Covers better than the origanal thread!

[zoso11]

heres my 1st


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La7Sm9_1tSE&feature=relatedYouTube - Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dear Prudence.

[Dave]

I do like this one :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPQCvJ8MPgYouTube - Siouxsie & The Banshees - Helter Skelter.

"You may be a lover but you ain't no f****** dancer"

[Nige S]

Black Sabbaths Paranoid, The Dickies did a much better version :thumb:

[zoso11]

thats mint that Dave!!

[NorthernBloke]

Maybe a controversial one but I do rate this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4kBr5WWiBMYouTube - Mark Ronson - Stop Me.

[steely dan]

i do like a nice cover, also some of my pop trivia for songs that people dont realise is a cover :D

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix (originally by Bob Dylan)

I Fought the Law - The Clash (The Crickets)


I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes,,,, originally Dusty Springfield

One - Johnny Cash,... U2 oroginally.

Wonderwall - Ryan Adams. as big as the original Oasis tune was, this cover is sublime

lucy in the sky with diamonds - william shatner (beatles obviously, but its so funny it wins hands down, the video is genius :D)

[luz008]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1J4rTgVgEYouTube - metallica whisky in the jar.
:thumb:

[NorthernBloke]

How about this one :lol::lol:

:duck::duck::duck::duck:

:giveup:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uc2nqy-sEIYouTube - Arctic Monkeys - Love Machine Live.

[Scouse]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvpm3LuJm5sYouTube - Japan: I Second That Emotion.


Originally by Smokey Robinson and the Miracales.




Scouse.

[zoso11]

Maybe a controversial one but I do rate this


God i was horrified when i 1st heard this, the origanal would be over by the time he does the 1st verse lol.

Hard to cover a smiths song tho and make it work these days, has that thatcher'esque sound the smiths that just doesnt work in todays society

[Retromotorsport]

Behind Blue Eyes... originally by the Who.. but was covered by Limp Bisket (i think or may have been Greenday) for the Film Gothika ... and when i heard it .. i just said thats the B****ox ..

Its very rare i like covers, and a few just shouldnt be covered, No1 on that list is Nillsons ' Without You' ... ruined by many
One other Song thats hard to cover is the Pretenders I'll stand by you .... and yet i caught a singer on Pop Idol/X-Factor or one of the others that did it justice.. but so many have killed that song .

[Jon]

Here you go Gary, one of the best songs ever written, and yes a bloody good cover...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pp38SR1lMUYouTube - Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes.

[Retromotorsport]

*sniff*.. i aint got no speakers at work ..

But cheers :thumb:

[Kieron]

I think the whole issue with covers is what version you heard first. Anything you hear after will always be trying to better what you knew first.

Anyway I am going to get the piss ripped out of me for this (and desevedly so :D ) but I prefer Barry Whites version of Billy Joels "Just the way you are" because I heard it first and was brought up on it:


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zNWNYxNJV6wYouTube - Barry White - Just the way you are.

and by the original:


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KtMAvjvw-LcYouTube - billy joel-just the way you are.

:bolt:

[Scouse]

Jon,

I can't believe you think that cover is better than The Who version................not in a million years! :noway:

Although, I do agree with what Kieron said as I think "Born To Run", originally by "The Boss" isn't as good as the version by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. It's a lot better the in the faster version.

The Boss's version......

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6se90rFN1qIYouTube - Bruce Springsteen Born to Run 1980's.

FGTH version.......

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BTStMImOtuU&feature=relatedYouTube - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Born To Run (Live).




Scouse.

[Si_Steve]

have to say im liking this one


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFXb4WJ3OIYouTube - Nonpoint - In The Air Tonight.

[NorthernBloke]

Jon,

Although, I do agree with what Kieron said as I think "Born To Run", originally by "The Boss" isn't as good as the version by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. It's a lot better the in the faster version.

Scouse.

:clint::clint::clint::clint::clint::clint::stu::stu::stu::stu::stu: that FGTH version is just sacrilege

[zoso11]

not better than the origanal but a dam good version!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJkRXxOWabYYouTube - The Divine Comedy - No one knows.

[scrote]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XHHfZABOYWoYouTube - Kate Bush - Rocket Man.

[Retromotorsport]

Kate Bush is one woman that can do no wrong in my eyes and ears ... fell in love with her when i was a teenager... may have had something to do with the Baboshka video :D :D

[jono_misfit]

I like pretty much any cover done by Me First and the Gimme Gimme's (Made up from NOFX, Lagwagon, and others).

