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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I've heard a beautiful cover on an advert for BBC Radio of Unchained Melody by a group called The Fleetwoods. I much prefer it to the other versions I've heard. Which cover to you prefer to the original version of a song? |
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over a year ago
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Van Halen's version of Ice Cream Man is massively superior to the original by John Brimm.
Infact, all their covers are pretty awesome.
Leslie West does a great cover of I Feel Fine by the Beatles and also Theme For An Imaginary Western by Jack Bruce.
I could go on for hours, I love a good cover version... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I always buy the bbc live lounge albums as there's some great covers and live versions.
On the 2012 version there's a remixed cover of Sean kingstons beautiful girls and Ben e. kings stand by me, done by maverick sabre it's really good |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I always buy the bbc live lounge albums as there's some great covers and live versions.
On the 2012 version there's a remixed cover of Sean kingstons beautiful girls and Ben e. kings stand by me, done by maverick sabre it's really good "
Love Devlin and Ed Sheerans version of Blind Faith, but I'm biased  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Johnny Cash's cover of The Beatles' In my life. I want it at my funeral.
Johnny Cash made any song sound good. I wish he were alive to sing Katie Meluah's The Closest Thing to Crazy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I always buy the bbc live lounge albums as there's some great covers and live versions.
On the 2012 version there's a remixed cover of Sean kingstons beautiful girls and Ben e. kings stand by me, done by maverick sabre it's really good
Love Devlin and Ed Sheerans version of Blind Faith, but I'm biased "
Nah great track!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Johnny Cash's cover of The Beatles' In my life. I want it at my funeral.
Johnny Cash made any song sound good. I wish he were alive to sing Katie Meluah's The Closest Thing to Crazy."
Everyone always talks about his cover of Hurt, but my personal favourite is his cover of U2's one. I loathe the original but love what he has done to it.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Will Young's cover of 'Hey Ya' and Lemar's cover of 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' from the early live lounge albums stand out"
Oh gosh I can't stand either of those! Lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Roberta Flack's cover of 'The first time ever I saw your face' was probably one of the best recordings ever by a woman....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFrGbuUqnQ"
Great song, fantastic singer. I liked the Stereophonics version as well |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Feeling Good by Muse is pretty excellent."
I love this version it's amazing
Depeche mode Route 66 and johnny cashs cover of personal Jesus . Modes is over played now so his is slightly better
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Will Young's cover of 'Hey Ya' and Lemar's cover of 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' from the early live lounge albums stand out
Oh gosh I can't stand either of those! Lol"
I love both. I have all the live lounge albums. Off the current one i think that my favourite is Connor Maynards Starships cover |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Roberta Flack's cover of 'The first time ever I saw your face' was probably one of the best recordings ever by a woman....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFrGbuUqnQ"
Always brings a tear to my eye |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I much prefer The Rolling Stones version of "Come On" to the Chuck Berry original. Also Small Faces take on "What's a matter baby" is better than the Timi Yuro original. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Marilyn mansons, sweet dreams
Blinding cover
He does a good Personal Jesus too."
I never liked that cover, it was a bit plain n boring i thought. Sweet dreams was a bit twisted and mad which i like
Tainted love sucked...sorry but he had lost it at that point! My _iew of course |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"Marilyn mansons, sweet dreams
Blinding cover
He does a good Personal Jesus too.
I never liked that cover, it was a bit plain n boring i thought. Sweet dreams was a bit twisted and mad which i like
Tainted love sucked...sorry but he had lost it at that point! My _iew of course"
Tainted Love is a cover of a cover. Soft Cell did it best. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Nina Simone Mr Beaujangles
At Ronnie Scotts Jazz club in 1987....
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My hubby loves Nina Simone.
The kids hate being in the car with him he always plays his, the very best of Nina Simone cd lol. |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"Nina Simone Mr Beaujangles
At Ronnie Scotts Jazz club in 1987....
My hubby loves Nina Simone.
The kids hate being in the car with him he always plays his, the very best of Nina Simone cd lol. "
it is my most favourite song of all time |
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"Aretha Franklin...'Bridge over troubled water'
Paul Simon himself stated this was the best ever recording of S&G's music portfolio...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-yfeA2JZs"
just seen it on YouTube, good but not as good as the Elvis version! check it out  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Aretha Franklin...'Bridge over troubled water'
Paul Simon himself stated this was the best ever recording of S&G's music portfolio...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-yfeA2JZs"
Aretha, now your talking greats |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Marilyn mansons, sweet dreams
Blinding cover
He does a good Personal Jesus too.
I never liked that cover, it was a bit plain n boring i thought. Sweet dreams was a bit twisted and mad which i like
Tainted love sucked...sorry but he had lost it at that point! My _iew of course
Tainted Love is a cover of a cover. Soft Cell did it best."
