Covers you prefer to the originals

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17 Jul 2011, 6:29 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSxzEy-m9KY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-y4UKWYUw[/youtube]

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17 Jul 2011, 6:54 pm

Jónsi's cover of Time to Pretend by MGMT.

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17 Jul 2011, 7:26 pm

The only two I can think of off the top of my head are Nine Inch Nails' cover of Dead Souls, by Joy Division and Celldweller's cover of Tragedy, by the Bee Gees.

I'm sure there are more out there, if I actually took time to think.

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17 Jul 2011, 8:08 pm

Man who sold the world by Nirvana is 1000x better than David Bowie's original and Lake of Fire also by Nirvana is 10,000x better than the lousy Meat Puppets original. Gary Jules does much better job with Mad World than Tears for Fears did, as the song has so much more emotional power in a lower cord and slower tempo.

Korn did an absolutely awesome cover of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall and Five Finger Death punch nailed Bad Company's song Bad Company. I consider these two near equals to the originals, but I still prefer the original unless I'm in that kind of mood.

Other covers better than original:
Blue Monday - Orgy
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson

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Working Class Hero - Marilyn Manson and John Lennon
Knockin on Heavens Door - Guns and Roses and Bob Dylan

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17 Jul 2011, 8:15 pm

Dixi Chicks version of Landslide

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9sraruD8ho[/youtube]

Original by Stevie Nicks

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhNrrrCCTdA[/youtube]

I prefer the pacing of the cover

Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame (cover)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aztY_fpjJeQ[/youtube]

The Bangles - Eternal Flame(original)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydmbmd7G70[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 3:22 am

Usually, I prefer the original to the cover. Covers are too often exact duplicates of the original to take advantage of the fact that most people don't check out music made before the point that they started to pay attention to music. (ie David Lee Roth's rip off of Louis Prima's "Just a Gigolo.")

This is an exception:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU&[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 3:40 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPgeDhGzKY[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 3:55 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2luaG-q9ME[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 4:02 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_lw2G20tIU[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 4:50 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT-xCRlqZKk[/youtube]

Originally by Aerosmith.

Couldn't find a decent copy of it.

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18 Jul 2011, 5:02 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo96jeVW-cU[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 6:10 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMKmQmkJ9gg[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 8:04 pm

Original
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seU5S5DLDpU[/youtube]

Cover
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB7ywblf7SY[/youtube]

The cover has MORE energy and something the original simply lacks! I don't know what that something is...

Original
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ[/youtube]

Cover
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcYa9b7mMmA[/youtube]

This one is a little bit hard because I like both equally.

You might remember the cover from this VW ad
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs_T_cEoX6I[/youtube]

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18 Jul 2011, 9:52 pm

TechnoMonk wrote:

This was one of the first songs I ever downloaded back when it took 5 - 10 minutes per mp3.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUL_7H7r40[/youtube]

This. I hate the original by Nirvana.

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19 Jul 2011, 2:19 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6WRVzwIg2o[/youtube]

I like Simon & Garfunkel's version but this is much better.

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27 Jul 2011, 6:46 am

Talk Talk's song, not Bon Jovi's.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvV498pyIM&ob=av2e[/youtube]

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