Favorite Cover Songs

I'm no musician, but I love listening to music. I would imagine that it's hard to make a great song, but that it's also pretty tough to make an awesome cover of a great song. You know, one that is true enough to the original, but different enough to make it unique.

I'm a big fan of the Grateful Dead and I think they did a great job of covering some amazing songs, but It's All Over Now Baby Blue is probably my favorite GD cover song:


Some other cool/interesting covers that I've heard recently are Mrs. Robinson from the Lemonheads and Ring of Fire by Social Distortion.

What are some of your favorite cover songs?

Apparently, you can only inlcude one video per post. Here's Mrs. Robinson ...

and Ring of Fire ...

Beach Boys doing "Crocodile Rock" Nobody ever has to do this song again!

dgreene120 said:

Some other cool/interesting covers that I've heard recently are Mrs. Robinson from the Lemonheads and Ring of Fire by Social Distortion.

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Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

I love cover songs. I think my all-time favorite would have to be Jimi Hendrix' version of All Along the Watchtower. It goes so far beyond the Bob Dylan version, it's pretty amazing.

Electric Six - Rubberband Man

Wye Oak - Strangers (Kinks Cover)

SRV - Little Wing
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
CCR - Heard It Through The Grapevine
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Black Crowes - Hard to Handle

off the top of my head, will think about this a bit more

Pavement - The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen Cover)

Electric Six - Radio Gaga (Queen Cover)

White Stripes - Jolene (Dolly Parton Cover)

Bettye LaVette shows the Who how it's done, in front of them and to their astonished applause:

Go Sister!

August West said:

Go Sister!

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Pete [thinking to himself]: Yup, that's what I intended!
Roger [same]: Oh, I think that's what Pete intended!

Babs to Pete at the end, "You wrote that!?" [this part is true]

I'll stick with the Who, but thanks for playing...

I really like this cover of "I'm on Fire" by Low

Also being a big Grateful Dead fan, I have to agree that some of my favorite songs they did were covers.
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