Covers that are better than the original

[Phill451]

This may have been done but what cover versions of songs do you favour over the original version. My personal choice at the moment is Johnny Cash doing the NIN song Hurt.

[Batty]

Tom Jones - Kiss

[hired goon]

G'day,

Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" is totes better than Leonard Cohen's cheesy original.

--Geoff

[Phill451]

think I am with you HG, Jeff Buckley's version is amazing, although there is not much like seeing Leonard Cohen performing it live

[danter]

Remember Blue Ruin ? - they did a brilliant cover of "Venus' which got lost due to Bananarama (gulp) releasing the same track at the same time.

Guns & Roses - Knockin' on Heavens Door (Sorry Bob)

[mickj1]

Hendrix vs Dylan: all along the watchtower

Ry Cooder Vs Elvis: Little Sister

Donald Fagen Vs Drifters/Dion: Ruby Baby

Ray Charles Vs Don Gibson: I can't stop loving you

Wilson Pickett Vs Chris Kenner: Land of 1000 dances

Beatles Vs Barrett Strong: Money

Stones Vs Chuck Berry: Down the road apiece (they had to get one Chuck Berry song right- they'd tried enough)

Elvis Vs Big Boy Crudup: that's alright mama

Elvis Vs Chuck Willis: feel so bad

Elvis Vs Lloyd Price: Lawdy miss Clawdy

Elvis Vs Bill Monroe: Blue Moon of Kentucky

Elvis Vs Little willie John: Fever

Elvis Vs Carl Perkins: Blue suede shoes

etc

Cheers

Mick

[metal beat]

This may have been done but what cover versions of songs do you favour over the original version. My personal choice at the moment is Johnny Cash doing the NIN song Hurt.

Agree, it is brilliant

Hendrix - All along the watch tower

Stones - Little Red Rooster, Under the Boardwalk

Led Zep - You Shook me, I Can't Quit You Baby

Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Take me to the river, Jealous Guy and numerous others

Fuzzbox - Walking on Thin Ice

Bowie - Sorrow

INXS - the Loved One - from 1981, not the butchering done on Kick.

Linkin Park - Behind Blue Eyes

Marianne Faithful - Working class hero

Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself

Gary Jules - Mad World

Shannon Noll - What About Me - JUST KIDDING

[Phill451]

Agree, it is brilliant

Hendrix - All along the watch tower

Stones - Little Red Rooster, Under the Boardwalk

Led Zep - You Shook me, I Can't Quit You Baby

Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Take me to the river, Jealous Guy and numerous others

Fuzzbox - Walking on Thin Ice

Bowie - Sorrow

INXS - the Loved One - from 1981, not the butchering done on Kick.

Linkin Park - Behind Blue Eyes

Marianne Faithful - Working class hero

Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself

Gary Jules - Mad World

Shannon Noll - What About Me - JUST KIDDING

Some very interesting choices here, don't know the Gary jules Mad World cover so ill check it out. Thanks.

[metal beat]

Some very interesting choices here, don't know the Gary jules Mad World cover so ill check it out. Thanks.

It's the cover that many people think is Michael Stip aka R.E.M

Also

faith No More - Easy

Rammstein - the depeche classik - Stripped. Only song the german boys have ever sung in English

and lastly the absolutely amazing Hendrix cover of " You got me Floatin" by PM Dawn from the Stone free various artists project

[Phill451]

i've gota say the faith no more is also a sensational cover that I would never have thought of.

[Mr Smith]

Santana - Black Magic Woman

Doug Parkinson - Dear Prudence

Rita Coolidge - My Crew

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

And most definitely Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Cheers

Wayne

[Grumpy]

Doug Parkinsons - Dear Prudence (Beatles)

The Zoot's - Eleanor Rigby(Beatles)

Nirvana - The man who sold the world(bowie)

[Rhett Morson]

OMG Cohens Vs Buckley - you guys have lost the plot

if anyone says Beatles song covered is better, that would be worse - I am in shock

Scissor Sisters - take me out

[Grumpy]

Bobby Darrin - Mac The Knife (three penny orchestra -Louis Armstrong & others)

[Phill451]

two votes for Doug Parkinson. I will have to have a listen. Have you heard the Siouxsie and the Banshees version?

[Rhett Morson]

ok - I am googling Doug Parkinson Dear Prudence - I will have a listen

this is too mad to contemplate - no one beats the beatles

[Mr Smith]

I forgot Renee Geyer - Its a Mans World from Live at the Basement album and we are on a similar take Grumpy

Cheers

Wayne

[Rhett Morson]

ahhh I see - you guys were the ones smoking something in 1969

got it

[emesbee]

Santana - Black Magic Woman

Doug Parkinson - Dear Prudence

Rita Coolidge - My Crew

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

And most definitely Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Cheers

Wayne

I personally don't agree with the first two.

Nothing wrong with Santana's version of Black Magic Woman, but I actually like the original Fleetwood Mac version better.

I do prefer Santana's cover of She's Not There though.

Dear Prudence? The Beatles version is the only one!

[Rhett Morson]

phew - world order restored

gnight!

[Phill451]

Hard to go past the beatles, but Nirvana has got my vote.

[Saxon Hall]

Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 You" V Prince

[proftournesol]

Little Roger and the Goosebumps - Stairway to Gilligans Island. This manages a great cover of 2 classics - Gilligans Island Theme Song words sung to Stairway to Heaven tune:D

on a more serious note: Cowboy Junkies and 'Sweet Jane' & 'Helpless', and Patti Smith also covering Neil Young's 'Helpless'. Los Lobos do a fantastic live cover of The Beatles 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Whilst on Beatles covers, The Black Keys and 'She Said'.

[MrHorsepower]

Lovemongers version of Battle of Evermore ,off the soundtrack to the movie Singles.

[Grumpy]

Guns and Roses - Live and let Die (Paul McCartney)

Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt (Roy Orbison)