Non-Urban Music The best and worst cover songs of all time.

[CoolWaterz]

Best
Will smith - Just the two of us

thats not a cover, its a sample man....

id also have to disagree with the ataris and guns n roses. i like both covers of boys of summer and knocking on heavens door respectively.

Worst cover- Mcfly~Mr Brightside (The Killers)

 

[Dogmatic187]

The best and worst cover songs.

I'll name some of my personal favorites, and my most hated.

Best:

"All Along The Watchtower" - Jimi Hendrix (original by Bob Dylan)

"Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" - Led Zeppelin (original by Joan Baez)

"Have A Cigar" - Primus (original by Pink Floyd)

"Kid A" - John Mayer (original by Radiohead)

"Ms. Jackson" - The Vines (original by OutKast)

"The Metro" - System of A Down (original by Berlin)

"Turn The Page" - Metallica (original by Bob Sieger)

Worst

"Anarchy In The U.K." - Motley Crue - (original by The Sex Pistols)

"Beat It" - Fall Out Boy (original by Michael Jackson)

"Behind Blue Eyes" - Limp Bizkit (original by The Who)

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Guns N' Roses (original by Bob Dylan

"My Prerogative" - Britney Spears (original by Bobby Brown)

"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Sheryl Crow (original by Guns N' Roses)

"Stairway To Heaven" - Dolly Parton (original by Led Zeppelin)

 

[Tha_Wood]

Best

Enjoy The Silence - Amberlin(originally by Depche Mode)

Boyz n the Hood - Dynamite Hack(Originally by Eazy E)

Total Eclipse Of The Heart - The Dan Band(Originally bu Cindy Lauper)

Another Brick In The Wall - Korn(originally by Pink Floyd)

Land Of Confusion - Disturbed(originally by Genesis)

 

[Little Skittle]

How can you say "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" by GNR is a bad cover? That song is amazing.

 

[Dogmatic187]

Best:

"How I could Just Kill A Man" - Rage Against The Machine (original by Cypress Hill)

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Eric Clapton (original by Bob Dylan)

"Shame" - System of A Down (original by Wu-Tang Clan)

"Sweet Dreams" - Marilyn Manson (original by Eurythmics)

"Tom Sawyer" - Deadsy (original by Rush)

 

[Dogmatic187]

How can you say "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" by GNR is a bad cover? That song is amazing.

He over does it, completely. If you want a really good cover of that song check out Eric Clapton's version.

 

[Tha_Wood]

i would say almost every track on the RATM renegades album is a good cover

 

[Dogmatic187]

^^agreed. I read a few months back Korn was making a cover album. Can't wait to hear that.

 

[Tha_Wood]

yeh that should be good even though i have only been a korn fan for a minute now im really liking them

 

[Casey]

We had this thread before, I may look for the old one to save me having to think lol, but one that immediately springs to mind is Johnny Cash's cover of "hurt" by nine inch nails. great cover.

edit - found old thread and merged.

 

[Casey]

Bumpety bump bump.

 

[Dogmatic187]

lmao, i actually posted on the original of this. damn.

 

[Tha_Wood]

^lol yeh i did aswell

 

[Dogmatic187]

Beat It by Fall out boy. Jesus, what crap this version is.

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[Casey]

Beat It by Fall out boy. Jesus, what crap this version is.

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The fact that it has John "lame-ass" Mayer playing the guitar solo makes it a double failure.

 

[Dogmatic187]

An actual good cover of an MJ song.

"Billie Jean" - Chris Cornell
zSHARE - chris cornell - billie jean.mp3

 

[Casey]

An actual good cover of an MJ song.

"Billie Jean" - Chris Cornell
zSHARE - chris cornell - billie jean.mp3

You thought that was good? Man, I hated it.

 

[Little Skittle]

How about...

The Fugees - Killing Me Softly

 

[Dogmatic187]

You thought that was good? Man, I hated it.

It doesn't beat the original, but I thought it was pretty good.

 

[Casey]

Can't believe I disliked TTD 5 years ago and now i'm a HUGE fan. It was the "Vibrator" album that won me over which I probably heard for the first time a year or so after I posted in this thread that I didn't like him.