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8.46pm
19 September 2010
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While listening to CBC Radio 2 earlier this week, and I heard Whitehorse's excellent rendition of Bruce Springsteen's I'm On Fire. And from there, I thought, what about a thread on the BB? So, what are some of music's greatest covers? A few that come to mind: (original artist in brackets)
- John Cale – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
- CSNY – Woodstock (Joni Mitchell)
- Neil Young – Oh Lonesome Me (Don Gibson)
- Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sheriff (Bob Marley)
So, what are some of your favourites?
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4.13am
1 May 2010
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Mhhh good question SunKing… covers… mhhhhhhhhhhhh
I dunno. I've always thought I'm grown up enough to have listened the original versions of everything 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
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2.12pm
4 December 2010
Offline A few cliché answers that I agree with:
All Along The Watchtower- Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley (though I prefer Cale's cover)
I Fought The Law- The Clash
Also, a few Beatley ones:
If Not For You – George Harrison
Got My Mind Set On You- George Harrison
Ain't That A Shame- John Lennon
Twist And Shout – The Beatles
Shake, Rattle And Roll/Rip It Up/Blue Suede Shoes- The Beatles
Act Naturally – The Beatles
Day Tripper – Jimi Hendrix
Regina Spektor- Real Love
Norwegian Wood – Cornershop
Beyond those, I'd like to mention “Quicksand” by Dinosaur Jnr. Can you count songs covered by artists who actually wrote them? If so, I'd count several Dylan and Bowie numbers among my favourites.
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9.59pm
20 September 2011
Offline Got My Mind Set On You and the John Cale version of Hallelujah in particular though already mentioned.
The Roxy Music version of Jealous Guy . The Fine Young Cannibals version of Suspicious Minds.
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1 May 2011
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Totally agree on Pet Shop Boy’s cover of Always On My Mind.
A few others not mentioned above:
It Ain’t Me Babe – Johnny Cash and June Carter (original: Bob Dylan)
The Great Pretender – Freddie Mercury (original: The Platters)
One – Kendall Payne (original: U2)
You Cant Hurry Love – Phil Collins (original: The Supremes)
This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) – Rod Stewart in 1974 (not the version on Atlantic Crossing or the 80’s duet with Ronald Isley but the studio outtake released on the Sessions boxset) (original: The Isley Brothers)
Little Red Rooster – The Rolling Stones (original: Howling Wolf)
And a few beatles/beatles related not mentioned
Anna (Go To Him) (original: Arthur Alexander)
Words Of Love (original: Buddy Holly)
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying (original: Ray Charles (i think but could be an earlier version by someone else))
Let It Be Me – George (most famous thru Everly Brothers but apparently was originally in french and then translated in french for some tv programme)
Bring It On Home To Me – John (original: Sam Cooke)
Be My Baby – John (original: The Ronettes)
Till There Was You (original: presumably The Beatles knew the film version with Shirley Jones singing it. I used to dislike this but its really blossomed over the years)
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4.14pm
18 December 2011
Offline My favorite cover songs to be recorded by The Beatles have to be:
“Dizzy Miss Lizzy “, “Roll Over Beethoven “, “Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby”, “Matchbox “, “Slow Down “, “Bad Boy “, “Honey Don't”, “Anna (Go to Him)”, “Till There Was You “, “Twist And Shout “, “Boys “, “Act Naturally “, “Chains “…
Those are the once I like best!
I'm not sure about other people covering The Beatles, except The Fab Four, an American tribute band for The Beatles imitating them very well both vocally, by instruments, their clothing and sound.
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19 September 2010
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3 June 2012
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Interesting topic !
A couple of covers that I propose.
Lover, should,ve come over (Original: Jeff Buckley – Cover: Jamie Cullum)
Wind cries Mary (Original: Jimi Hendrix – Cover: Jamie Cullum)
Bonus:
Sexy and I know it (Original: LMFAO – Cover. only1noah, a youtube user).
