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Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« on: April 25, 2016, 09:16:16 pm »
There is nothing wrong with the cover version of the song.  But, what exactly is the point of recreating a monumental classic virtually identical as it was? Your version will not supplant the original in cultural zeitgeist. The original was just too impactful. To the contrary, you are best off recording something obscure with minimal history.

Highly subjective but there are some notable ones.  Some original artists even remade their original be more like the cover  Like this 1st one originally by Tears for Fears:
Mad World

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4


Sounds Of Silence was never this loud!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

Bad Company

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VsvZmIWxY

Hendrix's Watchtower

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2016, 09:37:46 pm »
Originally written by Russ Ballard, popularized by Head East, it was Graham Bonnet and Rainbow who made the definitive version of this song, "Since You Been Gone:"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWPqRtozh0
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2016, 09:40:45 pm »
Blinded By the Light. Originally a Springsteen song, Manfred Mann kicks it's ass and takes it's name.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2016, 09:56:50 pm »
Quote from: EC on April 25, 2016, 09:40:45 pm
Blinded By the Light. Originally a Springsteen song, Manfred Mann kicks it's ass and takes it's name.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI

Very good selection.  It also ranks near the top of the most misheard/spoken lyrics of all time!  LOL
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2016, 10:39:19 pm »
Piece of My Heart.

Original was Janice Joplin, but Faith Hill's version just pops it better:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPseJvXVVfo
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2016, 10:43:35 pm »
I like listening to foreign songs where I don't know the words sometimes.

It's funnier if I do know the words, though. This was the song "I will Survive" for the Russian version of the "Rio 2" movie.  :silly:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar8IAC7hoj0
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2016, 10:49:29 pm »
My vote -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5qT2C_Ggpg

Van Halen's "Dancing in the Streets" 

(I don't know how to post a video)  :shrug:


Edit: fixed it for ya. With youtube, the URL starts with https: = all you need to do is remove the s from it.
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2016, 10:54:44 pm »
Quote from: Millee on April 25, 2016, 10:49:29 pm
My vote -

https://

Van Halen's "Dancing in the Streets" 

(I don't know how to post a video)  :shrug:

Start your cut and paste at www. and you are good to go


www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5qT2C_Ggpg
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2016, 10:56:10 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 25, 2016, 10:54:44 pm
Start your cut and paste at www. and you are good to go


www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5qT2C_Ggpg

Thank you!  :beer:
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2016, 11:19:45 pm »
That was not the video I was trying to post. It's embarrassing, I was going to replace it but my laptop died... this one is much more "enjoyable"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPE2GKo_uBw
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2016, 11:25:58 pm »
I am quite fond of Roger Daltrey's version of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRuWGBoky_0
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2016, 11:32:20 pm »
Quote from: bolobaby on April 25, 2016, 11:25:58 pm
I am quite fond of Roger Daltrey's version of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me."


www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRuWGBoky_0
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2016, 12:54:11 am »
Here are the covers I think are better than the originals:

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - "Crimson and Clover"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd5MDLDanGo

Joey Ramone - What A Wonderful World


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoO5nkxT_4

The Ramones - Spiderman


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU

David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXjBWN8LO8

Shonen Knife - Top of the World


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_benmP9I3o

Shonen Knife - Daydream Believer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT-_Z-BjUxs

Smash Mouth - I'm a Believer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYBSayCsH0

Liz Phair and Material Issue - The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) aka The Banana Splits Theme


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvB5AL59fM

Alpha Team - Speed Racer Remix (Dirty Version)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_5IJRXoKQE

... and finally...

Slackcircus - He-Man remix of What's Going On (original is by Four Non-Blondes) <--- better? eh... funnier, yes!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2016, 02:14:02 am »
Shonen Knife...hhhmmm
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2016, 02:18:55 am »
A Korean boy singing "Colors of the Wind" (from Pocahontas)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9MCvQ2PEnU
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2016, 02:29:57 am »
If she had been around in the 80's she could have been HUGE with this kind of Janet Jackson type stuff.

But I doubt she was even born before the 90's.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLnr2u_nj10
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2016, 02:37:04 am »
Better? Debatable. But this cover is AT LEAST as good
Al Green's 'Take Me To The River'. Foghat version.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQM4XQuLOgg


And what's the only version that gets airplay? That awful POS that the Talking Heads did!
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2016, 02:39:05 am »
Okay.... lets bring some Testosterone back to this topic...

Iggy doing a remake of Johnny O'Keefe & The Deejays "Wild One"


www.youtube.com/watch?v=def3ob2h-1s

And Shinedown  doing "Simpleman"


www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFQ6WmxdMs
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2016, 02:41:23 am »
NO
This is the BEST version... or something


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m80jt6bm6ZA
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2016, 02:50:25 am »
Metalica "turn the page"


www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_RAnsPJSeE
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2016, 03:11:03 am »
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2016, 11:04:46 am »
Otis Redding - "Satisfaction"


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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2016, 09:33:37 pm »
Quote from: uglybiker on April 26, 2016, 02:37:04 am
Better? Debatable. But this cover is AT LEAST as good
Al Green's 'Take Me To The River'. Foghat version.


And what's the only version that gets airplay? That awful POS that the Talking Heads did!

So true.  I quess the TH Droning on version is good if you have no musical taste.   :shrug:
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Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2016, 06:58:59 pm »
Phil Collins - Can't Hurry Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upnrXooMh4s
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