Cover songs you think are better than the original
 

A perfect Circle-Imagine ( John Lennon would be proud).

Ok i won't say this cover is better just cause Neil Young slays but it is a good cover none the less-Zack Wylde-Heart of Gold. P.S. waynegrow you double posting bitch.

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

guns n roses knockin on heavens door

Johnny Cash did a cover of Cats in the Cradle, it's good.

Tori Amos - Smells like Teen Spirit
Nirvana - Man who sold the world
Cake - I will survive
Hendrix - All along the watchtower
Counting Crows - Friend of the devil

^ Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" Cd is excellent. She does covers of Slayer, Depeche Mode, Eminem, John Lennon, Neil Young, Lou Reed songs among others. Excellence.

Really i'll have to check em' out.

There are a handful, but what I really love (and yes its sacreligious) is Stevie Ray Vaughn's Instrumental cover of Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix.

metallica- whisky in a jar
QOTSA- everybodies gonna be happy

Dope's remix of theat 80's song "you spin me right round"

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Sid Vicious-My way
and it is a throw up with Johnny B Good -Sex Pistols or Johnny Winter....for talent though, I say Winter...
and DK did a good job of Remaking Fought the Law.....

-Tainted Love-Marilyn Manson, Soft Cell does it great though
-Personal Jesus-manson again
-and I like his rendition of sweet dreams, but Annie Lennox man, can't be beat....
-also love his version of Bowies Golden Years, but it is not betta
-It's My Life- No Doubt

now that I see all this, Manson did alot of other peoples songs....well, I think he is just respecting them by giving his young fans a little bit of culture.....

or he knows that covering good songs will sell...
PDiddy comes to mind....hmmmm.

metallica: turn the page- Bob Segar Cover, and whiskey in the kar
Guns n roses- live and let die
Pantera- cat scratch fever ( which wasnt all that great)
this one might sound odd but i heard the Ataris do a cover of boys of summer and it was.........ok i guess...owe well im just namin the ones i know of

Awesome cover but it will never replace the original to me :)

Metallica also did a way better version of Stone Cold Crazy. I love Queen more than the next guy cause Ill tell you their better than Zeppelin but their version can't hold a candle to Metallica.

Radiohead - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
David Bowie - Port Of Amsterdam (Jaques Brel)
REM - There She Goes Again (Velvet Undergorund)
Primal Scream - Know Your Rights (The Clash)
Motorhead - Motorhead (Hawkwind)
Ash - Does Your Mother Know (ABBA)

Radiohead does wish you were here? gotta check that out

So does Wyclef

ooh!ooooohhhh! I got one....well, this just can't be beat! She does it SSSSSOOOOOO well....Avril's version of Chop Suey!
I mean you know that she knows all the words right?
and she is so damed talented, she gave that song what it needed....
hahahaha...I just can't go on typing this garbage.....
hahahaha..haaaaaaaaaaa

Have you got the live version of that? Its even better :)

in other news, did you know youve got the same birthday as me but yours is exactly a year later? interesting stuff.

Ohh yeah thats pretty cool... Tis franscar's birthday today! Happy birthday franscar (even though youre not online right now)

That was a great cover! wasn't it only released on that weird a$$ compilation that came out forever ago?

i like Rise Againts version of Any Way You Want It

Eric Clapton- Little Wing
Jimi Hendrix- Johnny B. Goode

But the name of this thread is Cover songs you think are better than the original

i agree with the hendrix, cake and nirvana songs, havent heard the other two

same

Nirvana's cover of Man who sold the world is good. But tell you whats even better... maybe not as good as the original, but just plain hilarious

Weird Al Yankovich - Bohemian Rhapsody

Jen xx

I forgot - live and let die by guns'n'roses. the original 'artist' was an arsehole.

paul McCartneys an arsehole. okie doke. a good cover is jolene by the white stripes.

need i bring up the lennon-mcCartney incident?

please do...I am not familiar....

LLAALALALALAALALALALALAALALALaaaaaaa

Covering...Better?
 

as opposed to the other thread, cover songs that you think are better than the original.

First that comes to mind, is:
Send Me and Angel - Thrice,
i cant remember who did the original but it was horrible.

pantera - planet caravan, although the original was good too, they lit up cat scratch fever on the detroit rock city soundtrack too.
and this local band monument does a cover of rage against the machine's freedom, ****ing blows me away every time.

Link 80 - Harvester of Sorrow
1000 Homo Dj's - Supernaught
Sunday Morning Comin Down - Johnny Cash
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

Its a Pet Shop Boys song