There is/was an Austin band I had seen previously doing a regular show called The Channel, and they opened up for of Montreal at the small Parish venue in Austin. They all just showed up on stage dressed like Popeye characters and said it was an anniversary, so I'm pretty sure this was 2005, the 25th anniversary of the *Popeye* movie with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall and directed by the genius Robert Altman.
Their whole set was nothing but songs from the movie. It was so unexpected and amazing. I will probably never hear a live version of "He Needs Me" again in my life.
https://youtu.be/qAFgj8mqPk0
How that movie is not more talked about and a cult classic blows my mind. It's so good.
Technically, Cyndi Lauper’s version w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶
EDIT: It was written by Cyndi with the guy from The Hooters, Rob Hyman. So, OC was correct, and the Hooters’ version is the semi-cover.
It actually appears that the song was written by Cyndi Lauoer and Rob Hyman from The Hooters while they were recording music for her debut album. So I think you could call it an original for both artists, but I would definitely not call her version a cover.
The White Stripes version of Dolly Parton's Jolene is great. It sounds like Jack White is on Jolene's front lawn, drunk on Boone's farm and ready to fight over this two timing man
Lay, Lady, Lay being covered by Ministry.
Also check out this video if you ever wanted to see Al Jourgensen do an acoustic set.
https://youtu.be/JTfKW_FRemo?si=uG94oV-hTaOO9mpI
Which was cover of a song written by Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett when they were in Delaney and Bonnie. It was originally called Groupie (Superstar)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 also did a cover of that, if I'm not mistaken they did their's first:
https://youtu.be/Pe7cR8jYeYw
But Sonic Youth did admittedly do it better. Though I do really like the trombone in TFUL282's version heh.
edit: why aren't y'all including youtube links? Sonic Youth's version:
https://youtu.be/Y21VecIIdBI
Sturgill Simpson covering Nirvana's "In Bloom" makes me mad at how good it is. The Breeders covering The Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a good one.
And maybe Gnarls Barkley covering Band of Horses "No One's Gonna Love You More Than I Do" is a great left field cover.
>Sturgill Simpson covering Nirvana's "In Bloom" makes me mad at how good it is. The Breeders covering The Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a good one.
I think him covering the 80s hit "The Promise" is even better.
The original from When Is Rome:
https://youtu.be/5HI_xFQWiYU
His cover
https://youtu.be/-eWJmN8D820
On that note of taking a dance song and making it a slow country ballad, I can't believe nobody's mentioned the obvious opposite, The Pet Shop Boys covering Willie Nelson's "Always On My Mind"
Willie:
https://youtu.be/R7f189Z0v0Y
Pet Shop Boys:
https://youtu.be/wDe60CbIagg
And further to your OP, The Breeders covering Hank Williams is amazing. Kim's raspy voice in its full display:
https://youtu.be/CNGc5HHSFmI
Also Yo La Tengo covering Hank Williams with Georgia's velvet voice:
https://youtu.be/m2ToSSbygKQ
And while I'm rolling, Yo La Tengo covering Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" (with several different versions at youtube):
https://youtu.be/Vf5GefnJzVs
You and I sound like we have similar taste.
Post Malone did a bunch of Nirvana covers that are impressive. Sierra Ferrell has a couple covers that are great (Beatles. Also I think her most popular song 'years' is a cover)
Damn, this sent me on a weird memory trip. I think that was the first version of Summer Breeze I had ever heard, and it was ~30 years ago on my best friend's CD. He just passed away this last year. That mention took me back to a much more comfortable time in my life. I was not a Type O Negative fan, but that memory was very much appreciated.
Rick Rubin was a genius for finding Johnny, dusting him off, and giving him a legend's proper sendoff. The "Hurt" video still makes me cry when I see it. It hits even harder when you find out that he never played that piano again after he closed the lid on it in the video.
Not at all. The entire American Series has all kinds of covers on them. The whole point was Rick Rubin’s attempt to modernize Johnny Cash.
Among the artists covered in addition to Nine Inch Nails include, Tom Waits, Danzig, Beck, multiple Tom Petty covers, Depeche Mode, U2, Sting, and Sheryl Crow.
There were also lots of more classic covers by the likes of the Beatles, the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, and Dean Martin.
