Covers That Are Better Than The Original Songs

[SoItGoesRVA]

Pretty much a self-explanatory thread, just post covers that you like better than the original song. I'll start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8By9DnqCHac

 

[jonajon91]

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

This one is pretty close...

 

[yingmin]

Originally by No Fun At All



Arrangement of a Bach piece



Not technically a "cover", but a reworking of two or three of his older songs



Originally by Pavement



Originally by Puffy Amiyumi



Originally by the Grateful Dead



Originally by the Rolling Stones



Also Rolling Stones

 

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[Deadnightshade]

 

[NSXTypeZero]

 

[DXL]

c'mon what other band has a cover as one of their most popular songs?

 

[berzerkergang]

anything by ten masked men or me first and the gimme gimmes lol if you havent heard ten masked me, look him up, hilarious stuff.

 

[yingmin]

c'mon what other band has a cover as one of their most popular songs?

Alien Ant Farm
Natalie Imbruglia
Sixpence None the Richer
Harry Nilsson
Fear Factory
Marilyn Manson
etc.

 

[berzerkergang]

This one is pretty close...

What about when Theory of a deadman did it...... oh wait nevermind they renamed it "bad girlfriend" lol

 

[yingmin]

I only recently discovered that I had never heard the original version before, and every time I heard the song in my head, it was this cover I was hearing:

 

[StevenC]

America by Yes, originally by Simon and Garfunkel



Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, originally by Bruce Springsteen

 

[Goro923]

c'mon what other band has covers as two of their most popular songs?

Fixed.


Also, these:





I have a thing for darker/heavier Beatles covers. Come at me.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Forgot one.

 

[Jakke]

Joan Baez:


Neil Young:


Bob Dylan:


Procol Harum:

 

[Daf57]

 

[Leuchty]

 

[skeels]

Oh big plus one for Realm!

"Waaaaaaah-look at all the lonely people! "

Also-best cover ever: DEVO doing Satisfaction by the Stones.

 

[CrazyDean]

How about every Led Zeppelin song ever?