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Name a song that not many people know is a cover.

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chuckywang

Lifer
I just found out:

Piece of my Heart by Big Brother and Holding Company is a cover (Janis Joplin was in that group)

and

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer by George Thorogood is a cover. (Has this guy ever done any originals?)

and

Hush by Deep Purple is a cover

and

Cocaine and After Midnight by Eric Clapton are both covers

and

Black Magic Woman by Santana is a cover

and

Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You by Led Zeppelin is a cover.
 
Ummm..what are you talking about? Cocaine isnt a cover..it might have been written by Clapton and Browne but wtf are you talking about?
 
Originally posted by: SaigonK
Ummm..what are you talking about? Cocaine isnt a cover..it might have been written by Clapton and Browne but wtf are you talking about?
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Cocaine - as well as after midnight are JJ Cale songs.
 
I happen to love some covers better than the original. Mad World by Gary Jules. Space Oddity by Natalie Merchant. One by Aimee Mann. I'm Not in Love by Olive.
 
Originally posted by: NL5
Originally posted by: SaigonK
Ummm..what are you talking about? Cocaine isnt a cover..it might have been written by Clapton and Browne but wtf are you talking about?
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Cocaine - as well as after midnight are JJ Cale songs.
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Thank you. And might I say that Clapton sped up both of these songs and absolutely butchered them.
 
Originally posted by: IndieSnob
Originally posted by: NL5
Originally posted by: SaigonK
Ummm..what are you talking about? Cocaine isnt a cover..it might have been written by Clapton and Browne but wtf are you talking about?
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Cocaine - as well as after midnight are JJ Cale songs.
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Thank you. And might I say that Clapton sped up both of these songs and absolutely butchered them.
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Hmm...I also just found out that Call Me the Breeze is by JJ Cale originally as well. So the Lynyrd Skynyrd version is a cover.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: IndieSnob
Originally posted by: NL5
Originally posted by: SaigonK
Ummm..what are you talking about? Cocaine isnt a cover..it might have been written by Clapton and Browne but wtf are you talking about?
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Cocaine - as well as after midnight are JJ Cale songs.
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Thank you. And might I say that Clapton sped up both of these songs and absolutely butchered them.
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Hmm...I also just found out that Call Me the Breeze is by JJ Cale originally as well. So the Lynyrd Skynyrd version is a cover.
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In blues circles, JJ Cale is a legend.

 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: IndieSnob
Originally posted by: NL5
Originally posted by: SaigonK
Ummm..what are you talking about? Cocaine isnt a cover..it might have been written by Clapton and Browne but wtf are you talking about?
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Cocaine - as well as after midnight are JJ Cale songs.
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Thank you. And might I say that Clapton sped up both of these songs and absolutely butchered them.
Click to expand...

Hmm...I also just found out that Call Me the Breeze is by JJ Cale originally as well. So the Lynyrd Skynyrd version is a cover.
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Yep, and yet again, the original is much better than the cover, imho.

Pick up his Naturally album. While I'm really not into listening to him alot anymore, it's still a great album.
 
One night I was talking to some one that really into Nirvana when my cd player randomly played a song being covered by Tori Amos.

The person said "This is a cool song. What is it?"

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," I replied.
 
Originally posted by: Spydermag68
One night I was talking to some one that really into Nirvana when my cd player randomly played a song being covered by Tori Amos.

The person said "This is a cool song. What is it?"

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," I replied.
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some Nirvana fan....
 
I met this punk highschooler. I loved the band Orgy. He was listening to the song Blue Monday. Dressed the gothic subculture part and all that jazz. I asked him how he liked "New Order" and "Joy Division." He's like "What's that? Sounds like some happy raver sh!t." :|
 
"The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock & Roll" ~ B. B. King

I wonder how many people realize how many rock songs are recycled blues standards?

Here is one blues great: Willie Dixon


"Back Door Man" ? Howlin' Wolf, Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir
"Built for Comfort" ? Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO
"Dead Presidents" ? Little Walter
"Evil" ? Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
"Hoochie Coochie Man" ? Muddy Waters, Shadows of Knight, Nashville Teens, Allman Brothers, Steppenwolf
"I Ain't Superstitious" ? Howlin' Wolf, Jeff Beck Group, Grateful Dead, Megadeth
"I Can't Quit You Baby" ? Little Milton, Otis Rush, Led Zeppelin
"I Just Want To Make Love To You" ? Muddy Waters, Kinks, Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Grateful Dead, Foghat, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison
"I'm Ready" ? Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy
"Insane Asylum" ? Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald & Sly Stone
"Little Red Rooster" ? Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, The Doors (Live)
"Mellow Down Easy" ? Little Walter, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Black Crowes, Carey Bell
"My Babe" ? Little Walter, Spencer Davis Group, John Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters
"Pain in My Heart" ? Rolling Stones, Otis Redding
"Pretty Thing" ? Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat
"Seventh Son" ? Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Sting, Climax Blues Band
"Spoonful" ? Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead
"Tollin' Bells" ? Lowell Fulson, Savoy Brown Blues Band
"Three Hundred Pounds of Joy" ? Howlin' Wolf
"Wang Dang Doodle" ? Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, Living Blues, PJ Harvey
"You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at Its Cover" ? Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Cactus
"You Shook Me" ? Muddy Waters, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin
"You Need Love" ? Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" was appropriated without credit from Dixon's "You Need Love" as was "You Shook Me". Dixon and his publisher received credit and royalties after a lawsuit was settled out of court.
 
everybody should know, but i was actually discussing this today with my wife, we both couldn't remember whose song this was originally:

Knocking on Heaven's Door - GNR
 
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower is a Bob Dylan cover, seems obvious but you'd be surprised.

Just about all of Nirvana's most popular slower songs (Plateau, Oh Me, Lake of Fire) are covers of the Meat Puppets.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door was Bob Dylan too.. much better version
 
Originally posted by: sniperruff
how about the men in black song... everybody only knows it's the one in men in black. hell i forgot what the original song is!
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It was that Disco song...Send Me No Forget Me Nots, I think it was called. I think that qualifies as something of a "sample" than a "cover" since the lyrics are different, only the beat is the same.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: IndieSnob
Originally posted by: NL5
Originally posted by: SaigonK
Ummm..what are you talking about? Cocaine isnt a cover..it might have been written by Clapton and Browne but wtf are you talking about?
Click to expand...

Cocaine - as well as after midnight are JJ Cale songs.
Click to expand...



Thank you. And might I say that Clapton sped up both of these songs and absolutely butchered them.
Click to expand...

Hmm...I also just found out that Call Me the Breeze is by JJ Cale originally as well. So the Lynyrd Skynyrd version is a cover.
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I think Clapton also covered Traveling Light, which I think is by JJ Cale also.

I wouldn't say Clapton "butchered" those songs.
 
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