Today’s list won’t be short. There won’t be an explanation, just songs I love. Feel free to tell me how I enjoy a bunch of crap because I will merely laugh at the music snobbery. I will try to note where I prefer a cover version to a original.
- A Better Place to Be by Harry Chapin
- Wishlist by Pearl Jam
- Everybody Knows by Leonard Choen
- Tomorrow Wendy by Concrete Blonde
- The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel
- Let it Be by the Beatles
- He went to Paris by Jimmy Buffett
- Purple Rain by Prince
- Both Hands by Ani DiFranco
- Seven Spanish Angels by Ray Charles and Willie Nelson
- Stars by Hum
- Tyler by The Toadies
- Pale Blue Eyes by Velvet Underground
- My Name is Mud by Primus
- Kyoto Song by The Cure
- Angry Johnny by Poe
- A Little Help From my Friends covered by Joe Cocker
- Cake and Sodomy by Marilyn Manson
- Time cover by Tori Amos
- Jolene by Dolly Parton
- I Can’t Stand the Rain by Missy Elliot
- Opiate by Tool
- Für Elise by Beethoven
- Lodi by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies
- In the Pines cover by Nirvana
- American Pie by Don Mclean
- Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy
- It’s Good to be King by Tom Petty
- On the Turning Away by Pink Floyd
- Spoiled by Joss Stone
- Stanley by eminem
- Be Without You by Mary J Blige
- Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots
- Angel of the Morning cover by Merrilee Rush
- Country Death Song by Violent Femmes
- Lucky Ball and Chain by They Might be Giants
- Liz Phair Flower
- Boats and Birds by Gregory and the Hawk
- Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O’Connor
- You and Me and Rainbows by Legendary Pink Dots
- Young Blood by Naked and Famous
- Look Across America by Blur
- 99 Red Balloons by Nena
- Last Summer by Garth Brooks
- It’s so Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday by Boys II Men
- She’s Like the Wind by Patrick Swayze
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Rolling Stones
- Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad by Meatloaf
- Tainted Love cover by Soft Cell
- Hero by Maria Carey
- Ain’t no Sunshine When She’s Gone by Bill Withers
- Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins
- In Search of My Rose by Tear Garden
- Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
- Losing My Religion by REM
- Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
- People are Strange by The Doors
- Burden in My Hand by Soundgarden
- Killing Me Softly covered by The Fugees
- Curtis Lowe by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac
- Gin and Juice by Dr Dre and Snoop
- Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye
- You Don’t Own Me covered by The Blow Monkeys
- What Deaner Was Talking About by Ween
- Wave of Mutilation by The Pixies
- She Has a Girlfriend Now by Reel Big Fish
- Falling Away From Me by Korn
- Homesick by Soul Asylum
- Around Here by Counting Crows
- Creep by Radiohead
- Bad Romance by Lady Gaga
- Longview by Green Day
- Uninvited by Alanis Morissette
- One by U2
- Do Ya Think I’m Sexy by Revolting Cocks
- Unchained Melody by Righteous Brothers
- Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum
- Who Knew by Pink
- Fools Rush In by Elvis Presley
- Smooth Criminal covered by Alien Ant Farm
- Piano Man by Billy Joel
- Feeling Good by Nina Simone
- Santeria by Sublime
- Bring Me to Life by Evanescence
- Foolish Games by Jewel
- Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie
- Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper
- If I Were a Boy by Beyonce
- In too Deep by Phil Collins
- Push it by Salt-N-Pepa
- Hard to Handle covered by The Black Crows
- Loser by Beck
- Shadowboxer by Fiona Apple
- Five String Serenade by Mazzy Star
- Linger by The Cranberries
- The Rose by Bette Midler
- Take it Easy by The Eagles
- Cashmere by Led Zeppelin
Recent Comments