Best Cover Songs

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

Fiona Apple covering "Across the Universe" by The Beatles
NIN covering "Dead Souls" by Joy Division

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Ex Lion Tamer Wrote:

Absolutely Sweet Marie - Jason & The Scorchers
Thank You Falletin' Me Be Micelf Again - Magazine

Absolutely.

Add The Scorchers' "19th Nervous Breakdown" and Magazine's "I Love You You Big Dummy".

R. Stevie Moore does a wicked "Cover Of The Rolling Stone".

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:02 pm

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

Devo - Satisfaction

Stole mine.

Also:
Otis Redding - Satisfaction
Meat Puppets - What to Do
Ghost - Live With Me
David Bowie - Let's Spend the Night Together

I'd like to try to make a Stones covers mix. I'm a sure a lot of people here could be really helpful with that.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:06 pm

Red House Painters, "I'm Sorry"

Yes, the John Denver tune.

MiceElf · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:29 pm

Psychic TV covering "Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
Cake covering "I Will Survive"
Tori Amos covering "I'm Not in Love"

Just a few off the top of my pea brain.

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:42 pm

Pixies - Head On (J & MC)
Metallica - Last Caress (Misfits)
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (Carter Family)
Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers (RS)
Patti Smith - Gloria (Them)
Red House Painters - Shock Me (Kiss)

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:39 pm

How could I have forgotten the Dickies?!?!? I love their covers -- Sound of Silence, Nights in White Satin, you name it...any cover they've done.

Devo are also quite the covers outfit -- they've also done a hilarious version of NIN's "Head Like a Hole".

Drinky Wrote:

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

Devo - Satisfaction

Stole mine.

Do you want it back? I have enough others...

It's a classic.

HideousLump · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:43 pm

Billzebub Wrote:

R. Stevie Moore does a wicked "Cover Of The Rolling Stone".

And a nicely distorted version of the theme from "The Andy Griffith Show" here.

Or for those of you old enough to have watched Captain Kangaroo, how about a cover of "Horse in Striped Pajamas"?

More freebies here!

--Hideous Lump
Shilling for His Pal Stevie

no guru · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:31 am

"Mahna Mahna" - Mahna Mahna & the Two Snowths

duckyboy · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:42 am

The Move--The Last Thing on My Mind.

Fuckin' awesome.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

MiceElf Wrote:

Psychic TV covering "Only Love Can Break Your Heart"

while we're at it, how about st etienne's cover of that? real good.

jon brion - "voices" (cheap trick)
the delays - "ride it on" (mazzy star)
rocket from the crypt - "who needs you?" (the real kids)

... a few that i've recently heard.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:27 am

Calexico, "Alone Again Or"

P-Spot · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:30 am **Posts:** 291

The Sea & Cake - Sound & Vision

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

frosted Wrote:

"Mahna Mahna" - Mahna Mahna & the Two Snowths

Is that the same as "Manah Manah", excellently covered by Cake?

Also, Sarah McLachlan's "Rainbow Connection" from the same benefit comp "For The Kids".

no guru · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:12 pm

Billzebub Wrote:

frosted Wrote:

"Mahna Mahna" - Mahna Mahna & the Two Snowths

Is that the same as "Manah Manah", excellently covered by Cake?

Yeah, "Mahna Mahna" was a track to a softcore movie originally or something like that. Benny Hill used a version of it on his show and Jim Henson had the hipster Muppet called Mahna Mahna who performed it on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, etc.

Awesome song. Great puppet. My brother Tim looked just like him when he was in high school.

Lambretta · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:43 pm

Morrissey Covers
That's Entertainment
Cosmic Dancer

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