We've covered lists before here on Not Too Crazy, so by now I expect you know: I am a listmaker; I make lists for almost everything. I write them by hand, with ink, on paper, and I've been doing so since I was a kid. I'm pretty sure this habitslashcompulsion originated with my initial reading of Anastasia Krupnik circa 1985, but I cannot be certain.Eventually, the playlist will be ordered so that my chosen cover version plays first, followed by the original. The cover versions I'm listing here may not be The Royale With Cheese of cover versions*, but they're the ones I know/love/want. For example, of all the Hallelujahs in all the world, many (most?) of you would probably select Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, and I get it. No, I do. I get that. I happen prefer Rufus Wainwright's version, and you'll just need to accept that about me.
Anyhoo, at present, I am making a list of cover songs which will later become a playlist. The list in current progress below is what I have up to today; it's not complete and it's not in any particular order. What do you think? What would you add? What am I missing?
Hallelujah
Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen
Wild Horses
The Sundays, The Rolling Stones
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Heart, Elton John
Hurt
Johnny Cash, NIN
The Weight
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with Old Crow Medicine Show, The Band
99 Problems
Hugo, Jay Z
Crying
KD Lang, Roy Orbison
Easy
Faith No More, The Commodores
I Will Survive
Cake; Gloria Gaynor
With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker, The Beatles
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Marilyn Manson, Eurythmics
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Guns 'n' Roses, Bob Dylan
Killing Me Softly With His Song
The Fugees, Roberta Flack
Oh Pretty Woman
Van Halen, Roy Orbison
I'll Be There
Mariah Carey, The Jackson Five
Gold Dust Woman
Hole, Fleetwood Mac
Valerie
Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez on Glee, Amy Winehouse
I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton
Landslide
Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac
Hazy Shade of Winter
The Bangles, Simon & Garfunkel
Everybody Knows
Concrete Blonde, Leonard Cohen
Dancing Days
STP, Led Zeppelin
Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
Urge Overkill, Neil Diamond
Wild Night
John Mellencamp and Meshell Ndegeocello, Van Morrison
Cruel to Be Kind
Letters to Cleo, Nick Lowe
Love Hurts
Nazareth, The Everly Brothers
*Faith No More's cover of Easy is The Royale With Cheese of covers.
Geoffrey gets all offended when I even hint at this, but I love the Ryan Adams cover of "Wonderwall." It's so gorgeous and haunting. It's what I would add, personally. I also love Bon Iver's "I Can't Make You Love Me," while I'm making G scoff.
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The Man Who Sold the World
Nirvana / David Bowie
Jersey Girl
Bruce Springsteen / Tom Waits
Ol' 55
The Eagles / Tom Waits
I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
10,000 Maniacs / Tom Waits
None of those Waits' covers are any good, mind you. But they're covers. I mean, maybe some people like them, but Tom's songs aren't done correctly by anyone but Tom.
Big props for Letters to Cleo. I loved that band.
And you know what's funny? I really like Justin Timberlake's "Hallelujah"... I even purchased it on iTunes I liked it so much.