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Now that covers are a current Styx topic (courtesy of I Am The Walrus), what are some of your favorite (and least favorite) cover songs of all time?

Here are some that I like:

Mony, Mony - Billy Idol (didn't know it was a cover for a long time)
Love Hurts - Nazareth (sorry Everly Brothers)
Walk This Way - Run DMC
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starting Line (blows the original away, much harder version)
Blue Collar Man - Damn Yankees (only heard it live once, and it just blew me away)
Come Together - Aerosmith (actually prefer this to the original, sorry Beatles fans)
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam


Here are some that I don't care for:
Highway To Hell - Marilyn Manson (quite possibly the worst cover ever, IMO)
Sweet Child Of Mine - Sheryl Crow (yuck)
I Love Rock n Roll - Britney Spears (nuff said)

ek, I'll bite on this topic....

I really liked Elton John's version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and Ambrosia's version of Magical Mystery Tour...other than those, there arent any Beatles remakes that trip my trigger...I'm withholding judgement on IATW until I can hear it in a format of Higher fidelity than my computer is capable of.

Elton also does a good version of the Who's Pinball Wizard.

Heart does a greeat version of Led Zeppelin's The Battle of Evermore on the Live in Seattle DVD.

I consider myself blessed to have ( unintentionally ) avoided the 3 covers you listed below....I imagiune they are quite horrible ! One that always got under my skin was the reggae version of the song Lean On Me I think it was the insertion of the words "we be jammin" that ruined it for me. I have nothing against Reggae in general....I did like Claptons version of I shot the Sheriff........

Covers I like:

Deep Purple's cover of Neil Diamond's Kentucky Woman.

Covers I don't like:

Tom Jones' cover of Prince's Kiss.

Cheap Trick - Magical Mystery Tour, Ain’t That A Shame, Day Tripper

Van Halen – Pretty Woman, Dancing In The Streets, Happy Trails

Metallica - Turn The Page

Rolling Stones - Going To A Go Go

Are these copycat bands?

The Good;

We Can Work It Out - Tesla from the Five Man Acoustic Jam(live)
(great job, but prefer the original)

Signs- Tesla (Same album)

Knockin' On Heaven's Door- Guns N' Roses

Behind Blue Eyes- Limp Bizkit (prefer the original)

Twist and Shout- The Beatles (originally done by the Isley Brothers)

Magical Mystery Tour- Cheap Trick (live)

The Bad;

Leader of the Pack- Twisted Sister

Sweet Child O' Mine- Sheryl Crow (From Big Daddy Soundtrack)

Total Eclipse of the Heart- Nikki French (not into Dance music)

The Ugly;

Ticket To Ride- The Carpenters

Mr. Postman- The Carpenters

I Think We're Alone Now- Tiffany

The National Anthem- Roseanne Barr

Take Me Out To The Ball Game- Ozzy Osbourne (He was slurring his words)

DeeJay....

You all have listed some of the really, as Deejay puts it, good, bad and ugly already. As something REALLY ugly, how about anything Pat Boone tried to cover?

Some I like:

Robert Palmer's version of Mercy Mercy Me. That guy had such a smooth, soulful voice.

Vanilla Fudge's version of You Keep Me Hanging On. A completely different take on that old Supreme's Motown hit but very cool.

Dennis DeYoung's interpretation of Fire, using his voice as a counterpoint to the guitar. He hits notes in that song I did not think were possible from a single human being.

Bugsy

kansas666 wrote:Covers I like:

Deep Purple's cover of Neil Diamond's Kentucky Woman.

Covers I don't like:

Tom Jones' cover of Prince's Kiss.

Funny I saw Tom Jones on Friday he did Kiss as the last song of the show/

the #1 worst version of a song EVER was Prince doing Kiss.....I had successfully blocked that one from the old memory banks....

I can't believe there are those of you who LIKE this guy, but not the Beatles !

I'd rather listen to Roseanne or Ozzy doing prior mentioned songs. They are more pleasing to the ear than the "singing" of
the so called Artist ( mistakenly thought of as talented ) called Prince.

Actually, Classic, if I had my choice of the three, Ozzy, Roseanne, or Prince, or is it the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, or is it the Sign Of Seven, or is it Prince again, I choose D, none of the above....


DeeJay...

As something REALLY ugly, how about anything Pat Boone tried to cover?

No kidding. Didn't he release an album once with a bunch of covers of 80s hair bands or something like that? I remember the local classic rock station playing snippets and just tearing it to pieces

Take Me Out To The Ball Game- Ozzy Osbourne (He was slurring his words)

That was something else, wasn't it?

Getting back to covers, I had forgotten about the Cheap Trick covers mentioned here; I find them to be quite cool. I also like the Elton John covers that Classic mentioned. And I'd also add Turn The Page to my list of favorites.

There are those who would argue that Any post 1998 version of Come Sail Away - Lady / Grand Illusion etc... ( by Styx or DDY ) is a cover version.....

Discuss amongst yourselves......

