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Nowhere ManNowhere Man Posts: 345
edited July 2010 in Other Music
I know there has been a wide range of artists who have tried to cover a Beatles tune, but who do you think has done their songs justice? For me its a common one with Joe Cocker's "With A Liitle Help From My Friends", I just recently watched Woodstock again and that performance alone is why I always pick him for best Beatles cover.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Nowhere Man wrote:
    I know there has been a wide range of artists who have tried to cover a Beatles tune, but who do you think has done their songs justice? For me its a common one with Joe Cocker's "With A Liitle Help From My Friends", I just recently watched Woodstock again and that performance alone is why I always pick him for best Beatles cover.
    This week I had the pleasure of watching Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi play "I've Got A Feeling" and Dana Fuchs play "Don't Let Me Down" as well as "Helter Skelter"... All three were pretty fantastic.
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  • pjfaninindianapjfaninindiana Northeast Indiana Posts: 311
    How about Eddie's version of You've Got To Hide Your Love Away? That was a pretty good one.
  • Chip McFlenniganChip McFlennigan Posts: 1,162
    I thought Rufus Wainwright did a good job with Across the Universe. Wallflowers did a good I'm Looking Through You.
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  • Nowhere ManNowhere Man Posts: 345
    Another one I heard recently is Elliott Smith doing "Because".
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,415
    Only ones that come to my mind are Aerosmith doing Helter Skelter and Come Together. Also i like STP's version of Revolution.
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  • Drop1The0LeashDrop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    The Shitty Beatles :lol:

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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Nowhere Man wrote:
    I know there has been a wide range of artists who have tried to cover a Beatles tune, but who do you think has done their songs justice? For me its a common one with Joe Cocker's "With A Liitle Help From My Friends", I just recently watched Woodstock again and that performance alone is why I always pick him for best Beatles cover.
    Not much better than Joe for any cover, he is the man! Saw him live at Jones Beach summer of 08, still going strong and his Misunderstood is my favorite song ever, my theme song I guess.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nS0NRSGSI0
    I do love Eddie's, I've Just Seen A Face and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away covers, very moving , his voice so perfectly perfect, full of emotion, better than the originals for me.
  • Nowhere ManNowhere Man Posts: 345
    I enjoy a lot of the songs from the movie "Across The Universe", thought they all did a great job with the songs, and the movie was really good as well. Songs like "Girl, Just Seen A Face, Happiness Is A Warm Gun" to name a few.
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,939
    Jeff Beck - A Day In The Life
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uwvBizKAwc

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  • TheVan218TheVan218 Posts: 302
    Even if I wasn't a PJ fan, I'd still put EV's "You've Got to..." cover up as one of, if not the best, covers of all time.
  • False_BeliefFalse_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    Check out the soundtrack album to the Sean Penn movie 'I Am Sam' - a bunch of Beatles covers bybthe likes of Eddie, Wallflowers, Rufus Wainwright, Grandaddy, Sheryl Crowe, The Vines, Black Crowes, Nick Cave etc etc. Some decent stuff on there.

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  • Drop1The0LeashDrop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    False_Belief wrote:
    Check out the soundtrack album to the Sean Penn movie 'I Am Sam' - a bunch of Beatles covers bybthe likes of Eddie, Wallflowers, Rufus Wainwright, Grandaddy, Sheryl Crowe, The Vines, Black Crowes, Nick Cave etc etc. Some decent stuff on there.

    Ben Harper has a cover of Strawberry Fields on there too.
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  • ComeToTXComeToTX Austin Posts: 7,907
    I've never heard anyone cover The Beatles that were as good as the original. PJ included.
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Not really a cover, but I'm still a big fan of the Grey Album.

    Two of Us (Aimee Mann & Michael Penn) is a great cover from the I Am Sam soundtrack.

    Jerry Garcia did a phenomenal version of Dear Prudence live too with the Jerry Garcia Band.
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  • twisted thoughtstwisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    Phish played the entire white album at a Halloween show....they played it better than the Beatles IMO

    Jeff Beck's A Day in the Life is amazing...even w/out the words
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Jeff Beck's "A Day in the Life" is fantastic. Eddie's version of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" is great. Pearl Jam's version of Lennon's "Gimmie Some Truth" is awesome.
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Neil Youngs cover of A Day in the Life on his last tour was very good too. Destroyed Old Black when I saw it.
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    I should've mentioned SRV's version of "Taxman" is pretty good.
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