Annie Lennox covering The Clash's Train in Vain.

In fact that whole album of covers (Medusa I think) is awesome.

Annie Lennox covering Bob Marley's Waiting in Vain

Ben Folds Five covering Elton John's Tiny Dancer.. (this comes close... but i still love Eltons best)

Celine Dion covering Cyndi Lauper's I drove all night (that is a close one too.. both are good)
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Tori Amos - A Case of U

okaypimpn said:

It appears on the OMPST "The Promised Land" (from 1995) as well as on TTD's "Greatest Hits CD". It is a collaboration with Booker T and the MGs and got a Grammy Nomination. It is a great version, Sananda's/TTDs voice is so beautiful on this track, one of his best vocal performances ever IMO

Elvis- "American Trilogy" Can't be beat, just amazing!(traditional)

Luther Vandross- Superstar (Carpenters)

Teena Marie- Wishing on a star (Rose Royce)

Alicia Keys- "How come u don't call me" (Prince) (remix)

G & R- "Live and let die" (Mcartney)

Howard hewett- "I can't tell you why" (Eagles)

Marc Anthony- "Make it with you" (Bread)

Sam Cooke/T.T.D.- "Wonderful World"- It's a tie!!!

Any Al Green cover!

mltijchr said:

You're welcome. I think it's a Burt Bachrach track, and several jazz artists, including Bill Evans, Stan Getz and McCoy Tyner have flipped it too.

(info courtesy of an iTunes search . . .)

I agree with Sinead's Nothing Compares 2 U and Jimi's All Along the Watchtower, but D'Angelo's Cruisin? Hell nah! Roger's I Heard It Through The Grapevine isn't even nearly as good as Marvin's.

The covers I like more than the originals are the Isley Brothers' Summer Breeze, Prince's One of Us, Al B Sure's Killing Me Softly (although I like Roberta's and Lauryn's too), and Whitney's I Will Always Love You. For some reason I felt I needed one more and Whitney popped into my head.

Somebody asked me to post this again. So - here it is. My version of "Life Can Be So Nice". REcorded for a Prince tribute record that never came out.

www.funkmusician.com/notSoNice.mp3

otan said:

Very Decent version Otan!!! Sweet solo. My group is currently working on a cover of I Wish U Heaven. Stay tuned!!!

Devo - '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'

In my opinion, it is the most satisfying, original cover of any song I've ever heard in life. I never get tired of hearing it.

"Scarbourough Fair" by Sergio Mendes

Better than that horrid boring Garfunkel version. They added jazz and soul to the song.

Ryan Adams doing Oasis' 'Wonderwall'

Al B. Sure doing "Hotel California"

otan said:

Hey Otan,I like it!

PusherMan said:

Gipsy Kings doing 'Hotel California'

abierman said:

Yes! One of the best covers ever.

And from one of the best films ever...

Fame
by
God
Lives
Underwater

TheFrog said:

Dddduuudddeee!!!

abierman said:

i'd give anything to be like the dude: fat, bearded, unemployed, always bowling...perfection.

Kiss by Tom Jones

digressing from this thread just a bit!! BUT how many versions of Waters of March are there out there!

There was a group in the 70's that did it and I just loved it and I would love to get my hands on it to this day!!

Come on Orger's I know you can help me out with this one!!

TheFrog said:

The Dude abides. Here are some examples:


The Dude: That's a great plan, Walter. That's fuckin' ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It's a Swiss fuckin' watch.

***

Walter Sobchak: I told those fucks down at the league office a thousand times that I don't roll on Shabbos!
Donny: What's Shabbos?
Walter Sobchak: Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't get in a car, I don't ride in a car, I don't pick up the phone, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit
[shouts]
Walter Sobchak: DONT FUCKING ROLL! SHOMER SHABBOS!

***


Walter Sobchak: I'm saying, I see what you're getting at, Dude, he kept the money. My point is, here we are, it's shabbas, the sabbath, which I'm allowed to break only if it's a matter of life or death...
The Dude: Will you come off it, Walter? You're not even fucking Jewish, man.
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talkin' about?
The Dude: Man, you're fucking Polish Catholic...
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? I converted when I married Cynthia! Come on, Dude!
The Dude: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Walter Sobchak: And you know this!
The Dude: Yeah, and five fucking years ago you were divorced.
Walter Sobchak: So what are you saying? When you get divorced you turn in your library card? You get a new license? You stop being Jewish?
The Dude: It's all a part of your sick Cynthia thing, man. Taking care of her fucking dog. Going to her fucking synagogue. You're living in the fucking past.
Walter Sobchak: Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax...
[Shouting]
Walter Sobchak: You're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past!

***


Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something pendejo, you pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash your piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'till it goes click.
The Dude: Jesus.
Jesus Quintana: You said it man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

***


The Dude: Well, I still jerk off manually.


***


Nihilist: We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your chonson.
The Dude: Excuse me?
Nihilist: I said
[shouting]
Nihilist: "We'll cut off your johnson"!
Nihilist: Just you think about that, Lebowski.
Nihilist: Yeah, your wiggly penis, Lebowski.
Nihilist: Yeah and maybe we stomp on it and squoosh it, Lebowski.

abierman said:

The dude abides.

The Dude:

"I - the royal we, you know, the editorial...I dropped off the money, exactly as per...look, I've got certain information, certain things have come to light, and uh, has it ever occurred to you, man, that given the nature of all this new shit, that, uh, instead of running around blaming me, that this whole thing might just be, not, you know, not just such a simple, but uh--you know?"

Old Lebowski:

"What in God's holy name are you blathering about?"

genius...

DavidEye said:

Much grattitude. I had fun recording it.

crazyhorse said:

Hey I loved that Nirvana song. I have the Unplugged CD . They have some great tracks on that CD. My favorite tracks off that CD are:
About a girl
Man who sold the world
Lake of Fire
Jesus dont want me for a sunbeam...

Good Choice Crazy!!

the muthafuckin' isley brothers... once the isleys have covered your song, you might as well give it up... really... no band in the history of recorded music has done more for the art-form of the cover song that the isley brothers...

- it's too late (carole king)
- fire & rain (james taylor)
- don't let me be lonely tonight (james taylor)
- ohio/machine gun (neil young/jimi hendrix)
- if you leave me now (chicago)
- summer breeze (seals & crofts)
- love the one you're with (crosby, stills, nash)
- hello, it's me (rodd rundgren)

and yes, to whoever was wondering, "for the good times" was written by kris kristofferson... i think the first person to have a hit recording with it was country singer ray price... but yes, al green does have the dinitive version on this song...

actually... i'll put al green in the same level with the isleys...

- funny how time slips away (willie nelson)
- how can you mend a broken heart (beegees)
- i'm so lonely i could cry (hank williams)

JC said:

Has
Anyone
heard
this
Cover???

theVelvetRoper said:

Pretty Woman - Van Halen

"Forever Came Today." The Jackson's version kicks the Supreme's original's ass.
"Venus"--Bananarama (orig. Shocking Blue)
"Tainted Love"--Soft Cell (orig. Gloria Jones, not that her version was bad...)