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i suggest everyone tries to listen to that song.

don’t rush back, jay kay. please.

Aretha covering Carole King’s “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman”

Bonnie Raitt covering John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery”

Janis Joplin covering “Summertime” and “Ball And Chain” and “Bobby McGee”.
Three for the price of one.

The Dixie Chicks covering Stevie Nicks’s “Landslide”

The Indigo Girls covering The Grateful Dead’s “Uncle John’s Band”

Dittos to the Stevie Ray Vaughn covering Hendrix’s “Little Wing”. I weep in joy.

Jimi Hendrix covering Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower”

The Allman Bros w/ Duane covering T Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday”

Someone mentioned “Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen): song covered by many, this one stands out” Never heard that version; I’d like to ,but I think it would be tough to top John Cale’s cover.

The Creedence version of “Heard It Through the Grapevine.”

“Absolutely Sweet Marie” by Jason and the Scorchers.

I’ll second whoever added “Take Me To The River”

And, keeping with the Indian slant, I will offer this Bhangra cover album of the Sex Pistols for Neddie Jingo’s bad cover throwdown. I haven’t heard the whole songs, but the samples are enough.

1. Higher Ground by Chili Peppers.
2. Gloria by Patti Smith
3. Head On by the Pixies
4. Nothing Compares to You by Sinead O’Connor
5. Hey Joe by Hendrix
6. Sympathy For The Devil by Jane’s Addiction
7. Money by The Flying Lizards
8. My Way by Sid Vicious
9. I Want you Back by The Bouncing Souls (I heard this live in 1990? and I still remember it well. I don’t know if it was ever recorded.)

beautiful.

Aerosmith’s cover of Come Together on Live is absolutely the best cover of that song every done and I like it way better than the Beatles original.

And Love Hurts by Nazareth. When I heard GP’s original, I thought he was covering Nazareth. I kid you not.

Get Your Wings is a FABULOUS record. Speaking of remastered - wish granted! That opening lick is the last two strings on the 12th and 13th fret, if my memory of the tabs serves me correctly!

Another Aerosmith song I painstakingly mastered on my Fender Squier Strat in 1997 was “Dream On.” I was so stoked when I could play along with all those cool, clean solos. I think I still remember how to play it, and I sadly haven’t picked up a guitar once in the last year or so.

I love listening to their early records and noting how Steven Tyler’s voice evolved over the years. He always said “Fake it ’till you make it,” and he was definitely doing that on their debut album and others. He’s admitted to trying as hard as he can to sound like an old black bluesman. Then and now, that son of a bitch has one of the best voices in rock and roll.

“I’m in heat, I’m in love, but I just couldn’t tell her so, NAW NAW NAW!!!”

Well, Patti Smith’s version of Gloria is a great start. Other immediate covers that jump to my mind (probably now that Spring is here) are Johnny Thunders’ Pipeline, the Cramps’ Surfin Bird, half a dozen Ramones songs, and of course, Louie Louie by the Kingsmen.

For pure emotional kick in the gut, however, I have to agree with commenter Jennifer Jo Janisch’s pick of Johnny Cash doing Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt.” One of the most powerful songs I’ve ever heard. Another cover in the same vein is Nina Simone’s version of Dylan’s Ballad of Hollis Brown. Strong stuff.

You discovered that record in 1997 and I in 1976 and we both share the same affinity for it. There is only one reason for that being the case: it’s a great fucking record and the Train Kept a Rollin’ anchors that side of the LP so nicely doesn’t? You get a little taste of some original composition with first track “SOS Too Bad” and BOOM!!! hear comes that awesome opening lick which I STILL can’t figure out how to do the pull offs to make it some like the record. I almost can’t listen to Train Kept a Rollin’” without hearing “SOS Too Bad” first. How ’bout the fade into “Spaced”?

Get Your Wings is perfection. It needs re-mastering and re-release.

that is the best wrong song ever in a way. I collect different versions of it. Patti’s is by far the most innovative in its imagining of the song.

Other best covers are

“I wanna be your man” Rolling Stones version

“If She Ever Comes Now” Nirvana version

Everything the headcoatees ever did but especially “Length of Pipe” and “I’ve gotta move”.

“Can’t seem to make you mine” Alex Chilton version.

Actually there are a few artists whose whole gig is doing amazing covers. Like the Cramps.

From their 1974 album Get Your Wings: “Train Kept a Rollin’”, originally done by The Yardbirds, if I’m not mistaken. I begged my parents for an electric guitar, bought the tablature to that album, and would play along with the solos on this track. Joe Perry’s guitar sounds like the scream of wheels against the metal of a train track (and so did my guitar efforts, and not necessarily in a good way…)

I got teased relentlessly at middle school for talking about all the Aerosmith concerts I was dragging my parents to (and for wearing black leather pants in an ‘effort’ to be as cool as Joe Perry - ok, maybe I deserved the harrassment…)

But I did grab the attention of my first “official” boyfriend that year, who thought it was super cool that I could play guitar. His name was Russell, and last I heard, he was in jail in Kentucky for drug-related charges.

Thanks, Aerosmith! ROCK ON.

The Hendrix Watchtower SMOKES the Dylan original. Before you pounce, I was only bating you above, I like a little Dylan and make my offering at the alter now and again, but PLEASE, the vocal coming out of the guitar solo still gives me chills even after hearing it a billions times. What, do you guys hate rock?

Add to the list Aerosmith’s “Train Kept a Rollin’ “ (don’t EVEN argue with me unless you’ve actually listened to it more than once). Judas Priest’s “Diamond’s & Rust”, Blackfoot’s “Wishing Well” (although the original is DAMN good), Nazareth’s “Love Hurts”, Faith No More’s “War Pigs”… I’ve got more, but the greatest all time best cover/version is Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Tin Pan Alley”. I know Jason’s going to toss out some obscure artist to counter my posit, but there is NO WAY anybody comes close to the Stevie Ray version EVER (I have a half finished post on I need to resurrect).

The idea of A Newcritics Radio stream or podcast parking area could actually pull me out of the funk I’m in right now…