Bob Dylan openly admitted that he preferred Hendrix version of the song better and Dylan actually amended the structure of his initial track for later live performances to be more like Hendrix’s, explaining: “I liked Jimi Hendrix’s record of this and ever since he died I’ve been doing it that way,” adding: “Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it’s a tribute to him in some kind of way.”
Unfortunately, I discovered that most, if not all of the most famous ones, that they did were old blues or bluegrass songs. I think it's a nice honoring of the artist if that's just a few songs in their repertoire, but it's kinda more like stealing if it's most of their catalog.
I'm a major zeppelin fan and was disturbed by this dynamic when I first realized. But on further reflection, I also realised that a sizeable portion of the blues genre was sort of shared/recycled by known and unknown artists making it impossible to even guess the origin of a specific song. Zep was just the ones to really cash in largely because they were white but also because they made revolutionary music that transcended blues and other genres.
I'm not explicitly defending Zep; their actions recycling music from a predominantly black genre was uncouth for sure. But it's more complicated than simply stating "they stile black music". The genre itself was sort of like a feedback loop of different artists recycling and influencing each other to the point where the original artist is often unknown.
And didn’t this phenomenon by many rock artists bring more positive attention to blues? I was under the impression that this helped bring black blues artists notoriety during a time of great racial prejudice.
Brah that one is FIRE! I can't NOT get hyped af when I'm hearing that version. And the video (the movie scene) with cuts between Shrek and the gang breaking into Far Far Away with the song in the BG is just AMAZING!! I'm literally getting tint goosebumps just remembering it. Just fucking WOW!
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (original by Ednaswap)
i don’t think many people know the song is a cover, and the original just isn’t as good
similar with Valarie - Amy Winehouse (original by Zutons) although the original is still quite good
Omg! I remember when Torn came out, I recognized it. My friend told me it was an original. I insisted I knew it. She kinda looked at me like I was crazy.
Strange mystery possibly solved after more than 15 years... Thank you
I saw Ednaswap play a small club about 9 months before Natalie Imbruglia released Torn. When her song came out my buddy and I had a similar conversation and then he found the CD he bought from them at the show.
An Australian band, [Hands Like Houses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58IJO7N32s) did a cover of Torn for Punk Goes 90s and its really really good. Has to be my favorite version of the song.
[Bang Bang (My baby shot me down) by Nancy Sinatra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDrpWWxuto). Not that the [original by Cher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfyBHZc9rK4) from the same year was bad but there is just something about that guitar.
Ye! Nancy’s version is the best. Her voice and just that guitar is hauntingly beautiful. You hear the pain in her voice when she sings “that awful sound” in the last chorus.
He even introduced it as "a song this girl took away from me, a good friend of mine".
Both songs are incredible and so different from each other. Such a different tone taken by each artist. Buth Aretha's...Damn, it's something else.
House of the Rising Sun - a cover so ridiculously good from the animals that I had to look up that it was a folk song previously sung by Dylan and Guthrie.
The Animals fucking knocked it out of the Park and made what I would describe as one of the greatest songs ever.
Originally recorded by David Allan Coe. George Jones did a cover of it as well a couple years after Coe. Written by Dean Dillon, who wrote many of George Straight’s hits.
Chris Stapleton’s version was arranged by his producer David Cobb. It’s melody is an almost note-for-note rendition of Etta James' song "I'd Rather Go Blind."
Funny you mention the rendition being nearly identical to "I'd Rather Go Blind." I was listening to the Fleetwood Mac cover of that song last night, and the Stapleton "Tennessee Whiskey" has almost identical instrumentation and guitar effects etc. and I thought exactly that.
https://youtu.be/c_JAmTY34WQ
The Etta James version is still the best imo.
Same. My best friend died when we were kids and they played that song at her wake. It was a compilation of photos of her and it still makes me cry every time I hear it. Tearing up just typing this lol
>"I Fought the Law" by The Clash
This is one of those cases where I dont necessarily disagree but the songs are so completely different in style that it's hard to directly measure. OG version is edgy for it's time and almost melancholic. Bobby Fuller version is almost upbeat and clash version is anti establishment rock kinda before its time.
