# Intriguing covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903 "2001-11-07T00:26:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903/21 "2001-11-07T22:32:59Z")
The **T.Rex** hit ‘Telegram Sam’ as covered by **Bauhaus** is completely unmissable. They are on different planets, musically speaking, yet somehow… it works. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903/22 "2001-11-07T23:52:50Z")
i really like all of Johnny Cash’s covers on his newer albums. Stevie Ray’s Hendrix covers are awsome. same music, same style but so different. the only bruce springsteen songs i can stand are the Manfred Mann covers, and they are sooooooooooo much better than the originals! jane’s addiction’s version of ripple is cool. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903/23 "2001-11-08T00:54:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > **i really like all of Johnny Cash’s covers on his newer albums.** Have you heard JC’s version of ‘I’m On Fire’? It’s also amazing, and should have been on ‘American III’. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903/24 "2001-11-08T04:31:49Z")
My favorite cover song is **Nirvana’s** cover of _Son of a Gun_, originally by the **Vaselines**. Lyrically it’s a sappy love song, but Kurt’s guitar riff makes it punk rock. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903/25 "2001-11-08T06:00:11Z")
Half a year ago I burned a couple “cover songs” disks. Here’s the lists: **Banana Splits** (Banana Splits) Dickies **Eight Miles High** (Byrds) Hüsker Dü **My Back Page** (Bob Dylan) Byrds **Can’t Help Falling In Love** (Elvis) U2 **I’m Not In Love** (10CC) Olive **Love Will Tear Us Apart** (Joy Division) The Cure **Bizarre Love Triangle** (New Order) Frente! **Be My Baby** (Ronettes) Travis **Don’t Give Up** (Peter Gabriel) Gregorian Masters Of Chant with Sarah Brightman **Suspicious Minds** (Elvis) Fine Young Cannibals **Take A Chance On Me** (Abba) Erasure **Don’t Leave Me This Way** (Thelma Houston) Communards **You Really Got Me** (Kinks) Oingo Boingo **Seasons in the Sun** (???) Too Much Joy **Satisfaction** (Rolling Stones) Devo **Hit Me Baby One More Time** (Brittney Spears) Mr. Bungle **Smells Like Teen Spirit** (Nirvana) Tori Amos **Our Lips Are Sealed** (Go-Gos) Fun Boy Three **New Year’s Day** (U2) Front Line Assembly with Tiffany **Blue Moon** (???) Cowboy Junkies Disk “B” **Gin and Juice** (Snoop Doggy Dogg) Sissy Bar **One** (Three Dog Night) Aimee Mann **Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You** (Frankie Valli) Lauryn Hill **Like A Prayer** (Madonna) Loleatta Holloway **Soul Kitchen** (Doors) X **Get Down, Make Love XXX** (Queen) Nine Inch Nails **Superstar** (Carpenters) Sonic Youth **Like A Rolling Stone** (Bob Dylan) Jimi Hendrix **Another Brick In The Wall** (Pink Floyd) Alex Xenophon **Powderfinger** (Neil Young) Cowboy Junkies **When Doves Cry** (Prince) Quindon Tarver **Always On My Mind** (Elvis) Pet Shop Boys **Silly Love Songs** (Paul McCartney) Replicants **Jump** (Van Halen) Aztec Camera **Across The Universe** (Beatles) Fiona Apple **My Way** (Frank Sinatra) Sid Vicious **Straight To Hell** (Clash) Moby with Heather Nova Some others: **Baba O’Riley** (The Who) Grateful Dead **Material Girl** (Madonna) KMFDM **Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You** (Zeppelin) Paul Oakenfold **I Have the Touch** (Peter Gabriel) Heather Nova **Secret Agent Man** (Johnny Rivers) Devo **Like A Virgin** (Madonna) Ciccone Youth **I Feel Love** (Donna Summer) Messiah ---
**Author:** ![ignatius\_reilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/db5fbb/32.png) [@ignatius\_reilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatius_reilly)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903/26 "2001-11-08T15:27:21Z")
You forgot the best one of all…“Somewhere” from West Side Story as covered by Tom Waits [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-covers/91903.md?page=1)