Best Cover Versions

according to the Guardian

nice to see the Fatima Mansions get a mention…

My top 10 favorite covers:

Social D – Ring of Fire(Johnny Cash)
Social D – Under My Thumb (Stones)
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – This Is How It Feels (Inspiral Carpets)
Queens of the Stone Age – Precious and Grace (ZZ Top)
The Screamers – Beat Goes On (Sonny and Cher)
The Pixies – Wild Honey Pie (the Beatles)
Husker Du – Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
Minor Threat – 12XU (Wire)
Pet Shop Boys – Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
Red House Painters – Shock Me (Kiss)
The Who – Young Man Blues (Mose Allison)

(OK, so it was 11 and not 10.)

Polysics, MY SHARONA (Knack)

i peronally love the Snow Patrol version of Crazy In Love. still. even though i dont care for either them OR Beyonce.

Ever heard Blondie do Bowie's "Heroes?" Weird, but strangely compelling.

Oh, and as far as Minor Threat covers, "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White," originally by the Standells, is great. Both cause it rocks and because it's funny to hear Ian passing himself off as a love-struck simple-hearted working stiff.

7 Seconds - 99 Red Balloons (don't remember the german broad's name)
Replacements - Black Diamond (kiss)
The Cynics - Last Time Around (The Del Vettes)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee (old folk song I think but I know the Dead did it too)

A few of my faves….

I'm really lame about keeping track of cover songs…

The ones that always seem to spring to mind are

The Replacements - Black Diamond (KISS)
R.E.M. - Superman
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Flying Pickets - Only You
Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House (Roky Erikson)
Detroit Cobras - various
D4 - Pirate Love (Johnny Thunders)
English Beat - Tears of a Clown

Get a bit embarrassed when finding out a song that I always thought was an orginial turns out to be a cover. i.e.

The Smiths - Golden Lights (Twinkle)
Madness - It must be love (Labi Siffre)
Madness -

Wasn't this a thread a few months ago?

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

Originally posted by P.J.:
Wasn't this a thread a few months ago?

And a few months before that, and a few months before that, and….

It fits into an odd category on this board. Not quite updated enough to be in the first two pages, so it gets regurgitated everytime somebody reads an interesting article on cover songs. Not sure there's a solution to it either.

Good Luvin', by The Grateful Dead

Originally posted by vansmack:
It fits into an odd category on this board. Not quite updated enough to be in the first two pages, so it gets regurgitated everytime somebody reads an interesting article on cover songs. Not sure there's a solution to it either.

hey, i have a solution, let's have a 21st century board with a search function! i feel like we're in 1986!

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
let's have a 21st century board with a search function! i feel like we're in 1986!

this board's software has a search function, for some inexplicable reason the admins have opted to keep it turned off!

They know that if they switched the search function to the 'On' position there would be a concern that this could have an adverse reaction on ggw…he might very well require an ambulance.

don't know why the search function wasn't turned on in the first place, i am however hesitant to lobby to turn it on now as the board is a bit creeky these days. as it is the registration function breaks on occasion and turning the search function could result in a hazmat team coming into do a little clean up.

outside of the few regulars who might take advantage of the search feature, does anyone think that a DCFC fan is going to use it, when they can't be bothered to check if the topic already exists on the front page.

the popular threads gets moved to page one on a regular basis, most discussion is ancient history once it goes beyond page 2 or 3. and does it really matter if yet another thread gets created for discussing covers.

I run a UBB too and I've never had a problem with the search function. Admittedly, I have way less traffic than this site does, but I really don't think it would be an issue unless a lot of people started using it simultaneously, which seems unlikely. As long as the admins occasionally run the UBB's maintenance functions, it should be ok (and they should do that anyway).

What I like about a search is that there's a wealth of info contained on this board. I imagine you could search for almost any band out there and find stuff on them, including stuff about past shows they played.

As long as you're tinkering you might wanna do something about the Halloween color scheme too. :D I think blue on black would be much nicer, consistent with the Club graphic at the top of the page…

I would like to officially state that the best cover song ever is

Jolene by the White Stripes.

there i said it.

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
hey, i have a solution, let's have a 21st century board with a search function! i feel like we're in 1986!

I thought our search function was ggwâ?¢…

Originally posted by Doctor Mood:
What I like about a search is that there's a wealth of info contained on this board. I imagine you could search for almost any band out there and find stuff on them, including stuff about past shows they played.

As long as you're tinkering you might wanna do something about the Halloween color scheme too.

And thus, less reptitive topics = less weight on the board?

I must be blind, I thought it was red and black.

Moonbabies - Stars of Warburton (Midnight Oil)
(www.myspace.com/moonbabies)
I still like Ryan Adams' version of Wonderwall (Oasis).
Luke Brindley - Love Minus Zero (Dylan)