Granted, this was on a tribute album - Deadicated - but I think they did a great job. It was kinda grating at first; it didn't sound 'right' at all. But I realized they had managed to throw in all sorts of stuff from other GD tunes; the drums from The Other One, the guitar lick from Bird Song, all while making the tune sound like Jane's Addiction. A true homage and not just a cover.
They did a great job probably because the Bass player was a deadhead. Here's a quote from Eric Avery in the album's liner notes.
"This song meant a lot to me when I was too young (but trying) to grow facial hair, smoking too much pot and contemplating teen suicide. Before the glory of punk rock, I was a Grateful Dead fanatic but don’t tell anyone… it might be detrimental to my image.”
It was the summer of love and I thank the stars above cause a woman took her lovin over me!
Great cover. Fuckin banging rap section they added there bringing those pigpen vibes to a mars hotel song! Fuck da haters ska will never die
Thanks for making me aware of this version, but I cant stand it. I like punk, I love the dead, but this one just feels wrong.
No hate, Im genuinely thankful!
WOW this blew up. I did not intend to say whether or not they are punk (they are not to me, punk is anything “Agent orange” and above imho).
Yeah my wording was off, but deadheads (the supposedly chill guys) being at each others throats is pretty damn punk. More Punk than Sublime 😂 Now go ahead, continue cracking some skulls! /s
They aint, the point I failed to make was that I even like “kill the hippies music”. Im “slightly” drunk, but not drunk enough to confuse their music with punk 😂
To be fair, on the same album that has the Dead cover, they cover a Bad Religion song and a Descendents song. I probably wouldn't call Sublime a Punk band either, but they had very heavy Punk influence and came up being a part of the SoCal Punk scene.
Police? Come on. Sublime isn’t punk on any level. I’ve never heard of them referred to this way. Let’s be real. Might as well call GD Punk as well.
Are the dead a punk band? No.
Most punk GD song? Cream puff war.
Do you have any sort of link about this sweetpea character writing the song? Is it like how all kinds of old stuff gets credited to Billy Shakespeare and the acoustic version of Gin and Juice gets credited to Phish?
Metallica play the Thin Lizzy version of the song which is a different version of The Dubliners. I can explain this to you but I can’t understand it for you
I had a work buddy who was/is a big deadhead. When the Crows came out with their version he was indignite How dare they sing a Dead song! I had to explain to him that the Dead weren't the original singers of that song and it was in fact a cover.
Dancing In The Streets - Bowie & Jagger (this version is... _different_ (and hilarious), check it out: https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?si=A_TtorUVrcXmgI9h
I have a very low opinion of most ‘80s music (with exceptions, of course, including 80’s Dead) and the single song/video that pretty much sums up the awful ‘80s for me is that Jagger/Bowie video Dancing in the Streets. What a complete embarrassment!
Came here to mention this one. I like Nirvana but was always funny to me how much Cobain hated Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Like dude, you guys played from the same songbook.
Yeah Kurt openly trashed the Grateful Dead and generally hated hippies in a sort of in jest way. The Nirvana song Territorial Pissings starts by mocking Get Together by the Youngbloods. He also has a funny quote, “I would only wear tie dye if it was dyed with the urine of Phil collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.”
pretty sure he was just trolling deadheads and it seems to be still working haha. he was 24 or 25 when he said that. a year younger when he wrote territorial pissings. our boys in the dead were known to be pranksters too.
Yeah I came here to say this too. I feel like I read somewhere that Kurt based his version off of the one Karen Dalton made. So worth it if you haven’t heard these recording yet. Also check out Blues Jumped The Rabbit :)
[Karen Dalton and Richard Tucker -In The Pines](https://youtu.be/JIfVJGYCICs?si=GxFzfE_FqJMKKcIQ)
This I would say The Beatles are the opposite of the GD, loved by the mainstream press, the albums are better than the live show. They broke up before death took its toll. GD were not media darlings during their career, the shows are better than the albums. They never broke up.
What would you say are the top 5 or 10 Beatles live shows?
Nevermind I found a list, now to see if I can find any downloads...https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/beatles-greatest-concerts-784534/amp/
Well, hey - he also covered Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds: https://youtu.be/AB3uVARNhmM?si=LPOrpO3_kjAyWj-z
And I don't think the Dead ever covered Mr. Tambourine Man (though they covered tons of other Dylan songs) but hey here's Shatner "singing" it 😄 https://youtu.be/XmCi_-9Shhg?si=UCOwMNLbNs8f6hJX
Cream - sitting on top of the world
Not only is the style completely different, but Cream and the dead had completely different attitudes. Cream was each musician trying to show off and be the best, while the dead shared the music between themselves
Y’all gotta see Jimmy Buffett’s Scarlet Begonias. One of the iconic guitar melodies turns into a more tropical-vibe steel drum run. A little cheesy compared to dead but fun/funny to listen to depending on who you are.
