# More Great Covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007 "2016-07-27T05:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/41 "2016-07-28T05:51:52Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > That link led me to another great Bauhaus cover of Brian Eno’s “[Third Uncle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iuhc0QR61c)” That’s one of my favorite Bauhaus songs. A couple covers of rap songs: Nina Gordon (from Veruca Salt) - “Straight Outta Compton” (NWA) _Explicit Lyrics_ [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NG2EGOB9-lc/hqdefault.jpg "Straight Outta Compton - Nina Gordon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc) Ben Folds - “Bitches Ain’t Shit” (Dr. Dre) _Explicit Lyrics_ [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gjFRy8jQ_0U/hqdefault.jpg "Ben Folds - Bitches Aint Shit") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFRy8jQ_0U) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/42 "2016-07-28T06:20:25Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Jello Biafra & D.O.A. - We Gotta Get Outta This Place](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-AeyJLwHxw) Really enjoyed that one. I saw the JB and Dead Kennedys live in Charlottesville some 30+ years ago. A fine show. You gotta love the Dead Kennedys: “[Viva Las Vegas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLNI0AND4rU)” And one can always count on the Residents for a good Elvis cover: “[Jailhouse Rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWemvEmsulw)” ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/43 "2016-07-28T06:26:10Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > That link led me to another great Bauhaus cover of Brian Eno’s “[Third Uncle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iuhc0QR61c)” You know, I had no idea that was a cover, so thanks. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/44 "2016-07-28T07:13:35Z")
[Alien Ant Farm “Smooth Criminal”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE) (originally by Michael Jackson) [Blind Guardian “The Wizard”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2a05KLxSRM) (originally by [Uriah Heep)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iuaxvkXv4) [Ensiferum “Lady in Black”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7DbZ-C4EMQ) (originally by [Uriah Heep)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXUXlX1Jbdk) [Iced Earth “Shooting Star”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMI8WVH5uwQ) (originally by [Bad Company)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_Pp6-SZ28) [Nightwish “Over the Hills and Far Away”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwED4C5FJuo) (originally by [Gary Moore)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IocRCDWB5k) [Ronnie James Dio “Welcome to My Nightmare”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br5E3uSz72M) (originally by Alice Cooper) This one’s loads of fun: [The Zimmers “My Generation”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY) (originally by The Who) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/45 "2016-07-28T07:57:46Z")
Chris Smither - [Statesboro Blues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMOZuh99bs) (Blind Willie McTell) Pixies - [Head On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F5TZ7z7tJs) (Jesus and Mary Chain - a fun video too) Evan Dando and Syd Straw - [For Shame of Doing Wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kccevwiqng) (Richard Thompson) Warren Haynes - [One](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552MKRGstYc) (U2) > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I give you [The Dickies](https://www.discogs.com/artist/253321-The-Dickies) > > They have doing great punk covers since the 70’s > > Eve of Destruction > the Sound of Silence > Silent Night > Knights in White Satin > Paranoid > Communication Breakdown > Gigantor > and Banana Splits theme song See also: [Me First and the Gimme Gimmes](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=me+first+and+the+gimme+gimmes) (exclusively a cover band, so not exactly analogous to Dickies) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/46 "2016-07-28T08:13:32Z")
One more: Punch Brothers - [Just What I Needed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxgr-Ebpidw&list=PLslxeOGneMPt4jYOl4iDV6uJBUYNUhKiJ&index=5) (the Cars) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/47 "2016-07-28T09:50:46Z")
Cardigans - [Sabbath Bloody Sabbath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9PT4CM8LQc) NOMEANSNO - [Forward To Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSezVb2tQug) (A capella Dead Kennedy’s cover! - “That’s the way a snare sounds”) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/48 "2016-07-28T12:28:53Z")
Cat Power, [Satisfaction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyx_LUIbrhM). Sundays, [Wild Horses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyCkSOF1pc). ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/49 "2016-07-28T12:34:22Z")
