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Buckley's version of Leonard Cohens Hallelujah, perhaps?

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Re: Favourite cover version?
plastic penguin:
Buckley's version of Leonard Cohens Hallelujah, perhaps?

Meh...

 

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Re: Favourite cover version?

Incognito version of Stevie Wonder-Dont you worry about a thing. 

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Re: Favourite cover version?

Thought this would be a toughie, but then had a lightbulb moment, easy...

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

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not this , wing sings ac dc. shocking


i really like taken by trees version of "sweet child o mine" of the top of my head.might need to think about this oneHmm

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Re: Favourite cover version?
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not this , wing sings ac dc. shocking


i really like taken by trees version of "sweet child o mine" of the top of my head.might need to think about this oneHmm


I just you tubed that. Good grief. Why?
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Re: Favourite cover version?

Andrew Michael's cover of Tears For Fears Mad World
Placebo's Cover of T Rex's 20th Century Boy
Mark King's cover of Cream's I Feel Free
Mike Flowers Pops cover of Oasis' Wonderwall Smile

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Re: Favourite cover version?

The White Stripes - Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)

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Placebo's Cover of T Rex's 20th Century Boy
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Mike Flowers Pops cover of Oasis' Wonderwall Smile


Yes
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i actually quite like billy idols version of la woman..Surprise

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Re: Favourite cover version?

Ferry's cover of Dobie Gray's In Crowd


Bowie's "Knock on wood"


Cassidy's - Fields of gold, SOTR, and Songbird,


Lots more will come to mind.


oh yeh-Nils Lofgren's Going Back (Goffin/King/Dusty) 

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Re: Favourite cover version?

By no means definitive, but just for now:

Black Box Recorder -Up Town Top Ranking (Althea & Donna)
Califone - The Orchids (Psychic TV)
Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)
David Bowie - Fill Your Heart (Tiny Tim)
Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire (The Doors)
The Fall - Lost In Music (Chic)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
Blind Faith - Well... Alright (Buddy Holly)
Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam (The Vaselines)

(plus Booker T. & The MGs' McLemore Avenue, an entire album of covers of songs from Abbey Road)

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Re: Favourite cover version?

Maxwell's cover of Kate Bush's 'A Woman's Worth'.

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Shirley Bassey-Light my fire(the doors)

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The Jam's cover of The Kinks', 'David Watts'.

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