Covers which are better than the original song

Not many around, so please share a few which are.
I’ll start you off.

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I’ll get flamed but Scissor Sisters ‘Comfortably Numb’. And I love Floyd.

Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower

probably get it in the neck for this, but:

Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!

Leona Lewis’ version of that Snow Patrol song was a belter.

The regular, unsolved debate at work is ‘Whiskey in the Jar”…
Thin Lizzy or Metallica?

Anyone covering bob dylan. 😀

I see your ‘Village Green’ and raise you with Blooming Heather:

Yep defo Hendrix covering All Along The Watchtower.

SRV covering Little Wing

Amy Winehouse covering Valerie

Thin Lizzy shits all over Metallicas attempt at Whiskey in the jar imo.

Bauhaus ziggy stardust .

Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!

That is effing awesome!

Some more, from me…

And, their version of Live and Let Die is sooooo much better than the original!

NOOOO! Boba Fatt, what have they done?!? That needs banning!
I like Mikey’s though, not heard that before.

Tragically there doesn’t seem to be a recording anywhere of Jimbob from Carter USM’s rather magnificent version of That’s What I Go To School For.

Man Who Sold The World, Nirvana

Didn’t Bonnie Prince Billy write I See A Darkness?

Anyway

Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!

Even Trent Reznor has gone on record as saying that song is now Cash’s.

Hurt. Johnny cash but written by Trent Reznor NIN would get my vote!

No just no. Johnny Cash had one of those voices that can never be beaten on his own songs.

Tainted love , Soft Cell rather better than the Gloria Jones original , however she does score a bonus point for crashing the car in which Marc Bolan died .
You’ve got the love by Florence and the machine I originally thought blew the original by Candi Statton out of the water however I now don’t think that is the case and prefer the original .

Dolly Partons original Jolene is a classic that The White Stripes certainly didn’t improve IMO .

No just no. Johnny Cash had one of those voices that can never be beaten on his own songs.

Really? The first time I heard Mark & Lard play it on the afternoon show on Radio 1 I stopped in my trackes & almost shed a tear…

Tainted love , Soft Cell rather better than the Gloria Jones original

Taste is a funny thing, the Soft Cell version of that is at least my 3rd favourite version of that song, behind Gloria Jones & Marylin Manson. I’ve not heard any other versions so until I do it’s unlikely to get bumped further down the list…

Really? The first time I heard Mark & Lard play it on the afternoon show on Radio 1 I stopped in my trackes & almost shed a tear.

Me too when they murdered a good song. 😀

Les Clochards – Sledgehammer

Jeff buckleys version of hallelujah – think as with cash and NIN, leonard cohen has gone record saying buckleys version is better (but i’ll stand corrected on that). First time i ever heard it was radio 1 playing it on the fiirst anniversary of 9/11 – sat in car park to listen to it in its entirety, then went straight to andys records to buy the album.

There’s always someone who likes to think that Cash’s “Hurt” isn’t one of the greatest covers of all time. 😆

Joan Jett’s version of I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll

Always on my Mind
Don’t leave me this way

Thea Gilmore’s version of ‘You Spin Me Round’:

Tori Amos’ version of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

This song is like watching someone struggle to put up a fence (Duffy) and then a pro comes along and shows them how its done.

Raaargh my ineptitude prevents me from managing to post a video….

It works, yay!

Me first and the gimme gimmes – Rocket Man, Nothing Compares 2 U
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal (perfect!)
China Drum – Wuthering Heights
The Who – Summertime Blues
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Charlie Brown
Eric Clapton – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out

Gary Jules – Mad World

Born to run, Frankie Goes to Hollywood version rocks compared to Springstein’s

Also worth checking out the original for an awesome outfit…