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Favorite Song Covers

From my formative years, I'd rather listen to Motley Crue's version of "Smokin' in the Boy's Room," Poison's "Your Momma Can't Dance, and Your Daddy Don't Rock'n Roll," and Tesla's version of "Signs."

I just heard Joan Jett's cover or "Crimson & Clover." That was pretty good.

Aerosmith has some other classics on their mainstream records such as "Walkin the Dog," "Big Ten Inch," "Remember (Walking in the Sand), and "Come Together."

Early Van Halen had at least one cover on each of their albums, not to mention Diver Down, which had a handful on it's own.
 
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I'm gonna drop a couple of covers here that I'm pretty sure few on BY are familiar with, or would just dismiss out of hand because of the artist doing the covers. But I'm putting them in this thread to more or less demonstrate how good songs can be transcendent and interpreted in ways that are both surprising and even profound.

First up, Dolly Parton takes perhaps the most classic rock song of all time and turns into a mashup of bluegrass, C&W and revivalist gospel. It's a shame the video cuts off the end of the closing jam, but it's pretty awesome, IMHO.

 
For the other one, Paul Anka takes a classic grunge tune and makes it seem like it was written specifically for Frank Sinatra and arranged by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. And he sells it as if that were actually the case.



I know Pat Boone did a full album of rock covers years ago, but he was trying to do them pretty much as originally concepted, just with Pat Boone singing them. What Anka's done here is to take the bones of the song and create something entirely different that works for his style and audience. Your parents (or grandparents) would probably love it.
 

This is from A Very Special Christmas with 15 covers from Whitney to Bruce and some of the best of the era. A must play seasonal here.
 
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Watch "Linda Ronstadt - "Tracks Of My Tears" (Official Music Video)" on YouTube
 
Any Sturgill Simpson fans out there? I hope so...you'll like this one.

 
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Any Sturgill Simpson fans out there? I hope so...you'll like this one a lot.

 
OK...I'm on a roll. Running through some of my faves...here's the Tom Tom Club-

 
NH Husky said:
Is the implication Van Morrison, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm are in Pink Floyd?
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My point is that "Comfortably Numb" is Waters' song. Though given my post regarding the Eagles earlier, I suppose Van Halen technically covered "I Can't Drive 55" and "There's Only One Way to Rock," and The Circle covers all the VH songs from the '85-'96.
 
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August_West said:
This is an incredible reading of a totally fantastic fairly "current" song.

Im not kidding about either, despite the clown schtick. And Royals is one of the best pop songs to come down the pike in the last decade.

I prefer this to the original, love the arrangement and the jazz chord substitutions employed, but I am a fan of Lordes original version as well.

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if that was a cover of another tune why did they bother?
 
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