Best and Worst - Cover Vs Original Combos

[nicky]

Best: All Along The Watchtower by Dylan, as covered by Hendrix

Definitive version of the song, and a classic at that.

Worst: Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division, as covered by Fall Out Boy

Possibly the only song that has actually made me rage. If you have any respect for the original, avoid this cover like the plague. Toneless, tuneless, unimaginative, awful. Completely strips the emotion from one of the most emotional rock songs of all time.

That song is almost untouchable given it's so good.

 

[nicky]

Fantastic version of Leadbelly's version of a folk song. IMO most of the Nirvana unplugged songs are dross, but this works on every level.
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I absolutely love that song!!

 

[nicky]

another cover i like is cat power's version of 'satisfaction' - yep i like this version much better than the stone's.

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[ams4crows]

I quite like Placebo's Version of Kate Bush's Running Up that Hill

 

[Bomber Bears]

If we go down the Me First and the Gimme Gimme's route, their best include
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And my favourite
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[CLUBMEDhurst]

KISS classic
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Oh, yeah! Think Buzzo & Co's version sheetz on KISS's

 

[The Goon]

Couple of great older covers this time:

Eric Clapton - Cocaine (original by JJ Calel)
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Lenny Kravitz - American Woman (original by Guess Who)
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The Clash - I fought the Law (original by The Crickets)
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.. and to balance it out with the dire ...

Michael Bolton - Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
Words cannot describe how truly awful this is.
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Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes (or how to wreck a truly great song)
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[The OBSTacle]

The Chief

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[The OBSTacle]

A great remake of the Johnny Kidd and The Pirates classic

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[roostersgal4eva]

Almost get to bed and this one that personally I like comes on the radio....

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[the fly]

Good:

Joe Cocker - A little help from my friends

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Have you heard the Dan Sultan/Ella Hooper/Wolfgramm Sisters recording from RocKwiz?

 

[The Goon]

INXS - Just Keep Walking. 1980.

IMHO the best track off their debut album. Showed what a truly creative and great band they would become. Released in 1980 it still had a bit of a hard core rock/punk influence. Top shelf stuff.
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Par-T-One v INXS - Im So Crazy. 2001
Twenty years later and the original is stripped back to it's punk core and mixed to create a menacing, powerful house track.
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Cover / Original combo at it's best - both are great, both totally different interpretations of the same material reflecting the time they were released.

 

[dumb]

my personal preferences..

pantera - planet caravan (black sabbath). anselmo the better vocalist but doesn't stray too far.

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have to say i love the original, but like this one because it's so damn miserable.

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some people describe her as gifted, some describe her sounding like she's singing during childbirth.

 

[The Goon]

my personal preferences..

pantera - planet caravan (black sabbath). anselmo the better vocalist but doesn't stray too far.

have to say i love the original, but like this one because it's so damn miserable.

Can't say I'm a huge fan, but can see what you like in it.

some people describe her as gifted, some describe her sounding like she's singing during childbirth.

Perhaps they're describing her as 'gifted'.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

That rubbery-lipped cracker, Mick Jagger has murdered a coupla soul classics. "Harlem Shuffle" by Bob & Earl was turned into flaccid, whiteboy crapola by the Stones.

As for he and partner in musical crime David Bowie's version of Martha and the Vandella's "Dancing in the Street", hangin's too good for 'em

 

[Hap Hapablap]

The thing is, I don't even really like Joy Division. And on its own the tune and instrumental work in LWTA is not even that great - the riff is good, but extremely simple. But the lyrics and the passion and the feeling in the vocals takes it to a whole other level. It's just one of those uniquely, deeply gutwrenching songs that drags you in makes you connect with the songwriter/performer in a way that mere words can't. If you want an example of how pop rock can transcend entertainment to become art - that's it.

To turn it into bland generic pop - clanky, tuneless, badly-performed pop at that - is just devastating.

And I say that as someone who really doesn't emotionally invest in music much at all.

/rant

well said caesar. the song i believe was written when Curtis was sinking to his lows with his missus and his epilepsy. the fact is you can feel when he sings hes begging for help from a tormented soul.

then when you have these geeky dickwads thinking they can sing it that would turn anyone mad. i wonder how the other band members (new order) feel about the cover. an inspirational piece of art turned into vomit. would make curtis come out of his grave and kill fob.

 

[PieBeast]

(no, thats not Cortney Love)

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[Timmy from Thomastown]

another cover i like is cat power's version of 'satisfaction' - yep i like this version much better than the stone's.

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Not as good as when the song devolved into this

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[thedevilsowne]

I absolutely love that song!!

Nirvana also turned an average David Bowie song to Gold. With the man who sold the world.

 

[PieBeast]

Nirvana also turned an average David Bowie song to Gold. With the man who sold the world.

wow.....

 

[shurg123]

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One of the best covers (more a tribute I guess) I've ever heard, mostly due to the fact that they recorded and released it in less than a day after MJs death, in a home recording studio. MJ died 25 June 2009, this appears on Youtube on the 27th. Makes you wonder why record companies with millions of dollars take so long to produce mediocrity.

EDIT: Chucked the original in there as well, didn't originally cos I figured there's no one who wouldn't have heard it .

 

[Ron The Bear]

Manfred Mann took Bruce's obscure, Dylan-esque stoned rap Blinded By The Light and turned it into a prog rock radio staple, and #1 hit to boot.

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[TheGreatBarryB]

some good calls on here, especially 'where did u sleep last night' , Hey Joe and Soft Cell's Tainted Love. Just some others....

Sid Vicious - My Way
Hendrix - All along the Watchtower
Led Zep - When the Levee Breaks

 

[Plugger35]

Best

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Worst

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Then again you could probably swap them depending on what drugs you're on.

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Some great covers:

Patti Smith transforms Nirvana
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Tina Turner owns Foreigner
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Marianne Faithfull pays homage to John Lennon
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