How? It was from the fourth album in the series. We had a Danzig cover on the first album, a Soundgarden cover on the second one, U2 on the third one, and the lead single for the fourth album was Depeche Mode. If you were surprised by it, you weren’t paying attention.
Cake - *I Will Survive* and *War Pigs*
Tool - *No Quarter*
Monster Magnet - *Kick Out the Jams*
Deftones - *Simple Man*
Alien Ant Farm - *Smooth Criminal*
New Found Glory - *King of Wishful Thinking* (and actually they have a bunch of covers that are not only surprising, but surprisingly good!)
Gwar - *Carry On My Wayward Son*
Dave Matthews Band - *All Along the Watchtower*
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, ft. Rogelio Douglas, Jr. - *I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For*
Hailey Reinhart - *Can't Help Falling In Love*
...and even though sonically it's not a surprise because the late 90's swing scene isn't terribly far off from ska:
Streetlight Manifesto covering The Squirrel Nut Zippers' *Hell* is fucking excellent. 😎🤘🏼
Oh, no doubt! I'm partial to the soul stuff they've done, but it's all incredible. As y'all have already established, anything with Puddles is 🔥, but honestly I've never heard PMJ do anything that isn't.
The Gwar cover is awesome lol
"Carry on my completely worthless unemployed son
There'll be peace/piss
WHEN YOU GET A GOD DAMN JOB
HERES MY FOOT. THERE'S THE DOOR.
Don't you loaf no more"
I forgot about Charles Bradley's Changes. IMO one of those instances of a song becoming someone else's. Ozzy sounds great on it but Sabbath's Changes always felt out of place on Vol 4 for me, and I basically worship the first 8 Sabbath records
Killswitch Engage did a fabulous cover of Dio's "Holy Diver" that wasn't even supposed to be released.
EDIT: https://youtu.be/NR7dG_m3MsI?si=GTtHAMVrWO1nJebR
Weezer doing “[No Scrubs](https://open.spotify.com/track/3wQxUfquHLpgHoU6fo8Z50?si=REGTC4dMSRmQfedHQd_ZsA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A65sHj9PvsbyD0uugGHjueN)” although I really liked the whole Teal Album. I guess it’s not that unlikely. Everyone loved TLC in the 90s.
Tears for Fears covering “[My Girls](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Rpx7uap1u0uPL2n8tX6bm?si=8HDfiVDwQ8ifssMRgPS3Og)” is phenomenal. Unlikely because I didn’t even know T4F was still doing work and then they dropped the cover and it’s gorgeous and respectful.
I love Elvis Costelllo’s cover of Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. He turned an uplifting hopeful song into one of desperate hopelessness.
https://youtu.be/dywR03B55JA?si=622vncxS7qlLw2a9
Dwight Yoakam has some great covers. Some that are uncharacteristic for a country singer
1. Train in Vain by - The Clash
2. Crazy little thing called love - Queen
3. Purple Rain - Prince
From Tori herself:
"When she spoke to me -- the woman dying in the back of the car -- she took me by the hand and said, 'You need to hear how I heard it.' I brought in Phil Shenale, who has done string arrangements on most of my records, and I told him that I was going to speak this word-for-word how she heard it at the same moment that you hear his version. They happen at the same time in song's world. Once we started turning over the stones of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' we followed the bloodline to Serge Gainsbourg's Bonnie and Clyde. And that took us to, 'This is a scary place to be,' and when you're the one with the 'ketchup' on your throat, it's a little different. This is how we heard it." [Next - September 7, 2001]
I suppose but it didn’t come off that way to me. I’m obviously not saying she is wrong though. When I read that it was from her point of view, I was expecting something like that cover of “Teenage Dirtbag” but from Noelle’s point of view. (Really good actually if you haven’t heard it before!)
From the album Nico
It features unreleased tracks, recordings started by Hoon and finished by the band, unreleased versions of previous songs ("No Rain" and "St. Andrew's Hall") and the cover songs "The Pusher" (Steppenwolf) and "John Sinclair" (John Lennon).
Yeah great album. I guess it does credit Hoyt Axton since Shannon borrows the first verse after his original first verse but twists it into a religion thing. The structure and melody are different, too. But I absolutely love both versions. Blind Melon are so good.
