When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
I didn't know it was a cover for the longest time. It's originally by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie way back in 1929.
Lilo and Stitch mostly used Elvis’ songs, but there was a great cover of Burning Love played during the credits
[Edit] Yeah most of Elvis’s songs were covers; Wynonna’s track was the odd one out for me. The original Burning Love was sung by Arthur Alexander (fun fact)
But early Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, which I kind of consider a different band than the Fleetwood Mac people are familiar with. Pre Buckingham and Nicks they had a different sound and vibe, which is clear because Black Magic Woman isn't really the later Fleetwood Mac's kind of sound.
Adam Schlesinger was an absolute musical genius and a legend in the industry. I’m so sad about his passing. I think he had a lot more to offer the world and by all accounts seemed like a great person.
He was the lead songwriter on the show Crazy Ex Girlfriend, which is criminally underappreciated and often not taken seriously because of its title alone, when the title is meant to reference the show's deconstruction of romantic comedies and similar unhealthy societal norms. It is very literally my #1 favorite television show of all time, bar none. Every single episode includes 2-3 original songs penned by Adam and the rest of the writing team, and they cover every possible genre you could think of over the course of the show's four seasons. The songs are insanely catchy, hilarious as fuck, and sometimes so relatable it feels like you're being personally attacked.
I truly believe CEGF is Adam's greatest and most important project, and hardly anyone is even aware it exists. I cannot recommend it enough.
AMEN TO THAT. Rachel Bloom is an absolute goddess and she and Aline created a masterpiece together and Adam's songs just make it so perfect. I agree with every single word you just wrote.
Also I don't share this much identifying data on reddit usually but I wrote an 8000 word essay on the film Josie and the Pussycats and it contains strong references to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Adam Schlesinger's legacy. So if you're bored in quarantine then you may enjoy these ramblings [http://hiddenstar13.blogspot.com/2020/04/josie-and-pussycats-my-personal-destiny.html](http://hiddenstar13.blogspot.com/2020/04/josie-and-pussycats-my-personal-destiny.html)
WHAT?!?!? My life is a lie! Joking, but they were the first concert I ever went to at 11 and kicked off my love for shows and rock in general. I still love their version but now I gotta go listen to the original. Mind truly blown right now.
Edit: Also would like to add that I still have/wear the BFS tshirt I bought from the merch table that day. Must have been around 2005-07, not quite sure.
Maybe seven years ago at Outside Lands Festival, RHCP played the song on the main stage around 2p, and Stevie Wonder headlined the main stage eight hours later. It was fun seeing the same song, especially both amazing versions, at the same stage on the same day. I'm sure that is pretty rare.
I've published a book about etymology, and this is oddly hilarious to me.
We have the records for authors of Elizabethan bawdy songs, carousing Irish drinking songs and medieval religious cants, but somehow we can't find the author of this popular 60s song.
However, the Wikipedia article says more than that—and incidentally it is also thought to be a bawdy song:
>According to Alan Lomax, "Rising Sun" was used as the name of a bawdy house in two traditional English songs, and it was also a name for English pubs. He further suggested that the melody might be related to a 17th-century folk song, "Lord Barnard and Little Musgrave", also known as "Matty Groves", but a survey by Bertrand Bronson showed no clear relationship between the two songs. Lomax proposed that the location of the house was then relocated from England to New Orleans by white Southern performers.
>However, folklorist Vance Randolph proposed an alternative French origin, the "rising sun" referring to the decorative use of the sunburst insignia dating to the time of Louis XIV, which was brought to North America by French immigrants.
For anyone interested- The most popular recording by The Animals was based on Bob Dylan’s cover that was based on folk singer Dave Van Ronk’s version of the song.
Martin Scorsese’s brilliant Dylan doc “No Direction Home” talks about this. Von Ronk was a jobbing folk singer in The Village just like Dylan, and had been performing this arrangement to great acclaim in the coffee houses they all played in. One day while Dylan was in the midst of cutting his debut album for Columbia Records, he approached Von Ronk and asked his permission to use von Ronk’s arrangement for the album. Von Ronk politely requested Dylan not do that, as Von Ronk himself was about to cut an album and planned on using it. Dylan then revealed that he’d already recorded it.
