poured out the words with such pain and sincerity that it became his song.
THE RANGERS ARE FULL OF UNBELIEVEABLE SUCK GIVE UP NOW IT DOES NOT MATTER GOOD BYE.
"It has been said that baseball is to the United States what revolutions are to Latin America, a safety valve for letting off steam. I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But, then, I am a serious fan." -- George F. Will
sounds like he's in pain
reminds me of Act Naturally. It’s not like Cash had to try hard to sound like he was taking a shit and it hurt. Great singer matched with a good song, but yeah, role playing there.
What if something happens?!?
What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
What's his bucket with NIN directed the video
Hobson, did you see that?
Yes.
She stole that tie! It's the perfect crime. Girls don't wear ties; although some do. It's not a perfect crime, but it's a good crime.
Yes. If she murdered the tie it would be the perfect crime.
Another awesome Johnny Cash cover is...
God’s Gonna Cut You Down
by ghostofErikThompson on Feb 9, 2011 9:56 PM CST up reply actions
It's got a good video too
THE RANGERS ARE FULL OF UNBELIEVEABLE SUCK GIVE UP NOW IT DOES NOT MATTER GOOD BYE.
"It has been said that baseball is to the United States what revolutions are to Latin America, a safety valve for letting off steam. I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But, then, I am a serious fan." -- George F. Will
He's got a lot of great ones.
I always loved his cover of Neil Diamond’s Solitary Man
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
I loved this cover and I am a big NIN fan
"Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that." - Mr. Blonde
by Texas Jihad on Feb 10, 2011 12:22 AM CST up reply actions
This.
Good call.
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
His cover of Rusty Cage is pretty good.
"Blalock in the cleanup spot makes gives me agita." - Dustin
GNR's version of "Knockin On Heaven's Door" is awesome
I also enjoy their version of “Live and Let Die”
And I think Jason Boland’s version of “Tulsa Time” is excellent.
"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing."
I would agree with all three of those
THE RANGERS ARE FULL OF UNBELIEVEABLE SUCK GIVE UP NOW IT DOES NOT MATTER GOOD BYE.
"It has been said that baseball is to the United States what revolutions are to Latin America, a safety valve for letting off steam. I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But, then, I am a serious fan." -- George F. Will
GNR
Their live version of Knockin on Heavin’s Door was great, but that studio version was pretty awful. I don’t know what got into them on that Use Your Illusion bullshit. Drugs, I guess.
by Black Francis on Feb 10, 2011 12:05 AM CST up reply actions
GNR
is possibly the worst band ever.
by I am Neftali Feliz on Feb 10, 2011 9:44 AM CST up reply actions
Might as well say what the song is
Hobson, did you see that?
Yes.
She stole that tie! It's the perfect crime. Girls don't wear ties; although some do. It's not a perfect crime, but it's a good crime.
Yes. If she murdered the tie it would be the perfect crime.
I don't like their guitar sound.
The song is actually pretty good, Britney Spears or not.
by Black Francis on Feb 10, 2011 4:58 PM CST up reply actions
I'd submit "Hot Rod Lincoln" as my favorite cover song
The original by Johnny Bond was good, the most famous cover by Commander Cody is better. George Thorogood does a stout version and Asleep at the Wheel made it their signature song.
I’m also a fan of the Twangbangers/Bill Kirchen’s 10 minute long rendition with all the solos sampling famous rock artists.
THE RANGERS ARE FULL OF UNBELIEVEABLE SUCK GIVE UP NOW IT DOES NOT MATTER GOOD BYE.
"It has been said that baseball is to the United States what revolutions are to Latin America, a safety valve for letting off steam. I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But, then, I am a serious fan." -- George F. Will
When I first read that I thought of the Johnny cash song
About the free Cadillac. “What year is it? It’s a 49, 50, 51 . . .”
"Yata He"
by CDorsey on Feb 10, 2011 8:12 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
I built it one piece at a time...
and it didn’t cost me a dime…
great song.
What if something happens?!?
What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
My favorite Cash Line of all time
I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die.
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
What could I do?
What could I do?
Also: this world is rough
if a man is gonna make he’s gotta be tough
A boy named sue
incidentally, I spent lots of time trying to find that a tshirts with the photo of him flipping off the warden. One of the best photos ever.
"Yata He"
by CDorsey on Feb 10, 2011 9:23 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
U2 did a good cover of watchtower, too.
by Black Francis on Feb 10, 2011 12:06 AM CST up reply actions
err?
i want to see this..
