Cover songs you like better than the originals

[MuscleMan]

Twist and shout - The Beatles (originally [?] the Isley Brothers)
I heard it through the grapevine - CCR (originally Marvin Gaye)
Jumpin Jack Flash - Leon Russell (originally the Rolling Stones)

[darkwinterbeast8]

More awesome covers...

Emperor - "Gypsy" (Original by Mercyful Fate, who's original version is also awesome)
The Prodigy - "Fuel My Fire" (Original by L7)
Bathory - "Ace Of Spades" (As blasphemous as it may seem, I prefer Bathory's take on the Mortorhead classic)
Pantera - "Electric Funeral" (Even more blasphemous since Black Sabbath did the original but what can I say, for some reason I prefer Pantera's take on it)

[clashcityrocker10]

Pantera - "Electric Funeral" (Even more blasphemous since Black Sabbath did the original but what can I say, for some reason I prefer Pantera's take on it)

Digging Bathory's version of a Motorhead song more than the Motorhead version is fine and all, but this one.. oy, yeah.

[killer_roach]

Digging Bathory's version of a Motorhead song more than the Motorhead version is fine and all, but this one.. oy, yeah.

On a slightly tangential note, I'm being reminded of Sigh's cover of Venom's "Countess Bathory"... that's a pretty good one.

[darkwinterbeast8]

Digging Bathory's version of a Motorhead song more than the Motorhead version is fine and all, but this one.. oy, yeah.

Perhaps Sacrilegious and Blasphemous at the same time covers it. Most bands that cover Sabbath I either prefer the original or dig both about equally but it's just that one song I prefer the version done by the band that for all accounts are inferior to Sabbath. Call it weird, eccentric, insane, whatever; it is what it is.

[RosaFloydGuy]

For me, it goes...
Fanfare for the Common Man- Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Aaron Copland)
Repent Walpurgis- The Shiver (Procol Harum)
Pretty Woman- Van Halen (Roy Orbison)
All Along the Watchtower- The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Bob Dylan)
House of the Rising Sun- Muse (Bob Dylan, Animals, Sinead O'Connor)
Blinded By The Light- Manfred Mann (Bruce Springsteen)
Back Door Man- The Doors (Willie Dixon)
I Wanna Be Your Man- The Beatles (The Rolling Stones)
Yer Blues- The Dirty Mac (The Beatles)
They're Red Hot- Red Hot Chili Peppers (Robert Johnson)
Crossroads- Cream (Robert Johnson)
Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You- Led Zeppelin (Joan Baez)
The Star-Spangled Banner- Jimi Hendrix
The Man Who Sold The World- Nirvana (David Bowie)
I Heard It Through the Grapevine- CCR (Marvin Gaye)
L.A. Woman- Days of the New (The Doors, this one was almost left off because the original is still amazing)

To name a few.

[darkwinterbeast8]

Also, anyone that covers "Because the Night" seems to do a better job of it than the Patty Smith Group. It's expected of Bruce Springsteen to do a good job with it since he co-wrote the song with Patty Smith. But when 10,000 Maniacs and Keel outdo you on the song; not to mention Domina Noctis and Sonic Youth; you inadvertently created a song that your own band sucks at.

[killer_roach]

I just got reminded of a couple...

Powerman 5000 - Good Times Roll (original by The Cars)
Like the harder edge to this rendition.

Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb (original by Pink Floyd)
Not sure if I prefer it necessarily, but major bonus points for taking a song into a direction it was never intended to go.

[a21schizoidman]

10,000 Maniacs

ah, 10,000 Maniacs....i miss Natalie Merchant


also, that Powerman 5000 cover of Good Times Roll makes me wonder why nobody's tried to make a compilation of Cars covers (Red House Painters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.)

[darkwinterbeast8]

Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb (original by Pink Floyd)
Not sure if I prefer it necessarily, but major bonus points for taking a song into a direction it was never intended to go.

There is something inherently creepy about man who is a walking homosexual stereotype singing a song called "Comfortably Numb"... ...But that just adds to the awesomeness of their rendition of that song. It helps that the Scissor Sisters are a great band.