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Re: Cover songs
Like it or not, most bands play covers live or record them at some point. GnR has an entire covers album and of course did a few covers on UYI and Lies. Is there any band that stands out to you as a particularly good band when it comes to cover songs? And what does a band's ability to perform songs they didn't write say to you?
I've been listening a lot to Faith No More's versions of Easy, War Pigs, and I Started a Joke. They're all done extremely well imo, and the way Patton's voice sounds different on every track to fit it is impressive too. Instead of making the song theirs, they made themselves into the bands they were covering, which is very much not what Guns did with their covers. Of course, each way of doing covers has its own advantage. FNM did I Started a Joke and Easy very well live too.
Re: Cover songs
Jane's Addiction "Sympathy for the Devil" (Done years before GnR), hard to find, but a great song. As was their cover of Lou Reeds "Rock and Roll", I'm not sure what other covers they did. I think they had one or two others. Both Elvis & Willie Nelson do "You were always on my mind" very well, and Willie does "Georgia" very well. I think that was originally Ray Charles. I know Willie has some other covers. (City of New Orleans, Take it to the Limit, To all the Girls I've loved before)
