Cover Songs better than the original

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  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    David Bowie's cover of Wild is the Wind (Nina Simone) is a blowaway. Absolutely brill.
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  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
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    Soundgarden Girl U Want (original Devo) is outstanding.

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  • nickburrows14
    nickburrows14 Posts: 858
    Soundgarden do a mean Come Together
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Olivavu wrote:
    davidtrios wrote:
    sorry if this has been discussed:

    i really think johnny cash's version of hurt is 1000x better than the original by NIN. the song has new meaning with his interpretation. cash is an old man with a lot of demons and personal troubles. you can tell that he wishes he could start again, a million miles away.
    powerful.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

    The NIN version is by far the best. By far.

    Agreed
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Elton John's Pinball Wizard over The Who's. Sorry if I offended anyone but I honestly like it better.

    Cake's cover of I will survive is pretty hilarious.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,824
    Some of my favourites would be:

    EV - Hard Sun (Indio)
    Ryan Adams - Down In A Hole (Alice In Chains)
    Ryan Adams - Revelator (Gillian Welch)
    Johnny Cash - Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell)
    Djali Zwan - Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden)
    Jim James - Rocket Man (Elton John)
    Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
    Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men (Status Quo)
    Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage (Soundgarden)
    Neil Young - Day In The Life (The Beatles)
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  • Who Princess
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    Empty Glass wrote:
    Leezestarr313 wrote:
    I prefer all PJ versions of the The Who songs over the originals. Might have to do with the fact that I heard the covers first mainly, but so it is :)


    Big Who fan, and I prefer PJ versions over the originals
    Blasphemy! I say blasphemy! :lol:

    Nah, if it's the version you heard first you're almost always going to like it better. I like PJ's Who covers a lot but the Who songs were in my DNA before PJ even existed. Read: I'm old!

    Besides, I like The Who's version of Summertime Blues better than Eddie Cochran's. Don't even talk about Blue Cheer.
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  • F5AgainstOne
    F5AgainstOne New Hampshire, USA Posts: 1,462
    Leezestarr313 wrote:
    I prefer all PJ versions of the The Who songs over the originals. Might have to do with the fact that I heard the covers first mainly, but so it is :)

    Wow!! How old (young) are you?

    I wore out all of the Who versions before Pearl Jam even existed...
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  • RobbyD462
    RobbyD462 Victoria BC Posts: 4,812
    I have to say "No Quarter" by Tool

    Originally done by Led Zeppelin.
    Probably one of the Best cover songs of All time!

    A Bold statement I know, but it's undeniable!

    Give the two a listen and you be the judge. :)
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,061
    Mark Lanegan - Creeping Coastline Of Lights (The Leaving Trains cover)
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  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    First, I love the PJ versions, but they are not better than The Who versions.

    Pete > Mike and Stone put together
    Roger > Ed
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    Drums we will call a toss up. Moon isn't everyone's cup of tea and we won't even talk about Kenny or Zac or whoever.

    But, my answer to the OP is anything and everything written by Bob Dylan by pretty much anyone.
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  • green_girl
    green_girl Posts: 931
    Olivavu wrote:
    This isn't better than the original, but it's good...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQIEuugmarY


    Wow, it's pretty badass. Bonus: And now I know all the lyrics!
  • MANKIND
    MANKIND Posts: 218
    davidtrios wrote:
    sorry if this has been discussed:

    i really think johnny cash's version of hurt is 1000x better than the original by NIN. the song has new meaning with his interpretation. cash is an old man with a lot of demons and personal troubles. you can tell that he wishes he could start again, a million miles away.
    powerful.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho


    i might be in the minority but i like the original nin way better than mr. cash.
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  • MANKIND
    MANKIND Posts: 218
    RobbyD462 wrote:
    I have to say "No Quarter" by Tool

    Originally done by Led Zeppelin.
    Probably one of the Best cover songs of All time!

    A Bold statement I know, but it's undeniable!

    Give the two a listen and you be the judge. :)

    heard both plenty of times and i choose zep hands down.
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  • kjw818
    kjw818 Posts: 96
    RobbyD462 wrote:
    I have to say "No Quarter" by Tool

    Originally done by Led Zeppelin.
    Probably one of the Best cover songs of All time!

    A Bold statement I know, but it's undeniable!

    Give the two a listen and you be the judge. :)
    The Zeppelin version is much, much better.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    kjw818 wrote:
    RobbyD462 wrote:
    I have to say "No Quarter" by Tool

    Originally done by Led Zeppelin.
    Probably one of the Best cover songs of All time!

    A Bold statement I know, but it's undeniable!

    Give the two a listen and you be the judge. :)
    The Zeppelin version is much, much better.

    Zeppelin is one of the all-time greats. We can give Zeppelin the edge for writing the song, but Tool remastered it to sound better in my opinion. I'll side with the op for this one.
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