Cover me I'm going in! - Post your favorite song covers.

[Juhazi]

 

[jcebedo11]

 

[Wombat]

Mid Sixties plus, Chicago group:

 

[Juhazi]

Sting - Fields of Gold

 

[Martin Takamine]

 

[raif71]

The Party Boys' doing The Boss' "Cover Me"

BeStaff version of "Cover Me"

 

[andreasmaaan]

Lots of great Leonard Cohen covers. Here are a couple of my favourites:

And ofc I guess:

 

[mhardy6647]

So -- I stumbled across this a couple of days ago.
I am not a big fan of U2, but this is one of their songs that I do quite like... covered by Sarah Jarosz, whom I also do quite like.

 

[DChenery]

Stayin' Alive - as performed by Gee Gee Kettel & Solung. The Only version so far) of the Gee Beeps "Classic" that doesn't make me retch (Note that the sound quality is extremely poor on the vid. For a higher quality rendition try the album Just Passing Through

 

[digicidal]

Can't remember if I posted this... can't imagine why I wouldn't have but it seems to have slipped through the cracks.
My favorite band for the past 25 years... covering a song that needs no introduction.

 

[MuseIcal]

Glass Animals cover Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.

 

[GDK]

Apologies, as I have not reviewed this entire thread to see if this has already been posted, but this is clearly the greatest cover of all time:

 

[theglobalelite]

 

[MuseIcal]

Hugo - 99 Problems

 

[digicidal]

Charles Bradley doing an amazing cover of Black Sabbath's "Changes"...

And Norah Jones covering Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun"

 

[SineWave]

 

[JustAnandaDourEyedDude]

This CD appeared in Amazon's weekly new releases listing eight years ago, and was an instant buy for me on the strength of the cover and the track list. I had never heard of the band Carmel before. The CD cover art, seen also as the cover image of the YT videos below, took a few seconds to sink in and then got a smile out of me, then a chuckle. That is the band's frontwoman Carmel McCourt on the cover.

It seems Carmel was a UK-based power pop trio with a drum'n'bass sorta sound, whose heyday was in the 1980s and 1990s during which they released a number of CDs, and then disappeared from view. In 2012 this singular CD "Strictly Piaf" appeared. Nine songs made famous by the sparrow (some even penned by her, I think), but here have undergone a sea change into something strange. The videos below (three samples, and the first album track "Running" in its entirety) give an idea but do not do the album justice. Some songs are translated into English, others sung in the original French. Some are given the power pop treatment, others are approached differently. The sample of "La Vie En Rose" in the first YT video shows a layered ethereal approach. Altogether a bold, creative and utterly original set of covers of Piaf staples. Every one of them is enjoyable, but my favorites are Autumn Leaves, Sous Le Ciel De Paris, and most of all Les Amants D'Un Jour which is given the power pop treatment and has an intoxicating flow to it that sweeps all before it.

 

[MuseIcal]

 

[raistlin65]

When I think of great songs and covers that are equally great, Jimi Hendrix's "Sunshine of Your Love" off Valleys of Neptune always comes to mind first and foremost. I love it as much as the original Cream release. Sorry. Not available on YouTube.

 

[MuseIcal]

Smokin' version of Patti Smiths' Land/Gloria by Jen Cloher.