Top 5 Cover Songs (of all time)

[chaz]

Originally posted by callat703:
  Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

First dance at my wedding.

[palahniukkubrick]

does mermaid ave. count?
 
 johnny cash- thirteen (hurt is good, but this is scarier)
 black crowes- hard to handle
 jeff buckley- hallelujah/ I know it's over
 devo- satisfaction
 jimi hendrix- like a rolling stone
 
 oh yeah, and the worst is sonic youth doing 'touch me I'm sick.'just terrible.

[beetsnotbeats]

Stranglers "Walk On By"
 Aztec Camera "Jump" (full version with guitar solo)
 Minutemen "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love"
 Franco Saint de Bakker "No One Knows"
 Naked City "James Bond Theme"
 Ground-Zero "Those Were The Days" and "A Better Tomorrow + I Say A Little Prayer (Roland Kirk version)"
 Mission of Burma "1970"
 Saints "Kissin' Cousins"
 Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin "I'm In A Different World"
 Residents "Satisfaction" (yeah, Devo, too)
 Moog Cookbook "Buddy Holly" and "Hotel California"

[thirsty moore]

Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
  How about the Ciccone Youth version of Madonna's "Burnin' Up"?

While that is on the Ciccone Youth album, it's Watt that sings it.  Nice call though.  If you've heard that, then I'm sure you've heard them do "Get Into The Groove."  I've also got a sweet version of SY covering Ca Plane Pour Moi.

[Sir HC]

Butthole Surfers "Sweet Leaf/Sweat Loaf"
 Dust Devils "Hip Priest" (by the Fall)
 Spacemen 3 "When Tomorrow Hits"
 Killdozer "Sweet Home Alabama"
 Happy Mondays "Step On"

[twangirl]

Thin White Rope â?¢ Some Velvet Morning

[chaz]

A few more...
 
 Anti-Nowhere League - Streets of London
 Ramones - Needles and Pins
 Breeders - Happiness is a Warm Gun
 Replacements - Black Diamond
 7 Seconds - 99 Red Balloons
 Any Detroit Cobras song

[flawd101]

atreyu - you give love a bad name
 throwdown - baby got back
 goldfinger - 99 red ballons
 cartman - sailing away?
 esoteric - smashing pumpkins song...

[dlcjr1775]

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda
 Good call shadrach

Powderfinger, by The Beat Farmers (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)

[pmacwill]

"Bitches Ain't Shit" - Ben Folds

[han]

jessica simpson - take my breath away

[twangirl]

The Gourds � Gin & Juice

[amnesiac]

"Cornflake Girl" - Jawbox
 "All Mixed Up" - Red House Painters
 "Under Pressure" - Crooked Fingers

[smakawhat]

"Personal Jesus" - Johnny Cash
 "Just Like Heaven" - Goldfinger
 "Should I Stay or Should I go" - Living Colour
 "War Pigs" - Faith No More
 "End of the World As We know it (and I feel fine) - Great Big Sea
 
 Honorable Mention
 
 "17 Days" - Living Colour
 
 many others can't think of right now...