https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy9R3993xM&feature=related"]YouTube- Jimi Hendrix- Peace in Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbppuFbaQi8"]YouTube- Earth - Peace In Mississippi (Jimi Hendrix Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bq6qnZ_DaA&feature=related"]YouTube- Jimi Hendrix - Peace in Mississippi (Rare 2010 "Valleys of Neptune" Promo CD)
Screeching Weasel's You Are My Sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_JbNIpiNKE"]YouTube- You Are My Sunshine (Screeching Weasel) Performed By The Skater Tots Garbage's I'm Only Happy When it Rains (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdodc1Eu1nA"]YouTube- Garbage. I'm only happy when it rains. Richard Cheese's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kihOfXSAZZs"]YouTube- I'M ONLY HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS (I think a lot of Richard Cheese's versions are better than the original, but this is probably the least controversial of my choices =P) Europe's The Final Countdown (original) [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw Dispatched's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0MDsl0nM6s"]YouTube- Dispatched - The Final Countdown The Kooks' Naive (original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-KnNVoFsCc"]YouTube- The Kooks - Naive (Music Video) Lily Allen's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCMrGSbjieE"]YouTube- Lily Allen cover of the Kooks 'Naive'
Think Sonny & Cher are a bit wimpy ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzYBuKaQ83s"]YouTube- Sonny And Cher - I Got You Babe Then give Etta James a spin.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbg7RQpW4WI"]YouTube- Vital vinyl - Etta James "I got you babe"
^^To continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsZ2Xtq37w&feature=related"]YouTube- i got you babe Every time I hear any version of this I allways hear Beavis going "Du-Duuh, Du-Duhh" in the background. Peace Out, Rev J
Original.... Tim Hardin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJvhJfSSnUQ"]YouTube- Tim Hardin - If I Were A Carpenter My prefered version...Four Tops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw5gwCH6RSc"]YouTube- If I Were a Carpenter (The Four Tops)
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg"]YouTube- Saturday Night Live - Dick In A Box Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsrZunDcLs"]YouTube- Umphrey's McGee - Dick in a Box - 12/31/2006 Peace Out, Rev J
This song has been covered numerous times probably because it's a really good song. The person who wrote it was very prolific and a lot of his songs were covered. Here are just a couple of the covers. The Neville Bros one is one that I really like. original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iuTiHhIKnY"]YouTube- Bird On The Wire Leonard Cohen cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCAADk60CMo&feature=related"]YouTube- Neville Brothers - Bird On A Wire cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZutD7E-toOI"]YouTube- Willie Nelson - Bird on a Wire PAX
Like Pax I'm a huge Leonard Cohen fan. So I'm going to go with these: Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Af4p3OUX1I&feature=related"]YouTube- LEONARD COHEN - Suzanne (Live 1988) Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfDcdXEs0LM"]YouTube- Peter Gabriel Suzanne Leonard Cohen I think both versions are Haunting for different reasons. Peace Out, Rev J
Well JC you beat me to it! I was going to do Suzanne. So I guess I'll have to do Neil Young's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH. Both of the covers are really great. original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwjsYWGvaJo&feature=related"]YouTube- Neil Young After The Goldrush cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6BzTCQ6Nqo"]YouTube- After the Goldrush A Cappella cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj4PCUbiId8&feature=fvw"]YouTube- Dolly Parton, After the goldrush PAX
Couldn't find Dylan's original original, but I guess to a lot of folks The Byrds version is the original... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvMnNZZiCw&feature=fvsr"]YouTube- Mr. Tambourine Man- The Byrds ...but there'll only ever be one version for me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekMYBvhhMg0&feature=related"]YouTube- Mr. Tambourine Man by William Shatner
Back in the 50's and 60's most of the covers were white artists covering black artists. Most were not very good- with the exception of this fellow. Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_nNNIYTy9g"]YouTube- Big Mama Thornton Sings "Hound Dog" cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JALwwaASg"]YouTube- Elvis Presley Milton Berle Show 5 Jun 1956: Hound Dog PAX
original {My mistake the original is by Little Willie John not Peggy Lee} [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i93-hlwULUk cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGb5IweiYG8"]YouTube- Fever - Peggy Lee cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G90MrE0-_M"]YouTube- THE McCOYS- "FEVER" PAX
I think this was the original.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Skao81GIQ"]YouTube- Perfidia - Glenn MIller ...and this is definitely the best version.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNVtMwsoiQ&feature=related"]YouTube- PHYLLIS DILLON..PERFIDIA.
Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7pfNNP2EM"]YouTube- Willie Dixon - You Shook Me Cover- one of many https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHb2D2V4x3k&feature=related"]YouTube- Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me PAX
Even though I posted this in what song is stuck in your head it fits here too: Original: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rjr239oE0"]YouTube- Vanilla Fudge - I Want It That Way I guess you CAN polish a turd. Peace Out, Rev J
The last one - tonite Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2uGxHoYH3Y&feature=related"]YouTube- Willie Dixon - Spoonful cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lRmVOGw3M&feature=related"]YouTube- Spoonful-Cream PAX
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmkM4v9AaY"]YouTube- In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Buttefly I Once made love to this track she got her cookies 6 times before it was over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uSKxQmnYtc&feature=related"]YouTube- Slayer - In-A-Gadda da vida That was kind of cruel. Peace Out, Rev J
OK let's chill a little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj_kK1j3CV0"]YouTube- Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cg2O4SsHQw&feature=related"]YouTube- Sublime - Scarlet Begonias Peace Out, Rev J
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv1yQ-UuNpA&feature=related"]YouTube- The Toyes - Smoke Two Joints Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcxN320kS7Q"]YouTube- Sublime - Smoke Two Joints Peace Out, Rev J
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb5ZjmpmMbg"]YouTube- Pink Floyd - Any Colour You LIke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gToZey60k"]YouTube- The Flaming Lips - Any Colour You Like