cover songs better than the original

[JasonK]

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Tori Amos - Raining Blood (Slayer)

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Oh this just reminded me. Have people heard the Tori album "Upside Down"? (Yes, I'm very gay.) On Disk 2, it has many cover songs including:

Angie (Rolling Stones)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
Thank You (Led Zeppelin)

They are all really good and interesting although I would certainly not say better than the originals.

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Her cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit is easily the worst cover ever. She absolutely ruined the song.

[prohornblower]

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Jewel has a very good cover of "Wild Horses".

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You may be thinking of The Sundays. They did a good version of Wild Horses. Not sure about Jewel. Maybe they both did.

[DrewDevil]

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Southern Cross by Jimmy Buffet (CSN's song)

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No. The original is my favorite song ever.

My vote is Van Halen's "You Really Got Me."

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Ramones "Needles and Pins"

[alebron]

Cake's cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive".

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Cake's cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive".

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I forgot about that one. Awesome cover.

[MikeNaked]

M Ward's cover of Bowie's "Let's Dance" totally redefines the song.

Here it is because I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] you.

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lol. either you're restating the OP for emphasis, or there was no WAY you could read all the way past the first line of the first post in this thread, because your idea just could not WAIT.

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D'oh. I actually made the mistake of reading the whole stupid thread and forgot the OP by the time I got to the bottom. Every time I read a whole thread in OOT I regret it [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[TexArcher]

SRV - "Little Wing"

[RiverFenix]

Punk bands do a ton of covers but a few I dig the most are

get up kids - close to me (cure)
scary kids scaring kids - losing my religion (REM)
saves the day - melt with you (modern english)
my morning jacket - rocketman (elton)

I also really like
joss stone - fell in love with a boy (white stripes - not better, but really well done)


Theyre a few more that I love but I dont have itunes open, will have to come back later

Edit: I must include radioheads version (they worked with another band I cant remember off the top of my head, maybe 'horse' something) of wish you were here. Almost impossible to be better than the original, but its so very well done.