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

"Always On My Mind', love the versions by Willie, Elvis and the Pet Shop Boys.

 

--Suspicion, Terry Stafford, then Elvis Presley (I liked Stafford's a bit better).
--I Want Candy, the Strangeloves, then Bow Wow Wow
--California Girls, the Beach Boys, then David Lee Roth
--Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody, Louis Prima, then David Lee Roth

 

That's a great one.

 

I highly recommend the Coverville podcast. It plays nothing but covers. He'll do theme shows of nothing but covers of and by an artist.

 

Anyone mention "Hallelujah"?

 

Anyone mention Johnny Cash's version of NIN's "Hurt." Great interpretation.

 

When A Man Loves A Woman: Percy Sledge/Michael Bolton

 

Everytime You Go Away - Hall and Oates/Paul Young.

The Paul Young version is one of my favorite songs of all-time, even though I was only five when it came out.

 

Really good list ... did not know "Call Me the Breeze" was a cover song.

"Wooden Ships" was co-written by Stills, Crosby and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, so hard to say which one is a cover version. I like both versions, even though they're different musically.

 

"You Can't Hurry Love" -- Diana Ross/Phil Collins
"Your Mama Don't Dance and Your Daddy Don't Rock 'n Roll" -- Loggins/Poison
"Live and Let Die" -- Paul McCartney & Wings/Guns 'N Roses
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" -- Dylan/GNR
"In the Air Tonight" -- Phil/Nonpoint
"Land of Confusion" -- Genesis/Disturbed
"The Scientist" -- Coldplay/Willie Nelson
Anything from Willie Nelson's "Stardust" album

 

Anything from Diver Down -- Van Halen :

It sickens me when someone says that's their favorite Van Halen album. Though I do love Little Guitars.

 

I'm a big Elvis Costello fan. I usually really dislike covers of his songs. Dave Edmunds' cover of "Girls Talk" blows away the original.

I'll echo the love for the Roxy Music and Jason Isbell covers of "Like a Hurricane," but the best version is Neil's unplugged version on the pipe organ.

Others:

"The Harder They Come": Jimmy Cliff, Joe Jackson
"Johnny B. Goode": Chuck Berry, Peter Tosh
"Positively 4th Street": Bob Dylan, X
"Nothing But Flowers": Talking Heads, Guster
"King of the World": Steely Dan, Joe Jackson
"Alone Again Or": Love, The Damned
"Don't Think Twice": Bob Dylan, Mike Ness