The Greatest Cover Songs of All Time. Its generally agreed upon that if you dont have any new flavor to add to the original, you shouldnt bother doing a cover. But what exactly are the ingredients for a great cover Theres no secret recipe. Some of the songs below are great because they completely deconstruct the original, stripping it down to its most basic components of chords and lyrics, and build it back up again in a completely different style. For others, the genius of the original song was always present but the presentation was lacking, and when the talents of a different performer are added, the song gains a gravity that it didnt have in its original form. And some of them, whether by generational ignorance or through the general obscurity of the original artist, simply didnt receive the exposure they needed for their greatness to be recognized until they were delivered by a more familiar voice. R/R6_01-Gnj8zNZWn3CZLlMavNwD9h84Ph5urYI7.jpg' alt='Crack For Reason 6 Demo Songs' title='Crack For Reason 6 Demo Songs' />But the finest of these, the ones we love the best, are simply great songs by great artists where the addition of a new twist and a new voice creates something that is greater than the sum of its parts. You can hear and recognize the glory of the original version in every note of the cover, but the listening experience is taken to another level through the talents of the covering artist. The process for generating our list was fairly simple. Was Courtney Love really in Faith No More She was indeed. She joined the band in 1983, a period in which FNM were going through a lot of singers and guitarists. We created a huge list 8. Those top 1. 00 lists were weighted on a curve and used to generate the list that you see below. Next week, well publish a separate honorable mention post featuring some of the songs that didnt earn enough votes to make the list, but were important enough to individual authors that we wanted to make sure they received some attention as well. If youve got a Spotify account, you can listen to most of the originals here, and the cover versions here. If you dont have an account yet, you can request an invitation they issue them pretty promptly now. Enjoy Zack Dennis1. Alone Heart.  Originally performed by I Ten. The people who end up becoming the top pop songwriters often end up in that position because their days as pop performers never came or ended too early. Linda Perry or Richard Marx, for example. People like that. Or the duo of Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. Steinberg had a pop band in the late 7. Billy Thermal, with whom he recorded his composition How Do I Make You, far better known for being sung later on by Linda Ronstadt. Soon thereafter, Steinberg met session and backing musician Tom Kelly, and they started writing together. They scored a ton of hits, for other people, primarily women they had an uncanny knack for writing songs from a female point of view. Their songs were recorded over the last three decades by Pat Benatar, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston, the Bangles, and the Divinyls. But back in 1. 98. Steinberg and Kelly formed a band called I Ten. One of the songs they recorded was a sheeny rock ballad called Alone. It was not a hit. Nor was it when it was covered for the first time by, of all people, John Stamos, in character as Gino Minelli of the fake rock band The Dreams on the 1. Dreams. Then Heart got a hold of it, well into their second era as an 8. A million miles from Magic Man, they were free to make Alone an even slicker, junior high slow dance histrionics n hooks kind of song than even I ten could do. Alone wound up being Hearts biggest hit ever, going to 1 for three weeks in 1. Brian Boone. 99. Jersey Girl Bruce Springsteen the E Street Band. Originally performed by Tom Waits. Springsteen sure knows how to pick the best cover songs, as he proved when he chose this 1. Tom Waits to close out his series of concerts at the Meadowlands in 1. Waits tender lyrics are so tapped into the same Jersey mythology that Bruce popularized, and the Boss sings Waits song with such reverence and conviction with only some minor lyrical changes, that it almost seems as if Jersey Girl was written specifically for Springsteen. Everything about this recording sparkles the beautiful harmonies by Little Steven and Clarence Clemons, the subtle guitar and organ accompaniments, and the lovely sax solo by the Big Man to bring the song to a close. Jersey Girl was never an official from Springsteen that it remains one of his most popular songs is attributable to the E Street Bands stellar performance and the beauty of Tom Waits composition. Scott Malchus. 98. I Know Im Losing You Rod Stewart. Originally performed by The Temptations. Rod Stewart had already begun to stir up a considerable buzz by 1. Faces and on his first two solo albums, which were moderate hits. However, that years Every Picture Tells a Story and its hit single Maggie May rocketed him into the stratosphere. The album is rightly considered by most to be the best record he ever did, and this Temptations cover, recorded with the full Faces lineup of Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, Ron Wood and Ian Mc. Lagan contractual issues required that the sleeve credits be vague, since Rod solo was on Mercury and the Faces were with Warners, is regarded by many as one of the best tracks. Where the Temps played it smooth, the Faces apply their usual instinctively loose and ragged bash and crash, and Rods sandpaper vocal brings out the hurt and heartbreak inherent in the lyric. The middle section where the boys mm hmm mm as Rod sings down low over Macs piano, is a revelation. Wonder whatever happened to that Stewart fella, anywayNever mind, I dont think I wanna know. Johnny Bacardi. 97. If Not For You George Harrison. Originally performed by Bob Dylan. Have I ever told you how achingly I crushed on Olivia Newton John at the dawn of my pubescence, even before Grease She was so adorable and yet somehow so sexy early in her career, with those doe eyes and that crystalline voice and those Aussie goes country singles of hers, and I cant imagine anyone else singing If Not for You with anything like the austerely romantic groove she brought to it. Oh this is about George Harrisons version Yeah, thats good, too. Jon Cummings. 96. I Need Love Luka Bloom. Originally performed by LL Cool J. Covering LL Cool Js seminal rap ballad was not easy, says Luka Bloom in an interview he called it the most challenging song Ive ever learnedIt took me a year to get it right. Blooms version exchanges the slickness of the original for a warmer, more intimate vibe. The language is still hip hop circa 1. Irish traditional music. For Bloom, the connection between his form and LLs is a simple one both come from, and are for, the people in the streets. Steal The Dragon Ebook. Robin Monica Alexander. How Soon Is Now Love Spit Love. Originally performed by The Smiths. Im not thrilled with the idea of anyone covering songs by the Smiths theres very little anyone could do to any of them to make them better or even do them justice. But if someone held a gun to the head of a kitten and told me that to save its life I had to articulate a genuine complaint about How Soon is Now, Id say that perhaps their near perfect anthem to loneliness meanders along too much and the music eventually becomes repetitious. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, ISPendorsed frontman and villain of a theoretical future Revenge of the Nerds reboot, is trying to dupe everyone into believing abandoning. Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. The story behind Garth Brooks iconic song Friends In Low Places is just about as entertaining as the actual song itself. Note Amirgal Morph 12 and Marilag Morph 6 morphs which were created by Jovan Pesec, using NTONYX StyleMorpher 2. International Guitar Festival Rust 2002. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Chalkhills and XTC. This page contains the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions often seen in Chalkhills, The XTC. Popdose presents the 100 greatest cover songs of all time, as voted by the Popdose staff. Although Richard Butler and Love Spit Love were initially reluctant to meddle with the classic when asked to record their own interpretation for the 1.