Waterloo, by ABBA and Stonewall Jackson.
Also Eurythmics and Erasure.
(According to my iPod)
Susan
I was going to start a similar thread but, but was going to take the angle of ‘two totally different, oddly titled songs’. My example would be “It Never Rains in Southern Calfornia”- you wouldn’t expect two different songs to have that title, but the one by Albert Hammond, and another by a recent soul act whose name escapes me at the moment.
Ironically enough, One:
Metallica
Three Dog Night
Madonna
U2
“Fire” the Crazy World of Arthur Brown; Jimi Hendrix; the Pointer Sisters
“Ship of Fools” - Grateful Dead, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, World Party
The Pet shop boys apparently did cover this song but it was first done by the band Real Life
Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac, and by the Rolling Stones. Same title, two completely different songs.
“Joy to the World” is both a Three Dog Night hit, and a popular Christmas carol.
Nonet: Herman’s Hermits also recorded a “Hold On.”
…and Bruce Springsteen.
Also Rev. Gary Davis.
Also non-Beatle Johnny Nash.
Two additional “Crazys”: Gnarls Barkley and Pylon (later covered by R.E.M.).
That’s the same song as the Pointer Sisters one. Broooce wrote it, of course.
The ones on my hard drive:
Accelerator Jagged Little Pill and Primal Scream
Again And Again Taproot and Umbrellas
Alive Kenny Wayne Shepherd and P.O.D.
Amnesia Toad the Wet Sprocket and Virgil
Animals Gravenhurst and Nickelback
Anymore Proximity Grey and Alec Bach
Anything by Styrofoam and Third Eye Blind
Anyway Dynamite Hack and Sodium
Apologies 2 Girls Later and Dropping Daylight
Awake Onesidezero and The Information
Barrel of a Gun Depeche Mode and Guster
Beautiful Avion, Flickerstick, Joydrop, Marvelous 3 and Social Code
Beautiful Disaster 311 and The Gufs
Bittersweet Etwine, Plumb, R.E.M.
Breakdown Breaking Benjamin, Tantric and Instruction
Breathe Greenwheel, Jeremy Camp, Michelle Branch, Moist and Seven Channels
Can’t Let Go Landon Pigg and Lucinda Williams
Crazy C60, Gnarls Barkley and Seal
Down 311, Socialburn, Stone Temple Pilot and Thomas Reed
Drowning Adema, Crazytown and Jack Johnson
Everything Alanis Morissette, Fefe Dobson, Pillar and Xiren
Girlfriend Matthew Sweet and Tigerbaby
Head Mark Lanegan Band and Tinstar
Home Clinic, Staind and Three Days Grace
Invincible Eric Metronome (Pat Benatar cover, ftr) and Okay Go
Let Go A New Revolution, Barlowgirl, Frou Frou and Red
Little Things Bush, Good Charlotte and Lamb
Monsters Matchbook Romance and Sons and Daughters
On My Own 2 Hour Parking and Granian
Out of Control Hoobastank, John Reuben and She Wants Revenge
Pain Jimmy Eat World, Pushing Zero and Three Days Grace
Perfect Burn Season, Crashpalace, Flyleaf, The Shawn Fussell Band and The Smashing Pumpkins
Pitiful Blindside and Failure
Porcelain Better Than Ezra and Moby (both beautiful songs)
Pretty Kidney Thieves and Korn
Run Cloud Ten, Collective Soul, Kutless and Snow Patrol
Save Me Amiee Man, Shinedown and Unwritten Law
Shimmer Fuel and Throwing Muses
Silhouette Poster Children and Supervillian
Someday Flipsyde, Sugar Ray and Zebrahead
Stars Epic Hero and Switchfoot
The Catch Forget Cassettes and N. Lannon
The End David & The Citizens and Roadrunner United
Time Bomb Agents Of Good Roots and Rancid
Vocano Damien Rice and Up The Empire
Wake Up Citizen A, Holmes and Joe Hedges
Without You Black Lab and Lenny Kravitz
“Rock and Roll” The Velvet Underground and Led Zeppelin
“Run, Run, Run” The Who, The Velvet Underground, The Gestures and The Third Rail
“Mother” John Lennon and Danzig
“Venus” Frankie Avalon and The Shocking Blue/Banarama
“Surrender” Elvis Presley, Cheap Trick and U2
“Hurt” Elvis Presley and Nine Inch Nails/Johnny Cash
“Guitar Man” Elvis Presley and Bread
“The End” The Doors and The Beatles
“It’s Only Love” The Beatles and Bryan Adams & Tina Turner
“Tell Me Why” The Beatles and Neil Young
“Walk On” Neil Young and U2
“Tonight’s the Night” The Shirelles and Neil Young
“Words” The Monkees, The Bee Gees and Missing Persons
“Words of Love” Buddy Holly and The Mamas and the Papas
“Wish You Were Here” Eddie Fisher and Pink Floyd
“Time” Pink Floyd and The Alan Parsons Project
“Blue Monday” Fats Domino and New Order
“Stay with Me” Lorraine Ellison and The Faces
“On the Road Again” Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson
“I Wanna Be Your Lover” Bob Dylan and Prince
“Forever Young” Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart
“One More Night” Bob Dylan and Phil Collins
“License to Kill” Bob Dylan and Gladys Knight
“Show Me” Joe Tex and The Pretenders
“Walk Like a Man” The Four Seasons and Bruce Springsteen
“Tunnel of Love” Dire Straits and Bruce Springsteen
“The Promised Land” Chuck Berry and Bruce Springsteen
“Two Hearts” Bruce Springsteen and Phil Collins
“Reason to Believe” Tim Hardin/Rod Stewart and Bruce Springteen
“I’m On Fire” Dwight Twilley and Bruce Springsteen
“Chains of Love” The Drifters and Erasure
“In the Mood” Glen Miller and Robert Plant
“Scorpio” Dennis Coffey and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
“Leader of the Pack” The Shangri-Las and UTFO
“What Is Love” Howard Jones and Haddaway
“The Look of Love” Dusty Springfield and ABC
“S.O.S.” ABBA, Good Charlotte and Rhianna
“Rescue Me” Fontella Bass and Madonna
One more “Fire”: U2
Decet {?}: Deep Purple did one too.
“Modern Love” - David Bowie, Peter Gabriel