I only know that one song but I really respect them for keeping at it after all these years. Looks like they're coming to my town in June and playing, well, a bigger venue than I would have expected.
I have accidentally seen Local H live 3 times and I’ve been to less than 10 concerts in my life.
Went to Q101 Jamboree, which is a big, all day show with tons of bands, I was maybe 14? Didn’t know shit about music, just that Red Hot Chili Peppers and Offspring were playing and someone gave me a free ticket.
A few years later, random boy from high school invites me to a “block party” which I had no clue what it was or who was playing, turns out to also be hosted by Q101, and Local H also happens to be playing there.
Another year or 2 later, friends invite me to some sort of music in the park thing (Grant Park maybe?) Again, no clue who is playing, just that I was invited to hang out. Local H was playing.
IDK, I was just a clueless teenage who went where people invited me and someone it was always Local H playing. lol
As a teen I wasn’t really into music, as an adult I’m kinda kicking myself for not paying more attention at the time.
✨And that’s the story of how I accidentally saw the same band live 3 different times✨
I saw them last year. It was a wall of fucking sound... Like I go to a lot of concerts, but Scott's guitar rig was undeniably the most sonic experience I've ever had.
I'm a guitar player myself and I was like, how the fuck does he sound like that??...
Went down the rabbit hole and found out he uses a customized fender strat with a shoehorned bass pickup for the low strings with a separate output to a bass amp with the regular output from his regular pickups to his guitar amps.
It's not, he basically carves a hole in the body of his stratocaster and puts a bass pickup in slanted so it only picks up the EAD strings. If you watch him throughout the performance, he will switch between the bass pickup, the guitar pickup or both at the same time depending on the riff.
Isn't Johnny Cash's *Hurt* rated the best by most critics? And *Personal Jesus* a close second?
I've always loved [AURORA's *Life on Mars*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ095S0MmnA)
The video hits real hard for me. I can hear his pain in the song itself, but layering the videos of his life over top it just hits it out of the ballpark.
I can see where you are coming from as it is melodically simple and there isn't much range in the vocal portion, but that leaves all the emotion he puts into it bare. That is what really gets to me.
I kind of agree. It works soooo well where it’s placed in Downward Spiral, but Cash’s cover is clearly him singing a song he was told to. I know he never listened to the original because they changed the lyrics from Crown of Shit to Crown of Thorns because they knew he wouldn’t cover it if he knew.
A friend of mine's band covering Waiting Around to Die.
Quick backstory--Townes Van Zandt's daughter was a friend of a friend of the frontman, so they recorded this and sent it to her asking if she was cool with it. She liked it so much she let them publish it without royalties.
[https://open.spotify.com/album/0nM4wjlwu2m9JCVWw1oBOf?si=1R3m2ALHQ8qJQj-LPU6p6Q](https://open.spotify.com/album/0nM4wjlwu2m9JCVWw1oBOf?si=1R3m2ALHQ8qJQj-LPU6p6Q)
If you like the cover, do yourself a favor and listen to a few more tracks. Start with Delirium, and hear it out--it's a ride that takes a few minutes to really show its hand.
Thanks for sharing this. Helluvua cover but love the OG, too. I also discovered their cover of “Team” by Lorde which just delighted me, so thanks again!
As a huge fan of Julien Baker, Blake Schwarzenbach's bands, and sad sack music in general, I was \*super\* stoked to come across this cover of \[Jawbreaker's Accident Prone\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxT0z-TDEk).
Oh nice! Love the original but I didn't know this existed.
Local H is one of those bands I never really got into. Bound to the Floor is an absolute banger, and I've always loved that one, but I've never explored them very much. That said, it seems every time I come across them, it's something really good.
My favorite is from the first time I saw them live (after several failed attempts) in 2004, Scott says here's something special and rips into Breed by Nirvana.
Between the Hackensack tribute, Toxic, Joey, Wolf Like Me, Terrible Love by The National there's just too many great Local H covers that they've recorded to pick one.
That’s phenomenal! I saw JEW and Hot Mulligan together a couple years back and they seemed very much a mutual admiration society. Also Fallout Boy was there
I loved The Bacon Fedora’s cover of “Glisten” and Lark Meadow Sunrise’s cover of “Wake Up Little Susie”. One is a very produced, thick, poppy wall of sound, and the other is stripped down punk track. They’re both perfect versions of what they are.
All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix (covering Bob Dylan)
And
With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker (covering the Beatles)
I will die on that hill.
