Best Cover Songs of All Time

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Original:

The cover:

Another good Magnetic Fields cover...

Original:



Cover:

 

[Ulfgeir]

At least Miley tried, unlike Madonna butchering this classic.

Well Madonna's version is IMO barely tolerable. But it is a song I do not think you can make a good version of it, so her version is MUCH better than the original. The same goes for "Hey, there Delilah" and "If God was one of us". I absolutely hate them. There is something with them that is so whiny, and really cringable. I

 

[Ryujin]

Well Madonna's version is IMO barely tolerable. But it is a song I do not think you can make a good version of it, so her version is MUCH better than the original. The same goes for "Hey, there Delilah" and "If God was one of us". I absolutely hate them. There is something with them that is so whiny, and really cringable. I

Which reminds me:

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Original

Cover

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Originals:

(Note: yes, that IS a young Jools Holland in the Lee Dorsey video!)


Devo covers:

Working in the Coal Mine

Provided to YouTube by Elektra RecordsWorking in the Coal Mine · DevoHeavy Metal Soundtrack℗ 1999 Elektra Entertainment GroupProducer: DevoEngineer: Michael ...

www.youtube.com

 

[Eltab]

A friend played me a video of some guys who re-write songs into a minor key. (This makes the tune sound sad or ominous.) One song was The Police "Every Breath You Take".
The original was a guy not wanting to accept his ex-girlfriend has left him.
The remake was The Stalker Song.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

@Zardnaar & others wondering about great vocalists in rock’s harder genres, here’s a non exhaustive list of some of the ones I find most important:

Mark Storace
Rob Halford
Geoff Tate
Ian Gillen
Chris Cornell
Skin
Wendy O. Williams
Mike Patton
Robert Plant
David Coverdale
Lajon Witherspoon
Ronnie James Dio
Jim Gillette
King Diamond
Chino Moreno
Corey Glover
Amy Lee
Layne Staley
Christina Scabbia
Doro Pesch
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Kyo
Jay Buchanan
Maynard James Keenan
Doug Pinnick
Sebastian Bach

 

[Jacob Lewis]

Amon Amarth (Aerials by System of a Down)

Testament (Nobody's Fault by Aerosmith)

Megadeth (I Ain't Superstitious by Howlin' Wolf)

Anthrax (Got the Time by Joe Jackson)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Anthrax (Got the Time by Joe Jackson)

I had absolutely forgotten that was originally a song by Joe Jackson!

 

[Zardnaar]

@Zardnaar & others wondering about great vocalists in rock’s harder genres, here’s a non exhaustive list of some of the ones I find most important:

Mark Storace
Rob Halford
Geoff Tate
Ian Gillen
Chris Cornell
Skin
Wendy O. Williams
Mike Patton
Robert Plant
David Coverdale
Lajon Witherspoon
Ronnie James Dio
Jim Gillette
King Diamond
Chino Moreno
Corey Glover
Amy Lee
Layne Staley
Christina Scabbia
Doro Pesch
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Kyo
Jay Buchanan
Maynard James Keenan
Doug Pinnick
Sebastian Bach

Fairly good list.