[quote="classicstyxfan"]There are those who would argue that Any post 1998 version of Come Sail Away - Lady / Grand Illusion etc... ( by Styx or DDY ) is a cover version.....

Well,while I don't personally care for the rendition as it's done by Gowan, I would not consider it a cover. It is a Styx song, Styx as we currently know it is performing it, so no, not a cover.

And if I never hear that rendition of Last Kiss or Madonna's American Pie again, it will be too soon.

Peace,

Sadie

Madonna doing ( ruining ? ) that great song was rather
disgusting !

Mariah Carey doing her vocal Gymnastics on I'll Be there
and Without You are both enough to make me puke too !

I Like So Far;

Turn The Page...I really enjoy listening to Metallica's version and Bob Segar's version equally...

Elton John's Pinball Wizard and Lucy In The Sky With Diamond's...

Nazareth- Love Hurts...

Billy Idol- Mony, Mony....

Aerosmith- Come Together...

Chead Trick- Aint That Ashame and Don't Be Cruel( I added that one)...

Van Halen- Pretty Woman, Dancing in The Street, and You Really Got Me(added another)...

Now the Ugly;

Madonna and American Pie (yuk)...Hey Madonna, I don't think that was the pie that Don Mclean was singing about....

And Mariah Carey???How about Emotions which was a cover for You Got The Best Of My Love (Neither one I don't like)....Celebrity Death Match had it right where Mariah hit the high notes and Jim Carrey's head exploded....BOOM...

That was something else, wasn't it?

Yea, Ozzy was indeed something else...It makes me wonder who the bigger Bud Man was...Ozzy or Harry Carrey....


DeeJay....

Metallica - Turn The Page is one of the best. Can't stand the original at all.
Of the newest, Goo Goo Dolls-Give A Little Bit 'ain't' to bad.
Van Halen-You Relly Git Me is great too.

Some good ones.
Metallica-Stone cold crazy
Status Quo-Rockin' all over the world
Deep Purple-Hush,Kentucky woman,River deep mountain high.
Grand Funk-Gimme shelter
Golden Earring-Eight miles high
Kula Shaker-Hush
Ambrosia-Magical mystery tour.
Bryan Ferry-The whole album, These foolish things ,is amazing


And the alltime klonker
Joe Cocker-You are so beautiful.I don't think anybody could make this song worth the time.Not even Dennis.

Van Halen did some really good covers..Pretty Woman was better in IMO than Roys'

Also Journey's Live cover of Jailhouse Rock is awesome.

The Good
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Styx - Covert's "Not Dead Yet"
Great White - Golden Earring's "Radar Love"
Wrathchild America - Pink Floyd's "Time"
Judas Priest - Baez's "Diamonds & Rust"
Metallica - Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy"
Far Corporation - Led Zep's "Stairway To Heaven"
Run D.M.C -- Aerosmith's "Walk This Way"
Strapping Young Lad -- Judas Priest's "Exciter"

The Bad
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You all covered the bases here.

The Ugly
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Marilyn Manson -- Eurythmics's "Sweet Dreams"
Limp Bizkit -- George Micheal's "Faith"

Tons of others ...

The good:
Aerosmith - Come together
The Bangles - Hazy shade of winter
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Uncle Kracker - Drift Away
Unamed Artist (female) - Don't dream its over
The Eagles - Please come home for XMAS
Mariah - All I want for XMAS is you, by the way the new orleans cover band Vince Vance and the Valiants do a killer verion of this



The Bad:
Linda Rondstant redoing any song
Will to Power - Freebird/Baby I love your way
Jose Feliciano - Light my Fire
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (don't like the original either)

The Ugly:
The entire Sgt Pepper movie (minus Aerosmith)

Who is doing the remake I heard today on top 40 of Super Tramps Give a little bit?

"Give A Little Bit" is now done by the Goo Goo Dolls. I really like this version.

Let's see.

The Good:

"Whole Lotta Love" by Dennis (DeYoung)

I forgot that "You Really Got Me" was originally done by the Kinks, GREAT remake!!!

I like the Cheap Trick covers

"Love Hurts" Nazareth.

I like most of the songs that everyone mentioned on here.

I agree with the Bad and the Ugly - ACK

Def Leppard's version of "Action" done by Sweet.
Pat Benatar's & U2's verson of "Helter Skelter" done by The Beatles.
Zebra's live version of "The Ocean" done by Led Zeppelin.
The Corr's version of "Ruby Tuesday" done by The Rolling Stones.

M. J. Perry wrote:Def Leppard's version of "Action" done by Sweet.
Pat Benatar's & U2's verson of "Helter Skelter" done by The Beatles.
Zebra's live version of "The Ocean" done by Led Zeppelin.
The Corr's version of "Ruby Tuesday" done by The Rolling Stones.

The Corrs. This a real hidden gem of a band, out here in North america. Three sisters and a brother make pretty good pop/rock/celtic music and the cover of Ruby Tuesday is good, BUT their cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams is even better... Plus Andrea, the lead singer was recently voted worlds most beautiful woman...I agree