Cover versions of songs

[hangrylady]

Just a lighthearted musing! I was listening to the radio earlier and they played Baby Can I Hold You by Boyzone. An absolute abomination when compared to the original by Tracy Chapman. The only example of a cover that I think is better than the original is Only You by Yazoo, which is far superior to the weird Flying Pickets version. Can anyone think of any more songs where the cover is better than the original?

@Secretname123

Are you me? Those were the exact two I was going to post! Can’t stand Kate Bush but love the placebo version.

Great minds!

Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb is so much better than the Pink Floyd original.

Always on my mind by the pet shop boys

Nina Simone's version of To Love Somebody.

Nina Simone’s - Here comes the Sun

It makes me cry its so emotional

I agree with lots of these. I've also recently discovered Aurora's version of Oasis' 'Half The World Away', which I absolutely love.

@AtomicSquirrel3

Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb is so much better than the Pink Floyd original.

Pink Floyd all day for me. Having said that, if Gilmour and Waters had been young men in 2004, they'd likely be dropping pills and making dance music themselves.

Lost in Music by The Fall.

I heard a brilliant version of Taylor Swift's Shake it Off by a rock band with a male singer. No idea who it was but it was so good, it got me through the last few mins of my spin class!

I heard Anne Marie sing a version of ' bad habits' on radio two yesterday by Ed Sheehan and it was very good.
Dua lipa did an artic monkeys song ' do you wanna know ' and that was great too.
I like a slowed down cover version.

Screaming Females version of Shake It Off
Garbage and Screaming Females version of Because the Night
Cake's versions of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps and I Will Survive
And some mentioned above:
The Clash's version of I Fought The Law
Guns and Roses version of Live and Let Die

Several.

This one, for a start...

@hangrylady

Just a lighthearted musing! I was listening to the radio earlier and they played Baby Can I Hold You by Boyzone. An absolute abomination when compared to the original by Tracy Chapman. The only example of a cover that I think is better than the original is Only You by Yazoo, which is far superior to the weird Flying Pickets version. Can anyone think of any more songs where the cover is better than the original?

I love the Flying Pickets version!

hey @Funkyslippers the version of was probably by Screaming Females - the lead singer Marissa has a pretty low (and excellent voice)

Kate Rusby did a really nice version of Shake It Off (didn't do the sassy rap bit in the middle, though). It wasn't better than the original all-time classic, but I really love her interpretation of Manic Monday, too.

Erasure covering Salisbury Hill is a good one!

Mike D'Abo sang original Handbags and Gladrags also wrote it

EverybodysALebowski sadly it's not that one

David bowie is a god but i prefer the lena hall version of As the World Falls Down

She does some amazing covers on her youtube channel. Its all under the Lena Hall Obsessed playlist i think.

@NowNowDermot

I really like the version of Seven Nation Army they're using on the Samsung(?) advert at the moment. Artists name is Zella Day and I'm slowly working my way through her other stuff now, I often seem to find new artists/music this way

Ohh I need to check that out.

I think nirvana’s Man who sold the world is better.

I think Red, Red Wine by UB40 is better than Neil Diamond's original.

I also think Toots and the Maytals' cover of Take Me Home Country Roads is better than John Denver's original.

And Annie Lennox's cover of A Whiter Shade of Pale is sublime.

Amy Winehouse’s version of Valerie

love of the common people - Paul young
come together - Gary Clarke junior
faith - limp biscuit
sweet dreams are made of this - Marilyn Manson
Africa - Leo Moracchioli
Sultans of swing - Leo Moracchioli
Zombie - Bad Wolves
Bad Romance - Halestorm
Behind Blue Eyes - Janet Devlin

@Mysterian @AlternativePerspective

Adding this one for somewhere over the rainbow

Fear factory cars, still had the original singer but was a heavy metal version

Then the heavy metal version of dance monkey, by rock paper studios

Then heavy metal versions of xmas songs