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Annie Lenox has an entire album of covers called "Medusa." It's great! What a voice.
Todd Rundgren did an album of covers called "Faithful." He recreated every sound and vocal nuance of the originals so it was really an attempt to come off sounding exactly like the original recordings. eerie stuff. Esp. the Beatles tunes.
Devo's "Satisfaction"
UB40's version of "Red, Red Wine."
Hey, haven't we done this thread before?
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I'll add Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower" to the list. Marvelous stuff.
Steve Martin's cover of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is one of only about two Beatles covers I've liked. (Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of "Taxman" was also okay.)
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I usually think that Beatles' covers are vastly superior to the Beatles. Namely, Rufus Wainwright's "Across the Universe," Sarah McLachlan and Bernadette Peters's (separate) renditions of "Blackbird," and Aerosmith's "Come Together."
My new favorite cover, though, is Bono doing "Can't Help Falling in Love." Ah... that falsetto....
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Rufus Wainwright did a great job with Cohen's Hallelujah. Annie Lennox' "Don't let it bring you Down" is more interesting than Neil Young's version. And I can't decide whether i like Steve Winwood or Alana Davis singing "Can't find my way home."
I wrote this post after only reading Bob's post and I realize I didn't add much at all.
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The Fugees version of "Killing me softly" was great as was Cake's "I will survive". I also really liked Barenaked Ladies take on "When Doves Cry" and "Dancing in the Moonlight" by Toploader - also "Hard to Handle" by the Black Crowes.
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One of my favorite covers is Del McCoury doing Richard Thompson's "Vincent Black Lightning 1952." He takes a folk-rock song, and turns it into a bluegrass song.
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Firewater's cover of Tom Waits' "Diamonds and Gold." It's on their album of cover songs (all great) titled "Songs We Should Have Written"--is that not the best title for a cover album ever?
Guns'N'Roses covering the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," Dope's version of "You Spin Me Right Round," and Luxt's version of "The Safety Dance" are all really good too.
My roommate has co-opted the word "kravitz" to be a verb. "To kravitz" a song means to do a remake of it that's so good the original deserves to be buried, as he feels Lenny Kravitz did with "American Woman."
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You know the song has been kravitzed when you didn't know there WAS another version of American Woman.
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And you really know it is kravitzed when youhear the person who actually wrote the song sing it, and think they are doing a bad cover.
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quote:I usually think that Beatles' covers are vastly superior to the Beatles.
The one that sticks out the most is Earth, Wind & Fire's version of "Got to Get You Into My Life" - a song I believe to be the best Beatles cover ever, not to mention vastly superior to the original.
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quote:So...does that mean I'm the only one who prefers the Guess Who version of "American Woman"?
I'll stick it out with you, Goat! Lenny Kravitz is up there with Sheryl Crow on the list of singers that make me physically cringe.
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Goat, I'm totally with you. The live version for their "Runnin Back Thru Canada" tour is even better.
Incidentally, I nearly bust a gut when I saw a commercial for "Miss America" and they had American Woman playing in the background. Off all the songs to chose... *snicker*
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Crosby, Stills and Nash's a capella version of The Beatles' "Blackbird" is breathtaking. I heard them do that one live on a night when they were really "on" - they did it as their opening song, and were actually high-fiving each other at the end because they knew they were on that night and that it was going to be a good show, as it was.
Also, Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page". I think I've said here before that I think the cover is vastly superior to the original.
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quote:Also, Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page". I think I've said here before that I think the cover is vastly superior to the original.
No way. Too much voice, if anyone at all knows what I mean. Between that and "Stone Cold Crazy", I hereby declare Metallica a band that should never do covers at all. Ever.
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I really like The Ataris cover of Don Henley's Boys of Summer. I don't think I like their version more, but I do like it just as much.
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I have written this somewhere before...I don't remember where though. ??
I love Erasure's cover of "Rapture" by Blondie. I'm not especially fond of their ABBA covers, but they're still fun.
"American Woman" was definitely kravitzed. I love his version of it and had no idea that there was another!
Mmm, and I think Sarah's cover of "Blackbird" is so nice. (Agree's with Annie on those Beatles covers.)
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I'm with Goat on The Guess Who. I'm mixed on Metallica - don't like their version of Turn the Page but loved Stone Cold Crazy.
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Namely, Rufus Wainwright's "Across the Universe," Sarah McLachlan and Bernadette Peters's (separate) renditions of "Blackbird," and Aerosmith's "Come Together."
