Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Metallica Turn the Page > Bob Seger Turn the Page.

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yeah damn good.... was used on Sons of Anarchy.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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There are a lot of good cover songs of Tom Petty actually....

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Posted a bunch a year back on the 'best covers' thread that went a while but Trampled by Turtles' version of Wildflowers awesome.

wow yeah that's really good. Thanks!!



I was really pleasantly surprised when Miley did it with her dad Billy Ray on Fallon as a tribute right after TP passed....not incredible but moving to me especially at the time.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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There are a lot of good cover songs of Tom Petty actually....

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I'm a huge machine head fan, so I'm very biased.
But I really love their version of Iron Maiden, Hallowed be thy name.



Robb's vocals just bring a new heaviness to the song . Bruce is the man for maiden but when Robb goes full metal mid song it just takes it to 11.

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There are a lot of good cover songs of Tom Petty actually.

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I listen to Tom Petty Radio quite a bit (Sirius channel 31) and sometimes the program will be all covers of Tom's songs. Very enjoyable.

Man, I miss Tom Petty.

When Johnny Cash recorded this one, Tom said Johnny did a much better job. They had become good friends by then.

Crimson and Clover

Joan Jett better than Tommy James and the Shondells

mazag08 said:

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The Who

Didn't really do anything better than any other band. Very average.

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I couldn't let this go. This band is made up of one of the greatest...

Bassists
Drummers
Guitarists
Frontmen
Songwriters

Of all time.

If anyone ever did a cover of the below, it wasn't close to being better. This is a really cool version, really shows Keith Moon's goofiness.

snowdog90 said:

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mazag08 said:

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The Who

Didn't really do anything better than any other band. Very average.

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I couldn't let this go. This band is made up of one of the greatest...

Bassists
Drummers
Guitarists
Frontmen
Songwriters

Of all time.

If anyone ever did a cover of the below, it wasn't close to being better. This is a really cool version, really shows Keith Moon's goofiness.

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And yet, you've got the famous stories about the time the Who had a little unknown Australian band (acdc) open for them and then got destroyed on their own tour by the opening act.

I respect The Who but for whatever reason I'm not a huge fan. Who's Next is a great album and Tommy is good but I don't think their songs overall are that strong.

Who's Next and Quadrophenia are all time great albums, but The Who is like the Beach Boys in that their total body of work isn't as great as their legacy.

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And yet, you've got the famous stories about the time the Who had a little unknown Australian band (acdc) open for them and then got destroyed on their own tour by the opening act.

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I saw The Who in 89. They were AMAZING!! I didn't love them before I saw them, thought they were decent but overrated, it all changed that night. Then I started listening to their stuff I'd never heard and realized how great they were.

As for your famous stories about them getting blown off the stage, that's news to me. I have heard about them killing it at Woodstock, singing See Me Feel Me as the sun rose.

Incredible vocals from a guy spinning a microphone and at one point running in place for 4 minutes while singing a song from Tommy PERFECTLY.

Crunching screaming guitar licks from a guy jumping and windmilling all over the stage.

Keith Moon on the drums was worth the price of any admission by himself. Sadly he was gone by 89.

An incredible library of awesome song after awesome song.

Don't know what your hatred of The Who stems from, and we all have preferences, but they are a top 5 arguably and easily top 10 all time rock band.

Junkhead said:

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I respect The Who but for whatever reason I'm not a huge fan. Who's Next is a great album and Tommy is good but I don't think their songs overall are that strong.

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You need to give Quadrophenia a listen. 3 or 4 songs on there I don't love, but the other 10 or so are great. The Real Me, Sea and Sand, 5:15 are a few of my faves.

Yeah, earlier poppy stuff aside, they've got some great songs.

snowdog90 said:

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Junkhead said:

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I respect The Who but for whatever reason I'm not a huge fan. Who's Next is a great album and Tommy is good but I don't think their songs overall are that strong.

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You need to give Quadrophenia a listen. 3 or 4 songs on there I don't love, but the other 10 or so are great. The Real Me, Sea and Sand, 5:15 are a few of my faves.

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I like The Real Me. I'll check out the whole album at some point.

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Yeah, earlier poppy stuff aside, they've got some great songs.

