Cover version is better than the original.... some examples, please

All Along the Watchtower

R.E.M.'s cover of Strange by Wire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSWdug1HiCg

Devo's version of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Suck it Stonefags

Does anyone else feel like cover songs don't belong on albums? I'm okay with bands recording and releasing covers but I think albums should be all original material.

I especially hate when you find out your favorite song on the album is actually a cover (Military Madness by Woods for example)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sViN4gVe5ic

>>68631224
I triggers me whenever Fantano talks about how much he hates that version.

>>68631229
it's misleading but still better than heavily lifting from another song and changing the name completely

>>68631224
>Suck it Stonefags
Well Jagger himself said it was the best version

>>68631229
What if it's a tribute album for a certain band and it's entirely composed of covers by other bands?

>>68631166
Elton John's cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.

The Who - Summertime Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYzPMgA-thY

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats

Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

>>68631194
Also their cover of Superman replaced the original which was already obscure before they covered it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxQS6lfn0yU

Also their version of King of the Road is my favorite version, they might be the best 4 piece band ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6daSPiRDzo

Cake's cover of "I Will Survive." Original is boring, repetitive, and uncreative although Gaynor has a great voice
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tth-8wA3PdY
Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KJjVMqNIgA
>>68631224
Also true as fuck

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjT71N4PGM

The Stop Making Sense version of Take Me To The River. I like when the black dude takes the mic and just starts saying "Are you ready?" for no reason

>>68631294
I'm ok with that because it's not advertising itself as a collection of new/original music

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>>68632069
>>68631294
What if a guy uses his new band to make an unnecessary, worse version of his older bands best album?

Honey Hush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciuPfT2zxCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Il7i8KkKVM

Leon Russel's medley at the concert for Bangladesh is pretty damn patrician

>>68632152
That's a very specific scenario that I don't know anything about. Can't comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzGgc-QPjdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlRJn2YQN1o

There are others but they aren't coming to mind.

>>68631224
This is true.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWfGYAgqLLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azTzGHR7Rbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy-mDxI9Qfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zokn9xg8Ve4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EON3DnBbflQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nID_AtXjFdU&index=11 (this one isn't better but goddamn it's good)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXGp4wC6Ha0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQose8uGj5o&index=3

Rare Earth covering the temptations' get ready

WTF is that pic op lol i guess thats why they call it random! XD

Hurt - Johnny Cash

The Replacements version of Kiss' Black Diamond.

>>68633571
Was going to say this. Trent can't sing for shit. Cash made the song and its lyrics actually feel impactful.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC9sEAqEjxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQGRRolrg0

TNTLLY's My Sharona

Not particularly my favourite, but one that pops out is Bastille.

Before they Ayy O Ayy O'd their way onto Top 40 radio with Pompeii, they did a couple of cover EP's called "Other People's Heartache". Of The Night you might have heard, but they also covered some other stuff like City High's What Would You Do? and Lana Del Ray's Requiem For Blue Jeans. Very interesting deliveries actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceYjUymR-wo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCTDKLjdok4

>>68633998
>emo shit ass vocals
yea... No ty

Duran Duran did Thank You by Zeppelin. Better than the Zeppelin version imo

Jeff Buckley covering Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. Better.

REM Superman by someone I don't know. Better.

Peter, Paul and Mary's Leaving on a Jet Plane

Pretty clearly the definitive version.

anything Coil covered they improved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzIF2uYKjeY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GUnUGKgWDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8QLAI-O8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPx4HI7pFLk

I love Joanna but this version is superior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw3PhipUNTQ

Silly Love Songs by Red House Painters

>>68636482
this, good choice

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MA1ZGyxsoY

>>68631229
No, I think that's a stupid appeal to "purity." If a well-executed cover adds to the overall effect of the album, why not?

https://youtu.be/7ZHmmW-75to

For example.

>>68636541
amazing

Infant Annihilator's cover of Pray for Plagues by Bring Me the Horizon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imav6aM0GOU

This one comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrlyX6XbTU

Original by the beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-uTocAlIyw

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https://youtu.be/8jkUfotaLSA?t=64

>>68631166
Melvins cover of going blind

AnCo's cover of On a Plain by Nirvana

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

Joe Cocker's cover of "with a little help from my friends"

>>68634577
>imblying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGN3K4zwdPM

Marilyn Manson - sweet dreams

Oddly, this version of I Only Have Eyes For You from the Little Big Planet 3 soundtrack is a very nice and ethereal take on the Flamingos version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vBrz3SeYmM

>>68631166
Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt'.

>>68639077
no

>>68631194
awful
took away every good quality about the original

>>68639110

Have you heard the original? It sucks

>>68639203
no

DEVO - (I can't get no) satisfaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtjTxDU2XFI

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

>>68631166
EW&F just killed McCartney with this cover :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJPWXq6b1fA