My favorites: Come Together - Aerosmith Come Together - Michael Jackson (Money Can't) Buy Me Love - Blackstreet Tomorrow Never Knows - Phil Collins Right Here - SWV Words of Love - REM Yesterday - Boyz II Men UB40 - The Way You Do the Things You Do Of course many of my favorite covers happen to be Beatles songs, arguably the most covered band ever. What are your favorites?
I'll tell u what's not a good cover...Kelly Osbourne's "Papa Don't Preach"...original is a classic...shouldn't even touch it. Plus with the fact that the recording sounds like it's from a karaoke bar or somethin...
(You're So) Physical - Nine Inch Nails And no this is not the Olivia Newton-John song, it is an Adam Ant song.
"What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, & Understanding" (orig. recorded by Nick Lowe) -- Elvis Costello "Satisfaction" (Stones, duh) -- Devo "Top of the World" (Carpenters!) -- Shonen Knife "Gin & Juice" (Snoop Dogg) -- Sissybar "Sweet Jane" (Lou Reed) -- Cowboy Junkies "I'll Keep It With Mine" (Bob Dylan) -- Marianne Faithfull Some of the best cover versions I've heard were live ... an L.A. funk/jazz/rock band from the late '80s/early '90s called Bloc (think Red Hot Chili Peppers, with 10x the musical chops) used to do mind-blowing versions of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and the Allman Brothers' "Whipping Post" as encores. I've also seen, on separate occasions, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop do the old Sinatra tune "One for My Baby" (you know, "It's a quarter to three, there's no one in the place except you and me ..."). Lou Reed also recorded a good rock version of Kurt Weill's "September Song."
"Walk This Way" is another decent cover, again by Aerosmith...most people don't know it's their original. Someone mentioned Snoop Dogg's "Gin & Juice" - and I'm not sure the cover listed is the one I'm thinking of, but there's a cover of it by some country band that sounds freaking hilarious.
Radiohead covered an old James Bond song, "Nobody Does it Better", very very nice. Cowboy Junkies cover of Sweet Jane is one of the best, they didn't just turn up the distortion, they actually had their own interpretation. Mazzy Star's "Fade into Me" was covered by Flickerstick, even though I dislike Flickerstick its a good cover.
Live and Let Die - GnR Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles Cake - I Will Survive Stone Temple Pilots - Dancing Days All time worst cover song in the history of music was Sweet Dreams by Marilyn Manson
This is a Remake? I know they use Micheal Jackson Back ground Music. . . [Human Nature] but i did not think the words were from another song.. Rocket River
