R&P: What are your favorite cover songs?

Question

R&P: What are your favorite cover songs?

Answer 1

A-Heads

Abrasive Wheels

Action Pact!

Actives

Ad Nauseam

The Adicts

Anti-Pasti

Antisocial

Attak

Blitzkrieg

Chaos

Chron Gen

Court Martial

Crux

Cult Maniax

Defects

Demob

Destructors

Disrupters

Ejected

Erazerhead

Expelled

The Exploited

External Menace

Fits

Hostile Youth

Impact

Infa-Riot

Insane

Lunatic Fringe

Major Accident

One Way System

Partisans

Patrol

Picture Frame Seduction

Post Mortem

Potential Threat

Protest

Rabid

Riot Squad

Skeptix

Skroteez

Solvent Abuse

Special Duties

Syphletix

Threats

Uproar

Varukers

Vice Squad

Violators

Xtract

Answer 2

Green Day- Working Class Hero

The Ataris- Boys of Summer

Simple Plan- Happy Together

Johnny Cash- Hurt

All Time Low- Alejandro

Right Now- Asking Alexandria

The Ready Set- Airplanes

The Word Alive- Heartless

Woe, Is Me- Tik Tok

Of Mice & Men- Blame It

Yashin- Everytime

Answer 3

Scott Weiland is great! Anyways my favorite cover song of all time is Shinedown's version of "Simple Man". But there are so many great covers of awesome songs. There's no way I could name them all. Another one that comes to mind as a favorite is Seether's cover of "Careless Whisper".



BQ: I never got into STP that much until after I started really getting into Velvet Revolver. I love Velvet Revolver's "Sucker Train Blues" and "Pills, Demons, Etc..."



BQ2: My favorite Radiohead song is No Surprises



Great question as always!

Answer 4

Don't like too many, but the best ones are: Sinead O Connor- Nothing Compares 2 U, Johnny Cash- Hurt, REM- Strange, The Frames-Everytime.



BQ1: who?

BQ2: Paranoid Android, Just, Nice Dream, How To Disappear Completely

Answer 5

Green Day- Working Class Hero

The Ataris- Boys of Summer

Simple Plan- Happy Together

Johnny Cash- Hurt

All Time Low- Alejandro

Right Now- Asking Alexandria

The Ready Set- Airplanes

The Word Alive- Heartless

Woe, Is Me- Tik Tok

Of Mice & Men- Blame It

Yashin- Everytime

Answer 6

Funny you should mention Scott Weiland. He and the Stone Temple Pilots are playing here in my town this Sunday.

Answer 7

Ozzy ~ Stayin' Alive

Everclear ~ The Boys Are Back In Town

Pantera ~ Cat Scratch Fever

Marilyn Manson ~ Highway To Hell





BQ Fall To Pieces ~ Velvet Revolver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhsUFuqbCM&ob=av2e

Love STP & VR



BQ2 Never really listened to them.

Answer 8

Joe Cocker - She came in through the bathroom window http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXh2gnasw0

José Feliciano did another great cover of the song - have it on vinyl, but it's not on YouTube yet, sigh...:-)

Original by the Beatles - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3cxkYu4NyA



With A Little Help From My Friends - Original by the Beatles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBDF04fQKtQ

Cover by Joe Cocker (way better than the original) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsogLJvBB4 - the "Beat Club" was a very popular German TV series during the sixties.

Answer 9

Good evening Harvey :)



Oh my, where to begin?!



'Mond Tanz' / 'Child in Time' ~ Blackmore's Night {/orig. Deep Purple}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKe_SeNu6dI&fmt=18



'Early in the Morning' ~ Robert Palmer {orig. The Gap Band}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZyD_b3xSzI&fmt=18



'Sneakin' Sally Thru the Alley' ~ Robert Palmer {orig. Allen Toussaint}

I favour the early 90s remix, which is not on YT.



'Gold Dust Woman' ~ Sister Hazel

there are live versions online, but they don't come anywhere close to the studio version they did {for the compilation album "Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours"}.





BQ: 'Big Empty' ~ STP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv5LEdLZJqk&fmt=18

{yes, I had the ost for "The Crow"!}

Answer 10

I was just reading about that earlier and it looks like he's picked some great songs. I don't really listen to Scott Weiland or STP but it'd be interesting to hear what some of those covers will sound like.



Big Takeover - John Frusciante (orig. Bad Brains)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfT5Yb8t9Ks

Hey Lawdy Mama - Minutemen (orig. Steppenwolf)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8bt2BrWnYE

Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr. (orig. The Cure)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHvhLE2W5xc

Head On - Pixies (orig. Jesus & Mary Chain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F5TZ7z7tJs

Superstar - Sonic Youth (orig. The Carpenters)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21VecIIdBI&ob=av2e

Evil Woman - Black Sabbath (orig. Crow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey2zwdErPvQ



BQ2: Reckoner, Fake Plastic Trees, True Love Waits, Pearly, Climbing Up The Walls

Answer 11

My favorite cover song.



