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To ask your favourite cover track?

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TheLadyIsAVamp · 31/03/2024 23:15

I tried and failed to find a previous thread 😅. Aibu to ask for your recommendations for cover songs that are better than the original? One of mines is Miley Cyrus, Just Like A Prayer. It gives me goosebumps, not everyones cup of tea but I love it.

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geranium66 · 01/04/2024 09:25

Adam Lambert's ' High Drama' album; lots of better covers.

Mairzydotes · 01/04/2024 09:13

Warning- Black Sabbath.

I heard this version first, the original is brilliant too.

I was on the other thread with a different song but this thread has a different meaning to me. This is more songs you love that happen to be covers.

HarlanPepper · 01/04/2024 08:58

Song to the Siren - This Mortal Cool
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Hounds of Love - Futureheads
Mrs Robinson - Lemonheads

TheBitchOfTheVicar · 01/04/2024 08:54

NIna Simone here comes the sun

Arctic Monkeys love machine

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 01/04/2024 08:51

Sting did a version of "Little Wing" which I much prefer to Jimi Hendrix's original.

ASighMadeOfStone · 01/04/2024 08:11

Heart's version of Stairway to Heaven.
Seriously.
Watch the Kennedy Center video.

I do love Disturbed's SoS but I love any version of it tbh.

IDoLikeToBeByTheSea · 01/04/2024 08:09

Linkin Park- Rolling in the deep
I Prevail- Blank Space

charabang · 01/04/2024 08:06

Placebo's Daddy Cool and Running up that Hill

WrenNatsworthy · 01/04/2024 07:57

FriendlyNeighbourhoodAccountant · 01/04/2024 02:39

The Sundays version is my favourite too! I've never known anyone else actually know that version!

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Yay!"They have always been one of my favourite bands. 😍

dizzydizzydizzy · 01/04/2024 04:29

The other song that immediately springs to mind is I Will Always Love You. The Whitney Houston version is next level compared with the great Dolly Parton.

Grumpetsky · 01/04/2024 04:28

Katie Noonan’s Yellow Brick Road. Just spectacular.

dizzydizzydizzy · 01/04/2024 04:25

Beach Boys - California Dreamin'. The Mamas and The Papas version is very good but The Beach Boys is next level. They are just better performers in this instance.

Anyotherdude · 01/04/2024 04:21

trisky · 31/03/2024 23:18

Same here.

Also Tainted Hate Soft Cell version.

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Tainted Love, surely?
Venus, Bananarama (Shocking Blue original)

MariaVT65 · 01/04/2024 04:08

I did not know some of these were covers 😂

I’ll go with Jennifer Saunders’ Holding Out for a Hero from Shrek 2.

GlitchStitch · 01/04/2024 03:22

Always On My Mind- Pet Shop Boys

Where The Streets Have No Name- Pet Shop Boys were so good at covers!

I'm Gonna Be Strong- Cyndi Lauper (I love the original by Gene Pitney equally, just like that they are both so different)

I Drove All Night- Roy Orbison

Dancing In The Dark- Jorgen Dahl Moe (bit obscure but one of the best covers I've heard)

peloton2024 · 01/04/2024 03:11

Agree with the Sundays wild horses, it reminds me of Buffy

PuttingDownRoots · 01/04/2024 02:48

"Wherever you are" has been covered by a metal band, Dragonforce.

Its quite surreal listening to thousands of metal fans belting out what was originally a soppy love song!

FriendlyNeighbourhoodAccountant · 01/04/2024 02:39

WrenNatsworthy · 31/03/2024 23:44

My first thought was Hurt by Johnny Cash.

I love him so very much - and that one makes me cry.

There's a band I loved in the 90s called Faith Over Reason who did the most beautiful cover of Nick Drake's Northern Sky.

Lastly, The Sundays cover of Wild Horses by The Stones. So beautiful.

The Sundays version is my favourite too! I've never known anyone else actually know that version!

TealAndTurquoise · 01/04/2024 02:34

Sophie Ellis Bextor did a great cover at BBC Maida Vale of Pulp's Do You Remember the First Time.

WildCherryBlossom · 01/04/2024 02:31

Skunk Ansnsie - You Do Something To Me

WildCherryBlossom · 01/04/2024 02:29

Muse - Feeling Good (I love Nina Simone's too)

Borris · 01/04/2024 02:18

Faith no more - easy like Sunday morning

Sameratdifferenthat · 01/04/2024 02:03

David Bowie - Wild is the Wind
Roddy Frame - Jump
Japan - I Second that Emotion
The Jam - Heatwave

iloveshetlandponies · 01/04/2024 02:01

MonsteraMama · 01/04/2024 01:16

Ghost's cover of Jesus He Knows Me by Genesis is great

They did a brilliant cover of iron maidens phantom of the opera as well

Love ghost

penjil · 01/04/2024 01:58

Bryan Ferry's version of Jealous Guy far outweighs John Lennon's in every single way.

Lennon's original sounds weak, weedy and lacking.