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Rocket dog - cake's version of "I will survive" - Yeah baby, the greatest cover in history bar none.


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 2:26 pm
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Bit late but Chaka Khan's version of I feel for you is better than the original from Prince.


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 2:29 pm
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Always like johnny cash's cover of 'one'

But I hate U2, so anyone else doing it I'm likely to think is an improvement 🙂


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 5:11 pm
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New order - turn the heater on

Frankie knuckles - your love

Joy division - sister ray

Echo and the bunnymen - all you need is love


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 5:26 pm
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Jimmy cliffs version of ruby soho, basically the whole of Little Roys Battle For Seattle, Hendrix All Along the Watchtower and RATM version of Renegades of Funk.


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 5:37 pm
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Hah, I had no idea that There Is A Light That Never Goes Out was a cover.

De-cluttered

En-bluegrassed


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 6:15 pm
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For what I'm about to post, I beg your forgiveness, but I lurve this one

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Dammit - several edits later and I still show my incompetence at posting links. Sigh.


 
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I love absolutely everything about this


 
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I N R A T S but:

Walk on By by the Stranglers

Victoria, Telephone Thing, Lost in Music, Ghost in My House, by the Fall


 
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Posted : 09/07/2013 7:00 pm
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maybe this (forward to 3mins)


 
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Bang on a Can - Music for Airports


 
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I'll throw the RHCP cover of Stevie Wonders Higher ground in ....


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 8:41 pm
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Don't know about better but this man has skills, and there is swear words in it sorry not to sure about the rules. If I have broken them Sorry.


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 8:59 pm
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oh and Poison Idea doing hawkwinds Motor head (better as punk than stoner hippy gash)


 
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will probably get slaughtered for this one


 
Posted : 09/07/2013 11:23 pm
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Disturbed - land of confusion, definately better than the genesis original.

Pennywise - Land down under, although not better than the original, its still damn good!


 
Posted : 10/07/2013 11:28 am
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Kwaliteeeee


 
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guns n roses knocking on heavens door


 
Posted : 10/07/2013 2:11 pm
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No comment!


 
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Foo-Fighters "Band On The Run", is pretty damn good.


 
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Cover better than the original?

🙂


 
Posted : 10/07/2013 4:52 pm
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completely different to the original Nivana track


 
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Dead Kennedys - Take This Job And Shove It


 
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The Damned - Eloise
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Green Fields of France
Doctor & The Medics - Spirit In The Sky
Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

Too idle to post links....


 
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Can not open all the links on my tablet but I would be surprised if this isn't listed already...surely the best better than the the original cover song ever
Mad World...Gary Jules vs Tears for Fears


 
Posted : 14/07/2013 9:53 pm
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These are two of my favourites, not really saying that they are better than the original though!


 
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Crossroads - Cream
Have Live Will Travel - The Black Keys
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana
Billie Jean - Ian Brown
A Change is Gonna Come - Otis Redding
Motörhead - Corduroy
Wreck of the Old '97 - Johnny Cash
Time for Living - The Charlatans
Run On - Johnny Cash
Satisfaction - Otis Redding
Mr Postman - The Beatles
Johnny B. Goode - The Beatles
Money (Thats What I Want) - The Rolling Stones


 
Posted : 15/07/2013 9:50 am
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