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

[DMill]

Too obvious?

 

[GaryY]

 

[MarkS]

Too obvious?

Yeah ... T.Heads seem to own this song. Here's what I get when I search for it on Apple Music:

And, to me, Al Green's original sounds pretty bland ... (hey, no accounting for taste!)

But from that search I learned that English hard-rock band Foghat beat the T.Heads to a cover in 1976:

I like that one!

And Foghat is still around (!) and still playing it (!!):

 

[MarkS]

Glee: Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meatloaf)

 

[MarkS]

Elton John: Pinball Wizard (The Who)

Not exactly a cover, because The Who are playing, but Sir Elton does the vocals (and shows off his acting chops as The Champ) in this great clip from the movie Tommy:

 

[MarkS]

And to make up for that not-really-a-cover, the real thing: Steve Edwards, Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)

 

[sonitus mirus]

Norah Jones’ rendition of Townes Van Zandt’s "Be Here to Love Me" is my favorite version of the song.

 

[kemmler3D]

Newly released, Jacob Collier did a pretty epic gospel-style cover of Bridge over Troubled Water... not my typical style, but this might be my new #1 acapella song of all time...

 

[stoo23]

From quite a few years ago now, but a Great and arguably unique 'Cover' of a great song.

 

[stoo23]

Some more brilliant lunacy by our friends in "the Great White North"

 

[stoo23]

Ane Brun sings Björk & Birgir Sigurdsson's "Jóga" at the Polar Music Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, August 30, 2010. Arranged and conducted by Hans Ek.

 

[Moderate Dionysianism]

Spider God. They did a whole album of these:

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

My all time favorite cover. Hank Williams must have listened to the Emmett Miller original of this when he was a kid. He copied the yodeling with minor variations. Miller's version was pretty good. Williams' version pins the needle and then some.

 

[digitalfrost]

Jungle Boogie | Muppets Music Video

 

[srkbear]

Pixies on Jesus and Mary Chain!

 

[srkbear]

Oh and REM’s iconic take on the Cliques…

 

[MarkS]

Emmanuel Santarromana, Paperback Writer, from a whole album of pretty weird Beatles covers

 

[MarkS]

Brian Eno and friends in 801 cover my favorite Beatles song, Tomorrow Never Knows

 

[pavuol]

Allison Lorenzen and Midwife - Glycerine (Bush cover)

 

[MarkS]

Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb covers She's Lost Control (Joy Division)