Best/Worst cover versions

[Mr. Dick Purple]

good cover: Big in Japan by Guano apes (alphaville cover)  
bad cover: sheer heart attack by helloween (queen cover) don't know why I don't like it but they are one of my faves groups.

[DEAD HORSE]

Guns N Roses : Since I dont have you (the Skyliners) perfect Cover,Live and let die, among others .
Aerosmith .Im Down (the Beatles Cover)
Pantera: Catscratch fever (Ted Nugent cover)
Metallica : Am I Evil , Sabbra Cadabra; Stone cold Crazy etc
Megadeth . never say die ( Black Sabbath Cover) Battery
Led Zeppelin : Light my fire (The Doors Cover)
The Beatles : Roll over Beethoven (Chuckberry cover)  
SLayer dissident agressor (JUdas Priest cover)
Alice Cooper : Fire ( from jimi Hendrix)
Ozzy Osbourne : Purple Haze (From Jimi Hendrix)
Tool : you Lied (from Peach ) what a cover!  and Calling dr love from Kiss  

[Mr. Dick Purple]

Guns N Roses : Since I dont have you (the Skyliners) perfect Cover,Live and let die, among others .
Aerosmith .Im Down (the Beatles Cover)
Pantera: Catscratch fever (Ted Nugent cover)
Metallica : Am I Evil , Sabbra Cadabra; Stone cold Crazy etc
Megadeth . never say die ( Black Sabbath Cover) Battery
Led Zeppelin : Light my fire (The Doors Cover)
The Beatles : Roll over Beethoven (Chuckberry cover)  
SLayer dissident agressor (JUdas Priest cover)
Alice Cooper : Fire ( from jimi Hendrix)
Ozzy Osbourne : Purple Haze (From Jimi Hendrix)
Tool : you Lied (from Peach ) what a cover!  and Calling dr love from Kiss  

Dude any bad cover u ever heard??  

[DEAD HORSE]

I forgot bad covers.....  

Bad covers:

Creed:  some doors song , break on through i think it is , but FUCK CREED!sounds like shit to me!  

Any "Metal" Bands that covers Maiden Can suck my dick! Those Bands needs the ball to cover Maiden. come on!  

And the shit eaters who dares to cover Guns N Roses!!! Fuck 'Em All !!!! BAd covers ...assholes!  

[Bahad]

Good Covers:

Sebastian Bach : Children of the damned (Great Maiden Cover)
Megadeth: Anarchy in the U.K
Gn'r: Jumpin Jack Flash
The Bates: Billie Jean

Bad Covers:

Limp Bizkit: Thank you (Worst Led Zeppelin cover I've ever heard)
Hole: Paradise City

[Hammy]

Good:

Save Ferris - Come On Eileen
Sebastian Bach - TNT
Gilby Clarke - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Bowling For Soup - Summer of '69
Tia Carrere - Ballroom Blitz
Skid Row - C'mon And Love Me
Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode

Bad:

Bowling For Soup - Suspcious Minds
Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine
Avril Lavigne - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Shakira - Dude Looks Like A Lady

[axlsgrrrl]

absolute crap...
Mariah Carey.. bringin on the heartbreak  
Five.. we will rock you
Avril Latrine... knocking on Heavens door


good...
Nirvana.. the man who sold the world
GNR.. knocking on heavens door

[Mr. Dick Purple]

Good: judas priest - paint it black (rolling stones cover)
bad: if people say that Avril did a knocking on heaven's door version amen, it's bad and i dont have to hear it to say it's bad!!  

[Acquiesce]

Good:
Oasis - My Generation
Nirvana - Man Who Sold the World
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Stone Temple Pilots - Dancing Days

Bad:
Limp Bizkit  - Behind Blue Eyes
Oasis - I am The Walrus - I love Oasis but this song was not to be played that way

[Layne420]

I got alot good ones:

Letter to Cleo      I want you to want me            
Lenny Kravitz        American Woman                  
System of down    Damnit                                
Foo Fighter           Baker Street          
Primus                  Have a cigar
Staind                   Black
Greenday              My generation
Van Halen              You really got me now
Hole                       You know you're right
Marylin Manson      Sweet Dreams
John Lennon           Stand by me
Tea Party              Paint it black
Soul Asylum         Summer of Drugs
Jeff Beck              Jailhouse rock
Motley Crew       Smoking in the boys room
Jane Addiction    Sympathy for the devil
Blues Traveler    Low Rider
Goldfinger          99 red ballons
Smash Mouth     Why can't we be friends
Eve 6                 I touch myself
Black Crowes     The Wanton Song    
Eric Clapton      I shot the shief  
Pearl Jam         Sitting on the dock of the bay
Pearl Jam         Rocking in the free world