"what I have learned in 11 years in the sports business is that the dumbest guys in the room are always the media guys." - mark cuban
It's on Rattle & Hum, the film and the CD.
by Black Francis on Feb 10, 2011 1:02 AM CST up reply actions
I don't know why it got such bad reviews
Helter Skelter was pretty solid. There are some very good songs on that record.
by Black Francis on Feb 10, 2011 4:59 PM CST up reply actions
Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is probably my favorite of them all.
by FuturePants on Feb 10, 2011 10:06 AM CST up reply actions
not my favorite song by any means
but what a great chord progression and hook that has. Real nice piece of song writing.
What if something happens?!?
What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is probably the most covered cover song in the history of cover songs.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
by ElMerkoMuffley on Feb 11, 2011 12:14 AM CST up reply actions
I realize that. I know who wrote the song.
When “Hallelujah” is covered today, most people are covering Jeff Buckley’s version of the song. Nobody sounds like Leonard Cohen, they’re all trying to be Jeff Buckley. That’s the point I was trying to make.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
by ElMerkoMuffley on Feb 11, 2011 6:44 PM CST up reply actions
I doubt it
Yesterday reportedly has over 3000 recorded cover versions.
And it’s Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, Buckley didn’t write the song.
What if something happens?!?
What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
Yeah, the top two entries seem contradictory
What if something happens?!?
What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
I could post the link to my YouTube cover of this song here......
but you mean people would probably make fun of it…….sigh.
- LSB has ADD -
Arctic Monkeys covering "Baby, I'm Yours"
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
Gnarls Barkley covering "Reckoner"
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
Stevie Wonder covering "We Can Work it Out"
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
I'd never seen that.
Good stuff. Anything Stevie touches turns to gold.
"I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues." --Alan Jacobs
Many will disagree on mine but I will list some not mentioned that I can remember off the top of my head
Deftones- Simple Man and Say it Ain’t So
Marilyn Manson- Sweet Dreams
Disturbed- Shout
Pantera- Cat Scratch Fever
Clapton- Cocaine
Cake- I will survive
Jason Boland- Purple Rain
Johnny Cash- Personal Jesus
Orgy- Blue Monday
Fear Factory- Cars
and sorry I liked it… Limp Bizkit- Faith
"Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that." - Mr. Blonde
I've not heard Boland do Purple Rain but that sounds awesome
THE RANGERS ARE FULL OF UNBELIEVEABLE SUCK GIVE UP NOW IT DOES NOT MATTER GOOD BYE.
"It has been said that baseball is to the United States what revolutions are to Latin America, a safety valve for letting off steam. I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But, then, I am a serious fan." -- George F. Will
It's on one of his albums
"Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that." - Mr. Blonde
by Texas Jihad on Feb 10, 2011 11:14 AM CST up reply actions
He also does "Rocket Man" at the end of it.
"It’s Advil and beef in the Texas Rangers, you yankee bastard."
- Nolan Ryan
True
Which is also good
"Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that." - Mr. Blonde
by Texas Jihad on Feb 11, 2011 12:46 PM CST up reply actions
I think there are 8 people in the world that like that Cake cover
I’m one of them.
Hobson, did you see that?
Yes.
She stole that tie! It's the perfect crime. Girls don't wear ties; although some do. It's not a perfect crime, but it's a good crime.
Yes. If she murdered the tie it would be the perfect crime.
I like it...
but it’s not even my favorite cover off of Fashion Nugget.
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps is pretty fucking great.
801 Live covering Tomorrow Never Knows
both the original and the cover are awesomely psychedelic.
What if something happens?!?
What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
x
Nightwish’s version of Gary Moore’s “Over the Hills and Far Away” is pure awesomeness.
Miranda Lambert did a pretty good job on Emmylou Harris’s “Easy From Now On” too.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Dave Matthews
Cover of “in my life”
nirvana. Lake of fire unplugged
"Yata He"
by CDorsey on Feb 10, 2011 8:15 AM CST via mobile reply actions
Does it count as a cover if the original artist participates?
Pearl jam playing with Neil young at the MTV music awards, free world. Awseome performance by Neil young.
"Yata He"
by CDorsey on Feb 10, 2011 8:21 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Polyphonic Spree
Covered “Lithium” by Nirvana
"If we fight, I’ll need more speed because Mayweather is fast."
--Manny Pacquiao
Radiohead covering Portishead's "The Rip"
It really was just Wonky Eye and the Guitarist doing like an acoustic cover in a dressing room or something, and it was fantastic.
