Greatest cover songs!

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Seun A

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I don't know about you guys, but I love a great cover when done by another professional... In this thread you will post some of your favorites, point being so we can check them out!

No arbitrary numbers like top5 or top10... just rattle off some of your favorite covers... please include who did it originally as well as who does the cover!

All along the watchtower - Hendrix - orig Dylan
Black magic woman - Santana - orig. Fleetwood mac
Movin' Out - The Supervillains - orig. Billie Joel
You Really Got Me - Van Halen - orig. The Kinks
Voodoo Child - Stevie Ray Vaughan - orig. Hendrix

Turn the Page - Metallica - orig. Bob Seger
(hell, i can think of a half dozen covers from that album that are damn good, love garage days!)

Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Orig. Dale Hawkins
Revolution - STP - orig. Beatles
Red Red Wine - Bob Marely - orig. Niel Diamond
Cocaine - Clapton - orig. J. J. Cale
Higher Ground - Chili Peppers - Orig. Stevie Wonder

Kick out the Jams - RATM - orig. MC5.
Knockin' on heavens door - Guns and Roses - orig. Bob Dylan
Love Song - 311 - orig. The Cure
Rivers of Babylon - Sublime - orig. The Melodians
No Quarter - Tool - orig. Zeppelin
No Woman No Cry - Sublime - orig. Bob Marley


I know i'm missing some other great ones... if I had to pick a favorite out of all these i MIGHT have to go with cocaine just because its incredible... i've been listening to Movin' out a ton recentely though, love the supervillains
 
Emperor - A Fine Day To Die (Bathory)
Emperor - Gypsy (Mercyful Fate)
Obituary - Circle of the Tyrants (Celtic Frost)
Decapitated - Suffer The Children (Napalm Death)
Decapitated - Mandatory Suicide (Slayer)
Decapitated - Lunatic Of God's Creation (Deicide)
The Berzerker - Corporal Jigsaw Quandary (Carcass)
Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest)
Psycroptic - Incarnated Solvent Abuse (Carcass)
Sepultura - Orgasmatron (Motorhead)
1349 - Buried By Time And Dust (Mayhem)
Gorgoroth - Life Eternal (Mayhem)
Dissection - The Antichrist (Slayer)
At The Gates - Captor Of Sin (Slayer)

can't think of anymore at the moment.
 
wow, you really are a tool. bob marley never sang this song, in fact it wasn't even released until after he was dead.

as for my favorite covers:
Blinded by the light- Bruce Springsteen, covered by Mannfred Mann's Earth Band

Dub side of the moon (ya know, the dub version of darkside)

No woman no cry- bob marley, covered by blues traveler
 
Vader - Fear Of Napalm (Terrorizer)
Vader - Raining Blood (Slayer)
Napalm Death - Riot Of Violence (Kreator)
Napalm Death - Troops Of Doom (Sepultura)
Napalm Death - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Dead Kennedys)
Pig Destroyer - Genital Grinder/Regurgitation Of Giblets (Carcass)
Pig Destroyer - Exhume To Consume (Carcass)
Monstrosity - Angel Of Death (Slayer)
Asesino - Matando Gueros (Brujeria)
Dying Fetus - Streaks Of Blood (Baphomet)
Cannibal Corpse - The Exorcist (Possessed)
Devourment - The Pick-Axe Murder (Cannibal Corpse)
Otyg - Holy Diver (Dio)
Ensiferum - Battery (Metallica)
Toxic Holocaust - Mechanix (Megadeth)
 
Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away - Actually had to look up original band turns out it was Buddy Holly and the Crickets and not the Stones like I thought.
 
Also love it any time the Dead do chuck berry tunes such as Johnny B. Goode and Promised Land, Johnny Cash's Big River, Me and My Uncle written by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, and El Paso originally by Marty Robbins
 
kurt cobain singing the man who sold the world by bowie was good stuff
bowie covering china girl by iggy pop
rage against the machine covering down on the street by iggy pop was okay, but i like iggy's better
ditto for ratm covering in my eyes by minor threat
johnny cash covering hurt by nin
killers covering shadowplay by joy division
afi's cover of halloween by the misfits is actually pretty good
mars volta's cover of pulled to bits by siousxie sioux was good
siouxsie's cover of dear prudence by the beatles
echo and the bunnymen's cover of all you need is love by the beatles
echo and the bunnymen's cover of people are strange by the doors
matisyahu's cover of message in a bottle by the police
 
Limbonic Art - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Mayhem)
Carpathian Forest - Ghoul (Mayhem)
Static-X - Burning Inside (Ministry)
Pantera - Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath)
Pantera - Hole In The Sky (Black Sabbath)
Megadeth - Anarchy In The U.K. (Sex Pistols)
Krisiun - Refuse/Resist (Sepultura)
 
i saw them perform radiodread a couple weeks before the cd came out. i still like dub side better. They are supposed to be coming out with a dub version of sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band
 
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