Best and Worst cover songs?

For me, Hendrix's cover of 'All Along The Watchtower' and Nirvana's cover of 'The Man Who Sold The World' are among the best, while Avril Lavigne's version of 'Nothing Else Matters' is the worst, hands down...

 

Cat Powers cover of Bathysphere (my Smog) I think is excellent, almost better then the original. Big Black's cover of The Model has got to be one of the best covers ever..

Worst? Hrm.. Can't really think of any at the moment.

 

the worst = celine dion when she sang AC/DC "you shook me all night long" *eye twitch*...she started playing air guitar... i thought the world would explode at that moment

 

hmm I thought avril lavigne did metallica's "Fuel".......

and the funny thing was, lars and jamez enjoyed it. thats quite sad.

there are many good covers out there. I cant even begin to name them all......

 

The worst or maybe funniest might be William Shatners cover of the Beatle's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7258896287489458266

 

anything avril lavine covers is pure crap.

Honourable mentions go to Guns N Roses' Knockin on Heaven's Door and Champagne Supernova done by some super shitty lame emo band who'd be better off dead than ever releasing another album for the rest of time.

Best covers include Ben Harper's Strawberry Fields and Thrice's Elenor Rigby....don't hate cuz i liked a punked version of a beatles song.

 

other things the dudes from metallica enjoy include hanging with Ricky Martin, so enjoying a little avril lavigne is no shock to me at all. after the ricky martin blow job, liking avril almost revives their rebellion.

 

Bah! Bowie's Man Who Sold the World was better than Nirvana's.. And the worst ever cover song is that one by...jessica simpson..>_>about..boots

 

best cover: Nightwish - over the hills and far away, original played by gary more..
can't think of the worst right now..

 

worst cover song ever is the Counting Crows doing that song about turning paradise into a parking lot.

 

That's Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" and I thought that it was alright, but pretty dull.

Best: Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Worst: Aretha Franklin - Jumpin' Jack Flash (although Keith Richards played guitar and produced it, so I don't know if it counts or not)

 

SCI does a really good version of 'Jessica'.

 

ahh, how could i forget!??!?!??!? Hands down, best cover song of all time. Still gives me goosebumps to hear.

 

...and then theres lars, playing pocket soccer and smiling like a retard while leaning in just a little closer to ricky.

 

I am a HUGE John Mayer fan, so this one hurts to say, but his version of "Wind Cries Mary" just plain SUCKS.

Best cover I've heard is Matchbox Twenty remake of "Nothing Compares To You"

 

i dont know about best... but the worst ive heard is probably pantera's cover of cat scratch fever

 

whats wrong with GnR's version of knockin on heaven's door?? man, that was the version that first got me into that song. I still think its good!

worst version of knockin on heaven's door was by eric clapton.

 

I also liked Zeppelin's cover
some of the bad covers are.. street fighting man by rage against the machine, foxey lady by the cure.. can't think of any more at the time..
many people who did Dylan's covers done them badly

 

I don't know man, I don't think that Clapton reggae-ing "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" is really that bad. It could be worse, he could falsetto it like Richard Manuel from The Band did with "I Shall Be Released" (that wasn't actually bad but hearing Clapton sing Knocking On Heaven's Door in Falsetto would be a horrible thing to think about).

 

Oh, yeah...

I heard a bad cover of CSNY's "Helpless" on the radio a while ago, and it was the most horrible thing I've ever heard. It sounded like Chrissy Hynde from The Pretenders, but I can't be sure.

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Never mind, found out who it was...
K.D. Lang!!!!! It fucking sucked!!!!!!