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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o10W_63spDE

Cover of some Bob Marley song
 
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Micromass, I know you are on the supreme court of physics forums, but I am appealing to you to RECUSE yourself of this thread and start another one, perhaps entitled, "Even worse than the real thing."
 
  • #73
And then there is Avril Lavigne's touching performance of imagine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJrwTgFt3Ek
 
  • #74
micromass said:
Of course Wing's fabulous cover of The Beatles has to be in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0690V_-ypBw

Micromass, I know you are on the supreme court of physics forums, but I am appealing to you to RECUSE yourself of this thread and start another one, perhaps entitled, "Even worse than the real thing."
 
  • #75
Some old guys doing a horrible, horrible cover of one of the best songs ever made by Justin Beiber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcNQTa3zgs
 
  • #76
The Rolling Stones are nothing compared to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sutk4BDorXg
 
  • #77
What the hell? Is that actually real? I mean I knew Britney Spears was trash and the scum of the singing world but to have the audacity to cover a Stones song not to mention one of their best...god my ears are bleeding
 
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DiracPool said:
Micromass, I know you are on the supreme court of physics forums, but I am appealing to you to RECUSE yourself of this thread and start another one, perhaps entitled, "Even worse than the real thing."

*Gasp* You don't like wing?
 
  • #79
Already seen Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, time for The Who:

 
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  • #80
Ok now for a serious one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCFuP3rM2w
 
  • #81
I absolutely hate skrillex, but this is a decent cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrcFe0_pZEs
 
  • #82
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXHkG5G5qH8
 
  • #83
micromass said:
The Rolling Stones are nothing compared to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sutk4BDorXg


I used to love to hate Britney Spears and her "kind" until I saw this video..Not the big one on the screen but THIS one...



Then I started ordering more peanuts on my flights and asking the stewardesses what "mile high club" meant.
 
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  • #84
I wouldn't call it better than the real thing, but it's cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41bERTFBUI
 
  • #85
Best rendition of the US anthem ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZKkZO7CTI
 
  • #86
Money (That's What I Want)

 
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  • #87
A cover of Metallica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP6rkf3qB0c
 
  • #88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1eirTklMI
 
  • #89
I think I've fallen madly in love again >.<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEe9sXO1M-I
 
  • #90
WannabeNewton said:
I think I've fallen madly in love again >.<


You said that would never happen again, you FRAUD!
 
  • #91
DiracPool said:
You said that would never happen again, you FRAUD!
The woes of being a teenager sire
 
  • #92
WannabeNewton said:
The woes of being a teenager sire

That's OK, just do something significant with your talents...specifically, make Lee Smolin look small because he has some explanation of the Alpha Magnetic spectrometer results, which are to be released in a few days. I don't know if I like these dinosaurs wandering around a psuedo-Microsoft-type campus thinking they are all that, and wearing T-shirts that say "Perimeter institute" on them. Where's Nathan Hale?
 
  • #93
I'd love to one day be able to sport an earned Perimeter Institute t - shirt lol.
 
  • #94
I spent hours composing a post and as always the forum trashed it, so you get this instead. A heavy metal version of the My Little Pony theme song.

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

Better post really.
 
  • #95
Not a cover exactly... better than the real thing(s) if you're ear is tired of hearing both of the originals...

 
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  • #96
1977ub said:
Not a cover exactly... better than the real thing(s) if you're ear is tired of hearing both of the originals...

That's good fun. I think that the following mashup is pretty hard to beat though. It's better than either original, which I wouldn't have believed could be done. Alex van Halen is perfect for ABBA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-POrLVkOuM If I ever have the money to waste I'll do a mashup of Paul McCartney singing Let It Be over Axis: Bold As Love. That would be f****** awesome.
 
  • #97
we don't need no stinkin' titles

Wow, this thread has really taken off!

I think I posted this in Best Songs (a long time ago), but it remains one of my all-time favs. A cover of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o

 
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  • #98
lisab said:
Wow, this thread has really taken off!

I think I posted this in Best Songs (a long time ago), but it remains one of my all-time favs. A cover of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o


Oh, I almost forgot about that one! Good pick, lisab. That's one of the best covers ever.
 
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  • #99
Bohemian Rhapsody on a ukelele.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3RbO7updc

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida sung in Finnish by the most famous singer in Finland. The duck call solo is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8pYnFV77Eo

A solo version of The Police's Message In a Bottle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fpLmJHLvw

There are thousands of great covers from Japan, but if you aren't familiar with the the originals then some of the effect is lost. Here's one of a familiar number. Yamaha got its start as an electric organ company -- its company logo is three tuning forks -- and has kept up the tradition. They hold contests for children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pS5xzOWbwo
 
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  • #100
Nevermore's reinterpretation of the Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. It is a reinterpretation rather than a cover, but all the harmonies are in there, though sometimes well hidden. This version made me realize how dark the lyrics already have been in the original version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uG7sd-YPmE
 
  • #101
lisab said:
Wow, this thread has really taken off!

I think I posted this in Best Songs (a long time ago), but it remains one of my all-time favs. A cover of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o



I always liked that song (ever since I first heard it in Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers"), but never realized it was a cover.
 
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  • #102
Cthugha said:
Nevermore's reinterpretation of the Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. It is a reinterpretation rather than a cover, but all the harmonies are in there, though sometimes well hidden. This version made me realize how dark the lyrics already have been in the original version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uG7sd-YPmE

I'm such a metalhead, but I have to say this - the S & G original blows this away. And the original is just so much darker for its quiet contemplative brooding delivery.

For the same reason, I like Tori Amos' cover of Slayer's Raining Blood. But in that case, cover and original both have their own virtues to offer.
 
  • #103
Remember Billy Idol?

 
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  • #104
lisab said:
I think I posted this in Best Songs (a long time ago), but it remains one of my all-time favs. A cover of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane"

This is great, I love it. =)
 
  • #105
lisab said:
I think I posted this in Best Songs (a long time ago), but it remains one of my all-time favs. A cover of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane"

I love this - was introduced on the Wild At Heart soundtrack. I hadn't actually heard the original.
 

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