What are the best covers of songs you have heard?

crikey, there's LOADS of covers i like, i'll name one til others start replying..(if they do)

Bjork - You Only Live Twice

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (originally Leonard Cohen)

Jeff Buckley - Kanga Roo (originally Big Star)

Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (originally Carly Simon)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Hardest Button To Button (originally The White Stripes)

Oasis - My Generation (originally The Who)

Muse - Feeling Good (originally Nina Simone)

Crying - Don McLean (Roy Orbison)

Don't Dream It's Over - Sixpence None The Richer (Crowded House)

Immigrant Song - Incubus (Led Zeppelin)

Dancing Days - Stone Temple Pilots (Led Zeppelin)

Forever Young - Rod Stewart (Bob Dylan)

So Far Away - Rod Stewart (Carole King)

I Love You - Nine Days (Climax Blues Band)

Eminence Front - Vertical Horizon (the Who)

 

Hallelujah, too.

All along the Watchtower -Jimi Hendrix's version was/is BRILLIANT

Feeling Good-Muse

coldplay - lips like sugar, oasis - i am the walrus, my generation, muse - feeling good, radiohead - nobody does it better

Dear Prudence - Siouxie and the Banshees (The Beatles)

The Passenger - Siouxie and the Banshees (Iggy Pop)

Baby one more time - Travis (Britney Spears)

Killer Queen - Travis (Queen)

Dancing Barefoot - U2 (Patti Smith)

Die die my darling - Metallica (Misfits)

I fought the law - Dead Kennedys (The Clash)

Substitute - Ramones (The Who)

Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails (Joy Division)

Like a Virgin - Teenage Fanclub (Madonna)

there´s more...

Xavier Naidoo feat. Reamonn - Jeanny

I like it better than the original, and that's not often.

didn't we have a thread like this??

 

anyway my favs at the moment are

muse~feeling good

snow patrol~crazy in love

Incubus~teardrop

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (originally Leonard Cohen)

Jeff Buckley - Kanga Roo (originally Big Star)

Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (originally Carly Simon)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Hardest Button To Button (originally The White Stripes)

Oasis - My Generation (originally The Who)

Muse - Feeling Good (originally Nina Simone)

 

Wow

 

Your post surprised me three times.

 

I didn't know Radiohead 'Nobody Does It Better' was actaully a cover by Carly Simon...I didn't know BRMC covered The Hardest Button To Button(when did they do that?)...and I didn't know Oasis covered My Generation.

 

I've got to find these now Thank you!

Gomez - "Getting Better" (the Beatles)

The Flaming Lips - "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Kylie Minogue)

James Taylor - "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King)

John Coltrane - "My Favorite Things" (Rogers and Hammerstein)

Pearl Jam - "Interstellar Overdrive" (Pink Floyd)

Ben Folds - "In Between Days" (The Cure)

Ben Folds - "In Between Days" (The Cure)

 

 

i didnt know this was covered :stunned: the cure are one of my fave bands, so i hope ben folds did it justice :)

I didn't know Pearl Jam covered Interstellar Overdrive

 

Keep them coming!

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (originally Leonard Cohen)

Jeff Buckley - Kanga Roo (originally Big Star)

Radiohead - Nobody Does It Better (originally Carly Simon)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Hardest Button To Button (originally The White Stripes)

Oasis - My Generation (originally The Who)

Muse - Feeling Good (originally Nina Simone)

 

Wow

 

Your post surprised me three times.

 

I didn't know Radiohead 'Nobody Does It Better' was actaully a cover by Carly Simon...I didn't know BRMC covered The Hardest Button To Button(when did they do that?)...and I didn't know Oasis covered My Generation.

 

I've got to find these now Thank you!

 

BRMC played The Hardest Button To Button at Reading Festival last year.

 

Oasis' cover of My Generation was a B-side on the Little By Little/She Is Love single, and they've played it live regularly since 2000.

David Gray -- Say Hello Wave Goodbye (originally by Soft Cell)

i dont think its the best cover ever, but i liked to listen to Coldplay playing Songbird (Oasis)........

The White Stripes do a good job with I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

Weezer - Uptown Girl

and I'll think of more later :P

cake - i will survive :wink3:

Haha, forgot about that one. One of the few Cake songs I can stand. :lol:

 

I saw them live a couple years ago. :snore:

That's a good song :cool:

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Orgy - Blue Monday

Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love, Sweet Dreams

Cat Power - I found a Reason (Velvet Underground)

Flaming Lips - The Golden Age (Beck)

Ben Harper - Strawberry Fields Forever

Grandaddy - Revolution

 

 

those are a couple, I'll think of more later... a lot of the ones I said have already been mentioned.

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)

Supergrass - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Other (The Smiths)

Frank Zappa - Owner of a Lonely Heart" - (Yes) :cool:

Oasis & Ocean Colour people & Paul Weller - Carnation (The Jam)

Manic Street Preachers - Take Theskinheads Bowling (Camper Van Beethoven )

Oh I forgot Michael Andrews & Gary Jules - Mad World. :)

It's even WAY better than the original by Tears for Fears.

mmhh..

Anti-Nowhere League / The Streets of London :dozey: