Let's Hear Your Favorite (or, in fact, any) Cover Versions Of Popular Songs !

[MPrince]

Spooky Tooth cover of The Beatles I Am The Walrus

Steve'N'Seagulls cover of Guns & Roses November Rain

Travis cover of Britney Spears Hit Me Baby One More Time

Poehemia Whiskey In The Jar (Similar to Thin Lizzie's version)

 

[phigmov]

The original is a bit of an early 80's classic - turns out Juliana Hatfield released an entire album of ONJ covers (they sound pretty good) and more recently has an album of Police covers (not so good from the snippets I've heard imho) out too.

Juliana Hatfields cover

And of course ONJ's original

 

[Aushiker]

Beth Orton and Chemical Brothers covering Tim Buckley "I never asked to be your mountain"

 

[mcgillro]

Really enjoying that

 

[pwol]

I love this guys channel. Gotta love the crazy YouTube recommended videos, I've been binge watching his whole channel.

 

[rmcnelly]

 

[Slinky Malinki]

Pseudo Echo's 1986 cover of "Funkytown"

 

[Mooglover]

Pretty much all the stuff by these little tykes are great.

 

[phigmov]

Not often you get people covering the Violent Femmes

Nouvelle Vague - Blister in the Sun

Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

 

[NoSeconds]

 

[phigmov]

A reworking rather than a cover - Trojan Records released a Soul Power - Funky Kingston Comp which is all reggae covers of soul-classics -

Shark Wilson & The Basement Heaters - Make It Reggae

And the inspiration is of course - The One, The Only, Mr Please Please Please himself James Brown - Make it Funky

 

[Aushiker]

 

[Aushiker]

 

[phigmov]

A reverse cover - the original is (sadly) less well known than the cover

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog

Elvis - Hound Dog

 

[phigmov]

A couple of newly popular glam-rock covers of the Sweet by a new up and coming alt-rock band

The Sweet - Fox On The Run

The Regrettes - Fox On The Run

The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

The Regrettes - Ballroom Blitz

Bonus...

The Damned - Ballroom Blitz (w/ Lemmy of Motorhead on bass)

 

[Keeth101]

Paul Young covered Marvin Gayes' "Wherever I Lay My Hat" and made it his own. Marvin Gaye co-wrote the song and it was on the 'flip' side of "Too Busy Thinking 'Bout My Baby"

And the original -

 

[phigmov]

Off Phil Lynnots first solo album - Ode to a Blackman (also features Huey Lewis on harmonica which is wild)

The Dirtbombs garage-punk cover - Ode to a Blackman

Which is from their covers album 'Ultraglide in Black' which is amazing. Another one...

Stevie Wonder - Living for the City

The Dirtbombs - Living for the City

 

[Aushiker]

 

[phigmov]

Obsolete Orkestra (no idea who they are and they don't seem to have released anything else) cover the New Order Classic 'Blue Monday'

The original by New Order from '85

 

[Aushiker]