Greatest Takeover/Hijack of a song

[rameses2]

No Doubt's cover of Talk Talk's " It's my life " was good.

No. It wasn't. She sings through her nose, it's annoying!

[blakpadi]

Ewan MacColl wrote "Dirty Old Town" Shane from the Pogues nailed it.
Replacements version of "Black Diamond" over Kiss-Westerberg sounds Drunk and desperate and it works.
I Love Rufus Thomas(and Carla and Irma) but Check out Jackie Shane on YOUTUBE-she belongs on this Board! Walking the Dog!(her "Any Other Way" is class all the way as well)
The obvious Dan Penn Tunes "Dark End of the Street" Percy Sledge/or James Carr-BOTH GREAT!
"Do Right Woman" Aretha Franklin
Police and Theives -(written by Junior Murvin) I Liked Juniors version better when I was stoned and the Clashes version better when I was drunk!
This might be unpopular but John Lennons "Jealous Guy" Donny Hathaway sang the hell outa that w/ a New Orleans vibe on the live record...I love Lennon but I think even John would say Donny Sang ---the hell out of it!
Aguas de Marco(Waters of March) written by Jobim-OWNED by ELIS REGINA ---check it out on YOUTUBE!

[gotchagood]

Whitney Houston- I will always love you, originally recorded by Dolly Parton 1974.


Have a great day

[zookeeper]

Probably showing my age - The Lords of the New Church doing considerable justice to "Like a Virgin"

or Oingo Boingo making The Kink's "You Really Got Me" their own.

[peggygee]

Maxwell versus Kate Bush - This Woman's Work, 60.8 % prefer Maxwell.
http://www.cover-vs-original.com/song-81.html

And if you get a chance to see Tyler Perry's “I Can Do Bad All By Myself”
check out the remake of Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady" by Cheryl Pepsii
Riley.

[buckjohnson]

peggygee

good post about Maxwell version of This Woman Works.

gotchagood...same about your post

blakpadi
who knew about Dan Penn..great post.

[SarahG]

The Mission's version of "Dream On" was actually pretty good too, I forgot that in my earlier post.

[altarica]

Love Hurts - Kim Deal and Robert Pollard
I actualy prefer this version over the original by Nazareth.
Kim Deals vocals are beautiful on the song and it just has a different feel to it. It's on the "Love and a .45" soundtrack ... good movie too btw.

Errrrr the original version was by the Everly Brothers in 1960.
It was also covered by Roy Orbison, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, Jim Calpaldi, which is my favourite and by many others.

"Summer Breeze" The Isley Brothers is far better than the Seals and Croft version. Their version of "Hello It's Me" is pretty damn good although not better than any of Todd Rundgrens versions.

[fordly66]

Love Hurts - Kim Deal and Robert Pollard
I actualy prefer this version over the original by Nazareth.
Kim Deals vocals are beautiful on the song and it just has a different feel to it. It's on the "Love and a .45" soundtrack ... good movie too btw.

It's amazing how many people did this song.

[fordly66]

Rod Stewart owns :The first cut is the deepest" Written and first sung by Cat Stevens. Later done by Cheryl Crow and several others.