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"Cortez the Killer (live Neil Young cover) Slint"

the 20-minute version by Built to Spill simultaneously blows my mind and puts me to sleep.

8/8/2006 9:14:45 AM

no use for a name - turning japanese
pennywise - land down under

8/8/2006 9:18:21 AM

sarah mclachlan--blue
tori amos--the whole album strange little girls is covers from Slayer to the Beatles...Enjoy the Silence is my personal fave from this album...she's got a whole list if you like tori amos http://www.hereinmyhead.com/collect/sort4.html her cover of Zeppelin's Thank You is good but she gets rather tori-ish at the end

8/8/2006 9:24:05 AM

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix) ****This is the GOAT as far as covers go***
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Breaking Benjamin - Who Wants To Live Forever (Queen)
Dynamite Hack - Boyz In The Hood (Eazy-E)
Metallica - Turn The Page (Bob Seger)
Every band ever - Brown Eyed Girl

[Edited on August 8, 2006 at 2:24 PM. Reason : sdfg]

8/8/2006 2:23:38 PM

grateful dead--dancing in the street (martha and the vandellas)

8/8/2006 2:28:00 PM

Yeah, if you're going to have a cover of Cortez the Killer, I advocate the one done by Built to Spill.

8/8/2006 4:46:14 PM

ohemgee someone yousendit this Built to Spill Cortez the Killer cover plz.

8/9/2006 2:24:10 AM

ben lee - float on (modest mouse)
alana davis - 32 flavors (ani difranco)
between the buried and me - colorblind (counting crows) * just check out the album dead & dreaming: an indie tribute to counting crows
ana carolina & seu jorge - é isso aí (the blower's daughter) (damien rice) *really good
keane - with or without you (u2) *there are a ton of great covers of u2 songs
ray lamontagne - crazy (gnarls barkley)
aimee mann & michael penn - two of us (the beatles) *check out the soundtrack i am sam, all beatles covers
counting crows - six different ways (the cure)
the cure - i melt with you (modern english) *mest as well as saves the day do a decent version too
dave matthews band - if i had a boat (lyle lovett)
eagles - seven bridges road (steve young)
johnny cash - one (u2)
nada surf - where is my mind? (pixies)
weezer - uptown girl (billy joel)
rufus wainwright - hallelujah (leonard cohen) *similar to the jeff buckley version, like this one a little bit more though

worth checking out some weezer tribute albums
-making noise: a tribute to weezer
-rock music: a tribute to weezer
-a punk tribute to weezer
-the string quartet tribute to weezer *string quartet has a lot of instrumental covers that are good
-across the sea: a tribute to weezer

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" gary jules - mad world israël kamakawiwo'ole - somewhere over the rainbow ryan adams - wonderwall iron and wine - such great heights jem - maybe i'm amazed"

seconded

[Edited on August 9, 2006 at 11:22 PM. Reason : .]

8/9/2006 11:08:27 PM

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"weezer - uptown girl (billy joel)"

they never did it. it's a mislabled me first and the gimme gimmes cover.

8/10/2006 12:27:04 AM

The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

8/10/2006 3:41:41 AM

^ Their "Iron Man" is nice, too.

8/10/2006 3:58:30 AM

Please tell me that no less than FIVE Weezer tribute albums were listed.

you people

8/10/2006 12:17:52 PM

oh yeah, I forgot to mention bob dylan has some good tribute albums, you should get his too, only 14 of them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_album

just found this page as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_cover_versions_A-M

[Edited on August 10, 2006 at 12:38 PM. Reason : .]

8/10/2006 12:26:33 PM

aimee mann "one"

8/10/2006 1:13:08 PM

pumpkins - landslide

8/10/2006 1:52:27 PM

James Mercer's cover of "Harvest" is pretty kickass.

8/11/2006 2:59:38 AM

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"Baker Street - Foo Fighters"

hell yes
I've always liked "Enjoy the Silence" for the creep-out factor, and Tori Amos's cover of it is even creepier than the original.
I also like "Helter Skelter" off U2's Rattle and Hum.

[Edited on August 11, 2006 at 7:38 AM. Reason : .]

8/11/2006 7:37:37 AM

Evanescence did an interesting cover of Korn's "Thoughtless" arrranged around a piano no less

Also...