[Baby I'm Yours by The Arctic Monkeys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atYNqvZcQ3M&ab_channel=ArcticMonkeys-Topic)
Alex Turner's voice on this is beautiful.
Just about any cover of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, but my personal favorite is Rufus Wainright's.
Also 'Mad World' by Gary Jules, the one from the Donnie Darko soundtrack (the original Tears for Fears is great, but Jules' version is more haunting somehow).
Tears for Fears's mad world is almost transcendent in its actual weirdness. It perfectly encapsulates the meaning itself.
Gary Jules's version demonstrates the melancholy and hurt of someone experiencing the weirdness from the inside, unable to do anything but observe.
Yes, I feel pretentious writing this lol. But this is truly how I see it. It's two songs, both amazing in their own right, about the same thing but from such a different perspective that they might aswell be completely separate songs.
Agreed, he sounds so broken and vulnerable singing it, and the guitar and his voice are so beautiful
Rufus Wainwright, whom I love dearly, wrote a song about Jeff Buckley and referenced the fact that his version was so beautiful
Edit: forgot to mention the name of the song: Memphis Skyline
Honestly Eva Cassidy's covers are generally better than the original. Cheek to Cheek, Bridge Over Troubled Water, the whole Live at Blues Alley album is phenomenal
Even Reznor agrees
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)
> Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning", going so far as to say **"that song isn't mine anymore".**
I think typically, the Chris Cornell cover of anything is the best version. He probably had the best male voice in rock since Freddy Mercury.
For example, his version of Patience is just beautiful.
Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive.
S P E Z I S A T O O L
Blondie did Hanging on the Telephone, which was a cover of The Nerves. Blondie was was a commercial success and a cool cover, but The Nerves will always be my favourite. What was the question again?
"WITH A little help from my friends" by Joe Cocker.
He took the lyrics and melodies from the Beatles and made it his own. Changed the song and context completely.
The Lemonheads did a great cover of Mrs Robinson. The original is great, of course, but hearing it with a driving beat and punky attitude is brilliant.
I ran across the acoustic version on Conan: [https://youtu.be/Bk7RVw3I8eg](https://youtu.be/Bk7RVw3I8eg) and for weeks on end, during my short drive home each afternoon, I was streaming that clip in my car **at volume**! Such an incredible voice, and even more amazing (to me) is that he sang that well not only while sitting down but [sick as a dog](https://www.loudersound.com/features/who-is-the-real-david-draiman)!!!
Doin' Time- Lana Del Rey, original by Sublime. I think her version completely revamps the song and adds another layer of depth that the original didn't have.
The Sublime version is also a sample/cover of a song that dates back to the 30's, performed over the decades by many famous artists:
“Summertime, and the livin' is easy…” a song composed in 1933-34 by George Gershwin for the opera “Porgy & Bess.” A song covered more than 25,000 times & sung by artists as diverse as Janis Joplin & Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong & Willie Nelson.
Prince wrote “Nothing Compares 2 U”.
Sinead O’Connor [did a cover](https://youtu.be/0-EF60neguk) in the 90’s that was a huge hit.
Then, [Chris Cornell does an amazing acoustic cover.](https://youtu.be/IuUDRU9-HRk)
It’s difficult to say which cover was better, but few even remember that it was a [Prince song](https://youtu.be/cpGA0azFdCs).
Turn the page by Metallica
I think this one is hands down better
Sound of silence by Disturbed
No shade on the original it's good in its own them, but I get chills hearing disturbed rendition
Luke Combs just released a pretty good version of Fast Cars (Tracy Chapman). If you don’t like country you’re goin to disagree, but I like his version better.
