# Really good cover songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2012, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537 "2012-03-02T12:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/1 "2012-03-02T12:03:43Z")
Do you guys know of any? Onyourwing’s cover of The Pastel’s Nothing To Be Done : [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTn-NGcmIN8) NSYNC’s cover of That Thing You Do : [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L03AuXD3EYs/hqdefault.jpg "Nsync- That thing you do..") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03AuXD3EYs) ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/2 "2012-03-02T12:34:26Z")
John Legend’s cover of Adele’s Rolling in the Deep. Here’s the [a cappella](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQ08ddAdQU) version. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/3 "2012-03-02T14:35:12Z")
Johnny Cash did Hurt, a Nine Inch Nails song. done different. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/4 "2012-03-03T08:38:57Z")
_Knights in White Satin_ by **the Dickies**. [http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=knights%20in%20white%20satin%20the%20dickies&tnr=21&vid=1658600947805&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1658600947805%26id%3D636c16cb26f17d102d7851fad7dda36e%26bid%3Dtj3SYM%252fpwfGwig%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dG2hz8va9tZ8&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DG2hz8va9tZ8&sigr=11aeasrav&newfp=1&tit=The+Dickies+-+Nights+in+White+Satin](http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=knights%20in%20white%20satin%20the%20dickies&tnr=21&vid=1658600947805&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1658600947805%26id%3D636c16cb26f17d102d7851fad7dda36e%26bid%3Dtj3SYM%252fpwfGwig%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dG2hz8va9tZ8&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DG2hz8va9tZ8&sigr=11aeasrav&newfp=1&tit=The+Dickies+-+Nights+in+White+Satin) ---
**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:** [March 3, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/5 "2012-03-03T22:25:22Z")
Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer-_Redemption Song_ (Bob Marley). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/6 "2012-03-03T22:30:58Z")
I’ll post my two favorites that I post every time this topic comes up [While My Keytar Gently Weeps](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ioD3KcVSE) Lemon Demon [Comfortably Numb](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqQFWXWVBNA) Ani DiFranco and and Dar Williams If you really like cover songs, start listening to the podcast [Coverville](http://coverville.com/). I can’t recommend it enough. Nothing but cover songs and usually with some sort of theme. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/7 "2012-03-03T23:28:25Z")
With reference to the above, Elisa with [Redemption Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLGr4drqsg). Also Elisa with [Halleluja](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFG-zQ6eekc). Cowboy Junkies, [One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScZjneRNz08). This Mortal Coil, [Song To The Siren](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM) ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/8 "2012-03-03T23:44:16Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > Johnny Cash did Hurt, a Nine Inch Nails song. done different. Approach with caution. The sadness level in this one can drop a grown man inside one verse. On the flip side of the Johnny Cash coin, I really like Live’s cover of ‘I Walk the Line’. Also, Myglaren, thank you for the lovely Cowboy Junkies link! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/9 "2012-03-04T01:11:02Z")
I’m in-between films at the European Union Film Festival so I can’t link directly, but I think most of these I posted are really good: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13536652&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13536652&postcount=2) ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/10 "2012-03-04T02:53:04Z")
[Liz Longly - Moondance](http://youtu.be/xibyHGLuJns) [Girl In A Coma - Walking After Midnight](http://youtu.be/0VfN6UmQlfI) [Nina Gordon - One More Night](http://youtu.be/XO2A1OoiitI) ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/11 "2012-03-04T11:33:54Z")
I’m not a big Radiohead fan so Easy Star All-Star’s Paranoid Android cover was a revelation. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kOe7xRQUxa4/maxresdefault.jpg "Easy Star All-Stars - Paranoid Android") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOe7xRQUxa4) As is their No Surprises. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f8ZRduB1Uzs/hqdefault.jpg "No Surprises - Easy All Stars") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ZRduB1Uzs) MiM ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/12 "2012-03-04T11:54:11Z")
[Train in Vain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zg0vntc0lk) redone by Annie Lennox, originally by The Clash [Something About You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7883DbN4d4) redone by Anthony David, originally by Level 42 (nobody likes the Level 42 remake except for me, because apparently there’s something wrong with black people doing a white people song instead of the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/13 "2012-03-04T16:13:58Z")
Radar Love redone by White Lion, originally by Golden Earing. My Sharona redone by Veruca Salt, originally done by The Knack. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/14 "2012-03-04T16:31:10Z")
Jimmy Buffett’s cover of Van Morrison’s [Brown Eyed Girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joe2SiCfc0Y) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/15 "2012-03-04T16:48:18Z")
Patti Smith’s [Because the Night](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brHGJ6xqbk) smokes Springsteen’s. For that matter, the Pointer Sisters do a better job with [Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsjB5--36gc&feature=fvst) than Bruce does, too. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/16 "2012-03-04T17:36:36Z")
OK, folks. Please enlighten this not-with-it oldtimer. What is a “cover song”, and how is it different from a regular song? I see this phrase all the time on YouTube, without a clue of what it means. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/17 "2012-03-04T18:08:13Z")
[Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version) on “cover song.” It’s when an artist does another version of an already existing song. And I think Wilson Pickett owns [“Hey Jude.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6944F32lOc) ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/18 "2012-03-04T18:29:02Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Patti Smith’s [Because the Night](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brHGJ6xqbk) smokes Springsteen’s. For that matter, the Pointer Sisters do a better job with [Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsjB5--36gc&feature=fvst) than Bruce does, too. You know, I thought 10,000 Maniacs was the original artist. :smack: ---
**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:** [March 4, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/19 "2012-03-04T19:57:00Z")
> [@Lazlo](#): > > You know, I thought 10,000 Maniacs was the original artist. :smack: Add this to the “Wait, That’s A Cover Song??” thread. 😉 [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=637467&highlight=Cover+song](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=637467&highlight=Cover+song) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537/20 "2012-03-04T20:02:03Z")
[Orgy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAt9QTmVc7Q)’s remake of New Order’s “Blue Monday” really kicks the original version’s ass. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-cover-songs/614537.md?page=2)