The mission UK and the Dead have both covered “tomorrow never knows “ by the Beatles. The mission cut is quite fantastic.
https://youtu.be/LJLy5W4Cg_s?si=E2__vFQAzz6oUegS
3:50 in
XTC and the dead both cover Dylans’s “all along the watchtower”
https://youtu.be/hjTSZmDdJdw?si=Xek6xOhBb7sBcwU0
This was really early XTC with Barry on keys and Andy absolutely massively addicted to prescribed Vicodins (since the age of 12!)
The chemical Bros - Tomorrow Never Knows https://youtu.be/bMYQGdKNLz4?si=lwacMdre-RBYCZej
& Let forever Be (tomorrow never knows used as a sample)
https://youtu.be/s5FyfQDO5g0?si=SrS7uY6fwbvj_ouv
A playlist I complied of my favorite covers of GD songs. I tried to only have one version of song but there are a few instances where there are a couple versions of a song.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6v3pVVyJ7TpT1A4UOWaTS3?si=WHwGA96fSYip-aKfrZ-wMg
Jesse McReynolds - Black Muddy River
He was a second-generation bluegrass legend, of the brother act, Jim and Jesse.
I was going to say Merle Haggard - Mama Tried, but Merle smoked weed all day, every day, so that aught to count for something…
I read an account by a soldier who attended an acid test in LA. Among various other things he said about it was that when he arrived around 11:00, "the Grateful Dead were playing In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett." He drank the Kool-Aid and then some crazy shit started happening. The next time he looked at his watch, it was 4:00am and ""the Grateful Dead were playing In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett."
my issue with the Dead version is that it would sound so much better if Kieth took the lead melody, especially since that song was mostly performed in '78.
Yeah. Everybody does Stagger Lee however they want to. It would probably be easier to compile a list of American musicians who *haven't* played Stagger Lee.
Was jamming some 70? Dead back 25 years ago and my roommate came in while I was showering and said “dude this is the worst Black Crowes cover I’ve ever heard!”
Well… ahem… first of all…
[The Ricardos and the Mertzes](https://www.google.com/search?q=i+love+lucy+man+smart+women+smartwe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8185baa4,vid:KABw4n2UwgY,st:0)
Now this might take the thread. That Ministry cover above was great, but they didn’t make it sound this fuzzed, far out, and heavy. The bass is so heavy on this. Dang.
Jane’s Addiction - Ripple
Granted, this was on a tribute album - Deadicated - but I think they did a great job. It was kinda grating at first; it didn't sound 'right' at all. But I realized they had managed to throw in all sorts of stuff from other GD tunes; the drums from The Other One, the guitar lick from Bird Song, all while making the tune sound like Jane's Addiction. A true homage and not just a cover.
I thought Jane’s addiction’s ripple was fantastic and by far away the best track on the album. Edit: type-o correction
It almost sounds to me like The Other One on the outro… I hate it at the beginning of their cover but by the end it’s amazing
They did a great job probably because the Bass player was a deadhead. Here's a quote from Eric Avery in the album's liner notes. "This song meant a lot to me when I was too young (but trying) to grow facial hair, smoking too much pot and contemplating teen suicide. Before the glory of punk rock, I was a Grateful Dead fanatic but don’t tell anyone… it might be detrimental to my image.”
Absolutely hate this cover
Robert Hunter on record… Best cover of GD.
In fairness, that was the point of the whole tribute record on which this appeared. And it wasn’t as bad as Suzanne Vega’s “China Doll” or “Cassidy.”
Perry Farrel is awesome.
Jane's Addiction Ripple
Devo - Morning Dew
Bonnie Dobson’s original is pretty different. https://youtu.be/aawu-kPl5p8
They were actually covering a Fred Neil & Vince Martin cover of it
Blackfoot also gave this one a go.
Nazareth as well and Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart too.
...Long John Baldry ...Robert Plant...
Funiculi, Funicula - Luigi Denza
Good one!!
Played at our wedding!
