covers that are better than orginals (non-pj)

Tool-No Quarter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x--yddOolRQ

eeriepadave said:

Maybe not better, but just as good Disturbed- Sound of Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4 Simon & Garfunkel- Sound of Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

Ugh! My wife plays the Disturbed version all the time and it drives me crazy. I can't believe I actually used to like these guys back in the day, now hearing his voice makes me cringe. But that's just me.

Chris Cornell - Nothing Compares to You
Pantera - Planet Caravan
Metallica - Turn The Page

eeriepadave said:

Weezer does a pretty good cover of Toto's  "Africa"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4c7EE8_IX0

and Toto returns the favor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N9OM1nxdYc

Smashing Pumpkins- Landslide (Fleetwood Mac), Girl Named Sandoz (the Animals), Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche mode)

Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower (Dylan)

Led Zeppelin- Traveling Riverside Blues (Robert Johnson)

Nirvana- Man Who Sold the World (Bowie), Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly) any song from the Vaselines.

REM- All I Have to Do is Dream (Everly Brothers)

Johnny Cash - Hurt (NIN), Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen), Thirteen (Danzig)

the Frogs- We are the World (various artists)

Chris Cornell- Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)

Guns N Roses- Live or Let Die (Paul McCartney)

and a ton more I can't think of right now.

just remembered a few more-

13th Floor Elevators- It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Dylan)

Dave Matthews Band- Long Black Veil (traditional)

Ben Harper- Drugs Don't Work (the Verve)

Metallica- Turn the Page (Bob Seger)

Tom Petty- Feel a Whole Lot Better (the Byrds)

Spiritual_Chaos said:

lolobugg said:

Smashing Pumpkins- Landslide (Fleetwood Mac), Girl Named Sandoz (the Animals), Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche mode)

Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower (Dylan)

Led Zeppelin- Traveling Riverside Blues (Robert Johnson)

Nirvana- Man Who Sold the World (Bowie), Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Leadbelly) any song from the Vaselines.

REM- All I Have to Do is Dream (Everly Brothers)

Johnny Cash - Hurt (NIN), Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen), Thirteen (Danzig)

the Frogs- We are the World (various artists)

Chris Cornell- Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)

Guns N Roses- Live or Let Die (Paul McCartney)

and a ton more I can't think of right now.

just remembered a few more-

13th Floor Elevators- It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Dylan)

Dave Matthews Band- Long Black Veil (traditional)

Ben Harper- Drugs Don't Work (the Verve)

Metallica- Turn the Page (Bob Seger)

Tom Petty- Feel a Whole Lot Better (the Byrds)

Fantastic covers. 

But come on.

I can give you McCartney. but I stand by the other 2

Dinosaur Jr doing their great cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven".   Robert Smith said The Cure started playing the song more like Dinosaur did after they heard the cover. 

Powderfinger's covers of 666 Number of the Beast and Love My Way.

HesCalledDyer said:

Every time this topic comes up (whether here or with my friends, a group of people I just met, etc) everyone blows their nut over Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.  I really wish I got what you all are getting because I've always thought it was a god awful abomination of a cover.

I just think it's a good cover of a rather mediocre song. The only reason I think Cash's Hurt is a great cover because it is a good example of vastly improving upon an original song, which IMO is the only reason anyone should be covering anything. That doesn't mean I think it's a crazy good song when Cash does it. It's okay when NIN does it, and it's okay+ when Cash does it, lol (and FTR, it's okay- when EV does it. I don't really get why Eddie bothers with it).
I am surprised to see anyone say it's an abomination of a cover. Does that mean you love the NIN version?? I personally think that Cash's version is better because it's just got more feeling and depth to it than the NIN version.