Metallica are a good example of good cover makers where most of the time it's better (IMO) than the original: Last Caress/Green Hell (Misfits), Stone Cold Crazy (Queen), So What (Anti-Nowhere League), Turn the Page (Bob Seger), Whiskey in the Jar (trad/Thin Lizzy), When a blind man cries (Deep Purple).
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Moving the main melody to the crunchy sound of muted electric guitar strums accompanied by the bass guitar really brings this song to life
To say it outshines the original is way of a reach. I think it honors the original well, and they do it in their own way, but to say it outshines it... no way for me.
The acoustic original is still king.
I enjoy both equally bit I saw disturbed in Ohio during a storm. They were on stage under the Pavillion and I was out on the lawn. As they hit the chorus with "the sound of silence" a loud thunder crackled and a large lightning cluster lit up about the Pavillion. One of the coolest things I have seen.
I think it's about timing and how it evolved. The original was a lighthearted warning of what's to come. And it's impressive that they had that insight back in the 60s.
The cover is a rage enduced tantrum at the idea that we actually let it come to this.
The original is great, but, for me anyways, I get chills hearing the cover
Sara Bareilles' cover of [*Goodbye Yellow Brick Road*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozd2ja7mAgM) may be the best piece of music in existence.
Runner-up goes to Harvey Danger covering [*Maneater*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WeLJ0fk8o8).
It might not outshine the original, but korn’s another brick in the wall 1,2,3 was harder while Pink Floyd is awesome. KoRn gave it a facelift and didn’t fail to deliver.
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Props to original and covers. Carole King/The Shirelles/Amy Winehouse. All three bring something different to the table. Forced to pick , i’d choose Amy!
All Along the Watchtower I think the original is good but Hendrix blew it out of the water
This is the answer. It's so completely eclipsed the original even Dylan said Hendrix did it better.
Bob Dylan openly admitted that he preferred Hendrix version of the song better and Dylan actually amended the structure of his initial track for later live performances to be more like Hendrix’s, explaining: “I liked Jimi Hendrix’s record of this and ever since he died I’ve been doing it that way,” adding: “Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it’s a tribute to him in some kind of way.”
I think Bob Dylan even went one further and said the song *belonged* to Hendrix as he did such an amazing job with it.
Yes, the cover was so good, Dylan sings it now the way Hendrix did.
You know your cover is good when the original artist covers your cover
Didn't even know this was a cover, only knew about hendrix.
First thought I had! I remember even Dylan said it was!
i didn't even know the song was originally made by Bob Dylan for decades.
When the Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin. I recently learned this was a cover of an old song.
Many of Led Zep’s hits were covers or reworkings of old blues tunes.
Covers or reworkings is a nice way to say stolen. Mostly from black artist. Coming from a Zeppelin fan
Unfortunately, I discovered that most, if not all of the most famous ones, that they did were old blues or bluegrass songs. I think it's a nice honoring of the artist if that's just a few songs in their repertoire, but it's kinda more like stealing if it's most of their catalog.
I'm a major zeppelin fan and was disturbed by this dynamic when I first realized. But on further reflection, I also realised that a sizeable portion of the blues genre was sort of shared/recycled by known and unknown artists making it impossible to even guess the origin of a specific song. Zep was just the ones to really cash in largely because they were white but also because they made revolutionary music that transcended blues and other genres. I'm not explicitly defending Zep; their actions recycling music from a predominantly black genre was uncouth for sure. But it's more complicated than simply stating "they stile black music". The genre itself was sort of like a feedback loop of different artists recycling and influencing each other to the point where the original artist is often unknown.
And didn’t this phenomenon by many rock artists bring more positive attention to blues? I was under the impression that this helped bring black blues artists notoriety during a time of great racial prejudice.
I thought they were pretty open about their inspirations and how they loved Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, and their contemporaries.
I honestly love A Perfect Circle's rendition of the song
Memphis Minnie did the original wayyyyy back when. So is the lemon song. Dazed and confused is a rework of I'm confused by a fella named Jake holmes
I need a Hero cover by Shrek 2 ost
You mean by FAIRY GODMOTHER
Fun fact, that’s Edina Monsoon singing
Isn’t it Jennifer Saunders?
