Phish-Crosseyed and Painless

Polysics- My Sharona

Firehose and the entire EP LIVE TOTEM POLE

they do slack motherfucker y superchucnk, revolution by the buttholes, sophiosticated bitch by public enemy and some blue oyster cult.

Butthole Surfers - The One I Love

Big Black - Heartbeat
Sex Pistols - Steppin' Stone
Love - Little Red Book (originally By Burt Bacharach and Hal David)
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
Led Zeppelin - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You (ancient folk tune, made famous initially by Joan Baez).
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Terminal Cheesecake - V.C.L. (cover of P Floyd's "Careful With That Axe, Eugene")
The Cramps "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (Genius cover of the Bostweeds original)

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone

Electrelane do a good cover of Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire', but everything would be an improvement on that one.

Big Black do a mean cover of Kraftwerk's The Model on the b-side of He's a Whore.

Spacemen 3's version of Mudhoney's "When Tomorrow Hits" completely lays waste to the original.
I think it's the best song on "Recurring," even.

Butthole Surfers make The Beatles' Come Together a bit more bearable.

And also Mudhoney's version of Revolution (while mentioning Mudhoney, might as well say the Hate the Police cover and Haloween.)


Yeah that was great.
Also Rapeman's cover of ZZ Top's Just Got Paid. Dino's Just Like Heaven is great.
And Dino's Sweet Child Of Mine cover is bloody hillarious.
Deerhoof's cover of MBV's Loose My Breath.
SY's Touch Me I'm Sick
Dick Dale-Misrlou

There was a really good special on tv the other week of Australian bands/musicians doing Go-Betweens covers at a tribute gig. Was really good.

Pavement - Camera
Sebadoh - Sickles and hammers (Minutemen)

All Butthole Surfers covers are great. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in some other thread but their cover of American Woman by The Guess Who is ace.

Also the Aihiyo (keiji Haino's cover band) version of Satisfaction destroys all others.

Also, The Edgar Broughton Band did a two in one cover version of Apache and Dropout Boogie called, appropriately enough, Apache Dropout (I think). That is ace and a mashup decades before mashups were popular...sort of.

Royal Trux did a cover of Theme From Mash which is ace and kick the Manics' efforts arse.

The Rubinoos cover of I Think We're Alone Now but I don't think I've heard the original (Tommy James and the Shondells I think) but I can't imagine it's better. The Tiffany version is decent as well. Loads of people have covered it but those are the only two I've heard.

Television - Knockin' on heaven's door

Great cover. Their new lyrics are better than the original's.

Yeah, agreed.
An other one :
Sebadoh : Everybody 's been burned
and Pink Moon

David Bowie - Nature boy
Rufus Wainwright - La complainte de la butte

pj harvey - highway 61 revisited

and i'm gonna have to agree with those who said:
elliott smith - jealous guy
david bowie - nature boy

yeah, there are a lot of good ones out there.

Have you heard the Sonic Youth covers on the new DDN edition? They knock me out, every one of them.

nope, but if someone could post them up that'd be awesome

I'm technologically challenged or even impaired, so don't ask me. I haven't figured out how to do that from my vinyl copy.

my favorite cover of all time.

firehose doing superchunk's SLACK MOTHERFUCKER live.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/...%28Live%29.mp3

That was the first thing that came to my mind.
I love the cover, it sends shivers down my spine.

P's cover of "I Save Cigarette Butts" is a great, underappreciated Daniel Johnston cover if you can take Gibby Haynes seriously enough.

MBV's cover of Wire's "Map Ref 41°N 93° W" of course

the jam- david watts
sy- that's all i know (right now)
mission of burma- heart of darkness
pavement- the classical

Boris/Merzbow - I Am The Warlus

The Replacements- Black Diamond (Originally by Kiss)
Melvins- Going Blind (Originally by Kiss)

avail - pink houses (john mellencamp)

not a fan of either (although i have a soft spot for cougar's radio hits) but this is a great cover. heard the original on the radio the other day.

jimi hendrix-sgt.peppers lonely hearts club band

Loop- Can's Mother Sky

Beck's version of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You in the End" is well executed.

Isaac Hayes - Walk on by

Did I mention Giant Drag's "Wicked Game" (isaac hayes) yet?

Matthew Good-True Love will find you in the end
Matthew Good-Moon Over Marin (Dead Kennedys)
Meat Puppets-I've Got a Right (Stooges)
Michael Gira-I Wanna be your Dog (Stooges)
Mission of Burma-Heart of Darkness (Pere Ubu)
Pussy Galore-Yu Gong (Einsturzende Neubauten)
Big Black-The Model (Kraftwerk)

No one's mentioned Mariah's "I'll Be There?" The song went to number one! If it wasn't great, it wouldn't have sold so many copies. Idiots.

Iggy & The Stooges - Purple haze

Iggy & The Stooges - Ballad of Hollis Brown

I do a pretty decent cover of "Wild Horses."