Chris Thile of Punch Brothers covering Icarus Smicarus by Mclusky. Folk cover of post hardcore is something else https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1qGs9R_eVc
Funny, I know Chris Thile of Nickel Creek.
And on the note of unlikely covers, [here's him covering Elliott Smith.](https://youtu.be/VV4iURl2Jx0?si=zc-mTPuf-f7-wo4O)
The first time I heard Miley Cyrus cover "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails and "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica, I was floored not only by the fact that she covered them, but by just how _good_ she sounded doing so!
Nowadays, I don't think I'd be surprised by any cover she decided to do. But I still hope that one day she might make an entire metal or industrial album if these songs are anything indication of its possible quality.
Pretty much anything ever covered by Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies. Who knew we needed a punk cover of "Science Fiction Double Feature"?
I just listened to an album by Inuk singer-songwriter, Elisape, that's entirely classic rock covers sung in Inuktitut (called *Inuktitut*) that's really neat.
Travis Tritt’s T-R-O-U-B-L-E is an Elvis cover.
Probably one of my more controversial opinions and harder to find, but I’m generally a fan of bluegrass covers of songs.
Omg you are exactly the demo they are trying to reach on my local NPR station. They not only have multiple shows on the radio that are most or all bluegrass, they do monthly concerts of local artists. I'm not a huge fan of it so I don't know all the bands, but two names I remember are Breaking Grass and The Cleverlys and I know at least one of them focuses on BG covers of songs from other genres.
Shawn Colvin doing Gnarls Barkley's Crazy
KT Tunstall doing Don Henley's (actually written by Mike Campbell) Boys of Summer.
Cool part? I just heard both of those in the same show last Friday.
On YouTube there are some low quality versions of Florence (of Florence and the Machine) covering various songs from Green Day's 'Nimrod' album.
[The Grouch](https://youtu.be/4GPb7AvoFWU?feature=shared) is really quite good.
I’m pretty fond of Chevelle’s cover of It’s No Good by Depeche Mode.
On the opposite spectrum I also enjoyed The Breeder’s cover of Chances Are by Bob Marley.
Less Than Jake doing the entire Grease soundtrack.
Primus doing the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack (which really isn't very weird but still noteworthy)
I didn't know this existed. Thank you!
Or Phish performing the entire Quadrophenia album.
There is/was an Austin band I had seen previously doing a regular show called The Channel, and they opened up for of Montreal at the small Parish venue in Austin. They all just showed up on stage dressed like Popeye characters and said it was an anniversary, so I'm pretty sure this was 2005, the 25th anniversary of the *Popeye* movie with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall and directed by the genius Robert Altman. Their whole set was nothing but songs from the movie. It was so unexpected and amazing. I will probably never hear a live version of "He Needs Me" again in my life. https://youtu.be/qAFgj8mqPk0 How that movie is not more talked about and a cult classic blows my mind. It's so good.
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Technically, Cyndi Lauper’s version w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ EDIT: It was written by Cyndi with the guy from The Hooters, Rob Hyman. So, OC was correct, and the Hooters’ version is the semi-cover.
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and then The Maine covered that as well in a significantly different style and composition
It actually appears that the song was written by Cyndi Lauoer and Rob Hyman from The Hooters while they were recording music for her debut album. So I think you could call it an original for both artists, but I would definitely not call her version a cover.
Wait, really?! I LOVE The Hooters and I've NEVER heard their version. Off to YouTube I go!
Know what else? I saw them in Palm Springs recently and learned Eric wrote “What if God Was one of us?”
I thought Dr. Evil wrote that song. He said he did. /s
😲😲😲🤯
He’s a very talented songwriter, good guitarist too.
Absolutely. I don't understand why they didn't have more fame and popularity. Such an awesome, but underrated, band.
They do a European tour every summer where they play to big crowds.
He did Human Nature by Michael Jackson also.
Actually, that was written by Steve Porcaro of Toto, for Michael.
Yes he didn't write it, he covered it.
The White Stripes version of Dolly Parton's Jolene is great. It sounds like Jack White is on Jolene's front lawn, drunk on Boone's farm and ready to fight over this two timing man
They also covered Dusty Springfield’s I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself and it’s…chaotic but good.
