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"Classic Covers."

Classic Rock/Metal covers:

Disturbed - Shout (orignally by Tears For Fears)
G 'n R - Knocking on Heaven's Door (by Clapton but I think there's an ealier version) and Live and Let Die (Originally by Paul McCartney and Wings).
Spineshank - While my Guitar Gently Weeps (Originally Harrison/Beatles, I forget which)
Godhead - Eleanor Rigby x 2


Unclassic -

Anything covered by New Found Glory


So what are your favourite covers?

War Pigs by Faith No More, originally by Black Sabbath

Easy by Faith No More, originally by The Commodores

N.I.B. by Ugly Kid Joe, originally by Black Sabbath

Cats In The Cradle by Ugly Kid Joe, originally by ... erm ... don't know

Hush by Kula Shaker, originally by Deep Purple (I think)

Handbags And Gladrags by Stereophonics, originally by Rod Stewart, although someone else may have done it before him

How Soon Is Now by Love Spit Love, originally by Morissey (I think)

Feeling Good by Muse, originally by Nina Simone

It's My Life by No Doubt, originally by The The

Have A Cigar by Foo Fighters and Brian May, originally by Pink Floyd

Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith, originally by The Beatles (I think)

Johnny Cash ~ One ( U2). To me the U2 version doesn't exist, this blows it out of the water, atmosphere and solar system.

Johnny Cash ~ Hurt (Nine Inch Nails[!]). Incredible.

Lemonheads ~ Ballad Of El Goodo (Big Star).

John Mayer ~ Kid A (Radiohead). Interesting take on an odd song.

Counting Crows ~ No Scrubs (TLC). Odd decision.

And in contention for the worst cover ever:

The Darkness ~ Street Spirit [Fade Out] (Radiohead). Twunts...

Another Bob Dylan original to add to the growing list in this thread, and it's again by the Chili Peppers...

How did I forget about Subterranean Homesick Blues?!?

Absolutely brilliant. Look at Dylan's original, see what the Anthony Kiedis and co. have done to their own version and you know just what a great job they really have done.

Just the way a cover should be done - making it as of 'your own' as you should for the chance to cover such a piece of musical art.

Metallica - Am I Evil (Diamond Head)
Fozzy - The Prisoner (Iron Maiden)
Fozzy - Over The Mountain (Black Sabbath)

dunno if it counts as a proper cover, but i remember this one G'N'R concert when slash played the godfather theme tune in the middle of a solo! sounded really good.

Der Nazi wrote:
> Avril Lavigne- Chop Suey! (System of a Down cover)

HA-HA-HA! That one really made me laugh!

I know you've said to stear-clear of it, but, sorry, I'm gonna have to try and find it simply to LAUGH again! :D


> Lemar- I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Darkness cover)

Music Today has sunk to an even-lower new low... And it's sinking fast! :P

Three Jimi Hendrix songs that've been covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, all of which sound brilliant live:

Fire
Crosstown Traffic
Castles Made of Sand

Also, there's Hey Joe[/V], which I think is a cover of a cover (because Bob Dylan did it first).

Another cover the Chili Peppers have done the I really like is of [I]Search and Destroy, originaly by The Stooges. Bloody brilliant live!

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Jamie Cullum - Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)

Rancid deserve to be shot for their cover of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry, pure sh*te.

Metallica - The Imperial March.

'Nuff said :D

Azul wrote:
> English_Bloke wrote:
> School's out for summer - by those tarts that did, "you
> ugly".
>
> Yo' Ugly, actually.
> And, if my memory serves me correctly, it's Daphne and Celeste. It
> took me a moment to remember Celeste's name, due to the fact that
> it's stupid. But I got there in the end.

It was Daphne and Celeste. Probably the worst Alice Cooper cover ever; turning 70s hard rock into pop music doesn't work.