Cover Songs
 

Hey All,

I’m currently in the planning stages of making a new play list of great cover songs that I love. I have only women artists so far and I may end up making it just women but I want to know what are some of your favorite covers? Not a song that is sampling another song but an actual cover. Any artist or band. So far I have:

Colbie Caillat / Maria (Blondie)
Corinne Bailey Rae / I Wanna Be Your Lover (Prince)
Chaka / Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac)
Jennifer Lopez / You Belong To Me (Doobie Brothers or Carly Simon – I forget who did it first)
Tina Turner / Missing You (John Waite)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor / Take Me Home (Cher)

It's Maria by Blondie :)

Tina Turner - Help (Beatles)
The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon & Garfunkel)
Cassandra Wilson - Last Train to Clarksville (Monkees)
Aretha Franklin - Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)
Dolly Parton - I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)
Linda Ronstadt - Alison (Elvis Costello)
Bonnie Raitt - Your Good Thing (Is About to End) (Mable John)
Joni Mitchell - (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (Elvis Presley)
Marianne Faithfull - Easy Come, Easy Go (Bessie Smith)
Pet Shop Boys - Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)

You are correct :-)

Travis - this is always my fave idea for a plalist. I love covers if done well!

Dolly Parton - Shine (Collective Soul)
Dolly Parton - Bring Me Some Water (Melissa Etheridge (done w/Melissa on backing vocals)
Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart (Kris Kristofferson)
Carpenters - Help (The Beatles)
Bonnie Raitt - Thing Called Love (John Hiatt)
Foo Fighters - Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
Annie Lennox - No More I Love You's (The Lover Speaks)
Counting Crows - Return Of The Grievous Angel (Gram Parsons)
Emmylou Harris - Guitar Town (Steve Earle) / The Boxer (Simon and Garfunkel)
Dusty Springfield - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa (Gene Pitney)
The Beatles - Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry)
Bruce Springsteen - Da Doo Ron Ron (The Chiffons/Ronettes - unsure which) (only slightly dodgy sound quality from a yuotube video but it's awesome!)
Sinead O' Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince)
Amy Winehouse - Valerie (The Zutons)
Kylie Minogue - The Locomation (Carole King/Little Eva) You seem to have forgotten this one, Travis - haha!
10 000 Maniacs - Because The Night (Patti Smith/Bruce Springsteen)
Carpenters - A Song For You (Leon Russell)
Linda Ronstadt - Willin' (Little Feat) / Rock Me On The Water (Jackson Browne) (Man, there are SO many great Linda ones though)
Stevie Nicks - At Last (Etta James)
Kate Bush - Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)
Counting Crows - Borderline (Madonna)
Aerosmith - Come Together (Beatles)
Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage (Soundgarden)
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran)
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison)
Kate Rusby - Village Green Preservation Society (The Kinks)
Rosanne Cash - The Way We Make A Broken Heart / Pink Bedroom (Both John Hiatt)
Carpenters - Desperado (Eagles)
Alison Krauss and Union Station - Lose Again (Linda Ronstadt)

They'll do for now, there are loads more though!

p.s: Sorry, but I can't stand that J. Lo cover you mentioned!

I'm sure I'm forgetting favorites all over the place, but these came to mind:

The Fugees/ Killing me Softly with his Song (Roberta Flack)
Joe Cocker/ With a Little Help from my Friends (the Beatles)
Johny Cash/ Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
Johnny Cash/ Bridge over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel)
Pat Benatar/ Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
Maxwell/ This Woman's Work (Kate Bush)
Gwyneth Paltrow/ Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes)
The Bangles/ Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon and Garfunkel)
Cat Power/ Sea of Love (Phil Phillips)

Thanks and keep the lists coming guys ....

As far as Kate Bush, I just remembered she did a cover of Elton John's "Candle In The Wind." I just checked CD Now and they don't have it for mp3 purchase :(

Oh and Travis - have you seen Kylie's version of There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) from the Aphrodite tour? It's a LOT of fun!!

Did she? I know she did Rocket Man but I didn't know about Candle InThe Wind... Rocket Man is on the Two Rooms Elton tribute album.

I read that she is doing it but I have not heard any clips of it yet. Speaking of Kylie, her song "Nothing Is Gonna Stop Us Now", that is a cover right? Didn't the group Saint Etienne do it first?

Yep - it's a Saint Etienne cover. She also did a Duran Duran cover 9The Reflex I think) with someone for a Duran Duran tribute album. I'm not especially keen on Nothing Can Stop Us Now if I'm honest, but it's far better than her terrible attempt at Should I Stay Or Should I Go! No, Kylie, no!

Oh her version of There Must Be An Abngel is fantastic!! I was right at the front, by the barrier, as she did it. I must tell you all about the Aphrodite gig...

I also forgot:

Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)
Rosanne Cash - Hometown Blues (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

Some of my favourites...

Rumer - Goodbye Girl (Bread)
Adam Lambert - Feeling Good (Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley)
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (Anita Carter)
Hanoi Rocks - Up Around The Bend (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Heart / Harry Nilsson - Without You (Badfinger)
Jeff Buckley - That's All I Ask (Nina Simone)
Paul Gilbert - 2 Become 1 (Spice Girls)
Pearl Jam - Love Reign O'er Me (The Who)
John Farnham - Help! (The Beatles)

Just some of my favourites... :wavey:

Many disagree, but I think Tori Amos' cover of Steely Dan's Do It Again is brilliant.




I am also very fond of James Morrison's cover of Michael Jackson's Man In The Mirror




Siouxsie's cover of Billie Holliday's Strange Fruit, and her cover of Iggy Pop's The Passenger are also great!

In no particular order:

Adele - Love Song (The Cure)
Stevie Nicks - At Last (Etta James)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (NIN)
10,000 Maniacs - Because The Night (Bruce Springsteen)
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie)
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Lead Belly)
Metallica - Am I Evil? (Diamond Head)
Metallica - Sabbra Cadabra (Black Sabbath)
Metallica - Astronomy (Blue Oyster Cult)
Metallica - Stone Cold Crazy (Queen)
Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy (Alice Cooper)
Pantera - Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath)
Anthrax - Got The Time (Joe Jackson)
Anthrax - Bring The Noise (Public Enemy)
Type O Negative - Day Tripper (The Beatles)
Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)
Machine Head - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden)
Disturbed - Land of Confusion (Genesis)
Motorhead - Whiplash (Metallica)
Evanescence - Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana)
Heart - The Battle of Evermore (Led Zeppelin)
No Doubt - It's My Life (Talk Talk)
Guns N' Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan)
Santana - Black Magic Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
Judas Priest - Green Manalishi (Fleetwood Mac)
Eric Clapton - Cocaine (J.J. Cale)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)
James Taylor - You've Got a Friend (Carole King)


plus many more...