Weird and wonderful cover songs

[Rochellita]

What are you favourites

At the moment mine are:

A Case of You- Tori Amos (original Joni Mitchell)
Embrace- How Come? (original D12)
Willy Mason- the Message (Grandmaster Flash)
ne me quitte pas- Nina Simone (this is more weird than wonderful because Nina Simone singing in French is truly bizarre) (Jacques Brel)
Gloria- Patti Smith (original Them)
Hurdy Gurdy Man- Butthole Surfers (original Donovan) (more weird than wonderful)

Always eager to hear unusual covers so if you have any- post them here please!

[fredrikw]

shoreline - anna ternheim (original broder daniel)
heartbeats - jose gonzález (original the knife)

[ShackleMeNot]

I love a good cover song...

Some of my all time favorites:

Trust in me - Belly (orginally The Jungle Book soundtrack)
Hot Burrito #1 - Belly (orginally The Flying Burrito Brothers)
Bodies - Veruca Salt (orginally The Sex Pistols)
Ripple - Janes Addiction (originally The Greatful Dead)
Iron Man - The Cardigans (originally Black Sabbath)
When the Levee Brakes - Kristin Hersh (orginally Lead Zeppelin)

[GenTDuke]

Motown meets the beatles.
The Four Tops - The fool on the hill
Four Tops - Eleanor rigby

Frank Zappa - Ring of fire (cash)
Frank Zappa - Sunshine of you love (led zep) weird shit but awesome as usual for zappa

[loveliberate]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MCWRurB7VoQ

[ultra_whippet]

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)

[pelicanAndrew]

Sunday Bloody Sunday- Ignite(U2 original)
Take On Me- Cap'n Jazz or Reel Big Fish(i have no idea who did the original, i automatically think of the Reel Big Fish version)
La Quiete- Tigersuit(some of them used to be in Daitro so they just played it at the show in Chicago this summer)
Jimi Hendrix- All Along The Watchtower

Can't think of any others.

[fredrikw]

Take On Me- Cap'n Jazz or Reel Big Fish(i have no idea who did the original, i automatically think of the Reel Big Fish version)

he he, you're obviously too young I believe it was A-Ha that made the original.

[pelicanAndrew]

A ha! That's them.

[Malcolms Billy]

Nellie the Elephant - Toy Dolls
Blue Suede Shoes - Toy Dolls (original by this dude called Elvis, GenTDuke might've heard of him )

[Speciell]

Nina Gordon - Straight Out Of Compton (NWA -Niggaz with attitude)

[tempehmomma]

Great Covers
Nirvana-too many to list
Metallica-Am I Evil (Diamond Head), Blitzkrieg (Blitzkrieg).
Metallica-Nothing over $5.98 EP Garage Days Re-Revisited (every frickin' song rules)
Metallica-Garage Inc. (some of the songs)
Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhoades Tribute Album-Ironman, Children of the Grave, Paranoid amazing axe work on Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Trent Reznor w/ some band. I don't know if was with NIN-Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
Guns & Roses-Mama Kin (Aerosmith)
Slayer-Undisputed Attitude (some of the songs, can't remember title or artist)
Slayer-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
Anthrax-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
Death-Painkiller (Judas Preist)
Horrible Covers
Motorhead-God Save the Queen (SexPistols)
Megadeth-Anarchy in the UK (Sex Pistols)
Crowbar-No Quarter (Led Zep)

[bronco]

Frank Zappa - Sunshine of you love (led zep) weird shit but awesome as usual for zappa

Sunshine of your love was written a cream original .

Slayer-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)

Yeah, that's one of my favourites too.

And also:

Slayer & Ice-T - Disorder (Exploited)
Dead moon - Play with fire (stones)
Motorhead - Leavin here
Guitar wolf - Satisfaction (stones)

In general I dont like covers, I have yet to find one that is better than the original.

[tempehmomma]

In general I dont like covers, I have yet to find one that is better than the original.

I disagree. Every Metallica cover of a Diamondhead song is 10x better.

[Rochellita]

Nina Gordon - Straight Out Of Compton (NWA -Niggaz with attitude)

Thanks for this, really cool! I searched it out as I haven't heard it before.