name a cover of a song that you like more than the original

[Loop2kil]

Shinedown - Simple man (lynyrd Skynyrd)

 

[knawlejj]

Alesana - "What Goes Around...Comes Around" - originally done by Justin Timberlake

Silverstein - "Apologize" - orginally done by One Republic

 

[Kelemvor]

Cats in the Cradle by Ugly Kid Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3bht7S-3vI

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Didn't we do this a few months ago...and again a few months before that?

Yup, and I've posted the same thing the last 2 times :^D

Taj Mahal covering The Monkees- Take A Giant Step

 

[Iron Woode]

Spirit in the Sky - Doctor and the Medics
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Funky Town - Pseudo Echo
Immigrant Song - Dred Zeppelin
Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot
You Keep Me Hangin' On - Kim Wilde

 

[Kalmah]

Children of Bodom cover of "Oops!...I Did it Again" by Britney Spears.

youtube link



EDIT: Laiho's guitar solo near the end is pretty badass.

That band use to be so badass until they released HateCrew Deathroll. Then it turned ghey. Was my favorite band for years.



Here's an actual good one from Children of Bodom that isn't comedy.

"Rebel Yell' - Billy Idol cover by COB

 

[djheater]

Cat Power - wonderwall

changes the song (which I originally didn't care for) completely.

 

[Chaotic42]

Best:

Widespread Panic - I Walk on Gilded Splinters (Orig. Dr. John)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watch Tower (Orig. Bob Dylan)

Worst:

Foo Fighters - Baker Street (Orig. Gerry Rafferty)
Madonna - American Pie (Orig. Don McLean)

 

[CZroe]

Pretty much everything in "Elite Beat Agents" except Canned Heat, Let's Dance, Highway Star, September, and Jumpin' Jack Flash.

 

[ahenkel]

Queens Of the Stone Age - Never Say Never (Original By Romeo Void)
YMCA - Cantonese Version
White Stripes - Jolene
Lovage - Sex (I'm a)
Willie Nelson & Sinead O'Connor - Dont Give Up (Peter Gabriel original)
William Shatner - Common People (yes that Shatner)
The Clash - I Fought the law
Faith No More -Easy like sunday morning

 

[Fayd]

sublime - we're only gonna die for our own arrogance.

 

[Prong]

Voivod's version of Pink Floyd's "The Nile Song"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKAXD1LxJE

 

[Gothgar]

we have never had this thread before

 

[mb]

Thanks, we needed another cover song thread again for this month.

 

[foghorn67]

I like this cover thread more than the original thread.

 

[TheWart]

I don't know if it is 'better' than the original, but I really like Shinedown's version of "Simple Man."

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends
Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Springsteen - Fire

Those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Fire was written by Springsteen and covered by others.

 

[ProfJohn]

""Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill remake of a Neil Diamond song.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal

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you, sir, have horrible taste in music and shouldn't be allowed to do something as simple as pick the radio station in the car. no party mixes, no deejaying, no ipod sharing, nothing. in short, the only thing you are qualified to listen to is the dial tone at the local pay phone.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends
Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Springsteen - Fire

Those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Fire was written by Springsteen and covered by others.

The question arises, if a musician writes a song for someone else, then later records the song himself, which version is the cover?
Another instance: David Bowie's China Girl was originally written for and recorded by Iggy Pop.

 

[MovingTarget]

Guns n' Roses - Live and Let Die (Original by Paul McCartney)
Guns n' Roses - Since I don't Have You (Original by The Skyliners)

 

[IronWing]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Bill Shatner

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Bill Shatner

rocketman - william shatner.

 

[JDMnAR1]

Enjoy the Silence - Lacuna Coil
In the Air Tonight - Nonpoint
Personal Jesus - Marilyn Manson

 

[The Boston Dangler]

because the night - 10000 maniacs

Originally posted by: ironwing
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Bill Shatner

that's mr. shatner to you :|