More recently, Tom Ellis (of "Lucifer" fame) covering "All Along the Watchtower" threw me for a loop. Wasn't expecting it in the show --- or a full cover version on the soundtrack --- but by the gods is it good. Different, but still good!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkDI_TpF5g&pp=ygUiYWxsIGFsb25nIHRoZSB3YXRjaHRvd2VyIHRvbSBlbGxpcw%3D%3D
I will die alongside you brother. Jimi's is so good most people don't even know it's a cover, while Joe Cocker managed to completely outdo The Beatles of all bands
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0hPsX5M0NDBvjFGd9OGLMv
My son and i started a covers playlist. Not all bangers but we put it all in their for the fun of it
I said that I misread yours and the other comment and thought you guys didn't realize TVOTR is the original artist but I realized I was mistaken so I deleted mine. Wasn't meant to be a dig, if anything, I'm the dumbass
Apologies, for a minute I thought you guys didn't realize they are the original artist, but now I see. Sorry, I've had a few after work before a 3 day weekend drinks!
Thank you so much! I played the nirvana version this morning while driving and was totally wondering what Bowie thought about it, but then by the time I got to work I forgot to look for any info and seeing this was totally satisfying in a super immediately gratifying, happenstance kind of way.
Dead Souls by Nine Inch Nails (cover of Joy Division)
Whiskey In The Jar by Metallica (cover of the Thin Lizzy version)
A New England by Kirsty McColl (cover of Billy Bragg)
I never looked into if they recorded it, but once at the Double Door they did a cover of Toxic by Britney Spears. It took me a minute to realize what it was but it was solid.
I saw Local H who had Sponge open for them at an Everclear concert.
Sponge and Local H fucking brough it (this was 2025, mins you) Everclear…. Yeah…
They did not.
I prefer the original, not that it sounds all that different from the Local H version. Great song, either way.
[Teardrop (Massive Attack) - Sarah Jarosz - Live from Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-NxQ4DRYfc)
Brown Eyed Girl by Reel Big Fish
Scarlett Begonias by Sublime
Ring Of Fire by Social Distortion
Hell, I've been collecting covers for a while, I just love hearing a different take on favorites.
[Gin and Juice cover by the Berlin Project.](https://youtu.be/8pYc0BiskHA?si=V5t-e9KkvGvcVLsF)
My brother's band used to play with these guys all the time in the Pittsburgh music scene back in the day.
I remember seeing this cover on limewire and such being listed as anything but The Berlin Project. So you might have heard this song back in day being listed as NOFX, Reel Big Fish, etc...
Maestro Echoplex - Prayer to God
Steve Earle - Breed
Jim O'Rourke - Fast Car
Rollins Band - Four Sticks
Helmet - Gigantor
Beachwood Sparks - By Your Side
Drop Nineteens - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)
A lot of the ones I would have listed have been said, so I'll do a few that are a bit left field:
Chvrches - "Love" by Kendrick
https://youtu.be/msgimk3mV6g?si=Tj9lfDeyAo_2DNlQ
The Naked and Famous - "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd
https://youtu.be/4Tesb9rUUFg?si=V5mbiuxAquA1Cdss
Deftones - "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://youtu.be/fXGp4wC6Ha0?si=uN1HROg2VjORIvE6
Blackbird by Sarah McLachlan
Running Up That Hill by Placebo
The Nurse Who Loved Me by A Perfect Circle
When You Say Nothing At All by Alison Krauss & Union Station
One by Aimee Mann
Maneater by Nelly Furtado
Killing Me Softly with His Song by the Fugees
Songbird by Eva Cassidy
Make You Feel My Love by Adele
Down with the Sickness by Richard Cheese (from Dawn of the Dead lol)
A friend of mine who is a bit older, only goes to concerts for underrated bands because he doesn’t like fighting through big crowds to see good live music. He swore up and down that Local H were the best band to see live, and their shows are pretty under-attended here in Texas. I’ve been to four or five shows with him, and he’s totally right. They are so good live, such an amazing band. They deserve to be bigger. If you have a chance to see them live, do it. They leave it all on the stage.
Weird one here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBjSq1ntqQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBjSq1ntqQ)
cover of.....
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6vVP91C3Iw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6vVP91C3Iw)
I just think they updated it really well, and tightened it up.
Buried comment, but Fear Factory’s cover of “Cars” made it meaty. https://youtu.be/CSoKp6dRUH0?si=ezUSZNYm_EAkutcS
It’s also hilarious to see Ray playing a two piece kit.
