Best Cover Band??

[Cliche Guevara]

Led Zeppelica Has my vote.

[phmeworp]

^^^ LoL, but true!

I'd have to go with either Joe Cocker or Vanilla Fudge... don't think either one ever did anything original.

[Cliche Guevara]

^ i hope you don't think I'm insulting Led Zeppelin, Theirs this band thats actually called Led Zeppelica and all they do is cover Led Zeppelin songs.

[Σnigma]

Dread Zeppelin.

[phmeworp]

^ i hope you don't think I'm insulting Led Zeppelin, Theirs this band thats actually called Led Zeppelica and all they do is cover Led Zeppelin songs.

Uh... Durrrrr!
I totally misread your post, but I have heard that much of the Blimp's early work was either covers or rip-offs of very obscure blues artists. Nothing wrong with that, except they were never credited.

[parkus]

The Misfats.

[Σnigma]

Metallica might be a piece of shit, but Apocalyptica made Metallica a piece of bearable shit.

[Th0r]

Killer Queen.

[M. Samuel Chevalier]

Dark Star Orchestra.

[Born/Dead]

me first and the gimme gimmes.

[Metaphysicist]

Dread Zeppelin.

My uncle went to HS with Joe, their bass player. I remember watching him in another band back in the late 70's called Hi-Fi.

^^^ LoL, but true!

I'd have to go with either Joe Cocker or Vanilla Fudge... don't think either one ever did anything original.

Vanilla Fudge did plenty of original tunes. But yeah, their best stuff were covers. Their version of Season of the Witch has got to be the best out there.

As far as copy bands go, I though Wild Child [a Door's ocver band] were pretty damn authentic sounding.

[Cliche Guevara]

me first and the gimme gimmes.

THis.

[Frank]

Apocalypticia, Easy Star All Stars, Dokaka's acapella covers, Zappa plays Zappa.

[Razor]

me first and the gimme gimmes.

Absolutely. O Sole Mio is pure semi-sophisticated greatness.

[Anima Mundi]

me first and the gimme gimmes.

This, and I like richard cheese.

[personspersona]

Lez Zeppelin

I always thought that if women created a band, there where 99,95% of chances that it would be either shitty Spice Girl ''bitch power'' pop, or a shitty MTV rap group until I heard them.

Or maybe I found the 0.05%?

[lostmyface]

SUBLIME is by far my favorite cover band.

[M. Samuel Chevalier]

SUBLIME is by far my favorite cover band.

lol wtf?

[Cliche Guevara]

they have a few cover songs.

[M. Samuel Chevalier]

Yes, a few but that doesn't really qualify them as a cover band, does it?

[Cliche Guevara]

nay

[lostmyface]

a great deal of sublimes songs are covers of other artist. i think that more than qualifies them as a cover band.

Decendents -> Sublime (Hope)
Grateful Dead -> Sublime (Scarlet Begonias)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (Do it Twice/Boss DJ)
Bad Brains -> Sublime (House of Suffering)
Peter Tosh -> Sublime (Legalize it)
The Melodians -> Sublime (Rivers of Babylon)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (One Cup)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (Judge Not)
Bad Religion -> Sublime (We're only Gonna Die From Our Arrogance)
Half Pint -> Sublime (What I Got)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (Trenchtown Rock)
The Vandals -> Sublime (Ball and Chain)
The Toyes -> Sublime (Smoke Two Joints)
Barrington Levy -> Sublime (She's Mine/Saw Red)
Sublime -> Peter Tosh (Steppin' Razor)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (Jailhouse)
Minor Threat -> Sublime (Minor Threat)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (Guava Jelly, This Train, Cornerstone Medley)
The Minutemen -> Sublime (History Lesson Part II/Waiting for My Ruca)
The Ziggens -> Sublime (Big Salty Tears)
Fishbone -> Sublime (Party at Ground Zero)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (Zimbabwe)
Falling Idols -> Sublime (Falling Idols)
Don Carlos -> Sublime (Pass me the Lazerbeam)
Bob Marley -> Sublime (Hammer)
Half Pint -> Sublime (Cost of Living)
Courtney Melody -> Sublime (A Ninja Me Ninja)
Camper Van Beethoven -> Sublime (Eye of Fatima)
The Descendants -> Sublime (Loser)
Half Pint -> Sublime (Winner Takes It All)

[M. Samuel Chevalier]

http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/introjs.htm?longlist.htm


So are the dead a cover band, too?
Even if you only count the songs they played more than 10 times, that's still upwards of 70.

[The Jitterskull]

Trivium is Metallica worship.
I also dislike them, a lot.

[lostmyface]

So are the dead a cover band, too?



yes, in my book the grateful dead is a cover band. hell one of my fav dead songs, me an my uncle, is a cover. the only reason i did not mention them is because i think sublime does a better job covering other peoples songs.

[blue_monday]

hayseed dixie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJUywl7CFw

[Born/Dead]

cover bands don't write their own lyrics, they can change the music and whatnot. sublime isn't remotely a cover band, they have more original work than covers...

[M. Samuel Chevalier]

cover bands don't write their own lyrics, they can change the music and whatnot. sublime isn't remotely a cover band, they have more original work than covers...

yes, in my book the grateful dead is a cover band. hell one of my fav dead songs, me an my uncle, is a cover. the only reason i did not mention them is because i think sublime does a better job covering other peoples songs.



Interesting perspectives...Personally, I only consider a group to be a cover band if they proclaim themselves as a cover band and justify it by mostly playing covers. To me, I'd rather give a group the benefit of the doubt and give them their own recognition as an original, unique band- especially if the majority of their success (financially and popularly) is from their original work.

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[Psynthetic]

Dark Star Orchestra.

Have you heard of Furthur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furthur_(band))?

Badfish. Sublime cover band. Went to see them once. Drank a bit much then left before they came on stage for drunken city hijinks. My friends really liked them though.

Iron Horse. Their Bluegrass Tribute to Modest Mouse (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2QEV58V8) is fucking amazing. They also do bluegrass covers of Radiohead, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Green Day, Linkin Park, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and others.

And Phix. They're irrelevant now that Phish is back together though :)

[shopping cart for brains]

Dark Star Orchestra.

Saw them live with Tea Leaf Green, fuckin badass show. They both played for like 5 hours each.

[Bobweirsucks]

i second dark star orchestra and easy star all stars. Gov't mule is also a great cover band without being and actual cover band.

[DeadGirlsDon'tSayNo]

DSO

[D Toups]

Easy Star All Stars has my vote

[Auschwitz Nazi Disneyland]

id have to say nigger inch nails

theyre a pretty good cover band of all black people that do nine inch nails covers

Fuck you. I actually searched that one up