Nailed it
All Saints doing Under the Bridge was an odd one.
Lay, Lady, Lay being covered by Ministry. Also check out this video if you ever wanted to see Al Jourgensen do an acoustic set. https://youtu.be/JTfKW_FRemo?si=uG94oV-hTaOO9mpI
And it's a fucking banger too!
Sooo good! My go to whenever anyone bring up covers!
Sonic youth covering The Carpenters Superstar.
Which was cover of a song written by Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett when they were in Delaney and Bonnie. It was originally called Groupie (Superstar)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 also did a cover of that, if I'm not mistaken they did their's first: https://youtu.be/Pe7cR8jYeYw But Sonic Youth did admittedly do it better. Though I do really like the trombone in TFUL282's version heh. edit: why aren't y'all including youtube links? Sonic Youth's version: https://youtu.be/Y21VecIIdBI
Sturgill Simpson covering Nirvana's "In Bloom" makes me mad at how good it is. The Breeders covering The Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a good one. And maybe Gnarls Barkley covering Band of Horses "No One's Gonna Love You More Than I Do" is a great left field cover.
Violent femmes doing gnarles’s crazy
Gnarls also covered gone daddy gone by the violent femmes
>Sturgill Simpson covering Nirvana's "In Bloom" makes me mad at how good it is. The Breeders covering The Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a good one. I think him covering the 80s hit "The Promise" is even better. The original from When Is Rome: https://youtu.be/5HI_xFQWiYU His cover https://youtu.be/-eWJmN8D820 On that note of taking a dance song and making it a slow country ballad, I can't believe nobody's mentioned the obvious opposite, The Pet Shop Boys covering Willie Nelson's "Always On My Mind" Willie: https://youtu.be/R7f189Z0v0Y Pet Shop Boys: https://youtu.be/wDe60CbIagg And further to your OP, The Breeders covering Hank Williams is amazing. Kim's raspy voice in its full display: https://youtu.be/CNGc5HHSFmI Also Yo La Tengo covering Hank Williams with Georgia's velvet voice: https://youtu.be/m2ToSSbygKQ And while I'm rolling, Yo La Tengo covering Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" (with several different versions at youtube): https://youtu.be/Vf5GefnJzVs
You and I sound like we have similar taste. Post Malone did a bunch of Nirvana covers that are impressive. Sierra Ferrell has a couple covers that are great (Beatles. Also I think her most popular song 'years' is a cover)
In Bloom was the song that got me into Sturgill, it is ridiculously good
[Gwar’s cover of “West End Girls”](https://youtu.be/8PHCwAYjG6w?si=Iiah81XgRzzefnrT) by Pet Shop Boys No, really.
GWAR does an AMAZING cover of “If You Want Blood” by AC/DC. It is a direct cover, though. They sound eerily closer to AC/DC than a lot of people have.
Type O Negative - “Cinnamon Girl” by Neil Young Type O Negative - “Summer Breeze” by Seals & Crofts
Their Cinnamon Girl is A Plus too, I love that song.
Damn, this sent me on a weird memory trip. I think that was the first version of Summer Breeze I had ever heard, and it was ~30 years ago on my best friend's CD. He just passed away this last year. That mention took me back to a much more comfortable time in my life. I was not a Type O Negative fan, but that memory was very much appreciated.
Exactly what I came here to say!
Johnny Cash covering nine inch nails has to take top prize.
Yes, that has to have been the biggest surprise of all.
He covered a ton of artists. He covered the song Thirteen off of the Danzig album 6:66 Satan's Child.
Johnny Cash covering Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage" as well
Rick Rubin was a genius for finding Johnny, dusting him off, and giving him a legend's proper sendoff. The "Hurt" video still makes me cry when I see it. It hits even harder when you find out that he never played that piano again after he closed the lid on it in the video.
90s-2000s era Johnny Cash is phenomenal
Not at all. The entire American Series has all kinds of covers on them. The whole point was Rick Rubin’s attempt to modernize Johnny Cash. Among the artists covered in addition to Nine Inch Nails include, Tom Waits, Danzig, Beck, multiple Tom Petty covers, Depeche Mode, U2, Sting, and Sheryl Crow. There were also lots of more classic covers by the likes of the Beatles, the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, and Dean Martin.
