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Best music cover songs

My favorite has to be Club Nouveau's reggae cover of "Lean On Me".

 
wadesworld said:
ANY cover of a Bob Dylan song is better than the original.
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Dylan is quoted as saying he actually likes Jimi's version of watch tower better. Always thought that was pretty good.
 
My favorite cover of a Beatles song: Joe Cockers With a little help from me Friends with Jimmy Page on lead guitar on the studio version completely different song actually on the same album there is a great cover of Bye Bye Blackbird

My favorite cover of House of the Rising Sun is by Leslie West from The Great Fatsby- it has a quiet flute intro and some great back up vocals by Rita Coolidge

Guns and Roses did a great cover of Sympathy for the Devil

The Waterboys did a great cover of Vandaman's Sweet Thing on Fishermans Blues

Grace Jones owns La Vie en Rose
 
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I'm a big Dave Matthews Band fan, and I like a lot of the covers the band does and a lot of the covers he does with Tim Reynolds. some of my favs are All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan), If I Had A Boat (Lyle Lovett), The Maker (Daniel Lanois), and Long Black Veil (Johnny Cash).




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Walk this way -Run DMC
Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind and Fire
Voodoo Child - SRV


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caeleric said:
I'm a big Dave Matthews Band fan, and I like a lot of the covers the band does and a lot of the covers he does with Tim Reynolds. some of my favs are All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan), If I Had A Boat (Lyle Lovett), The Maker (Daniel Lanois), and Long Black Veil (Johnny Cash).




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Dave and Emmylou Harris singing Long Black Veil at the Ryman for the Johnny Cash tribute is amazing.
 
I would never claim these to be the "best" cover songs, but here's a handful that I have done in my spare time. I don't have a band, I just do it all myself. These were intentionally made to sound more like a garage band than an actual studio performance.

Crosby, Stills, and Nash: Southern Cross - https://app.box.com/s/93c4v8il8jk6ixf2ah6j
Rush: Resist - https://app.box.com/s/g43f1wdlpgebc0tzy2kv
Smashing Pumpkins: Today - https://app.box.com/s/qktzqatsuqe346cuuek0
Neil Young: Old Man - https://app.box.com/s/u9tgvug5nuk9ynnih95z
Jethro Tull: Aqualung - https://app.box.com/s/42nam5i2r44cdebuirne
 
I'm glad I did a search first because I was about to start a thread for cover songs. I'm planning on making a golf playlist of them. Been a while since anyone posted here, so I gotta ask if there are any new suggestions?

Heard this one while we were in England and thought it was pretty good. This is the kind/style I am looking for.


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The Band covered Springsteen's "Atlantic City", its tremendous.
 
I'm almost ashamed at how much I love this cover song.

 
Metallica - Turn the Page is probably my favorite cover ever
 
5 finger death punch, has done some remakes "Bad Company" & " House of the Rising Son".

Jack
 
Always enjoyed this version more than the original New Order version

 
I like the Godsmack cover of "Rocky Mountain Way".


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