1. 99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger covering Nena
2. I Will Survive - Cake covering Gloria Gaynor
3. Candy Says (Country Jellyfish Version)- Blind Melon covering the Velvet Underground
4. Nobody Does It Better - Radiohead covering Carly Simon (with Jonny's guitar stylings the last half of this song--yeaH baBy! This song never had it better...)
5. Is a tie (from same album)
Superstar - Sonic Youth &
Rainy Days and Mondays - Cracker both covering The Carpenters
Very hard to choose 5!!!!
Honorary mentions:
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan - TOTALLY made it his song.
Tangerine - Big Head Todd and the Monsters covering Led Zeppelin
Groovy Kind of Love - My Superhero covering The Mindbenders
Cruisin' - D'Angelo covering Billy Holiday (first version of song I know of)
Crash - The Mr. T Experience covering The Primitives
Turning Japanese - No Use For a Name covering The Vapors
I could only find one of my honorary mentions in playlists.com! Shame. Tangerine is particularly good.
Here is Matt's (1) song he mentioned in the comments:
Here are Sue's (sorry, couldn't find Neil's On Broadway, too obscure i guess. Too bad for all but B):
Here's Cats (couldn't find Tom Petty's License to Kill, lame.):
Here is the video to Cat's Tom Petty song:
17 comments:
Some very good ones. I need to hear a few of those still though.
YOU GUYS... You have to check out a virsion of Lay Lady Lay by this band called Magnet. It's so amazing. One of my favorite covers ever.
Fantastic Matt, I love it!
If you have 4 more, lay em on me (lay Matty lay), I'll add them to the playlist and blog.
Ok, I just listened to it again and didn't really like the girl singer in it. But the rest is awesome. I like it better than Dylan's even. sorry.
Em: Have you seen JUNO yet? B and I watched it again the other night. It's great. Anyway, they listen to the Sonic Youth version of Superstar and talk about how good it is. (Twice if you watch the deleted scenes)
I didn't mind the girl singer too much. I haven't seen Juno, but it's on my mental list to see sometime. Funny, they talk about that song. I thought I was the only one in the world that has that album.
OH!! Put "wake up" by Arcade Fire on there... That is another favorite little gem of mine. Sue will like it too, it's a Bowie cover. I believe they have performed it live together a couple times even.
Yes, see Juno. You will like it. I have Wish I Were A Carpenter too, but thats only because you had it first. I did buy it though.
Ok. Never mind, I just looked it up and It's not a cover. David Bowie just likes the song so much he performs it with them sometimes.
Okay, Here is my top five favorite covers. And it was very hard to choose 5. Here they are:
1-Me and Bobby McGee- Janice Joplin covering a Kris Kristofferson song. (the Grateful Dead do a great version too, but Janice is best)
2-On Broadway- Neil Young covering the Drifters.
3-Twist and Shout- The Beatles covering The Isley Brothers.
4- Not Fade Away- Grateful Dead covering The Crickets.
5- Hurt- Johnny Cash covering the Nine Inch Nails
I could probably do a top five of my favorite songs Johnny Cash covered and a top five of my favorite songs the Grateful Dead covered.
Oh yeah, I would have added 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger if Em hadn't beaten me to it.
So many good cover songs. Here are a list of my Top 5 that haven't already been mentioned:
1. Jeff Buckley - Halleluja by Leonard Cohen.
2. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Ledbetter.
3. Tom Petty - License to Kill by Bob Dylan.
4. Nirvana - Lake of Fire by The Meat Puppets.
5. Modest Mouse - Sleep Walkin' (added lyrics!) by Santo & Johnny.
Matt, have you heard Ministry do Lay Lady Lay? It's awesome.
My thoughts on the latest additions (Sue and Cat's):
Me and Bobby- I had no idea that was a cover! I have heard GD's version, but have loved this song (Joplin's) for so long. (While going through playlists.com I found a cover done of this by Pink and listened out of curiosity and I think I threw up a little.)
On Broadway - didn't know this existed. No doubt it's good.
Twist and Shout - My 6th grade math teacher used to play old hippy records while we did math (Where Have All The Flower's Gone and Twist and Shout are prevalent in my mind) and we used to giggle so hard when we heard the Isley Bros do this. It wasn't right. What the Beatles did to it was.
Not Fade Away - I've never heard this, it's great. I love Buddy Holly so much.
Hurt - This is so awesome. I love that he did this song and made it so memorable. Johnny Cash is just cool.
CAT'S:
Hallelujah - This version is so good and emotional (we could do a top five versions of this song!). I know little about Jeff Buckley except for the sad way he died and this little nugget: Radiohead were trying to record Fake Plastic Trees and could not get it right. They took a break and went to see a small showing of Jeff Buckley at a little bar in AZ and immediately went back to the studio and Thom recorded the vocals in two takes and then broke down in tears.
The Nirvana ones - Kurt did some monumental covers on this album (which is included in my 15 albums everyone should own blog). So good...
Sleepwalkin'- I love this! I love how they added words to it. I have always liked this little instrumental song from the 50's. It's on some soundtrack I have and I can't remember what.
Em, did you try looking for the Bob Dylan Tribute Album? It's got to be somewhere. I loved this until I lost the tape. 2 cds of amazing Bob Dylan songs by so many great artists. I miss it so bad. Great story about Thom and Jeff Buckley. He's like old-school emo. Beautiful voice and really intense songs. I don't love everything of his short career, but there's some really great stuff that I do have.
Playlist.com doesn't work that way, you search by song or artist. But you prompted me to dig a little deeper and I found it on Youtube and added it.
I have never heard this song, by Dylan or otherwise.
I just listened to it and yes I have, what was I thinking.
The Rolling Stones do a really good version of Not Fade Away too. But man, the Grateful Dead just own that song. One of the best songs ever done live.
Em-I think I've told you this before. But Johnny Cash did about 6 albums in the few years before he died called American, then there is volume 1,2 and so on. Almost all the songs are covers, and mostly covers of more current songs. He does Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus, and it is so good!
By the way Em. Thanks for doing those playlists. You're an awesome administrator. Listening to Not Fade Away made me feel like I was at a show.
Thanks, Em for posting the playlists and for finding that Tom Petty song on Youtube. I haven't heard that song in so long, I loved it! I need to get that album again. It's full of great stuff. Also, I've never heard Bob Dylan sing it either. That's the only version I've heard and I don't really know what it's called. I was just guessing.
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