I have a liking for the Corr's cover of "Dreams". At a different speed, Spiderbait's "Black Betty".
And at a very different speed, D.A.A.S. doing "Stairway To Heaven" with barry Crocker, and Rolf Harris covering "I Touch Myself".
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I have a liking for the Corr's cover of "Dreams". At a different speed, Spiderbait's "Black Betty".
And at a very different speed, D.A.A.S. doing "Stairway To Heaven" with barry Crocker, and Rolf Harris covering "I Touch Myself".
Oh! Oh! Isaac Hayes doing "Walk On By."
The originals are awesome, but Camper Van Beethoven's versions of "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Pictures of Matchstick Men" are definitive.
Eric Clapton's acoustic version of Layla is amazing (does that count?).
I adore the Drive-By-Truckers' version of Like a Rolling Stone, a song I didn't like in the original.
Judy Collins's cover of Masters of War.
I'll always prefer CSNY's cover of "Woodstock" to Joni's, which is saying a lot for me.
I'll always prefer CSNY's cover of "Woodstock" to Joni's
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Me, too, Amy!
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I know! It shocks me, too. I love the song, love that she wrote, but it's one that I would rather hear them sing than her.
The Jane's Addiction cover of the Dead's "Ripple" is one of my favorite things ever.
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I'd like to submit "99 Red Balloons" as covered by 7 Seconds
ooh and Miles Davis doing "Time after Time" by Cyndi Lauper.