Favorite Covers

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Fischerspooner "The 15th" (Wire)
 Flying Saucer Attack "Outdoor Miner" (Wire)
 Luna "Outdoor Miner" (Wire)
 Yo La Tengo "Magnet" (NRBQ)
 Fennesz "Paint It Black" (The Rolling Stones)
 Uilab "St. Elmo's Fire" (Eno)
 The Shins "We Will Become Sillhouettes" (The Postal Service)
 Squarepusher "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Joy Division)
 
 loads of Weddoes

[poorlulu]

memories - the high strung ( and before you start with the striesand remarks it's the leonard cohen song)
 
 nirvana - the man who sold the world
 
 dear prudence - siouxsie and the banshees
 
 all saints - under the bridge

[Lazer Guided Melodies]

Spacemen 3--Big City (The Electric Prunes)
 Spacemen 3--Transparent Radiation (The Red Krayloa)
 Luna--Bonnie and Clyde (Serge Gainsbourg)
 Cornershop--Norwegian Wood
 Flaming Lips--Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie)
 Dodgy--I Can't Make It (Small Faces)
 But my favorite cover of all time is Primal Scream's version of Darklands by The Jesus and Mary Chain.  Pure brillance.

[azaghal1981]

Umphrey's McGee - Fool In The Rain
 Disco Biscuits - Run Like Hell
 Phish - the entire White Album
 moe. - Cornflake Girl
 Flaming Lips - Breathe

[ggw]

Mike Ness -- Don't Think Twice (Dylan)
 Bluetip -- 52 Girls (B-52s)
 Dandy Warhols -- Stars (BJM)
 Clash -- Police & Thieves (Lee Perry and Junior Murvin)

[azaghal1981]

Sublime - Scarlet begonias
 Sublime - Smoke Two Joints
 Sublime - Ball In Chain

[twangirl]

The Leather Nun "Gimme Gimme Gimme"
 The Shock-Headed Peters "Heartbreak Hotel"
 Eat "Summer in the City"
 Sisters of Mercy "Gimme Shelter", "1969"

[smakawhat]

Some personal favs:
 
 Faith No More - War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
 Living Colour - 17 Days (Prince)
 Marylin Manson - You Spin Me Round (Dead Or Alive)
 Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan)
 
 I know I have some others but can't think them off the top of me head...

[mankie]

Buster Rhymes (I think) - Redemption Song
 Joe Strummer - Redemption Song
 Pogues - Dirty Old Town

[twangirl]

The Derailers "Raspberry Beret"
 The Bad Livers "Ace of Spades"

[jhw5g]

REM - Superman

[markie]

Originally posted by jhw5g:
  REM - Superman

I didnt know that was a cover.....
 
 Who did the original?

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
   

Originally posted by jhw5g:
  REM - Superman

I didnt know that was a cover.....
 
 Who did the original? [/b]

the clique

[Venerable Bede]

i see some of my favourites already listed (luna's version of bonnie and clyde and indian summer, and the sisters' version of gimme shelter).  so, other covers that i like:
 
 mark kozelek: around and around (john denver)
 pavement: the killing moon (echo and the bunnymen)
 travis:  hit me baby one more time (britney spears)

[eros]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
 travis:  hit me baby one more time (britney spears)

Travis does great covers.  They have a cool version of "The Weight".