Top ten best ever cover songs

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A favorite compilation ( and evolution ) from my wonder years with the first few bands I ever played in:

1) Black Magic Woman -- Santana
2) Highway Star -- Deep Purple
2) Baba O'Rielly -- Who
3) Sweet Lorraine -- Uriah Heep
4) Strange Brew -- Cream
5) You Dont Love Me -- Allman Brothers
6) Wooden Ships -- CSNY
7) Little Wing -- Hendrix
8) Babylon Sisters -- Steely Dan
9) Stratus -- Billy Cobham
10) Night in Tunisia -- Dizzy Gillespe

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1. "Are You Gonna Go My Way" - Lenny Kravitz
2. "Day of The Eagle" - Robin Trower
3. "Live Wire" - AC/DC
4. "Stranglehold" - Ted Nugent
5. "You Got Another Thing Coming" - Judas Priest
6. "So This Is Love" - Van Halen
7. "Highway Star" - Deep Purple
8. "You Really Got Me" - The Kinks
9. "Won't get Fooled Again" - The Who
10. "Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin
 
Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
Witches Promise - Jethro Tull
Working Man - Rush
Satellite - Dave Mattews Band
Seven Days - Sting
Going For The One - Yes
Mr. Know It All - Primus
Your Smiling Face - James Taylor
I Wish It Would Rain - Phil Collins
Hand Of Doom - Black Sabbath

So hard to limit this to 10 songs.

Over The Hills And Far Away - Led Zeppelin
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
Suite Madame Blue - Styx
Lady - Styx
Heaven And Hell - Black Label Society
Crash - Dave Mattews Band
Soulshine - Gov't Mule (3-member version)
Smooth - Santana (featuring Rob Thomas)
My Girl - The Temptations
Black And Blue - Van Halen
Holy Water - Bad Company
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
 
Blue Collar Man - Styx
Over The Mountain - Daisley, Rhoads, Kirslake, Osbourne
What Do You Do For Money - AC/DC
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Smooth Up In Ya - BulletBoys
God Knows Why - Kid Rock
Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden
Live Wire - Motley Crue
Breaking The Chains - Dokken
Wheel In The Sky - Journey (Darn Straight!)
 
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Heaven And Hell - Black Label Society



Thats between heaven and hell right? Or is there a version of Black sabbath's heaven and hell thay they do and I have not heard?( I would be upset : )
 
I listed mine at the start of this thread pollyanna. but there are so many fantastic songs out there i'd more than happy to make an other list.

Ah, yeah, you did ... where's my brain? Has anyone seen it around? Damn, I must have left in the car. Sorry about the malfunction, normal service will resume shortly ...

By all means fire away with list #2, trueblue. Another Purple song the punters like is Black Night. It's fun for drummers too.

I know I'm too old for it and it's a million miles from what my band plays but I'd love to have a go at this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykgh0SV_yCs

:)))
 
I'm Eighteen - Alice Cooper

I love that song, our bands covering it right now, but we're gonna try and make it more grungy/metal

and as for Smells Like Teen Spirit...Its the one song i'd hate to cover, its the only song most people know from nirvana, and nirvana wasnt just that one song, the have so many other great songs, cover one of them
 
1. Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck
2.Smooth - Santana
3.Voodoo Chile - Jimi
4.You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker (where did all those pole dancers come from?)
5.La Grange - ZZ Top
6.White Room - Cream
7.Crossfire - SRV
8.Higher Ground - Stevie or RHCP
9.Lovin',Touchin', Squeezin' - Journey
10.Swwet Home Chicago - Clapton
 
It would all depend on who showed up on the night but heres a few

Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning for the ladies

The Eagles - Hotel California just for the guitar solo

Elvis Presley - Return To Sender for the older people (60's 70's)

Bachman Turner Overdrive - Taking Care Of Business Look at me I'm self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day

Prince - Purple Rain tissue anyone

B-52's - Rock Lobster so everyone can have a boogie

Peter Frampton Show Me The Way keep the house rocking

Black Crows - Hard To Handle Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle now gets around

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive if the singer can sing that high

Roy Orbison - Pretty Women how can you not like the big O
 
Let's not forget the C&W male vocalist genre of cover songs:

10. I Hate Every Bone In Her Body But Mine

9. I Ain't Never Gone To Bed With an Ugly Woman But I Woke Up With A Few

8. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me

7. I've Missed You, But My Aim's Improvin'

6. Wouldn't Take Her To A Dogfight 'Cause I'm Scared She'd Win

5. I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like You're Still Here

4. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Miss Him

3. She Took My Ring and Gave Me the Finger

2. She's Lookin' Better with Every Beer

And the Number One Country & Western song is...

1. It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chewed My Ass All Day

GJS
 
Love Machine
Girls Aloud (Original): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8A6Vc4LR9s
Arctic Monkeys (Cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjA2wDzp5XM

S.O.S.
Rihanna (Original): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eeyhtlJp5A
The Last Shadow Puppets (Cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9YL_zvdkLk&feature=related

Take It Or Leave It
The Strokes (Original): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csD4ZgMPgvg
Arctic Monkeys (Cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZCf9ls51D0

Red Right Hand (Original makes me laugh after hearing AM's version)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Original): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlgN__Jrxk
Arctic Monkeys (Cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcvGOUuDGXc

No particular order. Not much variety, sorry :)


Oh dear, how stupid do I feel. Didn't bother reading anything else but the title until after writing all the above. My list would just be full of Arctic Monkeys songs anyway.
 
I would one day like to do a tribute to Queensrÿche, performing their Operation Mindcrime album. More than 10 songs iirc though :)
 
these are mostly terrible songs to play, but people LOVE these songs:

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrisson
Sweet Child 'O Mine - Guns 'N Roses
Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Back In Black - AC/DC
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Any Way You Want It - Journey
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
I Love Rock n' Roll - Joan Jett
Fight for Your Right - Beastie Boys

my favorite covers my band does (even if they are mostly ironic covers)

folsom prison blues - johnny cash
eastbound and down (smokey and the bandit theme song) jerry reed
devil went down to georgia (with a europe final countdown interlude) charlie daniels
suspicious minds - elvis
sweet caroline - neil diamond (drunk people LOVE neil diamond)
is she really going out with him? - joe jackson (this is really funny to play when a hot chick is obviously dancing with a guy for his money)
 
OK i'm ol school played all these song at one time in or another .

these frist 7 are part of our set list in my current band

Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin
Stranglehold" - Ted Nugent
too rolling stoned –robin trower
Rock and Roll- Zeppelin
Bag a gong – t rex
Day of the eagle - Robin trower
bad company - bad company

Sweet Jane from Rock n Roll Animal – lou reed
Smoke on the water –deep purple
La Grange - ZZ Top
Mustang Sally
rocky mountain way – joe walsh
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
 
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