# Favorite Cover Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214 "2018-02-05T14:12:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/101 "2018-02-15T02:27:24Z")
Why, yes, I _do_ have more: “All Along the Watch Tower”–Jimi Hendrix “Little Doll” Spacemen 3 “Henry Lee”-Nick Cave w/PJ Harvey “Silver Dagger”-Dolly Parton “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”-Guns’N’Roses “Carmelita”-GG Allin “Kill Me/ Ce Soir”-Iron Maiden “In The Pines”-Nirvana “Castin’ My Spell On You”-Johnny Kidd and the Pirates “Let’s Lynch The Landlord”-L7 “Secret Agent Man”-Devo. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/102 "2018-02-15T02:32:28Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Which is also a single, featuring maybe the greatest all-time 7" art, and not just because of [this,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT-hHc9x_2c) but also because of the flip-side, which is a [Cheap Trick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-BprQHdLk) cover. Isn’t the front side just a take on this [Kraftwerk cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41R8B02B85L.jpg)? Is this the favorite cover covers thread? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/103 "2018-02-15T03:52:56Z")
Anybody mention the Grateful Dead cover of “Hard to Handle,” Los Angeles, August 1971 yet? Stellar vocal from Pigpen and one of Jerry’s greatest guitar solos ever. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Na9a79rdjxs/hqdefault.jpg "Grateful Dead - Hard To Handle (6th August 1971)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9a79rdjxs) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/104 "2018-02-15T04:16:32Z")
> [@4d3fect](#): > > Everything on the Stay Awake album is genius. EVERYTHING.[https://www.discogs.com/Various-Stay-Awake-Various-Interpretations-Of-Music-From-Vintage-Disney-Films/release/717124](https://www.discogs.com/Various-Stay-Awake-Various-Interpretations-Of-Music-From-Vintage-Disney-Films/release/717124) It really is awesome. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2018, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/105 "2018-02-15T05:03:40Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > It really is awesome. Kids have GOT to listen to the same album over and over (and over and over…). _Stay Awake_ and the Sesame Street [_In Harmony_](https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-Sesame-Street-Record/dp/B000002KLR) album kept us sane on long trips. The perfect “Center of the Venn Diagram” of kids’ and grownups’ tastes (like “Jelly Man Kelly” by James Taylor, and Bette Midler’s “Blueberry Pie”). ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/106 "2018-02-15T08:13:03Z")
From the alt-country side of the tracks, Lambchop’s [This Corrosion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWdvXBa_o5s) has a battered and hard-won optimism to it. Sturgill Simpson’s [In Bloom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDYfkymaSE) is in a similar vein, and The Civil Wars’ [Disarm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWqoHZmUd0) has a delicate beauty all its own. And Black Box Recorder’s [Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXg9SiXyOs) isn’t alt-country, but it is heartbreakingly lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/107 "2018-02-15T08:49:33Z")
Recently had this same discussion elsewhere…heh…so I’ll just c&p my responses from that one… William Shatner - Common People Johnny Cash - Hurt Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall, Velvet Underground Medley (a medley of Venus in Furs, White Light/White Heat and All Tomorrow’s Parties) (A Groovy Place is a great album in general, but those two are the best.) Ghost - Here Comes the Sun, Missionary Man Halestorm - Bad Romance, Get Lucky ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/108 "2018-02-15T09:00:15Z")
> [@JpnDude](#): > > I prefer Lotte Lenya’s 1955 version of [Die Moritat von Mackie Messer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7eO7MKEZAY) (Mack the Knife) to the Kurt Gerron 1938 version from [The Threepenny Opera](https://youtu.be/AWPvx1KPA9Y?t=42). I prefer the [Young Gods version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcP2zycN3P0) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/109 "2018-02-15T09:07:25Z")
> [@Egnu\_Cledge](#): > > Belong turn Syd Barrett’s [Late Night](https://youtu.be/-f7GuS9F0kM) into a ghostly cloud of disintegrating white noise. I prefer the [This Mortal Coil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S5xonZ0z9M) version (RIP Caroline Crawley) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/110 "2018-02-15T09:09:33Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > From the alt-country side of the tracks, Lambchop’s [This Corrosion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWdvXBa_o5s) has a battered and hard-won optimism to it. Oh, thanks so much for this! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/111 "2018-02-15T09:12:02Z")
