Cover me!

As you may have guessed, I listen to a lot of music. Not only do I listen to it, I absorb it. On any given day the music I listen to generally reflects my mood. Metal/Thrash/Punk for those days I just gotta get shit done. Folk/Ambient when I'm feeling mellow. Eighties and Motown when I wanna laugh and dance. Soul/Funk/Jazz when I'm feeling frisky. You get the point, right?

Anyway, back to music. There is a lot of good music out there, so good one has to wonder if it can ever be replicated. Well let me tell you it can. Today's topic is covers. Below, a list of some of the best covers out there. I don't care if you disagree because it's my list, not yours..

Supernaut (Black Sabbath) - 1000 Homo DJs

Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground) - Cowboy Junkies

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Jeff Buckley

Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones) - Guns n Roses

Live and Let Die (Wings) - Duffy

Sheena is a Punk Rocker (Ramones) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Baby, I Love You (The Ronettes) - The Ramones

Everyday (Buddy Holly) - The Raveonettes

No One's Gonna Love You (Band of Horses) - Cee Lo Green

Sacrifice (Elton John) - Sinead O'Connor

Darling Nikki (Prince) - Foo Fighters

Common People (Pulp) - William Shatner

Kick Out the Jams (MC5) - Bad Brains w/Henry Rollins

Such Great Heights (Postal Service) - Iron & Wine

Call Me (Blondie) - Franz Ferdinand

White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) - Emiliana Torrini

Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon (Neil Diamond) - Urge Overkill

Head On (Jesus and Mary Chain) - The Pixies

Cupid (Sam Cooke) - Amy Winehouse

Crimson and Clover (Tommy James) - Joan Jett

It's My Life (Talk, Talk) - No Doubt

Big Takeover (Bad Brains) - John Frusciante

Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (Frankie Valli) - Muse

Let Down (Radiohead) - Easy Star All Stars

Conquest (Patti Page) - The White Stripes

Oh Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison) - Van Halen

Take Me To The River (Al Green) - Talking Heads

Teenage Kicks (The Undertones) - Snow Patrol

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles) - Eddie Vedder

Stagger Lee (Herb Wiedoeft) - Huey Lewis

Slave to Love (Bryan Ferry) - Elan Atias w/Gwen Stefani

Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics) - Marilyn Manson

Superstition (Stevie Wonder) - Estelle

You Really Got a Hold On Me (The Miracles) - She & Him

Venus (Shocking Blue) - Bananarama

Fever - (Little Willie John) - Peggy Lee

Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel) - Kina Grannis

Jet Boy, Jet Girl (Elton Motello/Plastic Bertrand) - The Damned

Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash) - Social Distortion

Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys) - The Headstones

Mad World (Tears for Fears) - Gary Jules

Roadhouse Blues (The Doors) - Ministry

In The Pines (Lead Belly) - Jim Oblon

I Put A Spell On You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) - The Kills

This Magic Moment (The Drifters) - Lou Reed

So quite a list.. Some may agree, others may not. There are many more out there and many of these songs have been covered by multiple bands. Either way, great music is great music. If an artist can make it even better, more power to them.