Prompted by the mass debate over poor, mis-guided lil Avril L and her attempts to improve her position in the rock pantheon I thought it might be fun for us all to nominate the best-ever covers. And for the more cynical worst ever as well (no A L covers allowed in this category, that is too easy)
Here are some to get you started:
With a little help from my friends - Joe Cocker
Knocking on Heavens door - G'n'R
Honorable mention: Kiss - Tom Jones
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Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army ...
Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir - Happy Together.
Ditto 'Sweet Home Alabama'....
Ditto 'Sweet Home Alabama'.
* On the Road Again - Dimmer * So Long ...
* On the Road Again - Dimmer
* So Long Marianne - Straitjacket Fits
* Point That Thing Somewhere Else - HDU & Peter Gutteridge
* Mercy Seat - Johnny Cash
* Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Phantom Of The Opera - Me First & The ...
Phantom Of The Opera - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Barbe Girl - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
My Favourite Things - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Ghostbusters - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Saved By The Bell - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Build Me Up Buttercup - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Cheers Theme - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Happy Days - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
I Want Candy - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
I Want It That Way - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
I Walk 500 Miles - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Ice Ice Baby - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Monster Mash - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
My Boyfriends Back - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Still The One - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Summer Of 69 - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Time After Time - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Tomorrow - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Uptown Girl - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Walk Like An Egyptian - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Who Put The Bomp - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Wild World - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
sorry, I've been tired lately...
sorry, I've been tired lately
Some of those songs aren'y by MFATGG. ...
Some of those songs aren'y by MFATGG. If you search on a p2p program, you'll find any punk cover is just assumed to be theirs, even if it's actually by MXPX, The Lunar Chicks, A New Found Glory, Fenix TX...
I know for a fact that Barbe Girl, Ghostbusters, Build Me Up Buttercup, Happy Days, I Want Candy, I, Want It That Way, Monster Mash , My Boyfriends Back, Still The One & Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
aren't MFATGG tracks at least.
But I'll agree, all MFAGG covers are wicked & most punk covers in that style are too. My fave's from their new album are Where Do Broken Hearts Go and I'll Be There.
i have to agree with you Tama also ...
i have to agree with you Tama
also i dig The ataris cover of "the boys of summer" they did it waaay better than that DJ Sammy dude
// The ataris cover of "the boys of ...
// The ataris cover of "the boys of summer"
no way! that cover is so bland.
I like it...
I like it
god damn Kazaa!! I hate it when people ...
god damn Kazaa!! I hate it when people put the wrong bands on the mp3s!!
The ataris cover isn't particuarly ...
The ataris cover isn't particuarly good. Especially since I'd already heard a similar but lesser known band cover it. And that band did a much better job.
//Especially since I'd already heard a ...
//Especially since I'd already heard a similar but lesser known band cover it. And that band did a much better job.
what?? DJ Sammy ?? :P
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I like all the punk covers also ...
I like all the punk covers also Tama..... ; )
Nah, it was a band called Codeseven....
Nah, it was a band called Codeseven.
I don't think they mean to Tama, it's ...
I don't think they mean to Tama, it's just they think "this song is a punk cover, it must be by MFATGG". Very annoying eh.
Hit Me Baby One More Time - Travis I ...
Hit Me Baby One More Time - Travis
I Stole Your Love - Buck Jones
Jealous Guy - Pluto (live at Bodega)
pluto are a fucking great covers band - ...
pluto are a fucking great covers band - hey hang on
I love their cover of 'Jealous Guy'. ...
I love their cover of 'Jealous Guy'. They've taken to playing it every encore, which is fabulous and makes me very happy and it also makes me teary.
i like their covers of the weight and ...
i like their covers of the weight and in the lap of the gods. man they add so much to those songs.
the weight when the 67-part harmony ...
the weight when the 67-part harmony comes in...phwoar. they do it so well!
Helll yes Jelous Guy is one great ...
Helll yes Jelous Guy is one great cover. It gropes my heart each time I hear it.
Everything off Abbasolutely, but ...
Everything off Abbasolutely, but specially Shayne Carter & Fiona McDonald - Name of the Game and Bressa Creeting Cake - Ring Ring
Hurt - Johnny Cash Rusty Cage - Johnny ...
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Rusty Cage - Johnny Cash
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Blue Monday - Orgy
Stone Cold Crazy - MetallicA
Turn the Page - MetallicA
Whiskey In The Jar - MetallicA
Baker Street - Foo Fighters
Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters
Fire - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Pepper
Land Down Under - Pennywise
fuck!! I did it again!!! I think I need ...
fuck!! I did it again!!! I think I need to go to bed soon!!
baker street and have a cigar are such ...
baker street and have a cigar are such great covers by the foo fighters........but i suppose i would say that
whiskey is the jar is a wicked cover......
whiskey is the jar is a wicked cover...
I was also going to nominate everything ...
I was also going to nominate everything off abbasolutely, but you beat me too it. My favs are Supertrouper/Headless Chickens, and On and On and On/The Tall Dwarfs.