Love In Vain - Robert Johnson (original)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsBlY4rKwM



Love In Vain - Rolling Stones (cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV6hqtD4rwc



Here's a few others that I love both versions.



Boom Boom Out Go The Lights - Little Walter (original)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIYPIX0lKSY



Boom Boom Out Go The Lights - Pat Travers (cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bZTSUt84YA



I Just Want To Make Love To You - Muddy Waters (original)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=624TSks9IYQ



I Just Want To Make Love To You - Foghat (cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCkZWyohP7M



I'm So Glad - Skip James (original)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZXD-AHg3g



I'm So Glad - Cream (cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6xKaUDookk



Stormy Monday - T Bone Walker (original)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVR8lg1YLuc



Stormy Monday - Allman Brothers Band (copy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDhR1R3S0s



And fortunately for everyone I ran out of available links I can post otherwise I would have posted my worst cover song.



Inna Gada Davida - Iron Butterfly (original)



Inna Gada Davida - Slayer (copy)



Absolutely horrible which even the band agrees.

Answer 12

All Along The Watchtower - Hendrix covering Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WbKBKima4Q



Knocking on Heavens Door - Guns n Roses covering Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmc8rJgxUI



Am I Evil - Metallica covering Diamond Head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-HCHCuHMg



Not Fade Away - The Stones covering Buddy Holly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFTNyMGg-A



When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin covering Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie (it's a altered cover though).



Turn The Page - metallica covering Bob Seger - I like Seger's original best but Metallica didn't do bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAIJv_OM4w

Answer 13

I'm not a Beatles fan, however, I grew to appreciate some of their music due to 2 great covers of their songs.



"Got To Get You Into My Life" - Earth, Wind and Fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cByrcn4-iAw



"We Can Work It Out" - Stevie Wonder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB24z00ajU4

Answer 14

'I Heard it Through the Grapevine'- The Slits (Marvin Gaye)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxvo_9DEqY



'Nazi Punks...'- Napalm Death (Dead Kennedys)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzoebhQ7hjQ



'Some Velvet Morning'- Primal Scream (Nancy Sinatra... i think...)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzf8k1QplWE



'My Sharona'- Polysics (The Knack)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6NIJ5r448A



'Tour De France'- Senor Coconut (Kraftwerk)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ygv1CKzAk



'Rain'- Boris (The Cult)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXd2mceJY7Q



'Dead Skin Mask'- Nadja (Slayer)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QASe0nt_Lng



'Sympathy For The Devil'- Laibach (Rolling Stones)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhkvR9uMyU4



'Mysterious Ways'- KMFDM (U2)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOlLkzneMw



'Sharevari'- The Dirtbombs (A Number of Names)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxSX9-Z5V14





bq: 'Sex Type Thing' by STP is probably my fave Weiland tune...



bq2: 'Street Spirit'

Answer 15

Walk On By - Isaac Hayes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38dge8XRXZQ



1: Still Remains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fO8AFeu1E

Answer 16

I love this cover of "Wild Horses" by Old & in the Way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgH3vGeL_iY

Answer 17

My absolute favorite is Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt

BQ Big bang baby

bq2 Kharma Police

Answer 18

My Love- Justin Timerlake covered by We Came As Romans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s501BnZF13I&feature=player_detailpage

Answer 19

Dee Snyder singing The Jack, originally done by ACDC.

Richard Cheese singing Hot for Teacher, originally done by Van Halen

Anything on Sabbatum (A Medieval Tribute To Black Sabbath) (2003) by Rondellus

Answer 20

I like the cover of "Free Falling" by John Mayer. Many people don't know that that song wasn't originally written by him! And Adele does a pretty good cover of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love!" And then, there is pretty much every song Boyce Avenue has sang.



BQ: I like the song "I Got You" by Stone Temple Pilots.



BQ2: I LOVE radio. My favorites are "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Black Star"

Answer 21

Hot N' Cold- Woe Is Me

Such Great Heights- Confide

Heartless- The Word Alive

Your Love- I See Stars

Run This Town- Miss May I

Kiss Me Through The Phone- A Midsky Surrender

My Love- We Came As Romans

For both of the BQ's, I dont listen to those bands:)

Answer 22

Stephen Malkmus - "Ballad Of A Thin Man'' (Bob Dylan cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16uyyhxQfs

Answer 23

Amy Winehouse's cover of 'Valerie' by The Zutons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHKIuUHIdNM&feature=related



Lily Allen's cover of 'Everybody's Changing' by Keane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmgLfuU9PG8



Adele's cover of 'Make you feel my love' by Bob Dylan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn9JlqqTE4



Ingrid Michaelson's cover of 'Can't help falling in love' by Elvis Presley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQeQC4hT10



Jose Gonzalez's cover of 'Heartbeats' by The Knife:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKo8Czj112I



Justin Nozuka's cover of 'Ain't no Sunshine' by Bill Withers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYpqPk8JT4I



John Mayer's cover of 'Free Fallin' by Tom Petty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Ov0cDPZy8&ob=av2e



Sorry, I'm not too familiar with neither Scott Weiland nor Radiohead. I only know 'The Creep'

Answer 24

anything by Weird Al, if that counts. I also heard a really cool cover of A Day In The Life by The Beatles on a BANJO on the radio the other day.

