favroite covers?

what are your favroite remakes of original songs?
myne are:
mamas and papas: dancin in the streets
elton john: lucy in the sky with diamonds

 

Nirvana+ Man who sold the world
Garath Gates= Long and winding road. Nah just kiddin

 

jimi hendrix-all along the watchtower

rufus wainwright-across the universe
eric clapton-i shot the sheriff

 

i'd have to say all along the watchtower by jimi as well.

 

I don't know who did it originally, but I Know You Rider is a fuckin awsome cover song.

 

Widespread Panic covers Bowlegged Woman...awesome cover in my opinion..if you can, get the song from New Orleans 10/27/01...amazing!!

 

A Perfect Circle-Imagine

 

I have this bluegrass cover of dont stop beliving
and man who sold the world-nirvana

 

I think bob & ratdog did a killer "Dear Prudence"

 

I like the remake of Spooky done by Atlanta Rythym Section....

 

Guns N Roses - Live and Let Die
Ramones - What a Wonderful World
Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies (I think) - Few of My Favorite Things
Agony Scene - Paint It Black (I think I like the original a little better though)
other stuff that I can't think of

 

Velvet Revolver - Money

Iron Horse - Stairway To Heaven
APC - Imagine
Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel, CC Rider
Sublime - Scarlet Begonias

 

Phish-- Crosseyed and painless
Phish-- Cities

i love when they cover the "talking heads"

 

my favourite cover is jimi hendrix's version of Dylans "all along the watch tower"

 

yeah tis good

i like the cure cover of hello i love you by the doors and
the clash a cover of louie louie

 

Jello Biafra with D.O.A.- We Gotta Get Outta This Place

 

Rolf harris does a great smoke on the water and he does a version of stariway to heaven, although he calls it stariway to wigan, me thinks...

 

Oasis ~ "Help!" (Beatles)
Oasis ~ "I Am The Walrus" (Beatles)
13th Floor Elevators ~ "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan)
THe Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ "All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan)
Sara McLauchlin ~ "Blackbird" (Beatles)
Noel Gallagher & The Stereophonics ~ "I'm Only Sleeping" (Beatles)
Blind Melon ~ "Working Class Hero" (Lennon)
Blind Melon ~ "John Sinclair" (John Lennon)
Sheryl Crow ~ "D'yer Mak'er" (Zeppelin)
Pink Floyd ~ "Kingbee" (?)
Patti Cathcart & Tuck Andress ~ "Castles Made of Sand/Little Wing" (Hendrix)
Patti Smith ~ "Gloria" (Willie Dixon)
John Lennon ~ "Grow Old With Me" (?)
The Doors ~ "Gloria" (Willlie Dixon)
The Doors ~ "Back Door Man" (Willie Dixon)
John Lennon ~ "Stand By Me" (Ben E. Young?)


there's so many more... I'm not even gonna get started on all The Dead covers

 

Them, The Shadows of Knight, The Blues Magoos, The Outcasts and the 13th Floor Elevators all recorded better versions of Gloria.

 

guns n roses- knockin on heavens door