Cover songs, sometimes better than the originals?

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I have a few that come to mind:

Toto - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (originally by the Beatles)

Aerosmith - Train Kept a Rollin' (originally by Tiny Bradshaw)

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (originally by Bob Dylan)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (originally by Jimi Hendrix)

GabuEx

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All Time Low do a fair few good covers of like, Umbrella by Rihanna and Blink 182 songs.

And Sea Of Trechary's cover for misery business (paramore) was amazing. Youtube it.

[QUOTE="nimatoad2000"][QUOTE="sAndroid17"] i have a far more "offensive" patch on my jacket :PsAndroid17

Digital Love Daft Punk is way better.

Notorious BIG - Juicy the original was extreme end 80s.

Not in a good way. Good cover but not better: Gary Jules' Mad World and Jose Gonzales Heartbeats.

I disagree.

Tent Reznor sounded like Trent Reznor, and the instrumentals worked.

Johnny Cash did a straight and actually lazy cover, and all he did was sound like Johnny Cash and play the same instruments that he always does.

I'm not saying that the Johnny Cash cover was BAD. It was just a standard and lazy cover that didn't really do ANYTHING to take the material to new heights. Johnny Cash didn't actually ADD anything. He merely subtracted Trent Reznor's pained vocals, and subtracted all of the other instrumentals that contributed to the mood.

Bottom line is this...it sounds exactly like a goddamn cover song done by Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash didn't really ADD anything to the song. All he did was make a lazystraightforward cover that was simplified to fit hs style of music, and what he took away was exactly the stuff that he couldn't do.

He surely SIMPLIFIED the song, and he made it work for him. But in simplifying it, he lost the goddamn CONTEXT of the original song. If he were to remake the entire album "The Downward Spiral", and then the cover of "hurt" was the final end to that cover album, THEN I might be impressed. But The Downward Spiral is more than the sum of its parts, and by picking out one single song to cover you lose a HELL of a lot of the context. Every song on that album is stage of life on a person's road to ruin, and NIN did that PERFECTLY the first time.

And that's why NIN ultimately wins. Originally, "Hurt" was the PERFECT ending to such an album and relied on all of the previous songs. "The Downward Spiral" is NOT an album in which the songs are independent of each other. You take the songs as individual song and you lose the impact of the goddamn album.

But that's what Johnny Cash did. He took the last song from "The Downward Spiral" and did a lazy and straightforward cover that was limited by Johnny Cash's sonic prowess. All context was removed, and it ends up becoming "just another cover".

So in that regard, I still think that Trentm Reznor did it better.

MrGeezer

This is correct.

I disagree.

Tent Reznor sounded like Trent Reznor, and the instrumentals worked.

Johnny Cash did a straight and actually lazy cover, and all he did was sound like Johnny Cash and play the same instruments that he always does.

I'm not saying that the Johnny Cash cover was BAD. It was just a standard and lazy cover that didn't really do ANYTHING to take the material to new heights. Johnny Cash didn't actually ADD anything. He merely subtracted Trent Reznor's pained vocals, and subtracted all of the other instrumentals that contributed to the mood.

Bottom line is this...it sounds exactly like a goddamn cover song done by Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash didn't really ADD anything to the song. All he did was make a lazystraightforward cover that was simplified to fit hs style of music, and what he took away was exactly the stuff that he couldn't do.

He surely SIMPLIFIED the song, and he made it work for him. But in simplifying it, he lost the goddamn CONTEXT of the original song. If he were to remake the entire album "The Downward Spiral", and then the cover of "hurt" was the final end to that cover album, THEN I might be impressed. But The Downward Spiral is more than the sum of its parts, and by picking out one single song to cover you lose a HELL of a lot of the context. Every song on that album is stage of life on a person's road to ruin, and NIN did that PERFECTLY the first time.

And that's why NIN ultimately wins. Originally, "Hurt" was the PERFECT ending to such an album and relied on all of the previous songs. "The Downward Spiral" is NOT an album in which the songs are independent of each other. You take the songs as individual song and you lose the impact of the goddamn album.

But that's what Johnny Cash did. He took the last song from "The Downward Spiral" and did a lazy and straightforward cover that was limited by Johnny Cash's sonic prowess. All context was removed, and it ends up becoming "just another cover".

So in that regard, I still think that Trentm Reznor did it better.

MrGeezer

So your saying you can't cover songs from what seem to be (never listened to the album) concept albums due to it losing it's context? A good song should be able to hold it's own in single form as well as off the album.

Billy Idol's cover of Mony Mony

The Animals' cover of House of the Rising Sun

Eric Clapton's cover of I Shot the Sheriff

Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar (originally by Thin Lizzy, sort of)ithilgore2006

Killswitch Engage's cover of Dio's "Holy Diver"

Disturbed's cover of Genesis's "Land of Confusion"

Killswitch Engage's cover of Dio's "Holy Diver"

Disturbed's cover of Genesis's "Land of Confusion"

grunt1096

[QUOTE="grunt1096"]

Killswitch Engage's cover of Dio's "Holy Diver"

Disturbed's cover of Genesis's "Land of Confusion"

clembo1990

Dio of course

[QUOTE="grunt1096"]

Killswitch Engage's cover of Dio's "Holy Diver"

Disturbed's cover of Genesis's "Land of Confusion"

clembo1990

Dio did

Cat Power - Space Oddity (original by David Bowie)

even if it's only 30 seconds I still enjoy it more then the original

Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It."Bioshockraptor

Smooth criminal - alien ant farm (original micheal jackson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDeFYDk8atg

solitary man - HIM ( original Neil diamond?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yRSMFFMog

Another Brick In The Wall - KoRn (Original by Pink Floyd)

Word Up - KoRn (Original by Cameo?)

