Covers

Really? I don't believe I have that! Such prolific fellas, they are...

Of course they had whole album of covers in the form ofv A Box of BirRAB... good album that one is, too!
 
Cap'n Jazz - Take On Me (A Ha)
Dynamite Hack - Boyz N' Tha Hood (come on Ethan!)(NWA)
Ampere - Conspiring the Go-Go (Antioch Arrow)
Light This City - Cold (At The Gates)
Angel Hair - Stigmata Martyr (Bauhaus)
The Black Dahlia Murder - Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
Johnny Cash - In My Life (John Lennon/Beatles)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
The Sex Pistols - My Way (Frank Sinatra)
311 - Lovesong (The Cure)
Joan Baez - Ranger's Command (Woody Guthrie)
Joan Baez - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (Iron And Wine (?))
String Quartet Tribute To Elliott Smith - Angeles (Elliott Smith)

Just some good ones.
 
Chris Duarte's cover of Dylan's One More Cup of Coffee

Stevie Ray Vaughan's covers of Superstition by Stevie Wonder and Jimi's Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Baby Don't You Do It - The Who, The Band - orig. by Marvin ***e

Love Hurts - Nazareth, orig. by The Everly Brothers

I Thank You - ZZ Top, originally by Sam & Dave

Cake's version of Sabbath's War Pigs
 
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song. It can sometimes have a pejorative meaning implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive or "authentic" version, and all others merely lesser competitors, alternatives or tributes (no matter how popular). However, Billboard and other magazines recording the popularity of the musical artists and hit tunes originally measured the sales success of the published tune, not just recordings of it or, later, the airplay that it achieved, in which case the greater the nuraber of cover versions the more successful the song. Contemporary versions of older tunes such as "Who's Sorry Now?", "Blue Moon", "Twist and Shout" and "Not Fade Away" have been often used to position well-known music between less familiar "originals".

So tell us what your favourite covers are!!!

I have 2

Firestarter - Jimmy Eat World (Prodigy)
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Nirvana ( Made popular by Lead Belly, but the very original is unknown)
 
In Flames do a pretty mean cover of Genesis' Land of Confusion, and an interesting choice of song for that band...

Death Cab for Cutie also do a really nice cover of Bjork's "All is Full Of Love"...

And for laughs, pretty much anything covered by Richard Cheese....
 
Yeah, you're missing the "skinny white boy in the projects" aspect of all of this.

I did listen to BRU, i just swam in a sea of Jammin when I wasn't in my house.

Edit: Also, might I add, you and I both know Sunday was 360 day.
 
Yea been following this kid for ages, he's good and gets some good compositions. I like his version of With or Without you, mostly because it doesn't sound much like it, but it's a great version.
 
Yes sir I didnt see that one, but The Limp Bizkit one kinda blinded me.

I dig Johnny and Joe Strummer's cover of the Redemption Song most though
 
Well for me my favorite cover is a tie between Instant Wonton's cover of Elliott Smith's Between the Bars and Nirvana's cover of Where did you sleep last night, although some covers I've heard lately have been really good, like I will listen to William Shatner's cover of Common People for hours on end, but that's just me I suppose.
 
Yep, I agree with "All Along The Watchtower", also Jimi's "Day Tripper" (originally sung by The Beatles, of course)...

And another Beatles-Cover: "Because" by Eliott Smith (American Beauty OST)
 
Urabrella by Rihanna covered by All Time Low
Wonderwall by Oasis covered by Cartel
Boyce Avenue does a lot of really good covers to
 
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