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The best cover of a song is..............

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houseworkneverends · 11/07/2024 15:22

They wont go where I go - original Stevie Wonder, covered by George Michael. It's just perfect in every single way.

AIBU or do you think there is a better cover???

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XenoBitch · 11/07/2024 17:34

Bobbotgegrinch · 11/07/2024 17:11

Jonny Cash - Hurt
Placebo - Running up that hill

Came here to post 'Hurt'

Off to give it a listen now.

Appalonia · 11/07/2024 17:34

Mairzydotes · 11/07/2024 17:27

Sugababes version of Freak like me is a true cover. The original was by Adina Howard and came out in the mid 90s

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It's a mash up also featuring Gary Numan's Are Friends Electric from the 70s!

StoatofDisarray · 11/07/2024 17:33

Rising Sun FGS!

SinnerBoy · 11/07/2024 17:32

SocksAndTheCity · Today 17:28

I Fought The Law by The Clash

Nooooo! Bobby Fuller's ghost will haunt you!

StoatofDisarray · 11/07/2024 17:31

The Animals' version of House of the Rising Son is a cover of an earlier US version of a traditional English folk song.

It's absolutely the best cover mentioned on this thread IMHO!

Marveladdict · 11/07/2024 17:29

HappiestSleeping · 11/07/2024 16:44

I would say my favourites would be:
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (although done as a tribute to John Lennon, it's still excellent)
Bad Romance - Halestorm (everything the original should have been)
Cum On Feel The Noise - Quiet Riot
Mama We're All Crazee Now - Mama's Boys
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Someone Like You - Linkin Park

love halestorm and lady gaga - just listened to the cover and it is so much better than the original! :-o

SocksAndTheCity · 11/07/2024 17:28

I Fought The Law by The Clash
I Put A Spell On You by Nina Simone

Loopytiles · 11/07/2024 17:28

Love this thread & haven’t heard some of these, something to look up, thank you!

SinnerBoy · 11/07/2024 17:28

I like snuff, another lot who do covers with their own take:

Hazy Shade of Winter

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CollyBobble · 11/07/2024 17:28

I prefer Eva Cassidy singing Songbird.

Mairzydotes · 11/07/2024 17:27

CassTheFox · 11/07/2024 17:04

Lots of these. Definitely Jeff Buckley.

More of a mash up than a cover but Freak Like Me by Sugababes is such a cool pop gem.

i also have a fondness for Joss Stone’s version of Fell In Love With a Girl,

A lot of people don’t realise you don’t actually need permission to release cover versions, from either the original artist or the songwriters. As long as you don’t change the lyrics or arrangement, you can cover what you like.

Sugababes version of Freak like me is a true cover. The original was by Adina Howard and came out in the mid 90s

Marveladdict · 11/07/2024 17:23

Rise by state of mine is much better than Katy Perry's version - much more powerful

SinnerBoy · 11/07/2024 17:22

The Dickies do loads of covers, here's Paranoid in double time:

AnaVanda · 11/07/2024 17:21

Sinead o Connor and Terry Hall singing 'All kinds of everything'

BearPear · 11/07/2024 17:19

anothertediousquestion · 11/07/2024 15:33

Ziggy Stardust (Bauhaus). So much better!

I had this on 12” picture disc, ah the 80s!

Manteiga · 11/07/2024 17:19

Patti Smith's cover of Van Morrison's Gloria

SinnerBoy · 11/07/2024 17:16

FlipFlops4Me · Today 15:25

Disturbed's cover of Simon & Garfunkel's Sound of Silence.

Bit of a different take....

midgetastic · 11/07/2024 17:16

Scissor sisters comfortably numb

GiveMeSpanakopita · 11/07/2024 17:16

GoodHeavens99 · 11/07/2024 17:09

I thought 'hit me/that' was pretty well known American slang for sex.

Which TLC would surely have known?

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I'm just going by what Chilli and T-Boz said in an interview with MTV. They said that TLC presented itself as a strong independent group and they would never want TLC singing a song that went 'hit me baby'.

Here's the NME's reporting of that interview: https://www.nme.com/news/music/tlc-5-1240311

TLC explain why they turned down Britney Spears' '...Baby One More Time'

'Was I going to say 'hit me baby one more time'? Hell no!' says TLC's T-Boz

https://www.nme.com/news/music/tlc-5-1240311

ToBeOrNotToBee · 11/07/2024 17:16

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Sara Barielles.

Far, far better than the original

UrsulaBelle · 11/07/2024 17:15

anothertediousquestion · 11/07/2024 15:33

Ziggy Stardust (Bauhaus). So much better!

You beat me to it! I listened to the Bauhaus version so much at uni in the 1980s that the original Bowie one sounds weak in comparison.

thomasinacat · 11/07/2024 17:15

AffIt · 11/07/2024 15:36

The Arctic Monkeys' cover of Girls Aloud's 'Love Machine'.

Wonderfully bonkers.

oh yes, also love their cover of 'Baby I'm Yours'.