3.52am
10 August 2011
Offline Atlesbe, Just listened to Jamie Cullum’s “Wind Cries Mary“
Sounds like Jimi Hendrix meets Michael Buble. Personally, I miss the guitar.
The best covers of Beatle songs IMO are Judy Collins’s “In My Life ” and Ritchie Havens’s “Eleanor Rigby ” (though I couldn’t find the latter on iTunes or youtube). If anybody finds it, let me know.
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10.38am
20 January 2012
Offline The Animals did a cover of Ring Of Fire ,
I love it like Johnny Cash version .
And also another amazing cover of Nowhere Man by The Carpenters.
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14 April 2010
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I Fought The Law- The Clash
Love that one!
Some of my favorite covers…
- “Because The Night” – 10,000 Maniacs (Patti Smith)
- “Stormy Monday” – The Allman Brothers Band – (T-Bone Walker)
- “Dreams” – Molly Hatchet – (The Allman Brothers Band)
- “My Way” – Sid Vicious (Frank Sinatra)
- “The Sky Is Crying” – Stevie Ray Vaughan (Elmore James)
- “Day Tripper ” – Cheap Trick (The Beatles)
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12 April 2012
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My favourite cover is definitely the wings version of go now (I don’t know who recorded it originally even the moody blues version is a cover)
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3.20am
10 August 2011
Offline GeorgeTSimpson said, “My favourite cover is definitely the wings version of go now (I don’t know who recorded it originally even the moody blues version is a cover)”
I’m pretty sure “Go Now” was credited to Denny Laine, which is why they played the song on the Wings Over America tour.
It might the only hit song of the Moody Blues written by Laine (someone on the Forum will surely look this up!).
I always liked it. As a kid, I played it for my father figuring he’d like the piano. (He looked down on the Beatles and everything connected to them.)
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5.34pm
5 July 2010
Offline Into the Sky with Diamonds said
GeorgeTSimpson said, “My favourite cover is definitely the wings version of go now (I don’t know who recorded it originally even the moody blues version is a cover)”
I’m pretty sure “Go Now” was credited to Denny Laine, which is why they played the song on the Wings Over America tour.
It might the only hit song of the Moody Blues written by Laine (someone on the Forum will surely look this up!).
I always liked it. As a kid, I played it for my father figuring he’d like the piano. (He looked down on the Beatles and everything connected to them.)
I looked it up and it turns out Go Now was written by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett (not sure who they are) but it was originally recorded by Bessie Banks. Denny Laine heard it and decided that the Moody Blues should record it. I guess that’s why he performed it with Wings as well.
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6.20pm
14 December 2009
Offline Wow, I always thought that “Go Now” was a Laine original too!
Not exactly a Beatles cover, but I might as well mention Sam Philips’ version of John Lennon ‘s “Gimme Some Truth “, since it concludes her somewhat Beatlesque album “Martinis and Bikinis” – my very favourite album of the 1990s.
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11.49pm
5 December 2012
Offline Like A Rolling Stone- Jimi Hendrix ( Bob Dylan)
I Am The Walrus -Styx
Rock And Roll Music -The Beatles ( Chuck Berry)
Twist And Shout -The Beatles ( The Isley Brothers)
Money(that’s what I want)-The Beatles (Barret Strong)
In My Life -Ozzy Osbourne
Be- Bop- A- Lula-John Lennon (Gene Vincent)
Peggy Sue-John Lennon (Buddy Holly)
Working Class Hero -Green Day (John Lennon )
#9 Dream-R.E.M.(John Lennon )
Come Together -Aerosmith
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds -Elton John
Band On The Run -Foo Fighters (Wings)
Summertime Blues-The Who (Eddie Cochran)
3.24pm
8 November 2012
Offline Maybe I’m Amazed by Welsh singer Jem. Very different from the original, but one of my favorites:
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2.28pm
11 November 2010
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1 November 2013
Offline The Clash’s I Fought The Law of course, and Green Day’s I Fought The Law. It’s actually really great.
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