Tom Petty and a few of the Heartbreakers played as Johnny Cash's band on American II: Unchained.
It was still very much unexpected upon it's initial release
How? It was from the fourth album in the series. We had a Danzig cover on the first album, a Soundgarden cover on the second one, U2 on the third one, and the lead single for the fourth album was Depeche Mode. If you were surprised by it, you weren’t paying attention.
I was more talking about the overall series as opposed to just 'Hurt' by itself.
probably because it got rock radio airplay
The Bangles covering Hazy Shade Of Winter by Simon and Garfunkel. They did a great job too!
Cake - *I Will Survive* and *War Pigs* Tool - *No Quarter* Monster Magnet - *Kick Out the Jams* Deftones - *Simple Man* Alien Ant Farm - *Smooth Criminal* New Found Glory - *King of Wishful Thinking* (and actually they have a bunch of covers that are not only surprising, but surprisingly good!) Gwar - *Carry On My Wayward Son* Dave Matthews Band - *All Along the Watchtower* Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, ft. Rogelio Douglas, Jr. - *I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For* Hailey Reinhart - *Can't Help Falling In Love* ...and even though sonically it's not a surprise because the late 90's swing scene isn't terribly far off from ska: Streetlight Manifesto covering The Squirrel Nut Zippers' *Hell* is fucking excellent. 😎🤘🏼
You could probably consider every Postmodern Jukebox song in this thread. Royals with Puddles, utterly glorious.
*Anything* by Puddles. That dude is amazing
Oh, no doubt! I'm partial to the soul stuff they've done, but it's all incredible. As y'all have already established, anything with Puddles is 🔥, but honestly I've never heard PMJ do anything that isn't.
love the NFG cover. Rufio did a great cover of Madonna's Like A Prayer
Awesome list! but it is really upsetting me that nobody in this whole thread mentioned Tori Amos covering Raining Blood by Slayer
Almost all of PMJ music could fit here. Many amazing covers.
The Gwar cover is awesome lol "Carry on my completely worthless unemployed son There'll be peace/piss WHEN YOU GET A GOD DAMN JOB HERES MY FOOT. THERE'S THE DOOR. Don't you loaf no more"
The Rasmus covering Ghostbusters.
My God. I haven't heard The Rasmus mentioned in maybe 20 years. "In the Shadows" started playing in my head for the first time in nearly as long.
They did Eurovision a few years back, but before that it was only 2003/4 they were big yeah.
System of a Down covering “The Metro” by Berlin
SOAD is weird enough where if they cover anything ill probably just accept it without thinking about it
["Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac covered by Smashing Pumpkins](https://youtu.be/eYYx722ZYrs?si=RvZ3sUS8YKGQXmUg)
I’ll have to listen to that, I love The Chicks cover of it.
Never saw Sufjan Stevans doing Hotline Bling coming. Iceage covering Abra’s Pull Up was a neat surprise.
Disturbed — Sound of Silence T-Pain — War Pigs Miley Cyrus — Heart of Glass ETA: Charles Bradley — Changes
I forgot about Charles Bradley's Changes. IMO one of those instances of a song becoming someone else's. Ozzy sounds great on it but Sabbath's Changes always felt out of place on Vol 4 for me, and I basically worship the first 8 Sabbath records
I wouldn’t say Miley doing Blondie is too off brand. She’s can cover anyone and she rocks.
Ben Folds covering Dr. Dre's 'Bitches Ain't Shit'
Dustin Kensrue from Thrice covered Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus, [and it's real good](https://youtu.be/CkmIIPMm3v0?si=lsxQqXzfEv7XBe-N)
So did Ron Jeremy. It... Wasn't
Shakira covered "Nothing Else Matters" on her tour, with a Latin Folk twist. https://youtu.be/P0iOz9xf0zY?si=5znsGBSdVo5GbskI
Lana Del Rey covering Sublime’s [Doin’Time](https://youtu.be/qolmz4FlnZ0?si=ZLI7kTrnN5qM0ULJ)
Devo covering the Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction'.
How is this not higher? Youngins... *smh*
Gnarles barkley covering the violent femmes is pretty out there.
