"Better covers".....List the remakes you think are better than the original!

[Boxerfan]

I was just smitten by this version of Black Hole Sun by Norah Jones...

Till I stumbled onto that my only better than the original cover was Cowboy Junkies sweet Jane. It played in the Natural Born Killers movie and was the best of that film at least for me.

Better covers anyone?

[Indykatie]

1. The Long and Winding Road is My Favorite Song - There are Many Fine Covers But GM is the Best

[Walleye]

3. That's beautiful. I love that song too.

[Upthevibe]

23. Indykatie.....That was just beautiful

...I'd never heard George Michael's rendition.

Thank you for the post....(One of my favorite songs too)..

[Walleye]

2. Jerry Garcia, "Simple Twist of Fate"

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[brewens]

4. Cheap Trick-Don't Be cruel

[brewens]

5. Jimmy Buffett-Brown Eyed Girl

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Some covers I like

“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” Dwight Yoakum
“Everything is Broken” RL Burnside
“Dancing in the Moonlight” Toploader

Not a cover, but by the songwriter, whose voice is amazing:
“I’ve Got a Thing About You, Baby” Tony Joe White

[Glorfindel]

7. Behind Blue Eyes Limp Bizkit covering the Who's song

[cayugafalls]

8. A couple of favorites...blues of course.

Janis Joplin - Ball & Chain (Big Mama Thorton Cover)

White Stripes - Death Letter (Son House Cover live)

[soothsayer]

9. Blondie doing Ring of Fire

Also doing Bowie’s “Heroes”

And “Lights” (Ellie Goulding)

And “More Than This” (Roxy Music)

And “Old Town Road”

And “I Feel Love”

And....

I might just love Blondie and Debbie Harry’s plaintive voice a lot....

[Upthevibe]

24. Wow! I've never heard Blondie do that....

Very cool....Having said that, Johnny Cash's is still my favorite version because of the horns....In any case, what a great song!

[Ptah]

10. Jimi Hendrix Experience All Along The Watchtower

[subterranean]

16. Even Dylan said Jimi's version was better.

[hurl]

11. A couple

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt from Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails is an unexpected treasure.

But I like the original too.

I normally avoid country music, but Gary Allan's cover of Best i Ever Had by Vertical Horizon completely eclipsed the original.

Original for comparison:

[Upthevibe]

25. Johnny Cash's Hurt....

All one can say is "My God!"

[Sanity Claws]

37. That is the one I immediately thought of

I just couldn't imagine anyone else doing that song now.

[sakabatou]

46. Yep, that one.

[Wounded Bear]

54. Always my "go to" on this question...

IIRC, when Reznor was asked about Cash playing their song he said something like "It's HIS song now."

A song about addiction by a man who has fought those battles personally.

[msongs]

12. great covers should remake a song, not just copy it...

[Upthevibe]

26. Yes!!!!

AWESOME!!!!!

[JDC]

13. Not sure it's better, but it is pretty darn good.

Really like his band:

Harry Styles: Sledgehammer ( Peter Gabriel )

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[Lars39]

53. You might like this version :)

[JDC]

55. You're right. I do like that b

Thx

[Coventina]

14. Mr. Tambourine Man, by the Byrds

Cover of Bob Dylan.

I doubt links are needed.

[IcyPeas]

49. speaking of the Byrds...

You Showed Me - The Turtles (they slowed it down and made it a lot sexier)

[tanyev]

15. Never was a fan of My Heart Will Go On until I heard the Postmodern Jukebox version.

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[kwolf68]

17. Covers

Astronomy Domine easy. Voivod covering Pink Floyd.

[jrandom421]

18. There she goes

I liked the original version by the La's

Bot the version done by Sixpence None the Richer was far better to my ears

[Upthevibe]

27. jrandom421....

Great pick...There She Goes brings back good memories (I moved To CA in the late 80's and this song reminds me of that time).....

[subterranean]

19. Revolting Cocks, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

It's, um, quite a bit different from Rod Stewart's original version.

[Yavin4]

20. Mad World by Gary Jules

Original with Tears for Fears

Remake:

[Upthevibe]

28. Mad World is my normal "go to" regarding covers better than the original...

Gary Jules definitely brings (as someone else mentioned) that "haunting" element. It's perfect......

...."and I think it's kind of funny, I think it's kind of sad"
...."the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"
This hold a weird and special meaning for me because I very seldom have good or great dreams (in my entire life) but three of the best one's I've had were me in an afterlife and they were amazing...

I think the first time I heard this song was in the movie Donnie Darko...

[smirkymonkey]

21. "Mad World"

Preferred the Gary Jules cover to the original by "Tears for Fears". They are both good, but I find the cover version so much more hauntingly beautiful.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed

Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed

she definitely has the attitude/presentation to do this song.

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originally composed and sung by bob dylan.

she stomps him into the mud.

[jmowreader]

29. Ramones, California Sun

[IcyPeas]

30. Amy winehouse - Our Day Will Come

[IcyPeas]

31. This mortal Coil - Song to the Siren

[Codeine]

45. And "The Jeweler" was great as well.

I miss the old 4AD days.

[IcyPeas]

32. Janis Joplin- Me and Bobby McGee

[NotASurfer]

43. That might be the greatest song cover ever n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. You keep me hanging on, the supremes then vanilla fudge. N/t

[IcyPeas]

36. oh yes

live version

[Ohiya]

34. Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis - Neko Case version of Tom Wait's song

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[malthaussen]

35. Just about anything originally done by Bob Dylan.

Great writer, so-so musician.

I've decided I like the Beatles's "Twist and Shout" more than the Isleys's, and Guns and Roses's "Sympathy For the Devil" more than the Stones's. Maybe ELO's "Roll Over Beethoven" more than Chuck Berry's, although they are really not comparable versions.

I prefer Carl Perkin's "Blue Suede Shoes" over Big Mama Thornton's.

There are others, but these occur off the top of my head.

-- Mal

[irisblue]

38. Richard Marxs cover of Katie Perrys The One that Got Away

The original
(Which I like alot)

His cover

[NotASurfer]

39. REM made I Am Superman their song

And Rage Against The Machine made a statement with their version of Springsteen'a Ghost of Tom Joad (the first minute or so of this video is the epic "mad as Hell" rant from the movie Network)

And Kinky Friedman takes a tongue-in-cheek Warren Zevon song in a somber direction

[Boxerfan]

40. Wow- some great covers...

Rage
against
The
Machine....

Damn.

[Paladin]

41. Ry Cooder's reggae version of "It's All Over Now."

Beats the hell out of the original and the Stones' re-make.

[Codeine]

42. "Dear Prudence" covered by Siouxsie and the Banshees

does the near-impossible by bettering a Beatles song.

[Codeine]

44. Even Bowie admitted that Bauhaus

knocked “Ziggy Stardust” out of the park.

[sakabatou]

47. Torn - Natalie Imbruglia

Original by Ednaswap

[area51]

48. The Sundays' cover of "Wild Horses"

[Brother Buzz]

50. BOB, "Weird Al" Yankovic's cover of Bob Dylan's - Subterranean Homesick Blues

You decide

[Wolf Frankula]

51. Toni Basil's Hey Mickey, Sung by Minnie Mouse.

Done with love.

Wolf

[Bantamfancier]

52. Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Israel ("Iz") Kamakawiwoʻole

I asked my kids to play this at my memorial service.