Jack Black - Let's Get It On (Marvin Gaye) in the movie High Fidelity

[Edited on August 11, 2006 at 8:18 AM. Reason : ukoyuof]

8/11/2006 8:16:38 AM

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"Cortez the Killer"

DMB w/ Warren Haynes Live in Central Park...

don't argue... it is a great cover

8/11/2006 6:04:20 PM

^^Don't post in this thread any more.

^I agree, it is a great cover.

8/11/2006 6:33:52 PM

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"Evanescence did an interesting cover of Korn's "Thoughtless" arrranged around a piano no les"

Just in case anyone missed it.

8/11/2006 9:37:26 PM

Bttt

10/6/2013 10:46:41 PM

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - Joe Cocker

10/6/2013 10:58:28 PM

The Mars Volta- Back up Against the Wall (Circle Jerks cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbUTvOT1348

10/7/2013 3:07:49 PM

Circle Jerk's doing Fortunate Son

10/7/2013 3:37:08 PM

metallica's whole garage inc, specifically tuesday's gone, stone cold crazy, and so what
rage against the machine's whole renegades cd, especially microphone fiend

between the buried and me - colorblind
ben kweller - BK baby (ice ice baby)

10/7/2013 6:00:44 PM

Pearl Jam - Reign O'er Me

10/8/2013 12:26:13 PM

Local Natives do a pretty rad cover of "Warning Sign"

10/8/2013 12:26:56 PM

Circle Jerks doing the Soft Boys' "I Wanna Destroy You"

Tom Jones and the Cardigans doing Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House"

[Edited on October 8, 2013 at 12:29 PM. Reason : ]

10/8/2013 12:28:16 PM

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"between the buried and me - colorblind"

Not my favorite choice, but there are a ton of songs from The Anatomy Of that I really like:

BTBAM: Us and Them, Kickstart My Heart, The Day I Tried to Live and ..... Bicycle Race.

10/9/2013 7:27:28 AM

Faith No More covering Lionel Ritchie's "Easy (like Sunday morning)"

10/9/2013 11:19:43 AM

10/10/2013 1:16:21 PM

Dead Kennedys doing Elvis's Viva Las Vegas

10/10/2013 2:45:19 PM

The Shins - We Will Become Silhouettes (The Postal Service)
The Postal Service - Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
Dropkick Murphys - Finnegan's Wake (traditional)*

[Edited on October 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM. Reason : *Is a cover of a "traditional"/standard still a cover? I think so.]

10/10/2013 3:10:24 PM

let's try to embed these mugs people. share the love!

10/20/2013 9:52:29 PM

^^ It's not a cover, it's a rendition.

The real gray area is when a song isn't a standard, but its original artist is not its author.

Example: "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" was written by Motown's Whitfield/Strong duo and originally recorded by Marvin Gaye. Berry Gordy didn't like it, and the first version released by Motown was an uptempo take by Gladys Knight. She didn't write the song, and neither did Marvin, though Marvin's version has become most famous. On top of that, it was very common in Motown's golden era for a dozen different acts to record any given song. Are all these covers, or just renditions?

[/nerds]

10/20/2013 10:15:33 PM

^ wiki disagrees

10/20/2013 10:40:21 PM

All of Led Zepplin's songs

10/20/2013 11:07:40 PM

That's a pretty fucking lame post. Troll in Chit Chat brah.

10/20/2013 11:09:29 PM

eric clapton - cocaine
lynyrd skynyrd - call me the breeze

10/21/2013 12:40:28 PM

Screeching Weasel - I can See Clearly Now (originally by Johnny Nash, also covered by Jimmy Cliff, Ray Charles, Gladys Night, Willie Nelson, Toots & the Maytals and more)

Old Man Markley - Science of Myth (by Screeching Weasel)

10/21/2013 12:54:27 PM

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"Are all these covers, or just renditions?"

I don't think it matters who wrote it (in the case where it was not written by any of the artists who performed it), and I think it depends on the song. You made a good point that anything that's a traditional song will produce renditions, as well as for a standard that's been performed by so many people that there isn't a definitive "original". But it does get hazy for things like your example, or something like "All Along the Watchtower". Bob Dylan's version is the original, and well-known, and he did in fact write it. But most people would call the "definitive" version of the song Hendrix's version. Is it still a cover?

10/21/2013 2:53:33 PM

10/22/2013 10:38:16 AM

Willie Nelson - The Scientist
The Watson Twins - Ain't No Sunshine

10/24/2013 5:16:27 PM

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"That's a pretty fucking lame post. Troll in Chit Chat brah."

10/27/2013 4:26:33 PM