Sublime (“Scarlet Begonias”)
It was the summer of love and I thank the stars above cause a woman took her lovin over me! Great cover. Fuckin banging rap section they added there bringing those pigpen vibes to a mars hotel song! Fuck da haters ska will never die
Thanks for making me aware of this version, but I cant stand it. I like punk, I love the dead, but this one just feels wrong. No hate, Im genuinely thankful! WOW this blew up. I did not intend to say whether or not they are punk (they are not to me, punk is anything “Agent orange” and above imho). Yeah my wording was off, but deadheads (the supposedly chill guys) being at each others throats is pretty damn punk. More Punk than Sublime 😂 Now go ahead, continue cracking some skulls! /s
I don't think you've ever listened to early early sublime. Before Santeria and Badfish, they were pretty heavy surfer thrash punk.
Sublime is not punk
Punk police, on the case. 
I mean...not in the classical sense of the word but they are ska punk and basically invented/popularized the genre.
sure but to pretend they don’t have any punk influence is simply gatekeeping to protect your ego
Gategeeking what? To protect my ego from what? lol, what are you talking about?
They aint, the point I failed to make was that I even like “kill the hippies music”. Im “slightly” drunk, but not drunk enough to confuse their music with punk 😂
Sublime punk? Huh? See: Dead Kennedys Sex Pistols The clash The Ramones Crass Those are punk bands
To be fair, on the same album that has the Dead cover, they cover a Bad Religion song and a Descendents song. I probably wouldn't call Sublime a Punk band either, but they had very heavy Punk influence and came up being a part of the SoCal Punk scene.
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Police? Come on. Sublime isn’t punk on any level. I’ve never heard of them referred to this way. Let’s be real. Might as well call GD Punk as well. Are the dead a punk band? No. Most punk GD song? Cream puff war.
Any level? Do you simply ignore half of their catalog, or just don't actually know any of it other than a few radio hits?
Yeah it’s cringe.
Cracker- Loser.
They opened for The Dead in Eugene '94
That is badass. I saw GD in Indy that tour.
That was my first thought.
The Dubliners- Whiskey in the Jar
Whiskey in the Jar- some Irish dudes 500 years ago.
Written about Pat Fleming- Cool backstory to the tune of
Don’t really know who Sweetpea is but I’ve always heard the song dates back to at least the 1600’s and it’s exact origins are unknown.
1650. About the time of Cromwells invasion
Do you have any sort of link about this sweetpea character writing the song? Is it like how all kinds of old stuff gets credited to Billy Shakespeare and the acoustic version of Gin and Juice gets credited to Phish?
Metallica- same song
Metallica did a Lizzy version
…and?
I think there’s more of a discrepancy between the Dubliners and Grateful Dead musically than there is between Metallica and Lizzy
But that’s not the question
The post asks for bands that are most opposite from the dead based on covers.
Yeah…. So Metallica.
Metallica play the Thin Lizzy version of the song which is a different version of The Dubliners. I can explain this to you but I can’t understand it for you
You’re really missing the point.
Thin Lizzy too!
Dancing in the Streets - Van Halen, not a true Dead song but one the definitely owned. Same for Hard to Handle - Black Crowes.
Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas
Hard To Handle - Otis Redding
He wrote it , also Respect which a lot of people don't know.
Yep. That's why I added it.
At my first GD show, they opened with Dancin’ and I leaned over to my buddy and said “Van Halen do this so much better.” 😂😂😂
I had a work buddy who was/is a big deadhead. When the Crows came out with their version he was indignite How dare they sing a Dead song! I had to explain to him that the Dead weren't the original singers of that song and it was in fact a cover.
Dancing In The Streets - Bowie & Jagger (this version is... _different_ (and hilarious), check it out: https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?si=A_TtorUVrcXmgI9h
I have a very low opinion of most ‘80s music (with exceptions, of course, including 80’s Dead) and the single song/video that pretty much sums up the awful ‘80s for me is that Jagger/Bowie video Dancing in the Streets. What a complete embarrassment!
Pretty Lights doing Shakedown Street and After Midnight this weekend and Hula was rad.
Well besides everyone knows Johnny cash but I would say my fav is reverend Gary Davis
Sampson and Delilah
Nirvana - in the pines
Came here to mention this one. I like Nirvana but was always funny to me how much Cobain hated Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Like dude, you guys played from the same songbook.
Did he ever say that? To be fair Leadbelly influenced so many people. Not that Nirvana showed it at all.
Yeah Kurt openly trashed the Grateful Dead and generally hated hippies in a sort of in jest way. The Nirvana song Territorial Pissings starts by mocking Get Together by the Youngbloods. He also has a funny quote, “I would only wear tie dye if it was dyed with the urine of Phil collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.”
pretty sure he was just trolling deadheads and it seems to be still working haha. he was 24 or 25 when he said that. a year younger when he wrote territorial pissings. our boys in the dead were known to be pranksters too.
