What's your favorite cover song?

[dontWIZonme]

I'm a big fan of Pop-Punk and Post-Hardcore, so I like a lot of the "Punk Goes..." Series. There's too many to list, but recently a soldier of mine let me borrow Punk Goes 90s Vol. 2 and I like the "Gangsta's Paradise" cover, but that whole album is pretty damn good.

 

[EO80]

I'm a big fan of Pop-Punk and Post-Hardcore, so I like a lot of the "Punk Goes..." Series. There's too many to list, but recently a soldier of mine let me borrow Punk Goes 90s Vol. 2 and I like the "Gangsta's Paradise" cover, but that whole album is pretty damn good.

You may like this one if you have not already heard it.

 

[EO80]

And all respect to Otis Redding, but these guys do an incredible job with this song. This guy has an amazing voice anyway.

 

[broadleaf]

Deftones - my own summer cover
by Atreyu and a couple other people

 

[luckysaturn13]

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt by Nine in Nails

It's funny a lot of people think it was the opposite

 

[sean]

It's funny a lot of people think it was the opposite

Remember the NIN cover of "Dead Souls" for the Crow soundtrack? When my bandmate heard the Joy Division recording he thought it was another Johnny Cash cover of NIN rather than the original recording NIN covered...

We kicked him out shortly after that. He was kinda a moron.

 

[RamzaFreak20]

Sweet dreams (are made of this) and Halloween town by Marilyn Manson.
Smooth Criminal by Alien Antfarm
Baby I'm yours by The Arctic Monkeys
of course, no particular order

 

[Rupe]

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt by Nine in Nails

+1

I have quite a few favorite covers including the Devo cover that XD mentioned in the first post but Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is by far my favorite.

Jimi Hendrix version of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower is a close second.

 

[The Eleven]

I love all of the Grateful Dead's covers, but aside from that,

One of my favorites is Iron Maiden's cover of Jethro Tull's, "Cross Eyed Mary".

 

[Catawbamatt]

Phish "When the circus comes to town" originally by Los Lobos

 

[c.ortiz108]

Devo's Satisfaction is brilliant (and great avatar, by the way!). I like the Dickies' covers of Sound of Silence and Nights in White Satin. This one's more obscure, but nicely demented:

 

[Xavier Dredo]

The Clash's "I Fought the Law" is pretty great.

 

[Bubb]

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes cover of Sunday Morning Coming Down

 

[firespec35]

I like a lot of the ones mentioned but the one that hasnt been mentioned is Five finger death punch's take on "House of the Rising Sun"

 

[StogieNinja]

I forgot: Jon Dakker's cover of "That's Amore" is my all time favorite cover:

 

[The Eleven]

+1

I have quite a few favorite covers including the Devo cover that XD mentioned in the first post but Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is by far my favorite.

Jimi Hendrix version of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower is a close second.

Hendrix's Watch tower is great huh?
I may not have the story down exactly, but I think Hendrix heard a demo of Dylan's Watchtower. Recorded his cover of it before Dylan released his. Dylan liked Hendrix version so much that he altered his to sound like Hendrix's. Or something along those lines. Pretty cool huh?
Also, the Grateful Dead did a great Watchtower too. They did a ton of Dylan. They did a tour together in 1987. I went to several of the shows.

 

[hot grits]

+1

I have quite a few favorite covers including the Devo cover that XD mentioned in the first post but Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt is by far my favorite.

Jimi Hendrix version of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower is a close second.

Awesome video for the Cash version of Hurt also. He passed away about 7 months later. The video almost tears me up a lil bit when I watch it.

 

[hot grits]

Oh and I have mention my wife's mother's cousin or I may Be disowned...... Bobby Darin's version of "Beyond the Sea".

 

[USMC1975]

It was already mentioned but to me it's worth mentioning again, Metallica - Turn The Page!

 

[Luckybastard]

I love metal and I thoroughly enjoy many covers but I have to go off the beaten path with one that stirs the soul because this girls voice is like nothing you've ever heard
And just in case you weren't convinced