A very loose cover, admittedly.
The Young Canadians (formerly the Ktels before they had to change the name) take on the Hawaii 5-O Theme.
A disappointing cover by one of my favourite bands from the 80s - Scratch Acid: Damned For All Time (from Jesus Christ Superstar)
Just to compare: the actor’s singing in the movie totally curbstomps over Yow’s attempt.
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
In his early days, Stewart did a lot of great covers: Dylan’s “Only A Hobo,” Mike d’Abo’s “Handbags and Gladrags,” Bobby Womack’s “It’s All Over Now” all come to mind, in addition to the excellent songs you mention.
Plus, the Faces did a cover of McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” that’s, well, amazing!
Joan Jett did a rockin’ cover of the Mary Tyler Moore theme song: Love Is All Around
My favorite Norwegian Wood is Cornershop’s.
Everclear’s This Land is Your Land
Anyone want to hear Elvis Presley doing a cover version of Come As You Are in Japanese? (Kinda)
I mean, just bless James "The King" Brown. That is all.j
The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, I don’t like it better than the original, but damn that’s an awesome re-working.
Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven. When asked why they did it, the answer was, “To get waver chicks.”
The Jazz Butcher - Roadrunner. Of course, it helps to cover one of the greatest songs ever, even if he universalized the lyrics a bit - “I’m in love with modern suburban bleakness.” Plus, Sikorskyes (spelling sure sounds correct) from hell!
And a cover song that I heard over and over again as a child, and made me the man I am today: The Fendermen - Mule Skinner Blues
Belong turn Syd Barrett’s Late Night into a ghostly cloud of disintegrating white noise.
Pretty much everything off Yo La Tengo’s Fakebook album, but especially Griselda, Andalucia, and Emulsified.
One last one. Rufus Wainwright doing Origin of Love from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
American reactions to this Spanish punk classic tend to be pretty radical. Most laugh; a few have berated me angrily.
Miña terra galega, “sweet home Galiza”, an adaptation of Sweet Home Alabama with title in Galego and lyrics in Spanish.
The Replacements’ version of Cruella de Ville is terrific. And I’ve posted this before, but Bill Bailey channelling Portishead covering Zip-A-Dee-Doo Dah is wonderful.
Couple of Kraftwerk covers I like:
Siouxsie and The Banshees do Hall of Mirrors
Big Black do The Model
The entire Through The Looking Glass album is amazing: I love her take on The Doors’ You’re Lost Little Girl.
Agreed. I love The Passenger especially.
In a similar vein, there’s Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ Kicking Against The Pricks . I like their All Tomorrow’s Parties and especially Black Betty.
Ahh, my love off of Through the Looking Glass is Gun Glad to see that Siouxsie is getting some love!
“Hey Joe” Patti Smith
“Crimson and Clover”-Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
“Who Do You Love”-the Doors
“Captain Kidd”-Tempest
“Chinese Rocks”-Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
“Sam Hall” Johnny Cash
“Viva Las Vegas”-the Dead Kennedys
“Red Temple Prayer-Two-Headed Dog”–Sister Double Happiness
Oh, I almost forgot:
“Jim Dandy” Black Oak Arkansas
“VooDoo Idol”-the Flesheaters
“Rumble”-Guitar Wolf
“Heroin”-Roky Erickson
“Diamonds and Rust”-Judas Priest
“Sally Go 'Round the Roses”-whichever version I love at the moment.
Primus - Have a Cigar (Pink Floyd cover)
Jethro Tull - Bouree (JS Bach cover)
Susanna Hoffs - Different Drum (Mike Nesmith cover)
The Damned - Alone Again Or (UFO cover)
Love and Rockets - Ball of Confusion (Temptations cover)
Actually, more like a cover of UFO’s cover of the Arthur Lee/Love song.
The Pretenders’ cover of the Hendrix song Room Full of Mirrors
Another cover by Joan Jett: Springsteen’s Light of Day
Which is also a single, featuring maybe the greatest all-time 7" art, and not just because of this, but also because of the flip-side, which is a Cheap Trick cover.