Best Covers

Los Lobos: Bertha

https://youtu.be/1CDuQmhTyD4?si=-zdeb-RlyjpwssG0

Saving Escape covering Alabama Shakes "Gimme All Your Love".

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Dear Prudence.

"Papa was a Rolling Stone" David Lindley & El Rayo-X

"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" Isaac Hayes 

5 stars (of 5). Steve Howell & the Mighty Men - 991/2 Won't Do. 2024 release of cover songs. I may be biased because I like everything these cats have done.

Pet Shop Boys - Always on my mind

Eyelids "Good Times Roll"

The Budos Band " reppirT yaD" 

Day Tripper

Eddie Vedder "Drive"

"Downtown" B-52's 

Absolutely killer cover of Deep Purple’s “When a Blind Man Cries” by Metallica!

The Melvins "I Fu$& around" 

Beach Boys uh... cover of "I get around"

"Mr Bojangles" Sammy Davis Jr.

Luna Sweet Child of Mine

Covers are sometimes superior.  Sinatra could frequently improve upon originals

Jimi Hendrix playing “All Along the Watchtower (so good Dylan changed the rhythm it to be more like Jimii)

and both JH and Whitney Houston’s covers of the Star Spangled Banner - more creative, expressive and emotional than any version before.

Bauhaus doing Ziggy Stardust

Siouxsie and the Banshees doing The Passenger

P.S. "Burning Down The House"

Bonnie Raitt covering anything James Taylor or John Haitt did was always good.

I just discovered the album "Here it is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen.  This is  jazz oriented. Here's a cover for you: Mavis Staples singing "If it Be Your Will".  I cannot express how moved I am by Ms. Staples cover. Take a listen.

WET, WET, WET “Love is All Around” covering THE TROGGS original 60’s release

The Bird and the Bee ‘A Tribute to Hall and Oats’. Never personally been a big fan of Hall and Oats but this is a worthwhile album.

After much thought

Me And Mrs Jones (Minneapolis Version)
Sarah Jane Morris

How about Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of Iggy Pop's The Passenger.

@Richmon: You are right! I also learned that consequently to my post. As you said, still a great song! Anyhow, thanks for the correction. - Best, Andy8400.

Lanie Gardner's cover Stevie Nicks' Dreams is getting lots of play. I don't think I have heard anyone do this song better.

(2) Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - White Rabbit (Live) - YouTube

. . . and now I remember buying a Tom Russell CD (Indians, Cowboys, Horses And Dogs) for his cover of Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts.

A few more covers that Bob Dylan did that I remember I liked in my childhood were Lily Of The West, Spanish Is The Loving Tongue, and Big Yellow Taxi. 

"Come Together" by Michael Chapdelaine

Harry Nilsson- 'Without You'.

Dylan did a slew of covers when he played a famous 4 hour show at Toad's Place in New Haven in 1990 including:

Help Me Make It Through The Night

Key to the Highway

Lonesome Whistle

Dancing in the Dark

Across the Borderline

Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie

Trouble No More

Walk a Mile in My Shoes

. . . and on that note, I will recognize Bob Dylan's cover of Mr. Bojangles.

Janis Joplin covering Me And Bobby McGee, maybe?

There was a poster on the dimeadozen torrent site several years ago who was a huge Dylan fan and he put together a compilation series of various artists performing live versions of Dylan covers.

@ezwind  , that made me think of Bob Dylan covering I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind on the Hank Williams Tribute CD.

I actually bought that CD for the Lucinda Williams cover of Cold Cold Heart.

Not related to either cover:  but back in the early/mid '90s when I first started buying "better quality/better sounding" CDs, I bought The Raven by Rebecca Pidgeon with a delightful cover of Spanish Harlem.

@immatthewj

"I am like you in the respect that I like good covers...."

There was a poster on the dimeadozen torrent site several years ago who was a huge Dylan fan and he put together a compilation series of various artists performing live versions of Dylan covers. There were usually 15 to 20 different covers in each volume and as I recall he torrented somwhere around 40+ volumes! I think I still have at least a dozen of them on thumb drives lying around somewhere. I can't remember where I got them but I also downloaded a 9 volume set of songs that Dylan covered in live shows during the course of his career.

. . . here’s another one I just thought of that used to blow me away:

from Dave Alvin And The Guilty Men’s Interstate City CD: the Jubilee Train/Do Re Mi/Promised Land medley absolutely rocks!

. . . which makes me think of Jathintha's cover of Fire And Rain. 

And although I realize it is probably blasphemy, I like the covers that both Jacintha and Patricia Barber recorded of Light My Fire.

. . . @bgross 

@immatthewj  - Sundays covering "Wild Horses" was also mentioned on 2/8. Excellent 90's vibe - good call 

I found where you listed that one on 2/4 . . . as I typed:  I either missed it the first time or forgot about days later.  I am like you in the respect that I like good covers and I have many CDs I bought simply for a cover that was on them.  Not to mention the CDs I own that are complilations of covers.  Not to mention the CDs (fewer) that are by artists that pretty much only do covers.

Rock on!

@bgross  , my eyesight is bad and getting worse every day, and I do not see it on 2/8.  But no matter, if it is, it is, and a beautiful haunting rendition, such as that one, deserves being mentioned at least twice.

How about Joan Osborne's live cover of Son Of A Preacher Man?

The Cures' cover of "Purple Haze". Heavy "stuff" (is that acceptable enough for you, AI Bot?).

@immatthewj  - Sundays covering "Wild Horses" was also mentioned on 2/8. Excellent 90's vibe - good call 

Lucinda Williams and David Crosby covering Return Of The Grievous Angel is another one of my favorites.

@capojacko that reminds me that “The Ghost of Tom Joad” by RATM is outstanding as well.

I also really like “Night and Day” by U2

Savage Grace- "All Along The Watchtower". Difficult to find but IMHO the best version. They even have the drums sound like horses running...

ozzy

Wild Horses covered by The Sundays.

Maggie's Farm covered by Rage Against the Machine. As much as I love Dylan, the cover is so much angrier and louder. 

Shelby Lynne covering Dusty Springfield "Breakfast in Bed" off Just A Little Lovin'

Hans Theessink covering Led Belly "My Girl" off Songs From The Southland

Yuri Honing Trio covering The Police "Walking On The Moon" off Star Tracks

Chris Cornell covering Led Zepplin "Thank You" off Songbook - really good!

Seal covering Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" off The Rare Collection

Bono covering The Beatles "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" off Across The Universe 

Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart covering Willie Dixon "You Shook Me" off Truth

Yep, all day long...