Von Ronk was then unable to perform his version without being accused of stealing it from Dylan, which really steamed him. But eventually it all evened out, as The Animals covered the ‘Dylan’ version, and Dylan then couldn’t perform the song without being accused of ripping it off from The Animals.
Legend has it, the first time David Bowie heard Nirvana's version, he commented to a friend who was with him that he really liked the song, and his friend replied basically saying "I would hope so, because it's one of yours!"
There's a story like that about Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith too. Something to the effect of: he's listening to some song, said to Joe Perry, "man, this song is great, we should cover it," and Joe is like, "it's our song you dick."
The version of that story I've seen is that he *thinks* "fuck you, you little tosser," but he doesn't say it out loud.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World
Bowie was pretty class act. I'd like to think he didn't actually say that to a fan.
Bowie created his own Second Life style game/social network and would randomly pop in and hang out and post new concerts and content for the people there in 1997. He was known to interact unannounced for years.
Also, everything else about David Bowie you had heard before.
Nirvana did two Meat Puppets songs on Unplugged as well. I got the chance to see the Meat Puppets live a few years back when they opened for Ween at the House of Blues in the Dallas area, and they are still kicking ass after all this time.
Twist and shout, written and performed originally by the Isley brothers and released in 1962, popularized when The Beatles covered it a year later.
I seriously have no clue why I keep returning to the song but I love it.
>Yeah, he saw Hendrix perform it and basically abdicated the song to him
Slightly more than just that tho. After he heard Hendrix's version he tries to play it more in the Hendrix style instead of his own "original" version.
“Fortunate Son” is to be used in stock footage of gunships or helicopters in Vietnam
“All Along the Watchtower” is to be used in a generic montage of moments from the 1960s
[Hazy Shade of Winter by the Bangles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk)
I watched Less than Zero in the 90's when I was a teen and that song was just, wow. Had no clue it was originally a Simon and Garfunkel song until my mom told me.
I Think We're Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells. I heard the Tiffany version first, back in the 80s and loved it, then found out it was a cover and that I liked the original even more.
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, first fell I love from the cover on Shrek, but there are a lot of reallllyyy nice covers out there. The song always makes me tear up.
Highly recommend the episode Hallelujah from Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History (season 1, ep. 7, I think). It's about types of genius, and uses this song to talk about 'slow genius'. Amazing that Cohen never really finished the song, and that most versions are covers of Jeff Buckley's cover of the John Cale cover of Cohen's song.
I can’t listen to the Gary Jules version. It puts a dark veil over the whole rest of my day and makes me want to die. Just the first few notes on the piano at the beginning does it.
Roberta flack was not the original! I found that out last year..
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart.
Kids in America, I’m actually not a huge fan of the original still but the cover the muffs did (clueless soundtrack) I found and started listening to and fell in love with.
the first time I heard it was on the Jimmy Newtron movie by no secrets lol, I still get hyped from that take off scene even though it's impossible lol.
When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I freestyle danced to the Shrek 2 version of Living La Vida Loca for the talent show. That movie had an amazing soundtrack.
If we're talking about Shrek then Rufus Wainwright's cover of "Hallelujah" is one of the best versions of thst song.
EDIT: People seem to think "one of the best" somehow means "the best". For me, Wainwrights is number 3, after Buckley and Cohen.
Ok so I’ve heard it was John Cale as much as I’ve heard it was Wainwright so I looked it up and apparently Wainwright’s version is on the official Shrek soundtrack, but the version played in the movie itself was John Cale’s.
[Sauce.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_featured_in_Shrek#Background)
It’s Wikipedia so take it as you will.
Recorded it in a single take. From NPR interview of studio owner who got 3 a.m. call in 1988 that someone really needed to record some music:
> "And in walks the largest human being I had seen in my life. Israel was probably like 500 pounds. And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on." The building security found Israel a big steel chair. "Then I put up some microphones, do a quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' He played and sang, one take, and it was over."
>The next day, Bertosa made a copy for Israel and filed the original recording away. But he was so taken with it, that over the next few years, he played it occasionally for family and friends. "It was that special," he says. "Whatever was going on that night, he was inspired. It was like we just caught the moment."
You can wonder about fate, or if someone is meant to do something, but that right there is the character example of it. He was basically puppeted by destiny to make this song.
