Cover songs that are better than the original

[Fossie 32]

Graham Bonnet --> Bee Gees.

What song are you talking about?

Dionne Warwick > Righteous Bros

 

[Back One Out]

Original:



Superior cover version:

 

[Back One Out]

I prefer that Bobby Womack version to the original by Barry McGuire and the famous cover by the Mamas & the Papas

 

[Back One Out]

Original



Superior cover version

 

[Back One Out]

Earliest known recording of traditional folk ballad:



The definitive version:

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Cover/sample.



Superior cover/sample version.

EFA

 

[Frank Bunn]

I prefer Johnny Cash's version of Springsteen's Further on up the Road.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Richard Walters takes the old Morecambe and Wise theme tune to a whole new level. As featured in the TV series Tin Star.

 

[Gunslinging Roo]

 

[Dixie Normous]

 

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[JimDocker]

I watched Baby Driver recently and heard this song. I had heard a few versions over the years, but always assumed it was a Spencer Davis Group original as that was the version that I knew. I still prefer the SDG version. Steve Winwood was incredible, but now love the original. The Jam did a pretty terrible version back in the day. The Small Faces did a great one.

 

[JimDocker]

The Postal Service obviously enjoyed Iron and Wine's cover of Such Great Heights. They put it out on their CD.





Excited that Iron and Wine announced a tour overnight

 

[mellowyellow]

Original


Cover

 

[blackshadow]

Absolute killer. The butthole guitar sound was so good.

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[mellowyellow]

Original



Cover

 

[JimDocker]

Original



Cover

2 beautiful versions

 

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[smasha]

Carole King's version is dam great though.

 

[JimDocker]

Carole King's version is dam great though.

Yep, love both versions of that song.

James Taylor has such a magnificent voice and a great appreciation for any song that he sings. His version of anything always seems to at least equal the original.

 

[JimDocker]

James Taylor is a huge George Jones song. I saw an interview when he said he wrote this because he wanted to do a George Jones style song.

When George Jones heard it, he loved it and it became a staple of Jones' gigs right until he died.

JT was totally stoked and even got to sing it with Jones.

 

[Gunslinging Roo]

 

[Go the Biff]

Unless I've missed it, I'm surprised my fellow fossils have yet to mention Zoot's "Eleanor Rigby"

Would also like to concur with those who think Disturbed's "Sound of Silence" is shite

 

[smasha]

Didn't know Jim O'Rourke's song was a cover so it is going in here.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

Just about any cover that Stereophonics have done.