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What are some cover songs u like more than the originals.



Im probably gonna get slammed for one or two of these.


I know this sounds crazy and maybe I am the only one, But I like Limp Bizkit's version of "Behind Blue Eyes" way better th an the original The Who Version.

GNR's covers of course



Lets hear some

Metallica's Whiskey in the Jar
Nirvana's The man Who Sold The World
RATM's Renegades of Funk ( I' dont even know who wrote this song originally).

within temptation - running up that hill (kate bush)
sharon den adel (from within temptation) - crucify (tori amos)
disturbed - shout (tears for fears)
metalium - thank you for the music (abba)
sonata arctica - still loving you (scorpions)
blackmore's night - wish you were here (rednex)
blackmore's night - ocean gypsy (renaissance)
blackmore's night - st. teresa (joan osbourne)
blackmore's night - diamonds and rust (joan baez)
these next 2 are for D
bon jovi - i don't like mondays (the boomtown rats)
bon jovi - mrs. robinson (simon & garfunkel)
metallica - die, die my darling (misfits)

i'm gonna stop now ;D

a link if you need help ;D : http://www.coversproject.com/artists

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Sonarta Artica - Wind Beneath My Wings
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Totally agree with them!  : ok:

But totally dont agree with that one. the original was a masterpiece, but they even got rid of the solo n rapped over it in the limp bizkit one  :-[ for christs sake

Richard Cheese - Down With the Sickness
Guns N' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil

And live and let die of course

Wicked Games (Chris Isaack) - HIM
Nothing Compares (Prince) - Sinead O'connor ---> does this count?  ???
Electric Eye (Judas Priest) - Helloween
LALD (Paul MacCartney) - GNR

Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds (Dylan)
Head On - The Pixies (Jesus and Mary Chain)
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley (Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton)
Everlasting Love - U2 (Robert Knight)

I like their version too, but maybe it's because I heard it before the original.

i think all the covers gn'r ever did live and recorded (except maybe "we will rock you")

hmm, others:
marilyn manson - sweet dreams
ben folds - bitches aint shit
etreyu (spelling?) - you give love a bad name
rage against the machine with tool - calling dr love
rancid - la bamba
hardcore superstar - don't you ever leave me
velvet revolver - surrender
velvet revolver - bodies
velvet revolver - wish you were here
dope - you spin me round (like a record)
ugly kid joe - cats in the craddle and a silverspoon
faith no more - i'm easy
pearl jam - last kiss
backyard babies - mommy's little monster
marilyn manson - tainted love
alien ant farm - smooth criminal ?:hihi:
blink 182 - dancing with myself

those are the ones for now cuz my brotha wanna have the computer lol

MOtley Crue- Helter Skelter
Judas Priest-Diamonds and Rust
Disturbed- Land Of Confusion

Ozzy Osbourne - Pictures of Matchstick Men
Izzy Stradlin - Memphis

Blah, covers are horrible....None of those hold a candle to the originals. 

Covers I can tolerate though are:
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
LALD - GNR
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - Beck
Waterloo Sunset - David Bowie (It's far too overproduced, but it has a nice little different ting to it than the Kink's version.)

Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower (Dylan)- has to be the greatest example of the superior cover

GNR - Sympathy for the devil (Stones), really runs the original ragged

Type O neative - Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young) - so so much better

I can't believe i missed that one  :o

Fiona Apple's cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Angel".

 - and -

GNR - Sailing

Jeff Buckley - If You Knew

metallica-turn the page

all along the watch tower-hendrix
all of GNRs covers
paradise city-Gavin DeGraw...aint no GNR but a like it
Wicked Game-HIM
Solitary Man-HIM
Poison Heart-HIM

and alot that a cant think of at the moment lol

I haven't heard the original all the way through, but no one has mentioned The Beatles' version of Twist and Shout.

GNR - "Ain't It Fun"
GNR - "Down on the Farm" (although the original is good)

Led Zeppelin- When The Levee Breaks
Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower
Izzy Stradlin- Pressure Drop

Prince wrote Nothing Compares 2 U but hadnt put it on an album when Sinead did it, so technically he just wrote a song for her to perform, He did perform it later though.



