When the Covers are Just SO Much Better!

deman

Thin Lizzy covers have been mentioned in this thread already but nobody has mentioned Lizzy's version on Whiskey in the Jar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_KKf3oc1YM

Acacia

I don't know if they're better than the original, but both Paramore and Funeral For a Friend do nice covers of U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.

KombuchaMshroom

probably mentioned but Chris Cornell's version of billie jean, savage!

Misanthropy

Rage Against the Machine - How I Could Just Kill A Man (Cypress Hill)

Anthrax - Sanitarium (Welcome Home) (Metallica)

ShawnRaven

Misanthropy wrote: »

Anthrax - Sanitarium (Welcome Home) (Metallica)

Much as i give Anthrax love, i still don't think that's a patch on Dream Theater's version

Misanthropy

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Much as i give Anthrax love, i still don't think that's a patch on Dream Theater's version

I just listened to it on youtube and I don't think Labrie does a good job at covering the vocals. He's still a great singer at DT songs though don't get me wrong!

Roddy23

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

Great original song - but the cover is imo way better!!

Creature

Roddy23 wrote: »

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

Great original song - but the cover is imo way better!!

Thats damn good.

scumbag sqpants

my version of Sex on Fire

nacho libre

Paradise lost - How Soon is now
Cannibal Corpse - Zero the Hero

Malice

A German band called Atrocity did a cover of the Eurythmics classic "Here Comes The Rain Again". I don't think it beats the original but it's a great version in it's own right and well worth a listen

Atrocity - Here Comes The Rain Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2m1KaXQRCY

Just in case you don't remember or are too young to remember the original:
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again

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

nacho libre

I love their cover of Send Me an Angel.

Malice

nacho libre wrote: »

I love their cover of Send Me an Angel.

They actually did a couple of albums of 80's covers. Some are pretty poor but some are well worth a listen.

Werk 80 I features:
1 Shout
2 Rage Hard
3 Wild Boys
4 Great Commandment
5 Send Me An Angel
6 Tainted Love
7 Mussolini
8 Being Boiled
9 Don't Go
10 Let's Dance
11 Maid Of Orleans

Werk 80 II features:
1 People Are People
2 Smalltown Boy
3 Relax
4 Don't You Forget About Me
5 Sun Always Shines On Tv, The
6 Hey Little Girl
7 Fade To Grey
8 Such A Shame
9 Keine Heimat
10 Here Comes The Rain Again
11 Forever Young

Here's another 80's cover that I quite like, it's Mike Oldfield's classic "Moonlight Shadow" as done by German metallers Suidakra

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

Malice

Here's a cover that just about beats the original . Presenting Sonic Syndicate doing a version of Tatu's "All About Us".

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

Original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjnHMx3KaBo

breadbin

for me jeff buckleys version of hallelujah is way better than cohens. heard buckleys first and was let down when i heard lc's.

WindSock

Carly Simons 'Nobody Does it Better' by Radiohead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHe-iwAI9BE

Dolly Partons 'Jolene' by the White Stripes. I like Dollys version too though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3-q-aoFZI

The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band. Edit-oops, though it was a cover but isn't, it's been covered loads though. Still a great song so I'll leave it in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38JpAMG65Dg

Snoops Gin & Juice bluegrass style by The Gourds

djScarey

Excellent live version of Bowie/Eno's Heroes by Cologne rock legends BAP and friends in 1991:

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

StormWarrior

Every cover Megadeth have done has been better than the original.

ShawnRaven

StormWarrior wrote: »

Every cover Megadeth have done has been better than the original.

After what they did to Sabbath's Paranoid? Wash your fingers in acid and then come back! kthxbye!

StormWarrior

ShawnRaven wrote: »

After what they did to Sabbath's Paranoid? Wash your fingers in acid and then come back! kthxbye!

I think the Megadeth version of Paranoid was way better. It rocked much harder.

sparkzter

Smashing Pumpkins- Landslide

Its just an awesome version of a Fleetwood Mac song that I would never have liked if they hadnt done it....

brendansmith

Sonata Artica - Wind beneath my wings.

Babs rocks hard, but these guys rock hardest!

Also the byrds - tamborine man
and roxy music - jealous guy

ShawnRaven

StormWarrior wrote: »

I think the Megadeth version of Paranoid was way better. It rocked much harder.

Gotta disagree there, just because the distortion was heavier doesn't mean the song rocked harder.

That and the fact that certain songs just should be left well alone.

Motley Crue

Guns N' Roses cover of Hair Of The Dog

Guns N' Roses did a lot of covers, and still do so, but this is perhaps the best one because its not overplayed and its a song that you can imagine was written with the intention of being played live by the band that played it at the time they did.

anti-venom

StormWarrior wrote: »

Every cover Megadeth have done has been better than the original.

Sorry but I can't agree with that. They made a right dogs dinner of Anarchy in the UK - unforgivable dross.

ShawnRaven

Motley Crue wrote: »

Guns N' Roses cover of Hair Of The Dog

Guns N' Roses did a lot of covers, and still do so, but this is perhaps the best one because its not overplayed and its a song that you can imagine was written with the intention of being played live by the band that played it at the time they did.

Oh i hate that Spaghetti Incident album, but being a New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders fan, i think Duff does a pretty good job of You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory though. Not better than the original by any stretch, but a worthy contender.

ShawnRaven

anti-venom wrote: »

Sorry but I can't agree with that. They made a right dogs dinner of Anarchy in the UK - unforgivable dross.

I actually enjoyed their version of Anarchy, it was one of their better covers. Nowhere near the original but i don't think anyone could claim so. But some of their disasterpieces as far as covers go were No More Mr Nice Guy and if you wanna talk about a bad Sex Pistols cover, Problems was more of an abortion than Anarchy ever will be.