I really love modern artists takes on other artists songs. Some bands are really prolific with it, while some just have one or two outstanding ones. Post some of your favorites here, with links if possible. I know we've done this before, but it's been awhile and there may be some fresh stuff.

Justin Townes Earle's take on "Can't Hardly Wait" from last year's "Midnight At The Movies" was aces.

Best Coast - "In My Room" (Beach Boys)
Okay, so it's not one of my favorite covers of all-time, but it's something new, and it's by a band that's kinda a buzz band around these parts:

Others, that I like a little more (but may or may not have mentioned before):
The Bollwevils - "Roller Queen" (Naked Raygun)
Harry Nilsson - "Let the Good Times Roll" (?)
The Wolfgang Press - "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (Randy Newman)
Richard Hell - "All the Way" (Frank Sinatra)
Velvet Crush - "Why Not Your Baby" (Gene Clark)
Peter Laughner - "Calvary Cross" (Richard Thompson)
Dwight Yoakam - "I Want You To Want Me" (Cheap Trick)
Def Leppard - "Hanging On the Telephone" (The Nerves/Blondie)

At some point, I'll see if I can get you any of these...

Getting the Dwight Yoakam right now.

You've seen this series, right: http://www.avclub.com/articles/introduc ... ver,38989/

The Onion's AV Club had a list of songs and invited bands in one by one to cover them. The band gets to choose which song, and then it's removed from the list, so the later a band comes in the fewer songs they can choose from until the last band must cover the last song. There's still a few weeks/bands/songs left to be done (it updates on Tuesdays).

also a cover nut
i have a seperate folder for mine
some of my more recent favorites:
pixie lot - use somebody
lou barlow - bulletproof
fall out boy - love will tear us apart
alesha dixon - sex on fire
or, the whale - toxic
tender forever - my love
just jack - live your life
orba squara - poker face
lissie - bad romance
sia - gimme more
the secret handshake - i wish

I still love Neko Case's cover of Sarah Vaughn's "Look for Me (I'll be around)".


Oh, and Gary Jules' "Mad World" (Tears for Fears)

That one holds up surprisingly well to the country treatment.
And, the Def Leppard one is surprisingly good, too...

Multiple volumes (with links): http://www.obner.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33901

Thanks. Didn't realize that had been recently updated.

Keep 'em coming anyway.

Volume 6 just added

http://www.obner.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33901&p=867677#p867677

Graham Parker: "Cupid" (Sam Cooke)
Chambers Brothers: "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield)
Pointer Sisters- "Fire" (Springsteen)
Guy Clark- "Fort Worth Blues" (Steve Earle)
The Webb Brothers- "Some Velvet Morning" (Lee Hazlewood)
My Morning Jacket- "Lullabies, Legends, and Lies" (Shel Silverstein)
John Prine- "Clay Pigeons" (Blaze Foley)
Elvis Presley- Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
Vetiver- "To Baby" (Biff Rose)

And more that I can't think of right now.

patti smith-gimmee shelter

Red House Painters: Long Distance Runaround (Yes)
Cracker : Loser (GD)
Yo La Tango: Little Honda (Beach Boys)
Local Natives: Warning Sign (Talking Heads. Really not that good, but thought I'd throw it in there)

I like the Local Natives cover of "Cecilia" (Simon & Garfunkel)

Also, The Waterboys- Sweet Thing/ Blackbird (Van Morrison/Beatles0

NP:
Anthrax - "Ball of Confusion" (Temptations)

Volume 9 just added in the mix forum. Might as well plant it here too.

1. The Feebles Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio (The Ramones)
2. Tranzmitors Between Planets (Jesus and Mary Chain)
3. Barreracudas Come On, Come On (Cheap Trick)
4. Suzy & Los Quattro He Could Be The One (Josie Cotton)
5. The Like You Belong To Me (Elvis Costello)
6. The Gore Gore Girls Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (Little Eva)
7. The Hellacopters Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
8. Turbonegro Suffragette City (David Bowie)
9. Faster Pussycat Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield)
10. DM3 Zero Hour (The Plimsouls)
11. Dipsomaniacs Can't Hardly Wait (The Replacements)
12. Smithereens I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)
13. The Fondas Yeah Baby (Nolan Strong & the Diablos)
14. Spazzys My Boyfriend's Back (The Angels)
15. Gaslight Anthem Refugee (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
16. Butch Walker & the Black Widows In Bloom (Nirvana)
17. The Dahlmanns Dancing With Joey Ramone (Amy Rigby)
18. The Methadones Back Of My Hand (The Jags)
19. The Nomads Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (The Standells)
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (The Ramones)
21. Me First & the Gimme Gimmes Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)
22. Bazooka Jones These Boots Were Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra)
23. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Black Betty (Ram Jam)
24. The Atlantics Rock and Roll, Parts I and II (Gary Glitter)

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I do enjoy some good covers. My favorite one I've come across for a while was last year's cover of a Beatles song by a local St. Louis band. Here's Sleepy Kitty answering the question of what it would sound like if the Velvet Underground covered my favorite Beatles song: