Bands And Albums.

In the early-mid 60's, I was a huge Yardbirds fan. When I picked up a copy of Jeff Beck's "Truth" album in 69, I was disappointed at the frigged up version of "Shapes of Things" , overly stylistically sung by a relatively unknown singer by the name of Rod Stewart.

Ironically, while working on building my new house last night, I heard the Beck-Stewart version on my favorite radio show, "Little Steven's Underground Garage" Evidently, My tastes must have changed over the last 40 years, because I now think that version ROCKS! (However, I still like the lead guitar work on the original Yardbirds version the best)

HJ

Nazareth did a cool version of "Shapes" too.

i am sure someone has had to have said this already but hendrix's cover of dylan's all along the watchtower is probably one of the greatest covers in all rock genres. also the band's cover of marvin gayes baby dont do it is just killer

Good covers:
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" - Violent Femmes
"Fortunate Son" - Circle Jerks

Nazareth did a cool version of "Shapes" too.

If you like your classic rock with a little bit of southern metal, check out Black Stone Cherry's cover of Shapes of Things.

And whoever mentioned Tool's No Quarter cover: DEFINITELY. I don't think it strayed too far, as the track was already quite.. experimental, but I liked it.

Johnny Cash should stop ruining great songs like Hurt and Rusty Cage. Poor Soundgarden.

He will, he's dead.

Say what you may, but Cash's version had a lot of his heart in it. You could feel his pain. He had a certain emotional depth that many ppl miss.

Good covers:

Hurt - Johnny Cash
Under My Thumb - Streetheart

Bad Covers:

all their covers, but especially Knocking on Heaven's Door - GnR
Turn the Page - Metallica
You Shook Me All night Long - Celine Dion (yes, she really did cover that one)

The bass players are of like mind. JC's cover of Hurt was incredible!! I wasn't a big fan of the Turn The Page cover, or Knocking on Heaven's Door.

I just heard the Deftones cover of "Drive" by The Cars today, and it was pretty good.

Wonder Stuff's cover of "That's Entertainment" by The Jam is one of my favorites.

theres been some good covers like shinedown-simpleman, seether-careless whisper, metallica-last carress and so what

bad ones
metallica- tuesdays gone
gene simmons-when you wish upon a star(from his solo album in 1978)

one of my all time fav covers is All Mixed Up(The Cars) by Red House Painters..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ETuvo14is&feature=fvst

I never minded Marilyn Manson's covers, my favorite is probably Personal Jesus. Seether's version of Careless Whisper was amazing. The way they turned the saxophone part into a sweet guitar lick was amazing. I also kind of like Hank Williams III's version of Cocaine Blues. One of the worst covers I've heard was proabably Atreyu's take on Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name. Nice attempt, but wow that was bad.

Van Halen did some of the BEST covers !

You Really Got Me - The Kinks
Ice Cream Man - John Brim
Where Have All The Good Times Gone - The Kinks
You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt

And there's bootlegs of their club days covering

Superstition
Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers
Last Child
Make It Last

About the only cover they did that I didn't care for was Marths Reeves' Dancing In The Streets