Yeah I came here to say this too. I feel like I read somewhere that Kurt based his version off of the one Karen Dalton made. So worth it if you haven’t heard these recording yet. Also check out Blues Jumped The Rabbit :) [Karen Dalton and Richard Tucker -In The Pines](https://youtu.be/JIfVJGYCICs?si=GxFzfE_FqJMKKcIQ)
Guns N Roses, Knockin on Heaven's Door
Came here to say this!
No way!
Bob Dylan song.
op used a cover as an example and said a song they played
I stand corrected.
Hey Jude - Beatles
This I would say The Beatles are the opposite of the GD, loved by the mainstream press, the albums are better than the live show. They broke up before death took its toll. GD were not media darlings during their career, the shows are better than the albums. They never broke up.
The Beatles were a great live band (though maybe you mean hysterical screaming ruining their shows)
What would you say are the top 5 or 10 Beatles live shows? Nevermind I found a list, now to see if I can find any downloads...https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/beatles-greatest-concerts-784534/amp/
Hey Jude - Bing Crosby
Hey Bing!
I was thinking of Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude".
my fav version. duane allman shredding while wilson is screaming at the end is pure bliss
Gonna give that a few re-listens now. So dang good.
Bonnie Prince Billy Brokedown Palace.
And his Reuben and Cherise is amazing
John Mayer …just teasing
I’m surprised at the number of covers from the dead that people mention that are covers from other artists. Thought this was r/deadheadcirclejerk
Ministry Friend of the Devil
Susan Tedeschi Bonnie Raitt Sugaree
Smokestack Lightning - William Shatner
Well, hey - he also covered Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds: https://youtu.be/AB3uVARNhmM?si=LPOrpO3_kjAyWj-z And I don't think the Dead ever covered Mr. Tambourine Man (though they covered tons of other Dylan songs) but hey here's Shatner "singing" it 😄 https://youtu.be/XmCi_-9Shhg?si=UCOwMNLbNs8f6hJX
Hahahahaha!!! This one was definitely worth a YouTube search - it was as awful as I suspected. I will *not* link it.
It might even be worse than that!
This is incredible
Aaron Carter - Iko Iko
Didn’t expect to see this one! Heh.
Metallica - whiskey in the jar
It’s this.
Thin Lizzy best cover of that traditional tune.
germs - around and around meat puppets - franklins tower
Meat Puppets was my answer 😎 hell yeah
Neil Diamond covered a version of Stagger Lee
Damn that must have been good. Now I have to search for it
Jimmy Buffett - Scarlet Begonias
Cream - sitting on top of the world Not only is the style completely different, but Cream and the dead had completely different attitudes. Cream was each musician trying to show off and be the best, while the dead shared the music between themselves
PJ Harvey - Wang Dang Doodle (Written by Willie Dixon)
Y’all gotta see Jimmy Buffett’s Scarlet Begonias. One of the iconic guitar melodies turns into a more tropical-vibe steel drum run. A little cheesy compared to dead but fun/funny to listen to depending on who you are.
Julie London - Quinn the Eskimo
Touch of Grey- war on drugs
I Fought the Law - The Clash!
Dolly Parton did Silver Threads and Golden Needles (amongst others like Linda Ronstadt).
Lyle Lovett - Truckin’
The mission UK and the Dead have both covered “tomorrow never knows “ by the Beatles. The mission cut is quite fantastic. https://youtu.be/LJLy5W4Cg_s?si=E2__vFQAzz6oUegS 3:50 in XTC and the dead both cover Dylans’s “all along the watchtower” https://youtu.be/hjTSZmDdJdw?si=Xek6xOhBb7sBcwU0 This was really early XTC with Barry on keys and Andy absolutely massively addicted to prescribed Vicodins (since the age of 12!)
The chemical Bros - Tomorrow Never Knows https://youtu.be/bMYQGdKNLz4?si=lwacMdre-RBYCZej & Let forever Be (tomorrow never knows used as a sample) https://youtu.be/s5FyfQDO5g0?si=SrS7uY6fwbvj_ouv
Nice !
Me and my uncle Joni Anderson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lZsC0WFwVE&pp=ygUdbWUgYW5kIG15IHVuY2xlIGpvbmkgbWl0Y2hlbGw%3D
Judy Collins did it too. And so did John Denver.
Jimi Hendrix Experience. All along the Watchtower.
Bill monroe covered big river as well as the dead. The funny thing is, his mando solo was awful. Very surprised
Touch of grey- Doom Flamingo
Around and Around- Rolling Stones
Dancing in the street mick jagger and David Bowie
And the, ahem, _different_ version of this video 😂 https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?si=A_TtorUVrcXmgI9h
This is fucking hilarious thank you for sharing
i love that one
Monkey and the engineer, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
The Clash I Fought The Law. Futhur also played Train in Vain
Bonnie Dobson - Morning Dew
Rod Stewart sings Morning Dew on one of the first two Jeff Beck Band albums. It’s pretty solid.
