# Cover songs. (Again) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 23, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-again/1022418 "2025-08-23T19:32:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-again/1022418/1 "2025-08-23T19:32:56Z")
I’m close to 100% sure that this forum has a cover song thread, but… my search skills, honed on google, yahoo & bing are defeated by Discord. Anyway. Here is a lovely version of the Beatles, covered by a great dub/reggae band, the Easy Star All Stars. https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=OLAK5uy_nxhXTdz2BG01ZWaJnzyj7E345ixS89cVQ&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1 For something a little different, here is my favourite Beatles cover in a very, very different style, " Happiness is a Warm Gun" by late 90s alt band, The Breeders. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7yd--OqncqE/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGHIgRygtMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAKPTpVMFc28ntL_bq5hhphTep1cQ "The Breeders - Happiness Is a Warm Gun") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yd--OqncqE) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-again/1022418/2 "2025-08-23T19:34:11Z")
I’ll link to Two old threads and repost mine: [Awesome cover songs? - #13 by What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cover-songs/472994/13) In a related thread [Your favorite ‘non-traditional’ cover of a hit song?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493205) I mentioned Yes’s cover of America (written by Simon & Garfunkel) is much, much better. [Here it is live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0zvUdOOG_w) in all of its 11 minutes of Glory! I love [Fiona Apple’s Across the Universe.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLWTtlMwo4) is very special. [Jimi Hendrix’s All along the Watchtower](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY) is great and Dylan said it was the best version he ever heard. Led Zeppelin did “[Babe I’m Gonna Leave You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX_wwlIZ6ko)” that was recorded by Joan Baez in 63 but apparently written by Anne Bredon in the late 1950s. Weird one: [Barbra Streisand–Somewhere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAu3a7CMA84) cover of the Broadway tune from West Side Story. It took me 4 tries to find the version I was looking for. ETA: I just fixed all the old links I hope. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-again/1022418/3 "2025-08-23T19:40:53Z")
A thread that was started in 2020 but is still active: > [@Wow, that's a great cover of that song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-thats-a-great-cover-of-that-song/851596/1036): > > That really is good. Discourse ended up putting your link into a Onebox preview. Here it is embedded for anyone who missed it. [[Stephen Wilson Jr. - "Stand By Me" [Ben E. King Cover] (Live at the Print Shop)] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kn7E-OauJI) ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-again/1022418/4 "2025-08-23T19:41:29Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I’ll link to Two old threads and repost mine: Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-again/1022418/5 "2025-08-23T23:24:11Z")
Speaking of Sgt. Pepper’s I dig this take by the Jimi Hendrix Experience… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ByZZer_Ekco/maxresdefault.jpg "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Live at The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA - August ...") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZZer_Ekco) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-again/1022418/6 "2025-08-24T00:27:11Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > A thread that was started in 2020 but is still active: > > > [@](#): > > > > That really is good. Discourse ended up putting your link into a Onebox preview. Here it is embedded for anyone who missed it. [[Stephen Wilson Jr. - “Stand By Me” [Ben E. King Cover] (Live at the Print Shop)]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kn7E-OauJI) Do listen to Stephen Wilson Jr. - he’s the real deal.