Best Song Covers?

[musicfirst1]

So many for sure.

Jimmy Smith
Nothing Compares 2 U

Tori Amos
Famous Blue Raincoat

Joni Mitchell
Almost Everything on her Both Sides Now album

 

[jazdoc]

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye (original Gladys Knight and the Pips)

All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix (original Bob Dylan)

If It Be Your Will
Antony (original Leonard Cohen)

Tainted Love
Soft Cell (original Gloria Jones)

Thriftshop
Omaha Diner (original Macklemore and Ryan Lewis)

Islands in the Stream
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (original Bee Gees)

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
Al Green (original Bee Gees)

Pink Rabbits
Caitlin Rose (original The National)

Hurt
Johnny Cash (original Nine Inch Nails)

One More For My Baby
Frank Sinatra (original Fred Astaire)

Smooth Criminal
Alien Ant Farm (original MIchael Jackson)

Hazy Shade of Winter
The Bangles (original Simon & Garfunkel)

Bang Bang
Stevie Wonder (original Sonny Bono)

Common People
William Shatner (original Pulp)

 

[astrotoy]

Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold (original Sting)

I could easily list a few more from this marvelous album (Songbird).

Larry

 

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[x1992]

I like Gary Jules' Mad World, Nirvana's Jesus Don't Want Me for a Sunbeam, and Bjork's It's Oh So Quiet.

I don't like Lenny Kravtiz' American Woman and Pearl Jam's Last Kiss

 

[XV-1]

just about the best cover - period. PM Dawn, You Got Me Floating - Hendrix cover.

 

[Recordsguy]

Bobby Hebb of[Sunny] fame did a nice cover of the classic[Where Are You].

 

[wil]

Satisfaction (Stones)
Cat Power

 

[Bobvin]

Driving home a half hour ago I heard Pearl Jam’s cover of “Last Kiss.” I like it. (original Wayne Cochran, 1961) Sorry x1992 (above), we disagree on that one.

Amos Lee‘s cover of “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness” (John Prine) is terrific.

 

[pdubya]

State Trooper (Broooce)—Cowboy Junkies

Don’t let Me Be Misunderstood (Nina Simone)—Elvis Costello (not saying I like the latter more, just that I really like it…)

 

[BruceD]

It's all over now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)--Graham Bonnet

Where have all the Flowers Gone ( Pete Seeger) Tommy Sands/ Dolores Keane/Vedran Smailovic

This Wheels on Fire (Bob Dylan) Julie Driscoll

I'd Rather go Blind --Etta James great version but this just squeaks past --Beth Hart /Joe Bonamassa

Georgia Lee ( Tom Waits) Phoebe Bridgers

When I'm Gone ( Phil Ochs) David Roth

Just Like a Woman (Bob Dylan) Radka Toneff


BruceD

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

Little Wing

 

[astrotoy]

So many for sure.

Jimmy Smith
Nothing Compares 2 U

Tori Amos
Famous Blue Raincoat

Joni Mitchell
Almost Everything on her Both Sides Now album

Since Joni Mitchell wrote Both Sides Now (on her album "Clouds') does it count as a cover for Judy Collins who first recorded it? Also, I think that all the other songs on the album were also written by Joni Mitchell and I think first recorded by Mitchell on this album. So they shouldn't be covers, or do I misunderstand the meaning of covers. Larry

 

[astrotoy]

Joan Baez (Diamonds and Rust) including the wickedest imitation of Dylan's voice
Simple Twist of Fate (Dylan)

Roberta Flack
Killing Me Softly With His Song (Lori Lieberman)

Larry

 

[unboxed]

"Urge for Going" by Tom Rush 1966 (Written by Joni Mitchell but not released until a b-side in 1972). Who covered who? I don't care. I love both versions having grown up in a place I longed to leave.

 

[jazdoc]

Strawberry Letter 23 Brothers Johnson (Shuggie Otis)

 

[jazdoc]

What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding? Elvis Costello (Brinsley Schwartz/Nick Lowe)

 

[Al M.]