Best cover songs??

[Mad Cyril]

Step on - Happy Mondays.

 

[soul DJ]

thought of some more

Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the grapevine
James Bown - I Feel Good
Edwin Starr - War

 

[Nobby Snide]

thought of some more

Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the grapevine
James Bown - I Feel Good
Edwin Starr - War

i'm not an officianado in soul music, but wernt all those the originals?

 

[Firestorm]

From Wiki
I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a R&B/soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. The Funk Brothers created the tune. Whitfield recorded several versions with different Motown acts, and two became hits: one by Gladys Knight & the Pips became a number-two hit in the United States in 1967, while the version by Marvin Gaye became a number-one hit in the U.S. and the UK in 1968

So technically it was a Gaye covered a Gladys Knight hit


again wiki

I Feel Good

The song, with almost identical tune and words, had first been recorded and released in 1962 by Yvonne Fair, as "I Found You" (King 5594). Fair was one of Brown's back-up singers, and released several singles in her own right produced by him, none of which were hits. Brown then reworked the song three years later as "I Got You (I Feel Good)".[1]

 

[Firestorm]

War

less obviously a cover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(Edwin_Starr_song)

As the Temptations wersion was never actually released.

 

[Blueshrimper]

I love the Muse version of Feeling Good.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I love the Muse version of Feeling Good.

God yesssss, so do I. Nina Simone did it originally i think.

My wife loves the cover by Muse, when it comes on she goes all head bangerish

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Uxbridge Shrimper to the rescue...Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones

Gram Parson's version of Wild Horses is superb. Although whether it's a cover I'm not sure, as Jagger & Richards wrote it for Parsons, then when he'd recorded it they decided it was so good that they had to record it. So did the Stones cover their own song, technically speaking?

Others...
The Slits - Heard it on the grapevine
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Johnny Cash - Hurt & One
Suede - Shipbuilding
James Dean Bradfield - Raindrops keep falling on my head
Sonic Youth - Superstar

 

[Ricey]

I love the Muse version of Feeling Good.

Good Shout sir have yourself some greenage.

 

[Nobby Snide]

From Wiki
I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a R&B/soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. The Funk Brothers created the tune. Whitfield recorded several versions with different Motown acts, and two became hits: one by Gladys Knight & the Pips became a number-two hit in the United States in 1967, while the version by Marvin Gaye became a number-one hit in the U.S. and the UK in 1968

So technically it was a Gaye covered a Gladys Knight hit






as I said, not an officianado, so I bow to your superior knowledge, or rather ,Wiki's...Really I should have guessed, cos a lot f the early Mowtown, Stax and Atlantic labels had a team of songwriters churning out the 'solid gold'...as Stock Atiken and Waterman did so infamously in the 80's and 90's.

 

[loz]

From Wiki
I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a R&B/soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. The Funk Brothers created the tune. Whitfield recorded several versions with different Motown acts, and two became hits: one by Gladys Knight & the Pips became a number-two hit in the United States in 1967, while the version by Marvin Gaye became a number-one hit in the U.S. and the UK in 1968

So technically it was a Gaye covered a Gladys Knight hit


[1]

I've heard several of those versions, the Smokey Robinson and the Miracles take on it is superb. Fantastic call by Jonny O about the Slits version too- brilliant example of taking a song into completely new territory.

Some other possibles:

Elbow- Back To Black (Amy ****-house)
Pixies- I've Been Waiting For You (Neil Young)
Galaxie 500- Ceremony (New Order)
The Blankket- Hey Ya (Outkast)
The Wonder Band- Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin- it's a full-on disco version)
The Dirtbombs- Chains Of Love (JJ. Barnes)

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind

 

[Firestorm]

From Wiki
I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a R&B/soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. The Funk Brothers created the tune. Whitfield recorded several versions with different Motown acts, and two became hits: one by Gladys Knight & the Pips became a number-two hit in the United States in 1967, while the version by Marvin Gaye became a number-one hit in the U.S. and the UK in 1968

So technically it was a Gaye covered a Gladys Knight hit






as I said, not an officianado, so I bow to your superior knowledge, or rather ,Wiki's...Really I should have guessed, cos a lot f the early Mowtown, Stax and Atlantic labels had a team of songwriters churning out the 'solid gold'...as Stock Atiken and Waterman did so infamously in the 80's and 90's.

I looked the whole lot up. TBH I always thought they were the originals, but obviously just the most famous.

a bit like Unchained melody (I looked up "cover versions") on wiki, and found that not only had at least half a dozen people done it before The Righteous Brothers (Including a No 1 over here for Jimmy Young) , but the Righteous brothers recording was in fact Bobby Hatfield performing as a solo


If anyone dares to put Busted - Teenage kicks I will ask the mods to ban them.

I happen to like Slades version of Born to be wild.
The Jams version of Heatwave.
The Dickies version of Paranoid.
Paint it Black by the Modettes

 

[Uncle Leo]

Pixies- I've Been Waiting For You (Neil Young)

Went for their version of 'Winterlong' myself (see above) but that is an excellent shout.

 

[Firestorm]

The Beats , Tears of a clown was good too, as were a number of the Q Tips soul covers

 

[Uncle Leo]

Really I should have guessed, cos a lot f the early Mowtown, Stax and Atlantic labels had a team of songwriters churning out the 'solid gold'...as Stock Atiken and Waterman did so infamously in the 80's and 90's.

Holland, Dozier and Holland were responsible for a ridiculous amount of hits.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

The Beats , Tears of a clown was good too, as were a number of the Q Tips soul covers

There is only one Beatles cover that is with out a doubt the best cover of all time

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O9W5T5mEfyk

:whistling:

 

[Firestorm]

Holland, Dozier and Holland were responsible for a ridiculous amount of hits.

Have you seen the film Standing in the Shadow of motown ? , about the Funk brothers who were on a stupid amount of motown hits.

 

[Nobby Snide]

Holland, Dozier and Holland were responsible for a ridiculous amount of hits.

thems the chappies, I couldnt remember their names...old age you know!!

 

[Nobby Snide]

The Beats , Tears of a clown was good too, as were a number of the Q Tips soul covers

SYSJLFM....that was the best one..yep agreed with the beat too, and also as said earlier, the dickies...known most famously alas for the bloody banana splits!!