Best Cover Songs of All Time

[Zardnaar]

Definitely one of the greats. Good range, good control, good technique, and a truly great aesthetic sense.

Yeah I've been watching his solo stuff and I did get into Audioslave a long time ago.

 

[Zardnaar]

And the best vocalist in rock/metal imho biggest vocal range and he has done crossovers into totally different genres and Italian Opera.

Faith No More's Mike Patton covering I Started a Joke and Easy.



If it wasn't for this guy I would put Cornell at number 1.

Memories of beer kegs and pizza 1999. These two songs confuzzled me back then but the videos were awesome on the FNM greatest hits VHS.

Epic charted here 1991 the you go to ASmall Victory and this stuff to Album of the Year.

 

[Bohandas]

Has anybody memtioned everything by Gregorian

 

[Eltab]

Bob Seger's Fortunate Son both established that Credence Clearwater Revival's lyrical claim "I'm not the fortunate one" was tongue-in-cheek -and- told you who the Draft Board came looking for next.

 

[LongTimeLurker]

Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" is a cover of a blues song from 1926, as I recall.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are the two biggest musical thieves of all time.

 

[James Gasik]

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are the two biggest musical thieves of all time.

I don't know, I think Deep Purple and Metallica have them beat.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And the best vocalist in rock/metal imho biggest vocal range and he has done crossovers into totally different genres and Italian Opera.

Faith No More's Mike Patton covering I Started a Joke and Easy.



If it wasn't for this guy I would put Cornell at number 1.

Memories of beer kegs and pizza 1999. These two songs confuzzled me back then but the videos were awesome on the FNM greatest hits VHS.

Epic charted here 1991 the you go to ASmall Victory and this stuff to Album of the Year.

He’s in the pantheon, too, no question.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I love this one because it's just so epic in its' ridiculousness...

 

[payn]

I love this ditty;

 

[Jacob Lewis]

Still at it? Alrighty, then!

W.A.S.P. (I Don't Need No Doctor by Humble Pie)

Wrathchild America (Time by Pink Floyd)

Slayer (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly)

Metal Church (Highway Star by Deep Purple)

The Ramones (Take It As It Comes by The Doors)