Dwight Yoakam did a cover of [Purple Rain](https://youtu.be/7_UepIUrtmg?si=94sBo9t8NgiUwRvd) that, while no threat to overtake the original as the most beloved version, is pretty dang cool.
The recognition that flooded my being when i saw that. you are correct, the cover rips, local h has a very high hit rate with their covers. toxic, here comes the rain again, joey, scott knows what he's doing.
and like all good covers, it also makes one appreciate the original even more.
* Killing Me Softly (both Roberta Flack and The Fugees versions)
* Gloria (Laura Branigan)
One subgenre, for lack of a better word, of cover I like is when the songwriter does a cover of a song they wrote for other artists
* Lady (Lionel Richie, originally by Kenny Rogers)
* Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Carole King, originally by The Shirelles)
* You Make Me Feel like a Natural Woman (Carole King, y'all know who did it originally)
I haven’t listened to it in years now but that Local H mixtape album is awesome.
This might be the wrong sub for this, but my personal favorite covers are:
C.R. - [Hate the Christian Right](https://youtu.be/ozLFmsCJ3SY?si=Frw2VVWKAkqhPSqg)
([Team Dresch](https://youtu.be/YZtSwP6i64s?si=BIoZi-QYq_0xVG8y) cover)
Melvin’s - [Goin’ Blind](https://youtu.be/crqpmb_-ke8?si=m61E6j8Bux-mWcEc)
([KISS](https://youtu.be/FU0eUGu2wSU?si=UjwHNX8im8fuD7zM) cover)
If mashups are included, it would have to be [this one](https://youtu.be/2POSebkZ2wc?si=g5hqDvicmfIlcLW5) (APC - Diary of a Lovesong) for me. I went to see them on tour the year their debut released and they played a David Bowie cover instead. I was so disappointed! I remember a buddy sent me their live show he downloaded from a news server before the album released, or I pulled it from his ftp he set up for me bc I was a poor college student. I was blown away. This is still the best cover and mashup I’ve ever encountered
This was definitely a must have in the Napster era along with the Legend of Zelda theme we all thought was System of a Down. Shame it never got a proper studio version
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
No Doubt - It's My Life
Joe Cocker - The Letter
The Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Also there's three albums worth of covers by Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) that all hit.
Here are two more modern covers that I like: Royel Otis covering “Linger” and Sofi Tukker covering “Chasing Cars.” Randomly suggested to me on Spotify.
Saw a meme that I wished I’d have saved “if I’m in the garage listening to Sturgil, then the whole damned neighborhood is gonna be listening to Sturgil”
anya marina covering T.I.'s Whatever You Like ( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6INLzQaWask](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6INLzQaWask) ) is a fun take on the song
Local H has a few more absolute bangers of covers on Awesome Mix Tape #2
Bowie's "Heroes"
Lorde's "Team"
and a kickass guitar cover of Daft Punk's "Da Funk"
I’d submit Failure’s cover of “Enjoy the Silence.” I never cared much for the original, but the way they strip it back really highlights the song writing. The slightly flat vocal, the off kilter guitar, the surprisingly loud bass, and then their trademark crushingly huge wall of distortion …
It just hits right.
Maybe you haven’t heard this cover yet? It’s definitely the best cover of wolf like me.
[wolf like me](https://youtu.be/Lmyd9LTkpfk?si=RmdRFuXsr0YkcZlr)
Some classics already mentioned, but my personal opinion is that the best cover is Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. The original is from a prison movie called Unchained, hence the title.
I also like Tainted Love by Soft Cell, Live and Let Die by Guns and Roses, and Stone Cold Crazy by Metallica.
Robbie Williams version of Bongo Bong (done by Manu Chao) isn’t bad. How I never heard of the song and Manu before having it on The Next Best Thing soundtrack in the early 2000s is beyond me.
Fiona Apple - Across the Universe
No Doubt - It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine) from their New Year's Eve MTV live performance.
Jordis Unga - The Man Who Sold the World.
This was a cover of Nirvana's cover.
Letters to Cleo - I Want You to Want Me
I fully expect that I'll come back and edit this about ten times, to add more songs that I can't think of right now.
Have you listened to the secret life of walter mitty OST? Easily my favorite, I like the vibe and tempo.
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Jack Johnson
"Don't You Want Me" Bahamas featuring The Weather Station
"The Wolves & the Ravens" Rogue Valley
"Space Oddity (Mitty Mix)" David Bowie featuring Kristen Wiig
#9 Dream" José González
"Maneater" Grace Mitchell
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