# Favorite covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793 "2003-06-10T05:14:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/1 "2003-06-10T05:14:08Z")
Sometimes when someone does a remake of a song that brings something new and truely wonderful to it. I am interested in other oppinions on favorite covers. (mine) _Red Red Wine_ **UB40** (mrfurli) _All Along the Watch Tower_\*\* Jimi Hendrix\*\* (honorable mention) _Mr. Tamberine Man_ **The Byrds** ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/2 "2003-06-10T05:31:03Z")
Having been in the music business, you meant remake & not cover. A cover comes out as soon as possible after the original & is intended to steal sales. But cover is misused so much, your usage may now be accepted. “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” Elvis -remake of 1927 hit. Dion & Belmonts “That’s My Desire”-1st a hit for Frankie Laine around 1950. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/3 "2003-06-10T10:46:23Z")
_Seasons in the Sun_ by **Me First and the Gimme Gimmes** (originally by Terry Jacks) ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/4 "2003-06-10T11:55:02Z")
“I am the Walrus” as sung by Peter Stormare in the movie “The Million Dollar Hotel”. So-so movie, fantastich song. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/5 "2003-06-10T12:42:54Z")
I like the current remake of “Big Yellow Taxi” (by Counting Crows, I think). The original hit single by The Neighborhood was absolutely terrible – ecological awareness at its most sloppy and saccarine. That was a cover, too – Joni Mitchell wrote it and performed a charming and much superior version but didn’t release it as a single. The new version isn’t quite as good as Joni’s but it’s a fine remake. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/6 "2003-06-10T13:19:46Z")
Everything on **Hayseed Dixie** ’s album, _A Hillbilly Tribuite to AC/DC_. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/7 "2003-06-10T15:17:44Z")
I Fought the Law - The Clash Kids In America - Lagwagon Science Fiction - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/8 "2003-06-10T15:23:36Z")
Kim Carnes’ version of **Better Davis Eyes** (original by Jackie DeShannon). Urge Overkill’s **Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon** (original by Neil Diamond) Foo Fighters’ **Baker Street** (original by Gerry Rafferty) ---
**Author:** ![Stomp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Stomp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stomp)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/9 "2003-06-10T15:30:07Z")
Thankyou by Led Zepplin Remade by Coalesce. Does anybody know of a band that did an album of Led Zepplin re-makes that is really heavy? I thought it might be Coalesce but I can’t find a whole album of covers from them, only two songs. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/10 "2003-06-10T15:32:49Z")
The Allman Brothers do tons of good ones - _Statesboro Blues_ ( by Blind Willie MacTell) and _The Same Thing_ (by Willie Dixon) are two favorites, but there are a bunch. _All Along the Watchtower_ is a lock, but let’s not forget Jimi’s version of _Hey Joe_. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/11 "2003-06-10T15:45:06Z")
The Clash - Police and Theives (original by Junior Murvin) The Damned - Jet Boy Jet Girl (original by Elton Motello) The White Stripes - I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself (original by Dusty Springfield) Talking Heads - Take Me to the River (original by Al Green) The Soft Boys - Caroline Says (original by Lou Reed) The Pixies - I’ve Been Waiting for You (original by Neil Young) Robyn Hitchcock - More Than This (original by Roxy Music) Robyn Hitchcock - The Ghost in You (original by the Psychedelic Furs) Johnny Cash - Hurt (original by Nine Inch Nails) Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (original by Leonard Cohen) The Raincoats - Lola (original by the Kinks) The White Stripes - Jolene (original by Dolly Parton) Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard - Some Velvet Morning (original by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood) This Mortal Coil - You and Your Sister (original by Chris Bell) and I believe “Girl on a Motorcycle” by the Television Personalities is also a cover. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/12 "2003-06-10T16:30:38Z")
**Manfred Mann** : Blinded by the Light > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pantellerite \* > \*\*Everything on **Hayseed Dixie** ’s album, _A Hillbilly Tribuite to AC/DC_. \*\* What, you don’t care for _A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love_ or _Kiss My Grass_? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/13 "2003-06-10T16:37:54Z")
This topic really does get re-done every month, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/14 "2003-06-10T16:37:54Z")
“Lola” by The Raincoats (Kinks cover). “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” by St Etienne (a Neil Young cover brilliantly transformed into downbeat dance music). “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me” and “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” by TV Personalities (originally by Lee Hazlewood and The Kinks, I think). “Sand by Lisa Germano” and OP8 (originally Lee & Nancy). “Keep On Loving You” by The Donnas (hilarious cover of some horrid 1970s soft rock “classic”). “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Leroy Gomez (Animals cover done as a latin disco version, that works superbly) And practically everything by Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/15 "2003-06-10T17:47:39Z")
Speaking of Johnny Cash, his cover of NIN’s “Hurt.” And the video is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen. Gipsy Kings- “Hotel California” AFI- “Last Caress” Metallica- Garage, Inc ---
**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/16 "2003-06-10T20:02:36Z")
I know diehard U2 fans (and the bandmates) hate this, but I like Pet Shop Boy’s “Where the Streets Have No Name”. It’s so incredibly campy and silly. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/17 "2003-06-10T20:37:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by refusal \* > \*\*“Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me” and “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” by TV Personalities (originally by Lee Hazlewood and The Kinks, I think). > \*\* [hijack] Someone else knows the Television Personalities? I started a thread on them about a month ago and got no responses! How cool! [/hijack] Also really neat, as I also listed “Lola” by the Raincoats. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/18 "2003-06-10T20:44:09Z")
Devo’s 1980 rendition of Johnny Rivers’ “Secret Agent Man”. The Rotary Connection’s remake of Sam and Dave’s “Soul Man”. This has to be heard to be believed. The song is done in a baroque style and most of it is accompanied by a harpsichord. ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/19 "2003-06-10T20:47:34Z")
Do It Again - Tori Amos. I’ve been listening to it all this week. I like how smooth and silky it sounds… ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793/20 "2003-06-10T20:50:32Z")
of course I forgot to mention its originally by Steely Dan:smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-covers/180793.md?page=2)