now i forgot PJ did Last kiss, and wow what a great cover! Steve Earle tackled “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Guy Davis did “From a Buick 6,” and, the highlight, Lucinda Williams and her band covered “Queen Jane Approximately.” It hits a little after the 33 minute mark, but the whole thing is worth watching. The first thing that grabs you in the intro is the then-novel sound of the clavinet, which Wonder would later use to spectacular effect on ‘Superstition’. “We threw the idea around of doing a song together but weren’t sure what. Led Zeppelin – Boogie With Stu (Valens) As you might guess from its nine-minute runtime, Devendra Banhart’s “Franklin’s Tower” sticks closer to the Dead template. The Yardbirds – I’m a Man Jumping Jack Flash – Johnny Winter Judas Priest – Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez), Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower It was the year a Jim Carrey movie soundtrack inexplicably asked bands like Smash Mouth and Brian Setzer Orchestra to cover Steely Dan. To celebrate the 55th birthday of Highway 61 Revisited, the Bardavon music venue in Poughkeepsie pulled together a virtual tribute concert. One kid was forbidden by his parents from joining us, as was my younger brother. We hope more people will discover this gem through our translated version and that it brings some feeling of hope to what has been a very dark year. We played it as an homage that night and every night after. Much, much better than the original. He told me Kesha, who was working on something else in an adjoining studio, heard them recording it and barged in, demanding to be on this tribute album. Down the road, Katie wrote me that she would be in L.A., so I tracked the guitar and she came by to visit and put down her part. Uploading videos for 25 foot screens. And for those who came of age during the 90s diva heyday, Mariah Carey’s take didn’t do too shabby on the charts either. One of the first songs they played together was a cover of “Candy Says.” All these years later, they’ve gone back to the beginning, recording it for their new Late Night Tales collection. Atlantic Rhythm Section- Spooky But the album was everything he hyped it up to be. Originally recorded by soul singer Dobie Gray, ‘The “In” Crowd’ often gets confused for a Motown number, thanks to the label’s arranger Gene Page, who gave the single the Motown touch. ‘Tainted Love’ was originally a minor UK hit for T.Rex member and Marc Bolan’s girlfriend Gloria Jones, but in Soft Cell’s cover, the minimal synth backing and Marc Almond’s obsessive vocal makes it both more disturbing and far sexier. Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower. Here she took a minor UK hit by The Arrows that most of her fans hadn’t heard, and turned it into her lifelong manifesto. Before Ferry tackled the tune, Ramsey Lewis Trio recorded a live instrumental version in 1964; later, Cheap Trick performed a cover of Ferry’s cover. Ira Kaplan said: “I’m sure I heard the Byrds’ song for the first time when my mom took me and a bunch of my friends to see Easy Rider. also 3 of the best covers ever are not on this list, sounds of silence by disturbed, strawberry wine chris stapelton, house of the rising sun white buffalo (SOA theme song), Simple man shinedown! Piece of my heart – Janis Joplin Ray Charles….Georgia….Hoagy Carmichael Stevie Wonder’s cover, however, was the first to give the original a run for its money. To our ears, the best cover songs go beyond an artist performing a faithful rendition of someone’s else’s work to make the song their own with a complete re-imagining. Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues (Cochrane) Jeff Healy – Blue Jean Blies (ZZ Top), Otis Redding’s version of My Guy has always been my favourite, SRV – Little Wing (Hendrix) Only just discovered this list so how about: One More Cup of Coffee (Bob Dylan) – Calexico & Roger McGuinn, KD Lang After the gold rush, The Beatles Twist & Shout, Status Quo Everytime when you walk in the room & All around my hat, Jethro Tull A Christmas song & Cats squirrel , The Byrds Turn turn turn, Roy Buchanon Sweet Dreams ,Mike Oldfield Wonderful land, The Zoot Eleanor Rigby, Lou Gramm Tin Soldier, Melanie Safke Ruby Tuesday. Every year, I do a big anniversary post tackling the best covers of a year before Cover Me was born. We’re willing to nominate this cover for the most gorgeous harmonies ever on a pop single, turning an already-fine Shirelles hit into the very essence of romance. So he had no reason to cover the Beatles unless he could make it something special – which he does by turning it funky, giving a classic vocal performance and changing the mood of the song. Can’t believe Muse Feeling Good is not on that list (Nina Simone), Your email address will not be published. Let’s Spend the Night Together – David