I also heard Limp's Behind Blue Eyes before the original and no He doesnt rap in it at all, he has a little computerized glitch voice spelling out L I M P  instead of the guitar solo.

I just like Limp's version,it speaks to me more and I feel more emotion on it. Im just not a "Who" Fan...........



Some more Covers.

John Frusciante "For Emily Whenver I may Find Her" *SimonandGarfunkel*

Prince "I cant Make you Love me"  (Bonnie Raitt)

Prince "One Of Us"  (Joan Osbourne)  I never liked Joan's version but I love the version Prince does on Emancipation

Wicked Game-HIM

Hurt - johnny Cash. I love the NIN original. But Cash's version fucking blows that one away.

Absolutely agree on "Hurt"


Marilyn Manson "Sweet Dreams"

Cocaine-Eric Clapton

Bruce Springsteen: Dream Baby Dream. (Suicide)
GnR: Live and Let Die (Wings)
The Postal Service: Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
Ben Harper: The Drugs Don't Work (The Verve)
Queensryche: Scarborough Fair (Simon and Garfunkle)
Johnny Cash: Hurt (NIN)
The Replacements: Black Diamond (Kiss)

GnR - Live and let Die
Motley Crue  - Anarchy in the U.K. < Blows the Original out of the water.

Guns N' Roses: Live and Let Die ( Paul & Wings)
Axl Rose; Look at your game girl, (Charles Manson)
Pantera: Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)
Metallica; am i evil? (Diamond Head)
Rage Agaisnt the Machine: Maggies Farm (dylan)
Freddie Mercury : The Great Pretender ( The platters)
Judas Priest - Diamonds And rust ( Joan Baez)
Marilyn Manson; Sweet Dreams (eurtyhmics)
Nirvana; Lake of fire (meat puppets)
Tool: you lied (Peach)
Deep Purple; Help! ( The Beatles)
and last but not least....
Led Zeppelin; In my time of dying (Blind Willie Johnson )  : ok:

Faster Pussycat - "You're So Vain"
Sugar Ray - "Abracadabra"
Dynamite Hack - "Today Was A Good Day" (hard to find but brilliant)
Radiohead - "Nobody Does It Better"
Guns n Roses - "Whole Lotta Rosie"
Soundgarden - "Into The Void"
Pearl Jam - "Rockin' In The Free World"
U2 - "Unchained Melody"
Nine Inch Nails - "Dead Souls"
Soundgarden & Pearl Jam "(Hey Baby) Land of the Rising Sun"
Kiss - "Do you Remember Rock N Roll Radio?"
Metallica - "Last Caress" (possibly greatest cover of all time)

Tool- No Quarter (led zeppelin)
Tool - Calling Dr. Love (Kiss)
Dope - Fuck the Police (NWA)
Korn - Another brick in the wall (pink floyd)
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (eurithmics)
Marilyn Manson - I put a spell on you (the animals?)
Jimi Hendrix - Hound dog (elvis)


   i love a good cover song

Goldfinger -- Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
Jeff Buckley -- Hallelujah (Cohen)
The Black Crowes -- Hard To Handle (Otis Redding)
The Black Crowes feat Jimmy Page -- What Is And What Should Never Be (Zep)
Ben Harper -- Sexual Healing (Gaye)
Jeff Buckley -- Back In NYC (Genesis)
Sublime featuring HR -- Shame In Dem Game (the Bad Brains)
Jane's Addiction -- Rock N Roll (The Velvet Underground)
Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Voodoo Chile/Slight Return... any of the live versions he did (Jimi Hendrix)

although i'm a big bob dylan fan:

guns n' roses - knockin' on heaven's door

Silvertide - Behind Blue Eyes                           (the who)
Scissor Sisters - Take me out                      (frans  ferdinand)
Jeff Buckley -- Hallelujah                        (Cohen)
Guns N' Roses -- Live and Let Die          ( Paul & Wings)

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? ? Believer? ~ Sebastian Bach & Dimebag Darrel (Ozzy)
Got the time ~ Anthrax (Joe Jackson)
Hid your Heart ~ Ace Frehley (Kiss w/o? Ace)
Helter Skelter ~ Motley Crue (The Beatals)
 

