[DavidMahler]

Your favorite cover song is.....?

Mine is joe Cocker's with a little help from my friends.

 

[devin_mm]

I really like The Headstones - Tweeter and the Monkey Man or Big Sugar - Dear Mr. Fantasy

 

[indigo]

Running Up That Hill - Placebo
Route 66 - Depeche Mode
Pictures Of You - Lit
Everlasting Love - U2

 

[compuryan]

Johnny Cash did a great job covering a multitude of songs on his later albums. I think all of them he did were really great.

 

[tlie00]

Cafe Creme's Unlimited Citations

 

[Rhodekill]

Quote:

Originally Posted by compuryan /img/forum/go_quote.gif Johnny Cash did a great job covering a multitude of songs on his later albums. I think all of them he did were really great.

I absolutely agree. What Cash did with the American recordings was different than anything that any other country artist ever did.

I'm pretty fond of Aerosmith's album Honkin' On Bobo (all cover songs, most of which are very good), and Rage Against the Machine's cover of How I Could Just Kill A Man is amazing. The original Cypress Hill song is terrible. I can't even listen to it.

As ashamed as I am to say this, I also think Marilyn Manson did a remarkable cover of Tainted Love.

 

[Culverin]

Yoshiki from X Japan did an orchestral version of KISS' Black Diamond

 

[error401]

Tool doing Led Zeppelin's No Quarter.

 

[Thelonious Monk]

raintime's cover of "beat it", found here.

imagine michael jackson being covered by a metal band... and doing it well. yeah.

 

[tru blu]

The Flying Lizards - "Money (That's What I Want)"
Cat Power - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"
The English Beat - "Tears Of A Clown"
Robert Wyatt - "Shipbuilding"
Neil Young - "On Broadway"
Tricky (with Martina Topley-Bird) - "Black Steel"
Finley Quaye - "Sunday Shining"
The Neville Brothers - "With God On Our Side"
Adeva - "Respect"
Caetano Veloso - "Love For Sale"
Buddy Miller - "Worry Too Much"
The Clash - "I Fought The Law"

UB40 - Labor Of Love (an entire album of excellent covers)

 

[Masonjar]

Dinosaur Jr. - "Just Like Heaven"

Nine Inch Nails - "Get Down Make Love"

 

[subfocus]

Afghan Whigs - ''Lost In The Supermarket''

 

[sachu]

Girl You'll be a woman soon - Urge Overkill

 

[RubberDuk]

I love cover versions

I second to the already mentioned Tainted Love and Running Up That Hill.

Also:
Inactive Messiah - Beat it
Graveworm - I need a hero
Norther - Youth Gone Wild and Smash

also a bit of an odd number:
1200 Mics - High Paradise (has Fear of the Dark, Blues Brothers and others in it but it's not so much of a remix than an electronic remake)

The Dub Side of the Moon mentioned below is also great stuff!

 

[PhaedrusX]

Easy Star All-Stars: their cover of the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, and the OK Computer album.

Stunning.