Cover Songs You enjoy more than the Original

[fuckin crazy]

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

[mrlee]

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

[Bartlet]

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!

[fuckin crazy]

Johnny Cash-Hurt

[hellfirecan]

All The Young Dudes - Ozzy Osbourne (Mott The Hopple)

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

[fuckin crazy]

All The Young Dudes - Ozzy Osbourne (Mott The Hopple)

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

MTH recorded the song first.

[hellfirecan]

MTH recorded the song first.

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

[norway]

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

[babydolls]

Dead Souls - NIN (orig Joy Division)

[Veon]

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...

[crow316]

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