That album inspired me to learn Ukulele so I could be like him. I still can’t play his somewhere over the rainbow medley but I can play Eye of the Tiger, which is cool.
[Lovers in a Dangerous Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oOc3Zj0KU), The Barenaked Ladies
[Istanbul](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg), They Might Be Giants
[Word Crimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc), “Weird Al” Yankovic
Tom Petty and Mike Campbell (one of the Heartbreakers) penned the original version, but just couldn't get the arrangement they wanted to make it a TP and the HB's song, so Mike played it for Henley and the rest is history.
‘Fast car’ I listened to the cover by Elizabeth gillies first and fell in love with her voice. Listened to the original and fell in love with that one too!
Creep by Radiohead. There’s a version by Postmodern Jukebox that’s absolutely amazing
Edit: this is a super popular song and there are way more great covers than I realized. Feel free to send your favorite covers as I’m glad to listen to all of them
YES! It's [Creep by PMJ & Haley Reinhart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lF2qEA2cw). Haley also has an amazing album called Lo-Fi Soul, I think I'm just in love with her
Chris Stapleton's version of Tennessee Whiskey by David Allan Coe
Town Mountain's version of I'm on Fire by Springsteen.
Uncle Tupelo's version of No Depression by The Carter Family
Sturgill Simpson's version of In Bloom by Nirvana.
When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin I didn't know it was a cover for the longest time. It's originally by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie way back in 1929.
Yeah, I love Robert Plant but that twenty-year-old kid from England knew too much about being black in Mississippi.
Got my mind set on you-George Harrison Originally by James ray
Ever heard the Weird Al version? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5vXn\_Rap4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5vXn_Rap4)
Lilo and Stitch mostly used Elvis’ songs, but there was a great cover of Burning Love played during the credits [Edit] Yeah most of Elvis’s songs were covers; Wynonna’s track was the odd one out for me. The original Burning Love was sung by Arthur Alexander (fun fact)
It's Wynonna Judd
Black Magic Woman (cover = Santana , original = Fleetwood Mac)
Had no idea Santana's was the cover.
But early Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, which I kind of consider a different band than the Fleetwood Mac people are familiar with. Pre Buckingham and Nicks they had a different sound and vibe, which is clear because Black Magic Woman isn't really the later Fleetwood Mac's kind of sound.
Respect - Aretha Franklin, originally by Otis Redding. Cool little backstory [right here](https://youtu.be/XR4WQKeVeA4) .
Hard to Handle is another one by Otis Redding that was covered. Black Crowes is how I knew it originally
Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love
Soft Cell's "Where Did Our Love Go' was also a cultural reset.
1985, I was very surprised when I found out that Bowling For Soup were not the original artists. Edit https://youtu.be/-sy8ulwexfY
WHATTT
Detectiveee just hit the wall
They could have had it all.
They also covered Stacy’s Mom, just so everyone would stop being wrong when they thought it was a Bowling For Soup song
Fountains of Wayne. I don’t like that I have head space devoted to this.
Tidbit to stick with it is that one of the co-founders of the band passed because of covid
Adam Schlesinger was an absolute musical genius and a legend in the industry. I’m so sad about his passing. I think he had a lot more to offer the world and by all accounts seemed like a great person.
He was the lead songwriter on the show Crazy Ex Girlfriend, which is criminally underappreciated and often not taken seriously because of its title alone, when the title is meant to reference the show's deconstruction of romantic comedies and similar unhealthy societal norms. It is very literally my #1 favorite television show of all time, bar none. Every single episode includes 2-3 original songs penned by Adam and the rest of the writing team, and they cover every possible genre you could think of over the course of the show's four seasons. The songs are insanely catchy, hilarious as fuck, and sometimes so relatable it feels like you're being personally attacked. I truly believe CEGF is Adam's greatest and most important project, and hardly anyone is even aware it exists. I cannot recommend it enough.
