Whats the best re-meke of a song?

Punkinhead · Post by **Punkinhead** » Wednesday Dec 21, 2005

Graveworm did an awesome death metal version of R.E.M. - Losing My Religion. I also like Marilyn Manson's remake of Sweet Dreams and Tainted Love (great, great, great song to have someone strip to BTW which is why i like it so much

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moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wednesday Dec 21, 2005

Here is the story about the song Hey, Joe.
Jimi Hendrix recorded the song after many other people did it.

http://www.tsimon.com/heyjoe.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe

Hey, Joe was recorded no less than 17 times by 1970

Hey Joe by The Leaves (1965)
Hey Joe by The Surfaris (1966)
Hey Joe by The Byrds (July 8, 1966)
Hey Joe by Tim Rose (1966)
Hey Joe by The Creation (1966)
Hey Joe by The Shadows of Night (1966)
Hey Joe by The Standells (1966)
Hey Joe by Love (September 1966)
Hey Joe by The Music Machine (November 1966)
Hey Joe by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (December 16, 1966)
Hey Joe by Johnny Hallyday (1967)
Hey Joe by Martò (1967)
Hey Joe by Rocky Roberts & the Airedales (1967)
Hey Joe by Ant trip ceremony (1968)
Hey Joe by Johnny Rivers (1968)
Hey Joe by Deep Purple (September 1968)
Hey Joe by Fever Tree (1970)

FretBored · Post by **FretBored** » Wednesday Dec 21, 2005

One More:

Roy Buchanan Hey Joe Album - That's What I Am Here For - 1973

Viva la Pelt · Post by **Viva la Pelt** » Wednesday Dec 21, 2005

Twist and Shout Beatles
Shout Disturbed
You give love a bad name Autreau
Last Kiss Pearl Jam
Sweet Dreams Marilyn Manson
Me first and the Gimmie Gimmies do alot of very unique and cool covers!

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Wednesday Dec 21, 2005

ToonaRockGuy wrote:There isn't really a "best" of anything, so I'll offer up some of my fave remakes in the past few years, by song title, artist, and original artist:

"Whiskey In The Jar" - Metallica (Thin Lizzy/Irish Drinking Song)

and a few of my fave classic remakes:

"Little Wing" - Stevie Ray Vaughn (Jimi Hendrix)
"Statesboro Blues" - Allman Bros. (Blind Willie McTell)
"You Shook Me" - Led Zeppelin (Muddy Waters)

GREAT choices, Toona!

Here are just a few of mine:

"Kansas City" - The Beatles (Little Willie Littlefield) "Hey, Hey, Hey" also usually goes along with that Beatles' tune, but I have no idea who originally did that.

"Roll Over Beethoven" - The Beatles
(Chuck Berry)

Actually, just about ANY of the songs of that Genre that The Beatles remade.

There are so many tunes mentioned in this Thread that would be on my list...we all have such great taste in Music!

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wednesday Dec 21, 2005

Leslie West and Mountain did a great version of "Roll Over Beethoven"

Bag · Post by **Bag** » Wednesday Dec 21, 2005

Overkill's version of "Changes" by Sabbath is great! They replaced the keyboards with a bass.

Van Halen's cover of "You're No Good" is kick ass too!

Possessed · Post by **Possessed** » Thursday Dec 22, 2005

Symptom of the Universe by Black Sabbath covered by Sepultura
Cross Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull covered by Iron Maiden
Summertime Blues was just covered by Rush recently as well

Larry · Post by **Larry** » Thursday Dec 22, 2005

Thanks Moxham. It's amazing how many times "Hey Joe" has been done.

SavageHeart · Post by **SavageHeart** » Friday Dec 23, 2005

Just off the top of my head....

California Girls--David Lee Roth (Beach Boys)
Smokin' in the Boys Room--Motley Crue (Brownsville Station)
Blue Monday--Orgy (New Order)
American Woman--Lenny Kravitz (Guess Who)

And I have heard a kick azz version of "Africa" by TOTO but I can't remember who did it...
And I also know a rock version of a Back Street Boys song that is really good....again, can't remember who sang it. I'll have to do some checking on these two.

Some local bands do some awesome covers too!!!
My favs....
Roadkill
Blind Johnny Death
Hair Force !
Bad Daze
And the list goes on and on.....

