Favorite cover songs....

[RobE30]

I just heard Pantera covering "Cat Scratch Fever" on the way home from work and got me thinking what other good cover songs you guys like. Post em up

[AndrewBird]

Dope has several cool covers:

New Jack Hustler (Ice-T)
Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
You Spin Me Round (Dead or Alive)

Other stuff:

Atreyu - You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan)
CAKE - I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
Gary Jules - Mad World (Tears for Fears)
Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone (Violent Femmes)
Green Day - Knowledge (Operation Ivy)
Green Day - My Generation (The Who)
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)
Orgy - Blue Monday (New Order)
Ozzy Osbourne - Stayin Alive (The Bee Gees)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster (Ohio Players)
Richard Cheese - Down with the Sickness (Disturbed)
Rise Against - Anyway You Want It (Journey)
Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash)
The Offspring - I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones)
Velvet Revolver - Money (Pink Floyd)

That's all I got.

[Super Sedan]

Shinedown - Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

[Danny]

I LOVE Cake's cover of I Will Survive.

[EricT]

Me first and the gimmie gimmies.......theres too much to list. Good stuff.

foo fighters....jerry rafferty's baker street and prince's darling nikki.

I'm tired...all I can think of right now.

[e30e]

Five Finger Death Punch - Bad Company (Bad Company)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9rFder2D48

[Quadrajet]

VanHalen-You really got me(The Kinks) There's a couple others but they've been mentioned.

[416stroker]

A Day To Remember- scince youve been gone Cover

Pierce The Vail- Beat IT cover (best cover ever.. hands down better than the original)

[HiTheNameIsBJ]

Where did you sleep last night- Nirvana
All along the watchtower- Hendrix

[Ray Smoodiver]

Achilles Last Stand -Led Zeppelin (1976) -Dream Theater (1995)
American Woman -Guess Who (1970) -Lenny Kravitz (1998 )
Blinded By The Light -Bruce Springsteen (1973) -Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1976)
Cat Scratch Fever -Ted Nugent (1977) -Pantera (2003)
China Girl -Iggy Pop (1977) -David Bowie (1983)
Cum On Feel The Noize -Slade (1973) -Quiet Riot (1983)
Dancing In The Moonlight -Thin Lizzy (1977) -Smashing Pumpkins (1993)
Good Golly Miss Molly -Little Richard (1958 ) -Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
Hey Joe -The Leaves (1965) -Jimi Hendrix (1966)
Hurt -Nine Inch Nails (1994) -Johnny Cash (2003)
I Fought The Law -The Crickets (without Holly) (1961) -The Clash (1978 )
I Want Candy -The Strangeloves (1965) -Bow Wow Wow (1982)
If You Don't Know Me By Now -Harold Melvin & Blue Notes (1972) -Simply Red (1989)
Jolene -Dolly Parton (1974) -The White Stripes (2004)
Kick Out The Jams -MC5 (1969) -Rage Against The Machine (2000)
Knockin' On Heavens Door -Bob Dylan (1973) -Guns N' Roses (1991)
La Bamba -Ritchie Valens (1958 ) -Los Lobos (1987)
Maggie's Farm -Bob Dylan (1965) -Rage Against the Machine (2000)
Nothing Compares to U -Prince (1984) -Sinead O'Connor (1990)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer -John Lee Hooker (1967) -George Thorogood (1977)
Piece Of My Heart -Erma Franklin (1967) -Big Brother & Holding Company (1968 )
Redemption Song -Bob Marley (1980) -Joe Strummer & the Mescalaros (2003)
Rocking In The Free World -Neil Young (1989) -Pearl Jam (live) (2003)
Somebody To Love -The Great Society (1966) -Jefferson Airplane (1967)
Susie Q -Dale Hawkins (1957) -Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968 )
Tainted Love -Gloria Jones (1964) -Soft Cell (1981)
The Man Who Sold The World -David Bowie (1971) -Nirvana (1993)
Turn The Page -Bob Seger (1976) -Metallica (1998 )
Turn, Turn, Turn Pete Seeger (1962) -The Byrds (1966)
Wild Thing -Wild Ones (1965) -The Troggs (1966)
With A Little Help From My Friends -Beatles (1967) -Joe Cocker (1969)
Wonderwall -Oasis (1995) -Ryan Adams (2004)
You Really Got Me -Kinks (1964) -Van Halen (1978 )

[jbsjunk]

Korn - Word up
Marylin Manson - Tainted Love
Disturbed - Land of confusion
Ozzy Ozborne or Green Day - Working Class Hero

[Charlie]

White Stripes - Walking with a ghost, Jolene, Rated X, Just don't know what to do with myself, etc
RATM - Maggie's Farm, Ghost of Tom Joad
Foo's cover of Baker St, definetly.
Uncle Tupelo - John Hardy (proving that not just Nirvana can do Ledbelly covers)
Keith Urban - Stupid Boy. (shut up, it's got a decent solo)


-Charlie

[imprttuner88]

Knockin' On Heavens Door -Bob Dylan (1973) -Guns N' Roses (1991)

my fav of all time..... /thread

[BigD]

My favourite is actually by Pantera, Planet Caravan. Much better than the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIl5CW8fJPY

Cash's version of Reznor's Hurt is also amazing. Not that the original is bad but I was more touched by Cash's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s

[CreamE30]

take on me- Reel Big Fish (A-HA)