"Yesterday" is considered the song that has been covered more than any other.

Sucked in the first place.

not overly intellectual at all. it's not brain surgery. but i understand if *YOU* don't "get" it.

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Originally posted by spo:
Can you honestly say you enjoyed "War to end all Wars" or "Alchemy"? If you did, you must be a real intellectual.

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not overly intellectual at all. it's not brain surgery. but i understand if *YOU* don't "get" it.

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Originally posted by spo:
Can you honestly say you enjoyed "War to end all Wars" or "Alchemy"? If you did, you must be a real intellectual.

This seems familiar. There was another poster that if they disagreed with someone it was because the other person was stupid. You seem to be emulating that just like all those dumb ass alter egos you used to come up with that weren't nearly as clever or funny as you seemed to think they were. Hard to imagine *YOU* doing "something" derivative.

actually spo, i was saying that it's ok for *ANYONE* to NOT get a certain "style".

but you're the genius that pronounced yngwie "unlistenable". an IGNORANT statement if there ever was one.

if being called out as "not so clever" seems familiar, well, that's something you need to deal with.

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Originally posted by spo:
This seems familiar. There was another poster that if they disagreed with someone it was because the other person was stupid. You seem to be emulating that just like all those dumb ass alter egos you used to come up with that weren't nearly as clever or funny as you seemed to think they were. Hard to imagine *YOU* doing "something" derivative.

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actually spo, i was saying that it's ok for *ANYONE* to NOT get a certain "style".

What did you have to post that for? Now I feel like I am the dick head. Make me feel all guilty on a Sunday.

i'll never be able to watch the simpsons again without replacing homers signiture "D'OH" with "SPO!"...

ps - i actually do not like yngwie. i don't like him, i don't like his playing, and i don't like his songs(either). he's an over praised, over ego'd, donut eating prick.

but i will always object to "unlistenable".

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actually spo, i was saying that it's ok for *ANYONE* to NOT get a certain "style".

What did you have to post that for? Now I feel like I am the dick head. Make me feel all guilty on a Sunday.

Great thread which I'm obviously late to...

How about Tears Of a Clown by The English Beat and Van Halen's Dance The Night Away.

Also..
Suspicious Minds by Fine Young Cannibals

It's My Life - No Doubt (originally by Talk Talk)

Consider this one vote for U2 over Crue on Helter Skelter and kudos to whoever it was that remembered Soul Kitchen by X (one of the great songs of my college days).

This is a thread I REALLY need to ignore, if I want to post here for more that a couple of days.

Allman Brothers cover of T-Bone walkers Stormy Monday. Lee Michaels also did a great cover of the same.

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Originally posted by SFbaybum:
Great thread which I'm obviously late to...

How about Tears Of a Clown by The English Beat

Forgot about that one. Agreed.

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Originally posted by Altaholic:
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

I love the Elvis Costello version. Another superb song that he covered was Robert Wyatt's "Shipbuilding".

Does it count as a cover version if you record your own song after somebody else?

As for the Van Halen version of You Really Got Me, the Kinks original was 14 years earlier and as raw as salmonella. By 1978 they were beefing it up even more on stage. All that Van Halen did was add hair and posturing.

For fantastic Kinks covers:

The Jam - David Watts;
(The Sadly Missed) Kirsty MacColl - Days;
The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

Each put a their own stamp on great songs.

So many good one's but two of my favs are Eddie Vedder doing masters of war and Alien Ant Farm doing Michael Jackson's smooth criminal, such a great version.

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Originally posted by KillerB:

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Originally posted by Dave Tong BBP:

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Originally posted by Altaholic:
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

I love the Elvis Costello version. Another superb song that he covered was Robert Wyatt's "Shipbuilding".

Does it count as a cover version if you record your own song after somebody else?

Depends. I classify Motorhead by Motorhead as a cover because the original was done by Hawkwind.

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Originally posted by zwine:
So many good one's but two of my favs are Eddie Vedder doing masters of war and Alien Ant Farm doing Michael Jackson's smooth criminal, such a great version.

The best version, IMO, of "Masters of War" was by Roger Taylor (on Strange Frontier).

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Originally posted by Sam Stahl:
Allman Brothers cover of T-Bone walkers Stormy Monday. Lee Michaels also did a great cover of the same.

Agreed, and another outstanding version is Cream doing Stormy Monday on the 2005 Albert Hall reunion discs.

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged rendition covering Bowie's "The man who sold the world" - Great song, great recording.

Johnny Cash covering Trent Reznor's "Hurt" on what I believe to be his last album released before his death. The entire CD was various cover songs and you could feel the emotion of his entire life wrapped up into that CD.

Stormy Monday Blues?

If I'm not mistaking Colosseum recorded a live version of this song in the same year as Allman Bros. on Colosseum Live.

An unbridled burlesque Chris Farlowe must have been my first contact with this standard. I'll always associate this song to the quite impressive diddle-bop Farlowe started with.

Well, as T-Bone said himself in an intro to the song: everybody does this song, which makes me very happy 'cuz it puts some royalties in my pocket...

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Originally posted by KillerB:

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Originally posted by Dave Tong BBP:

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Originally posted by Altaholic:
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

I love the Elvis Costello version. Another superb song that he covered was Robert Wyatt's "Shipbuilding".

Does it count as a cover version if you record your own song after somebody else?

Depends. I classify Motorhead by Motorhead as a cover because the original was done by Hawkwind.

So David Bowie did cover versions of "All the Young Dudes" and "The Man Who Sold the World"? Fair enough, in which case both of these feature as best cover versions.

On a pointless piece of trivia, Motorhead contained a band member that helps link up all the British Heavy Rock bands with all the British punks bands. His name is Larry Wallis and he could easily fit into the Strange artist thread.