[Closed] Cover song that eclipsed the original

PJ Harvey - Is that all there is?

The Gypsy Kings - Hotel California (Can't stand that dull MOR Eagles carp)

Very tough to pull off a Joy Division cover, but this is a great one:

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I've no idea how to get the youtube embed thing to work!?

Try (copy URL)on you tube then click and paste into video button below, if it does't work don't blame me i am no friend to the computer.

A true talent who died too young.

@portlyone ,fantastic but i am supposed to be mowing the lawn at the moment 8)

Pink Floyd, never has one band been so firmly stuck up it's own arse.

Burn him 😈

What's the best cover of Stairway?

Zappa's:

Valerie, Amy W / Mark Ronson.
It is a pity that she was so drunk/drugged that she didn't turn up for the video.

She and My Funny Valentine - Elvis Costello, I have to say I am biased as every song he covered is better then the original 8)

@dannyh - I didn't realise I Fought the Law was a cover !

Ok, without commenting on other folk's choices (Gun? GUN? Better than CAMEO?? ffs) ahem.

Completely eclipsed the orginal:

Can't think of any more, some covers are ok, but hardly any are much better than the original. (Especially not if they are by GUN.)

@ DezB another great cover way better than the origonal Ponce effort, looks like the lawn will have to wait. 😉

Better than The Monkees

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pete, good call on Les Thugs- i forgot just how good that cover is!

Anyway, here's an interesting one:

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What's the best cover of Stairway?

Zappa's:

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Also see her version of Satisfaction.

Bonnie Prince Billy & Tortoise

See also his version of Am I Demon (not sure but it might even feature the wonderful Meg Baird....)

And for all those posting mortal coil, better than the man? I think not.

Here's his version of Dolphins. Brilliant, a major loss.

Nina Gordon's version of 18 and Life is good too. I might regret this but Leona Lewis's version of Run by Snow Patrol is brilliant.

I always thought Johnny Cash's Hurt was really overrated, it's all a bit Shatner. But his version of One is ace.

But you know, everything by Richard Cheese

Or how about a bit of Shakira Shakira

Hickory Wind - Idha did a pretty good version too

this is better than anything else posted in this thread so far, or anything else that may follow...

Mark, man, you play a mean guitar! It's really a shame that you must die!

Don't Think Twice - June Tabor.

Generally, I love an interesting cover, but this is just disturbing ...

DiVinyls' I Touch Myself, by Rolf.

To eclipse the original a cover song needs to be a lot more than just "better than the original" in someone's very personal and subjective opinion. It needs to adopt the song as its own; it needs the original artist to say "fair cop, your version is brilliant"; it needs the general public to forget or never even know or care there was an original version before it.

Mark Ronson's Valerie ticks these boxes as does Cash's Hurt. A more contentious suggestion - since the original artist was the biggest band in the world - is this:

Apologies if already posted; this thread was killing my iPad.

[i]And for all those posting mortal coil, better than the man? I think not.[/i]

Thread is about eclipsing the original (or, that's what I thought it was supposed to be about). If This Mortal Coil hadn't covered that beautiful song it would have remained in complete obscurity. To think otherwise is to be deluded. 😉

Plus:
[i]Also see her version of Satisfaction.[/i] - Eclipses what exactly?

Thread is about eclipsing the original (or, that's what I thought it was supposed to be about). If This Mortal Coil hadn't covered that beautiful song it would have remained in complete obscurity. To think otherwise is to be deluded.

Tim was on an upward curve that TMC cynically surfed on. To say the original was eclipsed shows your deluded my friend. It's a damn fine cover, I don't dispute, but better? Plus liz's warbling does my napper in.... 😆

Besides, it was so much[i] better[/i] in obscurity, ordinary ****in people, I hate 'em...

eclipses what exactly?

Completely stripped down and distilled.

'Ten hits you may not know were cover versions'

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No Doubt - Its My Life. Way better than the Talk Talk version.

[i]Besides, it was so much better in obscurity, ordinary **** people, I hate 'em...
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Jeez, and Rusty calls me a snob! 😆

Just listened to that Satisfaction cover. Devo's is better, far more imaginative .

Happy Mondays Step on.. Although I prefer the original

Just listened to that Satisfaction cover. Devo's is better, far more whiney .

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I think Johnny Cash is a load of turgid nonsense with a completely fake attitude about 'oooh he's so dangerous so cool' BS

Good shout nick1962 - here's another beatles cover better than the original

Posted this on the 'where's Kim'thread, but it's a pretty good cover of a Beatles song:

for those on smartphones, it's The Damned doing Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit

completely stripped down and distilled

@metalheart - I think we've agreed about this before on STW... Cat Power's [i]The Covers Record[/i] still fugging demolishes me. Wonderful album. 😀

@noteeth, possibly. I know we have agreed on a couple of things in the past...

Did I ever tell you how good Bill Callahan was earlier on in the year?.....