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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    i know everyone HATES Last Kiss, but hearing the original might make you appricate it more. i heard it at a block party and it sucks. the guy sings it all happily as if to say "Hooray! my girlfriend is dead!" Seriously, PJ's version is better.......but if i don't hear it for the rest of my life, i'll be fine.


    also, and some people might hate on me for this, but i enjoy Metallica's cover of Turn the Page more then Seger's original

    metallica's turn the page is heads and shoulders above seger's...i agree :)
  • sultryevening
    sultryevening Posts: 522
    PJs cover of "let my love open the door" knocks spots of the original Pete Townsend song.

    and thats a fact!
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  • Scratchin a Letter
    Scratchin a Letter Posts: 2,303
    Hendrix's all along the watchtower
    Warren Zevon's knockin' on heaven's door (The GNR version is awful!)
    both Dylan songs

    Scissor Sisters' comfortably numb: danceable and raveable.
  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    the only Dylan cover that sounds better than the original is All Along the Watchtower. A lot of artists have successfully pussified his songs and stripped the life out of them for top 40 radio.

    cover - Moby: That's When I reach for My Revolver
    original - Mission of Burma

    cover - Metallica: Astronomy
    original - Blue Oyster Cult

    cover - NIN: Dead Souls
    original - Joy Division
  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    transplant wrote:
    the only Dylan cover that sounds better than the original is All Along the Watchtower. A lot of artists have successfully pussified his songs and stripped the life out of them for top 40 radio.

    cover - Moby: That's When I reach for My Revolver
    original - Mission of Burma

    cover - Metallica: Astronomy
    original - Blue Oyster Cult

    cover - NIN: Dead Souls
    original - Joy Division

    Damn it! Someone beat me to it. I was thinking Deal Souls too. Great tune, but Trent nails it.
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  • jimdietrich
    jimdietrich Posts: 42
    T C H wrote:
    Maybe im biased, but PJs 'Baba..' kicks the ass of the who
    OUTRAGIOUS.
    Love pj, Not better than the Who's version.
    There 2001 version at a concert for America is better thirty years after their prime.
    Anger is a gift
  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    Pearl Jam's cover of Crown of Thorns
    Original: Mother Love Bone

    Black Crowes: Hard to Handle (cover)
    Otis Redding (original)

    George Thorogood: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (cover)
    John Lee Hooker (original)


    Some to start off..

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  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    Smells Like Teen Spirit:
    Tori Amos > Nirvana




    Sike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck that bitch!
  • Virgil Caine
    Virgil Caine Posts: 44
    Wow...so many


    Cover - You Really Got Me - Van Halen
    Original - Kinks

    Cover - Seasons in the sun - Too Much Joy
    Original - Terry Jacks

    Cover - America - Yes
    Original - Simon and Garfunkel

    Cover - Simple Man - Gov't Mule
    Original - Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Cover - Back Door Man - The Doors
    Original - Howlin' Wolf

    Cover - You Shook Me - Led Zeppelin
    Original - Muddy Waters

    Cover - Twist and Shout - Beatles
    Original - Top Notes?

    Cover - Piece of my heart - Janis Joplin
    Original - Irma Franklin

    Cover - Take me to the river - Talking Heads
    Original - Al Green
  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    danny72688 wrote:
    Smells Like Teen Spirit:
    Tori Amos > Nirvana




    Sike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck that bitch!

    I almost went off on you without seeing the Sike.

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  • (:Smile:)
    (:Smile:) Posts: 117
    The Hobos - Rain (Beatles)
    Low - I Started a Joke (Bee Gees?)
    Jamie Cullum - High and Dry (Radiohead)
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    The more you read, we've been deceived
    Everyday it becomes clearer,...

    Clearer.
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    transplant wrote:
    the only Dylan cover that sounds better than the original is All Along the Watchtower. A lot of artists have successfully pussified his songs and stripped the life out of them for top 40 radio.

    cover - Moby: That's When I reach for My Revolver
    original - Mission of Burma

    cover - Metallica: Astronomy
    original - Blue Oyster Cult

    cover - NIN: Dead Souls
    original - Joy Division

    good call on astronomy!!! amazing version by metallica!
  • CrownofThornsMSG1
    CrownofThornsMSG1 Posts: 172
    Original: Bruce Springsteen Ghost of Tom Joad
    Cover: Rage Against the Machine Ghost of Tom Joad

    Original Gerry Rafferty Baker Street
    Cover Foo Fighters Baker Street

    Original David Bowie Man Who Sold The World
    Cover Nirvana Man Who Sold The World
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  • Blue11
    Blue11 Posts: 200
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    good call on astronomy!!! amazing version by metallica!


    I totally agree...very good version...

    Here's a few others that I like

    Space Oddity
    Original - David Bowie
    Cover - Natalie Merchant

    not sure if this one coutns but

    Layla by Eric Clpaton, I like the acoustic version than the original

    Ghost in You
    Original - Psychedelic Furs
    Cover - Counting Crows
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,991
    danny72688 wrote:
    Smells Like Teen Spirit:
    Tori Amos > Nirvana




    Sike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck that bitch!


    God, i was about to come right through this computer and strangle you for a second
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  • gnr+pj=2bestever
    gnr+pj=2bestever Posts: 358
    Original: (I can't get no) Satisfaction
    Cover: Britney Spears










    but seriously....

    Original: Thin Lizzy, Whiskey in the Jar
    Cover: Metallica, Whiskey in the Jar
    Whats got the whole world faking?
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Without question:

    Hallelujah

    Original-Leonard Cohen
    Cover-Jeff Buckley


    PBM
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  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Without question:

    Hallelujah

    Original-Leonard Cohen
    Cover-Jeff Buckley


    PBM


    good call PBM...i also like kd lang's version.
  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    Keller wrote:
    Exactly what the title says...name some songs that bands have covered (in the studio) which you think are better than the original recording.
    Uhhh....every single Ramones song....wait, except The KKK Took My Baby Away....but yeah, all others. If you don't believe me then check out the Ramones tribute album that came out a few years ago. One of my favorite CDs.
  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    *Boy wrote:
    you should hear Cat Power's version
    Amen to that....Cat Power has the best version of Wonderwall.

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