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Oh dear, it’s turning into another I’ve-got-no-taste-in-music cover versions thread
Oh duck off music ranker.
But tropicana isn't an original anything?
Bettie Davis Eyes
Neither of which are a patch on…
Marty Feldman Eyes
Or Dickie Davis’ Eyes… 😏
Erm...
New England.
New South Wales.
New Caledonia.
Rory Bremner.
The Pogues' 'Dirty Old Town' is much better than Ewan McColl's. The Stones' 'I Wanna Be Your Man' is much better than the Beatles' version.
Waitrose Essential Malted Wheats are a million times better than Shreddies.
Omani…. See also soy sauce.
Umami?
Sainsbury’s Sausage and Beans are much better than Heinz Sausage and Beans
Tom and jerry*
TC
Thundercats
Tony the tiger
Simba
colournoise Full Member
Cotic Soul > Kona Cinder Cone
Much as I love an old steel Kona…
Avatar - it's just Dances with Wolves with big blue people and spaceships
CDs at £1 for 4 are the best value ever but treat them like your best china, my records and Rega 3 as great as they are attract dust and crackles but looks great in the corner. The Marantz 50se from '91 still as good as ever
With my duff ears CDs over vinyl
The definitive soul version
Loads of cover songs:
Woman In Love by the Bluetones far better than the Barbara Streisland/Gibb version (unsurprisingly really)
I Put A Spell On You by the Toadies > Jay Hawkins
A Little Respect by Wheatus > Erasure
Think the Mission did a version of Dream On > Aerosmith
Heard It Through The Grapevine by Credence > Gladys Knight / Marvin Gaye
Three's Company was less terrible than Man About the House.
The new Battlestar Galactic was much better than the original.
Hendrix's All along the watch tower better than Bob Dylan
I'm going with Sinead O'Connor
vs the original
Sinead Lohan's cover of Dylan's To Ramona is infinitely better on every metric.
Sinead, like velvet for the ears -
Bob, like a dentist's drill -
Sia has done a cover of The Pretenders improvement on Ray Davies' hit I Go to Sleep, which is marginally better, IMO.
YMMV, but you'd be wrong
The new Battlestar Galactic was much better than the original.
Yes, I'm about 5 episodes into rewatching it, it's a really good show.
Are cover versions "copycats" if they're doing it in a different style?
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Cds > vinyl in every possible way.
Battlestar X2 (even if the ending was shite)
Wall St Crash: "Watch me screw people's futures".
Brexit or Truss's Mini budget: "Hold my beer".
Rome > Athens
Mike McMahon got the job of drawing Judge Dread because Carlos Ezquerra - who designed the character - didn't want to do it. McMahon is much better.
Shakespeare 'borrowed' most of his plots - he seems to be quite well regarded.
Controversial one here: The Magnificent Seven is better than The Seven Samurai (both great though).
The Pet Shop boys sang it better than Willie nelson.
Oh I give up trying to put pictures on this POS site, but please click the link - it made me LOL and feels relevant:
Aldi chocolate. Both their cheap 'Choceur' and posh 'Moser Roth'. Way better than Cadbury, Galaxy or any other 'British' chocolate.
On the music theme, Back Betty by Spiderbait. Better than Ram Jam (aware it was around a long time before that).
Aldi £7 Stellenbosch
Exactly the same as the £9 Morrisons Stellenbosch
mattyfez
And a Dax Rush is better than both!
Just no - hideous things
Aldi £7 Stellenbosch
Exactly the same as the £9 Morrisons Stellenbosch
👍 Aldi wine generally. The best of all the supermarket wine ime.
iOS better than Symbian and whatever stillborn mobile version of Windows that was around back then.
Windows Phone 8 was briefly the perfect phone OS before Microsoft did a Microsoft of the era move and destroyed it after trashing everybody's trust in the platform.