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Best Beatles covers

tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
edited June 2007 in Other Music
These are all were winners for me:

Aerosmith- Come Together
Ray Charles- imagine
Motley Crue- Helter Skelter ´creepy band, good cover´
Eddie Vedder- You've Got To Give Your Love Away
Aretha Franklin- Let It Be, She really takes this one to church
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Joe Cocker - With Alittle Help From Friends = Easily the best cover
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I'm sorry, but Aerosmith opening in Ottawa with Helter Skelter was quite posisbly the coolest thing I've seen at a show, partly because I didn't know they did a version!
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  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,671
    i'm down - beastie boys
  • i like matt.ci like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    I want You (She's So Heavy) Soundgarden
  • thecrackedjackthecrackedjack Posts: 148
    Come Together - Aerosmith

    The original was always one of my least favorite Beatles song. But this version is amazing. Sounds like it was made to be an Aerosmith song.
  • clarefromscotlandclarefromscotland Posts: 154
    Siouxsie & the Banshees - Helter Skelter
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  • fadafada Posts: 1,032
    I am the Walrus Oasis
    Eleanor Rigby Ray Charles
    With a litttle help from my friends Joe Cocker
    Ticket to ride the carpenters
    Day Tripper Ocean Colour Scene
  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Surprisingly, Styx's cover of I am the Walrus is very very good.
  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Joe Cocker - With Alittle Help From Friends = Easily the best cover


    so true...one of the few beatles covers i say elevates the material...imagine if the Beatles had done it this way
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  • kenny olavkenny olav Posts: 3,319
    LedZepFan wrote:
    so true...one of the few beatles covers i say elevates the material...imagine if the Beatles had done it this way


    my god, i never thought of that before. it would be different, but could be awesome! but we can only wonder...
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,936
    Jeff Beck - A Day in the Life
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  • The Waiting Trophy ManThe Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    I'm probably going to get flamed bad for this, but Michael Jackson did a pretty cool version of Come Together.

    Also, on the I Am Sam soundtrack, whoever it was that covered Nowhere Man did a good job of it.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    chiefojibwa wrote:
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    damn, id love to hear that!

    i agree with ed's cover of hide your love away. also oasis's i am the walrus. the only bad thing about it is ive only heard the masterplan version which fades out... what the fuck? who fades out a live cut?

    i actually can't stand aerosmith's cover of come together. but i have to say i can imagine them doing a bad ass helter skelter.
  • crittablescrittables Posts: 342
    u2 - helter skelter
    eddie vedder - you've got to hide your love away
    and i love ben harpers version of strawberry fields
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    soulsinging wrote:
    damn, id love to hear that!

    i agree with ed's cover of hide your love away. also oasis's i am the walrus. the only bad thing about it is ive only heard the masterplan version which fades out... what the fuck? who fades out a live cut?

    i actually can't stand aerosmith's cover of come together. but i have to say i can imagine them doing a bad ass helter skelter.
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    I've always been fond of Sarah Mclaughlin's Blackbird cover.

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Joe Cocker-She came in through the Bathroom Window
    U2-Helter Skelter
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  • Gremmie95Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Joe Cocker - With Alittle Help From Friends = Easily the best cover


    agreed.
  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    clarefromscotland wrote:
    Siouxsie & the Banshees - Helter Skelter
    damn I thought I'd be the one who got to say this :p

    I've got one slightly better though..

    Siouxsie & the Banshees - Dear Prudence.

    They outdo the Beatles version.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,936
    I said it earlier in the thread but it deserves repeating. JEFF BECK - A DAY IN THE LIFE

    it's an instrumental version from George Martin's album "In My Life" album. seek it out if you've never heard it.
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  • tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
    i got more here

    Johnny Cash- In My Life, by on one of his last albums, very raw, but good.
    Neil Young- Imagine
    Jeff Healey Band- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Ben Harper- Strawberry Fields Forever
    Jeff Beck- She's a Woman (Blow By Blow), Great drumming by Richard Bailey
    Soundgarden- Come Together
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    "Act Naturally" - The Beatles

    Oh wait, that is a song The Beatles covered.

    I will then have to go with:

    "With a Little Help from My Friends" - Joe Cocker
  • TizoffthechainTizoffthechain Posts: 116
    Helter Skelter (don't know how you write it!): U2
    Live and let die: GNR
    "Come on people now, smile on your brother and everybody get together, try to love one another right now!!!!"
    "You my friend, I will defend and if we change, well I love you anyway"
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  • trammeustrammeus Posts: 124
    how can you forget to mention Hendrix?

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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    U2 - Helter Skelter and most of the songs from the I am Sam soundtrack, especially:

    Two of Us - Michael Penn and Amy Mann
    Blackbird - Sarah McLaghlan
    Across the Universe - Rufus Wainwright
    You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Eddie
    Golden Slumbers - Ben Folds
    Nowhere Man - Paul Westerberg

    I was so excited to hear a remake of "We Can Work it Out" by Heather Nova but I was quite disappointed. That seems like such an easy song to cover and make good.
  • perpectual soundperpectual sound Posts: 499
    across the universe - john butler
    I'd rather be with an animal.
  • chris01chris01 Posts: 559
    Noel Gallagher/Eddie Vedder - Hide Your Love Away ( i like both, they didnt do a duet :p )
  • White SpiderWhite Spider Posts: 4
    Soundgarden- Come Together
  • Mike_Muse_RageMike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    White Spider wrote:
    Soundgarden- Come Together
    Definitely. I'm not a huge fan of Aerosmith's cover; they didn't change the song much at all.
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