Cover Songs that are Better Than the original

PMJB is great.

Edit: holy crap, she's amazing, what a voice, and as you said, fun to look at.

someone needs to recut that Rockets Dream On promo vid with this version.

 

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TBH this 1955 original version is the best IMO.

 

I rewatched one of my favorite movies last weekend (Scott Pilgrim vs the World) and I think the Brie Larson version of Black Sheep by Metric was better than the original. Interestingly, there is supposed to be a 10 year anniversary theatrical rerelease of the movie but I guess that's up in the air due to the corona.

Original



Movie version with Brie Larson singing

 

I had no idea who wrote this song. great pick.

here's one:

 

For Minnesota. Two covers of "The Mary Tyler Moore Theme / Love is All Around". The first by Minnesota band Husker Du


Joan Jett. This version was on the sound track of Drop Dead Gorgeous, a film set in Minnesota.

 

one of jontro's fav oldies

 

Not sure if repost but
Guns N Roses - Knocking on Heavens Door
UB40 - Falling in Love With You

All versions are great tho. I just prefer the two above

 

I somehow missed SS' In Bloom, which is great, thanks for posting. Love The Promise, and that whole album.

need to listen to Brown Sabbath, but as long as we're discussing Fairies & Boots:

 

Wow. Far out covers, all three, @rocketsjudoka! Morgan James (what a voice!) reminds me of one of my favorite groups to see play in a club from 1967 to the end of the decade, Mother Earth, a large blues/rock band fronted by Tracy Nelson (what a voice!). Tracy wrote a great blues song, Down So Low, that was later covered by Linda Ronstadt. Below is Linda singing it live in Offenbach, Germany in 1976.



Here is the original. Tracy Nelson with Mother Earth singing Down So Low in 1968, from Living With the Animals.

 

A tip of the hat to dckid for reminding me of this by posting a Flaming Lips vid in the What are you listening to thread...

 

Brownout/Brown Sabbath is one of the funnest gigs you'll ever see.

Ludicrous fun.

Not a cover, but...

 

This looks like a good thread I will have to read through at some point.

I'm not going to say this better than the original, but I have always loved Filter's cover of "One (Is the Loneliest Number)" from the X-Files movie soundtrack.



If you just want a treasure trove of covers that are better than their original, check out Leo Moracchioli's metal covers of any and all things. He has a LOT of them.

 

i hadn't heard this before; thanks for posting.