Best covers of songs?

**SaucyJack** · 04/06/2009, 2:38 PM

Dug this thread up for a new favourite cover version, a cover by a band called First Aid Kit of Fleet Foxe's Tiger Mountain peasant song.

**A face** · 20/12/2010, 7:44 PM

**sligoman** · 21/12/2010, 12:49 AM

**gustavo** · 22/12/2010, 9:54 AM

**Lionel Ritchie** · 28/12/2010, 5:18 PM

I'll not opine whether it's best or worst cover version ever but this is me doing a cover of Atlantis by Donovan

**old git** · 29/12/2010, 9:42 AM

Originally Posted by lofty9

Best : Guns N Roses with Dylan's Knocking on Heavens door.

Worst : Cheryl Crowe doing same song.

bon jovi do a fairly crap version also

know we talking about good covers but have to throw in the worst ever celine dion you shook me all night long by ac/dc

what was she thinking ..

**BonnieShels** · 03/01/2011, 10:08 PM

Best cover I heard in 2010... still makes the hairs stand up on the back of the neck. Fupping love it...

**punkrocket** · 04/01/2011, 3:45 PM

Don't know if it's come up yet.

Great version of a great song, actually improves on the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyv16mZakVE

**Magicme** · 09/01/2011, 10:36 PM

The album version of this far surpasses the original.

Isa and the filthy tongues - model

**Abbey Road** · 31/01/2011, 10:51 AM

Terence Trent Darby 'You've got to hide your love away' by 'The Beatles'

**SwanVsDalton** · 01/02/2011, 11:16 PM

**DeLorean** · 02/02/2011, 1:08 PM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

Any singer that covers a Smiths song sould be slapped

Agree for the most part but I do like this....

Noel Gallagher - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Live)

**Macy** · 03/02/2011, 7:57 AM

Lots of Hayseed Dixie contenders for best cover version, imo. But maybe I'm just getting old.

**Eminence Grise** · 08/02/2011, 9:11 PM

Enjoyed browsing through this thread.... Some very good picks, and they've inspired a comeback for this mixed bag of covers on my mp3 player -

The Clash – Wrong ‘Em Boyo (Version of Stagger Lee) (Trad)
The Clash – Brand New Cadillac (Vince Taylor, according to Wikipedia)
Scala – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra – Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Camille O’Sullivan – Pirate Jenny (Kurt Weil/Bertolt Brecht)
The Dresden Dolls – Pretty in Pink (The Psychedelic Furs)
The Divine Comedy – I’ve Been to a Marvellous Party (Noël Coward)
Scott Walker – Mathilde (Jacques Brel)
Scott Walker – Jackie (Jacques Brel)
Christy Moore - Black is the Colour (Trad)

**Jofspring** · 09/02/2011, 2:10 PM

Jackson 5 Cover of Smokie Robinsons - Who's Lovin You. Quality if you ask me.

**Jofspring** · 09/02/2011, 3:14 PM

Walk Off The Earth - Magic (B.O.B ft Rivers Cuomo)

Walk Off the Earth - Grenade (Bruno Mars)

**theworm2345** · 09/02/2011, 9:43 PM

Some good ones that I have heard recently (though there are some good ones I can't remember that I haven't heard in awhile):
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel (Bob Dylan) (I believe was someone here's signature, thats how I think I found it)
Toots and the Maytals - Country Roads (John Denver?)
U2 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (Darlene Love?)
Blues Brothers - Nearly every song they did
The Mouldy Joes - Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin?...its Huddersfield Town's song and their version was for HTFC, but I think its decent)

Some good ones that aren't really covers but sort of interpretations of traditional songs:
Real McKenzies - Loch Lomond (traditional)
Dublners/Pogues (some versions together and some separate on all of them) - Whiskey in the Jar/Irish Rover/Wild Rover
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar

Some bad ones:
Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy...maybe not as bad as others but an impossible standard to live up to)
Any cover of a Beatles song
Save Ferris - Come on Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners...already mentioned)

**dochara** · 21/02/2011, 7:04 PM

Funny thing - though Elvis Costello wrote "Girls' Talk", he didn't record/release it until after Dave Edmunds - Edmunds: June 1979 / Costello: January 1980