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guns n roses  it's alright  because i think it is better than sabbath's version

joan jett's version of "i love rock n roll"

motley crue's version of "helter skelter"

I totally agree, Freddie rocks on that song,  :yes:

The Clash - Brand New Cadillac
Futureheads - Hounds Of Love
Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah
The Vines - Ms. Jackson
The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

There'll be more later

Jolene - White Stripes
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana
Running Up the Hill - Placebo
Live and Let Die - Guns n' Roses

mike flowers pops - wonderwall (oasis cover)

U2- Helter Skelter
Soundgarden-Come Together
Johnny Cash- Hurt
Chris Isaac- Solitary Man
Garth Brooks- Hard Luck Woman
Soundgarden- I Dont Care About You

as much as i love thin lizzy.

i enjoy metallicas whiskey in the jar much more.

WASP-The Real Me-the WHO
Megadeth-No More Mr. Nice Guy-A.Cooper
Edie Brickell-A Hard Rains Gonna Fall-Dylan

okay guys, don't kill me for this but I do like HIM's 'Don't fear the reaper' more than the original version of that song by Blue ?yster Cult  :)

if you haven't heard it, give it a try.

yup i like that one more too : ok: :beer:

Bruce Springsteen - Trapped

Jimmy Cliff wrote the original. Springsteen's version is so much better. I thought at first it Springsteen's own song, given how good it actually is.

korn - word up :headbanger:

I love the Pantera version of Planet Caravan =) but still not sure which i like better, the Sabbath one is still fantastic. I think it depends on my mood tbh =)

Agree with the Whiskey In The Jar, Metallica version, wherever that is above. And Man Who Sold The World.

Iron Maiden's "Doctor Doctor" (Original by UFO)
Jimi Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" (Original by Bob Dylan)
Judas Priest's "The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)" (Original by Fleetwood Mac)
Judas Priest's "Diamonds and Rust" (Original by Joan Baez)
Megadeth's "Anarchy In The U.K." (Original by The Sex Pistols)
Pantera's "Planet Caravan" (Original by Black Sabbath)
Samhain's "Halloween II" (Original by The Misfits)

Samhain's is better than the Misfits, which is odd as it's still Danzig singing.? :P

Rage Against The Machine, "Microphone Fiend" (Eric B and Rakim)


ill be back with more.

i was just gonna post and th en saw this, u beat me to it

Ramones - needles & pins

Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower  : ok: One of my all-time fav songs and my fave cover song

As someone else mentioned the Johnny Cash version of Hurt is far superior to the original. This is coming from a huge NiN fan as well who loves the original. Even Trent agrees the Cash version is better. Trent once said (and I'm paraphrasing since I can't find the original source, but I know he said it) "It's like losing your girlfriend.. She just isn't yours anymore."

I actually listened to American IV on Saturday night, pretty good album overall.

GNR. Human Being (NY Dolls)
GNR. Live and let die (McCartney)
GNR: Mama  Kin
GNR: KOHD (Dylan)
GNR. The whole  Spaghetti Incident album
GNR. Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis)
GNR: the BEST cover band  ever :rofl:

Lit- Pictures of You(The Cure)
Butch Walker- People Are Strange (Doors)
Butch Walker- Always Something There to Remind Me
Butch Walker- Since You Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson)
Gilby Clarke- Killing Of Georgie (Rod Stewart)
Johnny Cash- Hurt (NIN)

And I prefer all GNR versions!!

girls girls girls- Motley Crue ......................way better than Elvis' version :hihi:



:headbanger:

I think Cash did a good job on the Hurt cover, sure, but I still prefer the original. Those are Trent's words and thoughts on the song, and no one sings them better than the man himself :)

And no, I don't care if Trent thinks Cash's version is better - I still stick by my opinion :P

"I feel good" by GNR  :P

Edge of Sanity's version of the Manowar song 'Blood of My Enemies'

I can't really tell if it's better than the original, but it is sheer awesomeness... I just fell out of my chair the first time I heard it!

Afrika Bambaataa

never knew it was a cover  :-[

I should look for the original, but damn, I love the Priest version.