Punk covers of everthing from show tunes to country, to current pop.

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I like the cover of who put the bomp

New found glory do some good ones to, my heart will go on is my favourite.

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No idea if these are any good or the right copies as no sound on my laptop.

[Clapshot]

Probably my favourite cover of all time, closely followed by a couple of the songs on mirvana unplaugged.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OBofXO8DBQYouTube - Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.

[4drmatt]

This a brilliant cover (IMO) of Billy Bragg's "To Have And To Have Not"

It is by Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards.

http://www.youtube.com/v/lybPuF3HH-0&rel=1

No embedded video because I couldn't get it to work :giveup:

[Jon]

[quote=Scouse;1408472]Jon,

I can't believe you think that cover is better than The Who version................not in a million years! :noway:

Didn't say it was better than the Who's version, no-one does their songs better than them but it is a good version:thumb:

[Scouse]

I thought that this thread was about covers you thought "were better" than the original. Not "I think they are good, but........." thread :dunno:




Scouse.

[Jon]

I thought that this thread was about covers you thought "were better" than the original. Not "I think they are good, but........." thread :dunno:




Scouse.

True, but Gary suggested it not me, I just put the link up and said it was good:D:thumb:

[Scouse]

:doh:

Looks like I'm the :muppet: again! :rolleyes:



Scouse.

[zoso11]

no it was meant to be better than that origanal, but even i put the QOTSA one on there done by the devine comedy,

Ive just realised my fave song of all time is a cover too.. Led Zeppelin, In My Time Of Dying. Its actually an old slave worker song from early 1900s, and 1st recorded then Blind Willie Johnson as "Jesus make up my dying bed" Obviously didnt have the kick ass power as Zeppelin tho!

check this out, and 3:20 onwards is musical orgasms for me!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV9lgg-_-ssYouTube - In My Time Of Dying.

[Jon]

:doh:

Looks like I'm the :muppet: again! :rolleyes:



Scouse.

:D

[longboy]

Ive just realised my fave song of all time is a cover too.. Led Zeppelin, In My Time Of Dying. Its actually an old slave worker song from early 1900s, and 1st recorded then Blind Willie Johnson as "Jesus make up my dying bed" Obviously didnt have the kick ass power as Zeppelin tho!

check this out, and 3:20 onwards is musical orgasms for me!!!


wow never realy been a big zep fan, but thats brill perhaps a couple of mins to long for me

[zoso11]

you cant really appreciate it on the net, the dvd is mint, once u got it through decent speakers etc, but the bit form 3mins when the drums go nuts, thats one hell of a bit of drumming, and the bass line.. pfft mint!

[NorthernBloke]

A storming cover by The Beat of Tears of a Clown and for me way better than the original


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0zBXpWMJOYYouTube - Tears of a Clown.

and another of Andy Williams' Can't get used to Loosing You


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjk0E9ZT3ZAYouTube - The Beat - Can't Get Used To Losing You.

[NorthernBloke]

and another (but not The Beat this time) and a very cute singer (who know where I got this one from?)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdk5kf91LgIYouTube - Freemasons - Uninvited (Featuring Bailey Tzuke).

[Scouse]

Zoso,

You sure you're not the PR Guru for Led Zep!? :D




Scouse.

[zoso11]

Zoso,

You sure you're not the PR Guru for Led Zep!? :D




Scouse.

Never liked a band as much as i do zeppelin, as a musician though there technical expertise and musical arrangements is just mint!

Im probably the only person who may listen to black dog and go, hmm nice change in the time signature from a 4/4 to a 4/5 :carl:

:duck:

[Scouse]

I was thinking the same thing! :D




Scouse.

[zoso11]

its all about the time signatures mate :thumb:



:gary:

[Antony_James]

hahaha

kicks ass


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EPJVlEpjk0YouTube - I Will Survive ~ The Puppini Sisters.

[Antony_James]

One that Si Steve May like

A cover of (System of a down - chop suey)

I give u Richard cheese chaps haha


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0pjUwYIpU&feature=relatedYouTube - CHOP SUEY.

[Antony_James]

Its even better if u are familiar with the origanal

[zoso11]

perhaps the greatest cover of all time!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aUDVpHxw9c&feature=relatedYouTube - Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower.

[4drmatt]

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light.

This was originally by Bruce Springsteen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AFCJ1dLdgYouTube - Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light.

