favorite covers

EdGrip

Good to see I Will Survive buy CAKE - hard to choose between that and Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps but yes - that is an amazing guitar solo!

I will ponder this today, but one of my all-time favourites is this - KT Tunstall again, this time making Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead into one of the most beautiful things I ever heard. I get goosebumps every time I hear it.

Also look for her covers of Boys Of Summer by Don Henley and Mister State Trooper by Bruce Springsteen.

LastMantra

lasermonkey

Another +1 for This Mortal Coil. Other favourites are Teenage Fanclub's cover of He'd Be A Diamond (Bevis Frond) and The Posies' cover of Chris Bell's I Am The Cosmos.

RobDavies

Thought about this for a while and have decided that I really like sepultura's version of Angel (originally done by Massive Attack).

Monkeybone

PolarityMan;238589" said:

Love the lacuna coil one, the APC version of Imagine is one of the shittest things Maynard has ever been involved with on the other hand. 

Personally, I prefer the APC cover of Imagine to the original.

The Bear McCreary/Battlestar Galactica version of All Along the Watchtower.
Seether - Careless Whisper.
Black Label Society - No More Tears (although does it count as a cover if ZW Co-wrote it with Ozzy?)

CHRISB50

Not sure if this has been posted as I haven't checked out all the links.

A great cover of a great original.

Iamnobody

Anything by this trio...

Fazer

Octahedron

"Shakey Ground" covered by Aerosmith Appeared as a bonus track on a version of Music From Another Dimension. 

And I have to be honest I really like their whole blues covers album Honkin' on Bobo (iirc only one original song on the album). 

Grumpyrocker

I rather like Opeth's version of Bridge of Sighs, though it's quite faithful to the original:

Anneke Van Giersbergen (formerly of The Gathering) & Danny Cavanagh (Anathema) cover Teardrop. 

fretmeister

Skindred doing Electric Avenue

fretmeister

Xentrix doing Ghostbusters

fretmeister

Anthrax doing Antisocial

fretmeister

I do like a massive helping of cheese with my cover versions so...

fretmeister

WASP doing The Real Me

(better than The Who ever did it)

Bucket

Just recently found this - it's great! Pop-punk version of a great old Go West song.

Their version of "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer is good too.

dogload

Have we had this one yet? I like it more and more each time I see this clip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF2ODWluPlY

Even has two drummers.

Kosmichemusik indeed!

imalone

I must be the only one who doesn't like This Mortal Coil's Song to the Siren cover, the Tim Buckley original just seems so much more simple, nuanced and forlorn. There's a live version on youtube from The Monkees TV show (of all places), one of those moments when one man seems to effortlessly hold your attention. But since this is a covers thread I wont post that. I'll post this:

xSkarloey

Ronny Jordan's take on So What?

57Deluxe

the best...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-58bOp4mOc8c/TVVthc9csgI/AAAAAAAAAZw/iI3H52yI89k/s1600/sofa4.jpg