Are Cover Versions Better Than the Originals?

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In summary: Tom Petty:In summary, In summary, this thread is about great covers of popular songs that are better than the originals.
  • #36
I bought "The Crow:City of Angels" soundtrack just so I could listen to the first 2 cover tracks. Okay, not necessarily better than the original or anything.

"Gold Dust Woman"
(originally performed by Fleetwood Mac)
- by Hole


"I'm Your Boogie Man"
(originally performed by KC and the Sunshine Band)

- by White Zombie
 
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  • #37
1977ub said:
I bought "The Crow:City of Angels" soundtrack just so I could listen to the first 2 cover tracks. Okay, not necessarily better than the original or anything.

"Gold Dust Woman"
(originally performed by Fleetwood Mac)
- by Hole

Anything Hole has ever done has sucked, embarassingly. And for you to even present this as a possible EBTTRT (Even better than the real thing) "Candidate", troubles me 1977ub.
 
  • #38
Oh, for those of you 18 year old nascnet NASA engineers who don't own Rumours, here's an alternative version to Holes'...

 
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  • #39
WannabeNewton said:
I like this cover way better than the original one by the Stones. Plus, the lead singer was the first woman I ever fell madly in love with...and after the bone crushing defeat of knowing it could never reciprocate I decided it would be the last :p.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyCkSOF1pc

WBN, I was about to post this one last night, but I didn't have time!
 
  • #40
DiracPool said:
Anything Hole has ever done has sucked, embarassingly. And for you to even present this as a possible EBTTRT (Even better than the real thing) "Candidate", troubles me 1977ub.

DiracPool said:
Oh, for those of you 18 year old nascnet NASA engineers who don't own Rumours, here's an alternative version to Holes'...

I'll see both of you. And raise you. I present: the 7" cover of the entire album Rumours, performed by the punk group Shlong.

 
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lisab said:
WBN, I was about to post this one last night, but I didn't have time!
Yey another Sundays fan! Most people I seem to meet unfortunately don't even know them :frown:
 
  • #42
I'm surprised no one has posted the all time cover king...

 
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  • #44
jbunniii said:
better than kashmir:
dieeeeeee
 
  • #45
WannabeNewton said:
dieeeeeee

Yeah, I think I'm going to start a new thread around this comment, look for something perhaps called something along the lines of.."Ain't nothing like the real thing"
 
  • #46
DiracPool said:
Yeah, I think I'm going to start a new thread around this comment, look for something perhaps called something along the lines of.."Ain't nothing like the real thing"
Haha that's a nice one. Here's one of the most over covered songs ever but IMO missy Cassidy here does it best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

It has elements of happiness, melancholy, serenity, anger, and cherubic foolishness all packed into one performance.
 
  • #47
It has elements of happiness, melancholy, serenity, anger, and cherubic foolishness all packed into one performance.

Look Newton, I'm already a borderline skitzofrenik, do you really want to expose me to a possible frenetic break?
 
  • #48
DiracPool said:
Look Newton, I'm already a borderline skitzofrenik, do you really want to expose me to a possible frenetic break?
Only if you upload it to youtube :wink:
 
  • #49
Here is an awesome cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0

Wait for the awesome solo!
 
  • #50
Speaking of awesome pink floyd covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVE-R1_Izo
 
  • #51
micromass said:
Speaking of awesome pink floyd covers:
The scissor sisters? Omg either I have a dirty mind or these girls just happened to come up with the most coincidental name ever for their group.
 
  • #52
Remember that awful song "Friday" by Rebecca Black?? It turns out that it's a cover from a Bob Dylan song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM
 
  • #53
WannabeNewton said:
The scissor sisters? Omg either I have a dirty mind or these girls just happened to come up with the most coincidental name ever for their group.

It's not coincidence.
 
  • #54
micromass said:
Here is an awesome cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0

Wait for the awesome solo!

Is that you on lead vocals, Micromass? You and the loop quantum gravity poetry slam crew from the local coffee house open mic night?
 
  • #55
micromass said:
It's not coincidence.
How the hell do you find this creepy stuff? Nvm I don't want to know.
 
  • #56
Smokin' rendition of an old Carpenters chestnut:

 
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  • #57
micromass said:
Speaking of awesome pink floyd covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVE-R1_Izo

Yes, I like it..I think it get it.. It sounds like Prince on bedrest...
 
  • #58
Think nobody can sing the beatles like the beatles?? Then check out this cover of [STRIKE]Letter B[/STRIKE] Let It Be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPugOWeZiA
 
  • #59
Speaking of The Beatles,

 
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  • #60
jbunniii said:
Speaking of The Beatles,



Awesome! I will be playing this song on the next full moon, when we sacrifice a person to the Lord Satan.
 
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  • #61
An emotional yet corporate-positive rendering of U2:

 
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  • #62
micromass said:
Awesome! I will be playing this song on the next full moon, when we sacrifice a person to the Lord Satan.
Who will you sacrifice? A physicist?
 
  • #63
A geeky cover of "I will survive":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE

(A trained eye will of course see immediately that these people are not mathematicians since they're using Stewart)
 
  • #64
jbunniii said:
Who will you sacrifice? A physicist?

I said a person. So clearly physicists don't qualify...
 
  • #65
micromass said:
Think nobody can sing the beatles like the beatles?? Then check out this cover of [STRIKE]Letter B[/STRIKE] Let It Be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPugOWeZiA

OMG, this is our first line of defense?! That's it, I'm moving to Sweden..
 
  • #66
micromass said:
I said a person. So clearly physicists don't qualify...
You're just jealous because you can't use Einstein summation in your daily work. It's ok, I'm here to help you through this.
 
  • #67
Pat Boone's electrifying take on "Smoke on the Water"

 
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  • #68
Of course Wing's fabulous cover of The Beatles has to be in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0690V_-ypBw
 
  • #69
micromass said:
Awesome! I will be playing this song on the next full moon, when we sacrifice a person to the Lord Satan.

Upon hearing that "song", Lord Satan will be regurgitating your sacrifice. That goat's going to spit out one big bezoar. :smile:
 
  • #70
jbunniii said:
Pat Boone's electrifying take on "Smoke on the Water"



"It died with an awful sound."

'Nuff said. :rolleyes:
 
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