Best of 2022: Cover Songs
I’ve held out to the last possible second, but I can hold no more, because it’s end-of-year list season!
Each year, the most popular list is this one: Best Cover Songs.
Here’s the track list:
QUICK NOTE: While the other lists to come are in ranked order, these are just in alphabetical order (by artist). This does not represent preference.
- alt-J: Golden Slumbers
- AWOLNATION & Elohim: Flagpole Sitta
- AWOLNATION & Taylor Hanson: Material Girl
- Beck: Old Man
- Best Coast: If It Makes You Happy
- The Black Crowes: Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
- Bleachers: Drive
- Brandi Carlile: Space Oddity
- Bria: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
- Bruce Springsteen: Someday We’ll Be Together
- The Cactus Blossoms: If Not For You
- Dead Pony: Maneater
- Doja Cat: Celebrity Skin
- Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb: Fields of Gold
- Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb: On the Road Again
- Ella Henderson: Tears Dry on Their Own Own
- Eli Paperboy Reed: Mama Tried
- Eva Snyder: Gives You Hell
- First to Eleven: Danger Zone
- James Bay: Don’t Look Back in Anger
- James Bay: Trouble
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Midnight Train to George (ft. Brittney Spencer & John Paul White)
- Jessica Chastain: Stand By Your Man
- Josh Ross: Iris
- The Goon Sax: Steal my Sunshine
- Kacey Musgraves: Can’t Help Falling in Love
- Katie Toupin: Adam’s Song
- Katie Toupin: Dammit
- Kelly Clarkson: Happier Than Ever
- Ibibio Sound Machine: Heroes
- Lake Street Dive: Automatic
- Lake Street Dive: You’re Still the One
- Lake Street Dive: Linger
- Loveless: happier than ever
- Loveless: Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
- Maneskin: If I Can Dream
- Margo Price: He Made a Woman Out of Me
- Margo Price: You’re No Good
- Moncrieff: I’m With You
- Morgan Wade: Suspicious Minds
- MUNA: Sometimes
- Omarion: With a Little Help From My Friends
- Punch Brothers: House Carpenter/Jerusalem Ridge
- Punch Brothers: Pride of Man
- Rosie Thomas: Always Be My Baby
- SHAED: Come as You Are
- She & Him: Wouldn’t It Be Nice
- Sigrid: Bad Habits
- Sigrid: Lost
- St. Vincent: Funkytown
- Stephen Dawes: Teenage Dream
- Sumerlands: I’m So Afraid
- Tate McRae: As It Was
- Watkins Family Hour: Hypnotized
- Weyes Blood: You’re No Good
- Whitehorse: Summer Wine
- Zachary Williams: You Can Call Me Al
You can find it on Apple Music and Spotify.