timmx wrote:

Mr. Chimp wrote:Killdozer's Sweet Home Alabama = Pure Delight

Pert near every cover by Killdozer is better than the original.

true!

my favorite being "hot n' nasty"!

bob mould's cover of "shoot out the lights" is so fucking good
his cover of "turning of the tide" is great too.. great solo

"Police Truck" is a great Didjits song that happened to be written by the Dead Kennedys.

That whole DK tribute album is great. The best tribute album, sez me.

= Justin

Burning Airlines: "Back of Love" (Echo y la Bunnyguys)
actually, most of the covers that J Robbins does are more than decent. His "Fear is a Man's Best Friend" is good, not enough to negate Cale's original though. Jawbox's "Cornflake Girl" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" were good.

Some of that DK tribute album is nearly unlistenable, but the good parts are very very good.

I have to extend some kind of props to Husker Du's cover of the Mary Tyler Moore theme, and to R.E.M.'s version of "Love is All Around" by the Troggs. Both better than the originals for my money.

Cover that stains the original and almost makes me not want to listen to it again:

Smooth Criminal, Alien Ant Farm

I have heard a Dave Matthews Band Cover of All Along The Watchtower.


This has to be the coldest, biggest fist to the cock ever.


WTF!!



And to be constructive, that self titled Bob Dylan album is chock full of them. Not going to lie, I'm not familiar with a lot of the originals, but the one's I am are winners...

You're no good- Bob Dylan - Jesse Fuller

House of the Rising Sun- this is one I'm not certain who originally wrote it, and where I've heard it before, but I assosciate it with Bob Dylan because of this version. I give it tie status on grounds that I can't pinpoint original.

I love the Devo cover too.

And the Low+Dirty Three cover (off the fishtank album) of 'Down by the River'- Neil Young I like a lot as well. This is a tie though.

I'm gonna stab in and say all this SATISFACTION talk is bothering me slightly. The DEVO version is amazing yes, but so is the STONES' one when you sit and think about it/listen to it. I'm giving them a tie anyway.

The Cardigans doing 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' i think is slightly better than the original.
Blue Cheer doing 'Summertime Blues' is also better i think (just by a nose though).
Galaxie 500 - 'Listen the Snow is Falling'
Todd Rundgren - 'Cool Jerk' (from A Wizard / A True Star)
Boredoms doing the Mekons' 'Where Were You?' (listed on the boredoms record as "7 --> boriginal")

And only because i hate the original so much, Guitar Wolf butchering "i just wanna make love to you".

dan fouts wrote:House of the Rising Sun- this is one I'm not certain who originally wrote it, and where I've heard it before, but I assosciate it with Bob Dylan because of this version. I give it tie status on grounds that I can't pinpoint original.

Leadbelly is the first performer of the song that I'm aware of.

Was waiting for someone to mention the Boredoms cover of the Mekons.

I really love Urge Overkill's cover of "Wichita Lineman" - in fact, I also love Ray Charles' cover of same. Probably because I think "Wichita Lineman" is an incredible song.

PJ Harvey's rendition of "Is That All There Is?"

Killdozer's cover of "Nasty" always makes me smile - I think it's better than the entire THIS ONE'S FOR THE LADIES album.

The Flaming Lips do an incredible cover of "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", which is another song I love in its original form.

Leadbelly is the first performer of the song that I'm aware of.

This makes sense. Every song I've ever liked but can't remember where I first heard it is a leadbelly song. Every last one.


The record gives credit to Dave Van Ronk accompanied by the quote, "I had always known Risin' sun but never really knew I knew it until I heard Dave sing it." This is far from conclusive, but seems to support the Leadbelly theory.


Tie for now, further research pending...


thanks for the imput Edward.


I'm also seeing Woodie Guthrie as a potential candidate. This makes sense too, he has a lot of songs of above mentioned character also. Dave Van Ronk seems to be in good company.

sack of smashed assholes wrote:get up kids - close to me (cure)

No.

No, no, no, no.

1. It completely lacks imagination.

2. The guitar playing is really, really terrible. Misses the begining of the bar more than it hits it. Horrible.

No.