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Judge a Song by its cover

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by heyabbott, Feb 17, 2020.

  1. jlee

    jlee Well-Known Member

    I love Dolly, but Whitney’s version of “I Will Always Love You” is in a class unto itself.

    Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn”
     
  2. Flip Wilson

    Flip Wilson Well-Known Member

    The Sound of Silence by Disturbed is a pretty strong contender in this category.

     
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  3. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  4. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    As mentioned, Beatles “Twist n Shout” is hard to beat.

    Personal favorites are Mellencamp’s “Wild Night” and Cash’s “Hurt” and “Personal Jesus.”

    Hell, all of Cash’s covers on American IV are outstanding.
     
  5. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”
    Bob Marley “I shot the sheriff”
     
  6. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I concur.
    Not a big Disturbed fan by any stretch, but this one is damn good.
     
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  7. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    I have the older Joan Jett image in my head, so I never found her attractive. I Googled Joan Jett, Crimson and Clover and found a YouTube clip of her doing this song from 1983. Cute.
     
  8. JRoyal

    JRoyal Well-Known Member

    Pearl Jam's Crazy Mary makes the grade, and it's a helluva song live. They have a few that fit in the better-than-the original category (Last Kiss, Sonic Reducer, Masters of War, I Am a Patriot, arguably Rockin' in the Free World), but a lot of those are covers they've done live and not studio releases.
     
  9. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    There's a ton of Dylan covers out there but this is one of the great ones. They do a great version of "19th Nervous Breakdown" too.

    Some others I have heard lately in no particular order:
    "Oh! Sweet Nothin'" - Rich Robinson/Black Crowes
    "Little Wing" - Derek and the Dominos
    "Suspicious Minds" - Dwight Yoakum
    "Mercury Blues" - David Lindley
    "Highway 61 Revisited" - Johnny Winter
    "When You Were Mine" - Mitch Ryder
    "Hard Luck Woman" - Garth Brooks
    "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" - Leon Russell (speaking of a guy who did great Dylan covers)
     
  10. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    This is pretty darn good. Almost had me thinking Billie Eilish did the cover:

     
  11. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    I always confuse Jason & the Scorchers with Jason (Boland) & the Stragglers, a popular Red Dirt act.
     
  12. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    They started out as Jason and the Nashville Scorchers in 1980 or 81, playing a cross between alt-country and punk. Critics at the time dubbed it Cow Punk.
     
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