Covers performed better than the original......

[NixM]

HIM covering Chris Isaak's wicked game

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WA2jBMk-Pk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

Used it as my wedding song.

[FrancoisC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XWKpAZWRBg

[FrancoisC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ6rv2ZC3Kc#t=53

Edited November 24, 2014 by FrancoisC

[FrancoisC]

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[NixM]

The Awakening covering Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel

 

 

[JGR]

Linkin Park covering Adele ... Rolling in the deep

 

Edited November 24, 2014 by JGR

[JGR]

Dave Matthews - All along the watchtower

 

[Wyatt Earp]

Linkin Park covering Adele ... Rolling in the deep

 

 

 

My pugs can bark any Adele song and it would be better than the original.

[JGR]

My pugs can bark any Adele song and it would be better than the original.

They sound like talented bitches

[Stretch]

the original is superb and nothing can ever be better..but...Freddie did it damn good justice...and poignant today...because he died on this day 23 years ago

 

 

but the original...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vivvWorLA

[Robrider]

Hendrix version of "All along the watchtower" is one of the best covers ever. Even better than Dave Mathews IMO.

[Shebeen]

walk off the earth pretty much OWN the covers genre. Gianni is a genius, plus his bokkie Sarah is also genius and she's HAWT. so hawt. dunno about beard guy, he's a passenger.

 

I don't really like covers that just repeat an old song, try something new with it. like these guys you might have heard of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGe-6JKf0ds

 

 

these okes used to rock this one to close out their set.....

i wonder what benny and bjorn think?

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

 

 

Anyway, on the other end of the scale you get shocking covers. 

 

this is one of the ultimate 80's slow dance go tonsil hockey your chick in the dark corner of the dancefloor numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNDifMyQuv8

 

then some idiot youtube band went and basically redid it with the intention of ripping the soul out of the original yet probably sold a brazillion more copies.

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

 

there's a semi R&B wonderwall cover that you will find on goodhope FM, also vomitworthy.

[Stretch]

i dont think we want to go down the road of crappy covers cos we could be here till 2025...but I dont think you can find anything worse than Knob Stewart's destruction of downtown train

[Shebeen]

i dont think we want to go down the road of crappy covers cos we could be here till 2025...but I dont think you can find anything worse than Knob Stewart's destruction of downtown train

fair enough, i'll stop right there.

 

and regain some streetcred with this one

 

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

[Shebeen]

I was at a time very partial to ANYTHING by "Me first and the gimme gimmes" -  a real bona fide supergroup.

 

punk covers, is like a whole other subsection of music.  in my mind they do it best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV3XQcCyyPc

[Wyatt Earp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpOFQvMM1A