Your Favorite Cover Songs?


One of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a rock band is to have some other well known act cover your songs.

Here are some of my favorite cover songs:
1. "Well...Alright" (Original by Buddy Holly covered by Blind Faith)
2. "LA Woman" (Original by The Doors covered by Billy Idol)
3. "Love Me 2 Times" (Original by The Doors covered by Aerosmith)
4. "Come On Everybody" (Original by Eddie Cochran covered by Led Zeppelin)
5. "Refugee" (Original by Tom Petty covered by Melissa Etheridge)
6. "The Battle Of Evermore" (Original by Led Zeppelin covered by Heart)
7. "Hard To Handle" (Original by Otis Redding covered by The Black Crowes)

What are some of your favorite covers?
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In the Air Tonight - Axel Rudi Pell, (Phil would applaud!)
Bridge over Troubled Waters - Eva Cassidy
Who'll Stop the Rain - Courtney Jaye
Linda Ronstadt: I Fall to Pieces
The Beatles: You Really Got a Hold on Me
Till There was You
Roll Over Beethoven
Rock and Roll Music
The Animals: House of the Rising Sun
The Doors: Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
The Beach Boys: Sloop John B.
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Susie Q
Night Time is the Right Time
The Yardbirds: I'm Not Talkin'
Lyle Lovett: Stand by Your Man
Los Lobos: La Bamba
Blind Faith: Well, Alright

The Audreys – Paradise City
Doky Brothers – Waiting In Vain
http://open.spotify.com/track/3nR7uKNTOqrZEJSUuckwhQ
An unlikely new one:

Country singer Gretchen Wilson just released a cover of Led Zep's "Over The Hills and Far Away" that kicks some ass. Straight up rock n roll.
Johnny Cash - “Hurt” (Trent Rezner)
Hendrix - “All Along the Watchtower” (Dylan)
Patti Smith - “So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star” (The Byrds)
Sisters of Mercy - “Knockin on Heaven’s Door” (Dylan)
Love Spit Love - "How Soon Is Now?” (The Smiths)
Led Zep - “You Shook Me” (Willie Dixon)
Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower (Dylan)
Nouvelle Vague-Guns of Brixton (Clash)
Shonen Knife-Top of the World (Carpenters)
Odetta-Times They Are a Changin' (Dylan)
Orbison, Nazareth-Love Hurts (Everly Brothers)
Be Good Tanyas-Waiting Around to Die (Townes Van Zandt)
My Chemical Romance-Desolation Row (Dylan)

I also like the Cowboy Junkies cover of Thunder Road and the Dread Zeppelin covers mentioned above (I particularly like the mashup of Zeppelin's Heartbreaker and Elvis' Heartbreak Hotel).

For so aweful, it is inspiring:

Sebastian Cabot reciting Dylan songs (e.g., It Ain't Me Babe)

Bob Dylan and Tiny Tim doing Sonny and Cher's "I've Got You Babe"

Captain Kirk doing "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Mae West doing "Twist and Shout," which is itself, a cover/ripoff of "La Bamba"
M Ward "Let's Dance"
Rodrigo y Gabriela "Stairway To Heaven"
Cat Power "New York"

Agree that (any) Cowboy Junkies cover is great!
Agree that the SHEL cover is very good, thanks for posting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Us-TVg40ExM

A favorite from the first time I heard it, and definitely one of the most unique.
well, apart from really liking SHEL's cover that Mofi posted (thanks Mofi!), here are a few of mine:

Thunder Road (Springsteen) by Cowboy Junkies

Darkness, Darkness (Youngbloods) by Cowboy Junkies

Over the Rainbow by Eva Cassidy. also - pretty much everything Eva Cassidy did was a top cover.
1. Man's World covered by Residents.
2. Stairway to Heaven covered by Frank Zappa
3. Ring of Fire covered by Frank Zappa. In the concert he announced that JC got sick and won't be in the concert performing his song with his band that made people cheer LOL!
4. Dansing Queen covered by Jazz Baltica
5. Black Dog covered by Dread Zeppelin(the band who covers Led Zeppelin in Reggae style)
6. My way covered by Nina Hagen
7. Hotel California covered by Gipsy Kings in Spanish
There is a young group of sisters from Fort Collins, Colorado called SHEL that do an incredible version of "Battle Of Evermore".

They are aged 18-24 and are fantastic! I've seen them live several times. I hope they make it really big because they are very talented. They are classical trained by their parents. Doesn't hurt that they are also very pretty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHeiguXGy-E