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You are all incorrect The best cover of all time is... Aretha Franklin performing "Respect" (originally written and recorded by the late great Otis Redding.)
metallica - wiskey in the jar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysHBgdfYcGc and Metallica - Turn The Page <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dOibtqWo6z4&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dOibtqWo6z4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
Straight Outta Compton - Nina Gordon (Former Lead Singer of Veruca Salt) Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins Fortunate Son - Donavon Frankenreiter War Pigs - Cake The Pine Valley Cosmonauts cover a whole album of Bob Wills and Johnny Cash, and three albums of old gallows songs for a anti-death penalty collection. All are pretty good.
How bout the entire Willie Nelson album Stardust? Willie Nelson doing old Jazz hits? Awesome. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4mzXUZyrYiA&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4mzXUZyrYiA&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
Greatest cover EVER!!!!! NSFW in a tasteful way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAkDOOveFz8 I don't know how to embed video....sorry.
Can't NOT mention this song in this thread: Alanis Morissette - My Humps Huh? Right! <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W91sqAs-_-g&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W91sqAs-_-g&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
All Along the Watchtower - Hendrix Secret Agent Man - Devo Are You Experienced - Devo Dear Prudence - Siouxie and the Banshees Happiness is Warm Gun - The Breeders
A couple of more Dylan covers: Tomorrow Is a Long Time - Elvis Presley Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - The Byrds I Shall Be Released - The Band This Wheel's on Fire - The Band Tears of Rage - Gene Clark
Best video of all time IMO. Probably the best cover song of all time too. Most covers are just the song sang by someone know. Cash branded Hurt his. Hurt is a Cash song now. And that is saying a lot because NIN's version was unique.
Her version of Bridge Over Troubled Water is great as well. I Know I'm Losing You - Rod Stewart Got To Get You Into My Life - EWF Standing In The Shadows Of Love - Barry White It's A Man's World - Concrete Blonde Summertime (Gershwin) - Billy Stewart* *my favorite cover of all time. About as close to the original as Dylan's Watchtower is to Hendrix's Watchtower.
REcently bought the 7" Vinyl edition of Constantines + Feist covering Dolly Parton's "Islands in the Streams" I really like it.
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Eight Miles High - Husker Du (The Byrds) <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/salbSLGlePM&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/salbSLGlePM&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Also, Leatherface doing Lauper's True Colors... No youtube for that though.
KISS - "2000 Man" (Rolling Stones) Spoiler <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1qmuSg5iDCI&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1qmuSg5iDCI&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Type O Negative has the best covers: "Cinnamon Girl" (Neil Young) Spoiler <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0bHCY865xs&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0bHCY865xs&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Day Tripper / If I Needed Someone/She's So Heavy (NSFW-language) Spoiler http://youtube.com/watch?v=QP6LNUKz-oQ Summer Breeze Spoiler <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K4ZMRk8hcWk&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K4ZMRk8hcWk&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Hey Pete (Hendrix) (NSFW) Spoiler <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AJU9x-tOWBU&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AJU9x-tOWBU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven (The Cure) Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now (The Smiths) (although the Snake River Conspiracy version is good too) Depeche Mode - Route 66 (Nat King Cole/Bobby Troup) U2 - All along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan) Tori Amos - Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) Nirvana - Where did you Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly)
