Hooray_Girl_2: Totally getting stuck into my Covers Compilation. Rule: One cover per band, otherwise could do a whole CD by 2 bands. Up to 35 songs now!
about 10 hours ago
JamesHogben: With so many bands doing cover songs I find my self wondering... will anyone ever do a cover of 'The Game of Love' I can't see it happening.
about 15 hours ago
nadiasoul: One, maybe two cover songs is ok. But, bands that do only cover music..r jus boring 2 me..lack of creativity. Squeeze an original in ur set
about 1 day ago
NIKKYPOO: Just heard a beautiful cover song of 'Kiss Me Through the Phone'. I love when metal bands do 10x better on covers of crappy rap/r&b songs...
about 1 day ago
JPXer: In a effort to gradually get into the Christmas spirit I have begun listening to popular bands cover xmas songs.. no 'carols' allowed! #fb
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| By OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writers |
| Published May 16, 2009 at 4:51 p.m. |
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Andy Tarnoff
Publisher
These "charticles" lately are really stretching my brain. To come up with a list of my favorite cover songs, I scanned all 2,732 songs in my iTunes library and picked just 13 potentially worthy songs. I noticed as I look back on these tracks -- some from CDs I bought when I was 14-years-old -- I actually heard some of these covers before I heard the originals. And that's not to say the one version is better than the other, but like most music, these songs evoke strong memories. While I freely admit that not every one of these songs is a super-duper amazing tune, they're still my favorites. I narrowed the list down to 10, submitted in alphabetical order for the enjoyment and ridicule of our Talkbackers:
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" -- Violent Femmes (Culture Club)
"D'yer Mak'er" -- Sheryl Crow (Led Zeppelin)
"Gloria" The Doors (Them)
"I Fought the Law" -- The Clash (Sonny Curtis and The Crickets)
"Kiss" -- Tom Jones (Prince)
"Personal Jesus" -- Johnny Cash (Depeche Mode)
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" -- Camper Van Beethoven (Status Quo)
"Johnny B. Goode / Roadrunner" -- Sex Pistols (Chuck Berry
"She Caught The Katy" -- Blues Brothers (Taj Mahal)
"Volare" -- Gypsy Kings (Dean Martin)
Kevin Brandt
Featured blogger
I had to break my list into my top five favorites and my favorites covered by Springsteen and top five covers of Springsteen songs.
Top 5 favorites
"Early Morning Rain" -- Raul Malo (Gordon Lightfoot)
"Like a Rolling Stone" -- Rolling Stones (Bob Dylan)
"Believe" -- Robbie Fulks (Cher)
"The Heart of Saturday Night" Mary Karlzen with Matthew Ryan (Tom Waits)
"Bye, Bye, Bye" -- Further Seems Forever (N'Sync)
Top 5 Covered By Springsteen
"Drift Away" (Dobie Gray)
"Who'll Stop the Rain" (Credence Clearwater Revival)
"My Ride's Here" (Warren Zevon)
"London Calling" (The Clash)
Top five covers of Springsteen Songs
"Johnny 99" -- John Hiatt
"New York City Serenade" -- Pete Yorn
"The Fever" -- Southside Johnny
"Downbound Train" -- The Mavericks
"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" -- David Bowie
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Posted by CoolerKing on May 20, 2009 at 7:37 a.m. (report)
I recently heard The Ukranians doing a cover of "Bigmouth Strikes Again" that had I not already knew it as a Smiths song I would've assumed it was an original Russian folk song. Amazing.
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Posted by BrewCityAllstar on May 18, 2009 at 2:46 p.m. (report)
The Lemonheads doing Mrs. Robinson.
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Posted by Blaine on May 18, 2009 at 12:56 p.m. (report)
If the Sam Llanas versions in questions were at the annual Neil Young birthday gig at Linnemans, Id say credit goes to his backing band that night The Carolinas. and right on for the Ward mention.
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Posted by get_rad on May 18, 2009 at 12:36 p.m. (report)
Dubstar - St. Swithin's Day (Billy Bragg) Anything that the Afghan Whigs cover live
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Posted by Hainer on May 18, 2009 at 10:06 a.m. (report)
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