Cover Better than the original

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    iluvslash wrote:
    original-Van Morrison-Baby, please dont go
    cover-AC/DC-Baby, please dont go


    i love slash too, but i have to disagree with you on this one.
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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    brhf9 wrote:
    yes it's her.

    and i like her version because it's more mellow and slow than the original.

    definitely like fiona's version better :)
  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    Couple more,

    Faith No More - Easy (lionel richie orig)
    Faith No More - I started a joke (beegees orig)
    FNM's cover of War Pigs is also fantastic....maybe not better, but on par with Sabbaths'.


    Aaron lewis - black








    kidding. I want to stab myself in the hears with the nearest kitchen utensil when I hear him covering black. He took an emotional song and turned it into an emotional whine.
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  • Edge34
    Edge34 Ottawa Posts: 233
    All of the covers that Van Halen do are better than the originals.

    You Really Got Me - Kinks original
  • ronniethebear
    ronniethebear Posts: 25
    Speaking of The Kinks, Fountains of Wayne's version of "Better Days" totally goes off.
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  • ill_Ride_the_Wave
    ill_Ride_the_Wave Calgary Canada Posts: 41
    I know most won't agree but:

    Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
    Ben Harper - Sexual Healing (Cover)
  • righteousbabe
    righteousbabe Posts: 662
    original-eurythmics-sweet dreams
    best cover-marilyn manson

    original-soft cell( i think that is what they were called)-tainted love
    best cover-marilyn manson

    manson also did a good cover of five to one but noone does that better than morrison
  • waves roll in
    waves roll in Posts: 159
    I totally disagree all of Bob Dylan's originals are better than people covering them except for I do like Jimi Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower he also did a nice cover of Like a Rolling Stone, he just had so much respect for Dylan but I love Dylan's originals way more than those who cover. I personally like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt more than NIN's original.
  • Westernsky
    Westernsky Posts: 363
    I have always gotten shit for this one, but my favorite cover is Janes Addictions version of Sympathy for the Devil. It's early Janes, it's wild and it's live - just amazing.

    Let's see what else ---
    Oh I really liked that Pantera cover of Planet Caravan and I have to say that I think Rufus Wainwright does the best Across the Universe cover. :)
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    sonic reducer. maybe i missed that one. the orignal was horrible.

    viva las vegas
    orignal - elvis? did he even write it?
    cover - dead kennedys

    off topic but the worst cover ever is limp bizkit's (however you spell that) version of behind blue eyes.
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  • brhf9
    brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    I'll_Ride_the_Wave wrote:
    I know most won't agree but:

    Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
    Ben Harper - Sexual Healing (Cover)

    i think soul asylum's version good too...
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  • Kryptos
    Kryptos Posts: 34
    original Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts
    cover by Type o Negative

    original Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
    cover by Failure

    and Pearl Jam's version of Masters of War is by far the best I've heard...suprised it hasn't been mentioned yet
  • exolstice
    exolstice Posts: 85
    Dead Souls

    Original artist: Joy Division
    Cover artist: NIN
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    axl rose murdered Knockin on heaven's door.

    not GnR, AXL ROSE.






    In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin.

    orginally done by a guy named Blind Wille wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back..

    zeppelin has done historic versions of so many great ancient blues songs..
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  • Keller
    Keller Posts: 177
    I really enjoyed the drive by truckers doing "like a rolling stone"

    Is it all hate or does anyone have love for GnR's "knockin on heavens door"?
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Keller wrote:
    I really enjoyed the drive by truckers doing "like a rolling stone"

    Is it all hate or does anyone have love for GnR's "knockin on heavens door"?[/QUOT

    I like GnR's version.
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  • brhf9
    brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    Keller wrote:
    I really enjoyed the drive by truckers doing "like a rolling stone"

    Is it all hate or does anyone have love for GnR's "knockin on heavens door"?

    i do...
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  • gnr+pj=2bestever
    gnr+pj=2bestever Posts: 358
    Keller wrote:
    I really enjoyed the drive by truckers doing "like a rolling stone"

    Is it all hate or does anyone have love for GnR's "knockin on heavens door"?


    I obviously have much love for gnr's version. Their version of live n let die is good too (its the best live), however i could do w/out the song all together...both cover and original.
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  • spnoone
    spnoone Posts: 633
    living colour's talkin bout a revolution (t chapman)
    steve earle/supersuckers' before they make me run (stones)
    husker du's eight miles high (byrds)
    afghan whigs' lost in the supermarket (clash)
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    D-7, Return of the Rat

    The Wipers < Nirvana

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