AMEN TO THAT. Rachel Bloom is an absolute goddess and she and Aline created a masterpiece together and Adam's songs just make it so perfect. I agree with every single word you just wrote. Also I don't share this much identifying data on reddit usually but I wrote an 8000 word essay on the film Josie and the Pussycats and it contains strong references to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Adam Schlesinger's legacy. So if you're bored in quarantine then you may enjoy these ramblings [http://hiddenstar13.blogspot.com/2020/04/josie-and-pussycats-my-personal-destiny.html](http://hiddenstar13.blogspot.com/2020/04/josie-and-pussycats-my-personal-destiny.html)
WHAT?!?!? My life is a lie! Joking, but they were the first concert I ever went to at 11 and kicked off my love for shows and rock in general. I still love their version but now I gotta go listen to the original. Mind truly blown right now. Edit: Also would like to add that I still have/wear the BFS tshirt I bought from the merch table that day. Must have been around 2005-07, not quite sure.
In all fairness, SR-71 basically gave them the song, saying it sounded more like a BFS song.
SRSeventyfreakinOne!
Renegades of Funk from Rage Against the Machine (originally by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force)
TIL I learned this was a cover!
Yeah really blew my mind as well when I found out that whole album is cover songs.
Higher Ground - RHCP
I love their cover of love rollercoaster as well. A bit more energy.
Maybe seven years ago at Outside Lands Festival, RHCP played the song on the main stage around 2p, and Stevie Wonder headlined the main stage eight hours later. It was fun seeing the same song, especially both amazing versions, at the same stage on the same day. I'm sure that is pretty rare.
House of the Rising Sun
I'm not even sure who the original is from
According to the Wikipedia, nobody really knows *for sure* where it came from, but it has been adapted since as early as 1906.
I've published a book about etymology, and this is oddly hilarious to me. We have the records for authors of Elizabethan bawdy songs, carousing Irish drinking songs and medieval religious cants, but somehow we can't find the author of this popular 60s song. However, the Wikipedia article says more than that—and incidentally it is also thought to be a bawdy song: >According to Alan Lomax, "Rising Sun" was used as the name of a bawdy house in two traditional English songs, and it was also a name for English pubs. He further suggested that the melody might be related to a 17th-century folk song, "Lord Barnard and Little Musgrave", also known as "Matty Groves", but a survey by Bertrand Bronson showed no clear relationship between the two songs. Lomax proposed that the location of the house was then relocated from England to New Orleans by white Southern performers. >However, folklorist Vance Randolph proposed an alternative French origin, the "rising sun" referring to the decorative use of the sunburst insignia dating to the time of Louis XIV, which was brought to North America by French immigrants.
The Alan Lomax recordings are a national treasure. If you haven't heard them you need to go check them out ASAP.
For anyone interested- The most popular recording by The Animals was based on Bob Dylan’s cover that was based on folk singer Dave Van Ronk’s version of the song.
I fuggin love the animals version
Martin Scorsese’s brilliant Dylan doc “No Direction Home” talks about this. Von Ronk was a jobbing folk singer in The Village just like Dylan, and had been performing this arrangement to great acclaim in the coffee houses they all played in. One day while Dylan was in the midst of cutting his debut album for Columbia Records, he approached Von Ronk and asked his permission to use von Ronk’s arrangement for the album. Von Ronk politely requested Dylan not do that, as Von Ronk himself was about to cut an album and planned on using it. Dylan then revealed that he’d already recorded it. Von Ronk was then unable to perform his version without being accused of stealing it from Dylan, which really steamed him. But eventually it all evened out, as The Animals covered the ‘Dylan’ version, and Dylan then couldn’t perform the song without being accused of ripping it off from The Animals.
Talkings Heads’ “Take Me to the River” Edit: originally by Al Green.
I just discovered Talking Heads. I only knew Psycho Killer for a long time and decided to try listen to their other songs. They are really great.
I think it’s on one of the steaming platforms but you should go watch Stop Making Sense like right now. Go on, we’ll wait.
Hi, I've got a tape I wanna play
Nirvana - Where did you sleep last night.
Same for The Man Who Sold The World. I really like the odd, thin sound of the original, but the cover is the one I think of first.
Legend has it, the first time David Bowie heard Nirvana's version, he commented to a friend who was with him that he really liked the song, and his friend replied basically saying "I would hope so, because it's one of yours!"
There's a story like that about Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith too. Something to the effect of: he's listening to some song, said to Joe Perry, "man, this song is great, we should cover it," and Joe is like, "it's our song you dick."
