Best Cover Version ever

Posted by: ryan_d on 21 November 2006

Heres a good one that should start you thinking.

Mine has to be "All along the watchtower" by Hendrix.

Ryan
Posted on: 22 November 2006 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by i am simon 2:
Wonderwall - Mike Flowers Pops Big Grin


And how about Paul Anka's 'Wonderwall' (Rock Swings) or perhaps better still 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'?!

Discussing this thread with Mrs JWM this evening, we reckon that Hendrix's 'All Along the Watchtower' should be the soaraway favourite.

But to throw a few more into the hat, how about:

The Stranglers 'Walk on By' (surely the best reading of that great Burt Bacharach number?)

Muse, 'Feeling Good'.

Scissor Sisters, 'Comfortably Numb'*.

James

* Though I don't know what Tarquin M-P's view on this will be...
Posted on: 22 November 2006 by Sandy8
How about Johnny Cash doing "Hurt"?
Awesome video as well,but a bit depressing!
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by Mike1380
Duh... this is EASY!

quote:
"In My Time of Dying" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. It is a traditional folk/blues song, based on the song "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed", recorded by Blind Willie Johnson and later covered by Joshua White, Bob Dylan (on his eponymous debut album) and Martin Gore. The song is the band's longest studio track, clocking in at over 11 minutes.


Led Zeppelin performing "In My Time of Dying" at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, 1975"In My Time of Dying" was played during Led Zeppelin's 1975 and some of their 1977 concert tours, where Robert Plant dedicated the song to the British Labour Party's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. The band never had a proper way to end the song, because of its improvisational nature, and Page liked the approach making the band sound like "a working group". The studio version ends with: "Oh, don't you make it my dyin', dyin', dyin'...cough." John Bonham can be heard asking, "That's gonna be the one, isn't it?" Ironically, Plant was not too keen on singing the song after suffering his car crash in 1975, and had later remarked, "Why the hell did I sing that song?"
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by Chris Kelly
Mark
I agree about Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac and "Black Magic Woman" but the title of the the thread is "Best Cover Version" not "Cover Version Which Betters The Original".
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by ryan_d
There does seem to be some support for the JC covers. I have heard the cover of 'Hurt' but all of them are great.....a truly great talent that i've come to know too late on. I can't wait to get the last 2 lp's.

Lots fo good covers mentioned....and Chris, you are right it is meant to be best cover version.

Ryan
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by SteveGa
Have a trip here. More covers than you can shake a stick at - 'though if they are better than the originals...

How about
Dave Gahan - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
Nick Cave - Black Betty
Linda Ronstadt - Walk Away Renee
Happy Mondays - 48 Step On
Richard Thompson - Oops I Did It Again
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Dear Prudence
Housemartins - Caravan Of Love
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
The Beatles - Twist & Shout
Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Steve
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by Chris Kelly
"Staggerlee" (which seems to have various spellings!) was brilliantly done by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by Diccus62
quote:
Originally posted by Sandy8:
How about Johnny Cash doing "Hurt"?
Awesome video as well,but a bit depressing!


Absolute genius song and video, where's me kleenex

Diccus Smile
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by SteveGa
I forgot Van's remake of Bein' Green originally done by Kermit The Frog and

Kim Carnes - Bette Davies Eyes
The Carpenters - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
William Shatner - Common People
The Damned - Eloise
Harry Nilsson - Everybodys Talkin'
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
Was Not Was - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing
The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Sine (Anymore)

Steve
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by Mike Allen
Diccus
Thanks for the link --- Job done.

Also some more covers.

Lemonheads -------- Mrs Robinson
Rolling Stones-----Just my imagination
Joan Baez ---------Simple twist of fate

Mike.
Posted on: 23 November 2006 by ryan_d
Its amazing when you trawl through your music collection how many artists do cover versions and that some of these are great.

Just listened to Ryan Adams version of Wonderwall from the lp Love is Hell. Astounding....sound quality is superb too. I'm not an Oasis fan but that really is a great track.

Ryan
Posted on: 24 November 2006 by Chris Kelly
"Reason to believe' Rod Stewart from EPTAS, for me the highpoint of his career.
Posted on: 24 November 2006 by Stubby
I'll throw 'Hard to Handle' into the pot, by the Black Crowes. A very good cover version.
Posted on: 24 November 2006 by Gunnar Jansson
Bowie: Wild is the wind

or perhaps
Bowie: See Emily play
Bowie: Nite flights
Bowie: Let´s spend the night together
Bowie: I wish you would
Bowie: Here comes the night

No, it´s got to be wild is the wind.
Posted on: 24 November 2006 by Jet Johnson
Devo's version of Satisfaction
Posted on: 24 November 2006 by JWM
Gomez, Nick Drake's 'Black Eyed Dog' -

excellent cover, imaginative, not try to repeat the original (the weakness of too many covers), bringing something new to the reading. Find it on the 'Out West' Live CD.
Posted on: 25 November 2006 by ryan_d
Not heard that one James. haven't got the latest Gomez offering either....i'm waiting for it to come out on vinyl. Its meant to be very good though. I'm a big fan of Gomez..their local to me too (or used to be!!)

Ryan
Posted on: 25 November 2006 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by ryan_d:
Not heard that one James. haven't got the latest Gomez offering either....i'm waiting for it to come out on vinyl. Its meant to be very good though. I'm a big fan of Gomez..their local to me too (or used to be!!)

Ryan


Ryan, went to see them yesterday at Cambridge Junction. I probably ought to post about it elsewhere, on the appropriate thread, but the lads from Southport (and some, at least, graduates of the same University as me) were blistering.

Having supported them, and experienced them live on a number of occasions, across their career, I can go on and on about Gomez!

But that's for another thread...!

James

Right, back on topic...
Posted on: 25 November 2006 by Chris Kelly
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" George Thorogood, who also does one of the great "Who Do You Love" covers too.
Posted on: 25 November 2006 by Marcopolovitch
Hallelujah: John Cale
A Heart needs a Home: Shawn Colvin and Loudon Wainwright III

Very moving!

M
Posted on: 26 November 2006 by Guido Fawkes
Mother's Lament (Traditional) by Cream was it Clapton's finest moment?

A mother was washing her baby one night,
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.
The mother was poor and the baby was thin,
'Twas naught but an skelingtin covered with skin.

The mother turned 'round for a soap off the rack.
She was only a moment but when she turned back
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried,
"Oh, where 'as my baby gone?" The angels replied:

Oh, your baby has gone down the plug 'ole.
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug.
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin,
He should 'ave been washed in a jug, in a jug.
Posted on: 26 November 2006 by northpole
Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff -> Marley
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing -> Hendrix

Peter
Posted on: 30 November 2006 by ryan_d
Just got Johnny Cash american recordings iv. the one with hurt and personal jesus on it. I have to say that have to be considered fro being up at the top. Amazing really.

Ryan
Posted on: 30 November 2006 by Chris Kelly
Talking of Johnny Cash, Eric Burdon did an epic version of "Ring of Fire" on his "Love is" album. And another of "River Deep, Mountain High".
Posted on: 30 November 2006 by rupert bear
Robert Wyatt - 'I'm A Believer'
Beach Boys - 'I Was Made to Love Her'
The Be Good Tanyas - 'House of the Rising Sun'
those Swedish ladies on another thread - 'Rose Darling'