Cover songs better then the origianal?

[clint_giles]

this video has a good arguement to be one of those songs.

led zepplin,fantastic.
song,battle of evermore, fantastic

these 2 women (heart)at the 4 minute mark(also from start to finish)....fantastic !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxcC18xE4Y

[hirschfelder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBviQXfuu3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_3EzyrSb0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acULghgYUg0

[antinwo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1ueZf1WMQ

:D

[sorath]

Anything by the 10 masked men!

[antinwo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq9XykJ-Po0

[hunter77]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xHl-P_arVA

originaly buy the meat puppets.:)

[hirschfelder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1ueZf1WMQ

:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7XMOTbo20

;)

[martg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

original by Tears for Fears

[bealert]

Paul Davidson - Midnight Rider in full stereo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDy7-eq7OGM

Brilliant version better than the original.

[bealert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c

Stranglers - Walk on by....Some great versions of this song but this is my fav

[supertzar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQH8X4jkSxo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmX_7B8c-ww

[antinwo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

original by Tears for Fears


I have to agree with that:)

[bealert]

I have to agree with that:)
yeah great song so sad though.

[antinwo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7XMOTbo20

;)


Class:)

[antinwo]

yeah great song so sad though.

I know this song was xmas number one 2003 as well wasn't it?

[martg]

I know this song was xmas number one 2003 as well wasn't it?

I didn't know that :cool:
I only came across it in the movie Donnie Darko (one of my favourite films, very deep ;))

[bealert]

I know this song was xmas number one 2003 as well wasn't it?
Great Music always as the ability to remind you of where you was when you first heard it or what you was doing at the time etc
Yet all i remember about this one was i just had split up with my ex wife...great song though

[clozaril]

dear prudence by siouxie and the banshees

plus anything by hayseed dixie :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9Xuw0Sojg&feature=related

[hunter77]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s

originally by nine inch nails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8d_8fM6PQc

better than bono :)

[bealert]

Some of johnny cash's music had brilliant lyrics.. (story's)...the man was a genius.

[martg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s

originally by nine inch nails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8d_8fM6PQc

better than bono :)

nice one hunter, I really like those tracks,
I had no idea 'hurt' was NIN track

you've reminded me of another fave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmVXjRTwjw8
Photek remix of NIN - The hand that feeds
:cool:

[bealert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEEnWEaeRk&feature=related

Another one rides the bus.

[wizer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOibtqWo6z4


metallica cover bob seger "turn the page"


and "the wait" by Killing Joke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8t2dJZRRW0

[decode reality]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB24z00ajU4

Love the original but I think this has just a certain 'oomph' to it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPETyY5eIM

Give me this over Doris Day any, erm "day". :D

[les_paul_robot]

Smells Like Teen Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpgiY19XJyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpgiY19XJyE

[decode reality]

Deffo agree with the Johnny Cash....combined with the video, it's heartbreaking.

[clint_giles]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s

originally by nine inch nails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8d_8fM6PQc

better than bono :)

i like johhny's version better as well

[hunter77]

Deffo agree with the Johnny Cash....combined with the video, it's heartbreaking.


thanks decode, i think mr cash is a throwback but an artist that can express tunes properly:)

[hunter77]

i like johhny's version better as well

he could turn his hand to anything, perhaps not the best song writer but the best finisher. rip johnny:)

[hunter77]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEEnWEaeRk&feature=related

Another one rides the bus.

is that a chas and ave cover?:D

[bealert]

is that a chas and ave cover?:D
who is chas and ave? and stop trying to provoke you sick northern wonker.

[pureheart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHGB-k2GJ-M

Well I know how some of you hate Sting ;)

[pureheart]

And this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xv5t70u-ZI

[hunter77]

who is chas and ave? and stop trying to provoke you sick northern wonker.

would of been dave, but i heard he left, ever heard a good cover of rabbit.
xxxx

[particlezen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzZhtrsbJzs

[bealert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDSzJ7Fop94

Original by Iggy Pop - This Version is by the Sex Pistols

[enga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JFyIaybXbU

Originally by Depeche Mode

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuKo3SevVA

Originally by Soft Cell

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_sHy9cVH0

originally by Bob Dylan

[antinwo]

[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuKo3SevVA

Originally by Soft Cell



Marylin Manson Tainted love yay:D

[supertzar]

[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuKo3SevVA

Originally by Soft Cell



Marylin Manson Tainted love yay:D

Nope!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3122658033_2996410d05.jpg

[hunter77]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdyqXSa5Bzc
the boss the greatest ever

[hunter77]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADOj07onrA:)

[supertzar]

Lol! Mine are the only ones that are actually better. :)

[coco]

Baker Street


Original - Gerry Rafferty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU


Cover - Foo Fighters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kmaX2bnes&feature=related

I think it was last year when I heard the Foo Fighters' version. It did not appeal to me at all. I was convinced they had massacred Rafferty's masterpiece. But after a while it grew on me as I separated the two. I no longer judged the cover by the original but rather looked at it as it stood on its own. I like both.