"Death Letter": Covered by the White Stripes and originally written by Son House.

Replicants self-titled CD. Every song on there. : ok:

i know no one agrees with this..but i enjoy GUns N Roses "sympathy for the devil" more than the Rolling Stones version...let me clarify...i am a big stones fan but I always thought that it was a shit song...i can name 40 Stones songs that are better....with that said I would rather hear GNR play a shit song than the Stones...neither version is very good....but i would rather listen to GNR.....

The Stones version is better.. However the "uh uhs" annoy the hell out of me. The studio version could've been much better. But it's still an awesome song. Not the Stones' best though

I agree ^, no way GNR's version is as good as The Stones

I'd Say

LALD by GNR
Imagination by The Stones
Jolene, Just Dont Know What To Do With Myself, One More Cup Of Coffe, and Death Letter by White Stripes
Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash

Just a few that come to mind:

GNR - KOHD, Hair of the Dog, It's Alright
Aerosmith - Train Kept A' Rollin (originally a Yardbirds song); Come Together
Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby
Grateful Dead - You Win Again

The Stones SFTD is perfect just the way it is.

There are not many covers that are marked with "ok" in my books, mostly because they slaughter the songs and turn into something it was never meant to be.

Amongst the few covers I acctually like, is the Thin Lizzy version of the Irish folksong Whiskey In The Jar.
Metallica turned it into fail.

I also like the Deep Purple cover of Hallelujah.

Covers are not my style. Done by people who wants to earn money on other peoples art: fail.
 

bumping this and adding many "new" ones

RATM - renegades (that's like rage against the machine's spaghetti incident? : ok:)

track list:

Microphone Fiend by Eric B & Rakim
Pistol Grip Pump by Volume 10
Kick Out the Jams by MC 5
Renegades of Funk by Afrika Bambaataa
Beautiful World by Devo
I'm Housin' by EPMD
In My Eyes by Minor Threat
How I Could Just Kill a Man by Cypress Hill
The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen
Down on the Street by The Stooges
Street Fighting Man by Rolling Stones
Maggie's Farm by Bob Dylan
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Blind Melon - out on the tiles (zeppelin of course)
Stone Sour - Wicked game (chris isaak)
Buckcherry - on the road again (willie nelson)
Buckcherry - nasty (janet jackson)
Less then Jake - I would walk 500 miles (the proclaimers)
the hellacopters - bullet (misfits)
Social Distortion - burning ring of fire (johnny cash)
Social Distortion - Country roads (john denver)
Social Distortion - Tainted Love (don't remember but you know)
Ozzy - working class hero (lennon)
Ozzy - in my life (beatles)
Faith no more - war pigs (black sabbath)
Hanoi Rocks - up around the bend (CCR)
Van Halen - You really got me (the kinks)
Blind Melon - working class hero (lennon)
Ramones - have you ever seen the rain (CCR)
Soggy bottom boys - gin n' juice (snoop dogg)
smash mouth - i'm a believer (monkees)
Replacements - another girl, another planet (the only ones)
the wall flowers - i started a joke (bee gees, i think)
Bumblefoot - can't take my eyes of you (the supremes)
Black Label Society - Whiter shade of pale (procol harum)

I might not like these more then the ramones originals, but i think people should check them out so i post anyway
Backyard Babies - pet cemetery (ramones)
Pete Yorn - I wanna be your boyfriend (ramones)
Rooney - here today, gone tomorrow (ramones)
Kiss - do you remember rock n roll radio (ramones)

Deadsy - "Tom Sawyer"
KISS - "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II"

Some recent ones: Chris Cornell - Billie Jean(Michael Jackson), Golden Smog - Starman(David Bowie), Johnny Cash - If You Could Read My Mind(Gordon Lightfoot), Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Down By The River(Neil Young)

Oooooold Norwegian version of total eclipse of the heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3gjyWXEuk :hihi:

i thought Joan Jett had the original I Love Rock N'' Roll, but who is it then?