Brian of the Clan Plush · Post by **Brian of the Clan Plush** » Friday Dec 23, 2005

Baker Street by the Foo Fighters (originally by Gerry Rafferty)

Staceman · Post by **Staceman** » Friday Dec 23, 2005

Feelin' Alright - Grand Funk (Traffic)
She - Anthrax (Kiss)
Electric Funeral - Iced Earth (Black Sabbath)
Rocky Mountain Way - Triumph (Joe Walsh)
Cross Eyed Mary - Iron Maiden (Jethro Tull)

Def Leppard had a cover on the radio of an older song recently also that I liked, but I can't think of the name. In fact, I thought they had a whole album full of cover songs out, but oddly enough their website has no mention of it at all. Styx has an album full of covers out now as well that's quite good.

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Friday Dec 23, 2005

Yeah Staceman, Leppard covers Badfingers "No matter what" good tune!
We actually picked that one up.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Friday Dec 23, 2005

SavageHeart wrote:Some local bands do some awesome covers too!!!
My favs....
Roadkill
Blind Johnny Death
Hair Force !
Bad Daze
And the list goes on and on.....

Thanks fr the props, SH ...

r:>)

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Friday Dec 23, 2005

BadDazeRob wrote:
SavageHeart wrote:Some local bands do some awesome covers too!!!
My favs....
Roadkill
Blind Johnny Death
Hair Force !
Bad Daze
And the list goes on and on.....
Thanks fr the props, SH ...

r:>)

Word!

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Saturday Dec 24, 2005

I also thought The Ataris cover of "Boys of Summer" was good

Mistress_DB · Post by **Mistress_DB** » Saturday Dec 24, 2005

SavageHeart wrote: Some local bands do some awesome covers too!!!
My favs....
Roadkill
Blind Johnny Death
Hair Force !
Bad Daze
And the list goes on and on.....

The Hair Force guys do a great cover of Accept's Balls to the Wall. Vic had Eric Brittingham (from Cinderella/Naked Beggars) tell him that he did Cinderella better than Tom Keifer. (Talk about a major ego stroke there LOL! )

Some of my faves that haven't been listed

Poison - Your mama don't dance ( Loggins and Messina)
Cover of a Rollin Stone (Dr Hook)
Rock N Roll All Nite (Kiss)
Squeeze Box (The Who)

Cinderella- Move Over (Janis Joplin)
Jumpin Jack Flash (Rolling Stones)

Faster Pussycat - Your so vain (think Carley Simon did the origional)

Uncle Cracker did a great cover of Drift Away (not sure who did the origional off hand) Bon Jovi did a cover of it as well.

Fozzy (Chris Jericho, WWE) did some great covers on their first 2 albums.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Saturday Dec 24, 2005

Dobie Gray did the original version of Drift Away and he shares the vocals with Uncle Cracker on his version. It is not very often that somebody does a remake of a song and includes the original artist.

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Saturday Dec 24, 2005

Mistress, the original version of "Drift Away" was done by Dobie Gray, who also appeared doing backing vocals on the Uncle Kracker version. Good cover, very true to the original.

Another good "hair band" cover that I always thought just smoked was Warrant's version of "Train, Train". (Originally done by Blackfoot) Kickass.

SavageHeart · Post by **SavageHeart** » Sunday Dec 25, 2005

I figured out the two I couldn't remember....

Pyogenesis does "Africa" (TOTO)
and
Jaded Heart does the Back Street Boys song!!

They are both VERY cool.

SavageHeart · Post by **SavageHeart** » Sunday Dec 25, 2005

The Hair Force guys do a great cover of Accept's Balls to the Wall.

I've heard it and I think that it is awesome!!!! One of the reasons that they make my list of favorite covers.

bassist4life2004 · Post by **bassist4life2004** » Sunday Dec 25, 2005

I really like Disturbed's version of Genisis' "Land Of Confusion". Thats an awesome song, and was totally out of their genre, and they blew it away.

mikers85 · Post by **mikers85** » Monday Dec 26, 2005

Deep Purple- Hush (Joe South)
Deep Purple- Child in Time (parts from Bombay Calling by It's A Beautiful Day)

3rd post with Deep Purple!

Bag · Post by **Bag** » Monday Dec 26, 2005

Rock and Roll All Night is not a cover.

daveb · Post by **daveb** » Monday Dec 26, 2005

Dave Matthews Band and John Popper did a great version of Gin and Juice by Snoop and 'Dre

Tool does an excellent cover of No Quarter by Zep on the Salival CD.

Joe Perry Project - Bang a Gong is not too shabby either