Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Favorite Covers

Don't get me wrong, I loved Leonard Cohen's original version. But this one by Jeff Buckley is terrific.



What are one or two of your favorite covers?
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12 comments:

George said...

I'm still a fan of the k. d. lang version of "Hallelujah."

8:09 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...

Another good one.

8:10 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...

Favorite covers could be a massive list. I thought I'd just confine it to Beatles' covers:

Across the Universe, Rufus Wainwright.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Jake Shimabukuro.

With a Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker.

And one more (by Stephen Stills) we heard last night: Southern Cross, Jimmy Buffett.

Jeff M.

10:31 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...

All great ones. I posted this on facebook also and I am deluged with music.

10:54 AM
Rick Robinson said...

Hendrix cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower.

1:29 PM
Barry Ergang said...

Frank Sinatra: Only the Lonely

Several by Kenny Burrell:
Guitar Forms
Moon and Sand
Cool Cookin'

2:25 PM
Ed Gorman said...

I'm not especially a David Bowie fan but both he and Nina Simone covered Johnny Mathis' "Wild is The Wind" Mathis did it pop, Simone soul and Bowie jazz. Al three are first rate.

4:50 PM
Steve Oerkfitz said...

lot of good versions of Hallelujah-john Cale, Nick Cave esp. Didn't care for K.D. Langs tho.
Love Talking Heads cover of Take Me To the River. Johnny Cash's cover of NIN Hurt.

5:11 PM
Anonymous said...

I've always loved that song.

7:35 AM
Deb said...

REM's "I Am Superman" (the original is by a pretty obscure group, so most people--including me--didn't know it was a cover).

10,000 Maniac's cover of Bruce Springsteen/ Patti Smith's "Because the Night" (since they co-wrote the song, I don't know which of their versions qualifies as a cover of the other).

John Denver's cover of the Beatles' "Mother Nature's Son." I generally don't care for Beatle covers but this one is--dare I say?--better than the original.

9:27 AM
Cap'n Bob said...

What, no mention of Mrs. Miller?

12:35 PM
Kelly Robinson said...

Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders does a version of Neil Young's 'Needle and the Damage Done' that is brilliant. Having lost some band members and friends to heroin, I know it spoke to her, and it shows.

7:57 PM

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