The "Post your your favorite cover song" thread

[Blue Meanie]

One of the All-Time greatest soul singers Al Green's cover of the Bee Gee's "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart"

[Iron Mego]

[Brazoo]

I really, really like Ghost's reworking of Roky Erickson's "If You Have Ghosts" (I wish I could find a karaoke version, because I love to sing this song). Here's their acoustic version, but the regular studio version is great too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCFwY6ISEMs

Pretty cool!

Speaking of Roky Erickson I love the 13th Floor Elevators cover of Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue":

[cjefferys]

I only learned about this band a couple of days ago. My sister really digs them. She really likes their song Cirice.

Their new album is fantastic. "Cirice" is a great song, and the music video for it is done in the style of a 1970's Italian horror film.

Pretty cool!

Speaking of Roky Erickson I love the 13th Floor Elevators cover of Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue":

Oh yeah, that's a good one!

And since someone posted a Siouxsie and the Banshees video, they also did great versions of "The Passenger" and "Dear Prudence"

[cjefferys]

And here's "Dear Prudence" (with bonus appearance by The Cure's Robert Smith, during his brief stint as a Banshee):

[Mawni]

I love me some Siouxsie and the Banshees. I also like Bowie and the Pixies.

[Mawni]

and also:

I love Kristin Hersh.

[Mawni]

And this one from Donnie Darko:

[Blue Meanie]

IMHO the "Queen" of covers is Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles. She's put out 3 cover albums with Matthew Sweet that have "Under The Covers" in the title. All of which are worth a listen. Here is a cover of Ian Boadie's band The Lightning Seeds "All I want" which is on Susanna's self titled solo album. There are also 2 hidden covers at the end of the album..."To Sir With Love" and "Stuck In The Middle With You" BTW, Ian Broadie was a prominent producer on Echo and The Bunnymen:

[daz71]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUf8LfM9wqc

original by howlin' wolf.

[torgospizza]

I like the VH version of the Ray Davies/Kinks Where Have all the Good Times Gone?

I was going to post that, but since you named it, I'm going with either Greg Kihn or the Replacements versions of The Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet."

https://youtu.be/fHuLB3hv9HY

https://youtu.be/KmcjFu0yXmY

[cjefferys]

In memory of Lemmy, this is my favourite cover of a Motorhead song, "Iron Fist" by German thrash metal band Sodom (who were more or less like the thrash version of Motorhead, they also covered "Ace of Spades" and their own song "Ausgebombt" is basically the best Motorhead-inspired song I've heard). Live version from 1988.

[Mikey]

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[Werewolf]

Umm, yeah, I'm thinking cocaine was probably not all he was on.

[thunderbolt]