Love, Hate, Guilty Pleasure...covers

[pryde]

One of my fav records and they do great covers:

[flanagan0718]

Yeah, New Found Glory seem to love the oddball covers, didn't they cover Everything I Do I Do It For You by Bryan Adams?

Yeah that was in the early days.

[sonarchotic]

Since a Neil Young cover was mentioned here's a pretty great cover of a Neil Young song. Low and Dirty Three doing 'Down By The River'

As far as hated covers go the list is long and I'd rather not think of them and I can't think of any guilty pleasure covers at the moment.

[Stomptown]

I absolutely Love Ryan Adams take Oasis's Wonderwall

Cannot Stand what Willie and Waylon did to one of my all time favorite songs, Panch and Lefty,by Townes VanZandt. Just awful...

Here is one of many Townes VanZand Versions for comparison:

My Guilty pleasure: would be Cake's rendition of Black Sabbath's war pigs.

[davent]

I haven't gone back to the originals but i really enjoy Steve Earle's cover album "Townes".

And Cake as a guilty pleasure, has to be...

War Pigs is shakin', was missing the trumpet but we got it, didn't let me down.

[lincolnic]

I'm not huge on covers, but I unabashedly love this:

[juansolo]

Another one I like

[alanp]

Chris Daughtry - despite the fact I can't stand his latest disc, he's got a real knack for covers

I used to like the original, until it got thrashed to death after that bloody Cadbury ad.

My favourite part is the moody first section. The drums ruin it.

[jubal81]

+1 for Life on Mars. Great, great soundtrack.

From the 'Ladies sing Dylan' category:

[GermanCdn]

I'm not huge on covers, but I unabashedly love this:

That is some funny stuff.  I like how late 80s/early 90s rap makes for good covers, Mama Said Knock You Out, Fight the Power, etc., etc.

[Bufferz]

Love:

Hate:

Guilty Pleasure:

[jkokura]

Here's a guy who did surprise me with his versions compared to the originals. I like them both. It's interesting that the meanings of songs sometimes become a little more apparent, or real, when the song is covered in another style.

Jacob

[RobA]

One I Love - Little Wing by SRV.  He typically did a really good job with Hendrix stuff, but this is my favourite, because he's manages to capture the beautiful essence of the song without needing vocals.

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I totally agree about the SRV cover of Little Wing. It helps that it's a great song to begin with. I really like Sting's version too. The transition from Bullock's guitar solo to Branford's sax solo is beautiful.

[RobA]

Not sure this counts as a cover, but it's close enough to the idea for me. The Jim Hall version of the Concierto De Aranjuez is one of my favorite things ever,

Not exactly a guilty pleasure kind of thing, more of a weird pleasure I guess, Rasputina's cover of Wish You Were Here,

[jtn191]

So many youtube links here haha...
Here's some covers I like

Charles Bradley covering Neil Young. Dat high hat, those horns. This was made for CB

Built to Spill covering Neil Young

Charles Bradley covering Black Sabbath. I've never listened to Sabbath much but this is devastating

Amy Winehouse covering Zutons(?). My favorite of hers

Superchunk covering Destiny Child's Say My Name. Indie/punk covering 90s R&B