There way better than the originals, not just saying it because its my fav band

Another Brick In The Wall - KoRn (Original by Pink Floyd)

Word Up - KoRn (Original by Cameo?)

There way better than the originals, not just saying it because its my fav band

Dudersaper

Bullet for My Valentine - No Easy way out (original: robbert tepper no easy way out)

why, dio of course.

Avril Lavigne's cover of Chop Suey (Originally by System of a Down) is an amazing feat by itself.AzureEm

Avril Lavigne's cover of Chop Suey (Originally by System of a Down) is an amazing feat by itself.AzureEm

Avril Lavigne's cover of Chop Suey (Originally by System of a Down) is an amazing feat by itself.AzureEm

Woo my god that was aweful, my ears are bleeding :(

[QUOTE="AzureEm"]Avril Lavigne's cover of Chop Suey (Originally by System of a Down) is an amazing feat by itself.FFCYAN

Never said the feat was a positive thing.:D

[QUOTE="FFCYAN"][QUOTE="AzureEm"]Avril Lavigne's cover of Chop Suey (Originally by System of a Down) is an amazing feat by itself.AzureEm

Never said the feat was a positive thing.:D

[QUOTE="FFCYAN"][QUOTE="AzureEm"]Avril Lavigne's cover of Chop Suey (Originally by System of a Down) is an amazing feat by itself.AzureEm

Never said the feat was a positive thing.:D

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

[QUOTE="DrSponge"]NINs Hurt is so much better.MrGeezer

I disagree, their version sucked. Trent's voice ruins the song and Cash's acousitic sounds much better than the NIN instrumentals in the song.

I disagree.

Tent Reznor sounded like Trent Reznor, and the instrumentals worked.

Johnny Cash did a straight and actually lazy cover, and all he did was sound like Johnny Cash and play the same instruments that he always does.

I'm not saying that the Johnny Cash cover was BAD. It was just a standard and lazy cover that didn't really do ANYTHING to take the material to new heights. Johnny Cash didn't actually ADD anything. He merely subtracted Trent Reznor's pained vocals, and subtracted all of the other instrumentals that contributed to the mood.

Bottom line is this...it sounds exactly like a goddamn cover song done by Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash didn't really ADD anything to the song. All he did was make a lazystraightforward cover that was simplified to fit hs style of music, and what he took away was exactly the stuff that he couldn't do.

He surely SIMPLIFIED the song, and he made it work for him. But in simplifying it, he lost the goddamn CONTEXT of the original song. If he were to remake the entire album "The Downward Spiral", and then the cover of "hurt" was the final end to that cover album, THEN I might be impressed. But The Downward Spiral is more than the sum of its parts, and by picking out one single song to cover you lose a HELL of a lot of the context. Every song on that album is stage of life on a person's road to ruin, and NIN did that PERFECTLY the first time.

And that's why NIN ultimately wins. Originally, "Hurt" was the PERFECT ending to such an album and relied on all of the previous songs. "The Downward Spiral" is NOT an album in which the songs are independent of each other. You take the songs as individual song and you lose the impact of the goddamn album.

But that's what Johnny Cash did. He took the last song from "The Downward Spiral" and did a lazy and straightforward cover that was limited by Johnny Cash's sonic prowess. All context was removed, and it ends up becoming "just another cover".

So in that regard, I still think that Trentm Reznor did it better.

I appreciate that the downward spiral, like Pink Floyd's The Wall, is not just an album with songs that dont connect. To be honest I just never really liked the nine inch nails or Trent Reznor's voice. I understand why you think the original is better and I agree that Cash's cover didnt add anything. but to me it just sounds better. I can't describe the nine inch nails sound and why I dont like it, I just find it starts grating my ears after a while.

[QUOTE="AzureEm"]

[QUOTE="FFCYAN"]:evil:**** you! That was awwwfffuulll!the_foreign_guy

Never said the feat was a positive thing.:D

Grr I can't believed you remembered. This just means war:x

Killswitch Engage's cover of Dio's "Holy Diver"

Disturbed's cover of Genesis's "Land of Confusion"

grunt1096

"Hurt" Johnny Cash (Nine Inch Nails original)
"Where Is My Mind?" Nada Surf (Pixies original)
"All Along The Watchtower" Jimi Hendrix (Bob Dylan original)

the jones brothers cover of hello goodbye, its so awesome

not

[QUOTE="AzureEm"]Avril Lavigne's cover of Chop Suey (Originally by System of a Down) is an amazing feat by itself.Disturbed123

Woo my god that was aweful, my ears are bleeding :(

Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It."Bioshockraptor

Another Brick In The Wall - KoRn (Original by Pink Floyd)Dudersaper

I just died a little inside.