Learn something new every day. Lostprophets did some really good covers but I can't bring myself to listen to them after what's happened..eww |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"stone sour wicked games is brill
also korn doing creep is ace
As I was scrolling down I thought stone sours wicked game, Corey's voice Is awesome!"
he has an amazing voice when he sings rather than grunts  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"stone sour wicked games is brill
also korn doing creep is ace
As I was scrolling down I thought stone sours wicked game, Corey's voice Is awesome!
he has an amazing voice when he sings rather than grunts "
Love both..his screams on Iowa still make my hairs stick up on my neck |
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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago
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Aretha and Bridge (still waters run deep) is absolutely beautiful, and didn't whitneys mum sing on it?
Georgia Satellittes and Games People Play
Knocking on Heavens Door, whoever said Guns n Roses needs shooting... Neil Young does it better
The sax version at the beginning of the Withnail and I film of Whiter Shade of Pale is spine tingling
Hendrix covering Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone at Monterey....
Nobodies mentioned Wet Wet Wet covering the Troggs, good.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nina Simone Mr Beaujangles
At Ronnie Scotts Jazz club in 1987....
My hubby loves Nina Simone.
The kids hate being in the car with him he always plays his, the very best of Nina Simone cd lol.
it is my most favourite song of all time"
Her rendition of Cotton Eye Joe as a ballad is also sublime. She's got to be top five as vocalist of the 20th century. Truly sang from the heart x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Hendrix covering Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone at Monterey...."
That was quite brilliant.
I'm not a fan of Green Day but their cover of it is pretty good too.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Marilyn mansons, sweet dreams
Blinding cover
He does a good Personal Jesus too."
I second this.. Lots of people have covered it and he is up there with mode and johnny can versions |
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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago
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Nina Simone covering My Sweet Lord
Members of the black crowes and jellyfish in a one time band on a live LP Crows from the Closet of a troubadour gig back in the early 1990s covering Blind Faiths Presence of the Lord
Hendrix playing Creams Sunshine of our Love live on the Lulu show, just after the album came out
And the most infamous, Natalie Imbruglia singing Torn, after she told Chris Evans that she wrote it... Didn't she realise you could buy the Norwegian original? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Any Richard cheese song guys ace
Have you heard his version of Gangam style yet? 
Not yet, Any good?"
only seen the live version but yeah its very good, I have to say though "down with the sickness" is at the top of my list |
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"Johnny Cash's cover of The Beatles' In my life. I want it at my funeral.
Johnny Cash made any song sound good. I wish he were alive to sing Katie Meluah's The Closest Thing to Crazy.
Everyone always talks about his cover of Hurt, but my personal favourite is his cover of U2's one. I loathe the original but love what he has done to it.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"behind blue eyes by limp bizkit is pretty good
It was ok, a lot missing though.."
well thats cause they're a shit band but i didnt think they did a bad job of that song lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Marilyn mansons, sweet dreams
Blinding cover
He does a good Personal Jesus too.
I never liked that cover, it was a bit plain n boring i thought. Sweet dreams was a bit twisted and mad which i like
Tainted love sucked...sorry but he had lost it at that point! My _iew of course
Tainted Love is a cover of a cover. Soft Cell did it best."
No way, the original northern soul version is the dogs bollocks! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Nina Simone Mr Beaujangles
At Ronnie Scotts Jazz club in 1987....
My hubby loves Nina Simone.
The kids hate being in the car with him he always plays his, the very best of Nina Simone cd lol.
it is my most favourite song of all time
Her rendition of Cotton Eye Joe as a ballad is also sublime. She's got to be top five as vocalist of the 20th century. Truly sang from the heart x"
Cotton eye joe??? |
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Some more that I've only just thought about now...
Common People, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and Rocket Man all by William Shatner - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=william+shatner
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I Believe I Can Fly, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Mandy and Leaving on a Jet Plane all by Me First and the Gimmes Gimmes - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=me+first+and+the+gimme+gimmes
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Highway to Hell by Hayseed Dixie, as well as I Don't Feel Like Dancing, You Shook Me All Night Long, Ace of Spades and Bohemian Rhapsody - http://www.youtube.com/user/johannespud
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Oh, and this version of Livin La Vida Loca... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQAj5CBMGo |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Eleanor Rigby - Ray Charles
Here Comes the Sun - Nina Simone
Mr Bojangles - Nina Simone
It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Them & The 13th Floor Elevators
Alone Again Or - The Damned
Elouise - The Damned
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"Joe Cockers version of A little help from my friends"
My mate played bass on that !
Pink does a fantastic job of Bohemian Rhapsody on one of her live DVD's...worth it to hear the operatic section actually done live, which Queen never did.
Actually, she does a fair job of Zeppelin's Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You (another cover of a cover, of a cover !) on the same DVD.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Johnny Cash's cover of The Beatles' In my life. I want it at my funeral.
