Covers which are better than the original song

Rocket dog – cake’s version of “I will survive” – Yeah baby, the greatest cover in history bar none.

Bit late but Chaka Khan’s version of I feel for you is better than the original from Prince.

Always like johnny cash’s cover of ‘one’

But I hate U2, so anyone else doing it I’m likely to think is an improvement 🙂

New order – turn the heater on

Frankie knuckles – your love

Joy division – sister ray

Echo and the bunnymen – all you need is love

Jimmy cliffs version of ruby soho, basically the whole of Little Roys Battle For Seattle, Hendrix All Along the Watchtower and RATM version of Renegades of Funk.

Hah, I had no idea that There Is A Light That Never Goes Out was a cover.

De-cluttered

En-bluegrassed

For what I’m about to post, I beg your forgiveness, but I lurve this one

ROLF

You’re welcome!

Dammit – several edits later and I still show my incompetence at posting links. Sigh.

I love absolutely everything about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HweSpztfafk

I N R A T S but:

Walk on By by the Stranglers

Victoria, Telephone Thing, Lost in Music, Ghost in My House, by the Fall

or maybe this (forward to 3mins)

Bang on a Can – Music for Airports

I’ll throw the RHCP cover of Stevie Wonders Higher ground in ….

Don’t know about better but this man has skills, and there is swear words in it sorry not to sure about the rules. If I have broken them Sorry.

the smiths never sounded so good as Anthrax

and cradle doing Cliff

oh and Poison Idea doing hawkwinds Motor head (better as punk than stoner hippy gash)

Don’t really like them but:

And most of this groups covers

will probably get slaughtered for this one

Disturbed – land of confusion, definately better than the genesis original.

Pennywise – Land down under, although not better than the original, its still damn good!

Kwaliteeeee

guns n roses knocking on heavens door

No comment!

Foo-Fighters “Band On The Run”, is pretty damn good.

Cover better than the original?

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completely different to the original Nivana track

Dead Kennedys – Take This Job And Shove It

The Damned – Eloise
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
The Men They Couldn’t Hang – The Green Fields of France
Doctor & The Medics – Spirit In The Sky
Dead Kennedys – Viva Las Vegas

Too idle to post links….

Can not open all the links on my tablet but I would be surprised if this isn’t listed already…surely the best better than the the original cover song ever
Mad World…Gary Jules vs Tears for Fears

These are two of my favourites, not really saying that they are better than the original though!

Crossroads – Cream
Have Live Will Travel – The Black Keys
The Man Who Sold the World – Nirvana
Billie Jean – Ian Brown
A Change is Gonna Come – Otis Redding
Motörhead – Corduroy
Wreck of the Old ’97 – Johnny Cash
Time for Living – The Charlatans
Run On – Johnny Cash
Satisfaction – Otis Redding
Mr Postman – The Beatles
Johnny B. Goode – The Beatles
Money (Thats What I Want) – The Rolling Stones