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A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« on: September 28, 2008, 07:46:26 PM »
Is there a song or songs that someone covered where you wound up liking the cover version better than the original?

Here's on of mine:

[youtube=425,350]Yheo2AgNywU[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]NFRx4PkXeVM[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2008, 07:54:38 PM »
"Love Hurts", I like the Nazareth version better than the Everly Brothers Version. Hell I like Roy Orbisons cover better than the Everly brothers version. Even Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris did a better version.
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2008, 08:06:59 PM »
The original:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJqucvWTjf8&feature=related[/youtube]

The cover:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSMETRoOs0[/youtube]


The original:



The cover:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qjTStVY6Hk[/youtube]

And don't tell me that Stevie Ray Vaughn's guitar didn't totally make that song.

The original:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwY2B6s068s[/youtube]

The cover:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT8k4bbQzyA&feature=related[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2008, 09:22:42 PM »
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bsniYwSaWg&feature=related[/youtube]

Travis - Hit Me Baby One More Time (cover beats original)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NwqN-xj9Xs[/youtube]

Britney had a better vdeo though.  :p
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2008, 09:23:39 PM »
Gloria by the Doors

Hippy Hippy Shake - Georgia Satellites

Grand Funk Railroad - The Locomotion

There are so many songs that were done better then the origina by someone later
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2008, 09:30:58 PM »
The Police - Message In A Bottle
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQ2yXE1mpU[/youtube]

John Mayer - Message in a Bottle
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmYys-ZjNrg[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2008, 09:34:39 PM »
Quote from: ReardenSteel on September 28, 2008, 09:22:42 PM
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

Britney did a remix of that song,kind of a blues mix I thought was pretty good.
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2008, 09:41:27 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on September 28, 2008, 09:34:39 PM
Quote from: ReardenSteel on September 28, 2008, 09:22:42 PM
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

Britney did a remix of that song,kind of a blues mix I thought was pretty good.

Did not know that, may be worth looking for it. It's really not such a bad song though the original is not really a kind of music I like. (at all, lol)
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2008, 09:41:45 PM »
California Dreamin'
[youtube=425,350]FKIrqC2QUvg[/youtube]

Hotel California
[youtube=425,350]KI6ymtcX-nY[/youtube]


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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2008, 09:42:26 PM »
Quote from: ReardenSteel on September 28, 2008, 09:22:42 PM
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

Britney had a better vdeo though.  :p

I prefer this version

[youtube=425,350]nXMvyR1XGko[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2008, 09:44:37 PM »
Original

[youtube=425,350]zH46SmVv8SU[/youtube]


Cover

[youtube=425,350]T3bht7S-3vI[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2008, 10:09:04 PM »
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (Official)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E[/youtube]

Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (Acoustic)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sAQnRYMMo[/youtube]

Is it a cover if it's your own song?  :p :p
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2008, 10:21:18 PM »
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJLlb-9kboQ[/youtube]

Personal Jesus - Marilyn Manson
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKyCuFH8Erw[/youtube]

Johnny cash - Personal jesus
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcNiD0Z3MU[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2008, 10:30:01 PM »
Original:

[youtube=425,350]kPQR-OsH0RQ[/youtube]

Cover:

[youtube=425,350]TsS811o21-k[/youtube]

 :rotf:

Okay, real answer:

[youtube=425,350]wcHNZVrxEts[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2008, 11:17:56 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on September 28, 2008, 09:42:26 PM
Quote from: ReardenSteel on September 28, 2008, 09:22:42 PM
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

Britney had a better vdeo though.  :p

I prefer this version

[youtube=425,350]nXMvyR1XGko[/youtube]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!   :rocker:

I have a couple I like....

The original....

[youtube=425,350]bkysjcs5vFU[/youtube]

The cover

[youtube=425,350]vsiqtGnpU1w[/youtube]


The original

[youtube=425,350]SRwwYWlbP2U[/youtube]

The cover

[youtube=425,350]tB7ypx7wJCw[/youtube]

That's just a few....
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2008, 07:58:35 AM »
Red Hot Chili Peppers cover of Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS3hEuAbuLE[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ3ZG_Wams&feature=related[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #16 on: September 29, 2008, 08:07:38 AM »
[youtube=425,350]kKP1QM2YAdg[/youtube]

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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #17 on: September 29, 2008, 12:20:09 PM »
Shinedown's version of "Simple Man".
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2008, 01:10:01 PM »
Not nec a better cover but a Good one

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v8UAnNIY_Q[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AH-Sv74SxU[/youtube]

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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2008, 03:21:55 PM »
You want some strange interesting covers. Go to youtube and search for "Hayseed Dixie". Bluegrass covers of songs by Metallica , Areosmith , Led Zepplin. AC/DC , Black Sabbath etc etc...

[youtube=425,350]t7tfZicmiCs[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2008, 04:31:04 PM »
Now I love NIN so it was hard to admit this, but we did the Johnny Cash version of it at my bil's funeral and I really love the remake.

[youtube=425,350]g0bZtf5MCzY[/youtube]


[youtube=425,350]SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=related[/youtube]
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2008, 05:10:19 PM »
I had never heard "Hurt" before Johnny Cash's cover. Thinking that the original might be better, I listened to the NIN version.  I have to agree, that Cash's is done with more feeling.
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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2008, 06:39:35 PM »
I know it is sacrilege, but GFR's live cover of "Gimme Shelter" was better than The Stones'.

For that matter, GFR's "Locomotion" was better than the original.

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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2008, 07:09:08 PM »
How about a song written and recorded by someone and the song didn't go anywhere. The song writer got in a pinch for cash,sold the rights to the song, The song is recorded by someone else and is a hit. Later on the songwriter is a recording artist in their own right and rerecords the song and it's a hit.   Crazy isn't it.

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Re: A Cover You Liked Better Than The Original
« Reply #24 on: September 29, 2008, 07:10:40 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on September 29, 2008, 07:09:08 PM
How about a song written and recorded by someone and the song didn't go anywhere. The song writer got in a pinch for cash,sold the rights to the song, The song is recorded by someone else and is a hit. Later on the songwriter is a recording artist in their own right and rerecords the song and it's a hit.   Crazy isn't it.

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