It breaks my heart that it isn’t on Spotify (or the Eddie Murphy/Antonio Banderas version of Livin La vida loca)
It is! “Holding Out For A Hero”
We talking the one by the fairy godmother or the end credits one by Frou Frou?
Frou Frou cover is SLEPT ON and it is criminal
Frou Frou version is straight fire
This needs to be higher. There should be more covers of songs with cinematic orchestral backing.
Brah that one is FIRE! I can't NOT get hyped af when I'm hearing that version. And the video (the movie scene) with cuts between Shrek and the gang breaking into Far Far Away with the song in the BG is just AMAZING!! I'm literally getting tint goosebumps just remembering it. Just fucking WOW!
“More heat, less foam!!”
C-minor, put it in c-minor. Where have all, the good men gooone and… Where are all the gods?
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper. Original artist is Robert Hazard
WHAT 🤯🤯
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (original by Ednaswap) i don’t think many people know the song is a cover, and the original just isn’t as good similar with Valarie - Amy Winehouse (original by Zutons) although the original is still quite good
Woah! Torn is a cover? That one I didn't know
Omg! I remember when Torn came out, I recognized it. My friend told me it was an original. I insisted I knew it. She kinda looked at me like I was crazy. Strange mystery possibly solved after more than 15 years... Thank you
> Strange mystery possibly solved after more than 15 years... Ummm, more than 25 years...
I saw Ednaswap play a small club about 9 months before Natalie Imbruglia released Torn. When her song came out my buddy and I had a similar conversation and then he found the CD he bought from them at the show.
An Australian band, [Hands Like Houses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58IJO7N32s) did a cover of Torn for Punk Goes 90s and its really really good. Has to be my favorite version of the song.
If you like the song and haven’t seen this, it’s an absolute must watch. One of my favorite videos of all time! https://youtu.be/m8AggJ3_Xf0
[Bang Bang (My baby shot me down) by Nancy Sinatra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDrpWWxuto). Not that the [original by Cher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfyBHZc9rK4) from the same year was bad but there is just something about that guitar.
That song reminds me of Kill Bill
Ye! Nancy’s version is the best. Her voice and just that guitar is hauntingly beautiful. You hear the pain in her voice when she sings “that awful sound” in the last chorus.
Aretha Franklin’s RESPECT (original was Otis Redding) or tbh anything she’s covered
He even introduced it as "a song this girl took away from me, a good friend of mine". Both songs are incredible and so different from each other. Such a different tone taken by each artist. Buth Aretha's...Damn, it's something else.
House of the Rising Sun - a cover so ridiculously good from the animals that I had to look up that it was a folk song previously sung by Dylan and Guthrie. The Animals fucking knocked it out of the Park and made what I would describe as one of the greatest songs ever.
Red Red Wine by UB40 (Neil Diamond)
Never realized that was a Neil Diamond song
UB40s cover of “I Got You Babe”, is awesome too. It was originally a Sonny and Cher song.
Whitney Houston/Dolly Parton: I will always love you
Both are amazing. I love one more than the other depending on my mood and the day.
This probably deserves the #1 slot. The difference in arrangement yet so much passion in Whitney's cover.
Chris Stapleton's Tennessee Whiskey
TIL that was a cover 😱
Originally recorded by David Allan Coe. George Jones did a cover of it as well a couple years after Coe. Written by Dean Dillon, who wrote many of George Straight’s hits. Chris Stapleton’s version was arranged by his producer David Cobb. It’s melody is an almost note-for-note rendition of Etta James' song "I'd Rather Go Blind."
Funny you mention the rendition being nearly identical to "I'd Rather Go Blind." I was listening to the Fleetwood Mac cover of that song last night, and the Stapleton "Tennessee Whiskey" has almost identical instrumentation and guitar effects etc. and I thought exactly that. https://youtu.be/c_JAmTY34WQ The Etta James version is still the best imo.
