Best covers you've heard.

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T.Rez	Posted: Tuesday, Aug 9 2011, 12:32
NIN Group: Members Joined: Mar 24, 2011	Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) covering Joy Division's Dead Souls and Queen's Get Down Make Love RATM covering The Stooges' Down on the Street Marilyn Manson covering Tainted Love (can't remember who did the original)

JOSEPH X	Posted: Tuesday, Aug 9 2011, 12:42
Boss Group: Members Joined: Dec 18, 2008	Tainted Love - Soft Cell was a cover if that's what you're thinking. I saw an interview with Gloria Jones a few years ago and she said the Soft Cell cover was better than her version.

Menaced	Posted: Tuesday, Aug 9 2011, 13:09
Group: Andolini Mafia Family Joined: Mar 6, 2009	Disturbed did a pretty decent cover of Tears For Fears' "Shout". Here's another good cover by a British group I've never even heard of -- Escala. And this is the original song they covered, just in case you haven't already gathered:

Slamman	Posted: Tuesday, Aug 9 2011, 16:59
Godawful-Disturbed-Earl Root Group: BUSTED! Joined: Nov 29, 2003	Reminds me... Our/THE REAL Disturbed covered BOC's Tattood Vampire, in live sets, but they also covered the mighty Celtic Frost when John Swett played guitar in the band, evidence... ^ Not known World wide, but someday, since I am dedicated to spreading the name of Earl Root in his honor, keep the man and band's legacy alive. One of the Root of All Evil traditions was a special metal radio show of ALL COVERS and since he passed away, Tim H who co-hosted for many a year, continues it annually in a show aptly titled Cover Your Ears It covers all covers we can muster in a 5 hour span of music, with NO commercial air play! Unprecedented! In the rock genre again... TESLA, a band out of Sacramento California, you may have heard of, struck sonic gold with Little Suzi. A song that is again, a cover, an obscure Simon Philips band called Ph.D! It took forever for me to find this info. Black Crowes cover of John Lennon's Jealous Guy is one of the all-time best, if you ask me. TRULY, because I did hear their version first, but I went back and got a Lennon Best of and then found his melancholy version at slower tempo felt like the Unplugged one, it was again genius This post has been edited by Slamman on Tuesday, Aug 9 2011, 17:12

Jimmy_Leppard	Posted: Tuesday, Aug 9 2011, 17:09
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Menaced	Posted: Saturday, Aug 13 2011, 11:49
Group: Andolini Mafia Family Joined: Mar 6, 2009	A cover of this song by John Lennon.

ThePinkFloydSound	Posted: Sunday, Aug 14 2011, 16:11
Windowlicker Group: The Connection Joined: Nov 3, 2004	Original by Afrika Bamaataa & The Soulsonic Force..

Slamman	Posted: Sunday, Aug 14 2011, 21:04
Godawful-Disturbed-Earl Root Group: BUSTED! Joined: Nov 29, 2003	Gotsta have Motorhead covered by Sepultura, I saw the classic lineup close their show with this in grand style at Metalfest in Milwaukee!

trip	Posted: Thursday, Jul 19 2012, 02:24
Ѿ Group: Andolini Mafia Family Joined: Oct 10, 2007	Bumpity. Here are two different Elvis covers that seem to keep popping up when I have my MP3 player on random. The Cramps - Jailhouse rock. Devo - Don't be Cruel. For some reason the person who posted this vid put three songs on it - skip to 3:25 for "Don't be Cruel" - it's worth it.

sublimelabs	Posted: Thursday, Jul 19 2012, 02:57
The Jimmy Rustler Group: Members Joined: Oct 31, 2011	Good stuf, trip. I'm quite fond of what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross do. Original by Led Zeppelin. And this counts, right?

ILIKEFIREPLACES	Posted: Saturday, Jul 21 2012, 09:53
Golf Wang. Group: Members Joined: Aug 14, 2011	I'm gonna have to go with The Baseballs they do covers of Pop songs and make them amazing and hilarious at the same time. Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan is a definite classic as well. and then any cover Johnny Cash did. An absolute legend.

Rofl50	Posted: Tuesday, Jul 24 2012, 09:08
My name is Legion and we bring destruction and death! Group: Members Joined: Dec 26, 2011	Sabaton Cover this song and i think it's brilliant

Majestic81	Posted: Saturday, Jul 28 2012, 07:56
=LMC= Group: Members Joined: Jan 11, 2012	Motorhead covering Metallica

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Posted: Saturday, Jul 28 2012, 08:08

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QUOTE (ILIKEFIREPLACES @ Saturday, Jul 21 2012, 09:53)

Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan is a definite classic as well.

you sly gentleman, I've got so much love for Hendrix's cover of All Along The Watchtower, was the first song that popped into my head the moment I saw the title of this thread.

the award for worst most recent cover goes to...Ed Sheeran and Devlin: Watchtower

trip	Posted: Saturday, Jul 28 2012, 13:45
Ѿ Group: Andolini Mafia Family Joined: Oct 10, 2007	Doesn't everyone do Watchtower? I was at this show

fgcarva1	Posted: Saturday, Jul 28 2012, 18:04
Il Figlioccio Group: Members Joined: Nov 20, 2010	Glad someone bumped this topic. I see a lot of covers I enjoy around here so instead of posting them again here's Rise Against's cover of Bob Dylan's Ballad of Hollis Brown.

VF94	Posted: Sunday, Jul 29 2012, 19:05
Rated R for Retarded Group: Members Joined: Jul 15, 2009	Gotta love the Murphys And This post has been edited by VF94 on Sunday, Jul 29 2012, 19:16

TheGreatGig23	Posted: Monday, Jul 30 2012, 14:22
Useful Idiot. Group: The Connection Joined: Oct 26, 2011	There are so many good covers I know of that I'm not sure where I should begin. I'll post this one for now and add more when/if I remember to do so. I love Pink Floyd with an immense passion and they are by far the greatest influence in my life but this cover can't even be compared to the original. They are both so unique and have such an individual feeling that, in essence, they are no longer the same song at all. I adore both versions hugely and respect the covering artists for treating the song so delicately. Enjoy.