pinata242

This same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I've been a huge fan of The Descendents as long as I can remember and they have a song called "Wendy" that so perfectly fits into the rest of their library that I had no idea it was a cover of a Beach Boys tune until I happened to stop on the 60's station on XM and heard it. Ironic because one of my favorite things in the world is a cover song by a punk or ska band. God I miss Duped on XM's Fungus... Radio Faction sucks

Wow, I had no idea either. I love that song and will have to check out the JD one.

bunkaroo

Maybe the mangled it so bad it didn't resemble the original at all.

Rocketdog2000

Oh, and speaking of Tesla, I forgot to mention this in my post yesterday. You'd be amazed at how many people don't realize that the song "Signs" isn't an original of theirs, either. It's a cover of a song by Five Man Electrical Band, and also influenced the title of Tesla's unplugged album Five Man Acoustical Jam that their cover of the song appeared on.

Numanoid

Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun.

Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band's For You and Blinded By The Light, both Springsteen covers.

David Bowie's China Girl (and several others).

Nirvana's The Man Who Sold the World, a cover of Bowie's song (who in turn actually covered it himself from Lulu, though Bowie actually did write it).

No Doubt's It's My Life, a cover of the Talk Talk song.


And, of course...

Marilyn Manson and/or Foo Fighters Down in the Park is a Gary Numan cover...

As is the Nine Inch Nails song Metal.

nothingfails

Ph.D is actually just about to release their first album in over 25 years next month

Michael Corvin

Wow. I thought everyone knew that was a cover tune.

Pointyskull

I didn't make the connection until recently that on R.E.M.'s 1987 release Document the song Strange was a Wire cover. I had completely blanked out Wire's Pink Flag disc from 1977...

Ky-Fi

Dig the cats in this far-out scene, man:


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bunkaroo

Am I the only one who always hears Marge Simpson say "if you won't think of society's ills" every time they hear the chorus of "I Want Candy"?

aintnosin

More like a bastardization than a cover.

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" I can understand but how can someone who frequents a movie web site NOT know that "Live and Let Die" was a cover of the Bond theme song?

Cardiff Giant11

Ha weird I can't imagine what a Foo Fighters or Marilyn Manson version of Down in the Park would sound like. Gary Numan's weird voice seems like it's an essential part of his songs. I'll have to see if I can find some clips online.

PopcornTreeCt

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower... I always thought Bob Dylan copied Hendrix

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun... this song isn't an Animals original. According to wikipedia, the source is "uncertain"

nothingfails

well, with due respect, the internet wasn't really big yet when GNR's Live And Let Die was on the charts

Numanoid

Here you go:

Foo Fighters:




Manson:




Neither of which hold a candle to:

wendersfan

I can't think of a single one. Sorry.

Rocketdog2000

When I worked in music store some years back, I'd have tons of people not realizing that a song was a cover version. It'd be too long of a list to even attempt to make, so I won't bother.

nothingfails

being a kid in the 80's, I had no idea that either "Bette Davis Eyes" or "I Love Rock N' Roll" were remakes until many years later. Wasn't "Mickey" also a cover track? Hell, those are three of the most popular songs of the early 80's there and all were covers

UAIOE

Nirvana - "Love Buzz"

I had no idea this was a cover until Prodigy did it.

Cardiff Giant11

Wow both of those were pretty awful. I'm not a huge Gary Numan fan but always liked Down in the Park and some of his other stuff so maybe I'm a bit biased but those were just not for me.

costanza

kurt says that it was a david bowie song either before or after the song on the album.

mdc3000

Eh, I like the Foo version best. The Manson one is terrible and I've never been able to get into Gary Numan.

Cardiff Giant11

FWIW, I hated their cover of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street too. I like the Foo Fighters but I just don't like their covers for some reason

Hokeyboy

Terry Jacks's craptacularly morbid "Season sin the Sun" was a cover of a 1960s Belgian song, "Le Moribond"... which was a lot angrier and more sarcastic.

Also, "Superman" was originally by The Clique but more famously covered by R.E.M.

ScissorPuppy

Cyndi Lauper covered the Roy Orbison song "I drove all night" in 1989.
Strange thing is, Orbisons song wasn't finished and released until 1992, a few years after he died. So his song came out after the cover of it. Celine Dion also did a cover...

Gerry P.

Of course you do know that both Live and Let Die and Knockin' on Heaven's Door were originally hits from soundtracks of famous movies.