Thanks for the reminder that I need to put some Portishead in my playlist
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
William Shatner's "Rocket Man" FTW
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
William Shatner is such a human cartoon.
Just because folks have to hear it.
"I wanted to go out there and punch Julio" - Ron Washington
I'm amazed how many people aren't aware of this
Makes me wonder what they are thinking when they see Stewie do an homage to it.
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
i hate william shatner
does that make me a bad person ?
by I am Neftali Feliz on Feb 10, 2011 12:13 PM CST up reply actions
Shatner has also done
Mr. Tambourine Man and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds memorably. Oh yeah, let it play all the way through, it’s worth it. He had to be in on the joke on himself there, didn’t he?
What if something happens?!?
What could happen to an Old Fashioned?
dont forget about
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Feb 10, 2011 7:12 PM CST up reply actions
My list
Manic Street Preachers – Raindrops keep falling on my head
Manic Street Preachers – Suicide is Painless
Pet Shop Boys – Always on my Mind
The White Stripes – Jolene
10,000 Maniacs – Because the Night
Oasis – Cum on feel the noize
Black Crowes – Hard to Handle
The Clash – I Fought the Law
Van Halen – Pretty Woman
John Lennon – Stand By Me
Hipsters, Flipsters, and Finger Poppin Daddies! Knock me your lobes.
A few that I dig.
Wanda Jackson – You Know I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse)
Tom Jones – Burning Hell (John Lee Hooker)
William Shatner – Common People (Pulp) (as silly as his early stuff is, Has Been OWNS)
James Hetfield – Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit Has Done Got Out Of Hand (Waylon Jennings)
Eels – Living Life (Daniel Johnston)
Mike Ness – All I Can Do Is Cry (Wayne Walker)
Foo Fighters - Baker Street
About the 4th or 5th time I listened to it, I realized that the guitar solo was originally a sax solo.
Raise your hand if you fit into this age group where...
The first time you heard the Beatles play “Come Together” (probably on a classic rock station), you were wondering why they were doing an Aerosmith song?!?!
Then your dad laughs hysterically at you for your lack of knowledge (maybe that’s just my dad).
A few
Social Distortions cover of Ring of Fire
Goldfinger’s cover of 99 Red Balloons
Eddie Vedder and Neil Young doing “Keep on Rocking In The Free World”
Oleander covering “Boys Don’t Cry”
and
The Locusts covering “Enjoy The Silence” is freaking amazing.
"Back in Irish's day you had to kill a man before you were taken seriously in polite society." - Aquaman56 06/25/10
by Samuel_L_Bronkowitz on Feb 10, 2011 3:07 PM CST reply actions
I know I am getting old
When the songs of my youth are now sung by other artists. 99 balloons? Boys don’t cry? I had no clue other groups do those. Free world from the vma was an awesome performance.
"Yata He"
by CDorsey on Feb 14, 2011 12:16 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Dancing in the Moonlight
Smashing Pumpkins
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." - Dave Barry
by Suicide Prince on Feb 10, 2011 6:06 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Aerosmith
Baby Please Don’t Go.
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Faith No More's cover of "Easy" is pretty good.
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
Also FNM's "War Pigs"
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
Not quite along the same lines you guys are talking about,
but a great cover of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros “Home”
by a father and his 6 year old daughter
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
I loved Peter Gabriel's cover of Book of Love by the Magnetic Fields.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
by ElMerkoMuffley on Feb 11, 2011 9:05 PM CST up reply actions
Can't believe no one has said Tool.
They do a killer version of Zeppelin’s “No Quarter”.
"It’s Advil and beef in the Texas Rangers, you yankee bastard."
- Nolan Ryan
Also, in the same vein,
I saw Perfect Circle at Will Roger’s about 10 years ago. They did “Diary of a Madman”, but over the music to the Cure’s “Lullaby”. One of the coolest things I ever heard.
"It’s Advil and beef in the Texas Rangers, you yankee bastard."
- Nolan Ryan
The entire Hold Time album is greatness.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
by ElMerkoMuffley on Feb 11, 2011 6:45 PM CST up reply actions
The covers..
I know there are others, but these are the ones that come to mind.
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Redemption Song ( Bob Marley)
Cake – War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
Rise Against – Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag), Boys No Good (Lifetime)
Shadows Fall – Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd)
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards – To Have and To Have Not (Billy Bragg)
Social Distortion – Death or Glory (Clash)
Matisyahu – Message in a Bottle (The Police)
Killswitch Engage – Holy Diver (Dio)
Strung Out – Bark at the Moon
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