Songs where the cover is better then the original

[iamskew]

Marylin Manson - Sweet Dreams

 

[Dedpuhl]

Iced Earth - Highway to Hell

 

[CrackRabbit]

Dynamite Hack - Boyz in the Hood
Black Crows - Hard to Handle
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
Orgy - Blue Monday
No Use for a Name - Turning Japanese
Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - *

 

Phil Collins - Can't Stop Loving You (orig. by Leo Sayer)
Jars of Clay - God Only Knows (orig. by the Beach Boys)
Pat Benetar - I Need a Lover (orig. by Johnny Cougar) <-- not better, but really really good.
Oasis - Cum On Feel the Noize (orig. by Quiet Riot)
Peter, Paul &amp; Mary - Blowin' in the Wind (orig. by Bob Dylan)
Hall &amp; Oates - You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling (orig. by the Righteous Brothers)

 

[Iron Woode]

Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy: original by Ian Hunter

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Feldenak
All Along the Watchtower - Hendrix's cover is better than Dylan's original

no no its not

Um, I think you're in the minority there. This is the first song I thought of when I saw this thread.

BTW - P Diddy sux and so does his abortion of Missing You. Anything by Diana Ross > anything by Puff Diddy or whatever his name is today.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

The Foo Fighters - Darling Nikki

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Phil Collins - Can't Stop Loving You (orig. by Leo Sayer)
Jars of Clay - God Only Knows (orig. by the Beach Boys)
Pat Benetar - I Need a Lover (orig. by Johnny Cougar) <-- not better, but really really good.
Oasis - Cum On Feel the Noize (orig. by Quiet Riot)
Peter, Paul &amp; Mary - Blowin' in the Wind (orig. by Bob Dylan)
Hall &amp; Oates - You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling (orig. by the Righteous Brothers)

Phil Collins? Noooooooooooooooo! I can't stand Phil after he and Genesis seemed to release albums about 3 months apart when I was in high school.

I believe Quiet Riot covered Cum On Feel the Noize - original by Slade???

Totally agree on Blowin' in the Wind - great cover.

I also liked Tool's version of No Quarter. Someone else mentioned it in this thread and while I'll agree it's great my nod goes to the original and I'm a HUGE Tool fan.

Speaking of Tool - that new A Perfect Circle CD full of covers is terrible. It's a perfect justificaiton for downloading songs before buying the CD. Oh, and it's still better than anything by P Daddy!

EDIT: I forgot to mention Eric Cartman's cover of the original Styx song, "I'm sailing away". (kidding )

 

[ZachMarius]

Don't Know if someone already said it but...

Metallica: Turn the Page (Bob Sager)

 

[angrymaxx]

The Smashing Pumpkins/Billy Corgan - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
New Found Glory - Everything I Do, I Do It For You (Bryan Adams)
Less Than Jake - Cheers Theme


Awesome but not better than original:
Radiohead - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
The Get Up Kids - Close To Me (The Cure)
The Smashing Pumpkins - You're All I've Got Tonight (The Cars)

 

[bofkentucky]

What about "The House of the Rising Sun" by the animals. (dylan originally?)

Bzzt, leadbelly, Still a damn good track, if you want to understand blues or blues influenced music, you need to start with Leadbelly and Robert Johnson, just follow along from there.

 

[skace]

I need a music service where I can just pull down all the covers and compare them. I want to listen tothe same song by 7 different artists and learn how they changed or improved on it . Sounds fun.

Oh and although I can't argue whether they are better or not, I really like when Punk bands cover other songs. Because punk bands usually do the biggest 'spin' on a song, never attempting to stay anywhere near the original outside of lyrics. I really want to hear the Boney M. cover, because Boney M. is really fun music to listen to.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Phish - Gin&amp;Juice. (People have told me that it is actually the String Cheese Incident that performs this. Most people say Phish though so thats what I posted).

 

[Turfzilla]

Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar

 

[Tylanner]

Originally posted by: Turfzilla
Foo Fighters - Have A Cigar

Dude, PF - Have a Cigar is perfect already!!

 

[Tylanner]

Originally posted by: bofkentucky
What about "The House of the Rising Sun" by the animals. (dylan originally?)

Bzzt, leadbelly, Still a damn good track, if you want to understand blues or blues influenced music, you need to start with Leadbelly and Robert Johnson, just follow along from there.

I love HotRS. Never knew it was Dylan though.

Jesus God Dylan had alot of great lyrics/beats..

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: NL5

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Feldenak
All Along the Watchtower - Hendrix's cover is better than Dylan's original

no no its not

AWESOME cover (one of the best ever - maybe THE best), but NOT better than the original.

exactly, great cover not better then origional

Yeah, original ownz. One of my favorite dylan songs on one my favorite album.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Matchbox Twenty used to cover Time after Time by Cindy Lauper...I personally thought they made that song a lot better considering the original.

 

[Tylanner]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Catherine's Wheel - Wish You Were Here.

Since nobody here most likely knows what the hell I am talking about, I'll provide a sample.

Cheers!

Can't believe Catherine's Wheel was brought up!

Props to you!

+5 million cool points

But sadly I can't agree, PF version was Bleeping perfect.

 

[tart666]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Phish - Gin&amp;Juice. (People have told me that it is actually the String Cheese Incident that performs this. Most people say Phish though so thats what I posted).

This is neither Phish nor String Cheese Incident. It is a band called the Gourds; they are from Austin, Texas I believe. Get your $h!t straight.

 

[LS20]

someone give Built to Spill's rendition of neil young's 'Cortez the Killer' a listen
also, Mogwai has a pretty killer "Don't Cry"

 

[Cobalt]

Guns N' Roses - Sympathy For The Devil

 

[djheater]

The Futureheads - Hounds of Love (Kate Bush)

It's really good.

 

[Brutuskend]

Gin and Juice

 

[Safeway]

Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - Somewhere over the Rainbow, Jet Plain, 500 miles