Copycats that are better than the originals.

Caterham 7 > Lotus

Not really copy cats. Caterham were a Lotus dealer and took over 7 production when Lotus stopped.

spoonful of Marmite in a lot of things improves them

Omani…. See also soy sauce.

Tainted Love.

Toyota Land Cruiser is much better than a Willy’s Jeep

And a Dog is much better than a Toyota land cruiser 😉

Not really copy cats. Caterham were a Lotus dealer and took over 7 production when Lotus stopped.

And a Dax Rush is better than both!

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1561331

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1703724

Oh dear, it’s turning into another I’ve-got-no-taste-in-music cover versions thread

Oh duck off music ranker.

Lidls orange juice not from concentrate compared to Tropicana

But tropicana isn’t an original anything?

Omani

A native of Oman?

Dancing in the Dark by… Hot Chip.

Cotic Soul > Kona Cinder Cone

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

Umami?

Um-Bungo?

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.

Coupling was much better than Friends

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9dtZSIj-U

vs the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHh3BUR7tbM

Sinead Lohan’s cover of Dylan’s To Ramona is infinitely better on every metric.

Sinead, like velvet for the ears – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHwILs8bdo&ab_channel=tomtscotland

Bob, like a dentist’s drill – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMqn8W2DeeU&ab_channel=BobDylanVEVO

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?

🤐

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).

Mao was diabolical, but Pol Pot was even worse.

The Pet Shop boys sang it better than Willie nelson.

Solovair.  Better than DM’s