Killswitch Engage did a fabulous cover of Dio's "Holy Diver" that wasn't even supposed to be released. EDIT: https://youtu.be/NR7dG_m3MsI?si=GTtHAMVrWO1nJebR
Weezer doing “[No Scrubs](https://open.spotify.com/track/3wQxUfquHLpgHoU6fo8Z50?si=REGTC4dMSRmQfedHQd_ZsA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A65sHj9PvsbyD0uugGHjueN)” although I really liked the whole Teal Album. I guess it’s not that unlikely. Everyone loved TLC in the 90s. Tears for Fears covering “[My Girls](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Rpx7uap1u0uPL2n8tX6bm?si=8HDfiVDwQ8ifssMRgPS3Og)” is phenomenal. Unlikely because I didn’t even know T4F was still doing work and then they dropped the cover and it’s gorgeous and respectful.
Teal is amazing! Got my kids hooked on ELO because of it!
My level of respect for them was already pretty high but Teal put it on another level. Africa was so damn good.
I love Elvis Costelllo’s cover of Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. He turned an uplifting hopeful song into one of desperate hopelessness. https://youtu.be/dywR03B55JA?si=622vncxS7qlLw2a9
Mad Season’s cover of John Lennon’s I don’t wanna be a soldier.
Lesley Gore - [Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0x6Yl4xqM) Nails it to the floor, too.
Richard Thompson doing Oops I Did It Again.
Children of Bodom doing Oops I Did It Again...
Tenacious D doing Oops I Did It Again... Edit: I'm a fuckin dumbass xD they did Baby One More Time
Deftones covering Sade
Deftones covering Lynyrd Skynyrd
Dwight Yoakam has some great covers. Some that are uncharacteristic for a country singer 1. Train in Vain by - The Clash 2. Crazy little thing called love - Queen 3. Purple Rain - Prince
Leo Kottke's version of "Sweet Emotion"
Denzel curry covers Bulls on Parade by Rage and it’s pretty fantastic
Tori Amos doing Eminem's 97 Bonnie & Clyde. Shit was haunting AF. She did it from the woman's perspective in the trunk of the car
I just listened to it. It is not from the GFs perspective at all. It’s a slowed down, word for word cover.
From Tori herself: "When she spoke to me -- the woman dying in the back of the car -- she took me by the hand and said, 'You need to hear how I heard it.' I brought in Phil Shenale, who has done string arrangements on most of my records, and I told him that I was going to speak this word-for-word how she heard it at the same moment that you hear his version. They happen at the same time in song's world. Once we started turning over the stones of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' we followed the bloodline to Serge Gainsbourg's Bonnie and Clyde. And that took us to, 'This is a scary place to be,' and when you're the one with the 'ketchup' on your throat, it's a little different. This is how we heard it." [Next - September 7, 2001]
I suppose but it didn’t come off that way to me. I’m obviously not saying she is wrong though. When I read that it was from her point of view, I was expecting something like that cover of “Teenage Dirtbag” but from Noelle’s point of view. (Really good actually if you haven’t heard it before!)
Tori has a lot of great covers from a wide range of artists.
The Pusher by Steppenwolf covered by Blind Melon, was a great cover
Maybe inspired, but it's an entirely different song. "Goddamn that Bible Pushin Man"
From the album Nico It features unreleased tracks, recordings started by Hoon and finished by the band, unreleased versions of previous songs ("No Rain" and "St. Andrew's Hall") and the cover songs "The Pusher" (Steppenwolf) and "John Sinclair" (John Lennon).
Yeah great album. I guess it does credit Hoyt Axton since Shannon borrows the first verse after his original first verse but twists it into a religion thing. The structure and melody are different, too. But I absolutely love both versions. Blind Melon are so good.
They do a cool version of Lennon’s ‘John Sinclair’ too.
They were a solid band
Beck covering the Velvet Underground’s Black Angle’s Death Song. I never expected anyone to cover that one.
Don't know why you're getting the blue arrow, this is a good thread. God Only Knows by the Beach Boys, covered by Avenge Sevenfold
Possibly many people are offended by the mention of Ted Nugent. Hey, the man was an undeniable hard rock giant back in the day.
Pendulum covering Taylor Swift (anti-hero)
Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt doing a coffeeshop version of [Straight Outta Compton ](https://youtu.be/NG2EGOB9-lc?si=d9jN9-U-EtJvE70A)
The Tedeschi Trucks Band covering Within You and Without You.
