Nominations for Best Cover Song of All Time

win.

extraordinary.

 

GIN AND JUICE BY THE GOURDS!!!!!!!!! BEST EVER!!!!!

Or Matt Weddle covered Hey Ya by Outkast and it was pretty damn amazing!:up:

 

Joe Cocker doing "Maybe I'm Amazed." Puts Paul McCartney to shame. :up:

 

ZZ Top - Dust My Broom.

 

surpasses the amazing Leonard Cohen original!

 

Jeff Buckley doing Hallelujah is, without a doubt, a great rendition of the song. That song is a litmus test of a great vocalist. At the risk of sounding like a total BBS queer, Lee DeWyze did a much better job at that song on American Idol than Jeff Buckley did.

Hats off to whoever can sing it and move you.


With that being said, to place either of those renditions of that song in the bracket of "best remake" is an absolute sin. WHAT? With SRV doing "Little Wing." Social Distortion with "Ball and Chain" or even Glen Campbell with his remakes...


You Fail :down:

 

"Hey Ya" - Obadiah Parker

"Straight Up" - no artist name is listed but it's the one uploaded by youtube/user/okaysamurai


Both are waaayyy better than the originals!

 

Ironhorse- bluegrass version of For Whom the Bell Tolls
In Flames did a much better version of Land of Confusion before Disturbed did theirs
One of my guilty pleasures is Mastodon's version of Just got paid today.

 

Aiden-Cry little Sister
Anthrax- Got the time?
Maralyn Manson -sweet dreams(are made of this)

 

Here's a few I like...

Ring of Fire - Wall of Voodoo
Binded by the light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Red Red Wine - UB40
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
I Fought The Law - The Clash
What's So Funny 'bout Peace Love & Understanding - Elvis Costello
People Get Ready - Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart
Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Annie Lennox
I Shot the Sheriff - Clapton
Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

 

Springsteens version of " londons calling"
Just about anything the refreshments or peacemakers cover.

 

De La Soul's cover of The Magic Number, from Schoolhouse Rock.

 

Before you pass final judgement on that, google Lisa Hordijk (aka Lisa Lois) and listen to her version. The acoustic one from her album, not the one she did on X-Factor live. Big girl can belt it out! :up:

 

Ween Hot for teacher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KMHUkFdHfA

 

See ya later tater.

 

enjoy your vacation!

 

Crazy covered by mushroomhead ......

 

And he needs banned just for makin me listen to that awful cover of that awful song ! The only good part about hot for teacher was the video with the sound off



I'll also second bizkit faith never knew that song could be cool until thier cover , way to many others to list them all

 

Framing Hanley's cover of Lil Wayne's Lollipop - good example of a cover that is a big improvement over the original.

 

thats because anything Lil Wayne is just horrible, so any cover will be better than the original.

His crap doesn't even count as music.