[Si_Steve]

One that Si Steve May like

A cover of (System of a down - chop suey)

I give u Richard cheese chaps haha

YouTube - CHOP SUEY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0pjUwYIpU&feature=related)


quality mate:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:love covers like that:thumb:

[Blower]

gotta love the funky geetar :thumb:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=-1G0eiKHy1kYouTube - Depeche Mode Remix: Useless Kruder & Dorfmeister Session.

[4drmatt]

gotta love the funky geetar :thumb:

YouTube - Depeche Mode Remix: Useless Kruder & Dorfmeister Session (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-1G0eiKHy1k)


how strange... was listening to this earlier...

brilliant song. love the K & D sessions cd they did :thumb:

[Si_Steve]

maybe not better that the original but still pretty good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l6Y8PA_neYYouTube - one - in bluegrass style - iron horse.

[zoso11]

never really been a bowe fan, i respect his acheivements, but find is god like "worship me" attitude annoying..

anywho.. heres some fine young men from Aberdeen, Washington


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=209ArurxVG4YouTube - Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World: Live.

[Graham_S1]

Faith No More - Easy Like Sunday Morning. :thumb:

Also Faith No Mores cover of War Pigs (not better but as good).

Sepultura doing Symptom of the Universe. How fast??!! :clint:

[marsy226]

The Clash - Police & Thieves
- I Fought the Law

Led Zeppelin - C'mon Everybody
(On the Live at Royal Albert Hall DVD) :thumb:

[zoso11]

Led Zeppelin - C'mon Everybody
(On the Live at Royal Albert Hall DVD) :thumb:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BC6Es3m6T4YouTube - Led Zeppelin - C'mon Everybody/Something Else (Best Cover).

:banana::banana::banana:

Got this entire gig on CD in the dvd sound quality if you want me send it you

[marsy226]

I've got myself thanks Dave, ripped it off the DVD, thank you for the offer though:thumb:

Its an amazing gig that :)

[zoso11]

yeah awsome, how many more times is top, and i cant quit you baby. Me and my mate did a mean cover of it at a jam night last month. Ive got shed loads of bootlegs including the re-union at the o2 if you want ne

[PIG]

better than the orginal as well imo.oasis-i am the walrus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12R1_68V0A&feature=relatedYouTube - Oasis - I Am The Walrus live at Knebworth.

[zoso11]

yes!!!!!!!

man i remember going to knebworth and john squire from the roses (aka god) playing this with them. Also earles court when they did it with the bootleg beatles..

depsite it being 01:20 think i might go play it on my guitar now woot!

[stevieel]

Maximo Park's version of 500 Miles



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbVzK2vl3dsYouTube - Maximo Park - 500 Miles - T in the Park 2007.

Steve

[stevieel]

another one, DK's Rawhide


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-lSZ1Kv2ZUYouTube - Dead Kennedys - Rawhide (lost session tapes).

[stevieel]

nina simone - Feeling Good originally


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sri5Cra5tdY&feature=relatedYouTube - Muse - Feeling Good - Live Reading Festival 2006.


Dr who?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H_o6ncUz3g&feature=relatedYouTube - Orbital - Doctor Who.

NIN cover Joy Division - Dead Souls


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ulfmCfT94YouTube - Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls (Joy Division cover).

Rollins band cover Alan Vegas - Ghost rider


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9DMEbNxQgYouTube - Ghost Rider.

[andy]

manfred mann's earth band doing blinded by the light is my fave song. EVAR !

chop suey cover is good too :)

[andy]

just looked up richard cheese, his band is called

Lounge Against the Machine

CLASS !

[Si_Steve]

seriously think this is better than dio's original:thumb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0MdLMVHmwYouTube - Holy Diver Killswitch Engage.

[POO SLINGER]

i'm not sure weathre i love it or hate it


http://youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8YouTube - Hey Jude.

[andy]

remember to ret her into your heart

[Sulky]

Placebo's cover of Running up that hill...it's on you tube but I don't know how to post it here. :dunce: Love it.

Sacrilegious as it is I do prefer Scissor Sister's cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb more then the original.

[marsy226]

Sacrilegious as it is I do prefer Scissor Sister's cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb more then the original.



