Cover Me, I'm Going in

Erik Bates | February 15, 2004
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Matthew Preston | February 15, 2004
Being an avid Pearl Jam fan, I can tell you they cover a lot of songs. Most are done in concert, but a few have been recorded that you should be able to find:

"Last Kiss" best known by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. (Most popular cover by PJ).
"Baba O'Riley" by The Who.
"Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
"Fuckin' Up" by Neil Young.
"Know Your Rights" by The Clash.
"Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young.

- I don't know if it was recorded but "Have a Cigar" by Pink Floyd was covered by the Foo Fighters.

- Ugly Kid Joe covered "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin.

- Shery Crow covered "Sweet Child O Mine" by Guns N Roses.

- Lenny Kravity covered "American Woman" by The Guess Who.

- Echo and the Bunnymen covered The Doors' "People Are Strange" for the "Lost Boys" movie soundtrack.

- Speaking of The Door's, the cover album Stoned Immaculate has a lot of great ones.

- Richard Cheese makes his career by covering pop hits as lounge music.

- Stevie Ray Vaughan covered "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix.

- Mephiskapheles did a great cover of the Bumble Bee Tuna song.

- Or, anything P. Diddy has ever performed.

=PHEW= that's about all I got for now. The only title possibility I could come up with for you might be "Music Undercover."

Steve West | February 15, 2004
Stevie Ray Vaughn covered the Beatles - Taxman
Jeff Healy covered Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You
Sex Pistols covered the Monkees - Stepping Stone
Marilyn Manson covered Cheap Trick - Surrender
Nirvana covered David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World

Titles
Under Cover of Darkness
Under the Covers
Close Cover Before Striking

Erik Bates | February 15, 2004
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Steve West | February 15, 2004
Cover Your Tracks

Scott Hardie | February 15, 2004
I suggest looking for cover albums - not only is the band relaxed and enjoying themselves, but you get to choose the best track out of a whole set, instead of being stuck with just one cover song per band. Just about any band that has been around for a while has published one, especially those trying to finish their contracts with the record label. ;-)

From my collection: Like Jackie, I've always counted GNR's "Spaghetti Incident" among my favorite rock albums; it's grizzled and haphazard, but often fun. Metallica gathered all of their existing covers and recorded eleven new ones for "Garage Inc," which remains one of my favorite albums from them because they play around, instead of being very serious like they were for most of the nineties. Slayer did a fantastic all-punk covers album called "Undisputed Attitude" that is hands-down the hardest rock album I have ever heard, and is quite possibly the CD I would take with me to a desert island if I could take only one. As Steve mentioned, half the songs on Nirvana's "Unplugged in New York" are covers, and little surprise, they sound better than the Nirvana originals in the same concert. (Actually, one of Nirvana's biggest hits, "Come As You Are", is believed by some to have been stolen from Killing Joke's "Eighties.")

I don't own it, but I recall Skankin' Pickle (are they even still around?) doing a covers album in which each member sang the vocals of their favorite song. Good idea if you're a ska band and have enough members to pull it off. :-)

Other favorite cover songs from my collection: Joe Satriani plays the soothing "Sleep Walk" by Santo & Johnny Farina, GNR's rendition of Dylan's "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and McCartney's "Live and Let Live," the Donnas' fun but unoriginal take of Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight" (ditto for Metal Church's mediocre-but-pleasant "Highway Star" by Deep Purple), Save Ferris's unfairly-maligned "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners, Consolidated's creepy version of Edwin Starr's "War" (the speech about Bush Sr. can be applied almost exactly to Bush Jr. today), Aimee Mann's playful version of 3DN's "One", and Skid Row's own take on Hendrix's "Little Wing." (Matt separately mentioned Vaughn's version and Pearl Jam; I swear that Pearl Jam's famous "Yellow Ledbetter" must have been inspired by "Little WIng.") Black Sabbath has provided good covers for Pantera ("Planet Caravan") and the Cardigans ("Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Iron Man"); their "Paranoid" may be one of the most-covered heavy metal songs ever, so I shouldn't mention it, but Megadeth's version is my favorite.

One of your own favorite performers, Johnny Cash, did a huge number of covers, especially late in his career. He belongs on your CD.

This database is useful, but inaccurate: I noticed they credited Jimmy Eat World's "Firestarter" to The Prodigy, even though Prodigy was just remixing L7's original (and still the best).