Johnny Cash made any song sound good. I wish he were alive to sing Katie Meluah's The Closest Thing to Crazy.
Everyone always talks about his cover of Hurt, but my personal favourite is his cover of U2's one. I loathe the original but love what he has done to it.
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agree 100% - he finds an emotional truth in that song that just isn't there in the original (his Hurt is ace too though, of course) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Otis Redding's "I can't get no satisfaction" is good - not necessarily better than the Stones, just different, and always makes me smile as it seems like payback, an acknowledgement and a reference to just how much the Stones drew on blak american music and culture for their own success. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A few that spring to mind for me:
The Flying Lizards version of 'Money'
Futureheads 'Hounds of Love'
The Clash version of 'I fought the Law'"
With you on I fought the Law
Always like the Jam's David Watts too (in fact it was a while after I first heard it before I realised it was a cover) |
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"Otis Redding's "I can't get no satisfaction" is good - not necessarily better than the Stones, just different, and always makes me smile as it seems like payback, an acknowledgement and a reference to just how much the Stones drew on blak american music and culture for their own success. "
This is by far the best version of 'Satisfaction'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCowzhBdNKc |
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"Stairway yo heaven- Role Harris.
Unchained melody- G G G G G G Gareth Gates "
Rolf did a brilliant version of I Touch Myself, originally by Divinyls.
Oh, and here's a good version of Van Halen's classic Jump
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bzKzbucdnE |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Gary Moore's cover of Fleetwood Mac's Need Your Love So Bad is beautiful..."
Oh lord YES. This cover beats Peter Greene's for sheer dripping wet sexiness. It's just such a great track that demands that ya get yer kit off & grind till the sun rises. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Any Richard cheese song guys ace"
Now all I can hear is his voice in my head! Haven't listened to him in years, so that's tomorrow sorted!
Wasn't The Beatles Twist and Shout a cover? Brings back memories of dancing in The Cavern Club when I was 13
Agree that Johnny Cash has done some superb covers, and actually, with his style, it'd be easy to think he'd done the originals and U2, NIN etc had 'ruined' JC's work! |
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By *xpresMan
over a year ago
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Guns N Roses. Live n let die
Ugly kid Joe. Cats in the cradle
Jonny Cash. Hurt
Frankie goes to hollywood.born t run
Oasis. I am the walrus
Gun. Word up
Stereophonics. Handbags n gladrags
Madness. It must be love
Soft Cell. Tainted love
Ozzy Osbourne. In my life
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Speedway's "Genie in a Bottle" far outstrips the original.
Also the Stranglers' "All day and all of the night""
I saw speedway support feeder and they were so good. And that song is ace, tho I do like the original too
I'm not a radiohead fan but I like creep. And someone has covered it. Can't be bothered to google cos I'm perving on here lol but it's in a few films/tv progs and it sounds like a choir maybe. Love it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Chris Cornell-Billie Jean (acoustic)
Ryan Adams-Wonderwall
To all who mentioned Corey Taylor, I give you
He's an awesome artist. Be it in stone sour or slipknot. A lot of people say "Oh he's just shouting and i can't understand what he's saying". You can if you listen properly.
I love his spoken word stuff on stone sours first 2 albums. Not heard the newest one |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Blimey, this is an old thread! But here is my ha'peth worth, some group did a cover of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love which was pretty awesome, the groups name evades me, however. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Nirvana's version of the man who sold the world ( David Bowie)
Faith no mores version of Easy ( the commodores)
Jimi Hendrix version of All along the watch tower (bob Dylan) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nirvana's version of the man who sold the world ( David Bowie)
Faith no mores version of Easy ( the commodores)
Jimi Hendrix version of All along the watch tower (bob Dylan)"
ace tunes, nirvana's cover of "where did you sleep last night" is ace too and the three meat puppets covers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nirvana's version of the man who sold the world ( David Bowie)
Faith no mores version of Easy ( the commodores)
Jimi Hendrix version of All along the watch tower (bob Dylan)
ace tunes, nirvana's cover of "where did you sleep last night" is ace too and the three meat puppets covers. "
Well said that man |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nirvana's version of the man who sold the world ( David Bowie)
Faith no mores version of Easy ( the commodores)
Jimi Hendrix version of All along the watch tower (bob Dylan)
ace tunes, nirvana's cover of "where did you sleep last night" is ace too and the three meat puppets covers.
Well said that man"
ty also, Doro Pesch's version of breaking the law |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Blimey, this is an old thread! But here is my ha'peth worth, some group did a cover of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love which was pretty awesome, the groups name evades me, however."
The Futureheads? I love their version |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Because of this thread, I've sat down to hear again some of Johnny Cash's recent cover...........quality, quality but I have never before heard his version of "In my Life", which is t stunning. Thank you Lennon, thank you Johnny Cash.
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