Best Cover Versions

[brennser]

according to the Guardian
 
 nice to see the Fatima Mansions get a mention...

[bearman🐻]

My top 10 favorite covers:
 
 Social D -- Ring of Fire(Johnny Cash)
 Social D -- Under My Thumb (Stones)
 Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine -- This Is How It Feels (Inspiral Carpets)
 Queens of the Stone Age -- Precious and Grace (ZZ Top)
 The Screamers -- Beat Goes On (Sonny and Cher)
 The Pixies -- Wild Honey Pie (the Beatles)
 Husker Du -- Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
 Minor Threat -- 12XU (Wire)
 Pet Shop Boys -- Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
 Red House Painters -- Shock Me (Kiss)
 The Who -- Young Man Blues (Mose Allison)
 
 (OK, so it was 11 and not 10.)

Polysics,  MY SHARONA (Knack)

[sonickteam2]

i peronally love the Snow Patrol version of Crazy In Love.   still.  even though i dont care for either them OR Beyonce.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Ever heard Blondie do Bowie's "Heroes?"   Weird, but strangely compelling.
 
 Oh, and as far as Minor Threat covers, "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White," originally by the Standells, is great.  Both cause it rocks and because it's funny to hear Ian passing himself off as a love-struck simple-hearted working stiff.

[chaz]

7 Seconds - 99 Red Balloons (don't remember the german broad's name)
 Replacements - Black Diamond (kiss)
 The Cynics - Last Time Around (The Del Vettes)
 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee (old folk song I think but I know the Dead did it too)
 
 A few of my faves....

[kosmo vinyl]

I'm really lame about keeping track of cover songs...
 
 The ones that always seem to spring to mind are
 
 The Replacements - Black Diamond (KISS)
 R.E.M. - Superman
 Soft Cell - Tainted Love
 The Flying Pickets - Only You
 Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House (Roky Erikson)
 Detroit Cobras - various
 D4 - Pirate Love (Johnny Thunders)
 English Beat - Tears of a Clown
 
 Get a bit embarrassed when finding out a song that I always thought was an orginial turns out to be a cover.  i.e.
 
 The Smiths - Golden Lights (Twinkle)
 Madness - It must be love (Labi Siffre)
 Madness -

[pj]

Wasn't this a thread a few months ago?

[brennser]

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

[vansmack]

Originally posted by P.J.:
  Wasn't this a thread a few months ago?

And a few months before that, and a few months before that, and....
 
 It fits into an odd category on this board.  Not quite updated enough to be in the first two pages, so it gets regurgitated everytime somebody reads an interesting article on cover songs.  Not sure there's a solution to it either.

Good Luvin', by The Grateful Dead

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 It fits into an odd category on this board.  Not quite updated enough to be in the first two pages, so it gets regurgitated everytime somebody reads an interesting article on cover songs.  Not sure there's a solution to it either.

hey, i have a solution, let's have a 21st century board with a search function!  i feel like we're in 1986!

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   let's have a 21st century board with a search function!  i feel like we're in 1986!

this board's software has a search function, for some inexplicable reason the admins have opted to keep it turned off!

They know that if they switched the search function to the 'On' position there would be a concern that this could have an adverse reaction on ggw...he might very well require an ambulance.

[kosmo vinyl]

don't know why the search function wasn't turned on in the first place, i am however hesitant to lobby to  turn it on now as the board is a bit creeky these days.  as it is the registration function breaks on occasion and turning the search function could result in a hazmat team coming into do a little clean up.
 
 outside of the few regulars who might take advantage of the search feature, does anyone think that a DCFC fan is going to use it, when they can't be bothered to check if the topic already exists on the  front page.
 
 the popular threads gets moved to page one on a regular basis, most discussion is ancient history once it goes beyond page 2 or 3.  and does it really matter if yet another thread gets created for discussing covers.