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Cover songs you prefer to the original

posted 6 years ago by sslssg (35194)
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If this has a thread already, sorry.

One song that I seem to prefer most of the covers that I've heard is Come Together. It's not that I don't like The Beatles, but I don't care for their version of their song. I really liked Joe Cocker's version in Across the Universe, but I also prefer his version of With a Little Help From My Friends.

I also like Chris Cornell's cover of Nothing Compares 2 U better than both Prince and Sinead.

Perhaps because it has a more 80's feel to it I like Pseudo Echo's version of Funky Town over Lipps Inc.

Again with the 80's I much prefer Soft Cell's Tainted Love to Gloria Jones.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

I can't say that I prefer Boyce Avenue's Hanging by a Moment to Lifehouse's, but I think I like it just as much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSCoHPOqe3U

I have to say that I Love the creativity behind Walk of the Earth's covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV5KAbV34NU

[–] Mattc164 (619) 6 years ago

Sound of Silence by Disturbed...

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

Me too

[–] Cuthbert (732) 6 years ago

Elvis’ Unchained Melody.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

I'd never heard that before. Really good!

[–] Cuthbert (732) 6 years ago

That was the last song he ever sang the night he died.

[–] Stratego (31083) 6 years ago

I just saw Pseudo Echo's version on an old episode of Top of the Pops. I hadn't heard of it before. Not sure what to think of it.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

I really can't remember which one I heard first, but the Psuedo Echo version was the one I listened to the most as a kid

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Stevie Wonder's version of We Can Work it Out is great and overlooked. He gives it a funky treatment.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

I don't think I've ever heard this version. Will check it out.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

i like siouxsie and the banshees cover of the passenger a bit more than iggy's original.

gram parson's cover of wild horses is the definitive version for me.

earth wind & fire's version of got to get you into my life rides the groove the beatles couldn't quite find.

al green's how can you mend a broken heart is great. i like the original too, but green as a vocalist at his peak can't be topped imo.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

I really like the Sunday's version of Wild Horses, I don't think I know Gram Parson's. Will check it out.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

just to clarify something - i actually forgot that parsons recorded it when he was with the flying burrito brothers, not when he was solo, so you'll find it under that band's name. & it's probably not really right to say that the parsons/burrito bros version is a cover, since it actually came out a bit before the stones' version.

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

i love the sundays' debut album - one of my very favourite records.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

Thank you for that. I will definitely listen to it when I can.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

Just listened. I like it better than the Stone's, but I think I still like the Sunday's better. But it was really good. Thanks

[–] db20db (17754) 6 years ago

I prefer this rendition of Simple Man to that of Lynyrd Skynyrd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFQ6WmxdMs Just seems to have more depth and passion,imo.

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

The second I saw Simple Man I knew it was the Shinedown version. I LOVE Brent Smith's voice.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

John Cale - Hallelujah

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

[–] sslssg (35194) 6 years ago

Good, but I still prefer Jeff Buckley's. Although, one of the best versions I'd heard of this was in Canada 151 dinner theatre show. It was amazing.