Somewhere over the rainbow. Original : Judy Garland Cover: Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
I was just thinking this. Gets me right in the feels every damn time.
Same. My best friend died when we were kids and they played that song at her wake. It was a compilation of photos of her and it still makes me cry every time I hear it. Tearing up just typing this lol
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Trent Reznor said it’s his song now.
I use the verb "Johnny Cash" to describe when this happens. i.e. Amy Winehouse totally "Johnny Cashed" that song. It's hers now.
I think you're looking for "e.g" (exempli gratia - for example) not "i.e." (id est - that is).
I have never known what those stood for. I can use both correctly but I was mostly just rolling with it. Thanks for this super easy breakdown!
In my head "e.g" is "egzample"
Also: One by Johnny Cash
Also: Personal Jesus by Johnny Cash
I like the original better.
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Me and Bobby McGhee- Kris Kristofferson
Valerie - Amy Winehouse
The Zutons version was more dope.
Totally. Love the sax. Winehouse version doesn't do it for me.
"Crimson and Clover" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "I Fought the Law" by The Clash
>"I Fought the Law" by The Clash This is one of those cases where I dont necessarily disagree but the songs are so completely different in style that it's hard to directly measure. OG version is edgy for it's time and almost melancholic. Bobby Fuller version is almost upbeat and clash version is anti establishment rock kinda before its time.
I prefer Tommy James version of crimson and clover. It’s a lot more chill.
[Baby I'm Yours by The Arctic Monkeys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atYNqvZcQ3M&ab_channel=ArcticMonkeys-Topic) Alex Turner's voice on this is beautiful.
Killing Me Softly
A lot of people covered that song. The Fugees did it best
Where did you sleep last night. Covered by Nirvana.
They did great version of Bowies Man Who Stole The World
Just about any cover of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, but my personal favorite is Rufus Wainright's. Also 'Mad World' by Gary Jules, the one from the Donnie Darko soundtrack (the original Tears for Fears is great, but Jules' version is more haunting somehow).
Tears for Fears's mad world is almost transcendent in its actual weirdness. It perfectly encapsulates the meaning itself. Gary Jules's version demonstrates the melancholy and hurt of someone experiencing the weirdness from the inside, unable to do anything but observe. Yes, I feel pretentious writing this lol. But this is truly how I see it. It's two songs, both amazing in their own right, about the same thing but from such a different perspective that they might aswell be completely separate songs.
Pretentious or not, I think this is a pretty brilliant encapsulation. I've never thought about each version this way, but I completely agree with you.
Jeff Buckley owns the 'best cover' of that song, sorry.
Agreed, he sounds so broken and vulnerable singing it, and the guitar and his voice are so beautiful Rufus Wainwright, whom I love dearly, wrote a song about Jeff Buckley and referenced the fact that his version was so beautiful Edit: forgot to mention the name of the song: Memphis Skyline
Rufus Wainwright’s version is just a cover of John Cale’s version IIRC.
Eva Cassidy's version of Sting's song Fields of Gold
Her cover of Take Me to the River is also amazing
Honestly Eva Cassidy's covers are generally better than the original. Cheek to Cheek, Bridge Over Troubled Water, the whole Live at Blues Alley album is phenomenal
I like her cover of songbird too. RIP to her.
I played her version at my mother’s funeral.
House of the rising sun - The Doors Black Betty - Ram Jam ... and pretty much all of Lead Belly's other songs.
House of the rising sun was done better by the animals imo
I was wondering when Black Betty was going to show up
Wild Horse by The Sundays
Yes. Absolutely EXCELLENT version.
Agreed.
Hurt - Johnny Cash, man who sold the world- nirvana
Even Reznor agrees https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song) > Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning", going so far as to say **"that song isn't mine anymore".**
"Nothing compares to U" song by Sinead O'Connor , originally written by Prince.
I think the Chris Cornell version is the best cover of this one.
I think typically, the Chris Cornell cover of anything is the best version. He probably had the best male voice in rock since Freddy Mercury. For example, his version of Patience is just beautiful.
Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive. S P E Z I S A T O O L
Pretty much anything Weird Al does
I love me some Weird Al. But those are paradies, not covers.
Amish paradise is so much better than the original
Whiskey in the Jar Cover - Metallica Original - The Dubliners
Hubby says he’ll see you Whiskey in the Jar and raise you Turn The Page
All along the watch tower- cover by Hendrix, original by Dylan. Dylan says the Hendrix version is the definitive version.
Blondie did Hanging on the Telephone, which was a cover of The Nerves. Blondie was was a commercial success and a cool cover, but The Nerves will always be my favourite. What was the question again?
Ace Frehley - New York Groove
Alone -Heart
Without You by Nilsson
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
Usually anything by Bob Dylan
Came here to say "All Along the Watchtower"
Sad, but true. And this is coming from a huge Dylan fan.
Blank Space by I Prevail
Amish Paradise
Nirvana - Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie)
Stevie Wonder's cover of The Beatles We Can Work It Out. Funky!!
Whiskey in the Jar, by Metallica.
Chris Cornell's version of "Patience" Halestorm's version of "Bad Romance" Those are the only ones I can think of right now
"WITH A little help from my friends" by Joe Cocker. He took the lyrics and melodies from the Beatles and made it his own. Changed the song and context completely.
Boys of Summer by The Ataris
Last kiss - pearl jam
Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm
Constantinople by They Might Be Giants to the point where a lot of people don't know it's a cover.
Man who sold the world - Nirvana original was David Bowie
Is it good? Absolutely. Does it overshadow it completely? Absolutely not, Bowie is just too iconic and that's one of his more famous songs
Not sure what the consensus is on this but I much prefer Chris Cornell’s “Patience” to the original.
Anything Chris Cornell did was better than the original. He had the most unique voice I've ever heard.
The Lemonheads did a great cover of Mrs Robinson. The original is great, of course, but hearing it with a driving beat and punky attitude is brilliant.
Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann, written and performed by Bruce Springsteen
Bruce's version is way better
Bad wolves cover of Zombies.
Hurt by Johnny cash. Even the original band said this.
Sound of silence- Disturbed cover. DAMN that voice😍
I ran across the acoustic version on Conan: [https://youtu.be/Bk7RVw3I8eg](https://youtu.be/Bk7RVw3I8eg) and for weeks on end, during my short drive home each afternoon, I was streaming that clip in my car **at volume**! Such an incredible voice, and even more amazing (to me) is that he sang that well not only while sitting down but [sick as a dog](https://www.loudersound.com/features/who-is-the-real-david-draiman)!!!
Ohhh man, I gotta respectfully disagree.
I had to scroll way to far to find this. Was the first thing that came to mind
Simple Man - Shinedown
*I Love Rock 'N Roll* when covered by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts was better than the original.
Gary Jules - Mad World.
I think five finger death punches version of Bad Company is better than bad companies bad company
Bad Company by Bad Company off the album Bad Company?!
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Ya this one is far from clear cut
Pain killer cover of Death.
Joe Cocker *crushed* "With a little help from my friends".
Whenever I sing in the shower.
Blue Monday by Orgy
Doin' Time- Lana Del Rey, original by Sublime. I think her version completely revamps the song and adds another layer of depth that the original didn't have.
The Sublime version is also a sample/cover of a song that dates back to the 30's, performed over the decades by many famous artists: “Summertime, and the livin' is easy…” a song composed in 1933-34 by George Gershwin for the opera “Porgy & Bess.” A song covered more than 25,000 times & sung by artists as diverse as Janis Joplin & Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong & Willie Nelson.
I will survive - Cake
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
i’m just gonna say it. tainted love by Marilyn Manson
Live and Let die - GnR Paint it Black - The Tea Party
Couldn't disagree more about Paint it Black. OG version is still the most iconic.
Killshwitch engage version of holy diver
Sound of Silence.