Yup, those are my other favourites off ...
Yup, those are my other favourites off that album, but I didn't want to get too carried away, a la tama drummer.
hmmmm.............
hmmmm..........
Ack! Pseudo Echo - Funky Town! Yeah!...
Ack! Pseudo Echo - Funky Town! Yeah!
Dear god. Do you mean to tell me funky ...
Dear god. Do you mean to tell me funky town was a cover?
Ummm...Are you serious? Am I really ...
Ummm...Are you serious? Am I really that old?
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// Am I really that old? I think ...
// Am I really that old?
I think you only have a couple of years on me actually, but er the Pseudo Echo version is very indelibly ingrained on my memory. One of my friends had just got a ghetto blaster and that was his first tape. We used to sit on the grass and listen to pseudo echo and fly kites.
I was suprised to learn it was a cover ...
I was suprised to learn it was a cover too. My older sisters (one of whom is just a year younger than you, Heather) used to refer to Psuedoecho as "Spunky Town"
When I was in college, there was a band ...
When I was in college, there was a band of young miscreants that played the local bar circuit, called Mr. Belvedere and the Solid Gold Dancers. They were a cover band (they refused to be called a tribute band), playing only 80's hair metal. Every cover they did was divine.
Said it before, say it again "crush" - ...
Said it before, say it again
"crush" - The Dismemberment Plan, not your cute little pop song anymore.
"The Coffee Song" - Soul Coughing
Narley Mouskouri-Hit me with your ...
Narley Mouskouri-Hit me with your rhythm stick
riders on the storm - creed lover man ...
riders on the storm - creed
lover man - metallica
raining blood - concord dawn
paranoid - just one fix
shout 2000 - disturbed
genie in a bottle - (dat punk rock band))
no quaters - TOOL
//riders on the storm - creed// So ...
//riders on the storm - creed//
So the rumbling in Paris was Jim Morrison rolling in his grave ... not the metro!
// genie in a bottle - (dat punk rock ...
// genie in a bottle - (dat punk rock band))
that song is awful! i'd have to say i like the original better...
//riders on the storm - creed// WHAT ...
//riders on the storm - creed//
WHAT THE FUCK???? CREED ARE SO GAY. EVEN JOSHUA KADISON AND LIONEL RITCHIE SOUND HEAVIER THAN THEM.
//genie in a bottle - (dat punk rock ...
//genie in a bottle - (dat punk rock band))
Just when u thought that peice of junk was over - along it comes with a more horrible verison. and calling them 'punk' is an insult to a genre that isnt meant to be writing songs about love and romance.
dude you choice the the worst covers...
dude you choice the the worst covers
// lover man - metallica Grrrr....
// lover man - metallica
Grrrr.
How dare YOU!!! WHy i oughta!!!...
How dare YOU!!! WHy i oughta!!!
CONCORD DAWN'S dance version of ...
CONCORD DAWN'S dance version of raining blood is so much better than the original!!!
Yeah, Raining Blood is a pretty cool ...
Yeah, Raining Blood is a pretty cool trac in the Uprising. I'm not too partial to drum'n'bass or metal but the hybrid of the two is a thing of beauty.
kitten you should be shot in the face ...
kitten you should be shot in the face for nominating that genie in the bottle cover.
It wasn't thrice, I don't know who the fuck it was but they should be hanged for covering such an atrocious "song"(and even though its in quotations i shudder to use the term song) and dirtying up punk even moreso.
I still can't quite recover from the fact that you called it one of the "best ever covers". Oh well.
Your tastes are rather shocking,aren't they?
//genie in a bottle - (dat punk rock ...
//genie in a bottle - (dat punk rock band))//
the thrice one?
that's hot.. just because i love thrice.. punk covers rock up crap songs.. even tif the covers arent' good at least they're fucken better than the originals.
Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Minogue) ...
Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Minogue) - The Flaming Lips
Whole Again (Atomic Kitten) - The Sick Anchors
Sweet Child O' Mine (G'n'R)- Luna
This Guys In Love With You (Bacharach) - Faith No More
Revolution (Beatles) - Grandaddy
Hide Your Love Away (Beatles) - Eddie Vedder
Army Of Me (Bjork) - Helmet (fuck yeah - this is choice!)
Lay Lady Lay (Dylan) - Ministry
All Along The Watchtower (Dylan)- Jimi Hendrix
Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath) - Mogwai
Cabin Fever (Cohen) - Nick Cave
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) - Sparklehorse (maybe w/ Grandaddy or Radiohead? Unsure.)
Invader Ace (Guitar Wolf?) - The D4
Come To Daddy (Aphex Twin) - The Dillinger Escape Plan feat. Mike Patton
Velouria (Pixies) - Weezer
Moonshiner (Traditional) - Uncle Tupelo... and Cat Power... and Uncle Dad (who, incidentally, are playing on the 3rd of October with The Tree Ninja Collective and Kamahi at Valve in Wellington)...