Best cover song ever

[Micah]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned Phish's Gin and Juice.

No way - the Phish cover of MMmmmm....Bop as sung by James Brown is way better.

 

[fkmp5]

The Cardigans featuring Tom Jones covering Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"
or
Front Line Assembly featuring Tiffany covering U2's "New Years Day"

 

[PaulMP3]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned Phish's Gin and Juice.

the phish talking heads and beatles covers IMO are awesome.

 

[PaulMP3]

Sublime-No Woman No Cry..sure, Bob Marley made an amazing song, but Sublime did a great job taking a reggae classic written by a Musical/Lyrical genious and turned it into a nicely composed Ska/Rock song. They also did a good cover of Smoke Two Joints by Marley.

Also Scarlet Bagonia's(sp) is a great sublime cover.

 

[dudeondacouch]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned Phish's Gin and Juice.

most of the universe is misinformed about that song... it's actually "The Gourds" not Phish.

Best cover ever: Pearl Jam, "Masters of War" (Bob Dylan)

 

[Pretzellogic]

One I just remembered: Fountains of Wayne's cover of "Hit me baby, one more time"

 

[cochizzle]

i dont like the deftones too much, but i saw them cover weezer's say it aint so, and it was ****** sweet

 

[JunkPunch]

Tool's cover of "No Quarter" and the Lovemonger's cover of "Battle of Evermore" are excellent Zeppelin covers.

 

[Mazdaspeedgirl]

Fear Factory rules.

it would be too hard for me to name one song in particular that is my overall favorite, but I am always in the mood for Cold Play's Clocks. mmm...

 

[element.8]

reel big fish - hungry like the wolf.
orgy - blue monday.

 

[servoeyes]

Tool's cover of "No Quarter" and the Lovemonger's cover of "Battle of Evermore" are excellent Zeppelin covers.

s***...I damn near forgot about No Quarter...that is an amazing cover and song in general. APC actually did a few covers on their first tour. They did Diary of a Madman mixed in with the Cure's Love Song...weird, but still pretty interesting to say the least. Oh...I also forgot, Audioslave covering (pronounced "making better") the White Stripes' "7 Nation Army" was cool.

 

[GHOSTWHISPER]

Original
Romeo Void - Never say Never
Cover
Queens Of the Stone Age

 

[Dexter]

I thought offsprings cover of Total Immortal was really good, but people say im gay for thinking that.

 

[blynzoo]

NOFX -- What a Wonderful World
I second the Hendrix All Along the Watchtower. It blows away Dylan's by about 3 light years. Perhaps my fav hendrix piece.

BUT....THE best "cover" of all is John Coltrane doing "My Favorite Things" from "Sound of Music" (I think that's Rogers and Hammerstein) with McCoy Tyner on piano. Tyner's solo on this is just absolute ecstasy, you will know happiness after listening to it, I dont care if you hate all Jazz music. It's just good, inspired s***. Trust me people, download it, sample it, or buy the album (with the same title). You will not regret it.