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Not many around, so please share a few which are.
I'll start you off.
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I'll get flamed but Scissor Sisters 'Comfortably Numb'. And I love Floyd.
Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower
probably get it in the neck for this, but:
Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!
Leona Lewis' version of that Snow Patrol song was a belter.
The regular, unsolved debate at work is 'Whiskey in the Jar"...
Thin Lizzy or Metallica?
Anyone covering bob dylan. 😀
I see your 'Village Green' and raise you with Blooming Heather:
Yep defo Hendrix covering All Along The Watchtower.
SRV covering Little Wing
Amy Winehouse covering Valerie
Thin Lizzy shits all over Metallicas attempt at Whiskey in the jar imo.
Bauhaus ziggy stardust .
Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!
That is effing awesome!
Some more, from me...
NOOOO! Boba Fatt, what have they done?!? That needs banning!
I like Mikey's though, not heard that before.
Tragically there doesn't seem to be a recording anywhere of Jimbob from Carter USM's rather magnificent version of That's What I Go To School For.
Man Who Sold The World, Nirvana
Didn't Bonnie Prince Billy write I See A Darkness?
Anyway
Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!
Even Trent Reznor has gone on record as saying that song is now Cash's.
Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!
No just no. Johnny Cash had one of those voices that can never be beaten on his own songs.
Tainted love , Soft Cell rather better than the Gloria Jones original , however she does score a bonus point for crashing the car in which Marc Bolan died .
You've got the love by Florence and the machine I originally thought blew the original by Candi Statton out of the water however I now don't think that is the case and prefer the original .
Dolly Partons original Jolene is a classic that The White Stripes certainly didn't improve IMO .
No just no. Johnny Cash had one of those voices that can never be beaten on his own songs.
Really? The first time I heard Mark & Lard play it on the afternoon show on Radio 1 I stopped in my trackes & almost shed a tear...
Tainted love , Soft Cell rather better than the Gloria Jones original
Taste is a funny thing, the Soft Cell version of that is at least my 3rd favourite version of that song, behind Gloria Jones & Marylin Manson. I've not heard any other versions so until I do it's unlikely to get bumped further down the list...
Really? The first time I heard Mark & Lard play it on the afternoon show on Radio 1 I stopped in my trackes & almost shed a tear.
Me too when they murdered a good song. 😀
Les Clochards - Sledgehammer
Jeff buckleys version of hallelujah - think as with cash and NIN, leonard cohen has gone record saying buckleys version is better (but i'll stand corrected on that). First time i ever heard it was radio 1 playing it on the fiirst anniversary of 9/11 - sat in car park to listen to it in its entirety, then went straight to andys records to buy the album.
There's always someone who likes to think that Cash's "Hurt" isn't one of the greatest covers of all time. 😆
Joan Jett's version of I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Always on my Mind
Don't leave me this way
Thea Gilmore's version of 'You Spin Me Round':
Tori Amos' version of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
This song is like watching someone struggle to put up a fence (Duffy) and then a pro comes along and shows them how its done.
Raaargh my ineptitude prevents me from managing to post a video....
It works, yay!
Me first and the gimme gimmes - Rocket Man, Nothing Compares 2 U
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (perfect!)
China Drum - Wuthering Heights
The Who - Summertime Blues
Voodoo Glow Skulls - Charlie Brown
Eric Clapton - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Gary Jules - Mad World
Born to run, Frankie Goes to Hollywood version rocks compared to Springstein's
Also worth checking out the original for an awesome outfit...
Sadly no YouTube video of this one, The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama, [i]The Dimming Of The Day[/i]
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Blind+Boys+of+Alabama/_/Dimming+of+the+Day
A stunning version of a great song.
Therapy Dianne.
Cat Power's cover of Wonderwall i think is pretty ace....and i'm as big a 'man-chest-aaah' oasis following skally as they get.
This is so subjective, it's impossible for me to say in any of these debates which version of any song is better. But from where I stand, I'll happily accept any cover version as long as it puts a different style on the song.
As example - For me, this one's a bit samey, until the finale when it becomes a billy Bragg version.
And I think this is fabulous
Both on Ruby Trax, an old NME cover versions CD.
Lennon and Maisy Stella, much better than the Lumineers version
Stranglers - Walk on By
Dinosaur jr - just like heaven
DOA & Jello Biafra - we gotta get out of this place
Also Stranglers and Walk on By - by coincidence, I emailed my sister last night saying exactly that.
I have to disagree on Hallelujah - I don't think Leonard's original can be beaten. However, I give you Thea Gilmore's cover of the whole of John Wesley Harding, Cream's 'Born under a bad sign' and if we're looking for a good cover of a Cohen song, Anthony (out of Anthony and the Johnsons) 'If it be your will'. Oh and Jennifer Warnes' 'Joan of Arc'
Inexplicably I haven't seen this mentioned yet
Also
Approximately 98,764 times better than that poodle rock crap! 😉
Private Life ... prefer Grace Jones to Prentenders original
One of my favourite covers - how a cover should be done. (Not better than the original, but then neither are most of the selections on this thread!)
then there's... (I've never heard the original 🙂 )
You've got the love by Florence and the machine I originally thought blew the original by Candi Statton out of the water however I now don't think that is the case and prefer the original .
[pedant] what about the original, original, frankie knuckles version, nothing beats that??? {pedant]
err, I prefer all saints under the bridge to the RHCP version. Sorry, IGMC
I love Frank Turner's version of Dancing Queen... It's weird but just by stripping it down to acoustic and voice, and being a little bit whiney, it ends up being a song about... Loss, I guess. Shortness of youth.
Also his District Sleeps Alone Tonight doesn't do anything clever, it just un-ruins the Postal Service version by removing all the ****ery.
Rolling Stones doing 'I wanna be your man'
birky - Member
Private Life ... prefer Grace Jones to Prentenders original
Pretty much any of the Grace Jones songs are better than the original, even Night Clubbing. You can say that about many Iggy songs.
[i]You [b]can[/b] say that about many Iggy songs.[/i]
I hope you missed off "[b] 't[/b]" ...
Possibly this one as well.
Not sure if anycovers are actually better, just different.
Sorry DezB! I did miss the "t". Pleased you knew what I meant though.
I do love a good cover.
How about The Gourds doing Snoop Dogg's "Gin & Juice"
Or Otway's version of "House of the Rising Sun"
Damn! How could I forget Richard Thompson's 'Oops I did it again'
Damn! How could I forget Richard Thompson's 'Oops I did it again'
Faxed Head's [s]California[/s] Coalinga Love.
original aint bad though tbh
not better, but different.
I kind of like James Blake's cover of Joni Mitchell's 'Case of you' and I also like his cover of Feist's 'Limit to your love'.
Everyone needs some Dick Cheese in their life.
Anyone covering bob dylan
Forever Young acapella by Audra Mae. One of many...
Damn, beaten to the Richard Cheese 😀 His cover of You Oughta' Know by Alanis Morissette is soooooo much better than the original.
This is haunting...
I prefer Roxy's cover of Jealous Guy but maybe just cos the video is pretty hilarious
I Fought the Law.
The Clash version was a revved up version of the Bobby Fuller Four's (very good) original.
I might be biased because I don't really rate The Beatles at all, but Stevie absolutely kills it, obviously.