Sing it again: Songs you love, original and redone versions

Dwight Yoakam does a lot of cool covers including two of his Elvis's greatest songs: "Little Sister" and "Suspicious Minds" (might be the best Elvis cover ever)

 

Honest to God, I had no idea Elvis did "Little Sister." I thought that was Dwight's.

Mine: "Shameless." Like Garth's version slightly more than Billy Joel's. But it's close.

 

Another good version of "Little Sister"---Rockpile w/ Robert Plant on the Concert for Kampuchea album.

 

Excellent call.

 

--I've Done Everything for You, Sammy Hagar, then Rick Springfield
--Since You've Been Gone, Head East, then Rainbow
--Rock Me Tonight, Billy Squier, then BYH in the shower

 

Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly>Rolling Stones>Grateful Dead
It Ain't Me Babe: Bob Dylan>The Turtles
Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash>Social Distortion
Wooden Ships: Crosby, Stills & Nash>Jefferson Airplane
You Really Got Me: The Kinks>Van Halen
Back Door Man: Willie Dixon>The Doors
Little Wing: Jimi Hendrix>Derek & the Dominos>Stevie Ray Vaughan
Call Me the Breeze: J.J. Cale>Lynyrd Skynyrd
Let's Work Together: Wilbert Harrison>Canned Heat
Don't Bogart That Joint: Holy Modal Rounders>Little Feat
Love In Vain: Robert Johnson>Rolling Stones
Sweet Jane: Velvet Underground>Mott the Hoople

 

"Girls Talk:" Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds, Linda Ronstadt

"La Bamba:" Richie Valens, Los Lobos.

And I can't stand Manfred Mann's version of "Blinded by the Light."

 

I like Manfred Mann's covers of Bruce songs better than the originals. Nice reinterpretations

 

"Both Sides Now" - Judy Collins and Paul Young (w/Maire Brennan of Clannad)

 

Anything Daryl Hall has done on his web show, Live From Daryl's House. He redoes his stuff from the Hall and Oates days with different people and it almost always sounds better.

 

Going back to the original post, there's another Clapton cover on the "Unplugged" album that I like — "Layla."
I know a lot of people considered it sacrilege and horrible, but I like it better than the original. It just works so well as a slowed-down blues song. The original is a rock classic, but the lyrics sound like a lot of angry screaming.

 

I might have posted this before, or I might have found it on here at some point, but here's a site that you can spend a lot of time on.

http://www.coversproject.com/

Boyz N The Hood -- NWA and Dynamite Hack. Silly, but clever.

You Really Got Me -- The Kinks and Van Halen