Best & Worse of FM cover songs ( as recorded by others )

[AlanC]

I think the only person who has covered Christines Songbird was Eva cassidy and my god I have to say that her version is the best ever! So beautiful!!

Worse song IMO was the Dixie Hicks 'Landslide"!!!

[paleshadow]

The worst Fleetwood Mac cover ever was Elton John's version of Don't Stop! I think I have to agree that the best cover was Eva Cassidy's Songbird.

[mylittledemon]

i think the most listen-able cover I've ever heard is the Cranberries version of "Go Your Own Way"

[Sanne2]

I really like the Smashing Pumpkins cover of Landslide.

[Livia]

Worst: Duncan Sheik's cover of Songbird. There was a lot of crap on that Patron Saints of Pop cover album too.

[paleshadow]

Originally Posted by Livia

Worst: Duncan Sheik's cover of Songbird. There was a lot of crap on that Patron Saints of Pop cover album too.

That Legacy album was a mess wasn't it! I forgot all about Duncan Sheiks Songbird. I have to say I did like Sister Hazels Gold Dust Woman. I thought it was really cool that they added the little bit of Rhiannon at the end.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by Livia

Worst: Duncan Sheik's cover of Songbird. There was a lot of crap on that Patron Saints of Pop cover album too.

Now see, I love the Patron Saints of Pop album! To my way of thinking, it's the best single collection of FM covers I've heard.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by Livia

Worst: Duncan Sheik's cover of Songbird.

DITTO!

I usually like most covers (and allow a whole acreage of leeway for the others)...even the Patron Saints Of Pop album has some, well, let's say "interesting" takes on some songs, but I wouldn't fling the dung on 'em.

Elton's "Don't Stop" isn't as good as I would have expected, but I wouldn't consider it "awful", either. Ditto with Cyndi Lauper's "You Make Loving Fun".

KC & The Sunshine Band's version of "Don't Stop" is pretty good (and really don't care for them as a band)

The only "bad" version of "Oh Well" I've heard is by Kenny Wayne Shepard...somebody should've taken a sledgehammer to his fingers for that one.

The Melvins do a really cool cover of "Green Manalishi".

Leo Kottke does an awesome cover of "World Turning".

Dennis Brown (RIP) reggae'd out a laid back version of "Black Magic Woman".

Moody Blues guitarist Justin Hayward does a very Moody Blues-ish version of "Man Of The World".

The Pointer Sisters (!?!?!?) did a killer version of "Hypnotized".

Annie McLoone (ex-Walter Egan band'er) did a great cover of Christine's "Spare Me A Little Of Your Love"

And, without a doubt, Santana's version of "Black Magic Woman" is the most LUCRATIVE cover of a Fleetwood Mac song ever.

Originally Posted by AlanC

I think the only person who has covered Christines Songbird was Eva cassidy and my god I have to say that her version is the best ever! So beautiful!!

Ummmm...no. There've been a bunch of "Songbird" covers:

Willie Nelson's being one of the more recent.

Rita Coolidge also covered it on her Love Me Again album from 1978...so hers is one of the first covers of the song.

In between those two have been numerous others. I would consider Eva's to be the best of 'em all...even give it a slight edge over Christine's own, as well.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by paleshadow

The worst Fleetwood Mac cover ever was Elton John's version of Don't Stop.

I agree.....

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by paleshadow

The worst Fleetwood Mac cover ever was Elton John's version of Don't Stop! I think I have to agree that the best cover was Eva Cassidy's Songbird.

Yes I agree! Love Elton John, love the song. How did he manage to make it sound like sh*t??? Has anyone checked out Camper Van Beethoven's version of the entire Tusk album?? Not sure how to describe it. As they mention in the liner notes...they were on tour in the early 2000's and became fascinated with the album...and then just started recording the songs. The Stevie songs were the most questionable (worst?) ones. One of the band members was quoted as saying "No one wanted to take on her songs."

There is also "Fleetwood Mac -- The Patron Saints of Pop -An Apostilary Homage." Each song is done by an individual, equally obscure garage-like grunge band. An interesting song selection:
The Chain
Dust
I Know I'm Not Wrong
Tusk
Walk A Thin Line
Gypsy
Go Your Own Way
Hypnotized
Never Make Me Cry
Gold Dust Woman
That' All For Everyone
Albatross

[David]

Have you heard the Fleetwood Mac songs arranged for string quartet? It's ... meh. No, actually some of it is stirring. The rest of it is shaken, not stirred.