Cover Songs Better then the Original

[Asuka Soryu]

This is a thread for cover songs you preffere over the original.

 

[Sacman]

Didn't we literally just have this thread?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.297258-What-songs-have-had-covers-that-were-better-than-the-original?page=1

OT:

Not by a long shot but the Dinosaur Jr. cover of Just Like Heaven by The Cure...

IMO a lot more passion to the song...

Hurt by Johnny Cash
All the covers Nirvana did

also this...

Edit: also Sonic Youth's cover of Superstar by The Carpenters...

I found that it just expressed and explored the emotion and tone of the song a lot better through both the singing and instrumentation...<.<

 

[Cat of Doom]

This is a thread for cover songs you preffere over the original.

Enjoyed the guitar and chorus, though the pointless scremo is like uggh

Anyway: Endeverafter -poison, elle golding - your song, Children of bodom - the final countdown, Glee Cast - hey soul sister just a few I can think of.

 

[Mr Thin]

Rufus Wainwright's cover of Hallelujah is, in my opinion, the state the song was made for. I quite enjoy Leonard Cohen's singing, but that song, at least, is much better this way.

Spoiler

Edit:

Didn't we literally just have this thread?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.297258-What-songs-have-had-covers-that-were-better-than-the-original?page=1

Wow. OP, that is just terrible. Bad enough when it was only a few days ago, but a few hours?

 

[Servallier]

Five Finger Death Punch's version of Bad Company is, to me, infinitely superior than Bad Company's Bad Company

how do you embed videos by the by?

 

[MellowFellow]

I think the Streetlight Manifesto cover of Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard is better than Simon and Garfunkel's version.

 

[octafish]

The first line alone is legendary.

 

[Worgen]

kiss me deadly by the reel big fish
its also attached to one of the best amvs around

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Didn't we literally just have this thread?

Are you suggesting I didn't notice the other thread of a simmiular name and title and makes this without realising such?


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[Omega500]

For me it has to be Deftones cover of drive by cars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFZmRVjUJnY orig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHiP3_-N0Vc Deftones

 

[IxHADOUKENxI]

Die Die Die My Darling - Metallica's cover (original is by Misfits(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyd8dY8rRtA (Misfits)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoolQUDWq-k (Metallica)
<3 Infinitely better :3

 

[solidstatemind]

I agree with the comment about Jimi Hendrix version of 'All Along The Watchtower' above.

Also, Metallica's covers of Diamondhead's 'The Prince' and 'Helpless' are infinitely superior to the originals. Hell, almost every song on 'The Garage Days Re-revisited' was better than the originals. (It was a album of covers, if you're wondering.)

Die Die Die My Darling - Metallica's cover (original is by Misfits(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyd8dY8rRtA (Misfits)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoolQUDWq-k (Metallica)
<3 Infinitely better :3

Whoa... that's kind of freaky: not only did we have the same thought, we posted it at the same time!

I thought of another one: Fear Factory's cover of 'Cars' by Gary Numan is better, too.

 

[Helmet]

And again, I bring up Van Canto- an A capella metal band. Yes, you read that right.

Spoiler: Kings of Metal

The original The cover

Spoiler: Master of Puppets

The original The cover

Spoiler: Wishmaster

The original The cover

Spoiler: The Bard's Song

The original The cover

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Spoiler: Marilyn Manson's cover for This is Halloween

 

[Tanis]

First that comes to mind is Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt'.

Heads and tails above NIN.

 

[Camaranth]

I'll probably get flamed for this but I prefer Lacuna Coil's version of enjoy the silence (vs the depeche mode original) I love both versions, I just think that LCs has a more desperate and darker vibe which I think fits the message of the song better.

Also; Breakfast at Tiffany's by Moxy Fruvous.

I now there are plenty other covers out there which I prefer but those are the only two I can think of that I know for sure that I'd heard the original first.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I don't know if people will agree with me, but I love this version better so much.

EDIT: Oh and Reel Big Fish's cover of Take On Me

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Hooray for Reel Big Fish