MR

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:29 am**

My personal favourite cover is John Farnhams version of Help by the Beatles. In my opinion its better than the original and you relise just what an amazing singer Farnham was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NdCymA2enk

Others i also think are better than the originals are:

Johnny Cash - Hurt (one of my favourite ever songs)
and
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:57 am**

These are the 1st three that came to mind.......... :mrgreen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMVdbFHNYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bvOP01h9Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLwDHaRZYII

Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:10 am**

Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:14 am**

youkeepmewaiting wrote;

Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

Good one.

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:23 am**

A while back the Foo Fighters did a cover of the old tune "Baker Street". I recall really enjoying their take on that.

And if it counts - Anything from the Black Crowes w/ Jimmy Page live CD from awhile ago also.

Lastly - there is a harder version of Genesis' "Land of Confusion" that was kind of cool too.

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:26 am**

SF-Dano wrote:A while back the Foo Fighters did a cover of the old tune "Baker Street". I recall really enjoying their take on that.

And if it counts - Anything from the Black Crowes w/ Jimmy Page live CD from awhile ago also.

Lastly - there is a harder version of Genesis' "Land of Confusion" that was kind of cool too.

That was Disturbed doing "Land of Confusion." I thought they played it pretty safe on that one, but I love their cover of TFF's "Shout."

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:26 am**

youkeepmewaiting wrote:My personal favourite cover is John Farnhams version of Help by the Beatles. In my opinion its better than the original and you relise just what an amazing singer Farnham was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NdCymA2enk

Others i also think are better than the originals are:

Johnny Cash - Hurt (one of my favourite ever songs)
and
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

It's easy covering something that's been done and trying to make it better or putting your own individual stlye to it, althoguh the Beatles prolific catalogue can be covered, Walrus by Styx is a good example but at the end of the day no Beatles song can be covered better than they originally sang it. Okay the Farnham cover is good but it ain't got that Beatle magic. So many Beatle's tracks have been covered but more out of appreciation than trying to better the original, coming from Liverpool isn't this a capital punishment offence? I wish Macca was back on the boards...Drew, come on it's time :wink:

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:36 am**

styxman wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:My personal favourite cover is John Farnhams version of Help by the Beatles. In my opinion its better than the original and you relise just what an amazing singer Farnham was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NdCymA2enk

Others i also think are better than the originals are:

Johnny Cash - Hurt (one of my favourite ever songs)
and
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

It's easy covering something that's been done and trying to make it better or putting your own individual stlye to it, althoguh the Beatles prolific catalogue can be covered, Walrus by Styx is a good example but at the end of the day no Beatles song can be covered better than they originally sang it. Okay the Farnham cover is good but it ain't got that Beatle magic. So many Beatle's tracks have been covered but more out of appreciation than trying to better the original, coming from Liverpool isn't this a capital punishment offence? I wish Macca was back on the boards...Drew, come on it's time

i do see what your saying , but it was mcartney or lennon who said "this is how the beatles should of done it". i never got the emotional feeling of the song until i heard farnham sing it, and in my opinion interperet emotion from the song that was never there

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:53 am**

You talk a lot of sense but if that's the case are the two of them saying they fucked up a little with the Beatles sound...at the time I bet they thought it was perfect. Think of it like an songwriter starting out, thirty years on, they're always going to say we could have done it better. Could you ever imagine Journey saying Escape, yeh, we could have done that better, no fuckin' way. I think it's more to do with Lennon and Macca and all the bullshit between them, don't you?

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:55 am**

youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover.

Good to know. Beautiful song!

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:57 am**

Deb wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover. Good to know. Beautiful song!

Canadians

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:01 am**

styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover. Good to know. Beautiful song!

Canadians

Good to see ya back Styxie!

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:05 am**

Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover. Good to know. Beautiful song!

Canadians

Good to see ya back Styxie!

Hey Deb,

I'm coming to Canada next year, can you fuckin' believe it :shock:

Toronto, a place called Cornwall and then on to that waterfall place! I'm expecting to see you and Moon (if she's not too busy cooking fucking birthday cakes)

Canada better be good or you'll not hear the last of it :lol:

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:14 am**

styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover. Good to know. Beautiful song!

Canadians

Good to see ya back Styxie!

