Great Cover Versions

[Ski]

The Flaming Lips did a nice cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy", but I didn't really enjoy the fact that they changed the lyrics. Good music, though.

[halfbakedbliss]

Young at Heart - Tom Waits

[Zer0]

paint it black by the black dahlia murder

[Regan]

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.

I'm so simple

[halfbakedbliss]

Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen) - The Handsome Family

[Rissa]

Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) - Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Matterbug]

I'm currently really enjoying two covers of Rhianna's "Umbrella" by Mandy Moore and Marie Digby.

I'm not Rhianna's biggest fan (well, I love to hate her), so I never realized how insanely pretty that song can actually be.

[Igg]

Biffy Clyro did a nice cover of it- it's weird, I hate Rihanna's, but it's actually an oddly nice song...

[matchbow]

Oh my gosh, this is an old thread. i still remember it. anyway...

I'm currently really enjoying two covers of Rhianna's "Umbrella" by Mandy Moore and Marie Digby.

I'm not Rhianna's biggest fan (well, I love to hate her), so I never realized how insanely pretty that song can actually be.

Yeah, i love the Rihanna covers as well. when you take out the heaviness, the song becomes reallysoft and pretty

[Metatwaddle]

Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen) - The Handsome Family

I love the Jonathan Coulton and Tori Amos covers of that song. It's a gorgeous song, but I think Cohen was a better songwriter than a singer.

On that note, Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah > Rufus Wainwright's. Clare Bowditch does a cover of Hallelujah that's very different-sounding (it has a lot of French horn and an extra verse that may or may not be Cohen's - he wrote a lot of extra verses to his songs) and it's flawed but I like it anyway.

Johnny Cash's covers of NIN's "Hurt" and "Personal Jesus" are awesome.

[Asthaloth]

Johnny Cash's covers of NIN's "Hurt" and "Personal Jesus" are awesome.

Cash makes everything awesome.

Cash made Revelations awesome.

[Metatwaddle]

OK, I just heard a cool cover of Mrs. Robinson on the radio today. I'm not sure who it was by, but I think it might have been The Lemonheads. Any chance that anyone listens to Radio 104.5 in Philly and heard it?

[Igg]

The Lemonheads cover is the really well-known popular one. It's decent. That's the one on Wayne's World isn't it?