Sonic Youth turn The Carpenters’ [Superstar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21VecIIdBI) into the saddest thing you’ve ever heard; Shonen Knife make [Top of the World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_benmP9I3o) the happiest. Yeah, I’ve still got my copy of If I Were a Carpenter. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/112 "2018-02-15T13:31:28Z")
Telex: [“Rock Around the Clock”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZDci44GMI) Peter Baumann: [“Strangers in the Night”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umkoxvi0QC4) Human League: [“You’be Lost that Loving Feeling”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9h4ZQkGb9s) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/113 "2018-02-15T17:15:48Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Isn’t the front side just a take on this [Kraftwerk cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41R8B02B85L.jpg)? Is this the favorite cover covers thread? :dubious: And an awesome take, at that. Really? People here don’t know their Kraftwerk? I needed to explain that? Just kidding - I should’ve mentioned that. However, yeah - great idea of a favourite cover covers thread (thank-you!), to whit: AxCx provide a fine Oi rendition here of the Bee Gees’ [Stayin Alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oWdRUKSC0E), and, yes, with Seth Puttnam providing a fine likeness of Barry (or Andy or whoever he was trying to faithfully emulate, by the looks of things). Veering back to the non-cover covers topic, powerhouse German hardcore band Morser do justice to Carcass’s “Genreal Jigsore Quandary”. (no link at present) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/114 "2018-02-15T18:26:55Z")
Al Green - [“How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTY6Kv0nPr8) (The Bee Gees) Cowboy Junkies - [“Ooh Las Vegas”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgQNMcIPjY) (Gram Parsons) The Isley Brothers - [“Summer Breeze”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YklqpJaUQ) (Seals & Crofts) ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/115 "2018-02-15T19:43:16Z")
I forgot Turin Brakes’ haunting, powerful deconstruction of [Chim Chim Cheree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prSskFXsjWw) from _Mary Poppins_. The video is exceptional too. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/116 "2018-02-15T19:49:24Z")
Opeth’s cover of Robin Trower’s [Bridge of Sighs.](https://youtu.be/Z7aA1Ya7-sw) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/117 "2018-02-15T21:33:16Z")
But Wait! There’s More! Nouvelle Vague [I Just Can’t Get Enough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcljHWUqLVA) (mmm, vibro-slap) - Turns out I like Depeche Mode songs, just not Depeche Mode doing them. If you like covers, check out Nouvelle Vague. They do only covers, and some of the best,with the singers not having heard the originals. Here’s them doing [A Forest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvMPmkNPB4). The Geraldine Fibber’s cover of Can’s [You Doo Right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_DgjcUtVuo) does the original justice in a mere 5 minutes, 20 seconds. Mmmmm Nels Cline. mmmmmm, Carla Bozulich. Both just cutting loose. Gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/118 "2018-02-15T23:29:59Z")
X - “Breathless” (best known as a Jerry Lee Lewis song) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vjk-JLlGXrM/hqdefault.jpg "X - Breathless") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjk-JLlGXrM) X - “Soul Kitchen” (The Doors) X - "Dancing with Tears in my Eyes" (written in 1930 by Al Dubin & Joe Burke, performed by many, including Leadbelly) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGcJNIXc2QM) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/119 "2018-02-16T01:19:04Z")
I’ve never much cared for Tom Petty, but his live cover of the Dave Clark Five’s “Any Way You Want It” is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214/120 "2018-02-16T02:40:22Z")
Just now diggin some Holst’s “Planets”, and all of a sudden I’m like - WHOA! Hold the phone! In the Jupiter bit - [this](https://youtu.be/Isic2Z2e2xs?t=1461) and [this](https://youtu.be/Isic2Z2e2xs?t=1474) melodically melds not too badly with [this](https://youtu.be/RGQxI0G6mKk?t=21) from Frank Zappa’s “Peaches En Regalia”. And makes sense, considering FZ was into all that stuff, especially Edgar Varese. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cover-songs/808214.md?page=7)