Hey Deb,

I'm coming to Canada next year, can you fuckin' believe it Toronto, a place called Cornwall and then on to that waterfall place! I'm expecting to see you and Moon (if she's not too busy cooking fucking birthday cakes)

Canada better be good or you'll not hear the last of it

You'll have to talk to Moonie, Toronto is out east. I am in western Canada. East vs. west is just as bad in Canada as it is in the US. So no promises on how you'll get treated out east. :lol:

Just kiddin Moon......sorta.

Western Canada = good

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:16 am**

Toronto sucks. Anything east of Winnipeg blows dick taint.

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:17 am**

Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover. Good to know. Beautiful song!

Canadians

Good to see ya back Styxie!

Hey Deb,

I'm coming to Canada next year, can you fuckin' believe it Toronto, a place called Cornwall and then on to that waterfall place! I'm expecting to see you and Moon (if she's not too busy cooking fucking birthday cakes)

Canada better be good or you'll not hear the last of it

You'll have to talk to Moonie, Toronto is out east. I am in western Canada. East vs. west is just as bad in Canada as it is in the US. So no promises on how you'll get treated out east. Just kiddin Moon......sorta.

Western Canada = good

Where do the members of Rush live Deb?

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:20 am**

Rockindeano wrote:Toronto sucks. Anything east of Winnipeg blows dick taint.

Well, Dean, if Toronto sucks, I'm going naked dude :wink:

Moon's gonna get excited now, I just know it :shock:

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:27 am**

Rockindeano wrote:Toronto sucks. Anything east of Winnipeg blows dick taint.

Wouldn't have put it quite that way, but..............

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:29 am**

styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover. Good to know. Beautiful song!

Canadians

Good to see ya back Styxie!

Hey Deb,

I'm coming to Canada next year, can you fuckin' believe it Toronto, a place called Cornwall and then on to that waterfall place! I'm expecting to see you and Moon (if she's not too busy cooking fucking birthday cakes)

Canada better be good or you'll not hear the last of it

You'll have to talk to Moonie, Toronto is out east. I am in western Canada. East vs. west is just as bad in Canada as it is in the US. So no promises on how you'll get treated out east. Just kiddin Moon......sorta.

Western Canada = good

Where do the members of Rush live Deb?

No idea, probably the US. :lol:

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:40 am**

Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
styxman wrote:
Deb wrote:
youkeepmewaiting wrote:
Deb wrote:
Not a big Robbie Willams fan, but absolutely adore his version of Angels.....what a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264

definitly a great song, but not a cover, its was originally wirtten by Robbie and Guy Chambers, and then covered by Jessica Simpson etc

Thanks. I thought it was his, but a friend told me it was a cover. Good to know. Beautiful song!

Canadians

Fuck Rush are sensible

Good to see ya back Styxie!

Hey Deb,

I'm coming to Canada next year, can you fuckin' believe it Toronto, a place called Cornwall and then on to that waterfall place! I'm expecting to see you and Moon (if she's not too busy cooking fucking birthday cakes)

Canada better be good or you'll not hear the last of it

You'll have to talk to Moonie, Toronto is out east. I am in western Canada. East vs. west is just as bad in Canada as it is in the US. So no promises on how you'll get treated out east. Just kiddin Moon......sorta.

Western Canada = good

Where do the members of Rush live Deb?

No idea, probably the US.

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:23 am**

Here are my favorite cover songs...

Extreme -Strutter

Pink Cream 69 -Pinball Wizard

Pink Cream 69 -My Sharona

Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy

Van Halen - Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

Van Halen - You Really Got Me

Van Halen - Ice Cream Man

Van Halen -Won't Get Fooled Again

The Who - Saturday's All Right For Fighting

White Lion -Radar Love

Stryper - Winter Wonderland

David Lee Roth -Just A Gigalo, I Made up My Mind, California Girls, Shyboy, Tobacco Road

Sammy Hagar -Piece Of My Heart

Lee Aaron -Rocky Candy

Heart - Love Reign O'er Me, or any of their Led Zeppelin covers live

Motley Crue -Smokin' In The Boys Room

Shaw/Blades -Time Of The Season, California Dreamin'

The Poodles - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Billy Idol - Don't You Forget About Me, Mony Mony

Hootiie And The Blowfish -I Go Blind

Barenaked Ladies -Lovers In A Dangerous Time

Nightwish -Over The Hills And Far Away

Def Leppard -Hangin' On The Telephone

Yngwie Malmsteen -Carry On My Wayward Son

Guns N' Roses - Hair Of The Dog

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:28 am**

YankeeRose wrote:Here are my favorite cover songs...

