Top 35 Greatest Rock Cover Versions...

[Tray73]

as voted for by Planet Rock radio listeners 2013




35. Cream - Crossroads
34. Rush - The Seeker
33. Muse - Feeling Good
32. Whitesnake - Ain't No Love In The Heart of the City
31. Saxon - Ride Like The Wind
30. Faith No More - War Pigs
29. Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray
28. GnR - Sympathy For The Devil
27. Disturbed - Land of Confusion
26. Deep Purple - Hush
25. The Who - Summertime Blues
24. Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar
23. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
22. Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
21. Frijid Pink - The House of the Rising Sun
20. Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi
19. Stranglers - Walk On By
18. Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
17. Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World
16. Black Crowes - Hard To Handle
15. Shinedown - Simple Man
14. Gun - Word Up
13. Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
12. Thunder - Gimme Shelter
11. Status Quo - Roadhouse Blues
10. Thin Lizzy - Rosalie
9. Metallica - Am I Evil
8. Johnny Cash - Hurt
7. GnR - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
6. Peter Frampton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Van Halen - You Really Got Me
4. GnR - Live And Let Die
3. Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
2. Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar
1. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower


Never realised Status Quo's Rockin' All Over The World wasn't their own until I listened to this countdown yesterday. Some strange choices in my opinion, most notably Metallica's version of Whisky In The Jar coming in second. As much as I love Metallica there's no way their version is better than Lizzy's and to be runner up??! Would've liked to have seen Jeff Healey's cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps in there, rather than Frampton's though he does do a great job of it.
I knew Jimi's All Along The Watchtower would take the top spot before the countdown began, but I think it very much deserves to be there.

 

[Nololob]

3 GnR tracks on the list. It shows how OVERPLAYED this band is on the radio.Was glad to see Saxon, Whitesnake and Nazareth there (as well as Frijid Pink!).

 

[Magic]

Johnny Cash - Hurt made it to the top ten.

 

[LG]

Some really good songs I like on that list, I agree with Tray about Hendrix's cover being #1, not on my personal list.

Van Halen's cover is one of the best ever done, I prefer it to the Kinks original myself.

 

[Magic]

There a several I would have liked to see make it on a "top" list:


Santana's Black Magic Woman
Clapton's Cocaine
CCR's I Heard it Through the Grapevine

 

[LG]

^^I concur I like all 3 of those songs better than the originals, especially Black Magic Woman.

 

[Magic]

That list above is too biased.....

too much GnR & Metallica on the list.

 

[LG]

Demographics Magic, I wouldn't put any G 'n R songs on any of my lists period.

 

[Magic]

The only cover GnR did that would make it to my list would be "Knocking on Heavens Door"

Metallica's "Whiskey in the Jar" would maybe make my list.

 

[LG]

^^I think that's one of the worst covers, even though I'm not a big Dylan fan his original is way better than G'nR's cover.