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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 08:41 AM
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What's your all-time favorite cover song?
I personally think "Get down, make love" as covered by Nine Inch Nails is far, far better than Queen's original version. Since I just recently compiled a CD of my all-time favorite covers, I thought I'd poll DU and see if there are any gems I may have missed.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 08:42 AM
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1. Live Neville Brothers
Love the One You're With/You Can't Always Get What You Want medley.

So good it hurts.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 08:49 AM
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2. Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower"
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Toby109 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:02 AM
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7. The best cover of all-time.
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:40 AM
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9. The best!
:-)
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 08:54 AM
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3. Here's the songs on my "Favorite Covers" CD...
"Get down, make love" - Nine Inch Nails (Un-freakin-believable!)
"Rock 'n Roll/Sympathy for the Devil" - Jane's Addiction
"Head Like a Hole" - Devo
"When Doves Cry" - Ginuine
"Blue Monday" - Orgy
"Helter Skelter" - U2
"Should I stay or should I go?" - Living Colour
"Don't call me Nigger Whitey" - Ice-T/Jane's Addiction
"Come on Eileen" - Save Ferris
"Train in Vain" - Third Eye Blind
"Hurt" - Johnny Cash
"Boyz in tha Hood" - Dynamite Hack
"Gin 'n Juice" - Blues Travelers
"Black" - Staind
"The man who sold the world" - Nirvana
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Joe Power Donating Member (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:02 AM
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8. Great choice
"Rock 'n Roll/Sympathy for the Devil" - Jane's Addiction
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:55 AM
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11. I also thought of Cash's version of "Hurt"
Amazing rendition and a powerful video.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 08:55 AM
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4. Personal Jesus by Marilyn Manson
They just took the song to a whole new level with it's Industrial Rock edge vs the more new wave sound by Depeche Mode.

I like Nine Inch Nails, but haven't heard their version of "Get Down Make Love" I'll have to check it out!
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Joe Power Donating Member (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:01 AM
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6. Johnny Cash also did an incredible version
Funny that two great artists could take something by a lousy band and make it great.
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Joe Power Donating Member (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:00 AM
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5. "Do You Think I'm Sexy" Revolting Cocks
Runners up:
"Dead Souls" - NIN
"Working in a Coal Mine" and "Satisfaction" - Devo
"I Fought the Law" - The Clash
"I Will Survive" - Cake
"Brick House" - Lionel Ritchie and Rob Zombie
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - Leon Russell
"Everybody Knows" - Concrete Blonde
"You Keep Me Hanging On" - Vanilla Fudge

and, in a category all by itself:

"My Way" - Sid Vicious
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DelawareValleyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:53 AM
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10. Little Wing - Derek & Dominoes
Yeah, I dissed Hendrix. So sue me.
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Parrcrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 09:57 AM
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12. Janis Joplin --- Me and Bobbie McGee.
That's got to be my favourite, or at least its the first one that I thought of, which is probably the same thing.
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maddiejoan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 10:03 AM
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13. Everyday People
Joan Jett
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 10:05 AM
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14. What's So Funny ('bout PL&U) by EC and the Attractions
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Danmel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 10:14 AM
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16. Great song- great cover
Also love Hendrix' "Watchtower"


And as I walked on
through troubling times
my spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
so where are the strong
and who are the trusted
and where is the harmony
sweet harmony
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youspeakmylanguage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 10:12 AM
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15. Dead Kennedy's "Viva Las Vegas"
I also liked Guns N' Roses' version of "Sympathy For The Devil".

:woohoo:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 10:16 AM
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17. Shudder to Think's version of "The Joker."
Only done in concert, but fucking unbelievably good.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 10:35 AM
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18. Lay, Lady, Lay
By the Isley Brothers.

Isaac Hayes and the Mighty Diamonds do killer versions as well.

Light My Fire by Al Greene is a masterpiece and the Shirley Bassey version is sublime.

Don't get me started on all my favorite versions of My Favorite Things.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 11:41 AM
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19. "Respect" by Aretha Franklin
The original "Respect" was first written and performed by Otis Redding and very different. As great as Otis was, Aretha was better on this song.

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" both popular versions by Gladys Knight and Marvin Gaye. The original was recorded by the Temptations.

"Crossroads" by Cream. The original acoustic version was by Robert Johnson.

"Hey Joe" and "Let the Good Times Roll" by Hendrix.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 11:48 AM
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20. Wild One by Iggy Pop, Jump by Aztec Camera
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