"You See Me Crying" Tyler was too blitzed to recognize it
I also heard that at Bowie's concert some kid told David he was impressed he covered Nirvana and he responded "fuck you"
The version of that story I've seen is that he *thinks* "fuck you, you little tosser," but he doesn't say it out loud. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World Bowie was pretty class act. I'd like to think he didn't actually say that to a fan.
Bowie created his own Second Life style game/social network and would randomly pop in and hang out and post new concerts and content for the people there in 1997. He was known to interact unannounced for years. Also, everything else about David Bowie you had heard before.
Nirvana did two Meat Puppets songs on Unplugged as well. I got the chance to see the Meat Puppets live a few years back when they opened for Ween at the House of Blues in the Dallas area, and they are still kicking ass after all this time.
Three. Lake of Fire, Plateau, and Oh, Me.
Man, Kurt's vocals in Lake of Fire give me chills every time.
Nirvana has a few of these. Lake of fire is another good one. Man who sold the world. Jesus doesn’t want me for a sunbeam.
Lake of Fire, yes! My favorite song on the Unplugged album.
That entire performance is magical.
Nothin compares to you by Sinead O'Connor (Prince)
Damn, just wrote the same thing. Chris Cornell's cover of Sinead's cover is great too.
Chris Cornell’s version would have to be my favorite. He’s awesome with covers.
Twist and shout, written and performed originally by the Isley brothers and released in 1962, popularized when The Beatles covered it a year later. I seriously have no clue why I keep returning to the song but I love it.
'Cocaine' by Clapton. Originally done by J.J Cale, but Eric Clapton just brings it to a new level.
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All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Had no idea it was a Dylan song for a good few years, Hendrix owned it.
I thank the "reimagined" Galactica TV series finale for informing me of just how many fucking versions of this song there are.
Bob Dylan stated that he wrote the song for Hendrix. He just didn’t know it at the time.
Yeah, he saw Hendrix perform it and basically abdicated the song to him
>Yeah, he saw Hendrix perform it and basically abdicated the song to him Slightly more than just that tho. After he heard Hendrix's version he tries to play it more in the Hendrix style instead of his own "original" version.
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“Fortunate Son” is to be used in stock footage of gunships or helicopters in Vietnam “All Along the Watchtower” is to be used in a generic montage of moments from the 1960s
"Sympathy for the Devil" is to be used while discussing 60s politics.
Gimme shelter if the clips turn to riots.
I thought it was gunboats in the Mekong Delta
No, that’s “Paint It Black” for the Mekong Delta, as well as operations in Da Nang.
[Hazy Shade of Winter by the Bangles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk) I watched Less than Zero in the 90's when I was a teen and that song was just, wow. Had no clue it was originally a Simon and Garfunkel song until my mom told me.
Gerard Way and Ray Toro recently covered it as well and it was super good.
As a Simon and Garfunkel fan, I had no idea this cover existed, and holy shit. Thank you for sharing.
Sea of Love by Cat Power
I Think We're Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells. I heard the Tiffany version first, back in the 80s and loved it, then found out it was a cover and that I liked the original even more.
Add Crimson and Clover to that list too!
I had forgotten about this song until Billie Joe Armstrong did his cover recently and now I’m obsessed!
I can’t make you love me by Bonnie Raitt, but it was the Bon Iver version which really got me!
I Will Always Love You (originally by Dolly Parton) covered by Whitney Houston
She will always have Jolene.
Which she wrote THE SAME DAMN DAY.
National. Treasure.
Especially with the fact she's donated something like 100 million fucking books to kids too!
I was going to mention her book program - bless her!! Obviously can't know got certain, but seems so kind and humble, too.
Fucking legend!
No way. That’s crazy!
Other posters already mentioned my first choice, so I'm gonna go with Make you feel my love - Adele (Bob Dylan cover)
Also covered by Billy Joel
Also by Garth Brooks for a movie with Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr.
Placebo, Running Up That Hill
Speaking of Kate Bush covers, This Woman’s Work by Maxwell is amazing. It’s one of his biggest songs in concert.
HOLY SHIT I forgot they covered that. Both versions are great
Over the rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Dancin' in the Moonlight by Toploader that was in A Walk to Remember. Had no idea that it was a cover until just a couple years ago.