Bowie ‘Stones’: Neil Diamond Sings Joni, Cohen, Brel…And Himself, Justin Bieber Strips Down ‘Holy’ With Chance The Rapper In Acoustic Recording, Slash, Kirk Hammett To Celebrate Eddie Van Halen During Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame TV Special, Hear One Of Elton John’s Earliest Songs With Bernie Taupin, Hear Neil Diamond’s Lush Recording Of ‘Sweet Caroline’ With The London Symphony Orchestra, Watch The Avett Brothers’ Timely ‘This Land Is Your Land’ Video, best Beatles covers with 20 essential versions of Fab Four classics. Now they’re finally coming out with a proper covers album, called Kindred Spirits. “So now I can say unequivocally that Galaxie 500 are indeed a big influence on us.”, The first single off Yo La Tengo’s mostly-covers EP Sleepless Night, due October 6. One of the greatest modern-day soul ballads, as written by… Black Sabbath? I was fiddling around with the song in my dressing room when Katie and Alynda walked in. jimmy hendrix-star spangled banner – Henry Gross K.D. Bette Midler….In My Life….The Beatles. In Elvis Costello’s hands (and Lowe’s again, since he produced it) it became a song for the ages. If the name Ted Gärdestad doesn’t ring a bell, how about this one: ABBA. ‘Come Give Me Love’ is a classic song about a relationship coming to an end. Are ‘Friends’ Electric? Sade – Still in Love With You (Thin Lizzy), The Animals – House of the Rising Sun, Bring It On Home to Me, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, ‘Walk This Way’ is one of the most groundbreaking party records ever. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. In turn, Browne gave Allman all the world-weariness he ever needed from a lyric. And where’s Jimi Hendrix’s cover off All along the watchtower? Bob Dylan plays his version in concert. (They Long To Be) Close To You – Carpenters Beach boys need to be added to the list on their cover of CALIFORNIA DREAMIN. Roddy Ricch got an early bid on claiming one of 2020’s most popular songs when “The Box” snared the Hot 100’s top rung in January, and stayed there 11 weeks. Victoria – The Fall. If time is money you’ve made me a wealthier woman. While you’re reading, listen to our Best Cover Songs playlist here. ), Marika Hackman Teases Covers Album with Elliott Smith and Beyoncé Covers, Five Good Covers: “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” (Whitney Houston), Full Albums: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s ‘Deja Vu’, Full Albums: Lucinda Williams’ ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’, Five Good Covers: Keep On Running (Spencer Davis Group/Jackie Edwards), Five Good Covers: “Everything in Its Right Place” (Radiohead). Manowar – Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath), Bananarama – Venus (Shocking Blue) My dad took my brother to see Butch Cassidy instead, and I’m guessing my friend stayed home and did homework.”, Crazy As A Loon by califone / tim rutili / red red meat, Shut it Down: Benefit for the Movement for Black Lives by Thou. As I wrote in my new book, tribute albums were big business by this time too, which means that many 2000 covers emerged through that format. Hey, if you’re going to put a few up by Bob Dylan, you can’t leave out Rage Against the Machine’s cover of Maggie’s Farm. Roy Buchanan- Change My Mind Hard to say which was the original and which the cover of ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’, since Gladys Knight’s barnstorming version topped the charts a year before Marvin Gaye’s slow-groove take, yet the latter was actually recorded first. “[The original is] this very confidence-boosting, really good-feeling, power-infusing song,” Amigo’s Danny Kiranos told Rolling Stone. It’s meaningful that Welsh musician Kelly Lee Owens dropped the first half of the title to Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi.” “Weird Fishes” stands in for the lyrics, which are nowhere to be found on this cold and clinical instrumental cover that opens her new album. Then on the second disc she tackles Nirvana, Rammstein, The Cranberries, and more. Nowadays they’re likely to do the acoustic version, if they play it live at all. Sure enough, the Ozzy ballad proved the perfect vehicle for the soul singer Charles Bradley to eulogise his mother and generally pour his heart out. I love this list! And, I can’t believe no one has mentioned Whitney Houston’s cover of “I will always love you”. Nat King Cole…Stardust…..Hoagy Carmichael Unlike most of the soundalike cover songs on his 1976 Faithful album, Todd Rundgren performs the lead track in his own voice, absolutely blazing through The Yardbirds’ proto-metal tune. The sheer unlikelihood makes it hilarious, but The Wailers actually make a pretty great groove out of it. Whether solo or with Roxy Music, this is one of the few Bryan Ferry tracks that cracks a wide smile, sending up his jet-set image while celebrating it at the same time. Discover the best Beatles covers with 20 essential versions of Fab Four classics. I know you’ve mentioned it, but this one is in my humble opinion the best cover of all times! It looks like we may have to extend this to 200! Beyoncé was in the quartet Destiny’s Child; Justin Timberlake only had a one-in-five chance of being your favorite member of N’Sync (or maybe one-in-four…sorry Joey). You may use these HTML tags and attributes:
, Cover Songs That Could Have Only Happened in the Year 2000, B.B. massively successful DJ A-Trak, and David Macklovitch, a.k.a. Plenty of people fell in love with both the cover and Hynde herself, including Ray Davies. I Go To Sleep – The Pretenders. Darling Nikki – Foo Fighters. In celebration of a reissue of Galaxie 500’s album Copenhagen, a monthlong covers series found everyone from The Magnetic Fields to Thurston Moore covering their songs. Some great choices from you all so far. Anthrax – God save the queen (sex pistols) Angel Baby – John Lennon, Cream-crossroad John Norum -Sunshine of your love ( Cream) YouTube was still a few years away, as was streaming more generally, so covers still mostly came out through “traditional” avenues: on albums, as the b-sides to singles, etc. there are tons of other good covers. Hurt – Johnny Cash The original track was produced by none other than Björn and Benny from ABBA, with ABBA on backing vocals. 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No Doubt – It´s my life (Talk Talk) Sandra – Everlasting love (Robert Knight) None of those are on this list (though, if you want more dated trainwrecks like those, stay tuned Monday for a bonus list I’m calling the “The Most Extremely ‘2000’ Covers of the Year 2000”). “I was curious what it would sound like if you took away the positive nature of it and kept the lyrics, essentially the emotions they are portraying.”, “This all started in 2018 when I opened a three-bill tour for co-headliners Waxahatchee and Hurray for the Riff Raff,” Bedouine wrote. Killdozer – I Am … I Said “A House Is Not A Home” should have graced this list. To love somebody – Janis Joplin Nobody Does It Better – Radiohead. Kiss – God Gave Rock and Roll to you (Argent) When I interviewed Hal Willner in 2019 for my new book on tribute albums, we spoke a lot about his as-yet-to-be-released Marc Bolan tribute album. How did they include Solitary Man (which was good), but say it was better than Hurt. So far we’ve done 1969 (in 2019), 1978 (in 2018), 1987 (in 2017), and 1996 (in 2016). Miss the good music of Karen Carpenter. Only trouble is, The Moody Blues’ hit worked great as a punk-pop number delivered in a Buzzcocks style. some really good songs one this list, but nigths in white satin is not one of them, moody blues rocks that song! She is. It does not prevent copyright infringement. You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby – Kirsty MacColl. Also covers of 3 kink songs that came out in 1975 by LITTLE ROGER and THE GOOSEBUMPS…”all day and all of the night – so tired of waiting for you – Victoria”. It was a real kick to hear Ritchie Valens’ hit ‘La Bamba’ revived in the 80s for the biopic soundtrack starring Lou Diamond Phillips. That version of Hurt is so good. Tom Jones-Kiss Looking for more? Israel Kamakawiwo´ole – Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a wonderful World (Judy Garland/Louis Armstrong) Metallica covered Deep Purples Blind Man admirably also. Their version also managed to match the No.4 peak of the 1963 Springfield original. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – Elton John Suddenly, I remembered there were three verses to split up. For five minutes, we had the answer. Patti Smith and Springsteen are co-authors. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Every year, I do a big anniversary post tackling the best covers of a year before Cover Me was born. Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix Down the road some more Alynda put down her part from New Orleans and sent it over the ether. CCR – I Put A Spell On You (Hawkins) So, you won’t find great records like Mott The Hoople’s ‘All the Young Dudes’ or Linda Ronstadt And The Stone Poneys’ ‘Different Drum’ here, since they were the first artists to record those songs, written by David Bowie and Michael Nesmith, respectively. Electioneering – Cold War Kids. We recorded this with producer Daniel Bengtson at Studio Rymden in Stockholm earlier this spring. Stand By Me by John Lennon. It was also the first indication that singer Annie Lennox was going to be something special. On a less commercial note Deff Leapard do a great version of Thin Lizzys Don’t beleive a word. Ace Frehley -The Joker (Steve Miller Band). … On the other hand, Harry Nilsson’s cover stands as one of pop’s greatest solo vocal