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Cover Songs that are Better Than the original

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by DFWRocket, Jul 21, 2015.

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  1. Mango

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    That was considered their best and there is something of a drop to the next level.

    Humble Pie
     
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    Will go with a song that clearly is a Cover.
     
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    You impressed by picking up that I was using one artist - group to springboard to another.
     
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    Various versions had been floated around for year with Pete Seeger getting credit for the first recording.



     
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    Neither of those Friend of the Devil covers are better than the original :)

    No idea who the commercial is for, but one of them has an all-girl Japanese band covering "Train Kept a Rollin" in Japanese.

    It's a great song and I'd like to hear their whole version. It's been covered by everyone, but the Aerosmith version is still my favorite.
     
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    I thought of posting this in the Pearl Jam vs STP thread just because I like this song and think Vedder's got a great voice.

    To be perfectly honest, though, it's the organ solo that really makes this version special.

     
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    Again, not better, just cool to see.

     
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    definitely better than the original.

     
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    {late but}
    Unfortunately was a common theme of everyone 80's & back lol.

    The 90's if nothing else at all, did 2 influences.
    Having "grunge" as a palate cleanse.
    Just flat out better hair

    (Not saying grunge was great, only that it was course correction on some things)
    yes
     
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    I tend to like hokey genres covers. The more farther distance the cover music form from the original, the better.

    I like covers done by others within the star-power range of the original. Or the older days when the major studios released covers from emerging artists

    Meaning an unknown or relatively obscure comes off "generic bar cover band" to me no matter how good. Or same-genre cover seems a bit "copycat".

    But Hendrix covering Dylan, Whitney covering Dolly is "worthy" of doing it lol. (*Note: punk is punk and can also bastardize what it wants*)

    But doing ukulele, according, marching band, orchestra, etc, far away genres that aren't popular, where its a re-imagining, that's different. Which by my own standards, make blue grass the solid cover option.
     
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