Shawn Colvin did a pretty nice cover of “The Chain”
Duncan Sheik on the same CD did a fantastic version of “Songbird”
Those are from “Legacy: A tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours”
“Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On” – David McComb & Adam Peters
“Who By Fire” – The House Of Love
“Chelsea Hotel” – Lloyd Cole
“Tower Of Song” – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Are all great! and from I’m Your Fan • The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Sinead O’Connor, whatever else you may think of her did “Nothing Compares 2 U” and topped the charts with it (being originally a Prince song)
The Bangles of all people Kicked serious A$$ on “Hazy Shade of Winter” by Paul Simon
Another vote for Johnny Cash and “Hurt” powerful (and yes, even Trent Reznor says so)
I like Aerosmith’s version of “Come Together” easily as much as The Beatles original
I don’t know if it is on an album, but Cyndi Lauper really did a great version of “Working Class Hero” at a John Lennon Tribute
Willie Nelson did a really nice version of “American Song” by Paul Simon
And while we’re talking Willie, does Patsy Cline’s version of “Crazy” by Willie count or did he write that for someone else to sing? I know he has since recorded it.
And that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Shibumi II
The title of that Beatles’ song All the Lonely People is actually “Eleanor Rigby”.
Anyway, being OLD, anyone remember the song “Secret Agent Man” by Johnny Rivers"? Devo had their own electronicized version which was quite good. (Most of the words were changed and it’s practically a different song - but still sounds great).
Hard to believe that Devo’s “new” version of “Secret Agent Man” is 25 years old.
Yesterday I heard on the radio (KFOG, for you Bay Area dopers) a Leo Kottke version of Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion”. VERRRRY interesting.
Has anyone mentioned Devo’s re-do of “(I can’t get no) Satisfaction”?
I’ve been having trouble with this lately, as well, I cannot make my text little.
waves to Scott Plaid Awwww, you remembered me and my illicit Nik love. :o
I love old Nik. I’ve heard quite a few remixes of “The Riddle”, and there’s one I’ve been searching high and low for, but I can’t find it anymore. I have to shake this sleep-fog off so I can figure out how to begin describing it.
One of my favourite remixes (don’t hurt me!) is John Mellancamp and Me’Shell’s version of Van Morrison’s “Wild Night”.
My husband and I are both fond of the Pet Shop Boys’ cover of “Go West”.
Grand Funk’s “Bad Time” done by the Jayhawks.
The Smithereens take on “One after 909” (the Beatles Anthology version, though at the time it was only out on bootlegs)
Roxy Music’s version of “Jealous Guy”
Rufus Wainwright or Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah”
The Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb” as done by The Who (!!)
Warren Zevon’s cover of the Grateful Dead song “Casey Jones”
Moby’s cover of “Verb (That’s What’s Happening)” (the Schoolhouse Rock song)
Sparks did a whole CD called “Plagarism” where they updated their stuff, but my favorites off that is “Something for the Girl With Everything” (featuring Mike Patton of Faith No More) and “Angst in My Pants.”
Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg’s cover of Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It”
Metallica’s cover of “Whiskey in the Jar” (most famous version is by Thin Lizzy, but I believe it’s a traditional Irish folk ballad – correct me if I’m wrong)
Bow Wow Wow’s version of “I Want Candy” (Don’t know who did the original)
That whole album (Deadicated; buy it if you can) is pretty good, but I think my favorite is Lyle Lovett’s cover of “Friend of the Devil.” It’s much more mournful and filled with regret than the original.
There’s also Dr. John’s cover of “Deal.” I’m not familiar with the original, so I don’t know how the two versions compare, but as a Dr. John song I think it kicks all kinds of ass.