The amazing _Stan Ridgway_ and [16 Tons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl14BkYp3s4). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/50 "2016-07-28T12:49:26Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Evan Dando and Syd Straw - [For Shame of Doing Wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kccevwiqng) (Richard Thompson) Good one! The various artists album “RT - Songs By Richard Thompson” has a lot of excellent RT covers. I also like Bonnie Raitt’s cover of “When The Spell Is Broken” from that album. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/51 "2016-07-28T17:40:26Z")
Sturgill Simpson - “In Bloom” (Nirvana) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NpDYfkymaSE/hqdefault.jpg "Sturgill Simpson - "In Bloom"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDYfkymaSE) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/52 "2016-07-28T18:03:00Z")
Toots and the Maytals [Take Me Home Country Roads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFKMar4x-w) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/53 "2016-07-28T18:05:52Z")
First Aid Kit’s cover of [Simon & Garfunkle’s America](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy70q_awGUk). Watch it! It’s wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/54 "2016-07-28T19:00:58Z")
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes covering[Hank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4lQQNk1WCg). Complete with bagpipe! 🙂 MFATGG also do a killer version of Nat King Cole and Judy Garland tunes, too! ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/55 "2016-07-28T19:27:34Z")
Al Kooper’s 1976 cover of Gary Lewis & The Playboys 1965 recording of Al Kooper’s **This Diamond Ring**. Note: Kooper wrote the song but didn't record it himself for 11 years. Also worth mentioning that aside from token overdubs by the Playboys, and Gary Lewis adding his weak but recognizable voice to prerecorded vocal tracks by Ron Hicklin, the '65 recording was performed by the Wrecking Crew. PS: > [@Derleth](#): > > … “Wild Horses”…A great cover of a mostly-forgotten Rolling Stones song. Mostly forgotten?? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/56 "2016-07-28T20:21:15Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Pixies - [Head On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F5TZ7z7tJs) (Jesus and Mary Chain - a fun video too) Pixies do [Warren Zevon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n9aivoGtAQ). ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/57 "2016-07-28T21:04:29Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Pixies do [Warren Zevon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n9aivoGtAQ). Pixies and Warren Zevon, two of my all-time favorites. Pixies cover of Neil Young’s “Winterlong.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mWWjMgzhbu4/hqdefault.jpg ""Winterlong" - Pixies") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWjMgzhbu4) ---
**Author:** ![IllinoisBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@IllinoisBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IllinoisBoy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/58 "2016-07-28T21:36:14Z")
Tom Jones cover of Prince’s “Kiss” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuH1XDtN4rE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuH1XDtN4rE) Stevie Wonder on The Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl3dN1L1XQE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl3dN1L1XQE) Stevie Ray Vaughn doing Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTUYKHOdHCc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTUYKHOdHCc) Perhaps my favorite… Richard Thompson cover of Britney Spear’s “Oops I Did It Again” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/59 "2016-07-28T22:10:09Z")
> [@Cumbrian](#): > > Apologies for several by the same artist. A couple of year’s ago Bruce Springsteen went on tour to Australia and New Zealand and did a bunch of local\* cover versions. Your post has led me on a tour of YouTube videos of Bruce and the band playing covers in concert, mostly during the ‘audience choice’ portion of the set that they do during every show. This exercise has convinced me that the E Street Band is hands down the greatest cover band that has ever lived. As evidence, I present this clip of them doing Van Morrison’s [Brown Eyed Girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFKEdHKeaw). Bear in mind that the band has never recorded the song, they didn’t rehearse the song, and they didn’t know they would be playing the song until just a couple of minutes before they started…Bruce even goes back and forth a couple times trying to figure out what key they should play it in. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007/60 "2016-07-29T00:03:40Z")
Emiliana Torrini [I Really Loved Harold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91aB_Nf2rl4) Same artist [The Man With the Golden Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMnrVegs6Kk) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-great-covers/761007.md?page=4)