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27 March 2006

This is a thread for cover songs. →[More:] I don't know what else Mondays are good for.

Vivek Shraya performing "Strong Enough" by Sheryl Crow.
Death Cab For Cutie performing "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Tori Amos performing "I'm on Fire" by Bruce Springsteen.
The Dismemberment Plan performing "Crush" by Jennifer Paige.

post by: Zozo at: 10:57 | 13 comments

Cathy Berberian performing "Yellow Submarine".

posted by cmonkey 27 March | 11:03

Dion (yes, that Dion) covering Tom Waits' 'Heart Of Saturday Night'.

Kiss pay tribute to their Queens homeboys in The Ramones.

Motorhead & Girlschool do a killer version of a Johnny Kidd & the Pirates classic.

posted by jonmc 27 March | 11:07

Ani DiFranco performing Most of the Time by Bob Dylan.

posted by amro 27 March | 11:11

(Warning: she curses in the beginning!)

posted by amro 27 March | 11:11

Ani curses when she orders toast, I think.

posted by jonmc 27 March | 11:12

Ray Barretto - Pastime Paradise (This is, of course, a cover of that Coolio song from Dangerous Minds.)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Peter Gunn
(Ah, Mancini--the mascot's best friend.)

posted by box 27 March | 11:18

A cover of the Cops theme song with a nod to 7 Seconds' Walk Together, Rock Together.

posted by danostuporstar 27 March | 11:18

From the same album, a cover of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song by Butt Trumpet with a nod to Black Sabbath's Sweet Leaf, which was also adapted by the Butthole Surfers as "Sweet Loaf".

posted by danostuporstar 27 March | 11:33

I am downloading all of these. :D

posted by Zozo 27 March | 11:34

Tool's version of Led Zeppelin's No Quarter is sublime.
Nevermore's version of Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence is anything but (silent, that is).
Delight's version of George Michael's Careless Whisper makes a really bad song a little less really bad.
Dream Theater's medley of three Led Zeppelin songs (The Rover, Achilles Last Stand, The Song Remains the Same) is, um, good.

posted by mike9322 27 March | 12:08

Also, Faith No More's "War Pigs" is way better than Black Sabbath's original, but I don't have that particular song on my work computer. If I remember, I'll upload it from home.

posted by mike9322 27 March | 12:23

Some that I have here at work:

*Mike Ness (of Social Distortion) doing Don't Think Twice It's Alright
*The Rheostatics doing the Canadian staple, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
*Rufus Wainwright doing his dad's One Man Guy
*Sarah Harmer doing Bruce Cockburn's Waiting for a miracle at the Junos in 2001.
*The Replacements doing The Only Ones' power pop gem, Another Girl, Another Planet.

posted by richat 27 March | 14:10

and the award for most gratuitous use of the word "fuck" goes to... Vince Neil!

posted by drjimmy11 27 March | 18:36

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