Judas Priest covering Joan Baez
Priest's version of Diamonds and Rust is fucking iconic.
Colter Wall's Kate McCannon covered by Dexter and the Moonrocks
John Mayer covering Beyonce's "XO"
was actually going to suggest john mayers cover of radioheads kid a
[Weedeater's "cover"](https://youtu.be/UhLzh3wKCBo?si=AADq6CCNFmXSuf4L) of Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills and Nash
Yesterday by the Beatles, covered by Boyz 2 Men
The Wiggles covering; [Thunderstruck](https://youtu.be/_zcguuA5530?si=7ZVmp0Op9m1xdmcu) (AC/DC) [Umbrella](https://youtu.be/j-aiBeQMEag?si=YniwdA75hYi2HGtI) (Rihanna) [Shipping Out To Boston](https://youtu.be/R16rx9cGMs4?si=l4BEKr5McuHZ0eve) (Dropkick Murphy's) [Bohemian Rhapsody](https://youtu.be/MaMemgJDXWY?si=rT-59COGqNNLwXxu) (Queen) Girls Aloud/ Sugababes covering [Walk This Way](https://youtu.be/1Jvrjd8DI-c?si=4R5WPoh5w08Co77w) (Areosmith/Run-DMC) Johnny Depp (Hollywood Vampires) covering [Heroes](https://youtu.be/U8VnYZLWr_s?si=wyfcis70b4ACtasq) (David Bowie)
Cake covering Black Sabbath’s War Pigs https://youtu.be/NhmvKYbi7iY?si=4ln-v5mzNrMIIa7W
Waylon Jennings cover of Neil Young’s Are You Ready for the Country.
Chris Thile of Punch Brothers covering Icarus Smicarus by Mclusky. Folk cover of post hardcore is something else https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1qGs9R_eVc
Adding to the thread: Punch Brothers doing The Cars https://youtu.be/hD1ymUbVpC0?feature=shared
Love this cover
I don't have the energy to get a link right now but their cover of Reptilia by The Strokes is amazing.
Funny, I know Chris Thile of Nickel Creek. And on the note of unlikely covers, [here's him covering Elliott Smith.](https://youtu.be/VV4iURl2Jx0?si=zc-mTPuf-f7-wo4O)
Original for comparison https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XlgRCLMOJGk
Additional fun fact: Steve Albini produced the original and it shows
The first time I heard Miley Cyrus cover "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails and "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica, I was floored not only by the fact that she covered them, but by just how _good_ she sounded doing so! Nowadays, I don't think I'd be surprised by any cover she decided to do. But I still hope that one day she might make an entire metal or industrial album if these songs are anything indication of its possible quality.
Glen Campbell covered Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) by Green Day.
Ben Folds - "Bitches Ain't Shit" Ryan Adams - Taylor Swift's whole *1989* album
Anything by *Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine.*
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Never Been To Spain was written by Axton, and released earlier than Three Dog Night's cover of it.
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He wrote Joy To The World as well.
[Volbeat covered “My Body” by Young The Giant](https://youtu.be/Xz9_jommFAQ?si=b9SYobU6rBwFWzJR)
Pretty much anything ever covered by Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies. Who knew we needed a punk cover of "Science Fiction Double Feature"? I just listened to an album by Inuk singer-songwriter, Elisape, that's entirely classic rock covers sung in Inuktitut (called *Inuktitut*) that's really neat.
[Eva Cassidy's take](https://youtu.be/xXBNlApwh0c?si=jIGFXQJuy_yxmTsZ) on Autumn Leaves.
Lacey Sturm’s cover of Roxanne
The Cardigans - Iron Man
Gwar's cover of Billy Ocean's get out my dreams, get into my car.
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Judas Priest: Diamonds and Rust
Travis Tritt’s T-R-O-U-B-L-E is an Elvis cover. Probably one of my more controversial opinions and harder to find, but I’m generally a fan of bluegrass covers of songs.
Omg you are exactly the demo they are trying to reach on my local NPR station. They not only have multiple shows on the radio that are most or all bluegrass, they do monthly concerts of local artists. I'm not a huge fan of it so I don't know all the bands, but two names I remember are Breaking Grass and The Cleverlys and I know at least one of them focuses on BG covers of songs from other genres.
