Favorite Song remake

Couldn't find a thread on this.

I love music, a lot. And I like some of the remade songs, but really not a lot. Here's my favorite, in particular order.

Baker's Street by the Foo fighters.
Satisfaction by Devo
Gin and Juice by Sublime
Going back to Cali by Sevendust

So whatchya got??

 

Rainbow Connection, by Sarah McLachlan
Blackbird, by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
I've Got A Feeling, by Pearl Jam
City of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie
Rock & Roll Music, by The Beach Boys
Time of the Season, by the Ben Foster Group
Feel A Whole Lot Better When You're Gone, by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds
Luka, by The Lemonheads
Voodoo Chile, by Stevie Ray Vaughan
I'm A Believer, by Smash Mouth
When The Ship Comes In, by Robbie O'Connell, The Clancy Brothers, and Tommy Makem
La Bamba, by Los Lobos
Livin' La Vida Loca, by Hector
Just Like A Woman, by Richie Havens
I Put A Spell On You, By Creedence Clearwater Revival
Wild Horses, by Tori Amos

 

--- merged: Jul 30, 2013 at 3:35 PM ---
Already posted this elsewhere but it fits here perfectly.

 

The Devo cover of "Satisfaction" rips the Rolling Stones original to shreds. Love that one.

Also, according to Robert Plant, Dread Zeppelin's version of "Your Time Is Gonna Come" is better than the Led Zeppelin song. I concur.

 

I can think of several I like.... but the They Might Be Giants cover of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is probably my absolute favorite.


Edit: Oh, and the Sundays' version of Wild Horses. Yum.

 

TMBG's Cover of New York City is awesome too.

Original by Cub:


TMBG

 

I could not find the original by Prince, but this has got to be one of my all time favorite remakes.

 

Never heard this song cover before.
I picked up the Purple Rain LP from Goodwill a few years back in perfect shape with the original poster. Excellent find for 50 cents that I quickly added to my digital musical collection.

 

Tina rocks the John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival original

 

Great find indeed!

 

"People Get Ready" John Mayer


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY

 

I'm not a big fan of a lot of remakes, especially when covered by pop acts. The two best, and you may disagree and be wrong are: hurt, redone by johnny cash, and romeo and Juliet, originally by mark knopfler and reborn by the indigo girls.

 

Linda Ronstadt & Johnny Cash - 'I Never Will Marry'

Linda Ronstadt - 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me'

(live)

 

OMG, that is an amazing cover!!! I love that one.

Got to love Bruddah Iz. Gets like 1/3 of the words to the song wrong, it's still so fucking awesome that nobody cares.

 

My favorites are ones by bands that step outside their usual comfort zone to do something very different.

Exhibit A - the drag queens are awesome.



Exhibit B - this is 100% pure unadulterated 80's goodness. Can you even tell the street value of this?



Exhibit C - not my favorite band or even my favorite songwriter. But my mom loves the original so we listened to it a lot as kids. But they took a song about one thing and made a really powerful video about something completely different. You don't expect Metallica to make a video about women's rights.



Exhibit D - English punk sung in French accompanied by an accordion. Just one of many, many, many awesome covers of this particular song.

 

Exhibit D reminds of the French cover band, Nouvelle Vague, and their unique arrangements

Blondie's "Heart of Glass"


Tuxedomoon's "In a Matter of Speaking"