Cover songs that are better than the original?

[Lucid]

We're all aware of the atrists that totally butcher great songs (i.e. Puff Daddy), but there's a few cover songs out there that are actually better than the original.

- I like Bush's cover of The 'Stones "Wild Horses", that's pretty cool.
- Zebrahead did a great cover of that incredibly annoying song by the Spice Girls "Wannabe."
- Another crappy pop song that was turned cool in a cover was Fountains of Wayne did "Baby one more time", ya know, Britney's first hit? It's amazing how good songs can be when real artists with talent actually perform.
- A perfect Circle's cover of Ozzy's Diary of a Madman was really great IMO.
- Cover I've most enjoyed would probably be Goldfinger's "99 red Balloons", that song F'ing rocks!
- The whole "Music for the Masses" Depeche Mode CD was great, (and no, I am completely heterosexual), and my favorite off of that was Enjoy the Silence.
- Nine Inch Nails did a great cover of "Get Down make Love" from Queen.
- I hate The Grateful Dead, and love Sublime, so obviously I'm gonna list scarlet begonias here.
- "Tainted Love" by The Living End made an 80's peice of crap a pretty cool song.
- I guess this can kind of be thrown in here, but Vanilla Ice's hardcore remake of Ice Ice Baby was pretty rockin too.
- While I don't think the covers are better than the originals, I love Pearl Jam, and I love The Who, so naturally Eddie Vedder's fascination with doing Who covers are pretty cool in my opinion.

That's about all that immediately pop into my head.

[Lucid]

Oh wait... almost forgot U2's cover fo Unchained Melody, that is a great, great, song.

[Jacen McCullough]

10,000 Maniacs cover of "Because the Night"

[Barbara]

New Found Glory does a great cover of "Happy Together" by the Turtles.

The Rezillos do a great "Glad All Over."

[Michael K.]

Originally posted by Lucid
- Cover I've most enjoyed would probably be Goldfinger's "99 red Balloons", that song F'ing rocks!
- "Tainted Love" by The Living End made an 80's peice of crap a pretty cool song.


Impossible. These songs were perfect the first time around.

[Kenobi]

Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"

[odg78]

How about Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower"?

[Ringo]

beatles cover of twist and shout rocks balls

as mentioned above, the who rocks but I think I like pearl jam's cover of the kids are all right better

elvis did ok with his cover of hound dog as did aretha with respect

[FCB_LE21]

Dave Matthews Bands version of "All Along the Watchtower" is pretty good too.

[Lucid]

Originally posted by Michael K.


Impossible. These songs were perfect the first time around.

Haha, yeah, sure :rolleyes:

Originally posted by odg78
How about Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower"?

WTH?!?!? That is a cover? Hey... well I went a few years before knowing scarlet begonias by Sublime was a cover.

[Ringo]

Originally posted by Lucid


WTH?!?!? That is a cover?


some joker named bob dylan sang it first i believe

[skipshady]

Originally posted by Jacen McCullough
10,000 Maniacs cover of "Because the Night" I had no idea this was a cover.

I posted these in the last reincarnation of the thread, but here goes:
Fiona Apple - "Across the Universe"
Joan Jett - "I Love Rock 'N Roll"
Ben Folds Five - country version of "Champagne Supernova"
Cake - "I Will Survive"
Radiohead - "Nobody Does It Better"
Rage Against the Machine - "Renegades of Funk"
Gipsy Kings - "Hotel California"

Electric Light Orchestra - "Beethoven's Fifth"

[Ictar]

Originally posted by Lucid
"Tainted Love" by The Living End made an 80's peice of crap a pretty cool song

Are you absolutely positive The Living End did that song? As in, owning a cd that has it on it? That is not their singer's voice on the mp3 I have of it. It says it's Social D, but I know for sure it's not. It's a great song, though, and I wished I know who did it.

Mike Ness's cover of 'Don't Think Twice' is a great song, as is Social Distortion's cover of 'Ring of Fire'.

Goldfinger's cover of the Cure's 'Just Like Heaven' is better than the original, but could have been much better.

Pennywise's cover of 'Stand by Me' is a good song, even though I don't like Pennywise.

Puddle of Mudd's Nirvana cover on 'She Hates Me' is great.






Oh, that's right, they claim they wrote it themselves. Sounds too much like Nirvana to me.

[Ictar]

Oh, and I forgot possibly the best cover ever. It took a freaking *rap* song and it made it music. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have never heard the Gourds cover "Gin and Juice' go find it right now!

[skipshady]

Wow, a music troll! :rolleyes:

[Sachin]

Great White's cover of "Once Bitten Twice Shy" is miles better than the original.

Sachin

[Ringo]

anything great white did is miles better than most things. sometimes you just can't bang your head hard enough.

[Freestyle2000]

Another vote for "Because the Night."

Also, although this is blasphemy to some, I like Reel Big Fish's "Take on Me" better than A-Ha's.

RS

[snowsuit]

'tainted love' was originally a '60s soul song.

um. i really like bratmobile's 'cherry bomb' over joan jett's / the runaways' versions.

[empennage]

Originally posted by Ictar
Ladies and gentlemen, if you have never heard the Gourds cover "Gin and Juice' go find it right now!

My favorite is Dynamite Hack - Boyz in the Hood.