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There's some Who songs I hate - Happy Jack comes to mind, Squeezebox-ugh. But they have so many that I never get tired of, and seeing them live really impressed me. Roger Daltry is incredible.

In the spirit of this thread which I hijacked a little.

I don't care if its blasphemy but all of the Johnny Cash American series music is unlistenable. His voice is beyond shot and its objectively terrible. Even appreciating the emotion and gravity of his cover of Hurt I truly don't know how anyone could like it better than the Nine Inch Nails version.

Jasomania said:

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I don't care if its blasphemy but all of the Johnny Cash American series music is unlistenable. His voice is beyond shot and its objectively terrible. Even appreciating the emotion and gravity of his cover of Hurt I truly don't know how anyone could like it better than the Nine Inch Nails version.

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Hurt is amazing (though I also prefer NIN version) but then you hear rusty cage and realize cash is just doing a lounge act to rock songs. It's brutally bad.

Jasomania said:

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I don't care if its blasphemy but all of the Johnny Cash American series music is unlistenable. His voice is beyond shot and its objectively terrible. Even appreciating the emotion and gravity of his cover of Hurt I truly don't know how anyone could like it better than the Nine Inch Nails version.

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His voice sounds great on the first two, especially Unchained. It got worse as the albums kept coming but that's because he was getting closer & closer to death.

Not gonna say "better" than Charlie Daniels Band but damn good and..... the tempo on this cover of the Devil Went Down to Georgia is ridiculous....the fiddle playing is just nuts and the guitar part at the end as they really speed it up for the finale outro.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3v8fyo

Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Metallica Turn the Page > Bob Seger Turn the Page.

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Don't be stupid.

Troutslime said:

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Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Metallica Turn the Page > Bob Seger Turn the Page.

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Don't be stupid.

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Hatfields gruff voice makes the song lower class. And that actually makes the song work better imho.

Troutslime said:

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Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Metallica Turn the Page > Bob Seger Turn the Page.

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Don't be stupid.

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I just don't like Bob Seger. Could have been Alvin and the Chipmunks covering the song and I would have posted it. Seger is the worst. Well, actually third worst. Springsteen is the worst and Bruce Hornsby is second worst.

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Jasomania said:

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I don't care if its blasphemy but all of the Johnny Cash American series music is unlistenable. His voice is beyond shot and its objectively terrible. Even appreciating the emotion and gravity of his cover of Hurt I truly don't know how anyone could like it better than the Nine Inch Nails version.

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His voice sounds great on the first two, especially Unchained. It got worse as the albums kept coming but that's because he was getting closer & closer to death.

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I went back and listened to a few songs off the first two and you are right his voice is better on those. But it still isn't good. He is talk-singing on every song (with more on the talk side than the singing side). I think the best of these is I've Been Everywhere which is his own song so you can feel the comfort he has in singing it. But it's still just bad.

I saw Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones in the last couple of years and they both sounded fantastic all things considered. Did they sound as good as they did in their prime? Of course not, there were times they took something down an octave or didn't sustain a note but overall it was still good.

Cash was never a great singer and lived a hard life in which he didn't take great care of himself. The American series just makes me cringe listening to it. It feels exploitive to squeeze every last bit out of Cash at a time when he was so far in decline. He's got a great catalog outside of that series which i'll still listen to, but not the American series.

It depends on your definition of "great singer". I love Cash's voice but he's not like a Chris Cornell type that could sing anything well. Cash's voice was perfect for his music. To me that makes him a great singer.

Simon & Garfunkel


or Queensryche

Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Metallica Turn the Page > Bob Seger Turn the Page.

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bluefire579 said:

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Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - Much too Young to Feel This Damn Old



over Garth's Version

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wow, that cover is terrible.

jkag89 said:

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Nazareth based on the music video alone

Two very awesome versions...

Love them both.





Edit:

Best part about being an old is the music of my youth

Big fan of the punch brothers cover of the strokes:

Sam and Dave were greatness.




Trivia: I was in Montgomery, Alabama sometime in 1980 (maybe 1981) and was sitting in the middle of a field (back when a lot of concerts were like that) and the little old band from Texas came in on a helicopter. They open with the same song from their newly released album, Deguello.



Another groovy Billy version...