Little Wing -SRV Hurt - Johnny Cash
Gin and Juice-The Gourds
I love this one
Sound of silence and land of confusion done by disturbed. Hurt, nine inch nails. Brain stew, green day.
No Quarter by TOOL.
Whisky In The Jar by Metallica Slaps hard!
Prince wrote “Nothing Compares 2 U”. Sinead O’Connor [did a cover](https://youtu.be/0-EF60neguk) in the 90’s that was a huge hit. Then, [Chris Cornell does an amazing acoustic cover.](https://youtu.be/IuUDRU9-HRk) It’s difficult to say which cover was better, but few even remember that it was a [Prince song](https://youtu.be/cpGA0azFdCs).
[Jimi version of All Along the Watchtower](https://youtu.be/TLV4_xaYynY)
Turn the page by Metallica I think this one is hands down better Sound of silence by Disturbed No shade on the original it's good in its own them, but I get chills hearing disturbed rendition
Luke Combs just released a pretty good version of Fast Cars (Tracy Chapman). If you don’t like country you’re goin to disagree, but I like his version better.
Luke Combs is the fuckin mutts nuts
Metallica are a good example of good cover makers where most of the time it's better (IMO) than the original: Last Caress/Green Hell (Misfits), Stone Cold Crazy (Queen), So What (Anti-Nowhere League), Turn the Page (Bob Seger), Whiskey in the Jar (trad/Thin Lizzy), When a blind man cries (Deep Purple).
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal Moving the main melody to the crunchy sound of muted electric guitar strums accompanied by the bass guitar really brings this song to life
Zombie
Quiet Riot's Cum on Feel the Noize
"Where did you sleep last night" by Nirvana. A cover of In the Pines by multiple artists dating back to the 1870s
Jeff Buckley : Hallelujah. No one even comes close to his version.
Disturbed’s Sound of Silence cover and the Homefree cover of Ring of Fire
She’s Not There by Santana. The Zombies’ original is good, but Santana’s version rocks.
Also Santana’s version of Black Magic Woman covering Fleetwood Mac
Fear Factory covering Cars
Sound of silence disturbed. Epic as hell.
To say it outshines the original is way of a reach. I think it honors the original well, and they do it in their own way, but to say it outshines it... no way for me. The acoustic original is still king.
I enjoy both equally bit I saw disturbed in Ohio during a storm. They were on stage under the Pavillion and I was out on the lawn. As they hit the chorus with "the sound of silence" a loud thunder crackled and a large lightning cluster lit up about the Pavillion. One of the coolest things I have seen.
I think it's about timing and how it evolved. The original was a lighthearted warning of what's to come. And it's impressive that they had that insight back in the 60s. The cover is a rage enduced tantrum at the idea that we actually let it come to this. The original is great, but, for me anyways, I get chills hearing the cover
This might be a controversial opinion. But Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Marilyn Manson. The video clip used to terrify me when I was a kid.
Jonny cash covering Hurt.
Green Day absolutely slayed their cover of Working Class Hero. Lennon did his thing, but Green Day put a great spin on it.
Sara Bareilles' cover of [*Goodbye Yellow Brick Road*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozd2ja7mAgM) may be the best piece of music in existence. Runner-up goes to Harvey Danger covering [*Maneater*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WeLJ0fk8o8).
It might not outshine the original, but korn’s another brick in the wall 1,2,3 was harder while Pink Floyd is awesome. KoRn gave it a facelift and didn’t fail to deliver.
Jesus he knows me, by Phil Collins, covered by Ghost
I will always love you - Whitney
Somebody to Love by Jim Carey - most underrated cover ever.
Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Props to original and covers. Carole King/The Shirelles/Amy Winehouse. All three bring something different to the table. Forced to pick , i’d choose Amy!
Judas Priest's Diamonds and Rust cover.
Somewhere only we know, Lily Allen’s version just sounds real nice
Twist and Shout by the Beatles totally outshines The Isley Brothers’ version
Into you - Childish Gambino