performances, wringing every bit of passion from the 1970 Badfinger tune. There are many great cover songs, but only a few stand out as landmarks, earning themselves a distinction among the … The original Hot Chip duo met at school twenty years ago. great topic….but how the hell can anyone not consider Kris Kristoffersons’ ”me and bobby mcgee” by Janis Joplin ?and for those who have not heard these….how about…Freddie kings’ version of dylans’ ”meet me in the morning”….phil manzanera/enos’ version of beatles’ ”tomorrow never knows”…frank zappas’ version of ”stairway to heaven” with the horn section jamming pages’ solo……government mule/w/peter framptons’ version of ”born under a bad sign”……. Now, two years later, we’re finally getting to share it.”. Not Fade Away – Rolling Stones. But it’s The Bangles’ Vicki Peterson doing the honours on this perfect New Orleans-meets-Laurel Canyon version of the Michael Nesmith-penned gem. People just upload videos in multiple parts.You are punishing the innocent while the copyright pirates still get away with it. Every Little Thing – Yes, Marrianne Faithfull cover of John Lennons Working class hero …. The 1966 Diamond version was about young-adult heartbreak, while Cash’s rendition is about going through life and never getting over it. Puff Daddy-I´ll be missing you(Every breath you take), Tank -Crazy Horses ( Osmonds) 2016’s Day of the Dead tribute album featured all sorts of clever indie-rock reimaginings of Grateful Dead songs. And both versions were technically cover songs, since the first recording was an overlooked Miracles album track. So I am extremely excited for her double covers album The Tunis Diaries, out October 23. – The Dead Weather. In the context of the album, it meant, “Before we take this trip, here’s what it’s all about.”. Roxy Music – Like a Hurricane (Young) By the time this site started seven years later, all this seemed like ancient history. As one of the most ubiquitous cover songs of all time, most people mistake Buckley’s version for the original. Puff Daddy-Come with me(kashmire) Andy Kim – Lover Hurts (again) a slightly rocked up version Roll Over Beethoven – E.L.O Got to love Steve Marriott’s little vocal improv: “I sho’ feel good… therefore, therefore, I don’t need no doctor!”. Motown was never shy about covering The Beatles; Berry Gordy already had The Supremes making an album called A Bit Of Liverpool a few months after the group spearheaded the British Invasion. ‘Goin’ Out Of My Head’: Little Anthony and the Imperials’ Stirring Soul Staple, ‘Undercover’: The Rolling Stones’ Dark, Exhilarating Entry Of 1983, ‘I Know There’s Something Going On’: Phil Collins Helps Frida Into Hot 100. Nobody gave more soul to this oft-recorded Jackson Browne tune than Gregg Allman on his 1973 solo debut album, Laid Back. “Gimme Shelter”, Grand Funk Railroad, yes GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!!! Buckley’s great performance has all the dark beauty and sensuality that composer Leonard Cohen intended (and it followed a great, if less accessible version by John Cale). Cover Songs That Could Have Only Happened in the Year 2000; The Best Cover Songs of October 2020; The Best Cover Songs of 2000; A.A. Williams Takes The Cure’s “Lovesong” from a Celebration to a Song of Longing; Good, Better, Best: “Hanging By A Moment” (Lifehouse) honorable mention…”The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More,” The Walker Brothers, originally recorded by Frankie Valli…, The Residents – This Is A Man’s World Phoebe Snow- At Last Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You (Hawkins) We think the added vocal harmonies brings that unique First Aid Kit touch to the song. You’ll make out the melody, to be sure, but in a strange experimental-jazz context. Revolting Cocks – Do Ya Think I’m Sexy What about AC/DC doing Baby Please Don’t Go? First, The Coasters’ rollicking ‘Down In The Alley’, and then this Bob Dylan cover, performed with great tenderness. Frontman Martin Courtney said everyone assumed Galaxie 500 was a big influence when they got started, but he’d never even heard them. Have we missed any of your favourite cover versions? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. They may have meant it as a goof, but Pearl Jam made a solid rock ballad out of J Frank Wilson And The Cavaliers’ early-60s teen weeper ‘Last Kiss’. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); When we last heard Amigo the Devil, he was stripping down a Tom Jones song to create a haunting murder ballad. When he recorded it in 1970, The Beatles’ hit was five years old, and Stevie was just coming off back-to-back masterpiece singles in ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)’ and ‘Heaven Help Us All’. The Brothers Macklovitch are Alain Macklovitch, a.k.a. 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