2006-10-13 06:05:38 · 12 answers · asked by mixmaster 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Hendrix's "Hey Joe" and "All Along the Watchtower" are classic examples of someone taking a song and making it their own.
Here are some others I love (original performers in parentheses):
"Walk On By" - Isaac Hayes (Dionne Warwick)
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" - Isaac Hayes (Glen Campbell)
"You've Really Got A Hold on Me" - The Beatles (The Miracles)
"The Wait" - Metallica (Killing Joke)
"Many Rivers to Cross" - Harry Nilsson (Jimmy Cliff)
"Light My Fire" - Al Green, Massive Attack, Erma Franklin (The Doors)
"Slippery People" - The Staple Singers (Talking Heads)
"September Song" - Lou Reed (composed by Kurt Weill)
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" - Gecko Turner (Bob Dylan)
"Always" - Leonard Cohen (composed by Irving Berlin)
"Sugar Sugar" - The Wailers (The Archies)
"My Favorite Things" - John Coltrane (composed by Rodgers & Hammerstein)
"Strawberry Letter #23" - Brothers Johnson (Shuggie Otis)
"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" - Tricky (Public Enemy)
"Helter Skelter" - Siouxsie & the Banshees (The Beatles)
"Dear Prudence" - Siouxsie & the Banshees (The Beatles)
"High-Heel Sneakers" - Elvis Presley (Tommy Tucker)
"Come On, Pt. 1" - Jimi Hendrix (Earl King)
"Wild Thing " - Jimi Hendrix (The Troggs)
"She's Lost Control" - Grace Jones (Joy Division)
"Jump" - Aztec Camera (Van Halen)
"The Girl I Love (She's Got Long Black Wavy Hair)" - Led Zeppelin (Sleepy John Estes)
Just a few off the top of my head...
2006-10-13 06:25:54 · answer #1 · answered by Murgatroyd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iam huge into cover songs. But usually the new band messes the cover up so bad its terrible. The best cover song is Ben Harper's version of "Sexual Healing" uh-maz-ing!
2006-10-13 13:08:43 · answer #2 · answered by agent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Found Glory's cover of Cry Me A River is really good.
As well as Say Anything ft Chris Conley - The Man in Me. (Bob Dylan)
2006-10-13 13:09:02 · answer #3 · answered by Red 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bohemian Rhapsody (original by Queen) was performed live by Elton John and Guns n' Roses on the Freddy Mercury Tribute.
2006-10-13 13:31:44 · answer #4 · answered by LBW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a Highway-Rascal Flatts
original by Tom Cochrane
2006-10-13 13:15:27 · answer #5 · answered by tallmochagirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Austrailian Pink Floyd doin' any Pink Floyd song. They are dead-on, and even Pink Floyd approves.
2006-10-13 13:12:07 · answer #6 · answered by giggitygiggitygiggitygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Korn redid Another Brick in the Wall.. it wasn't bad.
2006-10-13 13:16:40 · answer #7 · answered by Zorlinda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cat's in the Cradle by Ugly Kid Joe.
Signs by Tesla.
2006-10-13 13:13:01 · answer #8 · answered by boo's mom 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
white lines redone by duran duran
2006-10-13 13:08:19 · answer #9 · answered by melikeeeyore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reel big fish - take on me
2006-10-13 13:20:33 · answer #10 · answered by jefferson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