Gilby Clarke - Mecedes Benz
Green Day - Shout (they use it in the middle of King For a Day live. Kicks ass) Dont know who has the original, some black gospel chick or something.
Guns N Roses - Whole Lotta Rosie! I am a huge Ac/Dc fan, but still, Axl kicks ass in this song!!!
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal -Jacko
Bumblefoot - Whats new pussycat? :p Tom Jones, aint it?

and the best one EVER:
Dope - You spin me round

For the moment I like what Bon Jovi did with Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

K. D.'s version is pretty nice!

Tweeter and the Monkey Man - by the Headstones

I love it much more than the Traveling Wilbury's version.


I also enjoy GnR's version of Knockin' on Heaven's Door better than Dylan's.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - TOTO (The Beatles)
All The Young Dudes - Ozzy Osbourne (Mott The Hopple)

That was a Tiny Bradshaw song. He did it in the early 50's. It was one of his biggest hits, but you're right, the Aerosmith cover kicks ass.

I always thought GnR's version of Jumpin Jack Flash was the absolute sheet.

That is damn good, but Leon Russell owns that song.

i really enjoy aerosmiths cover of the doors "love me two times"

disturbed - shout (tears for fears)
Nirvana's The man Who Sold The World
Jeff Buckley ? Hallelujah
Guns N' Roses - Sympathy for the Devil
LALD (Paul MacCartney) ? GNR
pearl jam - last kiss
marilyn manson - tainted love
alien ant farm - smooth criminal
Hurt - johnny Cash
Marilyn Manson "Sweet Dreams"
Nirvana; Lake of fire
The Black Crowes -- Hard To Handle (Otis Redding)
Faith no more - war pigs
Guns N Roses - Whole Lotta Rosie!
Panic (The smiths, covered by pete yorn)
Since I don?t have you - gnr
New rose - gnr
Down on the farm ? gnr
Human being ? gnr
Raw power ? gnr
Aint it fun ? gnr
Attitude ? gnr
I don?t care about you - gnr
"Across the Universe", performed by Rufus Wainwright ? beatles
"I'm Looking Through You", performed by The Wallflowers ? beatles
"Golden Slumbers", performed by Ben Folds ? beatles
"I'm Only Sleeping", performed by The Vines ? Beatles
"Help!", performed by Howie Day ? beatles
"Nowhere Man", performed by Paul Westerberg ? beatles


ok, ive got too much time on my hands, and i stole lots of these from the rest of you, but i like to be thorough and only steel from the best!

Johnny Cash-Hurt

Which was a cover of a Bowie song...no?  So a cover of a cover?  :rofl:

MTH recorded the song first.

yeah my bad...Bowie wrote it and I assumed he recorded it first.  I owe you a Coke  : ok:

Nazareth did a good version of Love Hurts didn't they, and The Animals did a good cover of House of The Rising sun :beer:

Dead Souls - NIN (orig Joy Division)

The Foo Fighters and Black Label Society are two bands that put out pretty good b-sides... anyway, I digress...

Gov't Mule - 30 Days in the Hole
Foo Fighters - Darling Nikki (Prince)
Foo Fighters - Iron and Stone (The Obsessed)
BLS - I Never Dreamed (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
BLS - Whiter Shade of Pale (Procul Harum)
Sublime - We're Only Gonna Die (Bad Religion)
White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself (by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and popularized by Dusty Springfield)
Clash - I Fought the Law (Sonny Curtis)
Pearl Jam - Love Reign O'er Me (The Who)
Dropkick Murphys - Wild Rover (traditional, popularized by the Clancy Brothers)
Ben Harper - The Drugs Don't Work (The Verve)
Screaming Trees - Working Class Hero (John Lennon)
Velvet Revolver - Surrender (Cheap Trick)
Derek and the Dominos - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)
Jimi Hendrix - Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer - Redemption Song (Bob Marley)
Queens of the Stone Age - Precious and Grace (ZZ Top)
Nirvana - Where did You Sleep Last Night? (Ledbelly)
Metallica - Sabra Cadabra (Black Sabbath)
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

I always loved The Supersuckers version of the 'The Cowboy Song', not as much as the original by Thin Lizzy...

Anthrax-  Cowboy song (thin lizzy)
Social Distortion- Ring of Fire (johnny cash)
Rob Zombie- Boogie Man (kc and the sunshine band)