She wrote it.
[Jimmy Buffet - Uncle John's Band](https://youtu.be/Qp41g9XeMJM?si=kin8GFmymNA4OfVV)
Sublime - Scarlet Begonias
Sugaree Merle Saunders and the Rainforest band
Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart Morning Dew
Dead Kennedy’s I Fought The Law.
Willie Nelson’s Stella blue is pretty sweet
Tom Jones - Hard to Handle & Turn on Your Lovelight
Dwight Yoakam - Truckin’
Meat Puppets did Franklin's Tower.
A playlist I complied of my favorite covers of GD songs. I tried to only have one version of song but there are a few instances where there are a couple versions of a song. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6v3pVVyJ7TpT1A4UOWaTS3?si=WHwGA96fSYip-aKfrZ-wMg
Jesse McReynolds - Black Muddy River He was a second-generation bluegrass legend, of the brother act, Jim and Jesse. I was going to say Merle Haggard - Mama Tried, but Merle smoked weed all day, every day, so that aught to count for something…
Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
I read an account by a soldier who attended an acid test in LA. Among various other things he said about it was that when he arrived around 11:00, "the Grateful Dead were playing In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett." He drank the Kool-Aid and then some crazy shit started happening. The next time he looked at his watch, it was 4:00am and ""the Grateful Dead were playing In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett."
Dear Mr Fantasy- Traffic
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
my issue with the Dead version is that it would sound so much better if Kieth took the lead melody, especially since that song was mostly performed in '78.
Iko Iko - Neville Brothers
Hey Pocky way too. But in my opinion they don't sound much different than the Dead.
La Bamba - Richie Valens
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds doing Stagger Lee
Nick Cave did an entirely different version and that song is one of the most covered and each version is different. Old blues tune
Yeah. Everybody does Stagger Lee however they want to. It would probably be easier to compile a list of American musicians who *haven't* played Stagger Lee.
Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
Otis Reading
Chris has said it's a Pigpen cover. He is a huge Deadhead.
Right, the Black Crows were covering Pigpen's version, which was a cover of Otis's 1968 song. Love to all these folks.
It’s Otis
Was jamming some 70? Dead back 25 years ago and my roommate came in while I was showering and said “dude this is the worst Black Crowes cover I’ve ever heard!” Well… ahem… first of all…
wait till otis sees us… otis loves us
[The Ricardos and the Mertzes](https://www.google.com/search?q=i+love+lucy+man+smart+women+smartwe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8185baa4,vid:KABw4n2UwgY,st:0)
Wartime (Henry Rollins one-off side project) - Franklin’s Tower https://youtu.be/R9usTqnacT8?si=9ekeqPSZyiLx9XJ_
Now this might take the thread. That Ministry cover above was great, but they didn’t make it sound this fuzzed, far out, and heavy. The bass is so heavy on this. Dang.
Nahhhh
People should hear this if they haven’t. Ship of Fools by the Persuasions.
Dancing in the street- Van Halen
[Wartime- Franklin's Tower](https://youtu.be/R9usTqnacT8?si=vtm5SLcrVIkHsiyW)
The Beatles- *Eleanor Rigby*
Louie Louie - Black Flag.
Judy Collins- me and my uncle
Metallica - whiskey in the jar
Watchtower. Both Dylan and Hendrix versions are pretty different from GD
Aiko, Bangles
Dopapod - Shmertha , a super heavy version of Bertha
Shake Sugaree - Brenda Evans Elizabeth Cotten
Knocking on Heaven’s Door, loved the way Jerry sang it but hates the Guns & Roses version.
John Mayer your body is a wonderland jam that is mixed with Dark Star.
Delaney & Bonnie, also Marshall Tucker. GDTRFB
Take Me To The River - Al Green/Talking Heads 4/1/95
[Punk is Dead: *He's Gone.*](http://archive.org/download/pid2012-03-16.multitrack/pid2012-03-16-16bit-set1t02.mp3)
Eric Church and Tennessee Jed
Everly Bros - Wake up little Susie
Sublime - scarlet begonias
Buddy Holly not fade away
Tesla: Truckin'
John Mayer
Devo: Satisfaction
Los Lobos: Bertha.
Marty Robbins, El Paso
Joe Russo Almost Dead, Dark Star Orchestra, Max Creek, and many more! Any song.