Bad ones:

Dolly Parton            Stairway from heaven
New Found Golory  Don't wanna miss a thing
Kelly Osbourne       Papa don't breach

[The New Fiona Apple]

To my list I will add

Good:

Hurt- Johnny Cash (How could I forget it)

I am the Walrus(live)- Oingo Boingo (So kill me, I like this cover)

I am the Walrus- Jackyl

Blowing in the Wind- Me first and the Gimme Gimmes
(Actually anything by them)

Sympathy for the devil- GNR

Wake up Little Susie (Live at Central Park)- Simon and Garfunkel

Twist and Shout- Beatles

Dizzie Miss Lizzie- Beatles

Some Punk band who did a cover of down under by Men at Work

Some Metallica Esque group who did a cover of I ran
by Flock of Seagulls

I've been Everywhere- Johnny Cash

Rusty Cage- Johnny Cash

Johnny 99- Johnny Cash

Twist and Shout (Live)- Bruce Springsteen

Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye Heart (as part of the Whole Lotta Love medley)- Led Zepplin

You ain't the first- Johnny Cash (This probably never happened, but it would be cool if he covered it in the box set)

Ring of Fire- Frank Zappa (Funny as Hell)

Cum on feel the noize- Quiet Riot (As much as I hate Hair-Metal, this Slade Original was done well)

Anything from NOFX's side of the split Cover Cd of Rancid songs

Hey Joe- Either Jimi Hendrix or Love

Jesus Don't want me for a sunbeam- Nirvana

Lake of Fire- Nirvana

On a Plain (I think it's a cover)- Nirvana

Bad

Welcome to the Jungle- Kevin Dubrow from Quiet Riot

Welcome to the Jungle- Alice Cooper (As much as I like and Respect Alice)

Momma Wear all crazee now- Queit Riot (Another Slade cover, this time it sucks

Iron Man- Pantera

I wanna be your man- Rolling Stones

Everyday I get the blues- Chuck Berry

Let it Be- Elvis Presley

Mrs. Robinson- Frank Sinatra (And I like both him and S&G)

Love Bytes- Mariah Carey (The Def Leopard original sucks anyway, so go figure)

Anything from Bad Company's 1992 live album (neither the original singer nor drummer)

Boys of Summer- The Ataris

Anything from Rancid's side of the split Cover Cd of NOFX songs

When a Man loves a women- Micheal Bolton (Adult Contemporary Pap)

[Eazy E]

Bad covers:

Creed:  some doors song , break on through i think it is , but FUCK CREED!sounds like shit to me!  

   Stone Temple Pilots covered "Break On Through"... Creed covered "Riders on the Storm"... The fact that you don't even know what song it was is fuckin lame, and also goes to show that you had made up your mind about the song before you even heard it (If you have even heard it, maybe you're just trying to sound like a hotshot).

Yes, I agree, FUCK CREED, they suck really bad, and Scott Stap is a fag.  However... they did a fucking good Doors cover.  The song is on the tribute CD, and dare I say it was one of the best ones on the CD.  They did a damn good job of it, get your head out of your ass and listen to the song before you say it sucks.

[Mr. Dick Purple]

well I'm  gonna post a bad cover only:
Type o negative - Smell like teen spirit
if u havent heard it, then dont!!

[The New Fiona Apple]

Add: Any of the over 500,000,000 horrible versions of Happy Birthday sung over the past 100 or so years. Most of the people who sing it can hardly sing.  

[Miz]

The best cover version EVER, is Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.  

[Jim]

The best cover version EVER, is Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.  

Ahh man, am I going to have to agree with this prick?  

And yeah...It was him that told me to download it.  

[Eazy E]

The best cover version EVER, is Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.  

Is that the same "Hallelujah" that Rufus Wainwright recorded for the Shrek soundtrack?? Fantastic song... I haven't heard Jeff Buckley do it, but it would be hard to top Rufus' version.  

Who is it by originally?

[jarmo]

The best cover version EVER, is Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.  

Who is it by originally?

I think it's by Leonard Cohen.



/jarmo

[The New Fiona Apple]

Also add to good covers:

The Twist- The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checkers

[Miz]

The best cover version EVER, is Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.  

Who is it by originally?

I think it's by Leonard Cohen.



/jarmo

Yeah, it is.  Buckley's is actually a cover of a cover in fact, and there's some extra verses than on Cohen's original.