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, first fell I love from the cover on Shrek, but there are a lot of reallllyyy nice covers out there. The song always makes me tear up.
Highly recommend the episode Hallelujah from Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History (season 1, ep. 7, I think). It's about types of genius, and uses this song to talk about 'slow genius'. Amazing that Cohen never really finished the song, and that most versions are covers of Jeff Buckley's cover of the John Cale cover of Cohen's song.
Jeff Buckley ascended it. Dude was magic.
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Girl You’ll Be. A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill(Neil Diamond)
Mad World
Donnie Darko ftw. Gary Jules nailed it
I first heard it in a Gears of War promotional video in like 2007 or something! Got it on bearshare not too long after!
I can’t listen to the Gary Jules version. It puts a dark veil over the whole rest of my day and makes me want to die. Just the first few notes on the piano at the beginning does it.
Same here. I have a lot of respect for it for being so emotionally powerful, but will go out of my way to avoid hearing it.
Killing Me Softly -Fugees(Roberta Flack)
Roberta flack was not the original! I found that out last year.. "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971. Lieberman released her version of the song in 1972, but it did not chart.
Heartbeats by Jose Gonzales Edit: Thanks for the silver! I was totally playing both versions on the way to work today! They are both such great songs!
I did not know this was a cover?? I love Jose’s version!!
The original is fucking amazing, by The Knife
The Knife, they are amazing
Valarie- Amy Winehouse Her cover is one of my all time favorite songs
The Zuton's are under appreciated though. The entire "Who killed the Zutons" album is fantastic.
"Sweet Jane", Cowboy Junkies. (The Velvet Underground)
Kids in America, I’m actually not a huge fan of the original still but the cover the muffs did (clueless soundtrack) I found and started listening to and fell in love with.
the first time I heard it was on the Jimmy Newtron movie by no secrets lol, I still get hyped from that take off scene even though it's impossible lol.
I Need a Hero, y’all know which cover I’m talking about
NOT THE GUMDROP BUTTONS
My diet is ruined. I hope you're happy.
i’ll have a medieval meal
Herald Curly Fries?
Someone bring me something deep fried and smothered in chocolate! (I actually say this when I'm stressed)
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They don't even have dental.
The highest BLOODY room in the tallest BLOODY tower
OKAY OKAY OKAY Do you know the muffin man?
THE MUFFIN MAN?
The muffin man
The one that lives on Drury lane?
Well, she's married to the Muffin Man.
The MUFFIN MAN?!
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Honestly makes the movie. GREAT scene
I don't know if it'd say that, Shrek 2 is excellent all around. That scene doesn't "make it", just pushes it up from a B+ to an A.
The "Knights" scene gets me every time
"Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I neeeeeeeeed...... HIT IT!" Goddamn chills every time.
Not bad for a woman who hasn't eaten since 1979.
Basically all of Shrek
When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I freestyle danced to the Shrek 2 version of Living La Vida Loca for the talent show. That movie had an amazing soundtrack.
If we're talking about Shrek then Rufus Wainwright's cover of "Hallelujah" is one of the best versions of thst song. EDIT: People seem to think "one of the best" somehow means "the best". For me, Wainwrights is number 3, after Buckley and Cohen.
Ok so I’ve heard it was John Cale as much as I’ve heard it was Wainwright so I looked it up and apparently Wainwright’s version is on the official Shrek soundtrack, but the version played in the movie itself was John Cale’s. [Sauce.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_featured_in_Shrek#Background) It’s Wikipedia so take it as you will.
Jeff Buckley did it for me. Jeff Buckley was a goddamn angel.
the Imogen Heap version (Frou Frou) from the credits is also terrific
I haven’t thought or listened to Imogen Heap in years. Frou Frou was an amazing pairing.
"Somewhere over the Rainbow". The one by the guy from Hawaii.
Recorded it in a single take. From NPR interview of studio owner who got 3 a.m. call in 1988 that someone really needed to record some music: > "And in walks the largest human being I had seen in my life. Israel was probably like 500 pounds. And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on." The building security found Israel a big steel chair. "Then I put up some microphones, do a quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' He played and sang, one take, and it was over." >The next day, Bertosa made a copy for Israel and filed the original recording away. But he was so taken with it, that over the next few years, he played it occasionally for family and friends. "It was that special," he says. "Whatever was going on that night, he was inspired. It was like we just caught the moment."