If you seek out only one of the bands/covers I listed, I implore you to seek out the Cardigans' version of "Iron Man." It's a deconstructed and reconstructed version of a classic rock song by a completely different band, and to me it represents what all covers should be.

Finally, I love Matt's accurate suggestion of "anything by Puffy." :-)

Erik Bates | February 15, 2004
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Denise Sawicki | February 16, 2004
Well in my weird little music world, my favorite cover is Any Way that You Want me, by Spiritualized, covering The Troggs. I'm sure everybody cares.

Denise Sawicki | February 16, 2004
By the way Erik, I had run across this link quite a while ago that takes the cover CD idea even farther. This is probably for people with unbelievably huge music collections and way too much time on their hands :). It's called a cover chain and requires that every song on the CD be a cover of the previous artist. There's also a huge database of cover songs over there.

Further covers that I recommend include Catherine Wheel's cover of Wish You Were Here and the aforementioned Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright which is a cover of Leonard Cohen.

Sorry, I can't seem to shut up on here since Scott posted the Wimpy Singers thread, which may have been part of his plan. :P

Erik Bates | February 16, 2004
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Jackie Mason | February 18, 2004
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Steve West | February 18, 2004
About the same as Leonard Nimoy's cover of "If I Had a Hammer" and Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Lori Lancaster | February 18, 2004
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Steve West | February 18, 2004
Only heard it on the radio myself. Love to have copies myself. A clip of Shatner can be found here - http://www.pathcom.com/~boby/lsd.htm

Anna Gregoline | February 18, 2004
What I usually do is go on your favorite downloading program and search for the word, "cover." Brings up a lot of things I would never have found otherwise.

Lori Lancaster | February 18, 2004
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Erik Bates | February 19, 2004
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Anna Gregoline | February 19, 2004
Ah. Bummer. Remember when downloading music was both easy, and fun?

Dan Donovan | February 20, 2004
Hammerfall - I Want Out (Helloween)
the Ataris - Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
Incubus - Turning Japanese (the Vapors)

Anna Gregoline | February 20, 2004
I really liked Ryan Adams cover of "Wonderwall." I know plenty of people that hate that song, but a cover is so much better than the original, because the original is very harsh. Ryan Adams puts a kind of bluesy spin on it that I like, keeps it all very minor key.

K. R. | February 20, 2004
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Erik Bates | February 22, 2004
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Jason Charles Butterhoff | February 22, 2004
Sonata Arctica - Wind Beneath My Wings

Yes, there's a METAL version of Wind Beneath My Wings...gotta love it ;)

Jason Charles Butterhoff | February 22, 2004
Oh, and just message me on AIM at MPjunior36 if you're interested...I'll hook ya up!

Erik Bates | February 22, 2004
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Erik Bates | February 22, 2004
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Denise Sawicki | February 22, 2004
Yeah yeah that is what I was saying up there about "cover chains". It might be tough to do that and have them all be songs that you like, though. I see you already have a cover of a Pink Floyd song, btw, does that exclude having another?

Erik Bates | February 22, 2004
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Denise Sawicki | February 23, 2004
It's Wish You Were Here by Catherine Wheel. I'm backing up a few songs this week, may as well do one more if the interest is there...

Dave Stoppenhagen | February 23, 2004
The Foo Fighters cover of Darling Nikki and Radiohead cover of Deftones' "Shut Up And Drive".

Erik Bates | February 24, 2004
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Erik Bates | February 25, 2004
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Erik Bates | February 25, 2004
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Denise Sawicki | February 25, 2004
No, it's a man. :P I don't have the original song and don't remember exactly what it sounds like but I guess it might not be wildly different from the cover. Er, I think I may have mis-named the band on there but the band is Catherine Wheel.

Scott Hardie | February 26, 2004
Might I also suggest one of the greatest of all classic rock performances, Jimi Hendrix playing the "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock? It must be heard to be believed.

Erik Bates | February 28, 2004
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Jason Charles Butterhoff | March 1, 2004
Wow, I didn't know Alanis Morisette covered King of Pain...I LOVE that song by The Police. I was just playing the drums along to it yesterday.

Jackie Mason | March 2, 2004
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Erik Bates | April 3, 2004
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Melissa Erin | April 3, 2004
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Lori Lancaster | April 3, 2004
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