Answer 25

Heart cover of "Rock And Roll" - Led Zeppelin

Stevie Ray Vaughan cover of "Voodoo Chile (slight return)" - Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix cover of "All Along the Watchtower" - Bob Dylan

Jeff Beck cover of "Superstition" - Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder cover of "We Can Work It Out" - The Beatles

Answer 26

Nico- These Days

Siouxsie and The Banshees- Dear Prudence

The Gits- A Change is gonna Come

Answer 27

skin deep...Buddy Guy

damn right I got the blues..Buddy Guy

earthshaker...KoKo Taylor

living proof..Buddy Guy

wiggle outta this...Curtis Salgado

born 2B blue..Steve Miller

Cold as ice..John Lee Hooker Jr.

Boom Boom...John Lee Hooker

gotta mind to travel..Coco Montoya

S.R.V. Couldn't stand the weather

S.R.V. Texas flood

S.R.V. Soul to soul

Rolling stones...some girls

that's what I am here for...Roy Buchanan.

Any Zep cover song. :)

BQ: Purple..interstate love song.

BQ2: Their single, Creep.

Answer 28

My favorite covers are



Got the Time - Anthrax

Highway Star - Metal Church

Cross Eyed Mary - Iron Maiden

Boris the Spider - The Accused

The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown) - Judas Priest



BA: Dancing Days - Led Zeppelin cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRPM8Mm6RQ

BA2: zero

Answer 29

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan originally)

Bright Eyes - Out on the Weekend (Neil Young originally)



BQ: N/A

BQ2: 'Paranoid Android' and 'Creep'

Answer 30

I always preferred Gladys Knight's danceable version of "I heard it through the grapevine" over Marvin Gaye's version, even though Mr. Gaye's version hit #1. I don't remember which record came out first...which was the cover version?



I enjoy UB40's cover of "The way you do the things you do"

http://youtu.be/CKlpcsW-VX0

Answer 31

My absolute favorite is Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's Hurt

BQ Big bang baby

Answer 32

Yo Harvey Boi :)



i FÙCKing love Scott Weiland :)





Talkin bout covers , i love this version of the Bowie classic Heroes by Apocalyptica featuring Till Lindemann of Rammstein.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J8HCX0Y9Xo





favorites by Scott



Plush - with The Stone Temple Pilots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5UOC0C0x8Q&ob=av2n





Come On , Come In - with Velvet Revolver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8k7xJBXv30



love his voice in the chorus here.







and this is an old favorite of mine

Hold On - with Limp Bizkit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXECBxnCr6g



just effin amazing vocals from Scott :)







BQ2.



Myxomatosis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgeKRbmUBns



All I Need

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrCalO5BDs

Answer 33

Big Takeover

Answer 34

Muse- Feeling Good.

Answer 35

My favourite is Ryan adam's cover of wonderwall by Oasis.

Answer 36

One of my absolute favorites is Girlschool's cover of Sweet's "Fox on the Run."

Answer 37

Here comes the rain again - Hypnogaja

Answer 38

Swing by miss may I

Right now na na na by asking Alexandria

Answer 39

Hallelujah by Jason Castro I loved Jeff Buckley and Jason does it well!

Answer 40

i like those silent songs, such as dying in the sun, raise me up, cry on my shoulder

Answer 41

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RYzoZLR7w

Answer 42

Okay, I'm about embarrass the snot out of myself, but I can't help it...this is my favourite version of this song...



http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4i6w9_bruce-willis-the-temptations-under_music



I'm going to have to check out your suggestion though...

Answer 43

Hello Harv :)



Covers:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhonK8NMm8

Crimson & Clover- Joan Jett



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvV498pyIM&ob=av2e

It's My Life- No Doubt



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvZSdCTcS-A

They Don't Know- Tracy Ullman



BA-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPzWkdhwrw

Tripping through a hole in a paper heart



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Zb9LcHnrg

Big Bang Baby



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxS4lqppZ6Y&ob=av2e

Sour Girl



BA2- Creep I guess, not a huge fan.

Answer 44

friday Lol

Answer 45

wicked game - adam gontier

Answer 46

lots of songs, i like, two is better than one, born to try..........because of you

Answer 47

two is better than one

Answer 48

born to try

when there was me and you