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I stumbled on Beverly McClellan 's original stuff totally by accident a week or so ago. I <span style="font-size: 15px;">love</span> this snippet of her singing the Who's "Teenage Wasteland," and giving it some pretty bluesy overtones.

Slade cover Chuck Berry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9HZXcix_tI

Ray Davies of the Kinks is, in my opinion, one of those great songwriters whose singing voice puts me off. Thus, I present my five favorite Kinks covers, in chronological order:

The Pretenders, "I Go To Sleep" (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yoR7fg2pE0

Van Halen, "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?" (1982)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke3ua0kLhYA

The Fall, "Victoria" (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQBdvEg_40

Kirsty MacColl, "Days" (1989)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOKWqtocXWs

Def Leppard, "Waterloo Sunset" (2005)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnNP8aKBwc

Thanks for posting all the Davies covers, FL.

So many great covers of "I Go To Sleep" and the Pretenders is my favorite.

Sex Mob gives their trademark punk-jazz treatment to "Live And Let Die" .

(And on a semi-related note, there's this .)

Seal has a new cover album. Every song is a treat.

Seal covers Marvin

Thanks to Harbinger for reminding me of this awesome performance:

Annie Covers the Clash

More Annie, this time covering Neil Young:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23aYZf18i-c

My thanks to Harbi, as well.

This won't get me any points for hipness, but I don't care. And it's worth noting that the Martha & the Vandellas original not only missed the pop Top 40, but didn't even make the R&B Top Five. So I thank Phil for introducing me to a beautiful song I might otherwise have never heard.

Phil Collins, "In My Lonely Room"

I love covers of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence, particularly Lacuna Coil\'s .

But this is surely the strangest and coolest cover...

Barbara Lynn brings her awesomeness to "Don\'t Be Cruel."

Never liked Houston, and I've not really listened much to the Parton version, but Soundgarden was the later I worshipped at in the '90s and Chris Cornell really nails this version of "I Will Always Love You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFAq9Q8l8U

Brazil's Pato Fu introduces kids to "Bohemian Rhapsody," via toy instruments. (I believe the CD name, Musica de Brinquedo translates as "Toy Music.")



Unfortunately, I can't translate the puppet banter for you all, because I don't speak Portuguese. But the music part begins around 1:45.

Bonnie Raitt covers the late Gerry Rafferty's biggest hit on her latest album. It's hard to beat the smooth vocals of Rafferty's original. Never the less, Bonnie is as classy as ever, the song deserves a revival, and the album is excellent.

Right Down the Line

>sigh< my wife says any of the glee tunes. I don't know them. I prefer other stuff, but there ya go.

Okay, Rick, This will make a believer out of you.

Glee Cover

Set reminded me in another thread (ironically, the Worst Song Ever thread) how many good David Bowie covers are out there. Links to Def Leppard's "Drive In Saturday" and Nirvana's "The Man Who Sold the World" were already posted earlier in this thread, but here's a couple more.

Bauhaus, "Ziggy Stardust":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ElukybhN54

Dead or Alive, "Rebel Rebel":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQwf4tapSk

Fun. Here's my favorite Rebel Rebel cover.

Rickie

MLLASH reminded me of these two beauties from the Randy Newman songbook:

"I Think It\'s Going To Rain Today" , sung by the indescribably great Irma Thomas (b. 1941)

and

"Old Man" , sung by Art Garfunkel (b. 1941)

Related to that other thread: Nirvana covers:

Cibo Matto: "About A Girl" . The cheesy lounge-Latin arrangement and their deadpan intro never fails to make me giggle.

Laura Love: "Come As You Are" . I mostly know Love from her later work in bluegrass groups, but I like the ultra-simple stylings of this cover.

I have a full album of Metallica covers...

...rearranged as lullabies.

Enter Sandman

And I just discovered this song a few days ago...

I mostly listen to metal but I also am a big fan of Johnny Cash. Combine to two for a totally rocking song...

Sad Man\'s Tongue (Johnny Cash Cover) - Volbeat

I know most of you aren't into this style of music, but this is really worth checking out!!

There's no connection or theme here but these are simply some random covers that I always enjoy:

We had some Lou Reed love early in the thread; here's a cover of one of his songs from the Velvet Undergound days. It's from The Feelies "Only Life" album (one of my all-time faves)

The Feelies - What Goes On

Husker Du released a few covers during their time together (including a version of "Sunshine Superman") but Bob Mould's howling semi-incoherence on this Byrds track makes it their best:

Husker Du - Eight Miles High

I have to be honest I had to look up the original artist behind this Madness number, so here's to you Mr. Labi Siffre. This version has sort of supplanted the original - it was recently used in a Volkswagen commercial:

Madness - It Must Be Love

This one I found through random youtube searching for The Clash but I've gone back to it quite often. The original is one of my favortie Clash songs - this band features a female lead singer and they added horns to the arrangement as well:

TIJUANA NO! - Spanish Bombs

The Lords of the New Church reinvented a sixties anthem for the eighties, and came up with something timeless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqtLfawD3zI

Japanese do everything better.

Except pizza. Some of that stuff just don't stand.