Pink Cream 69 -Pinball Wizard

Pink Cream 69 -My Sharona

Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy

Van Halen - Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

Van Halen - You Really Got Me

Van Halen - Ice Cream Man

Van Halen -Won't Get Fooled Again

The Who - Saturday's All Right For Fighting

White Lion -Radar Love

Stryper - Winter Wonderland

David Lee Roth -Just A Gigalo, I Made up My Mind, California Girls, Shyboy, Tobacco Road

Sammy Hagar -Piece Of My Heart

Lee Aaron -Rocky Candy

Heart - Love Reign O'er Me, or any of their Led Zeppelin covers live

Motley Crue -Smokin' In The Boys Room

Shaw/Blades -Time Of The Season, California Dreamin'

The Poodles - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Billy Idol - Don't You Forget About M

Nightwish -Over The Hills And Far Away

Def Leppard -Hangin' On The Telephone

Yngwie Malmsteen -Carry On My Wayward Son

not a fan of covers then :lol:

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:34 am**

I am not a big fan of cover albums really. I love original songs much more than covers. But if a cover song is done better than the original, it's cool.

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:26 pm**

Van Halen ~ You Really Got Me
Van Halen ~ You're no Good
Van Halen ~ (Oh) Pretty Woman
Van Halen ~ Ice Cream Man
Van Halen ~ Won't Get Fooled Again
Styx ~ Can't Find My Way Home
House of Lords ~ Can't Find My Way Home
Jeff Healey Band ~ While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Foreigner ~ Love Maker [Live]
Guns N' Roses ~ Live and Let Die
Judas Priest ~ Diamonds and Rust
Judas Priest ~ The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)
Kansas ~ Eleanor Rigby
Led Zeppelin ~ I Can't Quit You, Baby
Tesla ~ Signs
White Lion ~ Radar Love

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:35 pm**

youkeepmewaiting wrote:My personal favourite cover is John Farnhams version of Help by the Beatles. In my opinion its better than the original and you relise just what an amazing singer Farnham was.

I'd never heard that version before. Wow!
I won't say it's better than the original (sorry, I really love that song). But I will say that it's just as good. Like the acoustic version of "Layla". Still a great song, just sung differently.
Thanks for the link!

conversationpc wrote:Kansas ~ Eleanor Rigby

Another one I'd never heard. Brilliant recording!

Does it count if it was performed but never recorded?
Here are some my faves off the top of my head;

Carry On Wayward Son ~Yngwie Malmsteen w/ JSS
Magical Mystery Tour ~Yngwie Malmsteen w/ JSS
Black Magic Woman ~Santana
Come Together ~Aerosmith
Gloria ~Tom Petty
Ruby Tuesday ~Rod Stewart (guilty pleasure

)
Eight Days a Week ~Lou Gramm
While My Guitar Gently Weeps ~Eric Clapton
The Show Must Go On ~JSS
Misty Mountain Hop ~Foreigner

And this one;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfbc9OhdTQw

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:37 pm**

youkeepmewaiting wrote:My personal favourite cover is John Farnhams version of Help by the Beatles. In my opinion its better than the original and you relise just what an amazing singer Farnham was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NdCymA2enk

Others i also think are better than the originals are:

Johnny Cash - Hurt (one of my favourite ever songs)
and
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah

Yep, John Farnham is in his own league, above the rest in the vocal ability. Look at Perry, once a great singer... now doesn't perform anymore. This guy is crazy, just ask Andrew, he'll tell ya

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:34 am**

conversationpc wrote:Van Halen ~ (Oh) Pretty Woman
Jeff Healey Band ~ While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Tesla ~ Signs

Wow, forgot about those 3!

And definitely this whole dvd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XO4H7ChcA

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:46 am**

YankeeRose wrote:Lee Aaron -Rocky Candy

Was surprised to see her on a list.....until I saw you were Canadian.

Great voice, definitely one of the best female "rock" vocalists out there when she just let it rip. IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVIFVUX6 ... re=related

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:59 am**

I'd have to say....Richie Sambora's cover of Wind Cries Mary is pretty stellar.

Posted: **Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:48 am**

tesla--signs
white lion--radar love
van halen-where have all the good times gone
metallica-whiskey in the jar
red hot chili peppers-higher ground
faith no more-easy
poison-your mama don't dance
guns n roses-knockin' on heavens door
motley crue-helter skelter

MR

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