WHAT ARE YOU'RE FAVORITE COVER SONGS?

Don Mclean's cover of Roy's 'Crying'

xtc - all along the watchtower (bob dylan)

elvis costello - how much i lied (gram parsons)

marianne faithfull - tower of song (leonard cohen)

rem - wall of death (richard thompson)

pet shop boys - always on my mind (willie nelson)

anything by me first and the gimme gimmes

Isaac Hayes covered alot of songs and made them his own.
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
"Walk on By"
"Something"
"Close to You"
"Never Can Say Goodbye"
"Never Gonna Give You Up"
the list goes on and on...

And then there's Muddy Waters turning the tables with an electrifying cover of the Stones "Let's Spend the Night Together"
He kicks the **** out of that one.

I had never heard of them before you mentioned them, but just now I heard them cover "strawberry fields forever" on a local radio station.
Are they strictly a cover band? Either way a very cool cover of that song.

Husker Du covering "Eight Miles High" by the Byrds

Thanks for starting this thread...I forgot all about it.
Already you guys have given me tons to look up. And don't forget to comment on why it was an interesting cover.

Husker? Eight mile High? Wow!

The Flaming Groovies do a good job on covers...they smooth out some rough edges and bring out the unique melodies:

Can't Explain-Who
Blue Turns To Grey-Stones
There Is A Place-Beatles

Tool's cover of No Quarter, originaly by Led Zeppelin.

yes, it's actually a bunch of guys from bands on the fat wreck chords record label who get together and put out these theme cover albums


Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Have a Ball (1997)

01 Danny's Song
02 Leaving On A Jet Plane
03 Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
04 One Tin Soldier
05 Uptown Girl
06 I Am A Rock
07 Sweet Caroline
08 Seasons In the Rain
09 Fire and Rain
10 Nobody Does It Better
11 Mandy
12 Rocket Man

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Are A Drag (1999)

01 Over the Rainbow
02 Evita
03 Science Fiction
04 Summertime
05 My Favorite Things
06 Rainbow Connection
07 Phantom of the Opera
08 Body Electric
09 Prom Night
10 Tomorrow
11 What I Did For Love
12 Cabaret

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Blow In The Wind (2001)

01 Blowin' In The Wind
02 Sloop John B.
03 Wild World
04 Who Put The Bomp
05 Elenor
06 My Boyfriend's Back
07 All My Loving
08 Stand By Your Man
09 San Francisco
10 I Only Want To Be With You
11 Runaway
12 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
13 Different Drum

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Take A Break (2003)

01 Where Do Broken Hearts Go
02 Hello
03 End Of The Road
04 Ain't No Sunshine
05 Nothing Compares 2 U
06 Crazy
07 Isn't She Lovely
08 I Believe I Can Fly
09 Oh Girl
10 I'll Be There
11 Mona Lisa
12 Save The Best For Last
13 Natural Woman

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah (2004)

01 Jonny's Blessing
02 Stairway To Heaven
03 Heart Of Glass
04 Delta Dawn
05 Come Sail Away
06 O Sole Mio
07 Strawberry Fields Forever
08 Auld Lang Syne
09 The Longest Time
10 On My Mind
11 Take It On The Run
12 Superstar
13 Hava Nagila
14 Hava Nagila (Christmas Arrangement)

Those sound like good party albums, thanks for the info. Just reading the song titles I now have about seven songs stuck in my head simultaneously

Skid Row doing Cats in the Cradle
Ronnie James Dio doing Dream On
Pantera doing Planet Caravan
Him doing Rebel Yell
And for fun, Hendrix doing Hey Joe

Speaking of Hey Joe..anybody hear the original by The Leaves? In 1967 it made me go out and purchase my first bass guitar

When You Were Mine by Prince. Cyndi Lauper did a pretty good cover but Mytch Ryder nailed it when he growled:

"And you were so strange
You didn't have the decency to change the sheets"

I thought of a few more;
Marianne Faithful - WORKING CLASS HERO
Jason and The Scorchers - ABSOLUTELY SWEET MARIE
DR. Feelgood- BONEY MARONIE

good stuff...Marianne's version makes ya sad...

Who Shot the Sheriff ~ I like Claptons and Marleys version, just not sure if they are both covers or which one did it first.

I think Marley was first, but I like them both too. Coming from a person with almost no tolerance for classic rock radio.

I can partially agree there, A lot of what they play on the classic rock stations would be better off in a vault for about ten years and then released so we could appreciate it again.

...and shes buying a stairway to heaven.

Lol...classic rock..what an oxymoron.

Classic Rock stations are an abomination and a disgrace to the history of Rock n Roll !!!!
Because of "Classic" rock formats I believe kids think only there were only 10 or 12 bands in the seventies. I talk to kids I work with about Roxy Music, King Crimson, The Velvet Underground,
Hawkwind, and any number of other bands I listened to in High School and they don't have a clue.