Covers that are better than the original.

Inspired by the NY Groove thread.

Ok, ok, so it's a fairly rare beast but they do exist.


Here's some that I consider to be the superior versions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfVufKs7jw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbOYIo7SD4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_4abCWw-w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2uDfATyVEk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0pu3HhnfY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XSo4DV3kPc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-dwSt2p0Gg

http://hypem.com/track/477987



These are just "off the top" but if you've got more stick em up.





*Digs into bunker preparing for epic hatred from hardcore Beatles fans.*

 

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Easy by Faith No More

Hey, why don't you tell us the song names so we don't have to click on the stupid links while we're work just to know what covers you think are better than their originals?

 

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Here you go:

Walk On By - Isaac Hayes
Otis Redding - Satisfaction (Live)
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
Mobius Band - Digital love
ram jam - black betty
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
Duane Allman and Wilson Pickett - Hey Jude
Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing

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Tainted love.
Either the Soft Cell or Marilyn Manson version.
Way better than the original.

 

anything by "me first and the gimmie gimmies" (I particularly like blowin in the wind album)

"Wanted Dead or Alive" (bonjovi orig, terrible band) by The Slackers

 

Cheers

BTW - It's Cake doing Perhaps...

@Oli, I'm kind of with you about Soft Cell but totally against you on Mazza Manson (btw the original was by Gloria Jones)


As for Easy... it's level pegging for me on that one. I'm just as happy to listen to the Commodores or FNM.

 

I know.
Marc Bolan's girlfriend at the time of his death - something else I'm not happy about.

 

"Heard It Through the Grapevine" has been improved twice from its original hit performance - once by Marvin Gaye (better than Gladys Knight's), and again by Creedance Clearwater Revival (better than Gaye's).

 

Agrree with CCR cover of HiTTGV.

"Blinded by the light"

Sprinsteen and redone by Manfred Mann Earth Band. The cover is slightly better but only because of spacy guitar effect and where they sing with 2 singers and slight delay.

 

The Mighty Quinn by Manfred Mann was also a good cover for that tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR9eyfYAhT0

 

Have you heard this one?

I like Lauryn Hill's version of Can't take my eyes off you.

 

the slits version of grapevine is not too bad

 

Sometimes the original composer does not put out the first, or the hit, version.

Then they come along later and do a pretty good - some might say superior - version.

Is that a "cover" better than the "original" ?

example: "Both Sides Now" - original hit by Judy Collins, later superior (IMHO) version by its composer, Joni Mitchell.

But this happens a lot in folk music.

Improvement by cover almost defines folk music.

 

Good call, can't believe I missed CCR.

 

jeff buckley - Hallelujah

 

Nouvelle Vague - Guns of Brixton
Nouvelle Vague - Too drunk to fuck

 

Got a link? You'd have to go some way to top the original so I'd love to hear the cover

 

Humm, I hadn't listened to the original for a while, it's better than I remember. Hard to decide on that song, really.
But any way, it's very different - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooE6WZldwEA

Guns of Brixton is definitely better than the original.

 

I saw Ben Harper do Sexual Healing.
I can't compare 'cos I certainly didn't see Marvin Gaye do it but, if it wasn't better than the original, Gaye would certainly have doffed his cap in recognition.

 

*puts on flame hat for protection*

I prefer white lions version of radar love to golden earrings