Covers which are better than the original

[The_Reverend_M]

I think I like them both equally

... and the Dresden Dolls version is too.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Clearly the Fugees version of No Woman No Cry dicks all over the Marley version.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Johny Cash's version of Broken, miles better than that plastic NIN crap

Do you mean 'Hurt'? I like it but I don't think it beats the NIN version - knowing Trent felt those lyrics just makes it that bit better for me.

 

[ramjamclub]

Rolf harris - Stairway to Heaven

you are mental, no way. Do you like Abba?

 

[tastebud]

... and the Dresden Dolls version is too.

Haven't heard it - will look out for it.

 

[Final]

Faith No More's version of War Pigs.

My mate thinks I'm scum for preferring it over Black Sabbath's but tough.

1000 homo DJs version of Supernaut was also top notch.

(Nativity in Black is my all time favourite album though, I think everything on it 10/10.)

 

[snorbury]

camille's "guns of brixton"?

 

[Tom A]

Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's 'Hurt', if it hasn't already been mentioned.

 

[northernhord]

Do you mean 'Hurt'? I like it but I don't think it beats the NIN version - knowing Trent felt those lyrics just makes it that bit better for me.

Yeah cheers

 

[tastebud]

Do you mean 'Hurt'? I like it but I don't think it beats the NIN version - knowing Trent felt those lyrics just makes it that bit better for me.

Cash obviously felt them quite deeply too though, otherwise he wouldn't have covered it & made such an amazingly emotional music video to go with it.

 

[Idaho]

Clearly the Fugees version of No Woman No Cry dicks all over the Marley version.

I like both oddly enough.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Cash obviously felt them quite deeply too though, otherwise he wouldn't have covered it & made such an amazingly emotional music video to go with it.

True but IMO he couldn't have felt them as deeply as the person who wrote them. If I remember correctly Trent was talking about his heroin addiction in that song.

 

[Maggot]

St Etienne's version of Only Love can Break Your Heart is much better than Neil Youngs.

Ziggy Startdust - Bauhaus

That's not better, it's exactly the same!

 

[beeboo]

Mark Ronson's version of Coldplay's 'God Put a Smile on My Face' - no annoying Christoph!

Quite looking forward to the album of covers he's doing.

 

[rekil]

True but IMO he couldn't have felt them as deeply as the person who wrote them. If I remember correctly Trent was talking about his heroin addiction in that song.

But Mr.Cash was a drug crazed mentalist in his own time.

 

[Lisarocket]

This is so utterly wrong that I can't bear to read the rest of the thread

Wrongness!! Do you hear me? You've bloody well had it at the next Heb meet young man/lady!!! *shakes fist*

I agree with Fez909 It's the only version of Seven Nation Army that i play now. It's way better

 

[Lisarocket]

camille's "guns of brixton"?

Nouvelle Vagues covers are all

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The Pastels Different Drum is a million times beter than Mike Nesmiths

 

[corporate whore]

Husker Du's Ticket to Ride
The Clash's Wrong 'Em Boyo
Sean Connery's In My Life

 

[rekil]

Mojo Nixon's Girlfriend In A Coma.

 

[sojourner]

I agree with Fez909 It's the only version of Seven Nation Army that i play now. It's way better

Harrumph!









Each to their own - my idolatry of the WS precludes any cover versions

 

[rekil]

Glitter's Did You Miss Me done in an appropriately creepy pedo style by The Young Gods.

 

[sojourner]

I,m probably gonna get dissed for this but I think UK SUBS version of 'She's not there' is better than the original which is by The Troggs?

Santana mate

 

[Balbi]

Faith No More's cover of War Pigs shits on the Sabbath version.

 

[loud 1]

These are brilliant cover versions that stand up in their own right but wouldn't go as far to say that they better the originals.

My vote goes to The Murderer 'Mind Over Money' (Junglistic Elbow cover)

mind over money was surely by turin breaks?

or am i wrong?

 

[Wolveryeti]

Bang Bang remix dookies from a great height on the original meh Sinatra version.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Man who sold the world. Also I hear that the meat puppets originals were quite crap too compared to the unplugged one...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Also hendrix's cover of All Along the Watchtower is rather good

 

[ramjamclub]

Also hendrix's cover of All Along the Watchtower is rather good

yeah fantastic. No one can get near Jimi and cover him

 

[Biffo]

I,m probably gonna get dissed for this but I think UK SUBS version of 'She's not there' is better than the original which is by The Troggs?

Deffo. Top version.

Also 'Nights in White Satin' by The Dickies and 'Jealous guy' by Roxy Music.