Best cover ever?

"Got To Get You Into My Life" Earth Wind & Fire (Beatles)

 

Afternoon Delight - Ron Burgundy and the Channel 4 News team

 

"Maybe I'm Amazed" - The Faces (McCartney, whose original sucked in comparison)
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" - Elvis Costello (Nick Lowe)
"Ghosts" - Ted Leo (The Jam)

 

Anything done by the Rolling Stones that was re-done by Guns N Roses!

Also GNRs' Live and Let Die, Knockin' on Heaven's Door and Mama Kin

Ah who am I kidding; any cover by GNR simply kicked ass!

 

Regarding Ted Leo, his Six Months in a Leaky Boat and Suspect Device are terrific as well.

And R.E.mM.'s VU covers on Dead letter OffiCe are really good. I"m listening to my 175-song cover song playlist on my Tunes and that may be my favorite playlist. Dinosaur Jr,'s cover of Just Like Heaven just came on.

The Butthole Surfer's cover of American Woman leaves a little to be desired however.

 

Glad someone mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of Little Wing. That's a good one. But there's another, much more obscure Hendrix cover that was the first one I thought of. I'm wondering if anyone else had heard this one.

I have a CD that I got from one of those CD clubs (buy one and get two for free) that has a bunch of Hendrix songs recorded live by Paul Rogers (the singer from Bad Company) and Neal Schon (the guitar player from Journey). I don't remember them doing this, but I guess they put together a band and toured for a while in the 1990s and one of the songs they did was Stone Free. Toward the end of it, they drift out of Stone Free and play a verse from I Feel Free by Cream, and then right at the end, Schon plays the guitar solo from the end of Black Magic Woman -- which, of course, is an homage to Carlos Santana, who Schon played with before leaving with Greg Rolie to start Journey. Very cool. Rogers has a great voice and Schon's playing is especially good here.

 

I don't know if we should count blues covers, since blues players are judged, at least in part, on how well they treat those who come before them. Same thing with jazz; you could put together an entire album of people singing and playing "I Get a Kick Out of You."

That said, Jimi Hendrix' "Blues" album, IMO, is his best. LOVED listening to him get his guitar around "Born Under a Bad Sign" and "Mannish Boy." Stevie Ray did right by "Voodoo Child" while Kenny Wayne Shepherd does it right a lot of the time, too. Clapton's "Crossroads" is good work. The Rolling Stones were a blues band at heart.

 

This drives me absolutely fucking insane.

Carlos Santana did NOT do the original "Black Magic Woman." Fleetwood Mac did the song originally during its blues era. Carlos just did an incredible cover of it that has become far more famous than the original Fleetwood Mac rendition.

 

I'd buy that album.

Speaking of blues, Keb Mo's cover of "Come On In My Kitchen" is top notch.

 

Ha! Methinks you're letting your own feelings get in the way of appreciating that song.

Pumpkins' version of "Landslide" was pretty good -- I can listen to it anytime. Even better, in fact, was the Dixie Chicks' version. Great, great song.

 

No, Smashing Pumpkins was awful.

The Dixie Chicks version was OK.

I'm not much of a fan of "Landslide" to begin with. I prefer Stevie's hard rockers such as "Fall From Grace" or "Long Way To Go."

The one cover of a Stevie Nicks-written tune I actually like is Hole's version of "Gold Dust Woman."

 

Or Steve Miller's solo acoustic version.

Listening right now to Jamie Cullum re-work Pharell Williams' "Frontin'."