Favourite cover version?

[plastic penguin]

Buckley's version of Leonard Cohens Hallelujah, perhaps?

Discuss...

 

[professorhat]

plastic penguin:Buckley's version of Leonard Cohens Hallelujah, perhaps?

Meh...

 

[DavidNorway]

Incognito version of Stevie Wonder-Dont you worry about a thing.

 

[chebby]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUbgbaBZJk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bADkSpJzALc

 

[6th.replicant]

Thought this would be a toughie, but then had a lightbulb moment, easy...

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

 

[carter]

not this , wing sings ac dc. shocking

i really like taken by trees version of "sweet child o mine" of the top of my head.might need to think about this one

 

[Anonymous]

nodnarb4444:

not this , wing sings ac dc. shocking

i really like taken by trees version of "sweet child o mine" of the top of my head.might need to think about this one

I just you tubed that. Good grief. Why?

 

[Frank Harvey]

Andrew Michael's cover of Tears For Fears Mad World
Placebo's Cover of T Rex's 20th Century Boy
Mark King's cover of Cream's I Feel Free
Mike Flowers Pops cover of Oasis' Wonderwall

 

[AL13N]

The White Stripes - Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)

YouTube

 

[6th.replicant]

FrankHarveyHiFi:...
Placebo's Cover of T Rex's 20th Century Boy
...
Mike Flowers Pops cover of Oasis' Wonderwall

 

[Anonymous]

i actually quite like billy idols version of la woman..

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

Ferry's cover of Dobie Gray's In Crowd

Bowie's "Knock on wood"

Cassidy's - Fields of gold, SOTR, and Songbird,

Lots more will come to mind.

oh yeh-Nils Lofgren's Going Back (Goffin/King/Dusty)

 

[Simon Lucas]

By no means definitive, but just for now:

Black Box Recorder -Up Town Top Ranking (Althea & Donna)
Califone - The Orchids (Psychic TV)
Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)
David Bowie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4axSpwbKuisFill Your Heart (Tiny Tim)
Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire (The Doors)
The Fall - Lost In Music (Chic)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
Blind Faith - Well... Alright (Buddy Holly)
Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam (The Vaselines)

(plus Booker T. & The MGs' McLemore Avenue, an entire album of covers of songs from Abbey Road)

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's 'A Woman's Worth'.

 

[DavidNorway]

Shirley Bassey-Light my fire(the doors)

 

[Gerrardasnails]

The Jam's cover of The Kinks', 'David Watts'.

 

[plastic penguin]

Gerrardasnails:The Jam's cover of The Kinks', 'David Watts'.

Or their version of Small Faces 'Get yourself together.'

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Terence Trent D'arby's cover of Smokey Robinson's 'Who's Lovin' You'.

 

[roger06]

Bauhaus's cover of Ziggy Stardust...

Or perhaps Santana's version of She's Not There - I never tire of that guitar solo!

 

[Anonymous]

roger06:

Bauhaus's cover of Ziggy Stardust...

+1

or

The Lemonheads cover of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful"

 

[6th.replicant]

nicholasc1585:roger06:

Bauhaus's cover of Ziggy Stardust...

+1

...
Huh??!!

But while we're on the subject of DB...

Bowie - Arnold Layne

 

[carter]

some good covers on these

 

[Petherick]

EBTG's cover of Elvis Costello's 'Alison' or Robert Wyatt's version of Elvis's 'Shipbuilding'

 

[richardw42]

Johnny Cash - Hurt (NIN)
Rammstein - Stripped (Depeche Mode)
The Cardigans - Changes (Sabbath)
Tori Amos - Angia (Stones)
Guano Apes - Big in Japan (Asia)

And if just one
Fields of the Nephilim - In The Year 2525 (Zager & Evans ?)

 

[Alec]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBviQXfuu3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYNUIMjYJXg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLjNGcd1whQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUsUMuUGf4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQa-AFoXEdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTeaxCwBudk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmHZLruBSMs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0kpA9gNB4Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWe07krS8_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewM29vjE1W4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LQcgP7JJwE

Michael Stipe's solo cover of In The Sun. All I can find on youtube are various other Stipe version of it that involve another singer like Joseph Arthur himself or Chris Martin. It was sold exclusively by itunes i think.

And too many more.