Best covers of originals.

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  • fish357
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    If anyone listens, what do you think?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJpNzJiA3Gg

    Kind of liked it. Guitar sound is reminiscent of Alice In Chains.
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  • PSOVLSK
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    aiconn wrote: »
    My favorite is The Black Crowes covering Otis Redding's Hard To Handle.

    I never knew that was a cover. I love the Crowes version.
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  • xsmi
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    Luther Vandross - Superstar

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  • WLDock
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    xsmi wrote: »
    Luther Vandross - Superstar

    Simply Red- If You Don't Know Me By Now
    Those are two good ones right there. Luther really made Superstar his own. Also, there is no way a UK group was supposed to touch a Philadelphia soul track by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, but Simply Red did a great job on it.

    Funny this post about covers comes up. Just yesterday on FB I saw a video of a young group called Infinity Song cover Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams." I guess ever since the guy that went viral on TikTok riding a skateboard, drinking cranberry juice to 'Dreams,' the cut has been getting popular with the younger crowd. Great job by this young and gifted family. I guess three are siblings and the other members are distant family members.
    https://youtu.be/75WSlTJ6jM4
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  • joecoulson
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    Tool - No Quarter
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  • erniejade
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    The green manalishi Judas Priest was actually Fleetwood Mac.

    Once bitten twice shy Great White was Ian Hunter.
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    I forgot one Heart Alone was i-Ten
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  • charley96
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    Texas Flood - SRV Larry Davis original - 1958
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  • fish357
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    https://youtu.be/8Rn7YZWtZEo
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  • mhardy6647
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    Rick88 wrote: »
    Asleep At The Wheel's cover of Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. A very rare case where I like the cover even better than the original.

    The good Cdr's version was itself a cover of the original, by Charley Ryan (1955)
    https://youtu.be/e58NJU5B3v8
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  • xsmi
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    WLDock wrote: »
    xsmi wrote: »
    Luther Vandross - Superstar

    Simply Red- If You Don't Know Me By Now
    Those are two good ones right there. Luther really made Superstar his own. Also, there is no way a UK group was supposed to touch a Philadelphia soul track by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, but Simply Red did a great job on it.

    Funny this post about covers comes up. Just yesterday on FB I saw a video of a young group called Infinity Song cover Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams." I guess ever since the guy that went viral on TikTok riding a skateboard, drinking cranberry juice to 'Dreams,' the cut has been getting popular with the younger crowd. Great job by this young and gifted family. I guess three are siblings and the other members are distant family members.
    https://youtu.be/75WSlTJ6jM4

    What a beautiful way to end the song.
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  • charley96
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    Not about covers but, I just read that Charlie Baty formerly of Little Charlie and the Nightcats died back in March. Any guitar fans from the left coast who was into swing/jump blues knows who he is. Heart attack at 66. He was a total badazz of blues guitar. One of my idols. R.I.P.
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  • SIHAB
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    The Dickies are the greatest cover band of all time full stop.
    Here is one the wrote for LZ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy6D12UiCCs
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  • SIHAB
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    Unconvinced?
    They invented heavy metal but gave away the song to Black Sabbath!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c37GdAzgQo
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  • Emlyn
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    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    Disturbed "The Sound Of Silence"

    Live...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk7RVw3I8eg
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  • afterburnt
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    https://youtu.be/cLGlDQRYJ9M
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  • mhardy6647
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    Jimmy Hendrix?

    Never heard of him -- is he a Jimi Hendrix tribute guy?

    :#

    on-ish-topic:

    I won't say "best cover" but this is pretty dandy.

    https://youtu.be/r83JQ0n02f4

    as seen on Steve Simels' blog:
    http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2021/01/when-irish-eyes-etc.html

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  • marvda1
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    Dimash does Queen's The Show Must Go On.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul3kpE1qcow
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  • erniejade
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmfQRMLjmxE
    Originally Jayhawks
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxsP8ED_cM Joan Jett Cover
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  • erniejade
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    Just in case you dont know the original

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJzPLhDf3-8
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  • afterburnt
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    I don't much like this one but I was doing a Pretenders marathon, a short one so I figured I would put this up.

    https://youtu.be/EU4QE_HIDck
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  • nooshinjohn
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    Nobody mentioned Whitney Houston and "I Will Always Love You"... Would her version of "Star-Spangled Banner" also be a cover?
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  • mhardy6647
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    I don't much like this one but I was doing a Pretenders marathon, a short one so I figured I would put this up.

    https://youtu.be/EU4QE_HIDck

    Their version of the Kinks' Stop your Sobbing was/is one for the ages.
    Chrissie was married to/shacked up with Ray Davies for, what was it?, like 45 minutes back in the olden days.

    https://youtu.be/RTVqZNObw5o

    What a tragic band, though, the Pretenders. :(

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  • BlueMDPicker
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    Laura Cox - Heart-Shaped Box
    https://youtu.be/6v-N3HJvFIg
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  • mhardy6647
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    PS @afterburnt -- I hope on your mini-Pretenders-binge you listened to Precious.
    Not a cover, but a great song. I like the live version on Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. Perhaps the best thing on that album :|
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  • afterburnt
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    PS @afterburnt -- I hope on your mini-Pretenders-binge you listened to Precious.
    Not a cover, but a great song. I like the live version on Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. Perhaps the best thing on that album :|

    I have like 5 or 6 of their rekkids (are there any more?) so that's why it was a short marathon. My typical marathons are like 20 plus albums from an artist. Precious is on their first or second album, those are my favorites.
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  • afterburnt
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    BlueMDPicker wrote: »
    Laura Box - Heart-Shaped Cox
    https://youtu.be/6v-N3HJvFIg

    Decent.

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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    edited August 2021
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    https://youtu.be/b7MUcj312a0

    This is a wonderful cover of Have you ever seen the rain
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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