:clint::clint::clint::stu:

[Sulky]

Sad but true :crazy:

[marsy226]

I would actually put that down as one of the worst covers of all time :D

[steely dan]

i just spent a good few hours with a mate driving to dover and back, and he put on a cd called 'dub side of the moon' by Easy Star All-Stars... not going to say it was better but i cant say i didnt like it :D

apparently they also did a cover album called 'radiodread' which was a reggae version of OK Computer ;)

off to check it out :D

[Scouse]

Steviel,

They should be done for "murder"................killing the Proclaimers' 500 Miles!!! :noway:


Scouse.

[PIG]

Steviel,

They should be done for "murder"................killing the Proclaimers' 500 Miles!!! :noway:


Scouse.



i think your find they dont that them selves scouse:D:D

[x-pack]

I just stuck this on another thread

'Shake Your Head' by Was Not Was. The original was in 1983 and featured Ozzy Osbourne (famous for being married to Sharon and fathering freaks). It sucked ass. The one from 1992 was cool and had Kim Basinger who looked amazing in it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65ruXryKPTAYouTube - Was (Not Was) - Shake Your Head.

[4drmatt]

Steel Panther - Don't stop believing. Saw them play this at wembley arena :cool:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYInWPjFwLA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYInWPjFwLA

Anthrax - Antisocial. Only found out this was a cover yesterday


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPKHw8Hx7Rk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPKHw8Hx7Rk

[morcheen]

Straight Outta Compton - Nina Gordon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc

:) great thread revival :)

[x-pack]

Change You're Heart was done by The Korgis in the early 80's but Beck did a miles better job of it

also Maneater (not the Hall & Oates one) done by some crappy girl singer was covered by Kill Boy Kill who did it a million times better

[Copey]

Jack Blades cover of Day Tripper is better than the original (can't find a youtube link) (originally The Beatles)

Aerosmith - Come Together (originally The Beatles)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3jWESj-Lkw

Thin Lizzy - Rosalie (originally Bob Segar)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1lPuWg-Rpg

Glyder - Hazy Shade Of Winter (cant find a youtube link) (originally Simon and Garfunkle)

thats all i can think of at the mo

[longboy]

i liked this cover


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ScST1yb4U


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0fMflqv0A

[morcheen]

now this is quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb4qyuR7_cc

if you do a cover make it your own and not do something like Gallows did :(

[morcheen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcdU6qNBNyI great bit of kate


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAR1ePMZ0vs

kate edges it but maxwell does a great cover .

[TepiTheFinn]

Hanoi Rocks in 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEYtUcIKHTM
CCR in 1970

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

[dalmarshall]

Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
Sorry dont know how to do a link, could someone do the honours please!!

[lee 1]

Here you go.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMFm5nKeUc

[lee 1]

Love this one odd as i don't really like any other machine head tracks


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qigh9r82M


Damb it only half the song

[bortaf]

Lovin the thread, just done a covers CD for the car

The Beat - Can't Get Used To Losing You.
Cake - I Will Survive
Madness - it must be love
hayseed dixie - fat bottom girls
hayseed dixie - whole lotta rosie
maralin manson - sweet dreams
maralin manson - own personal jesus
Faith No More - Easy
blues brothers - shotgun blues
Placebo - Running up that hill
Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
tia carrere - ballroom blitz
Metalica - so what

My fav of them is


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-9XQL6Ubo

[morcheen]

not got the line, " i even sucked an old man's cock,so what "

can't beat the original i say bortaf :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH7pOUm5s9k

[bortaf]

Yep it does ;) 0.54
although they don't say cnut often enough unlike the origional :D
childish i know but the more cnuts the better i say :lmao:

[mexicostids]

heres a couple faith no more war pigs , metallica turn the page . megadeth anarchy in the uk , wasp, the real me , johhny cash hurt , nirvana the man who sold the world

[dannyayo]

I always thought GnR's Knocking on heavens door was better than Dylans.

GnR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcWTTs8QVRc

Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVOlSR7A1ns

[morcheen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh6IwFhG8G8 ship building by Robert Wyatt

written for him by Elvis Costello,then he did his own version.prefer the Robert Wyatt original myself.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjrHxpiet0

[gsexr]

Best cover ever


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_YQXFs7Ts

[gsexr]

Then again


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alFlaMC2b3c

[Darbo]

Marina doing 3oh!3
:)

http://www.youtube.com/user/marinasdiamonds#p/a/u/0/NQYo6rXVIGY

[thorne]

I'm gonna put in another vote for metallica with last caress (the misfits) and so what again lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0pxnhto2Y

also I'm gonna pimp my band out and vote for our punked up version of house of the rising sun :D
enjoy

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