Uh…
The Clash - I Fought the Law (not sure about original artist)
The Ramones - “Warm California Sun” (Rivieras)
The Bangles - “Hazy Shade of Winter” (Simon and G)
Social Distortion - “Ring of Fire” (Cash)
Also, Erasure did a series of Abba covers on their “abba-esque” album, which are all very good.
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In my defense, I’d have had a better time seeing that if you’d’ve spelled “gin” correctly.
I got nothin’ else.
Check out Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty) by the Foo Fighters. It’s awesome.
Also their cover of I Feel Free (Cream) is pretty damn good.
Fair enough.
I’ll add in Hotel California by the Gipsy Kings (as featured in the soundtrack to The Big Lebowski).
Edit: I just have to add that getting to be the first to post that this late in the thread was like picking up Albert Pujols in the 6th round of a fantasy draft.
God. Dammit.
Dude, if you’re ever in Charlotte, we seriously need to spend some time listening to some music.
Some of the more unusual covers from Leningrad Cowboys:
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Monty Python)
Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
Paradise City (Guns N’ Roses)
Gimme All Your Lovin’ (ZZ Top)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynrd)
It was originally recorded by The Crickets. I think it was their first song after Buddy Holly quit.
My suggestions:
Queensryche - *Scarborough Fair *(Simon & Garfunkel)
Faith No More - (Theme from) Midnight Cowboy (John Barry)
Bowling for Soup - Hit Me Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (Stevie Nicks)
Some of my faves (I put together a Halloween mix last year containing many of these)
*The Bad Plus doing Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” as an instrumental jazz song
*Jimi Hendrix did a great version of “Day Tripper” on Radio One (I’ve also got him playing a version of “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” during a live show the day that the Beatles released the album)
*Red Hot Chili Peppers did Hendrix’s “Fire” on Mother’s Milk (plus “Castles Made of Sand” on a compilation)
*Continuing the Hendrix theme, Don Byron did a badass, funky jazzy version of “If Six Was Nine” on Nu Blaxploitation
*The Minutemen did great covers of all kinds of older rock acts, but my favorites are CCR’s “Green River” and Steely Dan’s “Dr. Wu”
*Another early 80’s LA punk classic: Black Flag doing “Louie, Louie”
*Dinosaur Jr has a great version of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven”
Some great cover-based albums and compilations:
*Seu Jorge has a terrific album of acoustic, Portuguese-language David Bowie covers on the Life Aquatic soundtrack
*Primus did an EP covers called Miscellaneous Debris. All the songs are great, but the highlights for me are Pink Floyd’s “Have a Cigar” and XTC’s “Making Plans for Nigel”
*The soundtrack for the Bob Dylan pseudo-biographical movie I’m Not There is quite good all-around
And couldn’t leave out Richard Thompson doing Britney Spears’ “Oops I did it again”
A thousand times yes.
It’s closer to “jokey” but I like Jonathan Coulton’s acoustic guitar-and-vocals covers of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” and Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” (both are on YouTube to check out).
You mentioned “Everybody Knows” but I’ve always preferred Concrete Blonde’s cover of George Harrison’s “Beware of Darkness”.
I second (or is it fourth by now) “Common People” by Shatner/Folds/Jackson.
If you like The Minutemen’s covers (or even if you don’t), check out the successor band fIREHOSE’s Live Totem Pole OOP EP [1992], which has the following outstanding covers:
“The Red and the Black” [Blue Oyster Cult]
“Sophisticated Bitch” [Public Enemy]
“Revolution (Part Two)” [The Butthole Surfers]
“Slack Motherfucker” [Superchunk]
“Mannequin” [Wire]
Other faves:
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ cover of The Ohio Players’ “Love Rollercoaster”.
The Damned’s cover of Love’s “Alone Again Or”.
Talking Heads’ cover of [the Rev.] Al Green’s “Take Me To the River”.
A few notable daisy chain covers:
XTC’s cover of Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”.
Camper Van Beethoven’s cover of The Chocolate Watchband’s cover of The Kinks’ “I’m Not Like Everybody Else”.
Muse’s cover of Nina Simone’s cover of “Feeling Good,” an Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse song from the 1965 musical The Smell of the Greasepaint, the Roar of the Crowd.
Shatner’s common people definately makes the list. I’ll have more time to check out the other suggestions tomorrow. Thanks so much for all the help.
[del]Marty McFly’s[/del] Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode as covered by (among many others) The Sex Pistols. :eek:
CMC fnord!
Save Ferris’ version of Cum On Eileen orig. by Dexys Midnight Runners - it’s really good!
and if you like ska covers, Reel Big Fish do a fun one of Take On Me orig. by A-Ha.
I also vote for Cake’s cover of “I Will Survive” and Cash’s cover of “Hurt”
Nitpick: Come On Eileen.
Fun trivia action: Cum On Eileen is a porno title from the movie Clerks.
White Zombie’s cover of K.C. & The Sunshine Band’s Boogie Man
Metallica’s cover of Thin Lizzy’s cover of the really old ass Irish song Whiskey in the Jar
The Austin Lounge Lizards’ (bluegrass-y) cover of Pink Floyd’s Brain Damage
Webb Wilder’s cover of the Electric Prunes’ I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
The Reverend Horton Heat’s cover of Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues
Reel Big Fish’s cover of Tracy Chapman’s Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones’ cover of Kiss’ Detroit Rock City
I’m not sure ironic is the right word, but if you want an outstanding cover that is very different from the original, i highly recommend:
Gary Jules, “Mad World” (Tears for Fears)
I also like:
Fine Young Cannibals, “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” (The Buzzcocks)
Also good:
Aztec Camera’s version of Van Halen’s Jump and Rashid Taha’s version of Rock the Casbah by the Clash.