[hunter77]

Lol! Mine are the only ones that are actually better. :)

less of your lolling dont diss the greatest rockstar ever;) if you don't like nirvana your to your to young or too old:D

[coco]

Also, I like Elton John's 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' better.

*ducks and runs*

[hunter77]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quZ5rE8ujcA

[supertzar]

less of your lolling dont diss the greatest rockstar ever;) if you don't like nirvana your to your to young or too old:D

Well, I was spinning Bleach about five times a day years before Nevermind came out and I was probably one of the first people in the whole USA to get a copy of Nevermind on August 28th, 1991. :) It's not that. It's just it is really hard to make a cover better than the original. There aren't really very many of them.

[hunter77]

Also, I like Elton John's 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' better.

*ducks and runs*


i like that too:)

[supertzar]

nice one bout your discoghphy, but who gives shit tbh? When nirvana were playing little gigs in the north of englnd( even though theyd had europen number one album).they. Still rocked my world. I'd heard the album bleach before. But when nevermind came out the new tunes kicked my ass a three piece band with so much power,

in 91 i ws lisitining to mudhoney ns sonic youth. Thank fuck for kurt. R.i.p.

Just cause you haerd it first doesn't mean you get it,;)

imo the best bnd ever. Ny song coverd is sweet, especily whenthe three piece hs ledbellt plying the tune with them

I think I get it, man. I think I get it. I'm just trying to show you where I am coming from a little bit. Damn, ur splleen iz aul fked up! I jes ntotissed.

It's cool, man. Do you know what I am saying about covers being really hard to make better? I think Roger Miller (Mission of Burma)'s cover of The Man Who Sold the World is better than Nirvana's version, but I'm not saying it's better than Bowie's. What is that you are saying about Leadbelly? They played along to a Leadbelly recording or something?

[supertzar]

Oh my god I hope you don't think Leadbelly was in the Meat Puppets. :eek:

originaly buy the meat puppets.

:( It's going to be okay, hunter77. It's going to be okay. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtd9TFfScU


It's a folk song. I don't know if anyone knows who penned In the Pines, but no one will look at you funny if you call it a Leadbelly song.



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[clint_giles]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quZ5rE8ujcA

this is different then the lake of fire i know?

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCjpKsBf44

[dragoness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcXrcdEsWto

[actaeons_revenge]

Death -- Painkiller (Judas Priest)

Chuck Schuldiner doing falsetto? Rob Halford has been upstaged!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quPliK3eAy4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=quPliK3eAy4

Fleshgod Apocalypse -- Blinded By Fear (At The Gates)

Blinded By Fear with blast beats? Count me in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3NHR6SrgwM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3NHR6SrgwM

Cannibal Corpse -- No Remorse (Metallica)

Better than Hetfield's high-pitched vocals in the early days OR his "singing" of the last decade or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vZy6J1rqaY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vZy6J1rqaY

Decapitated -- Mandatory Suicide (Slayer)

RIP Vitek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsfejvWue4E

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsfejvWue4E

Minibosses -- Mega Man 2 (NES)

Can't go wrong with video game covers from these guys, since the originals were midi files.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuxfQjJ-3DM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuxfQjJ-3DM

[daou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBviQXfuu3c

No, no, no fuckin no! Go in the corner and have some time out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_3EzyrSb0

So, so - Great band, ok song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acULghgYUg0

Fuckin' GENIUS!!!

But everyone know THIS is the best ever cover! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnejLmQGYhg

[daou]

Even better than The Zep!!! :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRPM8Mm6RQ

[astrocreep]

Cannibal Corpse -- No Remorse (Metallica)

Better than Hetfield's high-pitched vocals in the early days OR his "singing" of the last decade or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vZy6J1rqaY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vZy6J1rqaY



Yes!! The CC version of No remorse is amazing. The last part after "attack!" is just imense. Nobody ever seems to have heard it, not people i speak to anyway.

Any my input to this thread is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--icdKMbCOo

[monster]

Amanda Palmer covering "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" - by Death Cab for Cutie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm3IeNy6jHs&feature=search

Johnny Cash covering 'Hurt" - by Nine Inch Nails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=search

[pound]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3TesujRfpY

[moving finger]

Another vote for Johnny Cash:

Johnny Cash - we'll meet again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6cMQ6kBm0k)

Not a proper video, but a great cover of the song.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 'Nothin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxPfc9A3BlU) awesome cover of Townes Van Zandt song (again not a proper video).

[infidelyork]

Fear Factory - Cars (A cover + guest appearance from Numan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUsw6PvUYM

[drhemp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEe0xwSEEB0

All Along The Watch Tower, Jimi Hendrix

Bob Dylan is quoted as saying "Hendrix wrote this song."