Favourite cover versions

Duran Duran's cover of Bob Dylan's...



...sounds like a sequel to Come Undone....

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These kids have real talent. They can write, they can play, and they can sing. Probably the best cover I've ever heard of "Hallelujah"




Other favorite covers:

Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Revolution - Stone Temple Pilots (better than the original)
Unchained Melody - U2

Midge Ure's cover of No Regrets and The Man Who Sold The World.

Nazareth cover of Love Hurts.

I've often enjoyed David Bowie's cover of the Walker Brother's "Nite Flights."

Pet Shop Boys - "Always On My Mind".

Saint Etienne - "Only Love Can Break Your Heart".

Simply Red - "It's Only Love".

"I Loves You Porgy" by Nina Simone:



"Ne Me Quitte Pas" by Nina Simone:

Loomis wrote:

Simply Red - "It's Only Love".

Oh, boy, do I remember that one. My dad would play that song all the time, along with "Money's Too Tight to Mention" and "Something Got Me Started." He adored Simply Red.

"Holding Back The Years" is my favourite Simply Red song.

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Aurora double-feature



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This comes to mind.

Not a great cover or anything, but amusing nevertheless. In June 2010 at the Rockness festival Blondie decided to cover a Youtube mashup of Muse's "Uprising" and Blondie's "Call Me" by CJ Mix (BL1TZEN).

Here's the original mashup.



And live...

Adrian Belew is the man. Best Heroes cover ever.

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Van Halen's covers of "You Really Got Me" and "(Oh) Pretty Woman"

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Robert Palmer. What a voice, though not the best songwriter.

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Came upon this by chance without ever having heard of it before...that's the great thing about search engines, they pull up covers too...

Interesting take, have this one on heavy play since getting it...loved the original...



Also got a cover of All You Zombies by Sandra (original done by The Hooters) but the fucking video is zoned out and mine is blocked :scratch:

I love lostprophets cover of AVTAK by Duran Duran - it's superfast. :)