Song Covers...that you like/love
 

okay, I really like the Another Brick in the Wall by Korn, it adds the metal taste to it and it makes it seem more emotional. I also like the cover of Break on Through by STP, it adds a grunge feel to it. you know?

Amy Lee did a cover of a Nirvana song that I really liked. I can't recall the name though.

"Heart Shaped Box" I think.

And Alicia Keys' cover of the Gladys Knight song (I can't remember the name of that either ^^;;; )

-BONNIE PINK's cover of Aimme Mann "That's Just What You Are", it's as much as cool as the original version.

-Shiina Ringo's cover of Cindy Lauper's Unconditional Love
-Crystal Kay's cover of Cindy Lauper's Time After Time
-The "dream" covers of many avex artists including globe, DAI and ayumi
-ayum hamasaki covers of Yumi Matsutoya's "Shotsugyo Shashin", trf's "teens", SWEETBOX' "In The Corner"
-Hitomi Shimatani's Papiyon -papillon-, cover of Janet Jackson's "Doesn't really Matter", by far much better than the original
-Hitomi Yaida's cover of "fast car". I like the original better but it's just because it has a lot of nostalgic meaning to me, because Hitomi did a pretty excellent job and the lyrics were even converted to japanese.
-BONNIE PINK's and Tommy february 6's "I'm in the mood for dancing" are both good.

The Stereophonics did a really good version of the Beatles' song "Don't Let me Down". I think that's my favourite cover.

No Doubt - It's My Life
ayumi hamasaki - 卒業写真
Mariah Carey - Without You
Maxwell - This Woman's Work
Prince - Betcha By Golly Wow
Crystal Kay - Time After Time

Galaxie 500 - Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste (Jonathan Richman)
Shiina Ringo - Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You (c. Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio)
Tokyo Jihen - The Lady Is A Tramp (c. Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes (The Korgis)
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights (The Postal Service)

This country group (I think they're called 'Luther Right and the Wrongs') or something like that....well, they covered the entire 'The Wall' album by Pink Floyd, and it's just freakin' fantasic.

Edit: Thanx ImpactBreaker; i misunderstood the thread title.

i like Hitomi Shimatani's Papillon, which i thought was better than Janet's "Doesn't Really Matter". The lyrics are beautiful.

Oh totally forgot hitomi's cover of CUNE's SAMURAI DRIVE, that one rocks.

This thread is about artists covering songs that already existed by other artists, not "cd covers"

Anna Tsuchiya's cover of Somebody Help Me is even better than the original o.o (Forgot who sang it, but apparently was the theme song of this show Tru Calling or something)

yep I misunderstood it too the first time I saw this thread eheh And I agree about shimatani

That was such a great cover, she did a good job singing for that, she sounded semi-husky and stuff in it.

I like these too.

There 2 Faye Wong covers I love:
Dream Person - I think the original was by the Cranberries (?)
Cold War - This is cover of a Western song but I don't remember who the original singer was....

Feist - Inside and Out (Bee Gees)
Fiona Apple - Across the Universe (The Beatles)
Tokyo Jihen - Koi wa maboroshi (Get it up for Love by Ned Doheny)

yep, it was by the cranberries, that covers lush :D
i think fayes covered stuff like diana ross and some others too but i dont know da original titles, but faye surely rox..

I would like to add KEIKO's cover of EZ DO DANCE by TRF. :yatta

Sowelu's MOON ON THE WATER, cover of Beat Crusaders is one of my favorite covers. i was unsure whether it was a cover or not but seems like it indeed is.
I think her english pronounciation is pretty good on this, specially since the original version is sang by a male japnese guy and it sounds kinda weird.

Basically all of Mariah Carey's covers (she traditionally does one an album, except on her most recent...and I don't like I'll Be There--her version or the Jackson 5 version). I especially like her cover of Def Leppard's "Bringin' On The Heartbreak"--and apparently they did too. They wrote very highly of it in their greatest hits liner notes...they said something to the note of "It's about time. It took 20 years, but finally somebody did a cover of one of our songs write. Mariah's cover is fabulous."

I gotta hear that song, i LOVE the original :luv2

I liked MJ's version of Come Together, I hate the Beatles, but I just liked that version. I also liked some covers of ABBA by... I think it was Erasure, in the early 90s - those were fun, I enjoyed those.

i agree, i think i may even like the Iron & Wine cover more than the original.

Faye Wongs cover version of "My heart will go on"
Bjorks cover version of "You only live twice", "Downtown" and "Everyone who had a heart"

ja ne

The cover of itsuka no merry christmas by ayu and gackt. :love :love :love SO beautiful.

Ayumi's cover of Rainy Day...i love that song!!!
Mika Nakashima's version of Amazing Grace is also beautiful.

Same here. Nothing against the original, but damn, Sam Beam makes it just magical.

I like Shiina Ringo's cover of "Georgy Porgy"....it's much better than the original.

Nightwish - Gary Moore's Over The Hills And Far Away
Sarah Brightman - Dido's Here With Me
Placebo - Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (No one can touch this song after Whitney did it)
*NSYNC - Sailing (I really like the way they harmonized on this song)
Christina Aguilera - At Last (So wonderful)
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman (A funky remake of the original)

IT is a cover? Never knew that. Oh well even though I never heard the original I bet I can assume with no doubts that her version was zillion times much better than the original LOL

The original was by Dolly Parton. To me Dollys version sounds like a sheep dying at the side of a farmhouse.

Natasha Bedingfield's version of The Scientist is the one and only cover I actually listen to obsessively. Its awesome. Since last week I've been playing it like 4 times a day..

Ayu's cover of Sotsugyou sashin.
Hitomi Shimatani's Papillion
Whitney Huston's And I will always love you
Cyndi Wang's Momo no Hanabira
Ayu's cover on Teens
Hikki's cover on boulevard of broken dreams
And various artist covers on Itsuka no Merry Christmas.

ayu-sotsugyoushashin
The best cover song I ever heard.

mika's best, koda's best first things, ayumi's & and startin/born to be

please if you may, look at Miss Slashess's (that's me) thread on "Song covers...that you hate"

and you'll know what we are talking about...:yes