Best Beatles covers

tonadax
tonadax 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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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Joe Cocker - With Alittle Help From Friends = Easily the best cover
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin 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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  • JOEJOEJOE
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    i'm down - beastie boys
  • i like matt.c
    i like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    I want You (She's So Heavy) Soundgarden
  • thecrackedjack
    thecrackedjack 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.
  • clarefromscotland
    clarefromscotland Posts: 154
    Siouxsie & the Banshees - Helter Skelter
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  • fada
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    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 olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Surprisingly, Styx's cover of I am the Walrus is very very good.
  • LedZepFan
    LedZepFan 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 olav
    kenny 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...
  • Ledbetterman10
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    Jeff Beck - A Day in the Life
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The 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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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    elliot smith: yer blues

    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.
  • crittables
    crittables Posts: 342
    u2 - helter skelter
    eddie vedder - you've got to hide your love away
    and i love ben harpers version of strawberry fields
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin 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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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    I've always been fond of Sarah Mclaughlin's Blackbird cover.

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  • tybird
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    Joe Cocker-She came in through the Bathroom Window
    U2-Helter Skelter
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  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Joe Cocker - With Alittle Help From Friends = Easily the best cover


    agreed.
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl 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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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,015
    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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