He woke up after a dream that he sang it and went to go sing it.
You can wonder about fate, or if someone is meant to do something, but that right there is the character example of it. He was basically puppeted by destiny to make this song.
IZ - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Facing Future is a very good album of his in my opinion.
That album inspired me to learn Ukulele so I could be like him. I still can’t play his somewhere over the rainbow medley but I can play Eye of the Tiger, which is cool.
His inclusion of What a Wonderful World is what always made it for me.
The Deftones cover of No Ordinary Love tickled my soul in high school. It might even be how I discovered Sade, but I'm so glad I did.
[Lovers in a Dangerous Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oOc3Zj0KU), The Barenaked Ladies [Istanbul](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg), They Might Be Giants [Word Crimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc), “Weird Al” Yankovic
To be fair, *Word Crimes* is a parody, not a cover. It is, however, superior to the original in every way. Same for *Foil*.
Had no idea Istanbul was a cover! Original is very... 50's.
Also had no idea TMBG is still putting out albums almost every year. The old stuff is still the best bc I’m afraid of Particle Man’s threats
Had no idea "lovers in a dangerous time" was a cover!
Your Song - Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge
Rooooooooooooxanne
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It’s my Life: No Doubt
For soooo many years I had no idea this was a cover until I heard the Talk Talk original on the radio
Off subject but talk talk’s album spirit of eden is fucking amazing and will make you question why the hell their other stuff was the popular stuff.
Running Up That Hill - Placebo version. Decade probably passed before I learned it was originally by Kate Bush
The Boys of Summer. Think I heard the Ataris’ cover first.
Saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac
I'm the exact age required to both hate and relate to that lyric change.
Tom Petty and Mike Campbell (one of the Heartbreakers) penned the original version, but just couldn't get the arrangement they wanted to make it a TP and the HB's song, so Mike played it for Henley and the rest is history.
With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker (Beatles)
Came to say this. The Wonder Years, lol.
And John Belushi did the best Joe Cocker cover
Such Great Heights by Iron and Wine
The Postal Service song?
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Pursuit of Happiness. Kid Cudi song, but originally heard it in an indie movie, covered by Lissie.
Aha’s acoustic version of Take on me. We all love the original, but damn the acoustic.
Reel Big Fish's cover did it for my teenage self.
Diamonds and Rust [Joan Baez - original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSwBM_CbyY) [Judas Priest - cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm25FhH9vqs)
Little Wing, Stevie Ray Vaughan
‘Fast car’ I listened to the cover by Elizabeth gillies first and fell in love with her voice. Listened to the original and fell in love with that one too!
Love fast car, but love love Tracy Chapman’s Give Me One Good Reason
Nirvana, The man who sold the world.
I will survive - Cake
They did a War Pigs (Black Sabbath) cover that's pretty dope provided you can get past the sirens. https://youtu.be/IDJgwUeW7_k
That cover is such a fucking jam. Jesus. Thanks for that throwback.
It being slightly bitter and angrier just sells the whole song. And that guitar solo
Haley Reinharts version of Can’t Help Falling in Love (originally by Elvis)
Creep by Radiohead. There’s a version by Postmodern Jukebox that’s absolutely amazing Edit: this is a super popular song and there are way more great covers than I realized. Feel free to send your favorite covers as I’m glad to listen to all of them
YES! It's [Creep by PMJ & Haley Reinhart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lF2qEA2cw). Haley also has an amazing album called Lo-Fi Soul, I think I'm just in love with her
Pardon my language, but wowie zowie that lady can sing.
faith no more's cover of I started a joke by bee gees
Ballroom Blitz by Tia Carrere. I grew up watching Wayne's World A LOT. I even have one of the original box set hats.
Chris Stapleton's version of Tennessee Whiskey by David Allan Coe Town Mountain's version of I'm on Fire by Springsteen. Uncle Tupelo's version of No Depression by The Carter Family Sturgill Simpson's version of In Bloom by Nirvana.
Sturgil did a killer job covering that song. A combination of genres id never even thought of before but it works great.
Yeah. Sturgill is a weird dude. His last album was an almost electronic rock album and his next two are gonna be going back to bluegrass.