Best/worst cover song

[Folanator]

I just heard a re-make of a 1980's Phil Collins tune sung by some freeken psudo-metal band and it flat out sucked. It got me thinking the following. Considering that most bands these days have zero talent, the powers that be have gone back and dug up all of the good songs of days gone past for them to cover.

What is your favorite cover song and what is the worst of all time?

My Favorite:

Peter Rowan, No Woman No Cry by Robert Nesta Marley

Worst: What ever crap I heard on the radio today

 

[DGADBTWSOM]

The best is one my friends band does of Gloria Estefan's "Straight Up".
-3 guys and they can ROCK!

The worst is that MJ song Smooth Criminal done by some band a few years ago. Terrible, just terrible.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

As much as I like Red Rowan, I thought you knew that it was already established musical canon that All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix was the best cover of all time. Dylan himself was quoted as saying something like 'Watchtower was a Jimi Hendrix song that I just happened to write'.

Worst cover, that Hasselhoff version of 'hooked on a feeling' or whatever that horrid video is. Blech.

 

[iambrutus]

best - DMB cover of either All Along the Watchtower, or In My Life by the Beatles

worst - most others

 

[Jagdaddy]

Favorite: Proud Mary (Ika and Tina Turner cover of a CCR original)

Worst: Is the "Goodbye England's Rose" version of "Candle in the Wind" considered a cover even though it's also by Elton John?

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Oh, and honorable mention must go to Morning Dew, written by Bonnie Dobson and launched into the stratosphere and well beyond by the Grateful Dead.

You must turn in your card now, Folanator.

:p

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Best:
Hayseed Dixie - Gin and Juice
Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Any Stevie Ray Vaugh cover of a Hendrix tune

Worst:

Can't really think of any at the moment.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Oh, and honorable mention must go to Morning Dew, written by Bonnie Dobson and launched into the stratosphere and well beyond by the Grateful Dead.

You must turn in your card now, Folanator.

:p

AM Dew... excellent choice.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Nicki French - Total Eclipse of the Heart

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Worst:

Can't really think of any at the moment.

Madonna - American Pie

Is that bad enough?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Madonna - American Pie

Is that bad enough?

Haven't heard it, but it sounds bad.

 

[AKAK]

As much as I like Red Rowan, I thought you knew that it was already established musical canon that All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix was the best cover of all time. Dylan himself was quoted as saying something like 'Watchtower was a Jimi Hendrix song that I just happened to write'.

Agree....

I'll throw in Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" as a cover of a Wille Dixon's "You need Love"

Worst...

Tori Amos's "Smells like Teen Spirit"

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Best:
Hayseed Dixie - Gin and Juice

FWIW, The Gourds recorded a well circulated cover of Gin and Juice which is frequently (and erroneously) credited to Phish and/or Ween. Not sure if Hayseed Dixie also recorded a version, but it may be The Gourds...

 

[Jagdaddy]

Nicki French - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Brilliant! I'd forgotten about that.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

FWIW, The Gourds recorded a well circulated cover of Gin and Juice which is frequently (and erroneously) credited to Phish and/or Ween. Not sure if Hayseed Dixie also recorded a version, but it may be The Gourds...

I think we're talking about the same version. I was quite sure it was Hayseed Dixie. You may well be correct.

AKAK - you could pick damn near any Zep tune.

CSNs version of Woodstock smokes Joni Mitchell's.