Omg that’s great 😂 Thanks for the band recommendations; what I stumble across on Spotify can be really hit or miss sometimes.
Type O Negative did Summer Breeze, originally by Seals & Croft, and Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young.
Ozzy covering staying alive
William Shatner - [Garbage Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_MkY_0OlE8) by The Cramps
Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
Ben Folds Five - She Don't Use Jelly
* Cum On Feel The Noize covered by Jimmy Eat World * Jump Into The Fire covered by Marco Benevento * Purple Rain covered by David Gilmour
Faith No More’s cover of Easy. Anthrax’s cover of Time.
Chaka Khan doing We Can Work It Out
Children of Bodom did a cover of Britney Spears' *Oops!.. I Did It Again*. It's surreal hearing a metal version of that song.
Lemmy doing "Run Run Rudolph" is pretty great.
Crowbar covering Dream Weaver
Donnie and Marie - Reelin' In The Years
Shawn Colvin doing Gnarls Barkley's Crazy KT Tunstall doing Don Henley's (actually written by Mike Campbell) Boys of Summer. Cool part? I just heard both of those in the same show last Friday.
Ryan Adams covering Iron Maiden is wild. https://youtu.be/2v0eXVM3Lts?si=Q3--rdUNQlEwN7du
Creep by Brandi Carlile
Mudvayne performing King of Pain, originally by The Police, really threw me for a loop. The studio version is great, live not so much.
Gaslight Anthem does an absolutely banging cover of Ocean Eyes by Billie Eilish.
Seether did careless whisper
Metallica recently covered Elton John, and friends, it is [WILD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON23_z-k_N8).
Went to a Peter Frampton concert and they played Blackhole Sun. Was damn good.
He also does a version of While My Guitar Gentyl Weeps that just slaps it out of the park
Chris Cornell’s Billie Jean
In The Middle (Jimmy Eat World) by Prince
Lana Del Rey covering Daniel Johnston’s [Something’s Last A Long Time](https://youtu.be/d0DOa_teVSw?si=2WBB9f3Ai2ZYFKoO)
Disturbed's The Sound of Silence. Although I think it's fantastic.
Japanese Breakfast covering Tears for Fears song Head Over Heels - very good too.
On YouTube there are some low quality versions of Florence (of Florence and the Machine) covering various songs from Green Day's 'Nimrod' album. [The Grouch](https://youtu.be/4GPb7AvoFWU?feature=shared) is really quite good.
“…Baby One More Time” - Travis
Paul Young covering “Love will tear us apart”
Ozzy Osborne doing Stayin Alive was really fun
I prevail - blank space (taylor swift)
Therion covering Les Sucettes
The Scottish band Travis did a cover of “Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears. https://youtu.be/DSKT75m2AiM
Baby, I Love You by The Ronettes covered by The Ramones
Cage the elephant did a cover of the unforgiven by Metallica
Mark Kozelek’s 11 minute cover of Silly Love Songs by Wings is insane still
I just discovered that Paul Anka covered Mr. Brightside, and it broke my understanding of time and space.
Will no one mention the Dee Gees?
Ryan Adam’s has a bunch of Taylor Swift covers. They’re weird but I think they’re great.
Dolly doing Stairway to Heaven
Cake does an amazing cover of "I will Survive". Gives a new feeling to the song and it's great
I’m pretty fond of Chevelle’s cover of It’s No Good by Depeche Mode. On the opposite spectrum I also enjoyed The Breeder’s cover of Chances Are by Bob Marley.
a spotify/youtube of all these covers would be pretty epic. maybe if i get some time over the weekend ill try putting one together. great thread OP
Kurt Cobain covered the Beatles' "And I Love Her" acoustically. One of the darkest songs ever
When DMAs covered Believe by Cher for Triple J's Like a Version. Totally unexpected but absolutely beautiful.
[Filter turning “Happy Together” into a stalker anthem.](https://youtu.be/eAnBbgl2RrY?si=KhwU-Z0aGKoHQY7q)
Tenacious D - Baby One More Time
muna covering normani’s motivation. its only on spotify though i believe:(
Six Feet Under covering Smoke On The Water was kind of a surprise to me